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| || Location || 161 W. Shannon Avenue<<BR>>[[Havensborough]] || || Founder || AdorabelleWallace || || Headmistress || TheHeadmistress || '''Dame Adorabelle's Academy for the Magically Gifted and Talented''', often referred to as simply '''Dame Adorabelle's Academy''', is a magic education boarding school in [[Havensborough]], Centralia. The school was founded in 1870 by Dame AdorabelleWallace, who served as the school's Headmistress before her retirement in 1929. |
||||<style="font-size:48px;line-height:100%;">🏫|| || Location || Redbird Lane Road<<BR>>[[Havensborough]] || || Founder || DameAdorabelle || || Head teacher || TheHeadmistress ~-(obviously)-~ || '''Dame Adorabelle's Academy of the Magical Arts''', often shortened to '''Dame A's''', is a magic education boarding school in [[Havensborough]], [[Centralia]]. |
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| <<TableOfContents>> | The academy was founded by [[DameAdorabelle|Professor Dame Adorabelle Wallace]], distinguished professor of magic studies and life partner to PrincessMeredith. <<TableOfContents()>> == Campus == The Academy occupies a rather large campus in southwest [[Havensborough]]. The campus is bounded by Redbird Lane Road to the north, a large forest to the south and west, and a small city street to the east, across which lies a small cemetery. The campus seems to be in a perpetual state of autumn, with cool temperatures and vivid orange leaves on all the trees. Oddly, nobody seems to notice this quirk while enrolled or employed by the academy, but graduates and retired faculty have curiously recounted that every day they spent at the school, regardless of the time of year, felt like a brisk October morning. === Academic Building === The focal point of the campus, and its largest building, is the Academic Building, where the majority of classes are held. The building itself has been around since the academy was founded, though it has been expanded many times as the student body grew. The most notable such expansion is the large lecture hall in the east wing, often used by ProfessorForneus while teaching courses with many students. Other areas of the building feature much smaller classrooms. Perhaps the building's most notable feature is its clock tower, the tallest structure on the academy's campus. Dame Adorabelle herself claimed the clock tower was inspired by those at the PalaceOfSerenity in QueenCity, and like those towers, bells in the tower strike the Westminster Quarters to mark each quarter-hour. === Library === {{{#!wiki comment The appearance of the library, as described here, was lifted almost directly from a dream I had some years ago that captured my imagination. -- Centie }}} The second oldest building on campus, the Library features a grand entrance with a prominent set of double doors, up a few stairs from the courtyard. To comply with PrincessJeanette's accessibility mandates, a wheelchair ramp was added many years ago. Upon entering the library, one immediately faces the front desk: a workspace enclosed by a counter on all sides. The service desk seems relatively modern compared to its surroundings: a computer with a flat panel display sits on the left-hand counter, and the area is lit by overhead fluorescent lights suspended from the ceiling above. To either side of the front desk are study tables, each flanked by one or two rows of bookshelves. The majority of the books, however, are kept on the upper floor. One can walk around the front desk to the rear of the building, where two ornately decorated staircases run up from the center to either side of the upper floor—a quiet, dimly lit area with even more stacks of books and a few more, smaller study spaces. === Dormitory Circle === {{attachment:adorabelles_dorms.png||align="right"}} Dame Adorabelle's has two dormitories, West Dormitory and East Dormitory. Each dormitory building forms a rough semi-circle around a courtyard, with a smaller building containing faculty living quarters occupying the space between the dorms. A rivalry of sorts has developed between students residing in East Dormitory and those residing in West Dormitory. West Dormitory is home the "crazier" and more chaotic students, who love pranks, irresponsible use of magic, and general silliness. In contrast, the students of East Dormitory regard themselves as much more orderly, taking their studies seriously and holding those who flout the school rules in contempt. === Administrative Building === A large building in the center of campus, housing administrative facilities, including The Headmistress's main office. Princess Alice and friends once planned to break in after hours, but their plans were thwarted when, to their surprise, they found that the building has no doors or windows at night. You do ''not'' want to meet the night watchman. The Administrative Building also houses the campus security department. Because Princess Alice, the head of state of Centralia, is currently enrolled, the CentraliaHonorGuard has also established a small facility in the Administrative Building. The nominal duty of this Honor Guard outpost is to work with campus security staff to protect the Princess, though in practice they mostly protect everyone else ''from'' the Princess. {{{#!wiki comment REMOVING SOME OF THIS BECAUSE I THINK IT NEEDS SLIGHTLY REWORKED. WILL COME BACK TO THIS LATER; MAYBE SPIN IT OFF INTO ITS OWN WIKI PAGE ==== Adorabelle's Laboratory / Princess Alice's Clubhouse ==== Although the official plans of the Administrative Building do not include a basement, there is a lower level beneath the main structure, accessible only through a secret hatch in the belly of the Crystal Dragon displayed in the building's rear hallway. This space was originally used by Professor Adorabelle herself as a private laboratory, offering both a space to conduct magic experiments and as a quiet refuge from the hectic, bustling campus. Only one other person, Adorabelle's secretary, was aware of laboratory's existence, and he was sworn to secrecy. In her later years as Headmistress, students and faculty alike noted that Professor Adorabelle had a tendency to "disappear" for hours at a time, even during the school day. Adorabelle continued to use the laboratory space even her formal retirement from the Academy, only abandoning it entirely when she moved to her current residence, a small house in the woods near the creek where she met PrincessMeredith long before the founding of Centralia. Decades later, PrincessAlice was looking for a hangout space for her group of friends. While pondering this question, a little birdy dropped into the Princess's dorm, dropping a note reading ''There's a secret hatch to an abandoned part of the school right through the belly of the Crystal Dragon'' before flying away, stealing a small jar of honey. From that day on, the Princess and her fellow West Dormitory delinquents began using the vacant basement as their informal meeting place, unaware that it was once the private laboratory of the academy's founder and one of Centralia's most celebrated witches. }}} === Grizelda's Garden === Long ago, some young witches made a very large tree inside a small building, as a prank. The school faculty, however, found that they could not "unmagic" the tree, but only convert the magic into something else. The building has long since been abandoned, and today, its empty shell sits conspicuously in the center of the campus, completely overgrown by the massive tree and various other flora. None of the current faculty or staff can remember what the building was originally used for, or how long it has been sitting in its current overgrown state. Students refer to the area as ''Grizelda's Garden'', though nobody is quite sure who Grizelda was or why she deserves credit for the so-called "garden". Grizelda's Garden is a favorite spot for students to retreat to when they want a quiet, undisturbed place to read in the shade. === The Forest === The campus is bordered to the south and west by a massive forest, which is probably enchanted--because, let's be real, most forests are enchanted in ''some'' way or another. Students are forbidden to enter the forest without adult supervision, because for some reason every boarding school has a creepy forest nearby and every boarding school has a rule against students wandering into the forest. It's practically a requirement for running a boarding school in this day and age! A longstanding rumor among current and former students is that the forest adjacent to Dame Adorabelle's Academy is in fact the forest where PrincessMeredith first arrived on Earth prior to the founding of Centralia, though this has never been confirmed, with Meredith herself saying that all Earth forests look the same to her and that "it doesn't really matter." === That Weird Staircase === Some students, and even the occasional faculty member, have reported seeing a large spiral staircase somewhere in a remote area of the school grounds. Nobody knows where it goes, though the common rumor is "I think the fencing club meets up there or something?" === The Big Yellow School Bus === Dame Adorabelle's owns and operates a single big yellow school bus, used for field trips and other school outings. Princess Alice is forbidden to go near the school bus under any circumstances, as the result of a previous incident, which happened long enough ago that even she cannot remember what happened. The police were apparently invovled, but ConstablePayne refuses to share any details with the Princess out of fear that she'll say "Wow, that's sounds cool!" and try to do it again. Bunny, on the other hand, refuses to go near the bus because Bunny is allergic buses, which are animals, ''obviously''. ==== a silly aside about buses being animals ==== The modern bus is the descendant of the wild omnibus beast. The legend of the double horse emerged from mistaken impressions derived from early sightings of feral pre-industrial buses, perytons, and cameleopards. Feral buses and wild omnibuses rarely assume a purely mechanical form; it is believed that the Catbus in Hayao Miyazaki's film ''My Neighbor Totoro'' was inspired by a rare Earth-side sighting of a feral bus.<<FootNote(Thank you Sredni for this delightful bit of nonsense.)>> == Miscellaneous == * Dame Adorabelle's Academy maintains a private '''ChirpChirp''' server, which students can use for online messaging. * PrincessAlice is not allowed to park [[Livery]] on campus, as TheHeadmistress insists that the princess is too young to drive, even if she does not require a driver's license. * The west edge of Dame Adorabelle's campus lies near the east edge of EnchantedForestNationalPark, and students often sneak away from campus and wander into the park. They are often found by ''very'' exasperated park rangers and driven back to campus, where they usually face detention. |
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=== Dame Adorabelle Wallace === ''main article: DameAdorabelle'' The academy's founder and first headmistress. Following a long career as a professor at Hilltop University, Adorabelle, recognizing the value of teaching children with especially powerful magic how to control their magic at a young age, established her own school for students in grades 7 through 12. As headmistress, she personally oversaw [[PrincessJeanette|Jeanette]]'s education after Princess Meredith selected Jeanette as her successor as ruler of Centralia. Dame Adorabelle retired long before Princess Alice enrolled at the school, now preferring to live a quiet life at her secluded rural home. No one currently involved with the school has ever met Adorabelle, so faculty and staff alike recognize her primarily as the subject of the large statue in the middle of the campus's central quad. === The Headmistress === The current head teacher of the academy. She presumably has a personal name, but students and faculty alike address her exclusively as "The Headmistress". Princess Alice seems to regard the Headmistress as a rival, often characterizing her as a cruel tyrant who seeks to destroy childlike whimsy, but by all accounts the Headmistress is actually quite reasonable and levelheaded. * AdorabelleWallace (headmistress emeritus) * MissAlisha (student teacher) * ProfessorForneus (instructor, disciplinarian) * TheHeadmistress (headmistress) |
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=== Princess Alice === ''main article: PrincessAlice'' The sovereign princess herself. Despite having been a student at Dame Adorabelle's for as long as she can remember, Princess Alice somehow never progresses beyond the eighth grade--in fact, she seems not to understand that progressing through the grades is expected of students, often expressing surprise when her peers graduate from one grade to the next. The Princess is quite infamous at the Academy for her penchant for chaotic hijinks. She was surprised to learn that Dame Adorabelle's is the only school in the world whose security department has a dedicated "Princess Mischief Task Force". === Bunn E. Pumpkin === A young kid with orange hair, topped with a little bit of green, like a pumpkin stem. Does not talk. Has a pet frog named Ptolemy who makes cute faces when things happen. === Little Opal === A young, witchy girl who likes to float gently about the campus. Is good friends with Princess Alice. === Mel === An upperclasswoman, whom even the arrogant Princess respects as a senpai. May or may not be part of the weird dueling club that uses the Weird Staircase, but if she is, it's just because she likes anime too much. === Calendar Grithbreach === A former student, said to have been involved in the "Mastodon Incident" with ProfessorForneus a long, long time ago. Calendar was a student at Dame A's many years before Princess Alice's enrollment, somehow, even though Princess Alice is noted to have been a perpetual eighth-grader for as long as anyone at the school can remember. In the present day, Calendar roams the grounds as a ghost. This might seem to imply that Calendar died as a child on the school grounds, but we don't know that for sure--just that they're here and child-shaped ''now''. Princess Alice often hangs out in the ruins on the edge of the campus casually chatting with Calendar, seemingly unaware that she's talking with a ghost and not a fellow student. === Brick and Gutter === The "bullies" of Dame A's. They are not ''actually'' bullies and bear no ill will against their fellow students, but they've seen too many kids' shows with bully characters, and felt that ''someone'' needed to fill that role at that their school. They've been known to steal Bunny's Pokémon cards just because they feel like they're supposed to. Princess Alice attempts to stick up for Bunny, going to disproportionate measures like threatening to sic the CentraliaGuardForces on Brick and Gutter, but ultimately the day is saved by ''Calendar'', who uses his ghostly ghostliness to spook the bullies into handing over the cards. (The faculty often have to gently remind Princess Alice that she is a princess, not a dictator, and that threatening to turn her military on her own subjects is kind of a bad look for a head of state, even if she's like 13. It's the one time they ''encourage'' her to just tattle to the teacher instead!) |
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Dame Adorabelle's Academy of the Magical Arts, often shortened to Dame A's, is a magic education boarding school in Havensborough, Centralia.
The academy was founded by Professor Dame Adorabelle Wallace, distinguished professor of magic studies and life partner to PrincessMeredith.
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Campus
The Academy occupies a rather large campus in southwest Havensborough. The campus is bounded by Redbird Lane Road to the north, a large forest to the south and west, and a small city street to the east, across which lies a small cemetery.
The campus seems to be in a perpetual state of autumn, with cool temperatures and vivid orange leaves on all the trees. Oddly, nobody seems to notice this quirk while enrolled or employed by the academy, but graduates and retired faculty have curiously recounted that every day they spent at the school, regardless of the time of year, felt like a brisk October morning.
Academic Building
The focal point of the campus, and its largest building, is the Academic Building, where the majority of classes are held. The building itself has been around since the academy was founded, though it has been expanded many times as the student body grew. The most notable such expansion is the large lecture hall in the east wing, often used by ProfessorForneus while teaching courses with many students. Other areas of the building feature much smaller classrooms.
Perhaps the building's most notable feature is its clock tower, the tallest structure on the academy's campus. Dame Adorabelle herself claimed the clock tower was inspired by those at the PalaceOfSerenity in QueenCity, and like those towers, bells in the tower strike the Westminster Quarters to mark each quarter-hour.
Library
The second oldest building on campus, the Library features a grand entrance with a prominent set of double doors, up a few stairs from the courtyard. To comply with PrincessJeanette's accessibility mandates, a wheelchair ramp was added many years ago.
Upon entering the library, one immediately faces the front desk: a workspace enclosed by a counter on all sides. The service desk seems relatively modern compared to its surroundings: a computer with a flat panel display sits on the left-hand counter, and the area is lit by overhead fluorescent lights suspended from the ceiling above.
To either side of the front desk are study tables, each flanked by one or two rows of bookshelves. The majority of the books, however, are kept on the upper floor. One can walk around the front desk to the rear of the building, where two ornately decorated staircases run up from the center to either side of the upper floor—a quiet, dimly lit area with even more stacks of books and a few more, smaller study spaces.
Dormitory Circle
Dame Adorabelle's has two dormitories, West Dormitory and East Dormitory. Each dormitory building forms a rough semi-circle around a courtyard, with a smaller building containing faculty living quarters occupying the space between the dorms.
A rivalry of sorts has developed between students residing in East Dormitory and those residing in West Dormitory. West Dormitory is home the "crazier" and more chaotic students, who love pranks, irresponsible use of magic, and general silliness. In contrast, the students of East Dormitory regard themselves as much more orderly, taking their studies seriously and holding those who flout the school rules in contempt.
Administrative Building
A large building in the center of campus, housing administrative facilities, including The Headmistress's main office. Princess Alice and friends once planned to break in after hours, but their plans were thwarted when, to their surprise, they found that the building has no doors or windows at night. You do not want to meet the night watchman.
The Administrative Building also houses the campus security department. Because Princess Alice, the head of state of Centralia, is currently enrolled, the CentraliaHonorGuard has also established a small facility in the Administrative Building. The nominal duty of this Honor Guard outpost is to work with campus security staff to protect the Princess, though in practice they mostly protect everyone else from the Princess.
Grizelda's Garden
Long ago, some young witches made a very large tree inside a small building, as a prank. The school faculty, however, found that they could not "unmagic" the tree, but only convert the magic into something else. The building has long since been abandoned, and today, its empty shell sits conspicuously in the center of the campus, completely overgrown by the massive tree and various other flora. None of the current faculty or staff can remember what the building was originally used for, or how long it has been sitting in its current overgrown state. Students refer to the area as Grizelda's Garden, though nobody is quite sure who Grizelda was or why she deserves credit for the so-called "garden". Grizelda's Garden is a favorite spot for students to retreat to when they want a quiet, undisturbed place to read in the shade.
The Forest
The campus is bordered to the south and west by a massive forest, which is probably enchanted--because, let's be real, most forests are enchanted in some way or another. Students are forbidden to enter the forest without adult supervision, because for some reason every boarding school has a creepy forest nearby and every boarding school has a rule against students wandering into the forest. It's practically a requirement for running a boarding school in this day and age!
A longstanding rumor among current and former students is that the forest adjacent to Dame Adorabelle's Academy is in fact the forest where PrincessMeredith first arrived on Earth prior to the founding of Centralia, though this has never been confirmed, with Meredith herself saying that all Earth forests look the same to her and that "it doesn't really matter."
That Weird Staircase
Some students, and even the occasional faculty member, have reported seeing a large spiral staircase somewhere in a remote area of the school grounds. Nobody knows where it goes, though the common rumor is "I think the fencing club meets up there or something?"
The Big Yellow School Bus
Dame Adorabelle's owns and operates a single big yellow school bus, used for field trips and other school outings. Princess Alice is forbidden to go near the school bus under any circumstances, as the result of a previous incident, which happened long enough ago that even she cannot remember what happened. The police were apparently invovled, but ConstablePayne refuses to share any details with the Princess out of fear that she'll say "Wow, that's sounds cool!" and try to do it again.
Bunny, on the other hand, refuses to go near the bus because Bunny is allergic buses, which are animals, obviously.
a silly aside about buses being animals
The modern bus is the descendant of the wild omnibus beast. The legend of the double horse emerged from mistaken impressions derived from early sightings of feral pre-industrial buses, perytons, and cameleopards.
Feral buses and wild omnibuses rarely assume a purely mechanical form; it is believed that the Catbus in Hayao Miyazaki's film My Neighbor Totoro was inspired by a rare Earth-side sighting of a feral bus.1
Miscellaneous
Dame Adorabelle's Academy maintains a private ChirpChirp server, which students can use for online messaging.
PrincessAlice is not allowed to park Livery on campus, as TheHeadmistress insists that the princess is too young to drive, even if she does not require a driver's license.
The west edge of Dame Adorabelle's campus lies near the east edge of EnchantedForestNationalPark, and students often sneak away from campus and wander into the park. They are often found by very exasperated park rangers and driven back to campus, where they usually face detention.
Faculty / Staff
Dame Adorabelle Wallace
main article: DameAdorabelle
The academy's founder and first headmistress. Following a long career as a professor at Hilltop University, Adorabelle, recognizing the value of teaching children with especially powerful magic how to control their magic at a young age, established her own school for students in grades 7 through 12. As headmistress, she personally oversaw Jeanette's education after Princess Meredith selected Jeanette as her successor as ruler of Centralia.
Dame Adorabelle retired long before Princess Alice enrolled at the school, now preferring to live a quiet life at her secluded rural home. No one currently involved with the school has ever met Adorabelle, so faculty and staff alike recognize her primarily as the subject of the large statue in the middle of the campus's central quad.
The Headmistress
The current head teacher of the academy. She presumably has a personal name, but students and faculty alike address her exclusively as "The Headmistress". Princess Alice seems to regard the Headmistress as a rival, often characterizing her as a cruel tyrant who seeks to destroy childlike whimsy, but by all accounts the Headmistress is actually quite reasonable and levelheaded.
AdorabelleWallace (headmistress emeritus)
MissAlisha (student teacher)
ProfessorForneus (instructor, disciplinarian)
TheHeadmistress (headmistress)
Students
Princess Alice
main article: PrincessAlice
The sovereign princess herself. Despite having been a student at Dame Adorabelle's for as long as she can remember, Princess Alice somehow never progresses beyond the eighth grade--in fact, she seems not to understand that progressing through the grades is expected of students, often expressing surprise when her peers graduate from one grade to the next.
The Princess is quite infamous at the Academy for her penchant for chaotic hijinks. She was surprised to learn that Dame Adorabelle's is the only school in the world whose security department has a dedicated "Princess Mischief Task Force".
Bunn E. Pumpkin
A young kid with orange hair, topped with a little bit of green, like a pumpkin stem. Does not talk. Has a pet frog named Ptolemy who makes cute faces when things happen.
Little Opal
A young, witchy girl who likes to float gently about the campus. Is good friends with Princess Alice.
Mel
An upperclasswoman, whom even the arrogant Princess respects as a senpai. May or may not be part of the weird dueling club that uses the Weird Staircase, but if she is, it's just because she likes anime too much.
Calendar Grithbreach
A former student, said to have been involved in the "Mastodon Incident" with ProfessorForneus a long, long time ago. Calendar was a student at Dame A's many years before Princess Alice's enrollment, somehow, even though Princess Alice is noted to have been a perpetual eighth-grader for as long as anyone at the school can remember.
In the present day, Calendar roams the grounds as a ghost. This might seem to imply that Calendar died as a child on the school grounds, but we don't know that for sure--just that they're here and child-shaped now. Princess Alice often hangs out in the ruins on the edge of the campus casually chatting with Calendar, seemingly unaware that she's talking with a ghost and not a fellow student.
Brick and Gutter
The "bullies" of Dame A's. They are not actually bullies and bear no ill will against their fellow students, but they've seen too many kids' shows with bully characters, and felt that someone needed to fill that role at that their school. They've been known to steal Bunny's Pokémon cards just because they feel like they're supposed to. Princess Alice attempts to stick up for Bunny, going to disproportionate measures like threatening to sic the CentraliaGuardForces on Brick and Gutter, but ultimately the day is saved by Calendar, who uses his ghostly ghostliness to spook the bullies into handing over the cards.
(The faculty often have to gently remind Princess Alice that she is a princess, not a dictator, and that threatening to turn her military on her own subjects is kind of a bad look for a head of state, even if she's like 13. It's the one time they encourage her to just tattle to the teacher instead!)
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Thank you Sredni for this delightful bit of nonsense. (1)