>>Enid and Ajax attempt a date, but Ajax accidentally stones himself and misses it.<<
Might be worth adding that 'to stone' is in-universe slang meaning "to petrify," as the other meanings ('high on marijuana' or 'execution via thrown rocks') make an ambiguous amount of sense.
>>* For a much less violent angle, interpret "meeting house" as a Friends meeting house. Because that's about the level of peacework and community skills needed to resolve the mess of issues between Outcasts and Puritans.<<
Er... might not work well. The Puritans /despised/ the Quakers, in part due to the egalitarianism and direct communion with God being considered heretical and in part due to the fact that the Puritans were the sort of religious fanatics who believed it was moral to punish nonbelievers even though it wouldn't even save the nonbeliever's souls.
>>* Bianca may feel too conflicted about her siren powers to use them, even for a good cause, thus failing to evacuate the school; or they might get everyone out.<<
I did wonder at the dance scene, [Bianca expresses insecurity due to never knowing if her powers are compelling people to like her] if using sign language would work. Siren powers are usually held to be vocally or musically activated, rather than pheromone powers or various telepath abilities, which are more likely to be always-on.
Things like writing notes, premade notecards, a speechboard or whatever the in-universe version of a voice app is would be other options. Then again, a popular teenage girl might be resistant to certain types of adaptive equipment... >>* What are the siren principles of ethics, if any, regarding their powers?<<
Probably the usual 'do not engage in behavior harmful to the group' that is common across all societies, possibly with benefits skewing to higher-status members. Of course, this still allows a lot of variation; just look at how "thou shall not kill" is expressed across and outside various human societies.
>>* Wednesday might succeed in defeating Crackstone faster, or the students might mob him at this point, or adults could be actually useful and help defeat him.
Someday it would be nice to see a Magical Academy setting where students aren't the ones solving all the problems and being in mortal peril on a bimonthly basis.
Closest I've seen appears in The Owl House, and that only makes the list because the school (while dangerous) isn't any more dangerous than everything off-campus. While there are helpful adults whose default reaction is to protect their kids, the local culture seems to have a much higher threshold of danger than the surrounding area, and by the time plot difficulties exceed that it is the sort of mess that can't be easily solved by an adult, or even a collection of them
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Might be worth adding that 'to stone' is in-universe slang meaning "to petrify," as the other meanings ('high on marijuana' or 'execution via thrown rocks') make an ambiguous amount of sense.
>>* For a much less violent angle, interpret "meeting house" as a Friends meeting house. Because that's about the level of peacework and community skills needed to resolve the mess of issues between Outcasts and Puritans.<<
Er... might not work well. The Puritans /despised/ the Quakers, in part due to the egalitarianism and direct communion with God being considered heretical and in part due to the fact that the Puritans were the sort of religious fanatics who believed it was moral to punish nonbelievers even though it wouldn't even save the nonbeliever's souls.
>>* Bianca may feel too conflicted about her siren powers to use them, even for a good cause, thus failing to evacuate the school; or they might get everyone out.<<
I did wonder at the dance scene, [Bianca expresses insecurity due to never knowing if her powers are compelling people to like her] if using sign language would work. Siren powers are usually held to be vocally or musically activated, rather than pheromone powers or various telepath abilities, which are more likely to be always-on.
Things like writing notes, premade notecards, a speechboard or whatever the in-universe version of a voice app is would be other options. Then again, a popular teenage girl might be resistant to certain types of adaptive equipment...
>>* What are the siren principles of ethics, if any, regarding their powers?<<
Probably the usual 'do not engage in behavior harmful to the group' that is common across all societies, possibly with benefits skewing to higher-status members. Of course, this still allows a lot of variation; just look at how "thou shall not kill" is expressed across and outside various human societies.
>>* Wednesday might succeed in defeating Crackstone faster, or the students might mob him at this point, or adults could be actually useful and help defeat him.
Someday it would be nice to see a Magical Academy setting where students aren't the ones solving all the problems and being in mortal peril on a bimonthly basis.
Closest I've seen appears in The Owl House, and that only makes the list because the school (while dangerous) isn't any more dangerous than everything off-campus. While there are helpful adults whose default reaction is to protect their kids, the local culture seems to have a much higher threshold of danger than the surrounding area, and by the time plot difficulties exceed that it is the sort of mess that can't be easily solved by an adult, or even a collection of them