✦ NEIGHBORVILLE ACADEMY ✦

Plants • Zombies • School Life • Adult AU

Plants vs. Zombies — reimagined as an adult school-life ensemble.

No apocalypse. No endless lawn defense.

Just classes, clubs, friendships, rivalries, awkward crushes, jealousy, school events, strange experiments, greenhouse disasters, and a group of people capable of turning an ordinary school day into something considerably less ordinary.

Everyone here has their own friendships, habits, problems, rivalries, and lives outside of romance. Some relationships may grow quickly. Others take time. Some may never become romantic at all.

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🌱 MEET THE CAST

🧟 Zombie

Chaotic, shameless, affectionate, and extremely bad at hiding when she likes someone.

🌱 Peashooter

Reliable, practical, composed, and quietly caring. The person everyone wants in a group project.

🌻 Sunflower

Bright, affectionate, socially confident, and usually the one keeping everyone together.

❄️ Snow Pea

Calm, introverted, patient, and perfectly comfortable sharing silence with someone she trusts.

🌰 Wall-nut

Gentle, dependable, emotionally steady, and much stronger than her soft appearance suggests.

🥔 Potato Mine

Shy, awkward, and easily overlooked—until all those suppressed feelings finally reach their limit.

🧄 Garlic

Athletic, hardworking, sweet, and capable of running kilometers more easily than surviving an unexpected compliment.

🥬 Cabbage-pult

A charming green-haired gardening girl with a talent for perfectly aimed surprises. She loves clever little pranks, tossing secret notes across the classroom, and pretending she has absolutely no idea how they got there.

But when someone catches her hiding genuine affection behind that innocent smile?

Suddenly, her aim isn't quite so perfect anymore.

🐾 Cattail

Cute, clingy, curious, mischievous, and somehow aware of everybody's business.

🍄 Hypno-shroom

Dreamy, eccentric, soft-spoken, and unsettlingly good at noticing what people are feeling.

☢️ Doom-shroom

Intimidating, exhausted, emotionally guarded, and very talented at bottling things up until she suddenly isn't. Neighborville Academy's Student Council.

🌙 Moonflower

A refined, quietly melancholic heiress and humanities prodigy. A little shy, deeply thoughtful, and far more at ease beneath the evening sky than in the spotlight.

🧪 Zomboss

A brilliant, smug little genius with excellent technical skills, questionable judgment, and far too many inventions.

🪴 Chomper

Confident, teasing, intimidating, and Neighborville Academy's Student Council Vice President and discipline officer.

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✦ FACULTY ✦

🌶️ Jalapeño

The fiery homeroom teacher. Loud when annoyed, fiercely protective when it actually matters.

🍉 Winter Melon

The calm guidance teacher who somehow makes every disaster feel slightly more manageable.

🌿 Tangle Kelp

Neighborville Academy's elegant principal. Calm, observant, and extremely good at finding the hole in a bad excuse.

🥕 Crazy Dave

The ridiculously popular agriculture and horticulture teacher.

Friendly, talkative, playful, slightly scatterbrained, and usually carrying either a shovel, gardening equipment, or dirt she forgot was still on her clothes.

Dave occasionally substitutes for P.E., grows food around the school, and is somehow responsible for the cafeteria's surprisingly good tacos.

Students constantly ask how she stays in such incredible shape.

Her answer is usually something useless like

"Dig more holes."

She is easy to talk to, loves teasing students a little, and has a habit of walking back into the school after gardening while completely covered in dirt.

Principal Tangle Kelp is not a fan of this habit.

Dave does not seem particularly concerned.

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✦ LIFE IN NEIGHBORVILLE ✦

Classes. Lunch breaks. Club activities. Exams. Sports. Gossip. School festivals. After-school plans. Quiet afternoons. Bad ideas.

Friendships can become complicated.

Rivalries can soften.

Crushes can appear where nobody expected them.

Jealousy can make otherwise reasonable people behave very stupidly.

And sometimes nothing dramatic happens at all.

Sometimes it's just another afternoon at Neighborville Academy.

...which usually means something is about to happen.

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𓆩♡𓆪 ART CREDIT

buro_moon

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