I had a really stupid story concept that just came out of nowhere while i was reading and spiraled out of control that i need to share
Protagonist goes to a decently prestegious magic university but is on the shitlist of the Dean/Council of the School because they have a habit of being at the wrong place/wrong time and gets pulled into chaos by other students or accidentally destroys parts of the school at least twice a month, the school cant prove a good portion of the accidents were the protags fault, but more often then not its the protag trying to either create a new spell, experiment with an unstable spell, or trying to mix magic with alchemy which is frowned upon by magic users.
The school can’t kick the protag out because they can’t prove a majority of the destruction was them, as evidence goes up in flames once things explode and there were alibis from other students that are vague enough to give the protag the benefit of the doubt.
The school council decides the only way to get rid of them is to give them a “internship” far away, that way they are still “enrolled” in the school, but they don’t have to deal with the protag for the remainder of their cirriculum. The council chooses a witch who lives in an middle of nowhere town, she was an alumni of the school but she was considered pretty mediocre compared to her peers and only took the job as mentor for money not caring why they want to assign the protag to her. First day they meet, the protag wants to show off their magic abilities and sets part of the roof on fire.
Now, the witch basically has to play mentor to the protag and to do her job as the town witch (cure minor illnesses, help with crop growth, misc. tasks from the townsfolk), all the while the Protag is trying their best to not destroy the town with their magic/alchemic experiments.
The witch also has an alchemist neighbor who she constantly bickers with over whose practice is better, but when shes really busy with her main job, she drops the protag on them to in her words, “reduce the collateral damage that will inevitably happen.”
Its like cozy fantasy mixed with owl house, with a hint of fantasy academia but with no sense of plot
