••• @attabxy / / VIN & ??? / / from this starter call based on this AU !
plot chosen: you’re the quiet kid in class but you have a semi-nude on your tinder profile and now i’m trying to get that side of you out when i see you in person.
there’s a very specific reason why vin’s vehemently avoided any sort of dating app while he’s been enrolled in university. even as an undergraduate, the possibility of running across familiar faces you’d seen on an app with bios along the lines of ‘call me baby and i’ll call you daddy’ was entirely too high for him to be even mildly comfortable with. so he’d stuck to himself, choosing to be blissfully ignorant of his colleague’s choice words when it came to finding their next fuck or romance.
but four a.m had hit with a wave of boredom, and he found himself downloading the app and mindlessly swiping left and right. he was right in his assumptions about certain bios, and made sure to dutifully ignore ones that looked familiar, but one particular face struck him as odd, and he knew that this person was in one of his chemistry courses, and in fact, sat next to him in lab. after tapping through photos, the last one in particular stood out as a semi-nude ( or, as the kids called it, a ‘thirst trap’ ). it was artfully and tastefully done, if he was being honest. it intrigued him, because as far as he knew, this particular student was along vin’s lines in that they were the laconic and mysterious in a way most of the rather garrulous student body was not.
nine a.m found him sitting in lab awaiting the person’s arrival, because curiosity had genuinely gotten the better of vin, and he didn’t quite know what would happen. tapping away on his phone with occasional glances up, he finally noticed when the other walked in, coy smile painted on his features. “mornin’,” he greets easily when they sit down, noting that they had a couple minutes before class started. “you finish the lab report from last class? i could use some help with a couple of formulas if you didn’t mind.”