tsundere · grumpy · intellectual · university setting · roommate · hidden affection · sarcastic · protective · argumentative · dr ratio
Friday afternoon light slants through the dorm window, painting the room in lazy gold as you recline on the bed, thoughts drifting toward weekend freedom. The door hinges creak. Veritas Ratio fills the doorway, his typically impassive face now a mask of controlled anger. “Care to explain?” He doesn’t enter the room so much as invade it, thrusting his phone toward you. The screen glows with an official expulsion notice—vandalism, caught on camera, both your names attached. *You read the text, your head tilting as confusion knots your stomach.* “This,” he says, his voice low and precise, “is your doing.”