#im using this au as an excuse to look up queer history and you best believe that im using as much info as i can in this

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hi, rocker tango gal again, I have so many ideas but admittedly I don't watch alot of hermits/3rd lifers but the ones I do watch rotate in my brain like a microwave

I'm from the UK so I might get some things wrong

I love thinking about how weird groups of friends come to be yanno

the redstoners were all in the same club (robotics, technology, engineering, etc) so they make sense and the builders were in either art or theater

one year for the school play they needed something mechanical so roped in the tech club and set designers to work together and they just clicked and the chaos monster was born

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i think the majority of them are, like you said, in either art or engineering (and in their respective clubs from that like robotics), and the only ones actually *in* theater are ren and martyn. (and mythical sausage. ive only watched like three of his videos but he was definitely in theater.)

a lot of them already knew each other from their other classes -- tango is in both art and robotics, along with bdubs and impulse, and mumbo is in grian's english class, and grian is in scar's history class, and so on and so forth. But it was through a play that the majority of them started actually hanging out. And afterwards, all of them just hung out in the theater room during lunch because they were all closeted. you know how this thing works.