the realistic college au

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the realistic college au meme

comment with your character's name and canon in the subject header. use rng or pick one of the options below for your au scenario. I. living conditions 01. my roommate’s boyfriend is staying over so can I please sleep on your floor 02. all our friends are drunk 03. we live in halls opposite one another and i keep seeing you change in the window please close your blinds 04. you’re the RA and you’re trying to bust me for having hermit crabs 05. you’re baking cookies in the communal kitchen at 3am and I’m angry but also really hungry 06. clearly we’re both really uncomfortable at this party 07. you peed on my car. you were drunk. I was in the car. there will be hell to pay. 08. my friend dragged me to this party and I just saw my ex quick make out with me 09. sorry my roommate puked on your shoes 10. my roommate borrowed your contraband hotpot and managed to set it on fire II. chance meeting 01. it’s pouring and my final paper is in my backpack so I guess we’re stuck under this tiny awning together. do you think they’d deliver pizza here 02. waiting outside for pizza to be delivered but both of ours is super late 03. I know I keep coming to this [cookie/coffee/etc.] shop and for some reason it’s always your shift but don’t you dare judge me I need this for my sanity 04. I found your USB drive still in the computer (and potentially regret finding out what's on it) 05. you decked me in the head while you were playing frisbee golf 06. your school mailbox is right next to mine 07. what do you mean we’re under a tornado warning? III. campus community 01. I’m really passionate about this cause and I will give you this flier if I have to shove it down your throat 02. it’s 3 am and I’m still in the library studying for finals and I’m losing my grip on reality and I think I just saw a ghost 03. we’re the only two people in this club. what is this club even for 04. humans vs zombies, all bets are off, friendships mean nothing 05. I thought I was the only one who liked the waffle station in the cafeteria 06. we’re studying in the library and there are two people very obviously fucking in the stacks and we keep sharing embarrassed glances 07. what are you doing at this table at the career fair 08. I saw you sneaking captain crunch and cutlery out of the dining hall 09. my computer crashed and you’re the student worker at the IT center 10. we’re both on athletic teams that aren’t as cool as the football team and they give us shit 11. you’re part of the guerrilla theater club on campus and crashed my class for a performance IV. credit hour woes 01. hey I have to [photograph/draw blood/film/insert major here] someone for class, will you be my guinea pig 02. we’re the only people who ever talk in discussions it’s awful 03. group project 04. both of us turned up to the wrong room for this lecture and neither of us know where it's supposed to be 05. we’re both donating blood in the blood donation van in the quad to get out of the same class 06. wait, I actually have a competent lab partner? 07. waiting for office hours 08. we started racing up the three flights of stairs to class for some reason and we can’t stop 09. vicious battle over the only left handed desk in the room V. limited resources 01. you keep using my preferred shower stall in the floor bathrooms when I’m trying to get ready for class 02. you keep parking in the space outside my student house you absolute asshole 03. you're the only person in the room when i break the printer and i'm panicking (so don't be a dick about it please) 04. neither of us bought the expensive textbook but there is only one copy in the library and it can’t leave the building 05. this awesome professor only has one TA slot and we’re rivals 06. you keep reserving the good study room in the corner of the library with the windows 07. I’ve been sitting in this seat all semester why did you decide to sit in it today 08. you’re REALLY GOOD at using the right search terms for the academic databases and I’m on a deadline 09. we’re always at the fitness center at the same time and end up competing on the treadmill 10. can I borrow a dryer sheet? I ran out and the ones in the vending machine give me a rash

scenarios taken from this post on tumblr. originally posted here.

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[broil]

A towel then! Don't go anywhere.

[he's actually pointing at Nate like that'll hold him to anything. And for about ten seconds he's away from the window, then back in with the promised towel. It's pink.]

Heeey. [oh god Petre what are you.] How do I look?

[serialized]

[ Wait, what? Is any of this actually happening? But if it isn't, where'd his cigarettes go? Nate spends those ten seconds trying to reason that out, and then is confronted with reality, which turns out to be pink terrycloth. ]

... great. Super. [ His smile is about 40% grimace and the expression doesn't change as he slowly pulls back from the window and slowly reaches up in preparation to shut it. ] Thanks I owe you one see you never.

[broil]

What? We're just getting to become good friends and you're going away?

[Come baaaaaack.]

I don't even know your name.

[serialized]

I'm going to fall out the window and you're... still disconcertingly close to naked. Make friends in the morning. Or maybe not, you're alarming. I'm Nate. Good night.

[ Seriously, window getting shut now, and unlike Petre, Nate uses his blinds. So it turns out Jamie was right after all. Just say something! That wasn't so bad. He's close to self-congratulatory as he flops down on his bed.

Things might be different in the morning or if he runs into Petre again. But he isn't thinking about that. ]

[broil]

[AFTER ALL I'VE DONE FOR YOU. psh. The towel isn't going to last anyway.]

[serialized]

[ THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU DON'T THREATEN HIM nudity-based threats don't count ]

[broil]

[What if he shows up on Nates doorstep wearing clothes and holding a brand new cigarette pack.

He's doing that now. Knock knock!]

[serialized]

[ Nate opens the door, though admittedly, with the same kind of wary look people reserve for door-to-door salesmen and religious proselytizers. ]

Heyyy. Clothed guy.

[broil]

Nate! Good news, I'm cured.

[shows pack. rattles it a bit.]

And I got you cigarettes.

[serialized]

[ With his eyes on the pack the entire time: ] Hey, congratulations, it's a good look on you. Clothes. In general.

[ He's not actually drunk again, just. Nate. And reaches for the pack because he's capable of being rude when there are important things like cigarettes at stake. ]

[broil]

[senpai noticed me]

What. Not even going to invite me in? After all the work I went through for you. Just to see you smile.

[serialized]

[ Senpai is thinking about shutting the door in his face. Who says these things. What is Petre. ]

Wow. Thanks for thinking of me. I'm almost there.

[ Current expression is lineface. But he opens the door wider to let Petre in. ]

[broil]

[so grouchy. Does Petre have you buy you a trash can to live in? Careful, you'll turn into a fuzzy green monster.]

When I work for a smile, I work real hard.

[and step in he does, hands in his pockets. You won't mind if he snoops around to check out what the furniture and decoration's like.]

[serialized]

[ Badly furnished. Badly decorated. It's a house in which three college age guys are existing, but one of them cleans. Petre can probably guess who, since even now Nate is looking at the kitchen table like it personally offends him. ]

That's. Good to know. You, uh. Want something to drink.

[ Yeah, Nate doesn't know what to do with unfamiliar company. ]

[broil]

[As you should, Nate. As you should.]

Depends. Do you have something more interesting than tap water?

[He's looking at this apartment and guessing no.]

[serialized]

... I guess, since you made — effort.

[ Non-specific, singular effort. ]

I'll share.

[ There's one drinkable bottle of liquor in the house and he's hidden it, like the elderly alcoholic he already resembles, under a floorboard in the living room. Enjoy the spectacle of him retrieving it. ]

[broil]

[Good god, nate, you actual ridiculous creature.]

Oh wow. You don't like your roomies very much, do you.

[serialized]

They're fine.

[ The most kneejerk tense two word sentence ever spoken, and probably the whole late night drunk conversation is making more sense now. Whatever he gets two glasses and leaves it to Petre to pour, because he wants the cigarettes. ]

[broil]

That's not an answer, Nay-nay.

[nicknames! for! everyone!]

But you're being so nice to me, so I'll let it go.

[serialized]

No.

[ That's a very firm dog-training voice he's using there. ]

Maybe you can let it go, like, a lot more. After you're done.

[broil]

No.

[Guess what that is.]

I'm exceptionally clingy. And possessive. This was an exception, so remember that.

[serialized]

Clingy. And possessive. ... of godawful nicknames?

[ Because what. What is this. His face is going to get stuck in the little hedgehog frown thing. ]

There's got to be more to life, buddy. Please drink up and go find something that speaks to you.

[broil]

I found you. And I didn't even have to drink.

[so guess what he's going to be clingy and possessive about now.]

[serialized]

[ It honestly does not compute. Petre is like some kind of nudity-loving alien to him, who says weird things. Nate doesn't even know how to take him seriously. ]

Well, I'm speaking to you at the moment, but I'm really unsure about the future.

[ Excuse him, he's just going to ignore the drinking comment and pour himself a glass. ]

[broil]

[This is basically permission, right. Walk in to my life and do whatever you want, strange creature. Signed below with a heart on the i.]

Well, make it good for me.

[The drink. The talk. The moment and the future.]