carnivalarcanum:

Critical Role Modern High School AU wherein Vox Machina are Seniors and the Mighty Nein are Freshman.

1. Yasha is the first girl to try out for the football team and Grog, the captain, is the only one to take her seriously… especially after she tackles a guy into a concussion during tryouts

2. Keyleth and Pike are the only members of a gardening club but the rest of VM hang out with them while they tend to plants in the room they’ve been allocated. It is covered in all kinds of plants and Yasha starts sitting in there at lunch because it’s quiet and no one picks on her

3. Beau gets into a fight in the first week of school. She’s already been expelled from two schools for fighting and her rich, asshole dad is Done. He strikes a deal to assign her a “mentor” of sorts. Vex volunteers and while she’s a model student and stops Beau getting into trouble… she also teaches Beau ways to get into trouble and get away with it

4. Caleb and Nott meet when they both accidentally end up in detention. They spend a lot of time in the library were Vex volunteers and Percy basically lives as he designs yet another weird contraption

5. Fjord is all about the swim team. After staying late for practice and waiting for everyone else to leave before he showered, he ends up finding Caleb stealing food out of a vending machine because Caleb is living at the school. Vax is there as well for reasons nobody particularly understands and he and Fjord both try to figure out ways of helping Caleb. Nott joins in too when Caleb tells her what happened

6. Mollymauk is the guy that shows up and just doesn’t give a flying fuck about anyone’s opinion. He’s treated as an outsider but he doesn’t care. He befriends Yasha because they’re both ostracized and while it’s an unusual friendship they have each other’s backs to the ends of the earth

7. Caduceus joins the gardening club. VM is unsure until he finds a way to very secretly grow… “tea”. Everyone has a great time. Scanlan writes three songs about their activities while high

8. Jester is happy, she’s bubbly, she’s good and kind and friendly. But damn if she isn’t LONELY. She eats lunch alone every day and draws in her sketchpad little doodles of the teachers and students that are mean to her. One day Pike sits down in front of her and comments on how good the drawings are. The rest of VM join and drag Yasha, Mollymauk, Beau, Fjord, Caleb and Nott with them

Vox Machina’s general thinking is: “these freshman are a mess… must protect”