megan would crash out about thinking sophia wouldn’t like her christmas gift but sophia is 100% the kind of person to hype up megan and show it off.
it’s a necklace? sophias wearing it
sophia would cook dinner for the two of them and megan would be in charge of setting the timers . (sophia feels very strongly that megan is a bad cook but loves her anyway)
sophia would hang mistletoe everywhere and clear her throat really loudly whenever megan walks under a doorway and point up and megan would be like :0 :D yay.
megan would wear a santa hat around and lowkey forget she has it on
sophia loves shopping for gifts
megan goes christmas shopping with lara or will text her like “will sophia like this???”
megan doesn’t really like sweets but she still encourages sophia to make cookies for everyone (she likes decorating them)
Popular x Socially Awkward. Oh, oh, and Challengers if you were to add Shauna into the mix... I'm thinking. I'm having thoughts.
Something I always keep in mind about Melissa is that Burgess purposely played Melissa as a "girl with no game" who somehow managed to bag Shauna. I fear she's one of the most realistic representations of teenage lesbians since Bottoms.
I'm back.
i LOVE how jackiehat works in fleshing out melissa. "girl with no game" is SUCH a funny character type and I think with the isolation of the yellowjackets and shauna's desperation in particular, we never saw melissa hat at her MOST fumbly. jackie's kind of the perfect... brick wall. like a hellish mid point of "oh she thinks my flirting is me being nice" and "oh she didn't hear a word I said" with an undercurrent of "and I'm probably annoying her" that would slowly break down the more melissa lets herself try (after MANY mental peptalks) to talk to jackie.
also: i typically interpret jackie as more self-aware than most, so I think she'd probably get a liiiiiittle kick out of playing dumb to melissa's nervy compliments
What about Jackie x Melissa or Nat x Melissa. Or all three of them together lol
jackienatlissa... stroking my chin in my rarepair throne.
jackienat within themselves are confidence masking insecurity—seeing both the ego and vulnerability in each other while simultaneously feeling too seen by it... how does dorky mcmasc fit in there????? pondering.
I think melissa is insecurity that, by how blatant it is, becomes endearing. that's a foreign concept to two people who use cliché ways of dress and the attitudes that cling to hide all of their messy parts, and I think seeing those parts personified would almost be charming—like, "oh she doesn't know what hell is yet"
as far as a relationship goes, I can only imagine a pre-existing jackienat adopting some fumbly jv into a throuple. for example:
A vampire who really, really should not be allowed near humans—her self-control is abysmal, and she goes into uncontrollable frenzies at the mere taste of human blood. To cope, she sticks to animals, sneaking around campus with bags of squirrels, raccoons, and the occasional stray pigeon.
Has the absolute worst poker face imaginable. Any time she’s questioned about her weird habits (red eyes after feeding, strange nocturnal schedule, “accidentally” hissing at the sunlight streaming into their dorm room), she panics and blurts out an excuse that makes zero sense.
Her most consistent cover story is that she’s in the "taxidermy club"—a club that, suspiciously, no one else on campus has ever heard of. She doubles down on the lie every time Natalie questions her. “Yeah, it’s really exclusive. Invitation-only. We meet in… uh… the basement of the bio building.”
Despite being a supernatural predator, she’s oddly gentle. She’s very much someone who struggles to blend in with normal college life, constantly stressed about both her secret and her GPA.
NATALIE SCATORCCIO
"I would rather disembody a corpse than do one more math assignment."
A member of the hunters’ guild, assigned to investigate the possibility of a vampire hiding out on campus. She’s balancing late-night patrols, secret guild meetings, and essay deadlines all at once, running mostly on caffeine and spite.
She’s razor-sharp when it comes to spotting supernatural threats… everywhere except directly in front of her. She has no idea her own roommate is a vampire, even though all signs point directly to Lottie.
Thinks Lottie is just “a little weird” and maybe going through some kind of indie taxidermist-goth phase. She’s too preoccupied with her mission, assuming the real vampire is someone else on campus—maybe that weirdly pale philosophy major, or the guy who always wears sunglasses indoors.
Has a sardonic sense of humor, rolling her eyes at Lottie’s quirks, but deep down she likes her roommate. The guild work is heavy, violent, and serious—so Natalie finds herself weirdly grateful for Lottie’s awkward presence.
I'll do the more prominent characters in this AU next, then they'll all get put together in one big master post with general AU info! But for now, take your lottienat crumbs!