the rwd season 4 qna inspired me to start thinking about college au headcanons except a lot of these are gonna be really specific to my school and y'all are just gonna have to deal with that <3
Kyana feeds some of the school cats. she would feed all of them if she could
Dani smuggled Plug (the scrawniest black cat you've ever seen) into her dorm room illegally and somehow management hasn't caught her yet (based on a true story) (Kyana visits to see Plug all the time)
Finbar keeps an updated tier list of every canteen in the school with breakdowns of the best stalls/dishes for each
A senior from the school of engineering once said to me 'all the engineering people dress like rats cuz our classrooms don't have aircon' (context: tropics) anyway that's Dani
Kyana would probably be involved in a lot of freshman orientation events from second year onwards. she just likes talking to the new kids and giving them advice like she would be the kind of orientation group leader who'd get messages from her freshies asking about all kinds of random nonsense because she's made sure they know they can always contact her with questions
VR-LA is The Guy you go to for textbook pirating resources
(this is more of a 'wouldn't that be funny' but VR-LA is just Veerle's discord handle)
Docent is the name of VR-LA's old laptop that broke down so he gave it to Cassimere (computer engineering major he met once at a networking event) to fix except Cassimere got everything off the hard drive and then somehow managed to fuck it up Even More so he had to get a new laptop (and named it Emi)
Roy has gotten food poisoning from his dorm meal plan at least once (based on at least one true story)
The heap trio + Mandy would be those friends constantly playing majong in the dorm lounge and if all the majong tables are taken they just play in one of their dorm rooms on a towel to dampen the tile shuffling noises (it was Mandy's idea)
Every morning Dani goes to the drinks stall at her faculty and orders one iced coffee to the point where the stall owner starts preparing an iced coffee whenever they see her approach (based on my true story)
Roy would be one of those people who goes clubbing every other week and every time he tries to drag the rest of the heap trio and Egan almost always goes and Dani would go if she didn't have a good excuse but always begrudgingly. anyway Roy would always be the only one having a good time until Egan gets drunk enough to start having fun
Finbar actually uses the dorm kitchens instead of just buying canteen food and it always makes the hallways smell really good
Vhas also uses the dorm kitchen sometimes but like. one time i walked into the pantry on my floor and someone had left cut sweet potatoes and 2 eggs in an inch of water in a pan on the stove. that's Vhas
Kyana's constantly applying for overseas exchanges and international summer/winter school programmes. the world is large and she wants to see it!
Maxim's the definition of a hall phantom. you know he lives on your dorm floor because you pass him by in the hallways sometimes and literally nowhere else. sometimes you're not convinced that he actually exists
VR-LA and Maxim's friendship stems from them being from wildly different faculties (VR-LA's in STEM, Maxim's doing anthropology so arts/social sciences) but also having lots of weird interests they cant really bug anyone in their home faculties about
Elyse is in student government and every once in a while Finbar receives a series of angry texts about the newest idiocy she's had to put up with
MR-SN and AS-TR start a stargazing club together. other notable members include AS-TR's girlfriend E-DN, MR-SN's friend C-RA (the one who always volunteers to carry the heavy ass telescopes) and MR-SN's friend K-LB who he pestered into coming to fix one of the wonky scopes even though K-LB's actually in electrical engineering but he's the only engineering person MR-SN (an arts student) knows
oh and of course VR-LA joins because he genuinely just likes space (developing a crush on his club chairperson was not on his bingo card)
Kyana and E-DN were MMA sparring buddies at one point which is how she found out about the stargazing and joined immediately
honestly i can probably think of more but this post is fuckin long LMAO
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i’m not personally interested in any romantic combination of the kevin-thea-jean situation (but i do think thea makes the most sense in terms of canon endings with kevin) but i am so completely fascinated by the three of them as like. this is someone who lived through a hivemind with me. this is someone who understands what this life was. here is someone who knows ravens, knows the nest, knows the person i once was and will never fully shake. here is someone who was forged in that fire with me, even if beat with a different hammer, made into a different shape, held onto a different thing to get through. and now, here is someone i can’t look at directly, not always. or maybe i can, but i don’t recognise them completely anymore.
like. there is something so completely captivating about them as a trio of people making life after the ravens, after riko, after all their entirely different experiences of the same place, but the same core truths recognised by all of them. kevin was not at risk from riko (until he was), but he could see it in both of them. thea was not inner circle, but she understood the threat of riko and the master. jean did not have the same ability to walk out—to live long enough to graduate, to have someone to run to—but he knew them (individually and together), no matter the difference in all their circumstances.
they all made it. you know? thea clawed herself to the top in a team that made it twice as hard for her to be anything, and she made herself the best. kevin walked out in the wake of losing everything, and he’s the ultimate comeback kid of exy, the son who reclaimed his title no matter all the things done to destroy that dream. jean was told he was a thing before he was a person, and the one friend he had for free, no strings, walked into that nightmare and pulled him out. thea shows up when kevin says he’s never been skiing. jean can’t look at kevin, but he goes to the trojans in the end. and that’s the best gift kevin can give him: the team he loves, captain he admires, sunshine and ocean air and a thousand miles away from the court that tried to make jean into broken bones and blood in the shape of a backliner.
they made it! they made it. and i just. i don’t know. i just think it’s so fascinating to think about, all three of them, all the things they’ve seen and more that they haven’t, truths shared and truths hidden, and how at the end of it all, they might not be the same people they were back in the nest, but they’re never going to scrub those people from their skin. and maybe thea doesn’t want to, and maybe jean doesn’t know how to, and maybe kevin slips back into that person when he’s on the court and frustrated beyond belief. whatever. that’s part of the appeal. i want to look at all their sharp teeth, bared over each other’s necks and grazing it but not closed over it, and point at those sharp teeth. let me look. let me look
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Batter, Zacharie and The Queen with a Tsundere Reader
Tsuntsuns are good! I've already written some White Hank and Skittles content for that on my other blog yesterday, so I knew I had to write for the scrungies today!
Batter
As he has never watched anime before, much less even knows what it is, he will simply think of you as a rather foul-mouthed Player, who likes to cuss him out for no apparent reason, all the while patching him up and feeding him an orange. Socially inept as he already is, he’ll have no clue whatsoever what to actually think, or rather, how you think. Do you like him? Do you hate him? Still, he won’t waste too much time with his broken heart and simply moves on, focusing on his mission and keeping you safe instead.
It’s not until Zacharie gets a good chuckle out of the situation and having the merchant explain everything to Batter that things clear up ever so slightly. He still doesn’t understand why you’re acting the way you are, but at least he is more confident that his beloved Player doesn’t actually hate him and is just rather odd when it comes to showing affection.
Due to him not knowing how to properly show he loves you either, it’ll just be awkward between the two of you. Tensions will be high, without anything actually happening. He’s not one to take advantage of your being tsundere and tease you, at least not on purpose. Having to patch him up, all the while scolding him about how much of an idiot he is for getting hurt like that does mean you’ll have to get physically close to him.
However, when you’re not being “mean” towards him and just sit down with him, too tired to protest, he will be worried for you at first. Empty insults are basically your love language, so when he doesn’t hear them, he’ll simply look over to you and see what’s wrong. If he sees that you’re asleep, he’ll give you a small smile, possibly even positioning you to rest on his shoulder, but only if you’re in an awkward position that will leave your back sore otherwise. He’s ready for the onslaught of stuttering and insults.
Zacharie
Whilst Zacharie might not be a weeb, he has watched some anime here and there, making him all too familiar with the trope of being a tsundere. It has always been a funny one to him, and he never would have thought he’d get to meet one in person, until you came along. Naturally, at first he thought you simply were a tough customer, but once he saw you coming back over and over again, he got kind of curious, going as far as even calling you out on it. You, of course, did not react kindly to that.
Because he’s being a funnyman, he likes to tease you on purpose. Compliments, pick-up lines, flirting, anything to rile you up and get you to become a stuttering mess, falling over your own words and getting even more flustered, until you can’t even form a coherent sentence anymore. And if you like to turn away from him or hide behind your hands, he will either follow suit, or take your hands in his, just so you would look at him again and he can see you grin like a goof.
Despite knowing that you like him, with Zacharie reciprocating, he’ll wait until you confess first, just so he can tell you he already knew from the very beginning and see you throw insults at him again. But starting from then on, he’ll also get physically closer to you. Holding your hand, placing his forehead against yours and, his favourite, giving you quick pecks to watch your soul leave your body again.
During the calmer times, when the two of you are simply cuddling, for example, he’ll also go quiet. He knows when to push your buttons, and when to leave it. Plus he’s got to cherish the times where you can actually admit to liking him without calling him the world’s worst awful man in existence. That’s when he’ll likely just hold you close and, depending on whether you’re standing or not, rock you in his arms a bit too.
Vader Eloha
The first thing she notices is how rude you are, despite her having nothing done to personally offend you. But then again, perhaps you were simply someone unhappy with her reigning. That’s one of the reasons why she’ll invite you over for some tea, coffee, or any other beverage of your choice. Her intention wouldn’t be to change your mind, but to see how she can change and become a better person.
Another one who has no idea what an anime even is, but she does get curious as to why you keep returning to her. Eventually, she figures you simply like her company and that’s just how you are. Eloha will invite you over more often so you can spend more time together. Naturally, she’ll be as kind as she always has been towards you and, as a friend, offer you anything you wish. She’ll come to quite enjoy your company, after all.
Once you confess to her, she’ll be shocked as she didn’t see that sort of thing coming at all, but she won’t mind either. Though, in hindsight, she’ll think she should have expected such a thing. As she’s quite motherly and affectionate, she’ll fluster you quite a lot, but not on purpose. If you ask her to stop, she’ll oblige, your comfort comes before anything else, after all. Even so, she’ll take your hands in hers and gently stroke them with her thumb, that’s a habit that dies hard.
When it’s quiet she’ll start humming you a soft lullaby as she holds you close to her chest. It’s another habit of hers that she can’t seem to get rid of, but as long as you react positively to it, Eloha will keep doing it. Rubbing your back gently, giving you a small kiss on your forehead or the crown of your head, she’ll do anything to get you to sleep. You must be tired, so it’s what you deserve.
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