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Part 1:Shaky beginnings:

Is leaving your new dormmates alone with your “familiar” who has a reputation for causing trouble a good idea? No

Is it wise to lie to their faces fully knowing it’s gonna come back to haunt you in the future? No, of course not.

However it is also not good to push someone to a position of power without proper training, so who cares about what is right and wrong in this situation.

“Headmage, wait a minute!” exclaimed the prefect having finally caught up with the culprit of this whole mess.

“Ah Jen what is it?” Said the headmage without a care in the world, lowering his head to look at the much shorter student. The prefect wanted to punch him right in the stupid mask he wore, why does he even wear that thing?

“What was that?”

“Whatever do you mean?” “Eh the whole “I’m now an actual housewarden” Thing! When was that decision made?”

“Mmmh” the headmage paused for a second before giving an answer “Two days ago.”

“....What?”

“Two days ago” He continued “I don’t think it’s a big deal.”

“WHAT?” At this point the prefect thought she was going insane, does he seriously see nothing wrong with that statement?!

“Why wasn't I made aware of this?”

“I didn’t think it would be necessary”

“You didn’t think it was necessary to tell me that I was going to have actual responsibilities now, that I was getting new dormmates, that you were going to establish the ramshackle as an actual dorm?!”

“I don’t understand why you keep saying facts but saying them like questions, it’s really counterproductive you know?” 

“But they are questions!” The perfect gesture with her arm almost hitting the headmage in the face(mask?). “I don’t know how to BE a prefect or run a dorm! I’m not fit for it.”

“Well I believe you are, you have managed to run the ramshackle well last year.”

“I was only taking care of myself and Grim, that’s not a dorm, that’s more akin to a person and their pet living in an apartment.”

“Still, I saw how you worked last year and I think you are more than well equipped to handle this situation, so stop doubting yourself and go lead your dorm.”

And with that he left, leaving the prefect alone with their thoughts.

She felt frozen in place, she couldn’t lead. She's not a leader, she doesn’t know how to, how the heck is she supposed to do it. 

Just as she was about to spiral she caught her reflection in the mirror, or more accurately her arm. 

A little known fact about the prefect were her scars, she had tons of them along her body, mostly superficial. Most were beneath her shirt or her pants but the most commonly seen ones were on her hands. Loads of tiny cuts litter her hand, a reminder of the second overblot she helped stop. A rose tinted tyrant, that was what he students called the overblot form of one of her fellow housewarden,Riddle Rosehearts. While in his overblot state he had ripped a rose bush and thrown it aside and towards Grim, the perfect managed to grab it and stop it in time and while grim was unharmed the same couldn’t be said for the prefect. When she dropped the bush her hands were almost colored red with the amount of little cuts the thorns had caused, they weren’t deep enough to truly hurt her permanently but they certainly left their mark.

They served as a reminder on how to act with overblots, act fast but delicately. 

Maybe she does know how to do this or at least, how to ACT like she knows how to.

Fast forward to 5 minutes

“You can’t be serious!”

When coming back to the hall of mirrors she was faced with an unusual scene.

Mimi was seated legs crossed with Oscar crouching near him both were listening to Grim go on about who was in charge and such. Yuu and Cole meanwhile were chatting in a low voice but both stopped when the prefect entered.

“I am, despite not looking like it, I'm the one who takes charge around here, the student you saw before is just my hench-human!”

“Am I now?” For as much as he claims he’s not a cat he sure jumps when frightened like one.

“Sorry I took so long, shall we go then?”

After everyone collected themselves they started heading to the ramshackle dorm.

“Sorry, what is our dorm named?” Cole asked from the back of the group

“Ramshackle, I know it’s not very glamorous but that’s it’s name.”

“Is there something we should know about it, like rules and such?”

“Well the rules are don’t damage the dorm, don’t make too much noise past 10pm, tell me if anything broken and don’t annoy the ghosts, and that’s about it I thin-”

“GHOSTS?!” the group yelled in unison.

“Oh yeah we got 3 ghosts who live at the ramshackle dorm, don’t worry they’re friendly.”

“If a bit mischievous that is, oh and by the way they will be part of your initiation.”

…

“Pardon?” Yuu asked before any of the others

The perfect smiled to herself, she knew this was not on school regulation but the dorm is now hers so she’s gonna run it how they see fit.

“Don’t worry about it for now, that is a matter for the end of the week. For the next couple of days all I will ask of you is that you behave and try to acclimate to your new lives okay?” The prefect turned her head to look at her new dormmmates and smiled.

Fast forward to 2 hours later

After showing where everything was in their new dorm, and meeting the ghosts, the perfect told everyone to choose whatever room they wanted.

“Can we have roommates?” Mimi asked, raising his hand like you would if you had a question in the middle of a class.

“Sure, but there’s plenty of rooms so I’m not sure why you would want to.”

“I can answer that one.”Oscar piped up from where he had chosen to sit on the couch. “Mimi and I have both lived in shared rooms for most of our lives, it feels weird to sleep alone in a room, it feels weird.”

“Oh okay, sure go for it.” And with that the prefect made a hand motion towards the ghosts as a way to ask if they could move a bed into a new room.

“No problem, we are happy to help.” The thinnest ghost said leaving with the other two ghosts, Mimi and Oscar to do just that. The perfect then turned to Cole and Yuu.

“Do you two also want to share a room?”

“Ah no thanks I like to have my own space.” “Same here.”

“Alright then go make yourself at home, if you need anything just come find me, my room is the first room left to the stairs.”

They exchanged a nod and both were off to their own rooms.

“Gotta say your handling this way is better then what I had thought.” Grim said from his spot atop the prefect’s head.

“If I’m being honest I’m just winging everything, mostly I’m just coping with what the other housewardens do.” The perfect explained making her way to her room.

“Hey give yourself some credit, it could have been worse.”

“I suppose, but that is enough thinking for today for now all I want is to go to sleep.”

And so after what felt like one of the longest days of her time at Twisted Wonderland the perfect finally fell asleep accompanied by the soft snores of her feline companion and the background noises of her new dormmates settling in for the night.

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Part 1:Unusual greetings:

Ah orientation, the day to welcome new students into NRC and for the housewardens of each dorm to introduce themselves in gracious fashion and establish them as the leaders that they are. They were suppose to be examples of each of the great seven after all.

Well most of them that is.

"Remember last orientation?" a pesky little weasel asked sitting on the shoulder of the latest prefect.

"You mean the one we both wrecked completely? The one we quite positively ruined and made a mockery of ourselves?" they asked their expression unchanging from their usual poker face.

"Hey you shouldn't talk like that to me of all people Jen."

"Grim you're not a person and besides who am I suppose to impress anyway, not like any of the students are up yet so who cares?" Jen shrugged as to say "It is what it is"

Grim and Jen. Through the campus they had different reputations depending who you asked but there was a general idea on how they operated. Most claimed they were nothing but trouble, nuisances, weirdos of the worst kind and so on and so forth. But if there's one thing everyone knows is their dorm, or rather lack there of.

You see while everyone had a dorm assign to them when they enter the school those two were the exception. Grim was a monster so it's not like he could attend school anyway. And while Jen was human they lacked any magic so no dorm would be suitable for the likes of them.

But trough some sort of luck or fate, there was a way they got accepted into this school, something along the lines of Grim being a "service animal" like companion to Jen who would help them do magic. So they were part of the ramshackle "dorm", and lived in abandoned dorm building near the school.

And it's not like they did anything to warrant reprimand, if anything they helped the school a lot. How? Simple, overblots. No one is really sure how they do it but whenever those two were around overblots were over in a matter of like 45 minutes, and the people often came out of it okay if not better. That's the reason nobody messes with them often.

But let's get back on track, right now they've been forced to attended the ceremony, one of them was a "dorm head" so it was required (this was imposed because a certain dorm head kept missing it), granted they were a leader of an empty dorm but they still needed to show face.

So here they stood in a corner of the mirror room, everyone was divided into their respective dorm group to make it easier for new students to accommodate themselves into their stay at the collage.

"I'm bored, I'm gonna go bother Tweedledum" Grim said ready to jump off Jen's shoulder, the ladder caught him by tail and raised him so his snot was facing them.

"No you're not. You're going to stay here where I can see you because I know the moment you pick a fight with Ace it's gonna end up like our first day here and I personally would prefer keeping way from 'certain death cave', or worst, in our first proper ceremony. So you either stay put or you don't get tuna for a month." The prefect said and although they seem calm there was an edge to that specific tone of voice that meant they were serious and not to be tested.

"Ah, fine I'll behave."

"Good decision."

"..."

"..."

"Can I get tuna when we get back-" "No."

Fast forward to the ceremony

As far as the prefect was concerned everything was going okay, so far 20 students were sorted. A few went to Savanaclaw, three went to Octavinelle and two went went to Diasomnia. And so far there was no hicups, aside from a few students letting out small screams of delight from being sorted into a dorm they wanted.

While all of this was happening Jen and Grim were playing a "game" of sorts. It was just seeing if they could guess where the students were going before the mirror said. So far the score was 12-4 with the perfect in the lead.

"How are you this good at guessing?"

"I'm not sure to be honest, maybe it's the body language or the their style? To be honest I'm taking blind shots here."

"You're lying."

"Am not."

"Alright what do you think of that guy."

Grim pointed at a student walking to the dark mirror. Jen stared at the freshman trying to pin point if he had any identifiable details that would tell which dorm he would go to.

He was taller then them, short dark brown hair, black eyes, lean, he had a few moles on his face. He walked with his head head held high and confidently, but he was slow almost unsure where to go.

"Mmh that's weird he's to well composed to be from Savanaclaw, but he lacks the flare to be from Pomefiore. He doesn't seem to be suited for Diasomnia. Maybe Scarabia or Octavinelle."

When the prefect was done the boy had reached the mirror.

"State your name."

"Y-Yuuken. Yuuken Walt."

"..."

The mirror was silent for a while, as if it was hesitating.

This was different, this was way different. It made the prefect and grim look back at their orientation, but surely this was something else, it couldn't be. It wasn't possible. The prefect started to have a weird vibe from the situation.

"The nature of your soul is unclear to me, so the Ramshackle dorm is the only acceptable option for you."

........

What

This, this wasn't possible. It couldn't be. IT SHOULDN'T BE. And yet the headmage went to the newest student and pointed at the prefect as to say "You go there~." And all the prefect could do was nod and signal the student to come closer. And he did.

"Um hello. Are you the prefect?"

"Y-Yeah that would be me, just rest nearby they didn't have enough chairs for our dorm sorry."

"It's quite alright I don't mind."

And with that he position himself in a spot behind his prefect. Totally unaware of the frantic look they were giving to the other housewardens. Who all wore faces of shock and surprise, they too were not ready for someone to be sorted into Ramshackle.

"Uh prefect what just happened?!" Grim whispered yelled at the prefect.

"I-I'm not sure." Although they were still and appeared calm. inside they were panicking. They were the housewarden of an empty dorm, they held and empty title. They didn't know how to be a housewarden, they could barely manage Grim let alone another human being. The dorm was no longer in ruins but it wasn't fit to house more than one person, not to mention it was haunted. And even if the dorm was in condition what about funds, they didn't have the money to buy themselves more then a couple of packets of ramen how are they gonna feed someone else!

"Uh Jen."

Grim knocked them out of their stupor just in time to hear it again.

"The nature of your soul is unclear to me, so only the Ramshackle dorm is the only acceptable option for you."

This time a shorter boy stood near the mirror. He had medium length hair, it was dark purple at the top and lighter at the bottom. He was pale and had dark green eyes. The most notable features were the weird gold jewelry he had around his neck and wrists and the fact that he looked way younger then anyone here, minus Ortho of course. He walked with a pep in his step almost as if he were skipping. When he reached the prefect he extended his hand.

"Hello there mister prefect, if it's not much trouble I would prefer to be called Mimi if that's alright with you."

"Uh sure, but aren't you a bit to young to be attending this school?"

"I skipped a two grades."

"Ok then." And Mimi went behind the prefect and introduced himself to Yuuken.

Great seven there's 2 of them now, I'm so dead. Thought the prefect but it seemed as if fate was trying to kill her today because in the span of 30 minutes there were 2 more people joining their dorm, yippy.

Fast forward to the last minutes of the ceremony

As the last few students were being sorted into their dorms the prefect took one look over all their new dormmates.

There was Yuuken, who asked to be called Yuu for short.

Mimi, a younger boy who skipped two grades so he was qualified to attend NRC.

And two more additions.

Oscar, a heavier set boy with shorth brown hair with green tips, dark grey eyes, vitiligo and freckles. He is a bit taller than Mimi but shorter than the prefect themselves

And Cole, a tad shorter than Yuu, black hair tied in a low ponytail, dark brown eyes with a thin scar across his left eye. He also had a prosthetic right hand.

As the ceremony drew to a close the prefect turned to the group who were now chatting among themselves.

"Hey guys, as much as I would love to take you all to the dorm and get you all settled in I really need to talk with the headmage first."

"It's okay we can wait" "Yeah." "Not like we have anywhere else to go." "It's alright we don't mind."

"Great in the mean time you can ask any questions you have regarding the school to Grim."

"Who's Gr-" "THAT WOULD BE ME."

Grim jumped from where he had been hiding underneath the prefects hood.

"Is that a cat?"

"He's a monster and also my familiar he'll answer any question you might have."

And with that the prefect took their leave and went to find the headmage to see if he could shed some light on the situation.

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Bonus: Well here's one of my little abilities.

I can see past the fourth wall as well as having limited capacity to interact past it