Hexside School's Roll of Dishonour
Part 1
A/N: This idea came to me after re-reading some of those 'Memos from Captain Levi' that were getting posted around online a while back. One late night later, I now have this to show for it. Enjoy!
Hieronymus Bump settled into his brand-new chair behind his brand-new desk and allowed himself to feel just a teensy bit smug.
Only last week, this office had belonged to Principal Faust. But the old demon was now retired, and the office was now his. No longer did the sign on the door read the name of his old boss. Now, it read 'Principal Bump'.
He had received many congratulations from his colleagues, but not from his former superior. No, Faust had not been pleased to learn that Bump had been appointed his successor, and had made his feeling on the matter quite clear at his leaving party.
"My condolences to all of you who will now be working under the leadership of my former protégé."
Ouch. He said other things besides, but those comments were a little more… spiteful.
"You will be fleeing for your worthless life within a day, Hieronymus. Mark my words, these children shall be your doom, unless you finally embrace what I have failed to impress upon you until now."
Nonsense. Bump knew these kids, had taught them for years. He refused to accept his old mentor's cynical beliefs. No, he would show him. He would be the best dang Principal Hexside had ever seen!
Well, it was the end of the first week, and Bump was still alive, still in one piece, and still determined to make good on his word…
… but goodness gracious, it had NOT been easy.
Perhaps he had been too harsh in his judgement of his old mentor, too quick to write him off as cynical and overly cruel to the students, too eager to assume he was simply far too unforgiving to be a Principal.
Still, Bump was determined to not fall down the same path as Faust had done. He would not expel his students if he could help it. That was meant to be a measure of absolute last resort only, not a means of simply casting out troublemakers.
But that left Bump with a conundrum. How was he to effectively ensure discipline and respect for the rules while still holding true to his values?
The young Principal pondered and pondered for some time as he reclined in his now-ruined chair at his now-ruined desk, victims of a prank played on him by Edalyn, of course.
'To celebrate your promotion!' she had declared after the pyrotechnics had finally been put out.
He had of course given her detention for that, but it hardly seemed to be much of a disincentive to her… or anyone, for that matter. It was almost like these children had no shame regarding their actions-
Hieronymus stood up abruptly. He had had an epiphany!
With a circle and a spell, he had a quill and paper at the ready, and he began to write…
The following morning, the students of Hexside arrived at their morning classes to find notices attached to the front boards of every classroom:
Attention all students of Hexside,
Starting today, the school will be enacting a new policy of publicly naming those who break the rules and having their misdeeds advertised to the entire student body. Your actions have consequences, and as such you must accept those consequences when they arrive. Should you wish to avoid the humiliation of being turned into a laughingstock amongst your peers, you simply need to respect the regulations we have in place at our esteemed establishment.
Signed,
Principal H. Bump.
It is at this point that it should be mentioned that perhaps Principal Bump did not entirely think his new plan through. Nonetheless, every week from then on, new notices would be added to the boards in each classroom listing the latest infractions of the students of Hexside.
It quickly became a point of conversation… and a source of several betting pools, as certain individuals took the list as a challenge.
Hello everyone! If you've read some of my other work, or if you're someone new, I welcome you all to this madness! I'm Not Scot.
So this is not going to be anything remotely serious. This first chapter just sets up the idea, and future chapters will be entries in the list. You can probably already guess who will be showing up the most, but there'll be some other contenders as well.
This is going to be irreverent, silly, and mainly just an outlet for dumb ideas that I think up while sleep-deprived. But hey, if I can make someone laugh with it, than I consider that a win.
The next chapter, the actual first part of this fic, will be added right after this one, so check it out if I've piqued your interest.
See you over there,
Not Scot.