Asriel and I went to a human school today, without Frisk. They offered to come, but we wanted to do this ourselves. It went tolerably - Asriel discovered how much he still likes attention and was able to draw it off me, and the other kids might not even have been malicious - until the school day was over.
Asriel had occupational therapy right after school, to help him with fine motor skills like writing and using utensils he’s having to relearn in his new body (I call it “eating practice”), but apparently he was unaware of how changing classes works, and he left his books in every single classroom he was in. So I, being the kind and generous sibling I am, told him I’d go back into the schoolhouse to find all seven of his notebooks while Mom drove him to eating practice so he wouldn’t be late.
I found the first notebook on a desk before long, but the math teacher made me solve math problems before I could take the notebooks. Half of the problems were impossible. And when I got the first impossible problem wrong, he started chasing me around the school with a ruler.
Naturally, because this wasn’t strange enough, the principal (who forced me into detention for 15-second intervals for running in the halls even though school was out), other students, and a few bizarrely sapient craft projects joined in soon after. And whenever the math teacher caught me, his ruler somehow electrocuted me and I had to reload! Frisk kept texting me asking what was going on and offering to send help or something, but I told them that I could do this myself. I will admit, I was having fun having my own adventure.
But then, when I got all seven notebooks, the exits kept disappearing! At this point Asriel texted me and said that Mom had called the Foundation already, but luckily I was able to find the real exit right as they got there. So I emerged, sweaty and bleeding from a cut on my cheek, to my whole family waiting outside terrified and an armored car just pulling up, and I strutted away, never once looking back, and pulled out Azzy’s notebooks with a dramatic flourish and said, “Got your notebooks,” in as deep a tone of voice as I could manage.
Of course, then Asriel started crying and telling me that I was more important than some stupid notebooks and why didn’t I call for help right away and he could’ve lost me again and didn’t I know by now that I didn’t need to be a lone wolf badass (my Asriel actually said that word!) to be worth something, so I pointed out that the only reason he wanted to go to human school was to prove himself, but then he pointed out that so did I, and then my badass moment was lost because we both started laughing at ourselves, but Asriel and Frisk did demand all the details from me afterwards and cheer me on in the telling, so I did end up feeling very proud of myself in the end.
So yeah, Asriel and I are sticking with monster school for now, and that’s just fine. I have decided that I don’t need to go to human school to feel good about myself. (Partially because I managed to defeat a Stage 4 reality bender - apparently that’s what the math teacher was - while in a state of fight or flight mode or something after spending a full day with other human children.)
Oh, and the MTF they sent executed the math teacher for being a Stage 4 reality bender, arranged to have the principal fired and social workers look in on all those weird kids, and confined the sentient sock, broom, and art project as SCPs, which I should probably feel bad about. But I don’t.
(The MTF leader also told me that I was “one tough cookie”, which made me laugh because they don’t even know the half of it - but I now have a job offer from the SCP Foundation one day, and I do not know if that is a compliment or an insult.)
So all in all, human school - I would recommend it, it provides great growth, but only if you are bored.
(Mod note: This may or may not be canon to the blog. Happy April Fool’s Day!)











