the roommates meme

[loregasm]

who left the dishes in the sink?


This is a thinly-veiled device for gratuitous crossovers, I'm not even going to play.

What's an even more contrived and even more convenient way to get two characters into the same space than a coffeeshop AU? Making them live together. Want a more intellectual blurb on this meme? Living together lays bare your habits and idiosyncrasies, blah blah, sometimes you accidentally see each other naked.

Have fun ok

HOW TO PLAY:
- Comment with character. State your preferences/shipping permissions and any information you want other players to know.
- Comment to others. Play whatever first comes to mind, or RNG .
- This meme was written with crosscanon interactions in mind, specifically the kind that jamjar game settings generate. All the prompts work whether the characters come from different worlds or the same one, but if you have strong feelings about the kinds of source canons you will thread with, it'd be wise to mention that as a preference. Otherwise, gratuitous crossovers have the mememaker's blessing.
- Have fun and play nice!

PROMPTS:

1. First impressions. Well, it's been arranged. Whether you went for it because it was a good price, or you've been assigned to live together by an Authority, or the stars aligned somehow and now you're living in your dead rich uncle's mansion with the cousin you never met, it looks like you're going to be sharing your living space with someone for the foreseeable future. Time to shake some hands and make some friends.

2. Second impressions. You'd already met this person and gotten to know them, well before deciding to room together. Being friends with someone and living with them are different beasts, though. What are you learning about their habits at home? Does it change the way you see them?

3. Building friction. There's all kinds of little details that add up to a comfortable living space - cleanliness, noise level, expectations of privacy... If one of you isn't living up to the other's standards, is it going to start a fight or can you work it out like adults?

4. Furry friends. Where did you find that kitten? No, we're not keeping it!...okay, I guess we're keeping it. Make sure to schedule a vet appointment. And get it some toys. Wait, are pets even allowed here?

5. Social circle. Bringing friends over can always be hit or miss. Sometimes they get along great with your roommate. Sometimes they break a lamp and try to hide the evidence and if you ever invite them over again you're pretty sure you'll be flayed alive.

6. Sick day. Don't be a jerk, make them some soup or something. They'd do the same if it was you, right?

7. Snow day. The weather outside is frightful, and it's a good thing you remembered to buy bread and milk, because you might be indoors for a while. Cross your fingers that the power doesnt go out.

8. TMI. YOU DIDN'T NEED TO SEE WHATEVER IT WAS YOU JUST SAW. YOU DID NOT NEED TO KNOW THAT ABOUT THE PERSON YOU CANNOT AVOID CONTACT WITH. OH, WOE IS YOU

9. Property damage. The instructions very clearly said to secure the strap around your wrist before using the Wiimote. This is all on you, pal. Hopefully you didn't break something that was important to your roommate...or setting that'll get you in trouble with your landlord.

10. Movie night. Hey, wanna watch Sharknado with me? (Googling "random movie generator" gives you some helpful sites, if you don't have a movie in mind.)

11. Dinner is served. What do the food arrangements look like here? If meals are a group activity, does one person cook more often than the other? Who leaves what in the fridge? Do either of you have any food-based traditions that get shared? Or maybe you just want to break out the booze and have a fun night in.

12. Vent your spleen. Life is hard and sometimes you just have to complain to someone about it. "Someone" is the person you live with, naturally. They know you, but they're not involved in the drama - a perfect combination!

Comments

[whiteas]

[ It looks great to her, but she probably wouldn't touch Ren's drinks either way. She knows that you don't have to be disgusted to eat healthy. ]

Do you even know what kind of movies I like?

[aurabble]

[Poor Ren. Only not those drinks are horrible. He heads back to his room, but he shouts while he puts on pants.]

Uh...Action with a slice of romantic comedy and some fantasy and sci-fi elements and the mystery of an unsolved murder?

[whiteas]

That's far too specific, Jaune!

[ She's not even sure she wants to tell him. What kind of movie is he even talking about. While Jaune is changing she's going to go ahead and make a smoothie in the blender. It's kind of a purplish color- blueberry, strawberry, kale, yogurt, and a small bit of honey. Just enough that the kale flavor isn't tasteable but all the vitamins are still there. She stares at it for a moment, then splits it into two cups. Jaune may have one too. It contains 0 algae. ]

[aurabble]

Isn't that better than being too vague?

[He as no idea but maybe he can narrow it down. When he gets back wearing some plain black sweatpants, he leans against the counter and looks at the blender in interest.]

What're you making?

[whiteas]

I like documentaries, competition-based movies, and action-drama as long as it's accompanied by a decent plot. Just so we're clear, lots of explosions don't impress me but creative fight scenes do because they can be inspiring.

[ Once they're poured and take up about half the glass each, she brings them out to the couch and sets them on coasters on the table. Because Jaune, you are absolutely using a coaster. ]

Smoothies. They're healthy and I can give the recipe to Ren if you like them. I left out the pine nuts since I'm not sure you're ready for nuts and seeds in your smoothies.

[aurabble]

Explosions can be creative. By competition-based, do you mean sports or...? [Please say dancing he can watch dancing. Sports are boring as heck.]

...These actually look like they're made of fruit and not the memories of my first day of school. [He's impressed.] Why would you put nuts into something you're going to drink?

[whiteas]

Sports, dancing, singing, cooking, figure skating.. I just like themes of overcoming the odds to become the best at something even when someone tells you that you can't. What the vehicle for that message is is less important.

[ Her stuff is ready, but she'll wait for Jaune. She's kind of wondering about his 'toppings' though. They're going to get burnt soon. ]

Because they are made of fruit. And kale, which is really good for you, but because of the fruit, yogurt, and honey, you can't really taste it. [ Plus she's certain that if someone doesn't sneak Jaune some level of vitamins, he won't get any. ]

[aurabble]

I like stuff like that. But usually the odds are a bunch of explosions or some powerful villain.

[Weiss is so thoughtful. Did he set the timer...? He sniffs the air and yells something along the lines of goshdarnit!, running to the oven to pull them out. He looks at them mournfully.] My dinosaurs have been made extinct.

There's kale in this? Where?

[whiteas]

That's more along the lines of save-the-day sorts of things than competitions. Which aren't bad either if they're well written.

[ Yeah, she figured. ] As they're meant to be.

It's blended up so you get all the good out of it without having to taste it. No one actually likes kale unless it's been salted and roasted or you can't taste it.

[aurabble]

Oh you mean like someone wants to be the best singer and then some other singer who's already established themselves is like "no you can't why don't you go back to whatever small town you're from" and even their friends and family don't believe they can. Then the heroine...or hero says "watch me" and they beat them after a lot of struggling and tears. I like those too.

[he might cry. until he pops one in his mouth.] They're still good.

Why would people eat something they don't like? [There's the doorbell.] Pizza's here! [Jaune runs to the door, taking care of everything and comes back to open the box.] They got it right. Pineapple, bacon, ham and sausage on one side, and the other side was left plain.

[whiteas]

Yeah, or like that movie with Antolio Bandanas where he takes a bunch of street kids and teaches them how to dance, then they enter the competition and surpass the stuck-up girl with years of experience and appeal but little imagination by using creativity and innovation in their tango.

[ She makes a face that clearly says 'ew.' ],/small>

Because it's- [ Wow, okay. She'll just wait here. ] Wait, you left one side just cheese? Why? [ Stop being thoughtful Jaune, it makes her feel bad for being mean half the time. ]

[aurabble]

That was such a good movie. I think the sequel's on here.

[He sets out two plates, but he doesn't bother with his dinosaur toppings at first and offers her some of the plain pizza.] I...they were out of margherita toppings so I thought it would be okay if you could add whatever you wanted.

[whiteas]

There's a second one?

[ Okay, she wants to watch that one. :T ]

Cheese is fine. [ Okay, she'll give him a little smile and take one slice of cheese pizza, then use her fork to put some of her salad on the plate- since it's a smaller portion since there's pizza involved now, she'll offer some to Jaune. ] Would you like to try some salad? I promise it doesn't taste bad. Arugula leaves are peppery. Then the strawberries are sweet, the lemon juice is tart, the pecans give it a nutty taste with a hint of salt, and the olive oil sort of.. brings everything together.

[aurabble]

Yeah, I heard it's a solid sequel. I think there's a third.

[Weiss smiled, Jaune's eyes light up and he beams like an excited puppy, hands clasped to his chin. Wait she asked him a question.] Sure! I'll try salad. [His pizza has a lot of strong flavors so it might work together.] I didn't realize it was that complex. I thought it was just leaves. And bacon.

[whiteas]

Let's watch that then.

[ The smile is gone pretty much as soon as he does that. Don't make a big deal out of things and she'll do them more often, Jaune. Now there's just a scowl. ] There's no bacon in this salad. I don't even like bacon. And leaves are only flavorless if your salad is iceberg, which is essentially just water and fiber. There's absolutely nothing worth anything in an iceberg lettuce leaf.

[aurabble]

Okay.

[He grimaces at his mistake and focuses on finding the name of that movie.] Don't we need water? [He sips the smoothie. Then sips it again.] This is good.

[whiteas]

[ She nods, watching as he looks for the movie. ] We do, but it's better to just drink it. You do drink water, right, Jaune? [ He isn't just downing Catorade all the time is he?? ] I told you.

[aurabble]

Uh. Yeah, if it tastes good. [Not all water tastes good. And he does usually just drink Catorade but he doesn't think he wants to tell Weiss that.] Found it! I hope it's as entertaining as the first.

[whiteas]

Well obviously. I don't know what they have the water fountains but it's not what anyone should be drinking. Sometimes I wish they would just put Woss water in the fountains.

[ Weiss leans back on the couch and takes a bite of her pizza, immediately dabbing her hands on a napkin after touching it. Cheese is greasy. ]

[aurabble]

Isn't that stuff super expensive?

[He's carefully arranging the dinosaur toppings before he bites into his. All the grease. He uses his grease covered hand to go ahead and play the movie.]

[whiteas]

It's worth it.

[ SHe's never touching his stuff again. In fact she may go buy a cleaning spray for him. ]

This is why I refuse to use your stuff without cleaning it first, Jaune.

[ He doesn't have cooties, he just doesn't watch his grease. :| ]

[aurabble]

Soda is worth it. It tastes better than water so there's that too.

[Please do. He just looks confused.]

What's wrong?