LAMP

Virgil is a new tenant to an apartment complex and his landlord seems real nice. He told Virgil that should he ever need anything fixed to just give a call. He managed to get over the anxiety of calling someone for help, now he needs to get over the gay panic he experiences every time his landlord sends ‘one of the boys’ over.

Pairing: Everyone has a crush on Virgil who is also gay for everyone.

Warnings: panic descriptions from talking over the phone/to new people. Possible second hand embarrassment, swearing

Prompt pic at the end.

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In all fairness, Virgil loves his new place. Way more than the old place he used to live at least. At least here the walls weren’t cracked and seemed sturdy enough that he wouldn’t be able to hear his neighbors through them. While he does his sweep of the place, writing down anything that might be wrong so the landlord can’t blame them on him, there’s barely anything broken or messed up. A clear step up from his old apartment.

“What you say Oogies?” Virgil nods to the black cat lounging on the cat tower after he’s finished his walk through. The cat stares at him, he stares back. They blink slowly at the same time and Virgil puffs out a breath. OogieBoogie wasn’t fond of the move. Complaining loudly at every jostle of the cat carrier. Virgil wanted to let her out but couldn’t until all his stuff was moved in for her safety. Seems like he’s forgiven.

“Come on lazy bones,” He finagles the cat out of the tower and she curls over his shoulders, paws dipping into the hood of his hoodie, and purrs. He smiles and scratches at her chin. For the most part she blends into the patterned fabric, her grey stripes the only thing that pop out, and even then only barely.

Virgil locks the apartment door, cat on his shoulders, and walk-through papers in hand. They walk their way around the complex and to the main office building. Virgil almost hesitates, thinking maybe he should go tomorrow morning at a better time, but OggieBoogie nuzzles his head encouragingly.

“Yeah okay,” He whispers to the animal, knowing she’s smug as he opens the door. It’s fluorescently bright. There’s no one at the front desk. Virgil takes two steps, and nearly backs out, when a friendly face pops out of one of the offices.

“Oh Virgil!” Virgil lets out a sigh of relief. He recognizes the elderly face 

“Hey Mr Sanders,” He gives an awkward wave. The cheery man laughs.

“You may call me Thomas you know,” He says smiling at his cat and waving to the animal. She blinks at him.

“Right, yeah, course, Mr. Thomas yeah,” Virgil says. Thomas gives him a fond smile but doesn’t correct him. Thank god. Thomas helped him fill out lease papers when he first came to check out new apartments. Honestly a blessing as Virgil had no idea what he was doing. Bonus that Thomas professed the place to be queer friendly as well. Virgil hung up his rainbow flag in the window the moment he found it.

“Oh I brought the walk through papers back,” He hands them over and Thomas takes them happily. 

“Everything good so far?” He asks. Virgil nods, nothing on there that he thought needed fixing, at least right away.

“Oh,” Thomas says softly. Virgil tenses and Oogie starts purring on his shoulder to comfort him.

“Are you having problems with the lights?” Thomas asks, very sincerely. Virgil shrugs a little and Oogie shifts to accommodate his motions.

“Not really, nothing serious,” He tries to play it off. Thomas pouts at his papers.

“Some of the plugs not screwed in properly, not working, a light out in the laundry area,” Thomas ‘tsks’ as he reads off Virgil’s writing. He perks up and offers Virgil a bright smile.

“No worries at all! I’ll send one of the boys over to fix it.” He offers Virgil a wink and riffles through his pockets. He pulls out his wallet and inside it a business card for the office that he promptly hands over.

“You ever need anything fixed, do not be afraid to call ya hear?” Virgil just nods, taking the card with him.

“Wait the boys?” He finds himself questioning. Thomas smiles again with a flippant wave of his hand.

“It’s the name of the contractor company I have hired here for the apartments. Someone should be over in about an hour to help you with the lights.” And with that Thomas is walking away to his own office, leaving Virgil to go back to his new home.

“Shit,” He mutters as he now realizes. Company coming over, and his new home is a mess. He walks quicker than he normally does to try and clean a little before ‘one of the boys’ makes it over. Oogie is not as impressed.

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Logan, a high school teacher, got the idea from venting to his non-teacher roommates (aka Roman and Patton) about how he struggles to engage his students.

Roman muses, “If someone had given me candy for knowing what was going on, I definitely would have tried harder in math.”

Logan’s non-toxic modeling compound slips out of his hands and he lights up with his ‘idea’ face.

Patton knows what that face means. “Positive reinforcement will be so good for the kiddos!

Logan considers the logistics of the idea. “But the lecture hall is too big. It would disrupt the flow of the lesson to hand candy to every student that answered a question. 

Roman shrugs. “So chuck it.”

Thus a new era of learning was born.

Other things about this hc (if you care to peruse the fruits of my procrastination) under the cut because it got waaay too long.

Other things about his hc:

Logan has a stash of alternative treats for people with allergies etc. They can trade with him after class.

There’s one student, Virgil, whom he’s gotten to open up because the Candy of the Day was Virgil’s favorite sometimes, which motivated him to participate. Now Logan has a supply Rolo’s specifically for Virgil

Logan couldn’t figure out why Virgil participate in class sometimes and not other times.

It took two weeks of trial and error to figure out the Rolo’s

The reason Logan was venting to Roman and Patton on that fateful day is because he’d been stressed out at work thanks to a rivalry with another teacher(three guesses who this teacher is). 

Once Logan’s class is more beneficial for his students, Logan’s stress levels go down and his rival’s taunts don’t get under his skin so much.

Logan tells himself he enjoys this new candy technique because it hearkens back to Pavlov’s dog and is very scientifically sound

but actually, it’s because of the smiles on his students’ faces. And how they’ll talk over each other in an attempt to say the answer first, which sparks discussions when they disagree and sometimes Logan doesn’t even have to step in - the students will figure it out themselves.

And he makes sure that not every question is hogged by the outgoing students. He’ll specify about fifty percent of the time that he wants a raised hand. And sometimes he’ll randomly call on students too, but only on students he knows are comfortable with it.

Now his students are raising their hands not only when they have answers, but when they have questions. Usually, about how to relate in-class concepts to the real world.

One of those questions was about the probability of an AI choosing None Pizza with Left Beef from a whole menu of options, and it took up an entire period.

It threw off Logan’s lesson plan, but somehow he can’t bring himself to mind.

Virgil asked that question.

Logan splits the class into Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw, and Slytherin and keeps track of which house earns the most candy. The prize at the end of the semester will be Crofter’s (unless a student has an allergy or something). 

This inspires a friendly rivalry and even more participation than before.

The students all think that only one house will win the Crofter’s, but Logan is secretly planning on giving everyone a jar. The winners will get two jars. 

the reason he has so much jam to give away is because Roman won a sweepstake a couple years ago. They have way too much jelly.

Patton: Emotional smarts

Roman: Artistic smarts

Virgil:

After 5 days of editing i am FINALLY done!! I present to you Sorcerer Sides or Sander’s Sorcerers idk witch (pun intended) I hope you all enjoy!!!!

Anyway if anyone wants to draw or write anything involving the au GO AHEAD! just tag me so i can see!

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