(Boyf riends) First Meet/College AU
I have been writing up this au for a while and decided to finally share a few bits, please let me know if you’d like to hear more!! ♡
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- Jeremy and Michael have never met before and are attending the same university for their freshman year.
- Michael had come to terms with his queer sexuality during high school, but Jeremy hasn’t thought too hard about it, always considering himself mostly straight with the occasional fictional male crush.
- Jeremy didn’t deal with the SQUIP situation in high school, but he definitely had a massive falling out drama with all the popular theatre kids. Christine has been a constant best friend for him through it all. He’s had his ups and downs, but came out of the drama more comfortable with himself and the world around him. He doesn’t know anyone at this university but is excited to maybe make some new friends.
- Jeremy gets invited to a house party by his roommate who is friendly, so friendly, wants everyone to join in and shotgun a beer together, like a Rich energy. Omg. Rich is Jeremy’s roommate. 😭💛
- They go to this party and there’s probably 12-13 people there, one of which includes Michael who got dragged along by his roommate— WAIT what if Rich is Michael’s roommate instead and Jake is Jeremy’s?
- After some serious contemplation, Rich is Michael’s roommate and Jake is Jeremy’s. Jeremy doesn’t need much convincing to go to a party, so Jake energy is enough. Michael needs the convincing. All the convincing. He needs Rich for these additional friendships to thrive lmao.
- Jake ends up introducing all of them while hanging in the kitchen with Rich. Michael thinks Jeremy is cute but Jeremy at first isn’t quite sure what he feels for Michael. He just knows he’s super cool and finds himself strangely thinking about him even after they part.
- Maybe the week after the party while in class or something Michael’s face or laugh pops up in Jeremy’s head, and he just thinks man I’d wanna be near that dude again and maybe be actual friends. Casually mentions to Jake that he had fun and they should do a smaller, more casual get together. It’s really sweet, they all get takeout/fast food and watch some fucked up underfunded film. Michael and Jeremy sit side by side, and while Jer is engrossed, Michael finds himself sneaking glances throughout the movie to catch Jeremy’s expressive reaction.
- Rich, Jake, Jeremy and Michael stop by a 7/11 for gas and snacks one night. On the way out, Michael holds the door open for Jeremy who lagged behind the group while trying to open a blind box he just bought. Michael asks him what figure he got and revels in Jeremy’s excitement when he shows him a tiny frog with a bicycle helmet on.
- { Prior to their little moment, an attentive Michael waves Rich on ahead, simply saying “Jeremy’s still in line.” as his reason for staying behind. Rich watches from the gas pump he parked next to as Michael leans against a faded poster covered glass window and waits for Jeremy. He watches him proceed to hold the door open for a completely oblivious Jeremy, far too absorbed in the secrets he’s about to unfold with his blind box. Rich thinks hm. Hm. interesting. }
- Jeremy gushes about his prize later at the table of the Waffle House: “I got a skater frog!”
Rich squints, skeptical. “Where’s his skateboard?”
Jeremy looks around the table for a worthy substitution, going for a spoon from the silverware pile and perching the figure on top. “Currently M.I.A. but he’s got a helmet on so I assume some skating is happening.”
Rich laughs as Jeremy scoots the little amphibian across the table atop his silly new ship. “Skaters don’t wear helmets bro, he’s probably a cyclist or something.”
Jeremy protests, making the frog do a sick spoon flip. “Nah you don’t get it, he’s just a skater that cares about his life!”
Rich supports his cheek with his fist and sips his milkshake, watching Jeremy scoot the little dude across the table. “Laaaame!”
… Michael falls a little.
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I’ve been thinking about my au a lot lately with stranger!Jon where he’s also sometimes a cat (a Jat, if you will). He carries around a taxidermied cat (which was him due to leitner reasons but it’s okay bc he got skinned <3) and can turn into it via Stranger nonsense. He becomes a Stranger avatar instead of an Eye avatar after the Unknowing because of this :)!
[image id: multiple drawings of Jon, Michael, and Nikola from the magnus archives, as well as an oc, Leo, all done in crayon. Jon has shoulder length dark brown hair, brown skin, and one scarlet eye and one green eye. He is wearing a yellow sweater and an indigo skirt. With him is a black and brown taxidermied cat, which is sometimes a real cat that is Jon. In later drawings, it has half of its face and two legs with blue, purple and pink fabric, and the tail is now a string with a bell on the end. Michael is an abstract scribble, with curly-cu yellow hair, one blue spiral eye and one scarlet X eye, long pointy fingers, and scribbled arms and legs. None of his limbs match right. Nikola is a mannequin dressed up in a red, gold and black ringmaster outfit. Leo has hair dyed pink, yellow, blue and purple, green eyes, and white skin. He’s wearing a red plaid shirt over a plain pale blue shirt.
At the bottom left is Jon as the cat standing and looking grumpily at something. Another shows him flipped over on his back, statements scattered everywhere, being gripped by Martin, who is saying, “who knocked over my files? YOU.” In the middle of a page is Jon as the cat distorted and skrungled. To the side is another drawing of Jon as a human, looking very tired. Standing on his shoulders is the taxidermied cat. Below him is written “get this man a nap”. To the side of this is an unobstructed drawing of the cat to show all of its patterns. At the top, Nikola, Michael and Jon are all playing uno, sitting criss cross applesauce on the floor. Michael is placing a card down on the pile, grinning widely. In Jon’s lap is the taxidermied cat. To the side of this is a bigger drawing of Michael, grinning and waving at the viewer. Written off to the side of him is “FREAK” with an arrow pointing to Michael. Finally is a drawing of Leo, gesturing wildly at a red string and cork board. End id]
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I'm so battered and bruised by writer's block atm. Requests are okay, cos someone else does the plot work lmao. But istg I have so many drafts, like...
Neighbour William
Pt.2 to the Henry creeping on Will and reader
Serial Killer pt3
Meeting Michael's parents
And these are just the ones with some progress done 😭😭😭
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i've finished half the lady man, including all the petit point which was, irritatingly, mostly the same color as the ground fabric. also i just realized that i did it wrong & petit point is supposed to be half a stitch on the quarter, not full cross stitches done in a quarter of the space. no wonder it was so hard & annoying. oh well.
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