The 'Too Hard' Basket

[andraste]

Since you've all been so helpful with that High School AU I Am NOT Writing so far, any suggestions on the below? You were all so good at giving me ideas for Leela. But I don't know what to do with:

Sara Kingdom
Kamelion
Grace Holloway
Frobisher
Laura 'Compassion' Tobin
Chris Cwej
Roz Forrester
Fitz Kreiner
Trix McMillan

The school already has one fierce hockey mistress, which would otherwise be a natural role for Sara. I'm not sure what to do with the shapeshifters, and for some reason I'm having trouble envisioning Grace in a British school setting. The rest are book companions I've not even met! (Anji Kapoor was easy even sight unseen, since every school needs a Bursar.)

Not that every Doctor Who character ever invented needs to have a starring role in this entirely hypothetical story, but I feel the need to know where everyone is, somehow.

Comments

[jeriendhal.livejournal.com]

Frobisher = The class pet in Six's room. Six insists that he's just a very large gerbil. And that he talks. Since the rest of the school thinks Six is insane anyway, he gets away with that.

Kamelion = Five thought Four's robot dog PC was pretty cool, so he tried to one up him by building a humanoid model. Five being a Cricket instructor, this didn't work out very well. K is usually left alone in the closet and ignored, until one day he shorts out dramatically.

[lokisrose.livejournal.com]

Sara Kingdom: Does your hypothetical school have any security guards yet?

Grace: Er. Guest lecturer?

Kamelion: Crash test dummy? Science lab 'skeleton'? Drama class 'prop'?

The rest I cannot comment on, as I have never heard of half of them. ^_^;;

[kseda.livejournal.com]

*cracks knuckles* Okay, novel companions (and Anji as Bursar is BRILLIANT, I was thinking economics teacher but that's so much better)...

Compassion - Math, possibly algebra. Her special talent would be striking abject fear into the hearts of her students. Doens't give a rat's ass about your personal problems or other fiddly things like "feelings."

Chris - Probably a student, possibly in the UK equivalent of the ROTC if there is such a thing.

Roz - Security? Resource officer equivalent? *shrugs*

Fitz - *sigh* I've been trying and failing to picture him as anything but a layabout groundskeeper. The only other possibility is teahcing music (he plays guitar and sings), but I can totally see him in the background mulching things and giving out beatnik wisdom. And constantly getting reprimanded for smoking behind the garden shed.

Trix- Drama teacher. Fullstop. Or if you shift her into being a student she'd be the princess of the drama geeks, the one who always needs to play the lead. I like that more, actually...

Oh, and I may be friending you as a result of this crack, if that's all right *grin*

[hradzka.livejournal.com]

Kamelion: is Adric's science fair project. Some of the other Companions/kids, who hate Adric really a lot, sabotage him, so he doesn't work quite right.
(I'd say one of them should be Leela, because it seems like the sort of idea she'd have, but not if she's coaching field hockey.)