Do you have any headacanons surrounding about how the townies (like Otto, Gurney, etc) acted before they were expelled? did they know/get along with eachother before they were expelled ?
nonnie!!! i LOVE this question!!
starting from your examples, gurney wasn't expelled, he just. dropped out at some point
i'm not sure if he went to the bullworth academy?? he probably attended the public school, and dropped out because he just... couldn't get himself interested in academic knowledge, yknow?
he was always friends with edgar, though; he's the eldest among the townies (23 yo) and really just keeps hanging out with them because of the friendship
otto attended bullworth, but he never really fit in, so to say
he always pretty much kept to himself, often overwhelmed by the chaotic crowd, plus he really wasn't in a good place mentally
he did get good results though, and the grades would've been in the sky if he didn't fight with teachers often
before the end of his freshman year, he was hospitalized after a breakdown and he never went back to school
duncan was a nerd; melvin was his best friend and also the only one he was out to
they were also the two nerds of the time who were better at humanistic subjects than scientific ones (he had a special repulsion for biology)
and he loved to cosplay too!! melvin still is insecure about his body, but duncan was almost able to convince him to try too
but he dropped out during sophomore year, crushed by the continuous bullying davis i'm looking at you
he recognized otto from the school when they met again (they weren't in the same classes, but they did notice each other from time to time)
zoe is the illegitimate daughter of bif's mother and a cook at the mansion, but was adopted by her mother who lives in blue skies
she grew up very close to edgar, so he welcomed her in his group of friends when she was expelled
she hated mandy with a passion, because of how fake she was. she was just in time to meet lola before getting expelled; she would've actually like to be her friend, but then she saw how lola got along with mandy and turned alll the way around
(she regrets having missed the fight that broke their friendship)
she got along with most of the girls actually, but there was no one she was actually able to connect with (alexa play girls by marina) nor was she interested in joining any clique
before she went away, galloway gave her a list of books she might have wanted to read, despite not being his student anymore. she read them all.
omar was a prankster back in high school
he ended up getting expelled for blowing up dr. watts' lunch, but he doesn't regret it one bit
he wasn't in any clique, but he was very popular and got along with pretty much everyone in the school
he wasn't a great student, but he really was there only to annoy people and have fun
he grew up next to edgar, despite not being his friend; they grew closer after omar was expelled and started hanging out with him
leon had a really hard time keeping up with the pace of assignments and the school life in general, but he was called lazy the whole time
he did have a special inclination towards music, but mrs. peters wasn't able to defend him on her own with the other teachers all the time
he was friends with omar when they were in school, so he knew exaclty where to go once he dropped out
jerry always liked to read and study, but somehow it never brought him far in school
one thing that the teachers would always say is that he was brilliant, but never got the notions right
he always felt that everything school tried to teach him, he could do it better by himself and there was obviously some issue of miscommunication
so he dropped out recently even; he wasn't in any clique though, as he still preferred to hang out, in his free time, with the other blue skies kids; he was especially friends with leon so he already knew that friend group
edgar attended the public school, but he had to drop out before his junior year started, so that he could work and bring money home after his father died
he regrets not being able to finish his education; he aspires to get back at it again, maybe one day whne he'll be in a better place economically
growing up he spent a lot of time wandering around the neighborhood, so he was able to assemble the townies through his friendship
they are really just a group of friends hanging out often, y'know; it's onyl with gary's intervention that they ended up into the rigid system of cliques next to the school ones
(jimmy is a honorary member though)
and last but not least clint
CLINT, MY MAN
i could make a whole post about that era but
he was a greaser back in bullworth, and a high ranking one too (he was a junior when johnny was a freshman and took over the clique, plus good friends with the leader of the time)
he liked to hang out with the freshmen, introduce them to the school, always loved to make them feel included (he was the one to teach norton how to make piercings)
he thought johnny would've been a cool kid, if he didn't take himself too seriously
despite not being italian (he is of irish descents) he was the best at trump, scopa or any game involving neapolitan cards really, his only rival was ricky who grew up with his father coming from naples
hence the casino incident that got him expelled
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