#st. fabian

[zeeth-scribbles]

back in my house MD era here's a bunch of fantasy high redraws I call this au Fig MD

[frenchcurious]

Le mannequin Anne St. Marie pousse son collègue Fabian Malloy dans un taxi Ford Fairlane 500 dans une rue de New York en 1958. Photo de Jerry Schatzberg pour Vogue. - source Cars & Motorbikes Stars of the Golden era.

[roll-for-gaslight]

Bad Kids + Sharing Clothes Headcannons

Gorgug

It’s hard for him to share clothes because he’s bigger than everyone else, but luckily a lot of his friends have oversized clothes!!!

He’s sort of like Adaine in that he doesn’t go out of his way to steal things

But he does have a few things that have been left behind at the Thistlespring tree or that he’s borrowed

Tbh he probably has the most from Fig??? 

Like she’s big on the oversized t-shirt

And they were on tour together for so long

Who knows who those shirts originally belonged to??

He shows up to Mordred Manor one day and Sandra Lynn is like “that’s fig’s shirt? And Gorgug is like “oh are you sure??? I’ve had it for a while” and Sandra Lynn is just like “yeah i know because I bought it”

He goes to take it off immediately to return it but she waves him off and says that if Fig wants it back she’ll say something

Fig comes down the stairs and is like “cool shirt where’d you get it???”

Has some stuff from Kristen too

Mostly her cute little camp bracelets & stuff 

But it’s always because she’ll go to do something weird and take them off like “here hold this for a minute it’s in the way”

Then he puts it on for safekeeping and she never asks for it back

TBH I feel like he has more little trinkets and things from his friends because I feel like they all kinda do that with him? 

Like he always has (non-magical) pockets so he gets to hold earbuds, pens, folded up assignment papers, anything that is in the way at any given moment is passed along until it ends up in his hands and then his hoodie pocket

Then at the end of the day he just kind of empties his pockets and puts it on his dresser

Then everyone comes over as they realize they’re missing things to collect them and the cycle starts anew

He enjoys being the keeper of things, it makes him feel trusted and relied on

Some of Fabian’s athletic tanks

Adaine | Fig | Fabian | Kristen | Gorgug | Riz

[staywildmoonrise]

OK. FABIAN????

[emiko-matsui]

Okay, I just need to get something out of the way when it comes to the Kipperlilly conversation nobody's brought up yet, which I think is insane. Almost all of The Bad Kids would be more powerful if they didn't have their tragedy porn tragic backstories.

First of all, this doesn't apply to Fig and Gorgug because if Fig wasn't Gorthalax's child she would be a lot like Kipperlilly and not the ruler of hell. I wouldn't say Gorgug has a tragic backstory, he's got a pretty normal growing up experience with ups and downs.

Let's start with her #1 nemesis, Riz Gukgak. She's so jealous that his dad was murdered and that gives him an advantage in the adventuring life. To be crude, no, it doesn't. What would give Riz an advantage in the adventuring life would be living with someone who has a direct contact to all the government's inner workings and conspiracies. Now that would be an advantage. That gives you connections and clues that no one else can get. This is not what happened. What happened was eating cereal with water for breakfast, what happened was not getting an opportunity at college, what happened was a 9 year old who stopped sleeping, what happened was not your secret agent dad giving you an advantage in the school conspiracy because he's dead. Otherwise he fucking would've.

And now Kipperlilly's new #1 nemesis, Kristen Applebees. She was ostracised from her religion for her sexuality, she achieved sainthood, and raised a dead god back to life. None of this would've happened if she hadn't been raised in The Harvestmen. No, it wouldn't, but what would have happened if Kristen had been straight? Disgusting thought, yes, I know, but let's talk about it. A Kristen who never left Helio behind would have so many more fucking advantages than the one with Cassandra has. If she had followed her birthright she would be the only chosen one of one of the world's most powerful gods. Sol is the biggest god in Spyre and Helio is his son. Helio does not have a chosen one anymore because Kristen left. It's not a title that's just given out, it could only have been Kristen. You know what's an advantage? Being the chosen one of one of the world's most powerful gods, being a god's spoken favourite, and deified by all of that god's followers. Now that would be an unfair advantage. You know what's not an advantage? Being homeless at 14 and being at the mercy of your ex-girlfriend's uncle for housing, dying and having absolutely no one there for you so you're only option to survive is to trust your own abilities enough to raise yourself from the dead, and failing school because of biased teachers.

And what of Adaine Abernant? The Elven Oracle? Her tragedy porn tragic backstory is surviving an abusive home. Now I just have to imagine that Adaine would have it a lot easier than most students, an incredible amount of unfair advantages, if her old money parents paid for every wizard whim she wanted, kept her diplomatic immunity so she could do literally anything she wanted without consequences, and gave her a direct contact into the heart of the Fallinell government. Now that is what I would call an insane amount of unfair advantage. I would be furious at this rich kid who's never had to work for anything myself. This is not even close to the case. She's barely passing classes because she can't afford the material you're required, she goes to the guidance counsellor for panic attacks, and she's being hunted by her home government. I'd say that's about every single thing in her life working against her having it easy.

Fabian Aramais Seacaster. He's complicated since he is very privileged already. He gets 5000 gold a month just for existing. He's the captain of the Owlbears because he killed the previous one. He lives alone in a mansion. Yeah, that's pretty privileged. His parents are also so severely fucked up that if they hadn't been filthy rich they would've been absolutely horrible for him. If he had parents who unconditionally supported him and stayed with him through everything, then we could talk about perhaps the most powerful person in Elmville. In Solace possibly. The most feared pirate in history who single-handedly dismantled a monarchy and fights against armies on his own is at your beck and call, does whatever you ask him to, and loves you more than anything. The greatest swordswoman in the world, that bested the most feared pirate in the world, the daughter of one of the most influential elven families and immortal will do anything you ask her, loves you to bits, and would cheat any rules for you. To have that would just be insane. You can argue that Fabian already has unfair advantages because of his social status and inheritance. This is true, but this is also true within his own adventuring party. Now his parents aren't helping him with anything and are determined that he reach his legendary status on his own. Otherwise talk about a fucking advantage.

All this to say is that if Kipperlilly got all of The Bad Kids tragedy porn like she wanted she wouldn't have been better, but she would've made them better. There is an adventuring party out there in the multiverse that has a secret agent at their disposal, the only chosen one of a Sol religion, Bill Seacaster and Hallariel Lomenelda unprompted in their corner, and a seer with unending resources and diplomatic immunity. These would've been people you start a platform about adventuring not being fair for everyone because of. The people you went against was a homeless kid, a kid with an anxiety disorder, a trust fund kid, and someone with PTSD.

I've seen your posts about Kipperlilly being wrong for her validation, but right in the fact that The Bad Kids have been given larger plots and mysteries because of their families and circumstances and I don’t want to fucking see another one. When you make that I want you to think about the adventuring party they would've been without their backstories. The insanely powerful and privileged adventuring party that almost happened. Their life got made worse, not easier because their life could have been so fucking easy. Kipperlilly can take all the tragedy porn she wants and then maybe realise that that's not what makes the adventurer. That the reason she's mad at The Bad Kids is the only reason she can even tangentially compete with them.

[pechebeche]

so this was a chapter in fig's perspective, which was meant to tie out one of the last remaining fabian-is-back-and-reconnecting-with-his-friends thread, which was Fig Is Still So (Rightfully) Mad. and more importantly forwards fig's personal storyline, which is a mirroring of her mother's trauma and the crash-and-burn lifestyle of hardcore musicians in the era fig idolizes. i only got about three pages in, and one of those pages is supposed to take place at the very end of the chapter so there's some dead space in between. but for anyone interested, here it is!

Okay. So. Bad news. Fig did something stupid. Fig did something really stupid.

Which, like – whatever. Right? Whatever. Fig is always doing stupid things. Fig is a – she’s a fucking stupid person, alright, she’s grown up, she can admit it. Fig makes bad choices and ruins lives and fucks up. That’s who she is. She knows! She’s not an idiot, Fig knows the way shit works, she knows she’s an irresponsible ex-child star ex-addict fuck up. Okay?

But Fig has done something especially stupid. Monumentally stupid. The type of stupid that she’s sworn off of.

She takes a deep breath, grits her teeth, and braces herself to open her eyes once more to where Harmond, Known Shitty Ex, is asleep next to her.

God, Harmond’s apartment fucking sucks. It’s been so long since she slept here that she forgot. He never washes his sheets, it was like their number one fight material because it’s so uncomfortable, Fig can feel Cheeto dust on her naked legs. Which is such a ridiculous thing to be fucked up about. It’s so dumb that she’s thinking about Cheetos and cracker crumbs and the gross turn of her stomach as she looks at Harmond’s sleeping face, big unkempt Dwarvish beard and big round ears and her stomach turns. The unwashed sheets and the crumbs and the face and the sound of his fan going because there’s no AC in his apartment and the memory of finding his wife on her social and the fucking gross feeling inside of her right now is just –

Fig squeezes her eyes shut. She’s not crying because she had a drunken rebound with her ex. She’s not doing it.

Fig doesn’t often take the trouble to be quiet, but she manages to keep the stifled cursing under her breath as she hastily gathers her clothes and throws them back on. She glances over at the pills on the nightstand – feels sick, again, abruptly, squeezes her eyes shut tight and hard. Stupid. Stupid. Stupid.

It’s all still a little blurry, between the headache and the self-loathing and the nausea. Somehow, she manages to get out of the apartment. Finds her way to a bus stop. Digs some change out of her pocket.

Goes to the house of the one person who she’s absolutely certain feels as shitty as she does.

“Alright,” she says, when Fabian opens the door. “Let’s talk.”

--

It took Riz three years to delete Fabian from his contacts.

Fig found out by accident – she was visiting to help Gorthalax, who was helping Sklonda, who had the unenviable task of negotiating between Bud Cubby and the Solesian government on how to go about governing Elmville. It was an argument that should’ve been sorted out in senior year of high school, when Bud, Aguefort, and the Bad Kids’ combined efforts had completely dismantled the Elmville police system and severed most political connections with the rest of Solace, but there was some political foot dragging that Riz understood and Fig didn’t. If Sklonda gave the word, Fig would totally assassinate the head of Solace’s Counsel of Chosen. She wouldn’t even ask questions.

But there was a lot of discussion about symbolic vs practical victories that went over her head, and foot dragging, and general rich people nonsense, and in particular rich elvish nonsense. She was trying to keep up, though. She needed the distraction – the end of her first big romantic relationship had been a few months’ done by that point, but the sting of it still felt insurmountable, and at least here she could be useful about it.

The point being: Riz was explaining to her why, exactly, his private investigations were going to technically become “policework,” and how ‘police’ would mean something different from now on, and yadda yadda yadda, and he was scrolling through his crystal to find texts he and Sklonda had shared about rich assholes and their words, and as he scrolled down his contacts – Fig put a hand on his arm and went, “Whoa, whoa, whoa, stop scrolling – is that Fabian’s number?”

“What?” Riz looked up, distracted glint in his eye – and then the question fully processed and his face shut down. “No. It’s none of your business. He hasn’t – we haven’t talked since he left. I don’t have his number.”

“Scroll up.”

“No.” Fig narrows her eyes, and Riz instinctively pulls his crystal as far out of her reach as he physically can – a leftover from when they first became step siblings and Fig had hoisted things high above her head as a mark of Sisterly Affection. It doesn’t work for him, because he’s short, but when he’s doing it sideways like this he can shove her away with the other hand, so she gives him points for the effort. “I said no! Stop it.”

“Riiiiiiz, come on – “

“It’s my crystal, it’s personal property and I don’t have to share anything with you – “

“Pleeeeease – “

“What do you even want it for?”

“To call him, obviously,” Fig snorts.

Riz’s whole body does something complicated – like a shiver, almost, like he’s just shot a gun and the entirety of him is recoiling with it. “You think I haven’t tried that?” he snarls. “He doesn’t pick up.”

“How long ago?” Fig insists.

“Fucking – drop it, Fig.”

Fig scowls. Digs into her pocket, pulls out her crystal. Scrolls for a moment. And decisively, furious, shoves it in his face.

“What, jackass,” she says when Riz stares, speechless, “you think you’re the only person who’s kept his number?”

--

[fabian and fig for a brief moment about how haha we are both fuck ups! Wow maybe we are friends again <3 and then fabin starts idly complaining about how hard it is getting back and suddenly it gets REAL TENSE]

“Do you know why I’m still mad at you, Fabian?” Fig manages through grit teeth. “Do you know why everyone is still mad at you?”

“Enlighten me.”

“Because you fucking left!” Fabian opens his mouth like he’s about to retaliate but Fig is so not here for it, she is going to keep talking and this boy is going to shut up and listen. “Do you think Riz was the only one who missed you, Fabian?? Do you think we were only worried about him when you disappeared? It wasn’t our first instinct that you’d committed murder, asshole, we thought you’d died, or been kidnapped, or – or something! And instead of letting us know you were okay, you fucked Adaine’s sister!”

Fabian scowls. “I didn’t realize – “

“I know!” Fig snaps. “I know you had your own shit going on, I get it. But so did we! So do we right now! We’re not – I’m not a fucking bit player in your life, Fabian, you can’t just pretend the fact that you had shit going on means it all falls into place or whatever, it doesn’t work like that, I’m a whole ass person. We were best friends!” Fig’s not an angry crier, not usually, but she’s crying now, and great, just fucking great, now she’s going to look all fucking vulnerable and shit, hair smelling like drugs and eyes rimmed pink, she is so fucking furious. “You left us! All of us! And you STILL AREN’T EVEN SORRY!”

this is uh. YEARS late. but im cleaning out old word files and. would you guys like to see what id written of the next chapter of st judas before Everything Happened

[jazzstandardspoll]

Descriptions & Propaganda

Dream A Little Dream Of Me

Composed by Fabian Andre and Wilbur Schwandt, with lyrics by Gus Kahn

Notable versions: Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald (x), Doris Day (x), The Mamas & The Papas (x)

Propaganda: None submitted.

St. James' Infirmary

Traditional

Notable versions: Louis Armstrong (x), Cab Calloway (x), Artie Shaw (x)

Propaganda:

i love how this song starts as a lament and then switches on a dime to such a cool, proud, almost bragging defiance of death. and of course that trumpet!! that trombone!!

imo this song exemplifies the rich tapestry of popular music and the links between the jazz standards, the blues, and the english, irish, and appalachian folk traditions. people sort of fight over whether this song is influenced by the unfortunate rake/rakes progress/young trooper cut down in his prime/etc., (musicologist a. l. lloyd’s theory) or not- there’s a whole book about it, “i went down to the st. james infirmary” by robert harwood.

but none of that really matters. if you love the blues and you love folk music this song is like a familiar hug, full of the themes and motifs you recognize but maybe can’t quite pin down. the mysterious origins are part of the fun. extra propaganda: if you know/love/have ever listened to “blind willie mctell” by bob dylan, this song is the father.

i like the way this one sounds but i also think it's historically/anthropologically pretty cool... it's part of the lineage of "the unfortunate rake" which also spawned popular folk songs like "streets of laredo" and possibly "house of the rising sun" (debated among experts but possible), but this one unlike those others was taken up by jazz artists starting in the 1920s and eventually came to be regarded as a jazz standard. fascinating stuff!

[ilyasorokinn]

stanley cup blurb week!

hello! with playoffs starting today, i thought it would be fun if i did a little writing thing. if you have any requests for the players below (whose teams are in the playoffs), send them in!! the few rules i have are i don't write smut, please be kind and patient, and feel free to requests for the au i have to.

*= means you can request someone from this team who isn't on this list

carolina hurricanes *

freddie andersen

seth jarvis

tyson jost

pyotr kochetkov

jesperi kotkaniemi

jack roslovic

ty smith

andrei svechnikov

colorado avalanche *

jack drury

erik johnson

artturi lehkonen

ryan lindgren

martin necas

nathan mackinnon

miles wood

dallas stars

wyatt johnson

mikko rantanen

edmonton oilers

trent frederic

jeff skinner

florida panthers

anton lundell

mackie samoskevich

los angeles kings

quinton byfield

andrei kuzmenko

erik portillo

jack studnicka

alex turcotte

minnesota wild

matt boldy

joel eriksson ek

kirill kaprizov

montreal canadiens

kirby dach

juraj slafkovsky

arber xhekaj

nashville predators

nick blankenburg

new jersey devils *

seamus casey

nico hischier

jack hughes

luke hughes

johnathan kovacevic

timo meier

dawson mercer

ottawa senators

tim stützle

fabian zetterlund

st. louis blues

jordan kyrou

jake neighbors

colton parayko

tampa bay lightning

anthony cirelli

toronto maple leafs

alex nylander

william nylander

anthony stolarz

joseph woll

washington capitals

anthony beauvillier

pierre-luc dubois

rasmus sandin

winnipeg jets

dylan coghlan

nikolaj ehlers

brandon tanev

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[portraitsofsaints]

Saint Apollonia

Died: 249

Feast Day: February 9

Patronage: dentists, tooth problems

St. Apollonia, an early Church martyr, is the patron of dentists and toothaches. A Christian persecution in 249, led many to their death. St. Apollonia would not renounce her faith and was beaten, having all her teeth knocked out. Her persecutors then threatened her with fire. She stood firm, even voluntarily jumping into the flames, to her death. Her life story was written by St. Dionysius, Bishop of Alexandria, to Fabian, Bishop of Antioch.

Prints, plaques & holy cards available for purchase. (website)

[mikkeneko]

A short history of weird papal conclaves, from open bribery to riots

 In the year 236, the election was dragging on, and voters gathered for days of debate and lobbying. A humble and devout farmer came to participate, and when a dove flew into the room and rested on his shoulder, it was taken as a sign. “Thereupon all the people, as if moved by one Divine Spirit, with all eagerness and unanimity cried out that he was worthy, and without delay they took him and placed him upon the episcopal seat,” St. Eusebius, the earliest church historian, wrote about the election of Pope Fabian.

Or, for the more bloody-minded reader:

In 1241, Pope Gregory IX’s disagreement with the Roman emperor continued even after the pope’s death. The remaining cardinals were locked in the Septizodium Palace with Gregory’s corpse until they made a decision. It was a hot August. One cardinal died, and another complained “that whenever he tried to sleep a soldier would poke him with his spear,” Michael J. Walsh wrote in his book “The Conclave.”

[gemini-enthusiast]

Mission Specialist John Fabian poses with tape recorder aboard flight deck of Space Shuttle Challenger, STS-7

[deconstructthesoup]

All right, I've been thinking about the Fantasy High Leverage AU more lately, so have yourself some updates to the story:

-Since there are just too many good Leverage episodes that spring from Nate's thing with hospitals, I decided to change Riz's motivation from Pok dying on the field and it being covered up to Pok having recently died of cancer. I think that Pok never mentioned to Sklonda or Riz that he couldn't get coverage for his treatment, even from his old bosses, so when Riz found out after his death, it was... definitely a shock.

-I wound up throwing my idea of Kalina being Sterling out the window in favor of Kipperlilly being Sterling, because... well, she's too lawful to be a thief, let's be real, and she just gives off Sterling vibes in general. Also, it contrasts nicely with Riz only really caring about her when she shows up to ruin his plans, but the rest of the team absolutely hating her guts.

-The other reason I threw out my idea of Kalina being Sterling is because it makes so much more sense, narrative-wise, for her to be Jimmy Ford. I debated making her Moreau, because that'd be a great way to tie her into Kristen's story, but ultimately, she's had way more narrative impact on Riz than on Kristen, and I adore the concept of Riz growing up idolizing his cool, motorcycle-riding godmother until he found out that she was a criminal, is still a criminal, and cares a negative amount about the sanctity of human life... and then running into her again when he's an adult. And, also? Kalina genuinely caring about Riz is also goldmine storytelling potential.

-Mazey is Tara! I realized I completely forgot about Tara when I made the original post, and after much deliberation, I decided that if it's Fabian who goes on the sabbatical, and if whoever he calls in to replace him is someone that even Fig wouldn't know, then Mazey would be the best choice. I think that Fabian knows her due to them targeting each other at one point, not realizing that they were both grifters, and after that hilarious misunderstanding, they kept in touch---Fig knew about it, just not what Mazey actually looked like. Mazey's a bit nicer than Tara is, but she's definitely constantly confused by all of the inside jokes.

-Some people have already guessed this, but Porter is Dubenech, and Jace is... uh, his millionaire sugar daddy whose name I've forgotten, whatever, the season 4 antagonist. Yeah, I know, I'm switching up the usual Porter-Jace dynamic, but what can I say? I like making Jace a genuine threat.

-The Abernants are a version of Moreau, because... well, they're way too interesting and way too malevolent for me to make them anything but full-season baddies, and I've already established that they made their family fortune off of theft---why not turn that into also funding every single bad guy in the world? And honestly, given that they stopped acting like Adaine existed after she got caught, it wouldn't be too far from the realm of possibility for Kristen to have worked with them in the past without knowing that they were Adaine's parents... but, of course, this is mere speculation at this point.

-Fig and Fabian's little sister---who I've named Faroe---does appear, but I'm giving my girl her own unique role. Yes, I did have the option of making her an equivalent of Breanna or Astrid, but as much as I love Redemption, this is an AU that follows the OG Leverage... and I like Riz too much to have him be dead, even in the future.

-Lucy is now Peggy, because she's sweet enough, I love the idea of Adaine accidentally becoming friends with her, and I also love the idea of her and Ragh becoming best friends---since, well, Ragh is Hurley and all. Gay man and lesbian solidarity for the win.

-Kalvaxus is our season 1 antagonist, the CEO of KVX Insurance and Riz's sworn enemy. Honestly, there was no better character role for him.

-Baron is The Italian. I don't want to explain, because it's too perfect for me to attempt to put into words.

I've got other stuff in the back of my mind---like, for instance, Gertie being Kristen's ex from back home, there being an episode called "The 3 Dads Job" where suddenly all of Fig's various dads are in seemingly wildly different crises that are, against all odds, intrinsically connected at the source, Sklonda acting as the Detective Bonano equivalent---but I think that's a good stopping point for now.

[staywildmoonrise]

The third one is just beautiful. He is so so pretty.

[say-hi-intrepid-heroes]

some fav quotes from the bad kids?

(these are all from memory so they may not be 100% correct sorry)

Fig: "Don't worry, I've got an in with the vice principal ;)" [plus that entire bit]"

Adaine: "I cast detect thoughts on myself??"

Kristen: "Raise your hand if you've ever kissed the hangman." Gorgug: *raises his hand*

Fig: "I gotta go get my kisses in."

Riz: "Mom do you want to go to prom with me?"

Fabian: "[after hearing the hangman discuss hellish things] Yes, very good, motorbike. Now, to the ice cream shop!"

Gorgug: "AM I MY OWN DAD????"

Kristen: "You guys, I think I might be gay"/"I think I like girls" (this one gets funnier every time)

Fabian: "Why would you eat ants on a log? I eat... kippers."

bonus, here are some of my favourite bits that are too detailed that i can't do them from memory;

- Hilda Hilda, who lives on Hilda St. and Hilda Blvd, and found a letter at the police house while walking her giant dog

- Kristen "it's gonna get inspiring soon" Applebees

- Fabian "I didn't know maids could do that" Seacaster

- Chungledown Bim.

- Gilear.

- the tables in episode 2

- Fig "... and then i skateboard away" Faeth

- the prize cabinet in the arcade

[lovemacbeth]

I bet Murph is correct and the final projection is a prepared spell, but I'd like to think that, before he went on vacation, Arthur Aguefort took one look at Kristin and Fig's grades, calculated that with Fabian, Gorgug, and Fig multi-classing; what he knew of the Bad Kids' characters and shenanigans; his pettiness over Adaine choosing friendship over chronomancy as the strong st school of magic; and the likelihood that something would go wrong around the Bad Kids' and completely designed the Last Stand around them, knowing those crazy kids would try to beat all the monsters rather than give in and die.

[smolandweirdwriter]

Got headcannon(s) for you!

For literally every long trip the Bad Kids go on, Kristen and Adaine are the certified mother hens.

Kristen tries to have cool aunt vibes and she does. Just. She's still an older sibling. But she makes it work

Adaine has the baking down flat, she'll carry a nice Tupperware or 5 of baked goods to last the entire day. Cooking doesn't exactly fit with her, she's tried and although nothing was burnt (*coughfabiancough*) she isn't a big fan of it.

Kristen is a genius at anything corn, and ever since her mission to bulk up, amazing at salads and sandwiches. Her salad game is amazing. Her cooking is fine in general, but her absolutely shit dexterity does not help. If she's preparing food you better be prepared for batter on the ceiling and flour inside the drawers.

The two meet up the night before any long trip and the two grab a huge dufflebag and fill it with Emergency stuff like bandages and Epipens and sick bags etc. Yes Adaine could pull most of those out her jacket. Yes they'll still prepare for things.

If they need to cook food in the middle of a trip, Kristen and Gorgug will team up and make the food. Gorgug has probably the most kitchen skills aside from Kristen, but they do good together.

So the thing is, all of the Bad Kids have a specific set of behaviors that simply DO NOT CHANGE regardless of the nature of the road trip.

Kristen, for one, desperately wants everyone to have a good time and also, she doesn't want to get out of the van. she wants to enjoy her time listening to music, playing punch buggy, eating snacks, talking to people; she wants everyone to have everything they could ever need or want, right there in front of them. this means that she wants to bake allllll the goodies. Unfortunately for Kristen, she has Sookie St. James level clumsiness, especially in the kitchen, where there are far too many things to burn yourself with, trip over, spill, et cetera. She's been banned from cooking in Mordred Manor because she's set off the smoke detector so many times it broke. So she cooks at Seacaster manor with Cathilda's help (Fabian is NOT aware of this). She bakes up a storm of corn bread to take with them on the trip.

Adaine, for her part, is quite good at baking. Recipes are easy to follow, easier than spells. All you have to do is read the instructions and do what it says. She's not very good at cooking because she's not particularly skilled in the kitchen, and doesn't have quite the (albeit messy and chaotic) finesse that Kristen does. Adaine loves sweet things (a byproduct, perhaps, of not being allowed them as a child) and will help Kristen bake corn bread. (She sprinkles in chocolate chips sometimes.) She'll also bake cookies, muffins, brownies--whatever she's in the mood for, it makes it on the trip. (She usually ends up "accidentally" making a double batch of everything. Whoops.)

Kristen makes salads and sandwiches for everyone and has everyone's lunch and snack desires down to pat: Riz takes the extra-spicy chicken with lettuce and pickles, and he's addicted to those sweet and spicy candied nuts (so is Adaine, they usually sit together for a bit so they can share them); Fabian will not eat anything but kippers and the plainest salad known mankind (iceberg lettuce, tomatoes, cucumber slices); Adaine takes a steak sandwich, the bread toasted a bit too much but not burnt, with lettuce and cheese, and she also always packs chocolate-covered pretzels and lembas; Fig also loves an extra-spicy chicken sandwich, but she takes hers with tomatoes, salt and pepper, and mustard. Finally, Gorgug has a salad of so much quantity Kristen will pack two separate lunches for him: steak, olives, corn, chicken, arugula, spinach, tomato-- the works. He loves it every time.

Adaine and Kristen 100% end up, every time, unplanned and without fail, in the kitchen together at about 4:30 am the day of a trip going over the itinerary, packing list, making sure they have extra bandaids and blankets and sleeping bags and signal flares and spare tires. (they do. they can pull these things out of adaine's jacket. they don't care. better safe than sorry, right? they spend half an hour trying to fit everything in the trunk every. single. time)

Gorgug, of course, is the designated driver, and every time Adaine makes sure to tell him he gets a good night's rest, and makes sure he's taking breaks, drinking water, keeping his eyes on the road, everyone stop talking you'll distract him, Gorgug are you sure you're alright? She mothers him so hard he almost goes into a Rage just from sheer irritation despite knowing she truly means well.

Fig tries to play music; Riz tries to put on some boring podcast. they spend half the time listening to rock music and half listening to the corruption of the criminal justice system. gorgug hates both no mater what (the rock music because it's always fig and the sig figs and he truly can't stand listening to himself sing/play, and the podcast because, duh.)

Fabian refuses to help in any capacity. He sits in the backseat, kicks his feet up, and tunes out. He wanders out when they have breaks, and if there's a flat tire he's the one for the job, but honestly, he's not big on road trips. he goes because his friends are all going, but if he had to choose, he'd ride the hangman for days on end.

adaine is the one who checks them into hotels if they ever stay in hotels, and kristen scopes out the facilities and points out all the things everyone will like.

kristen takes soooo many pictures and forces everyone to pose for them every time and they all hate it. adaine can't take a good picture to save her life, and she physically doesn't know how to take a selfie and always makes someone else do it despite the fact that she's one of the tallest bad kids. she also has social media but is NEVER on it (she's always the first to respond to the text chain, though).