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And this is you on graduation day.
It certainly is. I'm pleased with what I've achieved. Only 20, and I've already achieved my PhD in Hera studies. I had to battle for it, but it was worth it.
Plus your body?
Oh yes. That too. I achieved my goals and a little more. I was a few percentage points better than my nearest rival. Sorry, Milly. You did great.
How do the schools decide Valedictorian?
It varies. I only have experience of the Athena Academy. We're, unsurprisingly, very scientific. Various qualities of bodies are measured - size, aesthetics, pump, density and so on, and assigned a relative score to the rest of your class. This leads to an aggregate of your position.
So there's no impact from your academic performance?
Academic performance qualifies you. If you drop beneath top marks in any category, you won't be able to even compete. In fact, at least in our year, therfe was a very strong correlation between academic performance and physical perfection. Which makes sense, as it's the school's whole philosophy. The more ways you compete, the stronger the Hera effect will be. Smart girls exceling just put on muscle better. Though it's not enough to put on muscle.
What do you mean?
As I said, your position is an aggregate of the elements of your physique. It's possible that a girl who excels in one area and lags behind on another would get a relatively low placing. For example, the girl who was the biggest in size only ended up in the bottom half of the class. I did tell her that she needed to work on her density, but did she listen? She was barely a 2.0!
So you weren't the biggest? What were your ratings overall?
I was fifth in size, top 3 in aesthetics, but came top in both density, pump and a few others.
What density rating is that? A 5.0?
Ha.
Higher?
I'm not going to tell you. The smart thing any girl does is keep her density secret. And her pump, for that matter. If you're in a confrontation, you don't want to make it easy for them to guess whether they can beat you. All the Athena girls are clever. I'm not telling.
But higher than 5?
I was more than the 5.0 at the end of the first year.
That's enough of an advertisement for the school by itself. I know Hera successful Hera girls who only manage to get that after five years, not two.
That's what the school is for. It should at least double your rate of improvment. I'm sure that other schools will be showing their graduates as well, trying to attract people to them.
So schools won't be free any more?
Alas, no. Financially insecure girls can get grants, but those who can afford it will have to pay. Essentially us first generation girls got it for free as an advertisment. I'm lucky, in other words. I know we're expecting a lot of competition between the schools for candidates.
I've been looking at them. There's a lot of press releases arrived together.
Yes. The Daughter of Ares, I'm sure. Aphrodite Academy too. A few more quality ones and a lot second rate. There's even some for men, the poor things. There's been private competitions between the school, so I've had a look at what they're like.
So... what are the other schools like?
Not as good as us.
Is that more of the famed Hera overconfidence?
Perhaps. But also true, at least for this year. In the inter-school competition, I won all my strength competitions. I even beat the Daughter of Ares in an arm-wrestle with my off-hand at an after party.
How did she take it?
She said a lot of words that girls at the Athena Academy are discouraged from saying.
Ha. So what's next for you, Reese?
Moving to the big city to continue my research. I'm looking into Alpha women in the early late medieval period. Fascinating period.
And your body?
Oh, same as ever. Bigger, harder, stronger. I stay in contact with a lot of the girls, and it's still really motivating. They're great friends... and better rivals.
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It's been a while since I've done a straight muscle growth one, and I've wanted to set up a Hera school system for a while. I used this embedding for the face, and tried to use the upscaler to get a more detailed resolution. In practise, the loras which create veins upscale badly in Tiled Diffusion, at least all the settings I tried. If I go too big, the veins basically turn into pastry attached to their body. Even with this upscale, I had to do a little cleaning up in Photoshop.