College AU meme [open]

[foepas]

Pick one of my characters and I'll toss a college au scenario at you! I've got some rough descriptions below.

Alec: prickly as can be, likes to pick verbal fights with people stronger than him to show he's smarter, not really concerned with his own safety. Double major in mathematics and astronomy.
Annabel: cheery but socially awkward, prone to babbling. Kind of the mad scientist type. Major in biomedical engineering.
I-No: the bitchiest mean girl, she's loyal when she considers her loyalty earned but she's capricious and enjoys causing others pain. Major in business.
Ky: incredibly earnest, religious, repressed. Army ROTC participation and major in political science
Nyxnissa: practical and prone to arguing with people in a way to try to get them upset, although she doesn't really enjoy that, just can't help herself. Major in mechanical engineering.
Sol: grouchy, not very talkative, lazy but really smart. Major in physics.
Valentine: much more interested in drinking and partying than college classes, in fact pretends to be less smart than he is. Audacious and outrageous. Major in LGBT studies, as much to piss off his conservative father as anything else. Minor in business, because otherwise his father won't pay for college.

Comments

[betterthananetdrama]

"Doesn't really make me want to read stuff like it, though." Iko shrugs. She's not thinking up another reason, though.

[tothealtar]

"Maybe not this reading, no. But maybe they'll get better, later on." Kai had meant to say that maybe they'd pick ones that appealed more to her, but no, he thinks this reading was pretty bad.

[betterthananetdrama]

Well, at least they agree on that much. "I hope so... d'you think it's all going to be older stuff?" She would totally read more if books were like gossip sites. Romance novels. Those are totally her thing.

[tothealtar]

“Probably. They likely think we need to be more cultured, and the backbone for most culture was formed a while ago.” Right? It makes sense for why they’re always reading those sorts of books and poems, at least, even though there have to be meaningful contemporary things too.

[betterthananetdrama]

Iko frowns. "That doesn't make any sense. Culture doesn't just show up and then stay that way forever. The culture now is different, right? We sure don't go around talking the way these people do." Iko might be thinking of the word culture in a slightly different context, but she has a little bit of a point in there too.

[tothealtar]

“You’re right about the details.” Kai’s nose wrinkles a little while he tries to think through the phrasing of what he feels, that she’s misinterpreting the whole picture. “But we’re surrounded by the modern, right? This other stuff is how we relate to the older generation, and to each other on another level. Even if our culture is evolving, maybe older works are still part of that evolution.”