Have Some TWST Fan Lore Part 1: The Arcane Exchange

Have Some TWST Fan Lore Part 1: The Arcane Exchange

First of all, credit to @cyanide-latte for coming up with the event name because it just sounds so lovely, doesn't it?

Now, the Arcane Exchange itself is a fairly straightforward "what it says on the tin situation"; it's Twisted Wonderland's version of a student exchange program.

For approximately three months a year (my friends & I are currently working off the idea that this begins very shortly after the end of Book 4's events), students from various arcane academies will host each other and participate in certain events meant to strengthen the bond between the schools without it necessarily having to be competitive. After all, one of the last events that happens before the students are sent back to their respective schools is the National Arcane Academy Culture Fair that mainly works as an expo/convention (aside from the SDC, but you know).

There's a fairly substantial number of students from each school that get selected to participate, and then those various groups are semi-randomly split up amongst the other academies. (i.e Night Raven will host only some of the students from the other academies. Meanwhile, the NRC students going abroad for the exchange will be separated among the other schools).

In the case of Night Raven specifically, all visiting students are distributed amongst the seven dorms in a shared learning experience 'like a great big sleepover'. This is met with mixed results most times, but nothing too crazy since there are enough empty beds based on the number of NRC students having gone off to the other academies.

Speaking of, lets get into the schools involved in the Arcane Exchange!

Night Raven College and Royal Sword Academy are the obvious picks, but that's also a rather obvious recipe for disaster due to their long-established rivalry...if left on their own, at least. Hence the inclusion of other schools to act as a kind of buffer that actually tends to work due to the neutrality of the other two schools.

Noble Bell College does participate(probably the least since they seem to be the smallest school in both scope & population), and the group of myself, Cy, @ramshacklerumble, and @simons-twsted-children have even recently discussed an interesting debate on whether Noble Bell is co-ed. This is important due to the final participant of the Arcane Exchange.

Corlux Key Seminary(CKS), a paramilitary arcane institution of my own creation that will be discussed in more detail in a later post. Corlux is explicitly co-ed in both students and staff; the gender distribution is almost perfectly split down the middle if not outright in favor of the female-identifying population. Despite this progressiveness, however, the Arcane Exchange a bit of an interesting sticking point for CKS (& NBC to a certain extent). While the male students can be assigned to whatever institution they like, the female students of both schools are only ever exchanged with each other. In regard to any potential PR nightmare an incident occurring on campus could cause, this makes sense. Doesn't mean it's not a bit sexist though.

The Arcane Exchange is a fairly standard practice that has even fostered some grand shows of academic comradery, though there have been some....memorable moments over the years as well. For instance, the Arcane Exchange that happened the year before TWST canon starts was Not Fun for NRC as hosts because both the RSA & CKS kids were terrible. As in 'it was considered the 'trial by fire' for both Riddle as a freshman-year Housewarden & the OctoTrio as the staff of the newly-opened Mostro Lounge' kind of terrible. As such, none of the Housewardens are particularly excited when the meeting before the start of the canon-year's exchange approaches. And they're about to feel a lot more ill-at-ease when Crowley rather casually drops this little bombshell;

For the first time since the start of this most noble tradition, Night Raven College will be opening its doors to a selection of female students from Corlux as a kind of experiment of 'broadening horizons & relations' between the academies. If this particular Aracne Exchange proves to be successful (meaning nobody does anything to 'embarrass' NRC and/or CKS), then there's the chance of expanding the openings for female students to participate at RSA's end of the Exchange as well as Noble Bell being able to similarly 'branch out' as it were.

Now that begs the question; is Crowley really about to let a relatively small group of girls onto an all-boys campus & just have them shack-up in the dorms? "NO! Absolutely not; I would never do anything so foolish and dangerous to those promising young pupils! As a matter of fact, I have arranged for all of the female participants to have accommodations all to themselves for their comfort and safety. Oh how generous I am; it's almost unnerving!" Now if only Crowley had thought to mention to the host of those accommodations that they're about to find themselves with a LOT more roommates than the usual weasel.

Apologies to one Gia Yugo...

NOT! This is going to be fun~ >:)

Taglist: @cyanide-latte @simons-twsted-children @tixdixl @ramshacklerumble (let me know if you also want to be tagged)

give him the smooch

Hihi!!! 19 and 20 for Cal please? Thank you!

YES; I get to talk about my solar surfer sweetheart!

19) Does your OC have any close friends?

I'm still working on that, to be honest. Cal is something of a social pariah at his school due to his emotional issues (you don't earn a mocking nickname like Cal-amity by underreacting). It's a convo I really need to have with the group.

The two closest things I can think of is him having an admiration for my girl Fia due to an interaction when he is a freshman to her sophomore, and how it's very likely that @cyanide-latte's Wei Renqiao is going to be the one to step in when...well everyone (especially Ignihyde Dorm) will see during the 2nd Arcane Exchange.

Although, there is also the case of @ramshacklerumble's Gia Yugo and the role they play as observer to the rollercoaster of a relationship between Cal and one Jade Leech. Though, that would be telling ;)

20) What hobbies does your OC have?

Cal has two; puzzle box/cube solving and metalworking. The metalworking is definitely the more vested of his crafts, even to the point where it's how he came to develop his Signature Spell/Ultimate Magic. Outside of being somewhere where he can look at the stars without obstruction, melting and molding metal is where Cal feels happiest and the most safe.

Taglist: @simons-twsted-children @tixdixl @ramshacklerumble @cyanide-latte {let me know if you would like to join!}

Social experiment: if you know what this is don’t say anything just reblog

guess which root beer-flavored dumdum forgot to do the thing 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️ Okay so I'm only going to post the OCs that are mage school students; some from RSA, most from my creation Corlux Key Seminary(CKS). The students will be listed in alphabetical order accompanied by an extremely brief description for the sake of TLDR types;

CKS

Penny Chase🐕: The eager follower

Ruby Del Zorro🦊: The entitled leader

Orpheus Fairbairn🌅💙: The messy twin

Puck Pratt🐓: The unrelenting hellion

Caelum 'Cal' Sokół🌌: The troubled hopeful

Fiamma Trein👠: The overlooked dreamer

Kentigern Vaughan⚔️: The class president

RSA

Dagobert 'Bertie' Fairbairn🌅🩷: The Messy™ twin

Gareth 'Mick' McLeach🦅: The redemptive conservationist

tagging @cyanide-latte for reminding me that I had this here but unfinished

also tagging @ramshacklerumble, @changeofheart69, and @tixdixl b/c y'all are enablers & I love you for it!

What relationship does your oc have? || Twisted Wonderland Ver.

RULES: Send an emoji in the box to ask what kind of relationships my OC has with a specific canon-character

🌹 what relationship does your oc have with riddle? ♥️ what relationship does your oc have with Ace? ♠️ what relationship does your oc have with Deuce? ♣️ what relationship does your oc have with Trey? ♦️ what relationship does your oc have with Cater? 🦁 what relationship does your oc have with Leona? 🐺 what relationship does your oc have with Jack? 🐾 what relationship does your oc have with Ruggie? 🦑 what relationship does your oc have with Azul? 🦐 what relationship does your oc have with Floyd? 🍄 what relationship does your oc have with Jade? 🌟 what relationship does your oc have with Kalim? 🐍 what relationship does your oc have with Jamil? 👑 what relationship does your oc have with Vil? 🍎 what relationship does your oc have with Epel? 🏹 what relationship does your oc have with Rook? 🔥 what relationship does your oc have with Idia? 🤖 what relationship does your oc have with Ortho? 🐲 what relationship does your oc have with Malleus? 😈 what relationship does your oc have with Lilia? 😴 what relationship does your oc have with Silver? ⚔️ what relationship does your oc have with Sebek? 🐱 what relationship does your oc have with Grim? 🦇 what relationship does your oc have with Crowley? ⚗️ what relationship does your oc have with Divus? 📚 what relationship does your oc have with Mozus? 🏆 what relationship does your oc have with Ashton?

💀 what relationship does your oc have with Sam?

HAVE FUN!! AND YOU’RE FREE TO REBLOG AND PLAY WITH THAT!

So... I was wrong... they were never meant to be QPPs. They were always supposed to be romantic partners.

G-d I am fully back in my brain rot y'all. Once I swapped the roles between Ruggie and Trey in Emil's little poly dynamic, bruh everything fell into place on both sides and Im on the floor weeping. How did this go from being a meh dynamic to easily one of my favorite ships so fast?

On that note- How did all of my TWST OCxCanon dynamics become favorites of literally all time????

Tag list: @cyanide-latte @simons-twsted-children @inmateofthemind @ramshacklerumble @rainesol @elenauaurs (lmk if you want to be added)