the realistic college au meme

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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 theatre 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.

Comments

wei wuxian | the untamed

[inventive]

[ modern au, either with modern cultivator stuff or strictly mundane. likely doing a double major, barely making ends meet, taking too many 101 level courses not in his fields. ]

[markyourwords]

[ if you aren't tired of me yet? happy for any of these or random generator. ]

Futaba Sakura ✮ Persona 5 ✮ ota

[necrocosmic]

Shu Itsuki | Ensemble Stars

[oshisan]

[Freshman, art student, studying abroad in Paris. No AU required.]

Diluc Ragvindr | Genshin Impact | OTA

[agnidus]

[ Rich^TM kid who studies business and maybe some random extracurriculars...probably keeps to himself, unless it's night time and he's seeking out trouble makers. ]

[shivada]

[Is Diluc the resident hall monitor on campus, or is upholding the Law something he's chosen to do on his own? Because if it's the latter...a familiar face sees exactly zero issues with loitering in areas around the courtyard and elsewhere when night classes are going on. He lives in the dorms, why shouldn't he be allowed to be out here? If he tells someone he's just making a snack-machine run, it's not like they can do anything about it. They're welcome to try to kick him out, he pays the exorbitant tuition just like everyone else does.

Of course, it may be potentially less legal for him to be lounging in the branches of one of the aged oak trees overlooking the grass as the sun begins to set, laying across it on his back with his hands folded behind his head.

Maybe he'll take a nap here, if he isn't interrupted!]

Ren Amamiya/Joker | Persona 5 Royal | OTA

[tricksterious]

[ That guy with perpetual bedhead and glasses who has way too many pictures of his cat on his cellphone. He's changed majors like five times. What is he doing with his life? He doesn't know. ]

[corvident]

[Ren you are aware that cats aren't allowed in the dorms, correct...unless you're staying someplace else in which case, valid. Not that Goro would rat you out for having a cat illegally; he's petty, but you're a special case for some reason.

Instead of orchestrating a plan to get Ren expelled for illegal cat crimes, Goro will send him a text around lunchtime one afternoon.]

I hope you've been studying for that big physics exam on Friday. I've heard our professor for it is quite tough. No mercy, even for freshmen.

[Goro is a year ahead of Ren in his program, but there are still some classes he's picking up...and this one happens to be a class he shares with Ren. Why is Ren taking physics? Only Ren knows.]

Zhongli | Genshin Impact | OTA

[ramblings]

[Either a professor or a grad student.

Seek him out for information at your own risk. He might start a several hour long lecture on the history of a flower.]

Xiao | Genshin Impact | OTA

[vayuda]

[ Hates group projects with a fiery passion, a history major. Has mapped out every Quiet place on campus and haunts them regularly. Possibly rumored to be the Library Ghost, but he's not dead, thanks. ]

Magneto | Marvel 616 | OTA

[magnusrex]

[Modern AU, still a mutant but college age. Erik Lehnsherr, called Magnus by his friends, is working on a double major in astrophysics and computer science, but he's also taking a lot of courses in biology, of all things. He professes a fascination with genetic engineering, particularly. Couple that with his frequent trips to the campus gym and it's a mystery when he ever manages to sleep.]

[soundwave_ascendant]

[humanformers-in-your-modern-au, meaning that I and my fuzzy little nb-friend are also mutants, since they're still a fuzzy-eared little attention deflector and I'm still a tele/em/datapath with 32 flavours of sensory processing disorders? also, why is this music major in half your science classes?]

Kaeya Alberich | Genshin Impact | OTA

[shivada]

[Second or third year student studying theater who clearly got burnt out year one but is sticking with it out of spite. Comes off as the type who's just at college to party and slack off, but is surprisingly dilligent when it comes to getting his work done. Always somehow lands the lead parts for things, infuriatingly.]

DR. CASPER DARLING —— CONTROL.

[indagatio]

Goro Akechi | Persona 5 Royal | OTA

[corvident]

[Freshman law major who is effortlessly charismatic and keeps getting asked to help with group projects. Gives off strong know-it-all vibes while managing not to be an overt braggart about it while being effortlessly talented in his studies...he just has a very punchable face but no actual reason for you to be punching him, go figure.]

IV - 3

[bazooker]

[If this isn't okay, let me know!

This isn't what Haru expected. As much as she did enjoy group projects, she never thought she would end up working with Akechi. From what she heard about him, there were a lot of questionable rumors about the student. While Haru didn't want to believe them, she couldn't help but wonder if some of them were true.

Now here Haru was trying to finish this group project about ethics and yet, didn't want to create a negative impression already. For a freshman business major, she wasn't off to a very good start.]

Akechi-kun, do you have any ideas of how to start this paper?

Bakugou Katsuki | My Hero Academia | Open To All

[explosivevictory]

[Modern AU. An overachiever who thought he was Hot Shit in High School, ended up getting served the humble pie for three years, and collected scholarships like other guys collect broken hearts.

He seems like an angry anti-social asshole (and he is sometimes very much that), but he's the one who always goes to bed early, is an obsessive pennypincher, reads the nutritional facts on literally everything, makes sure the dorm / apartment is *always* spotless, leads multiple study groups, and is probably the primary reason why several of his friends aren't flunking out of school right now.

His friends call him a 'goody-two-shoes whose bark is worse than his bite'. The people who hate him just call him 'an anal retentive asshole'.]

Thanatos | Hades

[expiration_date]

[Pre-med, probably hasn't slept in three years. Canonmates and Greek/Roman mythology characters all welcome]

[effugium]

[ i know we have our other thread but: childhood friends who end up at the same university?? definitely nursing crushes on each other? ]

hua cheng | heaven official's blessing/tgcf

[balefuls]

[ Rich grad student, majoring in art, with a ton of rumors circulating about him. ]

Katsuki Bakugo | My Hero Academia | OTA

[comburst]

[ Takes as many classes as he can handle without effectively dying and kills himself to get top marks in All Of Them. Chemistry/Biochemistry double major, Quirks can exist or not as you choose, and he only joins extracurriculars in order to make applications look better. Steal his favorite study table and he'll kill you (or at least send you death glares for the next however many years). ]

[mightdoriya]

[Let's go with modern AU without Quirks for this one. Katsuki and Izuku, as before, were once childhood friends that drifted apart. The wedge placed between them isn't as deep as one caused by a lack of Quirks, but it's still a sore spot on an otherwise happy childhood. Katsuki's superiority complex was still Too Much to handle Izuku offering him a hand up...and having gone to different highschools meant that they saw even less of each other as the years went on. Not that the parting was intentional, it just felt...awkward. Izuku wanted to catch up, or at the very least see how Katsuki had been doing, but bridging that gap had been difficult. He was as much to blame for the distance, even if he wanted desperately to be closer.

And, well...fate just so has it that today is the day they're destined to meet up once more, years later. Not because of any intentional seeking out, oh no. It's far dumber.

Izuku is accidentally sitting at Katsuki's favorite study table.]

Izuku Midoriya | My Hero Academia | OTA

[defendure]

[ Theoretically majoring in Statistics but in a very practical sense he's taking too many things from too many different fields. A general degree is fine, right? Drawn to the weird one-off courses and often buried in coursework and work for extracurriculars he isn't even in but somehow ended up agreeing to do. Has eaten maybe one energy bar and nothing else in the past two days, like a moron. ]

[bloodpetal]

[ Supposedly on an athletic scholarship, but she spends most of her time getting wasted and being a menace. Somehow hasn't been expelled yet, but she'll probably get there. Lives with her sisters and hates every minute of it. ]

Prompto Argemtum | FFXV

[hi_there_opening]

[A photography major with a huge chocobo obsession.]

caesar zeppeli | jojo's bizarre adventure | ota

[casaposa]

annie edison | community | ota

[disneyeyes]

Alex Summers | Marvel | OTA

[wreaking_havok]

[he's a geophysics major]

Ichiban Kasuga | Yakuza: Like A Dragon

[ofrockbottom]

[Wild-looking business professor or he's a substitute teacher. Might be one of the cool teachers who shows off old video games like Dragon Quest and gives them a chance to play. He'd also take them out on field trips to do charity work for the homeless. Open to other suggestions if you have them.]

Caleb Widogast | Critical Role

[selfburn]

[ Incredibly gifted student getting his masters in Chemistry and Physic. Shipping for canonmates only. ]

nito nazuna | ensemble stars! | ota

[pyonpyon]

( freshman cramming in as many credits as possible in one semester. isn't well acquainted with sleep. fairly social and a Responsible partygoer. )

shouto todoroki. — bnha. — ota.

[redeemers]

[modern or quirk are both acceptable. puts his studies first (and/or quirk training). while probably having a scholarship or two, big shot endeavor pays for the rest. (but shouto refuses to take extra for living expenses so he has a part time job at a cat cafe.) studying towards a business degree (modern) or general hero studies (quirk). it's expected of him to take over endeavor's business/agency. he's secretly taking a musical class on the side and plays the violin.]