hey i'm leading up to him asking in our comment thread but if we don't get to it, armani would like to ask viola if she would like to do a Bad Idea Smooch in front of their romantic interests to see how they react
Viola’s snoop through the yearbooks turns up the following notable tidbits:
1987-1988 Yearbook
The Magnificent Maple is featured prominently on the cover, tall and full of life. There’s a smudge of lichen on the picture, obscuring nothing, almost heart-shaped.
Several of the class pages are heavily vandalized—not by lichen, but good old fashioned bored teenagers with (literal) magic markers. Most of the names under the class pictures are jumbled and don’t make much sense, and half the pictures have been tagged beyond recognition. She does find a Liquy Quillion who’s been turned into a ninja, and his eyes could belong to someone familiar.
Appalachian History Club is featured on a single page in this book, it’s a ragtag bunch of students including junior President Georgie Trullinger. The page indicates that 87- 88 was the first year for the club. One of the photos, taking up a full third of the page, is of the Appalachian History Club members meeting with students evidently from another school under a banner that reads “ELFLOCK FALLS & PAW PAW, Muggle Outreach Initative!”
1988-1989 Yearbook
Under the freshman, there’s a Brice Qualls, a boy with a serious and seriously unfortunate David Hasselhoff doo.
Searching for LS & PA yields: Lola Spillum (soph), Prometheus Albrecht (soph), Leopold Szabo (jr), Lyla Swan (jr), and Paprika Arnold (sr).
The senior class is a bit harder to navigate as it’s arranged by senior portraits and group photoshoots. However, Viola is able to find a photo of Percy Potkin and a “Li….. Qua….” whose name and face are partially obscured by, you guessed it, lichen. The two boys stand back to back, firing finger guns at the camera. There’s no mistaking those cherubic blonde curls and that fun leather jacket, though. Percy Potkin is credited as the Aesthetic Magic TA, in Wildgulch, and L.Q. as the Artificing TA, in Mothgarden.
Under the Artificing page, more corroded pictures of L.Q. appear, pairing him with underclassmen, working on a project with his peers, standing with the senior class and Artificing teacher. All of them are damaged in some way, text or picture.
There’s a two page spread for Aesthetic Magic that features a photo of the mural from the Zippy Dip. Percy Potkin stands beside the unfinished piece, which depicts a partially painted Elflock Falls separated from another town by hills. “ELFLOCK FALLS & PAW PAW” have been sketched out in an arc over the mural, but haven’t been filled in yet.
1998-1999 Yearbook
The Moody Muscheron get their own full-page feature, including several pictures of them puttering around the Surly Stump.
Linden Quackenbush, a junior, smiles wide to show off three broken teeth.
There are a lot of notes and signatures from students who found the yearbook years later (“LIZZIE 💞 ALICE”, a doodle of Trogdor the Burninator burninating the countryside, dozens of Middle School S’s). There’s one note on the back page, partially obscured by lichen:
“Helloooooo from the future! It’s me! A future you! How do you know I’m you? How did I know you would ask that? Anyway! Don’t worry about it! I have important ad[...] before I’m sucked back through the time portal: DON’T [...] WIT[...]NY PART[...]. THE [...]RONG KI[...] PON[...]”
The rest is illegible. It’s the only trace of lichen in the entire yearbook.
It’s essential to her character that she believe everyone else around her is 100x cooler than she is because otherwise wtf are they even doing on this planet? Suffering?????
This evening, Viola gets the undeniable itching urge to check the pocket of that cool leather jacket she found in the tree stump. Like an invasive thought that takes root and spreads like spring weeds, she just can't stop thinking about it. Maybe she looked in there before, checked every fabric fold and shredded seam, but right now all she can think about is she needs to check the pockets again. It's like someone's whispering in her ear, urgently, begging.
If she does, she'll find in the front left pocket, a tiny black stone shaped like a cicada's shell.
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Date: 2020-03-03 05:36 am (UTC)1987-1988 Yearbook
1988-1989 Yearbook
1998-1999 Yearbook
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Date: 2020-03-18 03:35 am (UTC)She’ll die of boredom long before corona
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Date: 2020-03-18 04:02 am (UTC)And, I THINK, pretty forgiving of other morons???
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Date: 2020-05-06 02:59 pm (UTC)https://peckenpaugh.dreamwidth.org/172636.html
do you want viola to come with them?
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Date: 2020-05-06 03:22 pm (UTC)A bit of a brain worm for Viola...
Date: 2020-05-07 12:03 am (UTC)If she does, she'll find in the front left pocket, a tiny black stone shaped like a cicada's shell.
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Date: 2020-05-26 12:17 am (UTC)But any other time, she definitely would have tagged along! Ty!
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