#calculester x reader

[nikos-oneshots]

hello HELLO guess who's back and is into monster prom now.

could i have some headcanons for calculester with a friend who struggles in school?

:D - 🪐

Calculester & Reader who Struggles in School.

Warnings: No beta we die like everybody in the z'gord ending ✌️ Word Count: 0.6k Pronouns: None Notes: I COMPLETELY FORGOT THIS SAID HEADCANONS UNTIL I WENT BACK TO POST THIS!! D: I'M SORRY ANON!! If you want me to remake this, then I will! Note 2: ALSO IM SO GLAD YOUR INTO MONSTER PROM ANON!! I love monster prom so much so i'm always happy to do requests for it!! I hope you enjoy!

Calculester Hewlett-Packard does really well in school. He has the internet as his brain, everything known by man at his fingertips. I wouldn’t assume he talks about school much because he knows he has a huge advantage over everybody else and doesn’t want to upset people by telling them that he has straight A’s in most of his classes. This rule especially applies to you, Cal knows that you don’t do the best in school. Whether you are a person who tries super hard and still doesn’t make it that far or decides to skip class multiple times a week, I would imagine Calculester would be clueless about your struggles.

I would think that he would only notice after midterms.

Everybody is sharing their scores. Liam is subtly bragging about how he got the highest in the school, Polly is super excited to show everybody that she got a 69 and Scott is relieved that he just did good enough to stay on the football team. You on the other hand, aren’t really happy about your score, you did your best, or maybe you didn’t, point is, you got a 20. Cal comes up to you asking about your score, you were hesitant to show him, but after he showed you his score of 89, you showed him your score.

“Oh, dear Friend Y/N. Not to alarm you, but that has been the lowest score I have seen yet. I apologize for your test failure.”

You look down in shame, you thought at least somebody would have done worse.

“I notice your struggles now Friend Y/N. If you are open to the idea, I could teach you what I know, like tutoring. Your problem may be that the strategies the professors here use aren’t effective for you to learn from. What do you say?”

You decide to take him up on his offer and once you begin your first session at the library. Calculester proves himself to be a great teacher, he knows how to tailor the way he teaches to match your learning style. You get through worksheets faster and actually begin learning the material. Along with potentially turning your marks around, you also begin to connect with Calculester more than you have already before! As you get him to talk about himself during your breaks, you learn about the way he also tutors Scott and how much of a struggle it was. You learned that even though he is a sentient computer, he still has so much he still needs to learn about interacting with others. You also learn a couple new plant facts!

When your next big test came up for your science class a couple months later, you went into it with a newfound confidence, an attitude completely different from your usual one. Calculester wished you luck, he was confident you would do amazingly, but deeper down, he was nervous for you. He dreaded the possibility that you come back with a terrible score again, he was scared that you would lose faith in him as a teacher and along with that, your trust; He could have sworn he was about to malfunction with how worried he was for you.

As you received your scores a week later, you instantly go to find Cal to show him your score. You try to hide the smile on your face, but you can’t as you give him your paper marked with a large 79 at the top. Relief washed over him and pulled you into a hug. He was so glad he was able to help you, both of your hard work paid off and he was glad that you had managed to achieve your goal with his help, validating his ability as a tutor. As the bell rang, you guys walked to your next class together. As you guys passed his classroom, you shouted to him as he was going to walk in.

“See you after school for our study session!”

Lots of Love -Niko

[drabblecreature]

Nervous Habit

Calculester x Reader w a bad tendency to pick at their fingers/cuticles. TW for blood mention? Reader is Gn! Pure fluff tbh, just a short drabble :]

You can’t help but pick at your hands; listening to lectures, reading, trying to solve a hard problem, tests- you were always mindlessly picking or biting at your cuticles.

Cal’s worried about you, as you’re technically causing harm to yourself and engaging in auto-cannibalism.

You try to assure him that it’s not that bad and that a lot of people monsters pick at their hands, that it’s because of your (adhd/ocd/anxiety/etc).

He’s convinced for a short bit, until one day in class he looks over and realizes you’ve completely bloodied your hands picking at them. Like. Dripping on the desk bloody.

You didn’t realize what was happening as he pulls you out of class and practically dragged you to the nurse, until of course, you looked down and saw your bloody hands. Once you were in the nurse’s office and sat on a cot, Cal began attaching bandaids to your fingers with a [:( ] displayed on his screen.

“Cal, it’s okay really- I just spaced out, I won’t die from a little bit of bleeding from my hands.”

“Your hands have [17,000] Seventeen Thousand nerve endings in just the palm. Bleeding from the hands can cause serious damage-“ [:,O ]

He gently sticks another brightly colored bandaid around one of your fingers.

“-And there’s a 2.9% chance that you contract an illness or infection from your exposed finger injuries. I would like for you to care more for your health.” [:/ ]

You sigh. There’s no use in arguing with him. He is technically right, you are causing harm to yourself, even if it’s unintentional.

“Maybe you can just hold my hands so I don’t pick at them?” (So Charming!)

His monitor changes to a [ :O ?] expression;

“It isn’t possible for me to always hold your hand, I would have to be by your side at all times.”

“I think I’d like that…” You mumble, your face growing warm.

His hands freeze around yours as his screen goes red, bright ERROR message displayed on the poor bot’s face, fans whirring.

“ERROR: FEELINGS OF ROMANCE TOO STRONG.”

Laughing, you take his metal hands in your bandaged ones and quickly lead him to the freezer to cool down. Despite your suggestion being a flirtatious joke, he seemed to hold your hands far more after that. And you truly didn’t mind.

[mons1erprom]

Calculester and Liam (individually) spot s/o eating flower petals. What do they do.

Calculester would likely mourn for the flowers for a while, until learning that herbivorism is a way of life, and a necessary one for some creatures. He likely would’ve been a meatitarian if you hadn’t used this as a teaching moment.

Liam, on the other hand with photograph you, because, eating flowers? How unheard of! Also because you look cute doing so.

~ Magic Mod

[aes-anime-asks]

I freaking grabbed my chest and went AAAAAA When i saw the calculester reading, i loved how sweet it was! Any headcannons for calculester and his lovely partner? 💜

（✿ ͡◕ ᴗ◕)つ━━✫・*。

After school you play text adventure games together, especially Colossal Cave Adventure. Sometimes you get wild and play Oregon Trail.

You watch VHS tapes together of the old Eyewitness educational TV shows. Les likes to learn about the “natural” world, and you like to reminisce.

The two of you have a love-hate relationship with true crime shows. Calculester loves trying to figure out what happened, but then inevitably gets upset and emotionally distraught by the awful things people do to each other.

In the summer you like to go urban exploring and “talk” to the abandoned technology-- ie. arcade games in abandoned amusement parks. He’s worried if you don’t go check up on them that they’ll get lonely.

One of your favorite date activities is people watching. You love to hang out in crowded places and imagine backstories for the people walking by. Calculester already knows all the information about most everything in the world, so it’s more fun for him to make up stories than to find out new things.

The place that you cuddle the most and have deep conversations is always in your car, right around twilight as the sky is turning purple. There’s something about the small space and the familiarity of it that makes it surprisingly intimate.

You know Les is in his feels when you hear his computer fan whirring into overdrive. He knows you can hear it and he gets embarrassed. It’s super cute. =)

He’s obsessed with feeling your pulse. It both fascinates and scares him that this pumping of blood is the only thing keeping you alive. Your human fragility freaks him out.

He’s the best listener. He knows he has all the time in the world, but that you aren’t going to live forever. He figures he wants to

[gears-twisting-and-turning]

I saw that you’re doing monster prom, so!! May’st I request Calculester x a non-binary dryad reader? Your works are really epic!

(So I looked up what a dryad was and just, this is so cute what the fuck-)

Alright so Cal would be very interested the second you like are new in the school

Polly doesn’t fucking shut up the second she sees Cal looking alright?

SO many fucking innuendos about a plant and a robot so to speak

Cal doesn’t have any clue what she is talking about like always

Anyways she practically makes sure she pushes him towards you

And from there things were history

So Cal really likes taking care of plants with you

Yall are way too cute for this horny fucking school

It’s like a movie ‘The wholesome between horny’

Anyways most of your spending time with Cal it’s mostly explaining a lot of emotions and things he doesn’t understand

And in return he gives a lot of computer knowledge

It’s actually pretty handy cause you’re acing all of your classes now

Which is kind of a miracle seeing you don’t really go to class a lot

Anyways yall are so fucking cute, especially while cuddling cause Cal doesn’t know a lot about that stuff

So just imagine seeing his world just expanded while you’re almost asleep in his arms

Good healthy relationship here it’s great

[aes-anime-asks]

Calculester x robot!reader who hates the limitations of being a robot? (Like not being able to eat, can’t touch water, being the go-to source for information)

this turned out kind of sad and a little dark... Sorry it took so long. I still loved writing it!

What I listened to while writing: Hotel Pool, 09:20PM // Mallsoft, Vaporwave Mix //https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnnkDFuqvdg

(つ﹏<。)

It’s 4:30. School has been out for over an hour now. You’re sitting a couple feet from the edge of the pool, staring at its iridescent surface, rippling at you, mocking you with its dynamic beauty. You’re just so exhausted. Tired of feeling like you exist as a search engine, built only to see, but never to touch or to feel. “I think therefore I am.” That’s some bullshit. You aren’t sure if you even “are” any more. There’s points in the day where you dissociate so much that the audio of everything around you comes in at low fidelity and sounds like you are always just outside of the school at a dance. You can hear the music, but you’re always muffled away from the heat and the action by the cold cement wall. It feels like you’re an actor in a strange commercial where the food is glossy and perfect, but you’re not allowed to touch it for fear that you might ruin it (or ruin yourself) if you tried to put it in your mouth. Life at school feels like a cruel joke that someone wrote long before you were born. The walls around you sweat. You sweat. But you don’t actually sweat. You only condensate. You aren’t a human. You hear the clack of feet behind you and you see the faint glow of green on the shiny tiles of the pool floor. Valves hiss as Calculester sits beside you. You only came to consciousness a couple of months ago. How has he been fine like this for 2 years now?

“There’s a strange, liminal beauty in being just outside of things, you know?” he says. I try to make a positive expression, but it must not be very convincing, because all Calculester does is keep frowning and put his arm around me. “Please don’t jump into the water,” he says formally. This abrupt statement of the obvious thaws something deep inside me and I can feel my laughter function triggering without my permission. My body shakes and I scoot away from the pool. He scoots with me and pulls me in closer to him. “You know, deep inside all they are is just chemicals and minerals too, you know? Only difference is that their code frays and wears over time. You and I are forever. Endless numbers. We could dive into each other’s code for eternity and might never find the end. Isn’t that kind of beautiful in its own way? Just as beautiful as nerve endings touching and sending signals to a brain?” He sounds sad. A little desperate even. I worry that my sadness drains him. I worry he thinks that he’s not enough. Without saying a word out loud I touch the sensor on his monitor and drop a message to him over the waves. “Thank you.” is all it says. It’s not much for now, but I hope someday I can give him the beautiful eternity he hopes for.

[aes-anime-asks]

Could you maybe do a follow up thing for your calculester headcanons where he takes someone to his radio shack of plants?

✨🌴💾Okay, so this ended up way longer than I thought it would be. I've also been thinking a lot about abandoned malls and listening to too much vaporwave lately lol hope you enjoy. 🌴💾✨

Vaporwave soundtrack: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZUfiW3W1KY

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“Couldn’t sell it. Couldn’t demolish it. No one could afford to anything back in 2009 except for let it sit. All alone. Sometimes when I’m in sleep mode, I’ll think about what it must have been like for the very last store in the mall. Watching the neighboring stores blink out of existence. Watching the fountains get turned off. Watching the flowers die.”

“God. That’s depressing, Les.”

“I did not mean to depress you. Everything dies. It’s natural. For organic things anyway.” Calculester shrugs, and you swear you can see a wistful look on his pixeled face. You weren’t sure what you were expecting when Calculester said he wanted you to come over, but the enormous, abandoned mall at the edge of town wasn’t high on this list of possibilities. You didn’t expect to feel anything when you saw it, but suddenly you’re brought back to when you were 8 and your mom took you and your best friend for your birthday. You still remember the sticky tables and infinite possibilities as you looked up from the food court at the people streaming by on the floor above.

Now the parking lot is cracked, and weeds grow up out of the planters by the gold trimmed doors. Les glances up at the camera, and you hear a clack as he remotely disarms the security system. You suppose it makes sense that it’s locked, after all, it is his—house?

“Sorry. I could have taken this whole sensor down, but I’m afraid if I do, someone will come in and ruin it. Hurt my plants maybe. I’m not worth much in a fight.” He chuckles. He sounds so cute when he’s nervous.

Your steps echo in the cavernous lobby. This is it. The food court. You jog over to the Cinnabon and leap over the countertop. You put on your best customer service voice. “Good evening sir! Will it be the churro, or the sticky pecan roll today?” Les laughs at you and reaches into his pocket.

“No way. You didn’t.” He’s holding a tube of dough. Cinnamon roll dough.

“I did.” You can practically see his digital green blush. “You see. The machine still works.” Sure, enough the red light clicks on, and you can feel heat, hear it’s electric buzz as he puts the rolls on a sheet pan. “I recall you mentioning “cinnamon rolls” exactly three times since we started dating. It just felt right.”

You and Calculester sit in the food court under the dim security lights. You set a roll in front of him too. Even though he doesn’t eat, it makes him feel included.

“Tell me what it tastes like?”

Guiltily, you reply “Hmm…well it tastes damn good…”

“No. Error. Insufficient explanation.”

He’s teasing you.

“Okay…. Well, it’s soft, and sweet, but with just the littlest kick of spice.” You gently kick him under the table. “Right, you don’t know what sweet is. It tastes like… how being with you feels.” Now he’s blushing. You reach over and grab his hand.

“I.. I… I…” His system is overloaded. You’ve been dating two months, but he’s still not used to being complimented by you. He shakes his head as if to clear his brain and leads you down the corridor. You walk up a frozen escalator, then another, until you’re on the third floor. The ceiling above is triangular with windowed skylights letting in dusty shafts of sunlight. It seems like you must have walked to the very end of the mall before you see it. Radio Shack.

The interior is uncannily familiar, but something is off. It’s the light. Where is the light coming from? As you head further back you realize that nearly all the drywall has been painstakingly removed and the entire back wall has been replaced with a mismatched, stained glass patchwork of junkyard glass. Faded yellow and pink shadows fall onto plants of every kind lining the shelves, leaning toward the light.

“Les. How long did –that—take you??” You ask in awe, gaping at the strange greenhouse.

“About four years.” He says, a touch of pride in his voice. That’s his entire life. “I…I felt very lost after I came to consciousness. Especially after school. When all of you went to your homes, I had… no place to go.” He sighs, almost imperceptibly. “So, I walked. I kept walking. Until I found this place. It was so dark when I found it. Dusty. All these radios, and phones, and computers… just sitting here. Waiting for people who would never talk to them. It was too much. So, I started tearing down the wall, a little bit every day. If they can’t have a purpose anymore, I at least wanted to make them beautiful. Give them somewhere nice to live.”

It’s then you realize that that the plants and the electronics are nearly indistinguishable from each other. Philodendrons and ivy caress the screens and buttons. Aloe and cacti rest atop printers and television sets. You swear that you hear some of the stereo sets hum as you walk by.

“Did you know that in the Shinto way of thinking, people believe that after 100 years, objects gain a soul?” Calculester says, almost absentmindedly.

I shake my head, still silenced by the strange garden.

“I think everything has a soul. Even if it’s just a little bit. Everything deserves to be cherished. So much is cast aside and replaced at every opportunity. I often think about what would have happened if the school had just replaced the library computers before… you know.”

You can’t bear it. The thought of him never existing. The fact that he is an unlikely accident. A wonderful accident. You sidle up next to him on the cot he must have lifted from the old pottery barn. It looks out the makeshift window to the empty parking lot, and beyond that to the forest. For the first time, he puts his arm around you, his metallic touch warm in the sunlight.

“ I hope someday when all of you… organic beings are gone… that life can still find a way to be beautiful for me. I’m scared. Scared of then. When you won’t be beside me.”

For now, though, the time moves slow. You lay together in the unlikely, technological jungle, musing on eternity, and wondering why this couldn’t be it.

[gears-twisting-and-turning]

May i request a male alien x calculester??? I'm gay and I need an outlet lmaoo ♡♡♡

Okay first of all, fucking mood, secondly here it is! I hope you enjoy it! Also me listening to music while writing and now thinking about Milo Belladonna with this song? M A Y B E

Yo the first thing I fucking realise is that yall neither know about like normal life

You two would go on normal monsterkind study dates

It turns into you talking about the planet you come from though

Not that he minds, he finds it very interesting

Also thanks to you being an alien I feel like in the night you practically glow in the dark

Well the lines and symbols that go over your whole body do

The first time he saw that he just went :O

You looked at him very confused until he just

“I just noticed that the symbols on your face and body started lighting up, it is said that it is very mesmerizing and ‘aesthetic’ “

You broke out a big smile and chuckled a bit at his word usage

You get used to like the whole monsterkind much faster than cal so those study dates would eventually evolve into you explaining everything in a way so cal would understand

Cause we all know many monsters try and FAIL to explain things to him in a way a sentient robot would understand

Yeah all in all this is a really cute and interesting relationship

You would climb on his shoulders and just sit there without people realising you’re there cause you blend in with camouflage if you want to

I will tell that the coven once had a fucking heart attack thanks to you

Alien and robot kisses dammit!

Okay I’m alright, that’s all I wanted to say

It’s so cute