Now I just keep imagining an au where they're all in elementary school and each class is 'defending' a tree house on the playground.

Gronder Field is just the soccer field

early training

Rhea and Seteth are still adults and are the principal and vice principal

Byleth is still a teacher. Poor Byleth.

Little Claude always hanging upside down from a branch.

Little Hubert opens up Ferdie’s PBJ with the crust cut off and slips in some banana peppers

Yesss

Lysithea is actually kindergarten age but got skipped up to the second grade

Bernie won't go outside for recess.

Marianne only talks to the toy rocking horse in the corner of the classroom. She gave it a name and a backstory.

Oh no! Cutie!

Felix’s older brother got suspended for getting into a fight and he’s so buttmad because he didn’t start it and got punished anyway

I feel like suspended doesn't go far enough. Clearly he was expelled.

Yeah. Along with all the kids that were actually responsible. Who were in turn being egged on by an entirely different set of bullies from another neighborhood.

Alois is the gym teacher.

Just imagine that for a moment.

Crests are just different smiley face and fruit stickers that some kids got at the beginning of the year and gets them preferential treatment because they have rich parents

Gee, Lysithea, how come your parents let you have (provable spoilers?)

Or is it more interesting if the crests still exist but wee little kids have a harder time controlling them?

And imagine an adorable elementary school play.

Ignatz draws a picture, takes it home to his dad, comes in the next day and just sadly throws away his crayons

Oh no!

Why did you make it sad?

I mean, that's totally what happens but whyyy

Does each class have a class pet? If so, what is it?