brnine LOVES freaks like maomao. brnine doesn't know what to do with people who are normal and have good social skills, but freaks are their people. i think if they saw maomao struggling to focus/care about the class they'd probably try to figure out some other stuff for her to work on that might be related enough to her special interest to be, yk, interesting. (my first thought was "mortar and pestle" which is not it because those are famously not made of wood. uh. maybe she could make a little rack for all her poison bottles/vials???)

not that maomao has to struggle in the class, obviously. but whatever kind of student she is, i imagine her freak nature will shine through, so brnine's gonna be fond of her whether they like it or not