TL;DR GREEK LIFE (PT1 OF 2 OH GOD WHAT)threepwillowJuly 6 2011, 00:19:55 UTC
OKAY SO THESE ARE BASICALLY MY GREEK THOUGHTS SINCE I THINK THAT'S WHAT YOU WANTED OUT OF ME??? I WILL TRY TO REFRAIN FROM CAPSLOCKING THE WHOLE TIME BUT THAT MIGHT BE HARD
+ Kanaya joins a sorority. Rose is like "why would you do that omg you are buying into patriarchal stereotypes and alkjsdghakds" because Rose has the misconstrued Hollywood like, Legally Blonde-type impression of sororities and Kanaya has to be like "No Its Really Cool Its Nice To Be Supported Unconditionally By Others The Same Way I Support Them (For Once) And To Have A Sense Of Sisterhood And Family Away From Home" and she really wants Rose to join for a while but A) Rose is like "fuck that noise" and B) one of the other sisters points out to Kanaya that she's watched a lot of inter-sorority lesbian relationships go sour so maybe trying to give a bid to her girlfriend is probably a bad idea and Kanaya is like "But Shes Not My......." and that's how that goes down LOL
+ Feferi is in a sorority too. PROBABLY NOT THE SAME ONE AS KANAYA but she is. She joined really shortly after her falling out with Eridan tho, so he interprets that as "the sorority stealing you awway from me I hate all of them and I wwish you wwouldn't do this whole 'joiner' thing that you are doing" and he extrapolates outward from there to the tune of jealousy at losing Fef -> hates Fef's sorority -> begins to hate all Greek life ever. He nevertheless goes to every frat party that she might be at even if he's not invited and gets really plastered and makes out with a lot of people because he thinks he's going to make her jealous but she's too busy like...having a life and not paying attention LOL
+ Aradia had been bid by the sorority Kanaya joined before her accident but now that she's dead/not right in the head/whatever y'all decided up there she's obviously not going through with it. So she just has this awkward outstanding bid from them and she won't ever get properly initiated so she's stuck as a pledge forever, which makes her relationship with all of them weird, HMMM ARADIA HAS WEIRD RELATIONSHIPS WITH PEOPLE WHAT ELSE IS NEW, so like Kanaya's sorority still doesn't know how they feel about her because she didn't ever come through all the way but all the other sororities don't really care for her either because they still affiliate her with Kanaya's group. So.
+ Gamzee joined a fraternity REALLY early on in his college career which kind of made a lot of people go: WHAT? because they didn't take him for the Greek type but he is apparently aLl AbOuT tHe BrOtHeRhOoDs and stuff so they're like: whatever. He's a big partier and a total weirdo though so he ends up not actually being very good for the chapter, not really pulling his weight in chapter proceedings and stuff, but because he never actually does anything WRONG re: their policies they can't forcibly disaffiliate him, so they're kind of stuck with him and slightly resent ever bidding him in the first place. (Note: This happened to fraternities on my campus A LOT. It happens when Greek groups are really short on numbers and they start looking bad to their national headquarters for not recruiting better: they start lowering their standards for who they'll actually bid/pledge. Sometimes these people can be reaaallly toxic to organizations. We lucked out that we never got anyone THAT bad but we did get stuck with a couple of duds.)
+ What Gamzee does do, however, is almost RUTHLESSLY recruit his roommate Tavros, and Tavros finally gives in to the pressure and joins Gamzee's fraternity, but unexpectedly, Tavros is actually able to do a lot of good for the chapter and gets really into it and puts on a good public face for them and actually makes them look good again. He ends up in REALLY good standing with most of the brothers because his presence basically cancels out Gamzee's presence and that makes them all REALLY HAPPY.
Re: TL;DR GREEK LIFE (2/2)threepwillowJuly 6 2011, 00:20:14 UTC
+ Bro was in a fraternity when he was there, and he kind of ruled the school, so now that Dave is going there, that frat is like "Shit yes a legacy from one of our best members ever, we must recruit him RIGHT THE FUCK NOW." But they're a kind of douchey frat and Dave is able to sense as much and so, just to be an asshole, he DELIBERATELY joins a fraternity that ISN'T THAT ONE without even really paying much attention to which one he's actually joining. It ends up being the same one that Gamzee and Tavros are in. Dave ends up being a real asset to them in terms of recruitment, because he is hella persuasive and also just that guy that everyone seems to like for reasons they can't explain, so they let him get away with a lot of slacker shit in other areas because he's pulling his weight so hard with rush and stuff. He is the only person that ever gets John, Karkat or Sollux even CLOSE to joining - any time anyone else has implied that they might be interested, they've gotten starkly denied. Sollux ultimately maintains a solid "no" but Karkat and John kind of sit on the fence about it. John probably would really follow through with it except he's terrified that Dave will end up as his fraternity big brother through some cruel twist of fate and that kind of...puts him off.
+ That other douchey frat that Bro was in? If Equius joins one, it's that one.
+ EVERY FUCKING SORORITY ON THE CAMPUS wants Jade, but she stays unaffiliated her whole four years. They lay on the recruitment really hard, and one year she even goes through formal rush just to kind of see what all the fuss is about, but she ends up being too free-spirited to get locked into something as nuanced and downright petty as the Greek system. She's really close with a lot of the girls from Kanaya's sorority though and fully supports Rose every time she stops and thinks that she miiiiight consider joining. But Jade just wants to be friends with everyone. :)
+ Same with Nepeta, but Nepeta really only cares for a couple of the groups. She really likes Kanaya's sorority but doesn't really like Feferi's - Fef's kind of the one exception out of their group, and Nepeta really wishes that Fef had joined a different group.
+ Terezi really wants to like Dave's fraternity the best but unfortunately for him, Bro's old fraternity has the best frat colors.
+ Vriska thinks they're all a bunch of idiots. (That said, if she thought she could get away with it, she would start her own sorority for the SOLE PURPOSE of refusing bids to like, everyone.)
SO UHHHH YEAH. THE END I GUESS. LOL LIKE ANYONE ACTUALLY CARES. FFFFFFFFF. I'M NOT EVEN IN THIS FANDOM WHAT AM I DOING
no seriously we are incorporating as much of this as we can, IT IS TOO PERFECT. ESPECIALLY KANAYA AND FEFERI. AND GAMZEE AND TAVROS. AND DAVE ASKLFJSDLK. why is this all so perfect.
(AND LOL I THINK YOU ARE IN THIS FANDOM BY PROXY OR SOMETHING ANYWAY)
(lol by proxy YES. CONSIDERING MY COUSIN/BEST FRIEND JUST GOT A DAILY DEVIATION ON A ROSE/KANAYA PICTURE I'D SAY SO)
lol I guess this is what happens when sorority girls are also fanatical nerds. YOU GET PEOPLE LIKE ME WHO CARE WAY TOO MUCH ABOUT THESE THINGS. LIKE THAT TIME I TRIED TO WRITE THAT TF2 FRAT AU WHERE RED AND BLU WERE BOTH TRYING TO RECRUIT SCOUT DURING RUSH AND I AM NOT EVEN IN THAT FANDOM EITHER
+ Kanaya joins a sorority. Rose is like "why would you do that omg you are buying into patriarchal stereotypes and alkjsdghakds" because Rose has the misconstrued Hollywood like, Legally Blonde-type impression of sororities and Kanaya has to be like "No Its Really Cool Its Nice To Be Supported Unconditionally By Others The Same Way I Support Them (For Once) And To Have A Sense Of Sisterhood And Family Away From Home" and she really wants Rose to join for a while but A) Rose is like "fuck that noise" and B) one of the other sisters points out to Kanaya that she's watched a lot of inter-sorority lesbian relationships go sour so maybe trying to give a bid to her girlfriend is probably a bad idea and Kanaya is like "But Shes Not My......." and that's how that goes down LOL
+ Feferi is in a sorority too. PROBABLY NOT THE SAME ONE AS KANAYA but she is. She joined really shortly after her falling out with Eridan tho, so he interprets that as "the sorority stealing you awway from me I hate all of them and I wwish you wwouldn't do this whole 'joiner' thing that you are doing" and he extrapolates outward from there to the tune of jealousy at losing Fef -> hates Fef's sorority -> begins to hate all Greek life ever. He nevertheless goes to every frat party that she might be at even if he's not invited and gets really plastered and makes out with a lot of people because he thinks he's going to make her jealous but she's too busy like...having a life and not paying attention LOL
+ Aradia had been bid by the sorority Kanaya joined before her accident but now that she's dead/not right in the head/whatever y'all decided up there she's obviously not going through with it. So she just has this awkward outstanding bid from them and she won't ever get properly initiated so she's stuck as a pledge forever, which makes her relationship with all of them weird, HMMM ARADIA HAS WEIRD RELATIONSHIPS WITH PEOPLE WHAT ELSE IS NEW, so like Kanaya's sorority still doesn't know how they feel about her because she didn't ever come through all the way but all the other sororities don't really care for her either because they still affiliate her with Kanaya's group. So.
+ Gamzee joined a fraternity REALLY early on in his college career which kind of made a lot of people go: WHAT? because they didn't take him for the Greek type but he is apparently aLl AbOuT tHe BrOtHeRhOoDs and stuff so they're like: whatever. He's a big partier and a total weirdo though so he ends up not actually being very good for the chapter, not really pulling his weight in chapter proceedings and stuff, but because he never actually does anything WRONG re: their policies they can't forcibly disaffiliate him, so they're kind of stuck with him and slightly resent ever bidding him in the first place. (Note: This happened to fraternities on my campus A LOT. It happens when Greek groups are really short on numbers and they start looking bad to their national headquarters for not recruiting better: they start lowering their standards for who they'll actually bid/pledge. Sometimes these people can be reaaallly toxic to organizations. We lucked out that we never got anyone THAT bad but we did get stuck with a couple of duds.)
+ What Gamzee does do, however, is almost RUTHLESSLY recruit his roommate Tavros, and Tavros finally gives in to the pressure and joins Gamzee's fraternity, but unexpectedly, Tavros is actually able to do a lot of good for the chapter and gets really into it and puts on a good public face for them and actually makes them look good again. He ends up in REALLY good standing with most of the brothers because his presence basically cancels out Gamzee's presence and that makes them all REALLY HAPPY.
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+ That other douchey frat that Bro was in? If Equius joins one, it's that one.
+ EVERY FUCKING SORORITY ON THE CAMPUS wants Jade, but she stays unaffiliated her whole four years. They lay on the recruitment really hard, and one year she even goes through formal rush just to kind of see what all the fuss is about, but she ends up being too free-spirited to get locked into something as nuanced and downright petty as the Greek system. She's really close with a lot of the girls from Kanaya's sorority though and fully supports Rose every time she stops and thinks that she miiiiight consider joining. But Jade just wants to be friends with everyone. :)
+ Same with Nepeta, but Nepeta really only cares for a couple of the groups. She really likes Kanaya's sorority but doesn't really like Feferi's - Fef's kind of the one exception out of their group, and Nepeta really wishes that Fef had joined a different group.
+ Terezi really wants to like Dave's fraternity the best but unfortunately for him, Bro's old fraternity has the best frat colors.
+ Vriska thinks they're all a bunch of idiots. (That said, if she thought she could get away with it, she would start her own sorority for the SOLE PURPOSE of refusing bids to like, everyone.)
SO UHHHH YEAH. THE END I GUESS. LOL LIKE ANYONE ACTUALLY CARES. FFFFFFFFF. I'M NOT EVEN IN THIS FANDOM WHAT AM I DOING
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EMILY I AM SCREAMING.
no seriously we are incorporating as much of this as we can, IT IS TOO PERFECT. ESPECIALLY KANAYA AND FEFERI. AND GAMZEE AND TAVROS. AND DAVE ASKLFJSDLK. why is this all so perfect.
(AND LOL I THINK YOU ARE IN THIS FANDOM BY PROXY OR SOMETHING ANYWAY)
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lol I guess this is what happens when sorority girls are also fanatical nerds. YOU GET PEOPLE LIKE ME WHO CARE WAY TOO MUCH ABOUT THESE THINGS. LIKE THAT TIME I TRIED TO WRITE THAT TF2 FRAT AU WHERE RED AND BLU WERE BOTH TRYING TO RECRUIT SCOUT DURING RUSH AND I AM NOT EVEN IN THAT FANDOM EITHER
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