✨Thou Art the Fairest of them All✨

PUKICHO:

[Alisson/Twst!Alice]

I flip flop constantly on either is a lazy genius, a average boy just trying to live his life (and nobody wants that for him), genius but an airhead and anything in the spectrum of that.

But let's leave that nebulous part aside to deal with most hypothetical stuff lol

We can bet his childhood will be a huge part of backstory just for the sake of mirroring Riddle, so I'll work with this to imagine that maybe Alisson doesn't know the name of some basic normal day stuff. Not bc he's dumb but because there wasn't interested adults around him to teach him that stuff, they're worried about other things (themselves, his academic achievements), so "why the boys needs to know what a broom is?"

He's a bad company for Rielle to learn about the surface objects names bc Alisson gave them names on his own. Broom is "dog's beard", butter toast is "butterfly bread" and he'll say those things and sometimes wonder why people look at him weird or confuse him for a child at the market

Put on his clothes backwards sometimes so he takes twice the time to get to class on bad days. And got tricked once in his first year by Chenya who gave him a broken clock. Alisson never bothered to check if the thing was working, Chenya never told him to use it as a alarm...

Got so late in his first day at school that he ran out of the dorm in his pajamas. He managed to remember to bring his bag, the books, whatever else he needed... but the uniform... thank goodness his colleagues are supportive golden retrievers, he would be dead in any other place!

[Chenya]

I thought it would be clever to subvert the trope and instead of being a boyfailure in his spare time, he is a certified perfect boy at random things and times. Leave his opps mad af and keep them guessing, which are too funny for him

When nobody wants to take out the trash, he'll do it silently and effectively from every single room and the kitchen, leaving behind things that are obviously next to the can by accident and shouldn't be thrown away. His colleagues think the dorm is haunted, which makes it so worth it!

With the same ease Chenya will trick, he'll teach. So for every broken clock he gives Alisson, he'll convince him to brush his teeth or eat veggies bc doing these things will complete his "alien transformation and evolution" (they watched the same cartoon growing up)

An absolute sweet heart with lost children <3 He guides them to a responsible adult, help them call their parents and makes silly faces to make them laugh and give time for the responsible people to arrive

But won't do the same for anyone from high school to 50s. Old enough to have a cellphone, old enough to use MagicMaps. Switch again for old people and guides them safe to home bc he wants to minimize the karma of his old gramps getting people lost on purpose

He's his gramps but younger so, he was taught etiquette, manners and the art of trickery from the OG himself.

[Nalad/Twst!Nala]

Based on the mix between Nala and Simba, Nalad's boyfailureisms are also unexpected just like Minajael's but it still exists

Sometimes he gets the wrong food at the cafeteria bc he was looking at something for such a long time, the kitchen staff seemed to get disappointed that he was refusing that dish so now he has on his plate a thing he wasn't looking for, don't think his going to like, just for random pressure

In moments like this, Nalad pavlov-ed himself to stomach some weird dishes that puts the table on full concern mode. Watching him eat a pea soup was hurtful but by the 40th spoon, he was managing to swallow without looking like he was being attacked by hyenas

Not all the time but in very distracted moments, he'll fall in whatever or whoever in on his way. Not very romantic bc did you see his height? And he's probably carrying papers or something heavy. He'll profusely apologize later

While not all lions, and therefore beastfolk lions, hate water, they usually avoid it bc swimming makes them slow and clumsy, the fur gets heavy so it ruins stealth and it's just not what they're used to. Basically: Nalad hates rainy days and swimming lessons (obligatory subject in military academy at all levels) for all those things

His humor will sour when his hair is wet by rain or he can feel the particles of water running down him. Oh, the shudder! He also hates him swimming form and hates even more the fact that once the Royal Family visited the middle school cadets during swim lessons and he's so sure the Second Prince only woke up to see him give the worst performance of the afternoon!

[Rielle]

We already dabbled on Rielle and Alisson must be separated when doing "above surface discovery" time. But what does Rielle do on his own?

Asks very embarrassing questions to anyone, with a straight and expectant face, dying for reasons and answers, but he basically just asked "what's the difference between boxers, briefs and shorts?" in the middle of breakfast

That being said, clothing customs was one of the most fascinating aspects coming for land. He was the most eager guy in mermaid training camp and the one that doesn't shut up (the experts love and hate him)

Like... you put on clothes that will be under other clothes that in some places are fashionable to put under even more clothes? Human are so fascinating!

If a delinquent ever tried to make Rielle smoke, he would have his cigarette blown up to his eyes bc Rielle thought that, since the smoking pipe is an instrument, a cigarette is a small flute. It's very necessary to have or Nalad or someone taller and stronger to take him away from the fight that's about to blow up

[Minajael]

The boy, the moment, the legend, the reason we're here!

I already commented in my expectation that he's trying to get rid of his out of touch mannerisms and get to know the common, normal people... which isn't always easy

Sometimes, Minajael will do a "rich guy" thing and threaten to buy the local store just bc they refused to give Rielle extra pickles for his sandwich. Then he stops himself, "I can't do that, I don't work, that would be using taxpayer money!", and it's when Rielle offers "oh, I could buy it!" and they get into an argument over abuse of tax and well-being of locals above anything that the owner gives Rielle his pickles

Minajael is mortified coming out of the restaurant about being spotted as being rich. Riddle doesn't get it at all.

He always has the best material to work on anything. Even when he tries his best to buy things himself, minding the price, he's still in the more or less 1k category

Once Neige gave him a flute hand-sculptured on wood for holiday week and Minajael gave him a expensive silk jacket after saying "it's not much but I hope you like it!"

... that thing could buy at least a small car. That's how not exactly expensive but still not so easily affordable it is.

[Neige]

What hasn't been said over the fact that Neige is naive due to his inspo from Snow White? Well that's quite obvious. I feel like he's also the definition of well meaning but not always well timed

I thought about how book 8 is after May, so Vil's birthday already passed but imagine after book 5, Neige wanted to send him a gift basket just to rekindle but he only knows Vil from his mayo eating days. So the basket basically has apples, flowers, sweaters and carefully crafted and packaged vegan sandwiches with lots and lots of mayo <3

One of the problems that I think people could cause for Neige is that bc nobody wants to see his puppy eyes cry, sometimes nobody corrects him on things... so he keeps doing things like these

Back to that, once the group was passing by the neighbourhood and Neige saw a funeral service. Megboy and Minajael went with him bc he likes to give his respects and comfort in moments like this but they felt something was wrong

Neige greeted and comforted every single person there, with warm words, nice gestures, he just brought flowers and when he finally got to where the casket was... it was empty. "Where's the person?! Somebody took the body!!", almost nobody said anything. It was Megboy who had the courage to say "Uh... this is a funeral service sample, I think"

[Megboy]

Either Megboy is too tech inept due to heavier Ancient Greece motifs in his dorm that he thinks wires are an absurd thing ("we need wireless cables, Idia" "are you hearing yourself, you normie infected zombie?!") or he's so tech centric that analog is a obscure matter to him

Once Merrylad caught him trying to pass a book page by sliding his finger, like a tablet. So he breathed in "this is not a epub, this is not a epub"

Or sometimes he forgets this type of normal stuff exists to begin with. Imagine his computer needs to charge but he has a essay for tomorrow. He's pacing around the lounge, wondering where could he find sources of knowledge to use for his text...

Needs to leave a message for someone? Don't have their contact or your phone is dead? Oh, if only you could just leave them a text on a surface right there.....

Then later that day, when Megboy is so close to sleep, it comes to him the solution: "THE LIBRARY AND A NOTE!!" thank goodness he sleeps alone in his room

Also he hates horses. Nothing makes this man more wary than a equine of any species. Not even death makes him shudder. Only horses. Will unironically start arguments with said horses, in horse language, like "we invented cars for you to become an obsolete specimen" and everybody of the equestrian club needs to rush over to stop him from getting killed

[Merrylad]

Has the opposite problem of Megboy. Bro is not only analog, he's medieval analog. Everyone's battery is dead? Let's send a message via pigeon! That's how they did and it never killed anyone. That would require that Merrylad can't use magic in this situation

Then he'll suggest is simply doing a sending paper spell (as if it's something that anybody under 100 yo could do)

Now after a suggestion like that, you would think he's incapable of being a boyfailure. Think again. Anyone can be a failure, they just need to do their best!

At the same time Merrylad is the epitome of medieval analog, technology could either scare him or be utterly fascinating

Once the grade was able to visit a facility which had those doors that open by themselves, due to tech, and he's losing it over that stuff. He's going in and out, in awe of how machinery could archive something only the best Fae Houses could have back in Briar Valley! And the security is like "excuse me, Mr. Boy, stop going through the doors" "boy is you, lad. I have [redacted] years. I could've changed your great-gramps fabric diapers"