Fantasy High Animatic | Aguefort Grabs The Sun

Always loved this moment

[@ghastlyghifin4029]

Arthur Aguefort, the most accurate representation of a Chaotic Good Level 20 Wizard.

[@DeathnoteBB]

I wouldn’t say “good”. He sent an innocent guidance counselor to Orc heaven

[@Auditore31]

​@@DeathnoteBBit was for the protection of the school, and larger, the nation of Solace

[@sweetwheatsy]

Tethering on Neutral, but definitely breaching the scope of Chaotic!

[@DeathnoteBB]

@@Auditore31 Ehh debatable

[@maxjackson6559]

@@DeathnoteBB he did it to save a dead child. That is like the DEFINITION of chaotic good.

[@maxjackson6559]

This is hands down the funniest arthur Augefort arc. *wincing* "I fucked up. Youre not supposed to get that big. You cant grab the sun."

[@godricnecro]

"The magic messed up my guts. I shit out an ocean of blood.."

[@superanimeniac]

"Yeah, he f*cked up. He f*cked up. You're not supposed to get that big."

[@Vegas242]

He was so excited that someone pressed the button that he got a little carried away

[@edithwallflower]

“You can’t just one shot a government”

[@HaloInverse]

I mean, you _can..._ but you _really shouldn't._

[@TheBigE9999]

Friendly reminder that all this accomplished nothing. he got about 200 ft away from the capital, started shitting blood everywhere, and collapsed

[@thenintendoman]

And it didn’t help anyone escape

[@cr820]

Which was an incredibly disappointing plot-development that massively undercut its own buildup, yes.

[@SharonToggle]

This is D&D! Saving the party through deus ex machina is kind of lame, a good DM will give them the means to save themselves instead.

[@Bluelyre]

@@cr820 It would also be very dumb to have a pocket NPC on the party's side who can solo an entire nation. Kinda kills the tension.

[@ER04040]

@@cr820It was a good subversion of the deus ex machina trope. A DM controlled character that could immediately fix everything is a bad idea.

[@ElionMars]

You think you remember all this, and then the line "You have chosen the way of pain" hits and you laugh until you choke

[@jamesonmoore1837]

The same with the incredibly casual, "Alright, let's do this." Especially when you know what happens after.

[@Blasted2Oblivion]

It hits a lot like Evan Kelmp asking what he should say to the other wizard's parents. Not a threat. Not a psych out. Just an honest and factual statement/question.

[@catslino5037]

The fact that this was retcon to be just illusion magic doesn't make it any less unhinged. Great animation on Arthur's eyes. they look positively deranged

[@evertime123]

When was it retconned? Was it in the 7? That's the only thing I haven't watched (I think)

[@Bloodshark123]

I don't remember it being retconned. I remember that he accomplished absolutely nothing because he used so much magic that he collapsed and started shitting blood before he got anywhere the capital and then he was in deep trouble for moving the sun and had to figure out how to put it back.@@evertime123

[@nathanj202]

_Chronomancy_

[@connorcastellon4777]

He did it the first time, but he then he went back in time and made it into illusion magic.

[@yue1084]

​@evertime123 it's not a true retcon like a lot of the stuff in the seven was aka changing the facts of the story outside of it, but later on in s2 of fantasy high aguefort bends time so canonincally this didn't happen in the universe but the bad kids still have the knowledge of this

[@Blasted2Oblivion]

Something worth noting. Arthur Aguefort is well known to be both extremely powerful and completely crazy. The idea that any group, no matter how powerful, would choose "the way of pain" is amazing. I loved every second of it

[@wolv0223]

To be fair, it makes a lot of sense for it to be High Elves. It also makes sense because it was a literal entire government. Like, it would be like America picking a fight and being like "What's he gonna do, come burn down the White House?", not expecting him to get surprisingly close.

[@TigerWolfDemon]

Arthur Aguefort, deeply protective of his students at the cost of himself. Also madder than a fuckin hatter in a room full of mercury. 10/10 best professor

[@monkeyfacex3]

@tigerwolfdemon love that line, dude "madder than a fuckin hatter in a room full of mercury" has literally altered my brain chemistry

[@jayd2279]

@@monkeyfacex3tbf that is what being in a room full of mercury does to you

[@Blasted2Oblivion]

​@@jayd2279 bah dum tss

[@Lucifersfursona]

I love Arthur Augefort because he’s so up front about everything he’s all about. His agenda is written on his sleeve and he’s dotted the i’s with hearts, and I love him for it. “Augeforts of the earth” is my favorite he built all of them he made all of these babies

[@THVEssays]

He for sure went back in time and created like a species of terracotta agueforts to be created wherever he needs them to be at any given moment.

[@Atmatan_Kabbaher]

​@@THVEssaysNope. He just bones a lot. So much, he even made love to the earth. I mean, he banged a Phoenix, dude.

[@heatran1919]

I do love the implication here that, in the world of Fantasy High, the Sun isnt a massive star out in space, but is actually just a large ball of fire in the sky

[@galealice8364]

Or it is a star in the sky and he magics it to fit in his hand

[@Atmatan_Kabbaher]

Life is a Perception of Your Own Reality.

[@looseleaf7367]

No, when it comes up later that is the case, it just makes it even more baffling. He doesn't quite know what he did to move it, and now he has to figure out how to put it back because it's causing problems.

[@wolv0223]

I recall him not knowing entirely how he did it. Basically, I think it's an actual star, but for a brief moment, with all his immense magical power, he bent space-time and reality itself to grab and the star and wield the essence of its almighty power.

[@amandadadesky5192]

The crawling through the rift part will never NOT be hilarious to me. Arthur really said, "They fucked around; time for them to find out!" 😂

[@yue1084]

some of it is surely ego because the school does carry his name, but my favorite thing about aguefort is that he genuinely cares about the kids he's teaching to be adventurers

[@mattblack9161]

Behold, what a REAL level 20 wizard would do with their truly irresponsible amount of power

[@eagleHatchling]

Dumbledore could never

[@nebulousnoah3913]

“Aguefort said calmly”

[@Lucifersfursona]

Least of which because he fully groomed multiple generations of fascists to make himself look like the lesser of two evils

[@Lucifersfursona]

Dumbledore would leave Adaine in the bubble until she would be grateful enough to die for him

[@erikhenry8742]

Ya know I completely thought this sequence was going to be some fucked up dream sequence fantasy and that Adaine was still stuck in the depths of Aelwyn's mind somehow (especially since the episode was called The Dangerous Mind of Aelwyn Abernant) but then the scene just kept going and I had to accept this was happening for real

[@DeathnoteBB]

Still? When did she get stuck there? I remember it just as being about her mind as a person, not being IN her mind

[@erikhenry8742]

​@@DeathnoteBB Oh I meant from the detect thoughts when Aelwyn was in the spa, I guess Adaine wasn't stuck there but I figured Aelwyn could have trapped her there and this was gonna be the big reveal Still don't know if that makes sense but that's what was in my head

[@spyrofan9681]

He failed utterly at helping... I mean epically, but he was still more helpful here than Dumbledore was across 7 books.

[@nozzrik4472]

Just to be clear, Arthur Aguefort didn't preemptively attack. He offered a choice, and some cheeky tool decided to fuck around.

[@gordonwiley2006]

I once had a minotaur sorceress who was the owner of a wandering magic shop in a campaign. There is absolutely nothing more fun than having a stupid powerful npc mage who is too chaotic for practical magic and too hyperfocused on being cool to solve anyone's problems. Wonderfully done art, you really made our headmaster shine!

[@mr._the7651]

Love how he shows up, does something super powerful, it barely does anything, and then leaves. He is truly the most based wizard of all time.

[@bananabanana484]

Honestly, I was waiting for the depiction of the Sun being dragged across the sky

[@commonviewer2488]

100 meter tall titan that stole the very sun itself! On this day, the Elves received a grim reminder...

[@maggot_2]

tahanks for animating arthur A as the absolute chaos gremlin that he is

[@SkyLimit101]

This is what Gandalf would’ve been if he continued being a god

[@henrahmagix]

“Brennan had a really bad fever recently” - given when it was filmed, did Brennan have covid before it was ruled a global pandemic? If so then this is the ONLY good thing that Covid has wrought: this Aguefort sequence

[@nb_knight5251]

this is such a great moment to animate and you did it SO well. The way Augufort climbs over his desk and through the rift was just amazing.

[@jasonandrew6596]

Arthur Aguedort is the kind of man to create a nation rending spell, just for it to be a distraction😂

[@richardmiddaugh9749]

My favorite part of this is Ally reminding everyone that Brennan just came out of being sick with a high fever prior to improving this

[@Cross177]

The recorded msg makes Aguefort look high here. Which would sound on par for him knowing his stance on recreational drugs and having a good time

[@Jermbot15]

You know the best part about this. He didn't actually solve the player's problems, and did not take away from their experience adventuring. He did stop them wasting precious game time worrying about reinforcements by both apparently resolving that and also by putting a time limit on their plan. However, Adaine is still in a cell, the players still need to come rescue her, the encounter goes on as planned. And then, not shown in this video, a cut scene that makes it clear the Aguefort card can only be played once in this adventure. This is how you use an immensely powerful ally of the party. Not to steal the player's adventure, but to solve a problem that might be keeping them from adventure.

[@whitelikeblack1241]

This was so amazing, like it had it all. One of our faves beeing "saved", The crazy ness of it all, the bad guys going like "oh we fcked up", and that all of this was just a small side thing that was going on in the background for the rest of the season. Love it!

[@nexusgaming2999]

"very well, you have chosen the way of pain. Goodbye." *Poof*

[@princesskaguya2000]

I will miss Aguefort during junior year!

[@erikferal]

4:20 Can confirm, this is what fever dreams feel like. Dreampt that I was Gear5 fighting the WickedWitch.

[@ASquared544]

Not only did Arthur never make good on that promise, but Arthur’s attack didn’t phase her in the slightest. Which sucks.

[@AkutomiNamikaze]

Aguefort grabbing the sun (a complete perspective mindfuck) and channeling it through his body in glowing white-with-energy veins as he spits fire across the sky is one of the clearest and sickest visuals I've ever heard described, and it's not close to number two on those lists. Excellent capturing of it.

[@ladykatie3958]

I love that Aurther Aguefort is clearly what if we took Dumbledore, gave him as much cosmic world-bending powers as we can, and then, made him a crackhead

[@aleeysaurasrex]

Adaine's face at "Adaine's in her bubble" had me cackling

[@bujobooks]

i never want to see arthur aguefort drawn any way other than these goofy ass circles. its so CHARMING and SILLY and PERFECT

[@jennyinutil2018]

Oh man This scene and the afternath of it with Kristen I couldn't breathe the first time from laughing so hard

[@ZeldaboyOG]

Arthur is *my* headmaster.

[@dollarestoreoffbrand5545]

This is a 10th lvl illusion spell if ive ever seen one

[@billygarcia9885]

I KNEW deep down that someone had made an animatic of this scene. Epic.

[@shepardofthestars2719]

This was the best and funniest dues ex machina ever 😂

[@elliothellyer933]

The audio was cut together really well! It genuinely sounds like it happened all at once

[@chief_catguy]

god this scene was so good i'll never get over it. you did a great job with it too

[@Xhalph]

I really like Siobhan's little "Yeah!" at 1:31.

[@Dovachiief]

this was my favorite bit of sophomore year and im so glad to see it animated

[@littleladlarry]

I love that he could do this the whole time but chose to kill the guidance counselor and himself in the first episode for seemingly no reason if he was this powerful

[@hahahahahahahahaa6580]

Thank you for reminding me of this scene! This was so funny!!

[@btg-bp4vl]

I love the detail of how absolutely bug-eyed-in-the-best-way Arthur is by nature, but the secomd he gets serious, the bug-eyes get fully shadowed out

[@rafaelcalmon2858]

The moment Brennan says he raises his hand behind the Sun I'm all in. That is a mage at the peak of magic.

[@calfriedman6981]

Ohhh, I love the way you portrayed the growing while falling line - I never realized that's how it looked!

[@Jordan-ug7mo]

Help, how have I never imagined the crystal prison that size?? I always imagined she got shrunken down into a crystal ball the size of a dinner plate ?? That makes way more sense lmao

[@thomanator1000]

Arthur aeugfort is smarter than Karsus. Proof, he choose the god of the sun to embody, not magic and fuck Everything up as a consequence.

[@DeathnoteBB]

Anyone else like “Aquefort could have done this THE WHOLE TIME?!” ‘This’ being rescue Adaine’s sister from torture. Like I know she wasn’t an Aquefort student so didn’t have the protection but the headmaster could have done ANYTHING. Adaine had to get herself imprisoned before he was like “Oh now I care” I’m very emotional about these two siblings okay?!

[@Wootmanwashere]

Aguefort himself points out later in the season that, being a Time Wizard means he has very little 'attachment' to things, due to constant leaping through time. Probably why he has a specialized auto-response to someone invoking the Aguefort name in defense of a student. Plus, it requires there to ba one of his own students in danger, and given that Aelwyn wasn't an AA student, Aguefort didn't particularly care. Also, I may be remembering incorrectly, but didn't Aguefort jut recently broker peace between Solace and Fallinel?

[@DeathnoteBB]

@@Wootmanwashere Yeah I said I know she wasn’t an Aquefort student but she is a sister of one and part of an ambassador’s family

[@theshopkeepr]

Arthur Aguefort, maintains his crazy adventuring spirit, even in his old age

[@williamli8708]

in the captions: "egg farts"

[@genuineBenFan]

Holy shit this is an AMAZING animatic this came on my recommended so probs gonna blow up in a sec

[@Moemoeourandiaries]

I’ve watched this probably 20 times, it brings me so much joy 😭

[@_supersolar]

amazing animatic. great job!

[@brahmanspleroma3792]

I'm glad someone did this scene. I wanted to make my own animatic for it, but this is great!

[@wafflemaker6590]

Excellent work! this is truly the essence of arthur aguefort

[@noblesseoblige319]

Did we ever find out what the hell that even accomplished? Like... Did they actually go to war? Or was he just bored?

[@brickingle3984]

The idea was that it kept the reinforcements off the bad kids and allowed them to reasonably pull off their plan. Later it turns out Arthur couldnt handle holding the sun or being that big so he likely didnt have a huge impact on fallinel, but was certainly a problem for the time the bad kids needed a distraction.

[@BostonTerrierLOVE]

Wow that was fucking incredible!! I especially enjoyed his jump out the window.

[@charlottetheunicorn8863]

This was amazing!!

[@eternalmiasma5586]

Arthur is the true god of the fantasy high world

[@joshuawilliams8252]

Let's get that post-sun grab phone call to Kristen next!

[@jennyhughey7557]

I GOT TOO BIG

[@bigdrew565]

I shit a river of blood.😂

[@lord_azazel001]

God, this was amazing.

[@yuriii6949]

Arthur Aguefort is the first chaotic chaotic dnd character

[@buddycharles2161]

I do love that this did nothing to actually help 😂

[@geeksdo1tbetter]

great work!

[@jonbauml225]

Great job!

[@Grimm-A]

Amazing stuff

[@enbyharvey1417]

Absolutely in credible!!!

[@joshkeating7825]

Perfect fever dream haha

[@HumanAki]

Please, for the love of God, please bring more of the Bad Kids' adventures to life! 🤣🤣🤣

[@rachelc8368]

Extremely excellent

[@Fayanora]

This scene is very epic.

[@BluePluto03]

INCREDIBLE

[@katiegrayx3637]

YESSS ITS BEEN ANIMATED FULLY

[@n0dr0gs49]

This is the reason the Elven nation needed an Oracle.

[@rayplays7498]

he may not have been a good principal, but you cant say didnt at least somewhat care about his students xD

[@xolwora2762]

Today your nation fall! Legend

[@bazookapower88]

this is so rad

[@TheChristmasNinja12]

I truly hope that in some future campaign, in a different universe, that Arthur Aguefort is someone's warlock patron.

[@superanimeniac]

he did too much. He f*cked up. He...he f*cked up.

[@tamrymer4153]

I love Arthur

[@sebbes333]

MAXIMUM AWESOME!!!!!! :D

[@zacharynguyen7286]

Hope everyone is doing good and staying safe ❤

[@xXAjaxXx]

I gotta say...how the hell does this man have 0 voice acting credits? I can only assume he must not want the work, because goddamn.

[@tysondennis1016]

Arthur is a deranged god

[@natekim6495]

Crazy how that was just illusion magic, and nothing else at all.

[@willmcgonigle3107]

I think that aguefort could easily have actually fully collapsed solace, but he is just too much of a chaotic dumbass to not do 15 experimental spells and almost kill himself

[@keletsorabalao7454]

Bruh, their whole nation 😂

[@Laughing_Dragon]

you are not going to show me this, and not give us a link to this BS I LOVE IT. i need this campaign in my blood.

[@aasnnithiamhuanok4389]

which episode is this from

[@skullman-us7wn]

arthur aguefort ans kaldor Draigo wouldnt get along but they'd be on similar wavelengths

[@jamesvspr]

METAL AS FUCK

[@TalynCo]

The weird fever is kinda foreboding if you know the time the original video was released... I believe it was recorded December 2019?

[@redirectiontime]

I never noticed that they use wizards 101 music

[@radical9799]

Invader zim reincarnated