shane/carol/rick + college roommates au and/or sharol + sophia lives au
Shane/Carol/Rick College Roommates AU(ok established relationship is cool ok) (also modern lmao)
They move in together in Carol's senioryear and Rick and Shane's junior year frankly because they're tiredof the looks and the questions when people see the three of themcoming out of Carol's single room. It's a two bedroom apartment, butthey use the other bedroom strictly for homework and studying. Theirbedroom has nothing but their bed, their dressers, and a tv mountedon the wall (Shane insists, Shane installs)
Carol's going to medical school thenext year (she was going to a four year state college until she couldafford medical school) and is constantly watching medical shows. Fromthe drama shows to the reality ones, she doesn't care. She'sconstantly watching them. Neither Rick or Shane can handle them sothey hide out whenever she's watching them.
Both Shane and Rick are useless whenit comes to cooking, so it normally falls on Carol to make sure theyeat actual food. She spends Sundays cooking so that they're noteating take out during the week and it's easy to just reheat food onthe stove or the microwave. When I say useless, I truly mean thatthey are useless when it comes to cooking. I mean, they can't evenmake ramen. How do you fuck up ramen, you ask? Shane doesn't knoweither, all he knows is he did something wrong.
Shanewould not let anyone realize it, but he's a total nerd. He reallyenjoys studying (even if he doesn't like doing homework) and likeswriting papers. He actually makes money helping people write theirpapers (it used to be that he would write them for them but Carolputs a stop to that). If you can't find Shane in the living room withRick or Carol or in the gym, chances are you can find him in theiroffice studying.
CarolLOVES watching Rick and Shane together. They have such an ease aroundeach other that Carol is incredibly envious of. When they're sittingon the couch, at least one of them has the arm wrapped around theother or they're holding hands. She doesn't even think they realizethat they're doing it. Sometimes she has to actively push them apartso she can get in the middle of them and get her cuddles on. (Notthat they mind, when they realize what she wants)
Theysleep in specific positions, Shane on his stomach half on top ofCarol's back, Carol on her stomach, and Rick on his side. Shane'salways the first one awake, so there's that. He has a lot of troublesleeping if he's not on top of Carol, his head between her shoulderblades. It takes Carol a while to get used to it, but then she can'tsleep without it.
Shanesings a lot. Mostlyballads from 80's rock bands or country music, but he sings a lot. Inthe shower, when he's studying, when he's cleaning, when he's workingout even. Shane is always singing. He doesn't realize that Rick andCarol can hear him – but they do.
Shaneand Rick have very contrasting hands. Rick's are rough to the touchbut Shane's are insanely soft. She loves the contrasting feeling whenthey're touching her, it's almost as addicting as their kisses –which are also contrasting. Rick is soft, Shane is more passionatewhen he kisses.
Beforethey're a couple, they're all friends. They never go to bed angry,they don't hide anything from each other, they're not afraid to leteach other know when the others are acting like complete jackasses.They don't hold anything against each other when they're angry. Whenthe fight is over, the fight is over.
WhenCarol graduates from college, Shane and Rick are the only ones whoattend her graduation and they go out of their way to throw her asurprise graduation party just the three of them. Well, they try.It doesn't work out very well when Shane burns the food and they setoff the smoke detector.
Shane/Carol+ Sophia Lives AU
Sophiahas nightmare after nightmare about being out in the woods, and sheconstantly wakes up screaming on the road because of them. It'sfrustrating and, yes, annoying but she's a little girl so no one canreally get mad at her. Carol stays up throughout the night to makesure someone is there for Sophia when she wakes up. Shane alsohappens to be awake, most of the time it's because he's on watch. Hesits with Carol and tells her that he's never been happier than to bewrong than when they found Sophia.
It'simportant to Shane that, if anything ever happens to Sophia again,that she knows how to defend herself. With Carol's permission, Shaneteaches her how to use weapons, giving her one on one lessons. Heteaches her about knives and guns – he also teaches Carol duringthat time. Sophia takes to it immediately, but it takes Carol a fewtimes to learn it. Shane's patient with the both of them.
Ifthere's ever extra helpings, Carol always gives to Sophia and Carlfirst, but then she ends up giving some of the extras to Shane (whoscrapes it off onto her plate when she's not looking).
Sooften Carol and Shane sit together while Sophia sleeps that Sophiaand Carol set up their bed near where Shane's going to be, just sothey're closer to each other. During one of their talks, Carolquietly says thank you and Shane just stares at her. When he askswhat for, she tells him thank you for what you did to Ed. If ithadn't been for that, Ed would still be alive, Ed would still betormenting her and Sophia. Shane grunts and shakes his head, beforetelling her he would have knocked him out and left him for thewalkers or made him stay at the CDC.
Shanetakes Carol with him on a run (much like he did with Andrea) and theyunknowingly set off a trap of walkers left by someone. It's a smallgroup of them but it's still a bit overwhelming. Even though she'sable to handle herself, Carol ends up getting knocked over by twowalkers and almost gets bit. When Shane's finally able to get to herand kills both walkers on top of her, he checks every inch of her hecan get to make sure she hasn't been bitten or scratched when they'rein a safe spot he can do so. They almost have a first kiss but Carolturns away from him before their lips touch.
Theirfirst kiss isn't until a few nights later when Shane goes toapologize for the almost kiss. He's in the middle of his apology whenshe presses her lips against his.
Sophiasees them kiss around the third or fourth time they do it and shegets really shy around Shane because she doesn't know what this meansfor her and her mom. Is Shane suddenly her new dad? Is that howthings work now? She doesn't know, but when she sees how happy hermom is when she pulls away from Shane one of the times they kiss inprivate. She's never seen her mom that happy, not even when thingswere good between her parents.
sendme a ship (kastle; kastledevil; karen/foggy; sharol; shane/carol/rick) + au and i'll give you 5+ headcanons for it