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MARCH: Graduation

For this month, it was pretty straightforward. The theme was graduation, and since I could NOT decide for the life of me who I wanted to draw graduating, I pulled a classic Crossover College AU (that I do a lot anyway) and chose a bunch of OCs from different universes and made them be a friend group <3

Here are the characters and their courses:

[Front] Rafael Jaben (Marvel) -> Fashion Apparel Design Major | Isla Mariel (Nessinverse) -> Planetary Astronomy and Science Major

[Left: back - front] Soviya Orisev (Marvel) -> Toxicology Major | Cario Sienna (Marvel) -> Mechanical Engneering/Mechanical Technology Major

[Middle: b - f] Dije Aikeru (Haikyuu) -> Aviation Flight Training Major | Koda Torre (MHA) -> Fire Science/Fire Fighting Major

[Right: b - f] Taika Suberu (Demon Slayer) -> Humanities/Humanistic Studies Major | Nasu Sougen (Wind Breaker) -> Stringed Instruments Major

In my Crossover College AU, pretty much everybody knows each other, but for this specific group I imagined they became a friend group after meeting in a campus-wide sports festival or something. I just love the thought of them being friends haha.

— Nessin’s Starwalker

Nessin for @error-tooradforgenosans !

In the mornings, Two-Bit liked to run.

It was half-way between habit and enjoyment, but they’d never really shaken the practice, not since Phoenix - (Elfriede, it should be quietly corrected, but that was a name that hurt for them to say) - instilled in them a training regime that meant waking up at six in the morning for a run around the castle walls. An exercise that was made all the more terrifying by her insistence of booby-trapping the route, an activity which thoroughly annoyed the castle staff.

Luckily, Two-Bit did not have to worry about this on their usual morning job, which was, it should be noted, not at six anymore. It wouldn’t be that early until the depths of summer, when they had to wake up early to beat the intolerable heat.

No - in the delicate throes of spring, they finished around nine, and now they were resting, draped across a bench near a crosswalk and draining a reusable water-bottle dry of its contents. After taking a huge gulp, they let out a great sigh, lifting up their braid to allow some air to flow across the back of their neck... and they noticed it.

Or, more precisely, him.

It felt like a tingle going down their neck, or, perhaps, the sudden chime of a church bell - that single realization, that flash of insight that stopped them short. For a moment, they just... stared, brown eyes fixated on the figure at the edge of the crosswalk, waiting for the light to turn green. Slowly, they wiped their mouth, gaze flicking up and down the boy’s form - they’d place him in his teens, perhaps - and then they stood, pushing themselves off the bench with a slow, somewhat cautious movement.

They’d never scouted someone before, but Two-Bit was a person obsessed with duty, and to ignore someone with talent was... well, in their mind, rather irresponsible. So - despite feeling wholly out of their element - they put on a broad, confident smile, lofting a hand into a wave as they called out. “Oi! Hey there! Got a minute?”