sry but i'm thinking hard about phd candidate AU solas who lives in a shitty little apartment above a bar on his stipend and studies oneirology and keeps to himself most of the time. and like, it's obvious that he's smart and he knows what he's talking about but he's also a little weird and has wild ideas and talks about dream science constantly. he's high strung, too, but some nights his friends can cajole him down to the bar on the weekends and get him to smoke out with them, and when he's a little tipsy he gets really fired up about corporate science and how it kills people and stagnates progress in the name of power and money and greed. and it's strange, they think, that he knows so much about how these very secretive companies work, but it's kind of fun to see him so riled over something he believes in. and sometimes- only sometimes, when he thinks no one's around- they see him making out with one of the TAs from another program, but she makes him happy and loosens him up, so they don't tease him about it. too much.
