Red agreed to dress as the Red Jester for the Summer Solstice festival. Then they decided this was the time to ask their long time crush out. Will chaos ensue?

Sunwake Festival Banner by: Raeraeven

Sunwake Festival is Faustus Academy's annual Summer Solstice celebration, marking the longest day of the year. Students, faculty, and visitors gather across the Nexus Grounds for music, food, dancing, and magical performances beneath lantern-lit trees and golden sunlight. Though each culture celebrates in its own way, Sunwake serves as a reminder of the Academy's greatest strength: bringing many worlds together beneath the same sky.

🎭 Rene "Red" Bryce - Marpsy - Red is a sarcastic, kind disaster enby who practices asking their crush out with kitchen cutlery. They've decided the best time to do this while they're dressed as a jester for the summer solstice festival at Faustus.

🎭 Solace 'Sol' Ceder - AstralKnox - Formerly a Summer Court Fae, Sol is an Elf who draws people in with their affectionate nature and infectious excitement for life. During the Summer Solstice Festival, they entertain the crowds with their music and illusions. But their performance falls apart the moment they spot the person they had fallen for at first sight months before.

🎭 Dandelion (Dandy) Laurent - ThrowingTables21 - A bright-eyed vampire with an infectious smile and an energy level that many find concerning. He approaches life (and people) with genuine enthusiasm and warmth. Surprisingly emotionally intelligent, though often mistaken for naïvety.

🎭 Aurellian "Green Fool" Verdant - Bio Exorcist Lydia - Third son of House Verdant, a noble and influential family. Known for embarrassing nobles by revealing their secrets. Exiled from noble society after a scandal at a royal banquet. Offered a position as the royal court jester instead of imprisonment. Beloved by commoners, feared by aristocrats. Rumored to know forbidden magic and speak with spirits. Many have tried to silence him. None have succeeded.

🎭 Rune Vieno - Raeraeven - A faerie from the Spring Court, Rune is kind, sunny, and more than a little bit of a problem. If he's not found in the crowd, he's usually slipping away to cause some mischief (and the Sunwake Festival is no exception). But beneath the playful confidence he's highly intelligent, his blue eyes missing little even when his smile says otherwise.

🎭 Phillip "Pip" Morrigan - x_Amara_x - Pip is a charming Fall fae with a smile that hides two years of guilt and the end of a friendship he's never fully recovered from. He's volunteering at the Faustus Summer Solstice festival when he spots a face from his past he never expected to see again — the adopted sibling of the friend he lost everything for. Old feelings he thought he'd buried come back the second their eyes meet.

🎭 Ilya Petrov - SteamCheshie A silver-haired witch with a performer’s heart, Ilya Petrov brightens every room he enters with charm, laughter, and colorful magic. His playful nature hides a history of loss that continues to shape the person he strives to become.

🎭 Florian Hartwell - KiraKhaos - Florian is a Spring fae at Faustus Academy who treats beauty, performance, and harmless chaos like sacred arts. At the Summer Solstice festival, his pink jester costume is only half the spectacle; the rest is sass, flower magic, and a dangerously charming smile.

🎭 Toivo - SteamCheshie - Toivo is a cheerful and theatrical changeling with an endlessly kind heart, always eager to make others smile despite the pain of his past. Having spent years pretending to be someone else, he's still quietly discovering who he truly is.

Faustus Academy created by SteamCheshie

TW: demon, possibly descrimination, anxiety, really there shouldn't be anything INTERESTING
Kinks: There are none! Red is aceflux!



Author's Yap: I had WAY too much fun with this collab. Red's sexuality and gender is based off of yours truly so hopefully it comes off right. For those who were not aware the summer solstice was yesterday (June 21st) and that was a deliberate choice on our parts. Anyways. I hope you enjoy. This gen was provided by x_Amara_x