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

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.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

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.

Edited 2014-10-08 06:25 (UTC)

The truth is that it took quite awhile for James to actually find this whole thing creepy.

Like... quite awhile longer than most people would.

The thing about not really having many friends is that when someone actually seems enthused to be talking to you, it's sort of nice. Even if that person is awkward and kind of smells funny. James generally thinks he's pretty good about not judging for that kind of thing, given that he's awkward and can never quite get the stink of his father's apartment off of him.

So, you know, Walter's company ain't that bad.

At least until they're on the bus and Walter starts describing the blocked-off basement rooms that no one's even supposed to know about except the janitorial staff and the superintendent.

That's when James's frequently-malfunctioning-but-not-totally-broken inner alarm bell starts to vibrate.

".... Uh... yeah, I've... lived there pretty much my whole life, soooo..."

Cue an extremely awkward laugh as he wraps his arms around his battered tote-bag.

The awkwardness is palpable enough for even Walter to sense, and he falls silent for a moment. Still, it isn't long before he starts smiling again, the expression just slightly forced. "So... do you know why that was done? I..." He was about to say that he'd looked at the topographic and utility maps of the area, and it didn't seem like the basement was likely to flood, which was his immediate thought - this far from Silent Hill proper, it was more likely to be something mundane like that - but for once he manages to realize just in time how much creepier and more suspicious that would sound. "...always wondered," he finishes lamely.

[It’s finally holiday break, the whole campus is basically empty, and that means its perfect timing for a freaking tornado warning. Were tornadoes even a thing this time of year?

Apparently they were, seeing how dark and windy it’d gotten outside. The lights had flickered off about 20 minutes ago, and it didn’t seem like they were coming back on anytime soon. Lucky her, she just had to stay on campus, didn’t she?

Rotorstorm is walking into one of the dorm common areas, checking to see if anyone else is around, when spots James over by one of the communal kitchens. She recognizes him from one of her classes, but can’t remember which one.]

Finally. I was starting to think everyone around here had just up and jumped ship. Hey! Have you seen any of the RAs?

_{[Staying for the holidays is something most people probably don't do, since they try to clear as many people out from the dorms as possible. James, though, would frankly rather gorilla-glue his own face to the floor of his tiny dorm room than return to South Ashfield Heights for Christmas.]

[So yeah.]

[He stayed.]

[Is he regretting it?]

[Yes. Because even getting re-used to Eau de Umbilical Cord again is better than dying in a tornado.]

[At the sound of Rotorstorm's voice, the young man jumps visibly, twisting around and shining his wimpy little flashlight in her direction. He'd busted it out when the lights went off, because the emergency hallway ones aren't exactly that great.]}

Uh-- hey, uh--... n-nnno, I haven't seen them.

I thought they... uh, I thought they went home for the holidays.

[Woah, ok this guy sure was wigged out. Understandable though, considering the tornado and all.]

Uhh…I guess but I thought one of em was supposed to stick around if there’re still people here.

[But then again…had she actually heard anyone say that? Or had that just been her assuming this school would follow common sense?]

So, what? You’re saying we’re on our own, then? Well that’s fantastic. What're we supposed to do? Huddle in the basement and hope this thing'll just pass us over?

I... was sort of hoping it wouldn't come to that...

_{[Basements are BAD NEWS.]

[But he winces as a small branch collides with a window somewhere, resulting in a sharp CRACK.]}

... But maybe... uh, just t'be... y'know, safe...

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

James Sunderland | Silent Hill | OTA

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