Write about 2 of your fav characters being silly >:3
"WHAT ARE YOU DOING?"
Everyone knows that Idia Shroud and Rook Hunt know each other. Same year, same few classes. One a poet, appreciator of beauty, a master marksman, and the other a quiet, reserved shut-in who enjoyed figuring out frame rates more than he enjoyed figuring out people. As an effort to make the two grow closer before their time at NRC ended, Cater Diamond had them record a video together for an upcoming project...
a/n: Ah, first request. Thank you! This idea has actually been in my head for a while, and as ridiculous as it sounds, I've been wanting to write it... this came out really corny, though. Apologies in advance.
word count: 409
warnings: rook and idia being stupid
It had taken an hour for Rook to drag the housewarden of Ignihyde out of his room.
The third-years at Night Raven College had been given an assignment from Professor Trein. The semester was closing fast, and these days wouldn't be coming back. From graduation on, their lives would be much more demanding of them. Especially Idia's.
And Idia didn't want to leave his college career on another missed assignment. But could he have done the project with.. well, anyone else?
"I don't wanna go to Rook's... I don't wanna see his weirdo stalker pics," Idia had complained. "It's bad enough he won't shut up about Vil on a regular day, we're just enabling him."
Idia's sighs and grunts of protest had been ignored as he was dragged to Pomefiore and sat in front of Cater's camera. "It's the best bonding activity of all time- making slime, of course!" Before the words could even get out of his mouth, the sound of Idia's head hitting the table rang out, and Rook's velvety laugh followed soon after.
"You two are not leaving until you make happy memories." Whatever drove Cater to torture them this, the Sevens only knew. Too bad only one of them saw it for what it was. So, the third-years lined the ingredients up. Or, they would have, had there actually BEEN any.
For now, all that sat on Rook's desk was a silver bowl.
The sooner we make the stupid slime, the sooner I can go back to playing games, right? Idia thought to himself. An idea struck him. An idea so good, it could be considered a hack. And so, the cold, mysterious housewarden of Ignihyde stood up, used all his courage to look into the lens, and said-
"Today, we are making VIL SCHOENHEIT SLIME."
He had nothing else. The brilliant idea only went so far, it seemed. But then, Pomefiore's hunter of beauty spoke up.
"With NO activator!"
Idia's amber eyes met Rook's emerald ones, a rare moment of strength for him. Almost telepathically, Idia knew what to say next.
"And NO glitter!"
The handshake continued.
"And NO water!"
"And NO glue!"
Finally, in perfect unison-
"NOTHING!"
The harmony was broken by the sound of the bedroom door opening.
The famous actor, model, celebrity, and housewarden stepped in on a tall heel. The look in his eyes went from bewildered to perturbed to unamused in a matter of moments.
Ok, can we talk about how almost all of the third years are so against human connection?? Or at the very least don’t value it very much, leaving them all pretty isolated.
Think about it.
Cater is always keeping people at arms length, only having superficial and surface level relationships because he’s afraid that if it goes any deeper than that he will hurt himself when he thinks he will eventually need to say goodbye.
Leona avoids interacting with literally everyone, and when he does need to go to any kind of social function, he will groan and complain about it the entire time and will just insult everyone.
Rook does not like people asking about him at all and asking any personal details is really the only way you could possibly make Rook upset. He’s already been pushed away by everyone else all his life so he just won’t let himself truly connect, besides with Vil who’s the only person who accepted him fully.
Idia is the least social being in all of Twisted Wonderland, and he would stay in his room all day and never talk to people again if he could. He simply hates himself too much to truly believe anyone would want to talk to him, and even if somebody did want to talk to him, he doesn’t think a relationship like that could last because of his fate with Styx.
Malleus, despite desperately wanting social interaction, completely fumbles all attempts at it because nobody thought to teach the literal heir to the kingdom how to talk to people normally. And these failed attempts at interaction actively push people even further away so he’s stuck in this constant cycle of loneliness.
You would think that Lilia would be better, but this is the guy who tried to straight up abandon his kids and leave for another country because he couldn’t fathom the thought of anyone wanting to be around an old man like him.
Trey and Vil are the most sociable of the third years, but even then, Trey is far too passive to really push for any kind of connection if the other person is even a bit too stubborn, and Vil can sometimes be too busy or too strict in his routine to really make connections a lot.
(These are all very overly simplistic explanations of the characters and their relationship with social interaction, but still)
Compare that to the other grades. The second years aren’t the closest, but they still have some form of community. In Book 7.5, they’re all sitting at the same table together (the third year’s technically did this as well, but that was mostly due to the fact that there was literally no where else for them to sit), they have study sessions like in the anthology manga, and have their own inside jokes like calling Silver+Kalim the “Facepalm Brigade.” Then of course there’s the freshmen who need little explanation as to their built community; they consistently sit together at lunch, they train together to help master their unique magic’s, they literally plan slumber parties (I know it’s to help Yuu get home but STILL). It’s clear that the freshmen are all pretty close to each other. And then there’s the third years… they barely hang out or talk, and even when they do, it’s rather mean spirited.
And I can’t help but think it’s very fitting, especially considering what a normal high school dynamic looks like. Usually the underclassmen are the ones who haven’t exactly “got it” yet; they haven’t grasped the school’s culture and how things function. This usually presents itself with the freshmen/sophomores being more disrespectful, loud, mischievous, etc. But in NRC, a school that almost encourages a culture of disrespect and troublemaking, this dynamic of the underclass men not getting it manifests more in their connections. The freshmen are more willing to rely on other people and work together as a team, they’re more willing to make connections. The sophomores are less willing and there’s honestly a lot of distrust between all the sophomores (I mean, how could there not be when you got the Octotrio right there ready to scam you at any moment), but they will still collaborate if need be. Then of course the juniors, the upperclassmen who have reached an understanding of the school’s culture, don’t value that connection and teamwork, because it hasn’t helped that at all in the past. That’s not how this school works. You get to the top by dragging others down and relying only on yourself and your own abilities. At least, that’s probably how the juniors see it, I think it’d be really interesting to see what the current junior’s freshman year was like and how differently they behaved then. Obviously they weren’t like completely different people, and since a lot of their distrust can also stem from their trauma, there was likely at least some of that same isolation we see now. But I wonder if they were at least a little more willing to work with others. A bit more willing to connect. Until they realize that it’s not benefiting them, and is only hurting them. Then they isolate themselves, start seeing their peers a bit more negatively, and their dynamic becomes a bit more similar to what it is today.
Idk, this isn’t as well explained as I’d like it to be and way to wordy, but just a thought I had and wanted to share
