🏷️yellow

i’ve been rereading the ohshc manga lately and i always come back to how tamaki is genuinely one of the sweetest, kindest people i’ve seen in fiction.

it’s perfectly reasonable to assume he would become cold or callous after everything he’s been through (or at least develop some kind of resentment), but the series makes a point to show how he doesn’t harbor ill will towards anyone who’s hurt him. while this can be a flaw — causing him to quickly forgive people he shouldn’t — it does a good job at revealing a lack of ulterior motives. he is that kind. he’s so kind that others have a hard time wrapping their head around it. between the politics and the families and the money, he’s managed to not only keep his humanity, but pass a little of it on to everyone he meets.

you start the series thinking he’s some over-inflated, egotistical rich kid, but you end it with the understanding that he is always, always putting others’ needs before his own. the times he meddles in business he shouldn’t? the times he seems egotistical or condescending? the times he over-inflates his self-importance? it’s all genuine. it’s all real. his heart is so big it begins to bleed into the world around him, bleed so heavily you can’t help but mistake it for something else — greed, ego, dramatics — because it’s impossible a human being could carry so much love.

but he does. despite being treated horribly by his own family, despite being seen by most as a shallow, dense idiot, he doesn’t just have a heart — he is one. to stop loving, to stop caring, would mean to stop beating, to deny his own existence. it simply isn’t possible.

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💙: “And that’s why the people here are brainwashed.”

💛: “Katherine… I just asked you how your first period was. There’s no need for that tinfoil hat. I swear- You see ONE teenager with manners and you think the school’s water supply’s been sabotaged to keep us compliant.

💙: “It hasn’t?”

💛: “NO.”

💙: “Dang… well besides that this school’s nice IG.”

💛: “Did- Did you just say IG out loud?? And you don’t sound out the letters-”

💙: “Shut up!! Just tell me what happened in your class.”

💛: “OKAY, well I just finished the first draft of my introductory essay and applied for the NHS program. You know, nothing that special.”

💙: “Cool, cool…”

💛: “You didn’t start your outline yet, haven’t you?”

💙: “Oh my god- okay I don’t have any ideas for it, KIM. If you’re so good at writing and stuff why don’t you give me an idea?”

💛: “It’s an essay about you. I’m evidently not you, so I can only give an outsider’s view for your essay.”

💙: “Well what’s your opinion of me or whatever?”

💛: “Loud, impatient, impulsive-“

🧪: “Ms. Phan, what elements do you add to to create the compound ‘gold’?

💛: “Umm… you add element 79 and.. um..”

💙: “Ms. Fletcher, gold’s already an element. You don’t add anything.”

🧪: “Good job Ms. Nguyen. Ms. Phan, make sure you think over the questions before answering, after all arrogance leads to failure.”

💛💙: “…Okay?”

🧪: “Anyways, today we will go over class rules and lab requirements. I expect the packet and fee turned in to me by this Friday.”

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OKAY ME close call! Ms. Fletcher passed out a packet on the class rules and the lab requirements. Unfortunately I need to pay a 50 dollar fee to cover lab equipment expenses.. and it’s due this week…and I’m not gonna beg Kim for money (it would be shameful to my ancestors) so I’ll see if anyone’s willing to lend me some…

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🗣 “ERM… what do you mean you don’t have any phone cases for sale? GO AWAY, thank yew.”

👤 “Oh no! I left my wallet at home! Sorry… anyways so Lily are you still up for the mall?”

🐼: “Yeah, actually. You can do something for me.”

💙: “REALLY? Thank you so much-“

🐼: “No problem girl! My name’s Olivia but my friends call me Liv.”

💙: “Thanks, Liv-“

🐼: “Olivia.”

💙: “Oh.. well thank you anyways. What do you need?”

🐼: “Ah.. you see, I was “hanging out” somewhere at school with my boyfriend James and I kinda lost a pendant someone gave me.”

💙: “Okay.. where tho?”

🐼: “…ᵇᵒʸˢ ˡᵒᶜᵏᵉʳ ʳᵒᵒᵐ.”

💙: “What?”

🐼: “Sausage zone.”

💙: “OH! OKAY uhh…” Oh god. I’ll be smelling like axe for the rest of the week, and that’s if I can even get in there. “I’ll try.. what does the pendant look like?”

🐼: “Oh it’s like yellow with a red inside. You’ll know it when you see it.”

💙: “Alright.. you’ll give me the 50 dollars if I do it, right?”

🐼: “Yep! I’ll even give a good word about you to my friends, and not to brag or anything, but if my clique likes you, your life will be MUCH easier.”

💙: “Then it’s a deal! See ya soon.”

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(2nd photo: shuu is buried in the sand.)

I think you can tell who my favorite character is 😅 I wanted to put her in some y2k clothes because i’d think she’d like to wear that and also her OG sweater(?) is kinda plain. I also gave her curly/wavy hair because almost every girl in og yhs had the mid 2010’s emo bangs and straight hair and i wanted felicia to be distinct from gold at a glance. Although I am aware of the ‘spicy’ latina stereotype and although I want more diversity in the cast, I also want to avoid said stereotype, so felicia, although more overtly competitive and arrogant than brittney and olivia/liv (who will have a more important role in the first arc) she will be the most empathetic one, too.

She will be kat’s arch nemesis as usual, but in a more ‘frenemy’ sense. liv won’t die (super) early on, so after kat gives liv the pendant, kat may be inducted into the lower echelons of the popular kids. conventionally pretty enough to not get bullied, but still average enough to not overthrow the queen bee, whoever that is at the time. Felicia, for all her showboating and taunts, is nowhere near as ruthless as her posse is. basically, our queen has STANDARDS, she’ll mock you for your clothes or how you present yourself, not how you were born.

While felicia and kat are frenemies and may even get along in the future, after the posse’s (brit, liv and some other characters) true colors are revealed, they will be kat’s enemies, period. I’ll go more into detail on what the posse does but as a summary, liv gets overthrown and WE ALL KNOW WHO has something to do with it, culminating in liv’s “self- factory reset”. or so it seems…

BTW for the rewrite proper i’m gonna be formatting sections of it like this:

*insert picture/drawing to set the scene, totes kewl, minecraft background*

optional: Introductory paragraph from someone’s (usually kat’s) pov

page break

dialogue

A: “Blah blah blah”

B: “Wtf are u saying”

obviously it will be longer and more professional looking, but that’s what i’m working with rn cuz I can’t draw all the pannels needed for it to be a proper comic, i’m sorry! but let me know if the format is fine or not

edit + original

bonus with headcanon