Puppet on Strings (AU Information)

Basic AU Things

Hey hey, Bed here! Welcome to the Info Book, I guess. The few things you need to know about the AU itself are:

- Teachers are low type, paranormal entities with the ability to manipulate reality, but only if it has something to do with what they teach. Nobody knows how they were made, or why they were made, but they can be asked to "teach" a certain person. Victims are usually young children around 5 to 15 years old. It isn't in their nature to be violent, but they can be told to. 

- When Teachers are outside of jobs, or "free", they can change between Object form and Reality form. Reality forms are, well, humanish. They still heavily retain features from their Object forms.

- Larry is pretty much a myth among Teachers. He thinks that is extremely funny. 

- Any Teacher that can become drunk or under any influence in Object form is a once-in-a-century thing.

- Any subtype of Teachers have their traits that their share with others of their type.

Like:

Organic Teachers (sketchbooks, calenders, animals, food etc.) all have intense optimism, and one that doesn't is a certain anomaly. They usually teach about either creativity, music, love, life, compassion, health, or many other things, as those are just a few examples.

Metal Teachers (clocks, computers, glasses etc.) are known for their no-nonsense attitude, and their caffeine-intake, which is usually about five or six cups of coffee or otherwise a day. Usual teaching subjects are time, senses, math, technology, weather, science, languages and other topics.

Ceramic Teachers (just lamps, usually) are a completely different angle. They usually have a difficult time containing and controlling their emotions, are unable to come up with educational lyrics (or lyrics at all), and aren't really considered actual Teachers due to the fact that they can barely do what a normal Teacher could. Their usual topics are dreams, light, emotions, space, sleep, and anything that could be considered softcore, lovecore, spacecore or stuff like that. They also teach on topics that Organic Teachers would normally do.

Of course, there are three other subtypes, Student Teachers (student turned teacher, usually), SFX Teachers (student teachers after fully trained, they don't file into either of the other categories usually) and Rogues, but we won't be going into that one.

(Ceramics are the ones that I put the most time into, not going to lie. I think it's a fun concept, y'know?)

- Most students are Puppets! Puppets are, well, living puppets, usually anthropomorphic animals or odd creatures, like our good friend Harry/Red Guy! They can also resemble humans, but they never quite do. There's always something odd about them, like the coloring or just the fact that they look... felt-y.

- You can enter the Puppet world (Clayhill / Feltfield / Wherever else) through certain red telephone booths. They were created by the same beings that made the Teachers and Puppets, so nobody really knows where they came from. You'll know if it's one connecfted to the Puppet world if the door slams shut once you enter, and the entire booth starts to shake. You'll begin to hallucinate after that begins, so watch out. The floor will fall through, and you just have to let yourself fall straight down. That's where the portal is. Hold onto whoever else is in the box with you, so they don't get lost in the Space Outside.

- If you mess with space-time by using these booths too many times in a few days, then you'll enter the Alternate, where Teachers congregate and live, along with Puppets and very few humans. There's no teaching in the Alternate, so it's basically a fair grounds human civilization but with Teachers and Puppets instead. You can enter these by going through the portal to your left in the Space Outside.

- Teachers usually use their Reality forms in the Alternate, so if you use your Object form there and wonder why nobody thinks it's strange, just remember you're in the Alternate and carry on.

- The Alternate is literally human civilization. Everything is normal like cafes and stuff, they have normal coffee. No weird alien food, it's the same. I swear to Malcolm if anyone makes this misconception-- 

- Teachers tend to only fall in love with Teachers of their own subtype, but it's not unusual for, say, a Metal and an SFX to fall in love. It's like the gays in the churches. Definitely not encouraged, but they'll go for it anyway.

- Also, gay rights! Teachers don't usually give a fuck when it comes to liking a boy when you're a boy, or vice versa, because they don't really have genders. They seem masculine or feminine or neither and that's that. Of course, some Teachers do have actual genders that they're created with, but the rights still stand because that's an oddity. Polyamorous relationships are also very okay. Seriously, they give no fucks, but still respect the gays.

- Students are like humans when it comes to homosexuals. I think that's all I need to say.

I'll probably update this later with specific headcanons for the main characters in Puppet on Strings. (Y/N, Harry, Larry, Robin, Manny, Sketch, the Food Band, Shrignold, Colin, Tony etc.)

((Also, yes! Y/N gets her own headcanon chapter! Because she's a legitimate character that I have an entire personality doc written out for! I just gave the name to you guys, you know. There's a whole backstory and everything that I'm going to draw out in the story, best I can.))