10000netherworlds | College AU meme (shamelessly stolen from Bakerstreet)

College AU meme (shamelessly stolen from Bakerstreet)

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.

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[She is probably an RA. Everyone is human, everyone is ponies, or some wild AU where humans and ponies attend the same college!]

Yotsuyu could not help but do a double take as the burly fellow sauntered his way across the dining hall. She'd just been finishing her bowl of ramen, and nearly choked on some of the noodles. She hadn't planned on getting dessert today, but his appearance gave her pause. A switch of her empty bowl for a new one filled with ice cream, and she took a seat across from the man, yellow eyes boring into his red ones.

She leaned forward to hiss at him. "Do you ever close your draperies? Ever?"

Some days... some days you're just sitting down for a meal, eyeing your burger with a well-earned hunger after morning exercise, and then a cute girl plops down across from you and asks you a weird question.

"Huh?"

He'd never even thought about his blinds.

"Ah. So the fact that you are the source of many a full moon over campus, then, is of little consequence?" Yotsuyu stabbed into her ice cream sundae with her spoon, glancing up at him again, eyes narrowing.

Really, if she weren't getting the full monty, she'd probably mind it less; he wasn't hideous, after all.

Jecht kept looking at her blankly, not putting two and two together quite yet. In no small part, admittedly, because she was eating ice cream, and that was fun to watch.

Her brows furrowed. She wasn't certain why the man was so...speechless, but she was certain shame had no part in it. Yotsuyu sneered.

"Glad we had this talk. I understand; I shall have to pull my draperies if I am not to keep witnessing your free naked show." She only nodded, then, stuffing her spoon into the ice cream and making to leave.

"Oh -- wha -- hey!" Comprehension snapped into his brain and he slapped a hand down on the table. "Wait, you can SEE stuff from where you are? Where the heck is that anyway?!"

"Eat. I shall wait, and then? I shall show you." Yotsuyu did her best to relax in the seat she had taken, proceeding to finish her dessert while the burly man opposite her ate his meal.

Once he was finished, she led him to her room, opening the door and striding to the window. She opened the draperies wide, gesturing to the dorm room opposite hers in a different wing of the building--its draperies and blinds flung wide open.

"Pray tell, does that look familiar to you at all?" It ought to, but Yotsuyu figured that meant nothing.

"Oh. Hey, this IS a good view." He leaned on the edge of the window, shielding his eyes with his hands against the midday sun. A lot better than he thought, actually -- man, she could see everything from here, couldn't she? He could almost read his own homework!

"Mmmm." The noise she made was nothing if noncommittal. "Imagine what kind of view I get before you go to bed." That comment was dry as dry, as well. He could infer what he liked from it. Yotsuyu was not about to spell it out for him.

"So if you would be so kind, close your godsdamned blinds!" Not that she wasn't seriously considering closing hers. Not that she hadn't closed her blinds in the past! But the light pollution on campus wasn't terrible, and she did not always want to have to abandon the warmth of her room to go stargazing, simply because this buffoon wanted to moonbathe his buns.

Yeah, okay, she had a pretty good point. He hadn't figured anyone would ever see or notice, since it was just one window among dozens and who ever looked? But he couldn't back down too easily; he was, after all, Jecht.

"You sure you won't miss the view a little if I do?" he said, grinning down at her.

Yotsuyu was wise enough not to rise to that bait, though her yellow eyes turned hard and she grit her teeth at him. The nerve of the man!

"I know I shall not! Now get out!" She motioned a kick at his backside, but made no real intent to connect.

"I'm getting, I'm getting!" Jecht said, pleased that he'd managed to bait her just a little. "And I'll close the drapes, okay? At least while I'm changing!"

"Consider this. I could have gone to your RA, or elsewhere, to get the authorities involved. And what might that have done to your scholarship, hm?" Oh, he could bait her, but Yotsuyu had her own fangs to strike with. Not that she'd ever actually intended to do any of these things--she'd come to him first, after all!--but since he was playing, she could, too.

"You'd lose all the prestige of being on the football team, as well."

Jecht paused just outside her door, turning to lean against the frame.

"Think so? Don't think they'd tell you to cut it out, and protect the guy who's making the team look good?" Jecht might have his pride and his standards, but he sure as hell wasn't gonna hesitate to abuse the protection being a sports star offered him. No one's gonna take his dream away. "Naw. Ain't afraid there. Just asking me worked out a lot better, didn't it?"

"No. It did not, because you are still darkening my doorstep! And if you thought a moment--consider someone with more prestige and less morals-" such as they were, admittedly--"than I! Your reputation would do you naught, I suspect!"

Really, Yotsuyu herself didn't care so much what he did--she just didn't want to watch the evening show, free or not.

She attempted to shut the door on him and actually throw him out, though she did not actually want to hurt him.

Hey, hey, he was getting! Nearly lost a finger to the door, but he was gone!

And that being out of the way... well, she got what she wanted. No more exposure to the full moon; he closed his drapes when he was changing. Occasionally with a wave and a grin, if he happened to see her through her window.

So things were better, at least for that moment. And a couple of days ticked past, heralding the beginning of homecoming and the increasing swirl of activities around that. Including one big game!

He didn't get any rude gestures if she saw him, but Jecht may have gotten himself a few stony glares for his troubles. Yotsuyu was still fairly unamused by the entire debacle.

All of that did not stop her from attending a few of the festivities, however. Yotsuyu at least looked over the food stands and had her ticket for the football game ready, dressed in a sweater and skirt in the school colors, a bow of the same set in her hair. Black ankle boots completed her garb, and she, at least, thought she looked cute.

There was still time before she needed to hit the stands, so she decided to watch the floats as they came in from the homecoming parade, nibbling on a funnel cake.

The football team made its appearance as anyone would expect, to the cheers of the crowd who expected big things from this year's team. Included was one particular athlete she knew -- who did a double-take as his eyes floated over her, then flashed her a grin and a thumbs-up once he'd ascertained that yes, that was his window-mate in that hella cute outfit.

Yotsuyu did not quite give Jecht the brush-off, though her stare at him was long and fixed and perhaps not entirely friendly. But no rude gestures were offered, at least.

Once the mob had made their way into the stadium, she followed, working her way to her seat--"hers" mostly by the virtue of wit and wile, as she managed to get a seat within the first few rows--Yotsuyu might not understand football, but the game being played was certainly an exciting one, and she couldn't help but join the crowd in shouting at the good plays.

She might even do her best to catch Jecht's eye after the team won, giving him an approving nod.

Catching Jecht's eye meant she got a grin, a wink, and then a held up finger which he then pointed at her. That was supposed to mean he'd scored the first goal for her! But maybe he should've prepared that signal with her ahead of time.

Likely, because all Yotsuyu could do was send him a look of startled confusion before his teammates carried him off in their crowd. Well, that was that, then.

She'd had her splurge, and thus it was past time to get herself dinner at the cafeteria at the dorm, and then retreat to her room to finish her homework and study before she had to be at work.

Jecht wasn't out quite as late partying as anyone would expect. Truth be told, the parties stopped being fun once everyone else started getting hammered. Something he'd learned hard and rough back in high school, and he wasn't going down that path again.

So from her window she saw the light come on in the room she'd become so familiar with, and then Jecht himself wander over to the window -- only to see her and wave.

She was somewhat startled to see him, but gave him a wave back nonetheless. It was accompanied by something of a quizzical look--especially since, as one of the heroes of the day, she'd been certain that he'd be busy long into the night.

Truth be told, she didn't really want to wait to catch the man to ask him her questions, either, so she beckoned to him. The gesture was unmistakable. Yotsuyu might have to make her own life easier and get another way to contact him as well. That could wait until he actually came over.

If he came over.

Well, considering he vanished from the window then, he just might.

Given the knock on her door after a minute or two, he almost certainly had!

"I had certainly thought you'd be partying longer. Did you have homework to do or some such?" Yotsuyu asked as she opened the door to look up at Jecht, expression curious.

"I do hope your celebration did not turn sour!" That, at least, was the truth.

"Naw!" He waved a hand to brush away that thought. "Just don't like it when everyone else starts getting real hammered. Stops being fun for me."

[Humanized, ponified, or mixed-species schooling!]

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College AU meme (shamelessly stolen from Bakerstreet)

Princess Celestia | MLP:FIM

Roy Greenhilt | The Order of the Stick

Jecht | Final Fantasy X

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Nia | Xenoblade Chronicles 2

Maria | Final Fantasy VIII (OC)

Dust | Dust: An Elysian Tail

Edge | Final Fantasy IV

Rainbow Dash | MLP:FIM