"Drizzle? What kind of a name is that? Were your parents drunk when they named you, or are they just really stupid?"
— Holly, A Drizzle of Education
Tired of taking care of Drizzle all the time, Drizzle's parents decide send her to a boarding school in Canada. There, Drizzle soon learns that making friends isn't quite so easy when everyone thinks you're a freak. Along the way she’ll have to put up with cruel pranks, not-so-nice roommates, and concerned adults, but what will happen when she and her two new friends stumble across a book full of magic spells?
A Drizzle of Education is a NaNoWriMo novel written by imxplosion. Chapters of her story can be found on her LiveJournal account. The current word count is 50k+.
The tropes used are:
- Boarding School: Drizzle's parents send her here because nobody really wants to look after her.
- Food Fight: Megan starts one in the cafeteria when she accidentally spills her lunch on someone.
- Heel–Face Turn: Mrs. Norris does one when she finds out Lucian is gay, and that helping him with his evil plans won't lead him into her arms after all.
- Kids Are Cruel: Holly and her friends are cruel to Drizzle. Dyeing her hair neon blue and making fun of her/her name/her family? Not cool, man.
- Noodle Incident: There is a chapter named after this trope where Drizzle explains the time her family screwed up spaghetti to her friends.
- Overly Long Name: Drizzle Quinn Von Nuke Mc Kitteh Dekker and Madeleine Abigail Rachel Yasmin Sabrina Ursula Ellis.
- Picked Last: Drizzle in gym class back at her old school.
- Polyamory : Drizzle's parents are in a polyamorous relationship, hence why she has two daddies and a mommy.
- Shout-Out: To Scott Westerfeld, Repo! The Genetic Opera, My Chemical Romance, Harry Potter, Supernatural and Zombie Blondes.
- Who Names Their Kid "Dude"?: Holly's reaction to Drizzle's name.
