[OPEN] a poor student in hell

[tadeadshi]

Who: Tadashi and You!
What: Another day on campus post-midterms
Where: The dorms, coffeeshop, the quad
When: Throughout the second half of March
Warnings: None



AUBE DORMS

[Around Aube dormitory, one might have easily missed the guy wandering around half-dead during the lead up to midterms. Tadashi made himself scarce to study and work on his projects. Now though? With it over? He's easily found in the common area with a book over his face asleep or ..still wandering around half-dead in a daze. Hey, guy's got a lot going on to study for. Make sure he doesn't take the last of the communal coffee. He may apologize if he bumps into you without looking.

If the music or talking is too loud next door to Room 404, he may come ask whoever it is to quiet down.]

CAFE DE LA LUNE

[The cafe is nice, well tended, and perfect for a grad student trying to focus. He's got his corner table, his laptop and notebooks, and half-empty mug of room temperature coffee forgotten while he works. Occasionally he'll stand and stretches his legs, take a little walk around the room before sitting back down and ordering a refill. Every now and then there's a frustrated grumbling from his corner, likely a script not working right, before he buckles down and gets back to it.]

QUAD

[You know what every STEM student needs? Some time outside. And Tadashi does like it. Out on the quad, sure he has his bag with all his work. But he's also got his water bottle and a soft rubber ball. Okay, sue him, he's tossing it between the ground and the side of the building and catching it. He's pretty focused on it for the time being. On a different day, he's sitting in the grass, book in hand reading. Does the guy ever stop?]

[ooc; if you'd like something specific, please hit me up at ratatosk]

Comments

[tadeadshi]

No, it--

[Wow he's remembering Hiro fondly right now with his million excited questions. God he wishes he didn't get homesick.]

Don't worry about it. I live here now, I get to rebuild my thesis from scratch, it's great.

[It's not.]

[made_up_names]

[ There's a reason why Peter and Hiro hit it off at that nerd conference. It has nothing to do with the same player having RPed both and having a similar teenaged nerd voice. ]

What are you rebuilding it with? Sadness?

[tadeadshi]

Funny guy. You would write a sitcom.

[Look, Peter, he's tired, he's been up 36 hours straight.]

Mostly what I remember of my notes, and a little homesickness.

[made_up_names]

[ Oh. Okay, sorry. He winces a bit, guilty. ]

... Yeah, okay, I get that. I'm pretty homesick too.

[tadeadshi]

Yeah, I figured you would be.

...Still need help sending letters home?

[made_up_names]

[ Oof. That's actually a weird topic now, isn't it. ]

I mean, I text my aunt every day now. She finally figured out how to take selfies properly so I guess that means she's joined the internet age.

[tadeadshi]

[A little bit, but Tadashi's always dealt with 'weird' okay.]

That's great, Peter. You'll probably regret that when she figures out how to send you memes.

[made_up_names]

Speaking from experience with Cass, huh?

[tadeadshi]

You have no idea.

It was Hiro's fault.

[made_up_names]

[ Pffft, he cracks up. Also wonders if he could text Hiro safely? Tadashi doesn't seem to know Pete's dead, so maybe his brother doesn't either... ]

'course it was. That's because he's the smart one out of the two of you.

[tadeadshi]

And yet he couldn't foresee the outcome of that. It was nonstop, Peter. During movies, during classes and exams, all the time.

[He loves Cass dearly, he really does. But she gets enthusiastic about things, especially when they pertain to the brothers.]

[made_up_names]

Oh man. Please tell me she made you fail at least one test or something.

[tadeadshi]

No, because I keep my phone on silent during important situations. Like exams or movies.

Definitely did ruin dinner once though.

[made_up_names]

You can't say that and not tell me the story.

[tadeadshi]

Me and the gang were out celebrating finals, phone would not stop going off. We didn't even get to order, Fred grabbed my phone to see what was so important.

Long story short, we were asked to leave for causing a disturbance.

[made_up_names]

Well that sounds more like it was Fred's fault. Which I believe.

Still hilarious though.

[tadeadshi]

The moral of the story here is be careful and make sure she doesn't learn how to send memes.

[made_up_names]

I could probably program something if I really had to. A meme-blocker app.

[tadeadshi]

As one well spoken man once said, life. Finds a way.

[made_up_names]

Look, I'm just writing an anti-meme app. Not making dinosaurs.

[tadeadshi]

Aunts find a way, is all I'm saying. If she's determined enough.

[He doesn't doubt Aunt May could guilt him to turning it off.]

[made_up_names]

[ She totally could. ]

Whatever, it'll be fine.

... Can I tell her you're here or will that make things weird?

[tadeadshi]

[Oh... Oh that pains him, the thought of someone out there knowing he's alive. God, he wishes.]

It may cause more trouble than it's worth.

[made_up_names]

Okay, so tell me why? Also is it weird that I know now? I mean obviously you can't keep it a secret from me now.

[tadeadshi]

If you're here, then no it's not weird.

Just... [He rubs the back of his neck. God, he's not gotten to talk about this with anyone in the few years he's been here. It might be good to get it out to someone uninvolved?]

That night at the expo? When we met? There was a fire later that night.