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Today's class was probably relevant to every single person's interest so there was no way Loki was going to slack the fuck off even if he wanted to. So, everyone was ~~handwavily~~ notified to come on down to the Danger Shop for class. He waited until everyone came in and took their seats before diving into the lecture.

"Roommates," Loki started, looking over all the students. "You all probably have one. And, if you don't, consider yourself fucking lucky. Depending on your luck, having a roommate can either be a very good or a very bad thing. If you get along, that's fucking good. If you don't, that's fucking bad. The thing about roommates is that if you don't get along, you still have to live with each other at least for a little while. You're going to have to adapt and adjust and compromise. And sometimes, that's pretty fucking daunting because people are strong willed and set in their ways. They don't want to fucking compromise because some idiot won't wash their forks."

Or worse. But, Loki decided to get into that later.

"There are a couple of ways you can deal with horrible roommates," he continued. "You can fucking ignore them, make sure your schedule is completely opposite theirs so you only have to deal with each other a scant few times. You can fucking make their lives hell. Try and drive them out of the room because they're shit and not you. You can passively cower with your tail between your legs and let them walk all over you or you can do a combination of things. Really, what you do is going to depending on how shitty your roommate is. Small things can more easily be tolerated than major things. If you're a patient person, you'll be able to deal with more than if you're impatient. Pick your battles with your roommate. If you try and fight them on every single thing, you might end up duct taped to your bed and taped for YouTube. Pick your fucking battles."

Loki thought about launching into that whole single, white female realm but figured these poor kids had enough to deal with just with teenage roommate situations.

"For today's activity, I'm going to give each of you a situation. You're the roommate dealing with it and the Danger Shop is going to provide you with the problem roommate. Solve your problem. Or, if you can't do that, make sure your roommate's too fucking scared to keep causing problems."

With the lecture done, Loki gestured to the simulation and waited for everyone to get to work.

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With someone else!

Take notes, don't take notes, talk to each other, daydream, wonder if your roommate will smack you in your sleep!

The situations are as followed:

Jono: Your roommate keeps leaving dirty underwear all over the place
Makita: Your roommate leaves hair in the sink and bathtub
Azula: Your roommate constantly cooks smelly fish
Calvin: Your roommate picks his nose and wipes it everywhere
Chuck: Your roommate steals your food without asking
Claudia: Your roommate plays loud heavy metal every morning when you're sleeping
Dan: Your roommate is a judgmental prick
Elena: Your roommate leaves safe sex pamphlets all over your room
Ellie: Your roommate constantly has parties without telling you
George: Your roommate tries to make passes at every girl you bring home
Jacob: Your roommate has loud sex every few days when you're home
Jak: Your roommate has no concept of personal space
Jenny: Your roommate wants to be BFF's and she's annoying
Joan: Your roommate won't shut the hell up
Karla: Your roommate leaves porn laying around where everyone can see it
Kurt: Your roommate doesn't flush the toilet ever
Layla: Your roommate has a crush on you and is determined to make it happen
Marco: Your roommate hates your guts and is determined to drive you insane
Puck: Your roommate likes to dress in women's clothes when your friends are around
Parker: Your roommate spreads rumors about you

Who are not roommates!

Who lives alone!

I've been singing Eleanor Rigby all morning.

Edited 2010-03-18 11:02 (UTC)

Calvin

Makita

Whatever, Makita had an awesome roommate, thanks, so she didn't really need to worry about this.

Not roommates, no, but they were fake-siblings, which amused Makita to no end.

Joan Girardi

Joan totally missed her roommate, thanks Loki.

Dan Humphrey

Karla

Oh, well, this was going to be easy. Karla walked into the simulation and immediately vanished every piece of pornography she could see. "I'll give it back to you tomorrow," she informed her roommate. "Next time I see it out, I'll vanish it for a week. We clear?"

The roommate in question was already glaring at her. "You can't just take my shit, man. Give it back. It's not yours."

[no comments notifs so might be slow!]

"Actually, I think I just proved I can," Karla shot back, rolling her eyes. "And if you were so damned concerned about it, you wouldn't leave it everywhere, now would you?"

"It's my place too," her roommate snapped angrily. "You could have just asked me to move them, not take them yourself. Get your own porn, virgin."

Ellie Bartowski

"Fine," Karla said, calling them in--directly over her roommate's bed. "Now then, I'm politely asking you to keep them out of sight." There wasn't anything all that polite in her glare or her tone, but she was compromising. That had to count for something, yes? "If you can't, I'll simply vanish every one I see. Deal?"

Since Karla wasn't offended by being called a virgin, she only implied 'Jackass' instead of saying it outright.

See? Compromise!

"Why?" the roommate asked petulantly. "I pay rent here too. I can leave my shit where I want. You leave stuff lying around. What if I just tossed it out the window?"

"The stuff I leave out doesn't have sticky pages," Karla said bluntly. "I mean, we could get petty and I could start leaving my moontime supplies out, but I don't. I leave all my really personal stuff in my room. If you want to plaster your walls with porn, go ahead, just keep it where other people don't have to see it."

"How do you know it has sticky pages?" her roommate wondered. "That means you looked through it! Freak!"

He was not a good roommate.

"Yes, the first time you left your crap out in the open and I grabbed it to throw back into your room. Four handwashings later and I still felt gross," Karla snapped. "Now unless you want me to launch into a tirade about how unsanitary it is to leave bodily fluids lying around, keep your crap in your own room, okay."

Longest, most tedious lecture EVAR. She was a Healer, she could do it.

"And if I don't?" He wasn't afraid of her.

Much.

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