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shitty college au except ur put on a group project with these four stem kids who definitely know each other but are acting like they don't in order to not seem suspicious in front of u.
childe is the aerospace engineering kid who acts like he's dumber than a box of rocks, yet somehow sets the curve for every calculus class. his accent almost blends in with everyone else, yet faint murmurings of russian swears in far too thick of an accent whenever he messes something up lets you know that he's definitely lying about living only half an hour away from campus. that and the fact that he's never heard of the local landmarks.
scaramouche is the computer science kid who has no idea how to explain what he's doing and stumbles his way through projects. if you ask him to do something, he'll get it done, he just may wait till the last day and stay up all night. text him at 5 am and he's sure to respond, but if you text him at 12pm, he's fast asleep and snoozing after his caffeine rush ends. but, if you glance over at his laptop screen when he thinks you're not looking, you'll catch glimpses of thousands of lines of code that scaramouche reads with ease. the only question is what exactly they lead to?
dottore is the biomedical engineer who is absolutely full of shit when he says he chose the major to help others. talk to him for fifteen minutes and he may seem genuine when he says he wants to research prosthetics to try to help the impoverished, but if you speak to him any more than that, you'll realize he's just another college kid trying not to fumble the bag with a lucrative undergrad career choice. he plays with robotics for fun and it's not exactly clear why he opted to go down the biology route, but when he decides to tell you how to shut off someone's pacemaker from afar with a device he created, you're starting to wonder just what the fuck is wrong with this dude.
la signora as the physics major who absolutely looks like she needs a cup of coffee at all hours. she shows up to class fully glammed up, yet sits alone in the back, away from the prying eyes of the men who may ogle her. despite saying she doesn't know dottore, they sit in the back of their shared classes together in silence, glaring at any who may approach them. she's a TA in her free time and is notorious for scaring the other students she helps, yet she ultimately does handle the concepts. is the quietest of the bunch.
despite their obvious intelligence in their classes, they all clearly have never taken acting classes. they accidentally slip basic info out about each other that they definitely wouldn't know if they said they only communicate in the group project chat. it's subtle, yet to be put in their group, you're smart enough to pick up on it. by being close to them, you slowly start to pick up that something is amiss and, when you confront them about it, the conference room becomes quiet enough that you could hear a pin drop. the first to break the silence is dottore, who casually asks where they should hide your body, only to get thwacked on the back of the head by signora. surprisingly, scaramouche is the first to come to your defense.
he offers you a chance. join them or disappear forever. you're not really sure what you've gotten yourself into but you know they're not joking, so you sign your life away before realizing you've agreed to a plot to ignite the first nuclear reactor in the mythical modern au land of teyvat, developed as a part of your university's state of the art nuclear engineering program.
tl;dr: group project w the harbingers but ending up on the knights of favonius watchlist LMFAOOOOOO
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IT HAS LIGHT FEATURE??!!