finch_ooc | MEME: Roommates

ROOMMATES MEME

We'll discuss roommate dynamics in more detail in the upcoming character meme. For now, tell us how your character is to live with!

Characters that haven't been accepted yet can post on this meme, but you could always work on their apps instead. :')

NAME: Character name.
ROOM: Year/House/Boys or Girls
ROOMMATES: Roommate names.

DECORATIONS: How has the character personalized their space? What's on their desk? What's on their wall? Do they have a lot of tchotchkes?
TIDINESS: How neat is the character? Do they pick up after themselves or leave a mess for their roommates? Do they take their shoes off at the door?
STANDARDS: What does this character expect from their roommates? Will they try to enforce a chore wheel? Do they want designated quiet time? Do they believe that what's theirs is their roommates and what's their roommates' is theirs?
PET PEEVES: Is there anything that the character's roommates could do to get under their skin? Sharing space is hard.
HABITS: Does the character have idiosyncrasies or routines that their roommates might be aware of?
HIDDEN TREASURES: Does your character keep anything in their room that they don't want their classmates to know about? Do they have a diary or a secret booze stash or an embarrassing childhood trinket?

SLEEPING HABITS: What's the character's sleep schedule? When do they get up/when do they go to sleep? Do they talk in their sleep? Do they snore? Are they a light sleeper?
BATHROOM HABITS: How much time does the character spend getting ready in the morning? To they shower in the morning or at night? Do they leave the whole bathroom smelling like perfume/cologne?

COMMON ROOM: How does your character treat the common room? Do they respect that it's a community space or try to treat it like an extension of their room? Have they tried to decorate it (this might be an uphill battle)?

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NAME: Atticus Starling
ROOM: Senior Swords Boys
ROOMMATES: Scout & Adam

DECORATIONS: If you didn't know he lived here, it'd be hard to tell he lives here. He does have three (3) potted plants in the room: a devil's ivy that lives on his desk, a small ficus tree that gets moved around depending on how it feels about sun today, and some yellow pansies on the window sill to liven the place up (not his words, but fully his intention).
TIDINESS: Has basically no possessions to leave lying around, which is functionally like tidiness. He never makes his bed, though.
STANDARDS: To be left alone when he's studying. To not be woken up when he's sleeping. General interpersonal courtesy. For the most part he really doesn't care what Adam and Scout do in the room, as long as they're not making it literally uninhabitable for him.
PET PEEVES: He does not like people borrowing his things, even if it's like a pencil or something. He also doesn't like it when people go through his things, even if they don't take anything.
HABITS: Reads a lot, usually on his bed but sometimes at his desk. He tends to spend more time in his room than the common room, especially if Scout and Adam aren't around. When he's in the room he usually has conspicuous over-the-ear headphones on to drown out any potential socializing that might be happening in the vicinity.
HIDDEN TREASURES: Everything he owns is kept in a single drawer of his dresser, with the exception of his school clothes, which are hung up. He has a bunch of bracelets, necklaces, rings, and other knick-knacks he's collected over the years. He also has exactly one picture of his mother, the standard glossy kind you'd get from a 1 hour photo. It's been folded twice and it's very worn out. It's usually tucked into his bedframe somewhere. He keeps cigarettes in his otherwise empty desk drawer, where they'd be fairly easy to find.

SLEEPING HABITS: Bad. He sleeps when he's tired, which is never the right times for him to be sleeping. Sometimes he stays up very late, sometimes he's in bed by 10pm. Some days he's up with the dawn to work out or go jogging, some weekends he sleeps in til noon. Very often he finds himself waking up about ten minutes before class because he didn't sleep well or long enough the night before. Frequently naps in the afternoon or early evening.
BATHROOM HABITS: Showers in the evening, after working out, and sometimes in the morning when he has time, but isn't fussy about it. Only takes him a few minutes. Totally possible to have 3 showers in a single day if he's not paying attention to what he's done already that day. This is the only thing that stops him from being completely unwashed at all times, because he does not do his laundry as often as he should. Also, he needs to get a better shampoo for his bad bad hair because right now he's using some kind of head-n-shoulders 2 in 1.

COMMON ROOM: Rarely in there, unless there's something going on and he's making an active effort to socialize. Very late at night he sometimes reads in there if his roommates are asleep, and he can very, VERY occasionally be cause hanging out with house dog Dakota.

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