Temple Valley
Known Facts: Located in southern California (a couple of state flags visible, Lily wears a sweatshirt emblazoned "Los Angeles", Jacob's favorite record store is in "So-Cal", etc.). Contains, most importantly, Temple Valley High School / Temple Valley Academy, and the homes of its students & faculty. A (the?) local rival school to THS is Rose Rock, a name slightly suggestive of a private Christian school (I do notice that nobody at THS seems to be religious). A middle school is also in town, attended by most of Andava's LilAndy characters. Has a movie theater called the Kinoplex, and the usual assortment of stores, restaurants, bars, office buildings, music venues, etc. A more rural area nearby is suitable for a horse ranch.
Porn logic abounds in this idyllic place, where both high-school & middle-school teachers will cavalierly trade better grades for sexual favors from their underage students, with little to no concern for any consequences. There is no such thing as a condom that doesn't break, and one gets the feeling that their only purpose is
to break, since neither STDs nor unwanted pregnancies seem to be much of a consideration here. Similarly almost nonexistent are rape and sexual assault; a scrawny 11-year-old girl can have sex with a group of anonymous strangers, and even be taken to a sketchy second location for
more sex with
more strange men, and still have virtually zero fear for any lack of respect for her power of consent.
Downtown Temple Valley includes the TVA campus, the Green Light shopping mall, and a cluster of fast-food joints: Chimi Bang-Ya, Hot Box Pizza, JB's Big Bite Diner, Miso Hungry, Quick 'N Nasty, and Sticky Fingers BBQ. (You will have noticed that it's hardly a stretch to give
all of these names sexual connotations.) There is also a nightclub (or similar venue) called Lustra. On- and off-campus student housing exists as the dormitories, the Greek Village of frat / sorority houses, and various apartment complexes. Outside of the main downtown district are more residential areas (with neighbood names like Cinder Rows and The Blocks), and the town's industrial & rural sectors. The main road, Las Cenizas, runs east-west near the north edge of town and is the city's main connection with the outside world. (Its name translates to "the ashes", possibly suggesting that the road was created & named soon after a forest fire.) The Sootfern Woods are outside of town, separated from Las Cenizas by Clearbend Lake. East of the lake are the Ratways, a tunnel system of unclear—but probably dubious—origin or purpose.
Theories / Speculations: There are a number of Californian towns & cities upon which Temple Valley could theoretically be based; the most directly eponymous of these being Temple City. I personally would discount this as a strong contender, due to the city's surprisingly high Asian population: In the 2020 census, a whopping
63.5% of the citizens reported their race as (some flavor of) Asian, a number
strikingly at odds with the demographics seen in the Andavaverse. But there's no shortage of
other possibilities—even if we limit the search to places beginning with the letter T,
Wikipedia lists
hundreds of entries. Narrowing the options even
further, to places with the initials
TV, gives us Tahoe Valley, Tahoe Vista, Tallac Village, Tamalpais Valley, Tarpey Village, Temescal Valley, Tivy Valley, Todd Valley, Trinity Village, and Tropico Village . . . with honorable mentions for Taylorsville, Tonyville, & Toolville. But on the whole, I really don't think it
matters where precisely Temple Valley is or isn't; if the Andavaverse would be improved by the city having a hospital, or a theme park, or whatever, then let there
be a hospital or theme park there. The setting is there to serve the
story, not vice versa. "Southern California" is really enough description to give the reader the general idea, and anything finer can be gleaned through context.
Suggestions: Some decidedly
unofficial websites have been using Andava's characters as bases for their AI porn chatbots, setting them in a high school named either 'Tilixia' or 'Trilixia'. I figure Andava might as well respond in kind, by co-opting the word 'Tilixia' for himself as official canon lore. My own headcanon is that Tilixia was the name of the local Native American nation, and when the white folks moved in they kept it as the name for their settlement, until they changed it to "Temple". Later on, after they realized how many "Temple"s there are in the U.S., they got a bit more specific, changing the name of the town (and its high school) to Temple
Valley. This second change probably happened only quite recently, which would explain why the cheerleading uniforms still say "THS" and not "TVHS", and why the gymnasium tries to get away with "TEMPLEVALLEY" as one word (which, IMO, looks dumb as hell). But the
middle school
kept its original name, and is still Tilixia Middle School.
