[Making the decision to get a room in the substance free dorm wasn't hard, really. Karkat's severely phobic of other people throwing up, and Ryou's personality switches are rare when he's medicated, but with stress being a major trigger, it's really better that they live wherever is quietest. They'd talked to their advisers (carefully avoiding mentioning that their desire to room together had less to do with friendship and compatibility and more to do with Karkat's 'fashionable' collar and the hickey just under it), and they'd made sure to get the two of them a double in a substance free building.]
[What had also happened, however, was two seniors ending up in a hallway of all freshmen, save for one room containing a duo of disgruntled sophomores. There are posters on the hallway walls talking about dealing with homesickness, and the RA makes the floor meetings mandatory. Karkat refers to it, quite eloquently, as 'fucking stupidass bullshit for baby freshmen' and is overheard by a girl who looks about 12 and her parents. It's not a good day.]
[And it only gets weirder when they start moving in their stuff. Carrying Egyptian artifacts, romcom posters and a box of restraints in from Karkat's shitty rented van is an interesting experience-- their neighbors aren't sure what to do with any of it. The RA doesn't know what to do with it, she's the same age as the annoyed sophomores and was not prepared for two sleep-deprived 21 year old boys to be attempting to rearrange their room so their beds were pushed together. They'd been bunk-beds before hand, and they don't actually close the door all the way before they discuss which end of the bedframes would be better to chain someone to.]
[And then comes the legendary required floor meeting. Karkat is looking grumpier than he has all day, grumbling something about being a grown-ass man and honestly more annoyed about having to relive the social awkwardness of his first night at college. Things hadn't really gotten easy until he'd started wearing the gold-and-black-leather collar, more secure in every way now that he's branded with someone else's ownership.]
Think they're gonna tell us about the goddamn shower pressure for the 80th time since freshman fucking year?
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[What had also happened, however, was two seniors ending up in a hallway of all freshmen, save for one room containing a duo of disgruntled sophomores. There are posters on the hallway walls talking about dealing with homesickness, and the RA makes the floor meetings mandatory. Karkat refers to it, quite eloquently, as 'fucking stupidass bullshit for baby freshmen' and is overheard by a girl who looks about 12 and her parents. It's not a good day.]
[And it only gets weirder when they start moving in their stuff. Carrying Egyptian artifacts, romcom posters and a box of restraints in from Karkat's shitty rented van is an interesting experience-- their neighbors aren't sure what to do with any of it. The RA doesn't know what to do with it, she's the same age as the annoyed sophomores and was not prepared for two sleep-deprived 21 year old boys to be attempting to rearrange their room so their beds were pushed together. They'd been bunk-beds before hand, and they don't actually close the door all the way before they discuss which end of the bedframes would be better to chain someone to.]
[And then comes the legendary required floor meeting. Karkat is looking grumpier than he has all day, grumbling something about being a grown-ass man and honestly more annoyed about having to relive the social awkwardness of his first night at college. Things hadn't really gotten easy until he'd started wearing the gold-and-black-leather collar, more secure in every way now that he's branded with someone else's ownership.]
Think they're gonna tell us about the goddamn shower pressure for the 80th time since freshman fucking year?