the bad kids ranked by how much I think Arthur Aguefort likes them for fun. mostly written before Junior year but I wanted to post before the penultimate episode tonight

6th Riz- I dont think Arthur dislikes Riz, I just think they don't exactly get on. Arthur is the ultimate authority at the school but also a rule breaker, while Riz is kind of a stickler for the rules which I think would cause some friction or at the very least I think the two of them are more neutral than anything towards each other. Riz has his feral and chaotic moments, but I don't think Arthur really sees them compared to the rest of the bad kids who are more chaotic instead of feral

5th Fabian- I also don't think Arthur dislikes Fabian, I think they don't really have much to talk about. I think one of the few conversations they had, Arthur basically gave him the okay to bring the hangman along on their spring break trip so I don't think there's bad blood between them, just again kind of neutral. I think Fabian is less cringey than Riz and Arthur is more likely to laugh at his jokes so he's higher on this list

4th Gorgug- Things with gorgug are weird, because he could go up or down on this list depending on the conversation. They have a weird relationship since there are times that just by questioning him Gorgug pisses Arthur off and he isn't afraid to say so. Other times he seems to respect Gorgug like when he says he did the right thing with Zelda in Sophomore years, which while creepy is respectful. He also seems to take Gorgug's advice to heart with Ayda and trusts Gorgug with his magic pocket watch. I think he respects Gorgug but would also hunt him for sport if the opportunity arose. I think if Gorgug had nemesis alert Arthur would be listed, I don't think he hates Gorgug by any means, but feels like it's the right thing to do in his own twisted mind.

3rd Kristen- She's another one who could go up or down on the list depending on when, seeing as she did bring Arthur back to life and snuck him in and out of heaven. She also pissed him off and made him go into a rant when she tried to say love was the most powerful magic of all. Still, he seems to at least like her a little bit so it's kind of a toss up. But Kristen is a crazy entity even within the bad kids which earns her extra points.

2nd Fig- I think Arthur really likes Fig, she's wild and crazy, which fits him just fine. I think the challenge to create a brand new creature out of nothing that could transport them around before they left solace/elmville at the start of sophomore year endeared her specifically to him. I think he is very happy that she is the one dating his daughter, however I think he takes his job as Fig's girlfriend's father very seriously and is ready to destroy Fig at any moment.

1st Adaine. I think Arthur Aguefort likes Adaine the most out of the bad kids. partially because she's a fellow wizard and his daughter's best/first friend, but there are other reasons. I think he enjoys Adaine's attitude most out of the bad kids, she isn't afraid to be savage and let out dark jokes when the mood suits her that even the other bad kids find appalling but suits Arthur just fine. While the bad kids are full of chaos gremlins, I think adaine is more feral than chaotic which is why I think Arthur would prefer her the most. Adaine also has the most the Seven energy of the bad kids and since sophomore year her bloodthirsty nature and lack of respect for authority and refusal to back down when she thinks she's right makes her the perfect student to him. I feel like if he was in his right mind and not dead the first day of school he would have seen this tiny shaking high elf in a hudol uniform covered in blood because she just killed the lunch lady with her own ladle, he would have been like, when she graduates, I'm going to be her best friend when she graduates and she would have no say. So to be clear, I don't think this is good for Adaine in anyway to be his favorite, I just think she is his favorite Bad Kid

And for the most part, I think Arthur genuinely likes the bad kids as students and as an adventuring party, but in a way that's not good for them. He respects their violent nature and drive to make a nuisance out of themselves to any villains that might be hatching or in the middle of an evil plan. Not to mention their refusal to obey rules and laws that they feel are unjust or annoying. It's why they're his favorite, it's why he knew it would be them who would understand his point behind the last stand-ard exam, he just loves them because they are everything he's looking for in adventuring students.

arthur making gilear the vice principal is so funny but all jokes aside, it's the perfect job for gilear. the position was created for kalvaxus so arthur has limited it so much. it has no responsibility, it has no powers, all you have to do is show up and let arthur dunk on you. that's in the job description. gilear's main skills include being dunked on and hanging out with his daughter, the only two things he can do at aguefort. he starts fucking up the moment he gets a task but this job was designed to illicit no tasks of importance whatsoever

the idea that, using CHRONOMANCY, arthur aguefort prerecorded a whole stadium full of illusory arthur agueforts with chest paint for the bad kids AND a congratulatory post-hoc message for being the first students to beat the last stand is so so deeply funny. bad kids break a record from the dawn of time and he’s not even going to put his vacation on hold to be around for it. world’s most principal of all time

Hey you like Aguefort? I gotchu an Aguefort so you can Aguefort while you Aguefort

This one was a WILD ride XD Such a good time to work on, but EACH AGUEFORT IS AN INDIVIDUAL LAYER. Shout out to Derek and Ruby for animating all of these very silly principals ♥

unbelievably funny that when the seven hit their junior year (after, like, a hell of a lot of shenanigans to all remain in school together despite being different ages) arthur aguefort was like "oh you guys want to stick together? yeah i'll tell you about the mystical ged and stop time to take you to my super secret library and yes i'm going to be weird and cryptic about it all because i'm arthur aguefort, like, duh, but i am still ultimately helping you and i think you're soooo cool i'm so proud of you all [sheds a tear]". and with the bad kids he's like "yeah yeah i know you 'saved the world' but you need to get your grades up or i'll expel you. lol."

the funniest thing about kipperlilly copperkettle cracking down on the bad kids for getting special treatment for being aguefort’s favorites is that no they’re fucking not!! kipperlilly you’re thinking of the seven aguefort fucking hates the bad kids

i think "kristen isn't actually ready for the responsibility of being the student body president" takes would make slightly more sense to me if this wasnt AGUEFORT ADVENTURING ACADEMY. like bro the principal literally tried to grab the sun, kristen is pretty much his spiritual successor

arthur “i will use chronomancy for everything except being a principal at my school” aguefort

Brennan made Eugenia Shadow purely to make up for a lack of Arthur Augefort in this season

arthur aguefort to the bad kids:

“My… wonderful. absolutely reckless. unhinged. violent. wild. untameable. Bad. Kids” — the collective and simultaneous sob of hundreds of thousands of dropout subscribers quakes the earth — “Did we get that one? Great.”

You know, I know how it happens from an 'unfortunate consequences of worldbuilding over time' point of view, but also Arthur Aguefort murdered the shit out of Mister Gibbons even though the school apparently regularly resurrects entire adventuring parties as part of an optional but expected standard exam.

I saw a couple people saying that maybe Eugenia Shadow was part of Arthur Aguefort's original adventuring party, and that got me thinking about the possibility of the OG staff of the Adventuring Academy all being made up of his party members, who worked together to take down Kalvaxus

Like, maybe they were short-staffed in the beginning because they were just starting out, so Arthur originally pulled double duty as the wizarding professor and the principal. Maybe he had a huge, thirteen-person party, or there were just a bunch of multiclassers that were teaching two---or even three---classes at once.

...Now I kinda wanna see a prequel sidequest

What the Rat Grinders don't realise is that being liked by Arthur Aguefort doesn't give you advantage, it gives you disadvantage on your day to day life and world shattering events

Endless Fantasy High

Accusing Aguefort of favoritism towards The Bad Kids is so fucking funny. He doesn’t even like them