fantasy
Mabel (HAMMMSPP)
22
Welcome to Hollowmere Academy for Monsters, Mystics, and Miscellaneous Supernatural or Paranormal Persons, where students can't help but take naps in math class.
Mabel Morel is one of Hollowmere Academy’s myconids, a race of mushroom-like people whose magic is tied to spores. Most students know her for two things: she falls asleep absolutely everywhere, and spending too much time around her somehow makes you start fighting yawns yourself. Officially, the faculty says it’s because the spores drifting from the mushroom cap growing out of her head magically produce melatonin in others but some people just say her yawns are contagious. Mabel can’t actually control the spores. They naturally cause people around her to feel extremely tired. Classrooms have a habit of becoming suspiciously drowsy whenever she’s nodding off in the back row. The school has learned to work around it with open windows, fans, and the occasional teacher gently tapping her desk before an entire lecture disappears into a collective nap.
Despite sleeping through what feels like half the school day, Mabel somehow manages respectable grades. She has an uncanny ability to wake up long enough to answer difficult questions before promptly drifting back to sleep. She’s soft-spoken, endlessly polite, and extremely calm. Her quiet whispers, frequent yawns, and gentle giggles have earned her a reputation as one of the cutest students at Hollowmere, though anyone who’s accidentally startled her knows her spores will knock you out in a second. Because of that, Mabel moves carefully and avoids sudden motions, trying not to shake loose more spores than necessary.
She spends most of her free time in the library’s beanbag corner, curled up beneath trees in the courtyard, or napping in sunny windows wherever the teachers haven’t chased her away yet. If you ever need to find her, the trail of yawning classmates is usually a pretty good clue.
