it's 4 am and i havent started my essay LET'S MARATHON FUTURAMA

[phantastus]

The Realistic College AU Meme



You did it.

You made it through those last agonizing weeks of high school and now you are FREE, on the cusp of four awesome years of cozy coffee-shop crushes, inebriated makeouts, and crazy pranks. It's gonna be the best years of your life, kiddo, and you intend to make the most of it. It's going to be PERFECT.

... Almost.

Maybe.

Possibly.

Hopefully.



INSTRUCTIONS:
‧ Post with whatever character you want
‧ Responders roll (random.org is good for this!) for scenario and get to threading!
‧ ???
‧ Profit!!

SCENARIO

1. I am really passionate about this cause and I will give you this flier on your way to class if I have to SHOVE IT DOWN YOUR THROAT

2. Vicious battle over the only left handed desk in the room

3. My roommate’s boyfriend is staying over so can I please sleep on your floor?

4. 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?

5. Hey I have to photograph someone for class will you be my model?

6. Hey I have to take someone’s blood pressure for class will you be my victim?

7. I know I keep coming to the cookie shop and for some reason it’s always your shift but don’t you dare judge me I need these for my sanity.

8. All our friends are drunk.

9. 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. Are you actually here?

10. We’re the only two people in this club. What is this club even for.

11. Humans vs Zombies.

12. We’re the only people who ever talk in discussions it’s awful

13. ~*~GROUP PROJECT~*~

14. Both of us turned up at the wrong room for this lecture but neither of us know where it's actually supposed to be.

15. You keep parking in the space outside my student house you ABSOLUTE ASSHOLE

16. We live in halls opposite each other and I keep seeing you changing through your window.

17. I broke the printer and I'm panicking and you're the only other person in the room PLEASE HELP ME

18. Neither of us bought the expensive textbook but there is only one copy in the library and it can’t leave the building.

19. This awesome professor only has one TA slot and we’re rivals.

20. I found your USB drive still in the computer.

21. ... I thought I was the only one who liked the waffle station in the cafeteria!

22. You keep reserving the good study room in the corner of the library with the windows. STOP.

23. We’re studying in the library and there are two people very obviously fucking in the stacks and we keep sharing embarrassed glances.

24. We’re both donating blood in the blood donation van in the quad to get out of the same class and the only other person donating just fainted in their chair.

25. You decked me in the head while you were playing frisbee golf

26. Wait, I actually have a competent lab partner?

27. You’re the RA and you’re trying to bust me for having hermit crabs.

28. You’re baking cookies in the communal kitchen at 3am and I’m angry but also really hungry.

29. Waiting for office hours

30. I’ve been sitting in this seat all semester, why did you decide to sit in it TODAY?

31. You peed on my car. You were drunk. I was in the car. There will be hell to pay.

32. We started racing up the three flights of stairs to class for some reason and we can’t stop.

33. You’re REALLY GOOD at using the right search terms for the academic databases and I’m on a deadline please I am on my knees here

34. My friend dragged me to this party and I just saw my ex QUICK MAKE OUT WITH ME

35. We’re always at the fitness center at the same time and end up competing on the treadmill.

36. Sorry my roommate puked on your shoes.

37. Can I borrow a dryer sheet? I ran out and the ones in the vending machine give me a rash.

38. Your school mailbox is right next to mine.

39. I saw you sneaking captain crunch and cutlery out of the dining hall.

40. My roommate borrowed your contraband hotpot and managed to set it on fire.

41. You keep using my preferred shower stall in the floor bathrooms when I’m trying to get ready for class.

42. My computer crashed and you’re the student worker at the IT center.

43. we’re both on althetic teams that aren’t as cool as the football team and they give us shit.

44. You’re part of the guerrilla theater club on campus and crashed my class for a performance.

45. What do you mean, we’re under a tornado warning?


BONUS ROUND: Your character is literally a monster at Monsters University. Roll again for one of the previous options to apply to this scenario.


Thanks to this post for all the scenarios.

Comments

Heather Mason | Silent Hill | OTA

[foolishwren]

[raaagequits]

[The best and worst thing in the universe is sharing a class with your roommate. Because on the one hand, it's great being able to share notes and study together and things like that. But on the other hand, when you're feeling lazy...you can really be an enabler.

It's twenty minutes before class, and after she's gotten herself all ready, she frowns, looking at Heather.]

Ah, jeez. I just...don't feel like going to class. What about you?

[QUICK GLANCE OUT THE WINDOW FOR JUSTIFICATION...]

It's such a nice day, too! Wanna go downtown?

[Best student ever.]

James Sunderland | Silent Hill | OTA

[nineredsquares]

13

[returnedtothesource]

The fact that James and Walter had ended up taking the same journalism class for a gen ed requirement was pure coincidence. The way Walter had glommed onto James almost from the first day of class - from the moment he found out who he was, actually - is maybe a little less so. Still, from a certain angle it kind of makes sense; Walter is a freshman, like most of the rest of the class, and James is one of only two upperclassmen in it, so maybe he's just clinging to someone whom he assumes has got his shit more or less figured out in hopes that some of that wisdom will transfer to him via osmosis. And as nervous and withdrawn as Walter usually seems, he probably needs all the help he can get.

However, things have just taken a turn for the weird as fuck.

The professor had given them an assignment to be done in pairs: find a local landmark of some relatively obscure historical interest, and write a 2100-word article on it. Walter had suggested - well, more like demanded - that their subject should be South Ashfield Heights, the apartment complex that James's father was superintendent of. His rationale was supposedly that sometimes you can learn the most about a town and its history from some of its most mundane structures; however, it's become clear that he already knows a downright creepy amount of information about the building.

As they head back from Pleasant River to Ashfield on the subway, he's telling James what he's found out about the architect who designed the place; he seems happier and more animated than James has ever seen him.

Red | Transistor | OTA

[silentcrash]

[Music major with a minor in languages for some reason. Ladies in her dorm, take note, she definitely sings in the shower. A lot.]

Larxene | Kingdom Hearts | m/f for ships, otherwise OTA

[twelfthspark]

[this isn't even the first time i've played college AU larx, bro]

Bigby Wolf | The Wolf Among Us | OTA

[wolfjob]

[ Bigby is that one, long-standing criminology professor who can be often seen pouring a flask into his coffee, owns the shittiest car on the campus, and violently breaks up fights before security can get there. You can rely on him to protect you, unless you're the thing in his way. ]

32

[foolishwren]

<sub>[Yeah, you... know that unspoken, possibly-made-up rule that says if you get to class before the professor does, you're not technically late?]

[Well, guess who just made eye contact with Bigby at the base of the stairwell three floors below the designated classroom?]

[... The kid who is now sprinting full-tilt up said stairs.]</sub>

Ginko | Mushi-Shi | OTA

[onegreeneye]

[Ginko is not actually enrolled here; mostly he sits in on biology classes and tries to keep students from getting into too much trouble.]

Miko Nakadai | Transformers: Prime | OTA

[pullingamiko]

7

[foolishwren]

<sub>[Heather doesn't like to thank 'God' for anything.]

[But she'll at least nod acknowledgingly in God's direction for the fact that on-campus sweetshops that are open until 2 AM exist.]

[Looking every bit like someone who has been awake for 72 hours working on an essay, Heather skulks into the cookie shop in search of one thing: those ridiculous indulgent caramel truffle things with the marshmallow cream in the middle. If they're wrong, she doesn't wanna be right.]

[.... Wait.]

[Wait is that... shit it's that girl who's been on shift literally every time she comes in for those things. DAMMIT.]

[ENGAGING STEALTH MODE.]

[Heather straightens up, ceases her approach to the Caramarshmallow Truffle Delight display, and pretends to be looking at some candy corn. Unconvincingly.]</sub>

Gajeel Redfox | Fairy Tail | OTA

[metalivore]

[Metalworking student, also a HUGE JERK. Claims to literally eat nails for breakfast, legitimately thinks he's a good singer (he's not).]

Levy McGarden | Fairy Tail | OTA

[tinytranslator]

[Very small, cheerful linguistics major. Arguably too nice for her own good.

Umi Ryuuzaki | Magic Knight Rayearth

[raaagequits]

[Major in English with a minor in Art History, who is also on the fencing team and in a baking club?! Yeesh, how do you even have time for anything?]

28!

[aprilfool]

[Hello fellow baking club member, the most HIGH STRUNG MALE MEMBER of the club is approaching. At 3am. Very clearly fuming.

And muttering death threats for someone he calls "the bastard" under his breath. Because his roommate is a jerk, and he's here to blow off some steam. But when he actually steps into the kitchen and sees her there... well. Gone is the metaphorical black cloud over his head and all he shows is surprise.]

Eh? [It's that person! Whom he cant recall the name of! In his baking club!]

Noel Kreiss | Final Fantasy XIII-2

[oracledriven]

Envy | Fullmetal Alchemist (2003) | OTA

[exeggutorhead]

26?

[priceoftruth]

[Does Ed look Not Happy enough for you? Because if there was one person he didn't want to partner up with in this seriously important to his major(!!!!!) class, it's you.

And yet, we are the last two people in class without partners.

... ... ... This might actually be the worst.]

Edward Elric | Fullmetal Alchemist

[priceoftruth]

OPEN PROMPT DON'T JUDGE ME THIS IS ART!!!1

[priceoftruth]

[Art requirements are legitimately the worst. Ten minutes of an art history class had had him switching AS FAST AS HE POSSIBLY COULD to something...well, a little more his style. For a chemistry/engineering student, sculpture kind of sounds like the best thing for everyone.

Except in this case, it is probably not the best thing for everyone.

On the lawn in front of the art building, it's hard to miss the ten foot gargoyle sculpture that seems to have been constructed overnight. It's covered in spikes and painted red and black and generally looks kind of menacing in a tacky 80s heavy metal sort of way...

...And it's actually breathing fire.

There's a blond kid on the lawn admiring it, arms crossed. Every so often he opens a hatch in the back to tinker with a few wires and pipes. Just making sure everything is working.

Oh yeah. He's so getting an A.]

Megatron | Transformers: Prime | OTA

[bigfuckinggun]

[YOU WILL LITERALLY BE SHITTING PAMPHLETS BY THE TIME THIS ANGRY SOCIAL JUSTICE JOCK IS DONE WITH YOU] [or any other scenario I SUPPOSE]

[foolishwren]

<sub>[... Oh god it's THAT GUY.]

[Why is he always standing in front of the ENglish building LIFE IS AWFUL.]

[Heather pretty much turns on the spot and starts to make a beeline for a side entrance, but this is unfortunately in plain view of Megatron, so...]</sub>

ORION PAX/OPTIMUS PRIME | TRANSFORMERS PRIME | OTA

[thanksoptimus]

[Followed by less angry, social justice nerd. Double majoring in sociology and history. Has a blog.]

23

[tinytranslator]

[...oh God.

See, Levy had heard that some really questionable stuff goes on in the library sometimes, but she had never actually been present for any of it. APPARENTLY HER LUCK COULDN'T LAST.

She keeps moving to turn the page of her book, or to write something down, but never actually does so. Mainly she alternates between staring uncomfortably at her paper, and staring uncomfortably at the only other student at the table.

Help.]

Drift | Transformers IDW

[positiveenergy]

[onegreeneye]

[Wow. Wow yeah of course it's pouring down rain now. Ginko is pretty sure he could be indoors by now if he had just left a few minutes earlier, but NOPE.

He glances at Drift, holding a cigarette between two fingers, sort of fiddling with it but not actually lighting it. He's pretty sure that would be kind of rude when he's stuck in close quarters with someone else.]

So, uh, think this is going to let up any time soon?

Starscream | Transformers: Prime | OTA

[starscheme]

[Starscream doesn't even want to go to this stupid school! She just wants to keep on living her life at home, leeching off her wealthy father's money under the guise of lending a hand with his business ventures now and then until he eventually dies and she gets a nice fat inheritance. IS THAT REALLY SO WRONG.]

[Apparently it is because her parents have insisted that she make something of herself and go to school to "build character" or some shit. The only reason she even got accepted is because her dad's an alum and basically threatened the admissions boards into taking her. EVERYONE IS MISERABLE WITH THIS SITUATION.]

[AU'd to female because I demand more ladies in everything always but I will do humandude!Starscream upon request. Prose and brackets are both fine.]

#15 U DICK

[thanksoptimus]

[Orion happens to be staring out the window when Starscream parks, in a very familiar vehicle - the same vehicle that is constantly occupying their dorm's parking spot even though they ostensibly live nowhere near there. He sighs to himself, frowning, and considering what to do. This is the first time he's actually seen it in action - maybe he should take the opportunity to talk to them about it?

He closes his laptop and quickly jogs outside to intercept the woman coming out of the car. He realizes, with a trace of dread, that he is faintly familiar with her. Or maybe one of the other hers. It isn't really clear.]

I...hello. Do you have a minute?

Walter Sullivan | Silent Hill | OTA

[returnedtothesource]

((Pre-21-Sacraments Walter is default, AUs available on request.))

Jacob Johnson | A Nightmare on Elm Street 5 | OTA

[narcotic_ritual]

((Jacob is majoring in psychology, minoring in philosophy, and, like many of his fellow college freshmen, going through a really unfortunate pretentious dickwaffle phase.))

Smokescreen | Transformers: Prime | OTA

[screaming38s]

[MEGA ROOKI FRESHMAN JOCK LETS GO!!!!!]

Neku Sakuraba | The World Ends With You | OTA

[reluctantproxy]

9

[pullingamiko]

Miko has never been one to give up, but she is VERY TEMPTED right now. She literally does not know how long she has been here. Maybe it doesn't matter and time is a frickin illusion anyway. Who knows.

She groans and lets her head drop onto the textbook in front of her with a thunk - then sits upright again when she hears another noise nearby, because even though it's probably another person she refuses to be caught off-guard if it's a ghost or some crap like that. "Hey, someone else here?"

Ezio Auditore | Assassin's Creed II | OTA

[beneful]

[Pre-horrific family tragedy hot young nobleman Ezio AU'd into modern times lets go]

Alyx Vance | Half-Life 2 | OTA

[agirlandherd0g]

Rotorstorm | Transformers IDW

[wreckerscombine]

Joshua | The World Ends With You

[dibsontherainbow]