I too am procrastinating!! I'd really like to see Dex and Nursey sharing Lardo's room, Dex becoming more comfortable with himself and Nursey, and realizing that the team has his back
hooray for procrastination! okay room sharing, lets bullet point this shit (also i kind of stuck to the prompt but the main focus is on room sharing and being comfortable with each other and less on everyone having each others’ backs, sorry it kind of ran away from me)
to start, dex gets the top bunk and nursey gets the bottom obvs bc honestly can you imagine nursey successfully climbing up to the top without falling off the ladder at least once a week?
music is a big point of contention for the first month
dex blasts dad rock whenever he’s coding and nursey listens to his indie shit so loudly that even when he’s using headphones dex can hear it from the top bunk
they reach a weird understanding one day when nursey puts a playlist on shuffle and they end up both singing along to the middle by jimmy eat world and they discover they both are still in went through a punk rock/pop phase (yes i have been reading @heyfightme‘s punk au)
from there on they reach a pretty easy agreement that when they’re both in the room and neither are studying, it’s tb punk from the 2005 era or anything they’ve recently discovered
(for the sake of avoiding arguments)
(also because both love watching the other get lost in the music as they scream the lyrics)
(please take a moment to imagine two 6′2″ hockey players yell the words to i don’t wanna be an asshole anymore by the menzingers to each other as they jump up and down in the middle of their bedroom at 4pm)
it takes a while to get a bathroom routine down bc nursey has A Lot of skincare products and he likes to bathe william, not all of us are neanderthals that enjoy feeling crusty
the rest is under the cut bc i got carried away
eventually they come to the agreement that as dex is usually the first one up he showers first, then chowder, then nursey
if it’s early morning practice you can often find all the frogs piled into the bathroom at once - nursey trying to shave while dex elbows him brushing his teeth, chowder squatting in front of them trying to wash his exfoliator off before dex needs to spit
nursey also has a large collection of lush bath bombs that he stores in one of those chrome metal baskets because ~aesthetic~
he tries to get dex to use them but baths aren’t really dex’s speed so nursey buys him a bunch of those shower jellies for dex’s birthday
dex begrudgingly accepts them and says he’ll probably never use them
(they’ve run out by christmas and nursey starts adding them to his monthly lush haul)
nursey insists on fairy lights
everywhere
surprisingly dex doesn’t fight him on it
this is because dex wants to put glowing star stickers on the ceiling above his bunk and he figures the best way to avoid nursey chirping him is to indulge him in something else
it kind of works - nursey is so distracted by how adorable he finds the idea of dex loving glow in the dark stickers that he forgets to tease him (poor dude)
after christmas nursey returns with a huge stack of books he got from his moms and when he puts them on the already crowded shelf it breaks, like immediately
this leads to a trip to ikea, bookshelf building, and maybe the most ridiculous argument they’ve ever had
“it’s upside down dex”
“it’s not, you’re looking at it wrong”
“no look the instructions say it should slide in here”
“well derek i don’t know what instructions you’re reading but it clearly goes here”
eventually they have to give up before someone throws a punch and they get bitty and jack to finish it for them
the first time one of them gets injured while they’re living together is during a game against yale
dex gets crushed against the boards by an actual giant and fucks up his knee
while it’s not broken or dislocated he can’t really put pressure on it for a couple of weeks which means he can’t reach the top bunk
which means sleeping in nursey’s bed
the first week is alright, tho the pillows smell like nursey and dex honestly can barely handle it
but then there’s a party and nursey comes back kinda tipsy and goes through the motions of getting ready for bed, forgetting that they’ve switched bunks for the time being and gets into the bottom bunk where dex is already asleep
losers don’t even realise whats happened until they wake in the morning cuddled round each other
it’s awkward but it also happens again a couple of times before dex’s knee is better
for nursey’s bday/valentine’s day dex covers nursey’s entire bed in pink glitter while nursey’s in class
nursey gets back and flops down on his bed completely oblivious
he becomes immediately less oblivious when a huge shower of pink sparkles fly up and coat him in glitter
dex observes all of this from the desk chair, snorting as his laptop, set up to record, films the whole thing
what he doesn’t predict is nursey tackling him onto the floor and rubbing glitter all of his face and in his hair
he also doesn’t predict nursey pausing and looking down at him from where he’s lying on top of dex, pink glitter in his curls and spread across his cheek bones, and dex’s heart basically stopping
he definitely doesn’t predict nursey leaning down and kissing him like he’s the most precious thing in the world
(when they eventually emerge from their room no one says anything but everyone is clearly aware of the smudges of glitter around their lips and the way they keep finding excuses to hold hands and grin sheepishly at each other)
(they also forget that their entire ‘get together’ was recorded, chowder finds this about a month later when he borrows dex’s laptop)
(chowder screams)
(the video’s not exactly completely PG)
they end up starting a huge wall of polaroids after nursey gets a polaroid camera from chowder and farmer for his birthday
they don’t even mean to do it but nursey pins up a few from his bday kegster and then dex steals the camera to take a few candids of nursey sleeping and adds them to the wall and by senior year the display has spread the entire back wall
photos include:
nursey and chowder at team breakfast, flicking bits of scrambled egg at each other
dex as he makes his first pie solo while bitty watches him smiling in the background
ransom holster and lardo saluting the haus before they get in the car to leave after visiting during spring break
the whole team squashed into jack’s living room while jack’s in boston playing the bruins - a photo of the the smh sending jack photos of them watching him play on tv
nursey and holster in an intense sing off in the living room
dex and nursey snuggled up on the armchair in the living room, completely oblivious of the camera
nursey, dex, chowder and farmer at the pond sunbathing, nursey and chowder wearing ridiculously oversized sunglasses and dex and farmer watching them pretending to look exasperated
at the end of senior year they’ve decided to move to nyc together but they can’t help but feel sad about leaving
as a graduation present nursey reveals that he kept the coin from the re-dib-flip and cut it in half, making two necklaces so they can each have one
nursey doesn’t even get to finish explaining before dex is sobbing into nursey’s shoulder
Hi Awe! I'm in and out of the Voltron Fandom news but what happened?? If you don't want to say that's fine!! Thanks b :*
Oh! That’s ok.
This really gross blog popped up out of nowhere and started putting really bad stuff in the tags of various fandoms and my friend found one they did for Voltron.
If you haven’t seen anything like that then you should be fine, I just hope people don’t accidentally see it :P I know people are reporting that blog as we speak so it should be gone soon!!
Thanks for asking and checking in! Hope you’re having a good day/night <3<3
