PENSIONNAT WESELTON

THAT CADET CROSSOVER AU
known as
PENSIONNAT WESELTON
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This AU, one of my Dream 'Verses, had the male leads of our fave princess films (and a few female extras) as dashing cadets at a military academy, mostly for shipping and uniform-wearing purposes (shubiduba!)

Naveen is the new foreign 'schange student who just wants to have fun, but keeps on getting into scrapes. Flynn Rider is his guide and upperclassman (not to mention roomate). Kristoff the inept fixer-upper, Hans the chessmaster, Edward the stuck-up alpha male (hammy and of evident sexuality), Henri (the Beast as human) a former member of the popular clique turned outsider (and a werebeast!), Phoebus and Helga the cool instructors, Gaston the alpha male at a military academy of the enemy nation (uh-uh), John Smith the one who lost his lieutenancy and must start anew, Eric the nice shy guy (and Hans's older trueborn brother), Amelia the token catgirl...
Add an international competition, German lessons, Maldonian culture shock, a school production of Othello with a nearly all-male cast (with Naveen as Othello and Hans as Iago, obviously!) for shipping's sake, you know...

Of course, the roster of main students at the Pensionnat Weselton consisted of the following:
Naveen of Maldonia
Eugene "Flynnegan Rider" Fitzherbert
Henri de Valois
Kristoff Bjorgman
Eric of the Southern Isles
Hans of the Southern Isles
Edward of Andalasia
John Smith
Amelia Smollett

(later on) Dimitri Alekseievich Lenski
Louis Leonowens (still a child, yet as clever as he is kawaii)
Merida DunBroch (fiery, no longer is Amelia the token female).

Many of them had retainers such as:
Lumière
Grimsby
Nathaniel
Thomas "Tommy"

The coolest instructors were:
Helga Sinclair (German teacher and intelligence expert, defected from the Kriegsanstalt)
Phébus Enjolras (fencing/riding/physical instructor)
Tamara Jane Calhoun (physical instructor, with an unrequited crush on Edward)

The worst instructors were:
James Hook, AKA "Lefty" (self-expression, artistic talents)
and
über-gay commandant/headmaster Ratcliffe, AKA "Ratty"
with
Percy the Queer Pug

Then there was the later commandant/headmaster, after Ratcliffe died of a heart attack shortly before the Othello arc (this was a younger, hotter, and more dashing headmaster, what Pensionnat Weselton deserved)
James "Jamie" Norrington

Of course there was a state visit (before Ratcliffe's death and the Othello arc) from
The LX Duke of Weselton
(played out as a homage to Bienvenido Mr. Marshall)
who also appeared in the tournament arc against the Kaiserliche Kriegsanstalt.

The tournament arc introduced, among others, the following members of the Kaiserliche Kriegsanstalt:
Lyle Tiberius Rourke, the foreign headmaster
Gaston Le Gume d'Avenant (and his aide, Le Fou)
Shang Li
Dimitri Alekseievich Lenski (who later transfers to the Pensionnat Weselton and becomes the token foreign exchange student, to whom Naveen is the upperclassman)

And cosmic instances appeared: such as
Hades, Lord of the Underworld
and his consort
Persephone

Every chapter in the introductory arc opens with a "How do I begin to explain..." parody. The subject of which ranged from Pensionnat Weselton to The Tragedy of Othello, and, in the meantime, every single important character, one by one.

The school play du jour was (have we mentioned it before?) Othello, done with a nearly all-male cast (in the end, only one important lead character was crosscast). For fanservice! And for shipping! It's even a musical episode, in which every single scene has at least a song...
Starring:
Naveen of Maldonia as Othello
Henri de Valois as Desdemona
Hans of the Southern Isles as Iago
Edward of Andalasia as Cassio
Amelia Smollett as Emilia
Eugene "Flynnegan Rider" Fitzherbert as Roderigo
Helga Sinclair as Bianca