#also what. is an apt precalc

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[rose-dragomir]

rose in college headcanons

@chaoticemobookwormpickles and @sayly (who i can’t actually tag for some reason) asked for these a little while back so, here ya go!

right so

rose doesnt have a great track record with academics

she never really felt like her classes in school were actually contributing to her education, unless they were guardian theory classes

when she had to take precalc she got so annoyed 

her exact words to dimitri were “its not like in a fight with a strigoi one of them is gonna stop and stay ‘wait! graph this function and i’ll leave!’”

he responded with “you never know” under his breath

not helpful

but by the time rose and lissa get to college, lissa is freaking out about queen stuff 

so she majors in political science so she can get a better grip on it

but now shes freaking out about school

shes pulling a C- for the first time in her life

like she figured it’d be a little challenging, but that she’d pick up on it pretty fast

she didnt

none of the material makes sense to her

she literally thinks shes gonna fail one of her law classes 

rose however, is excited about school for the first time in her life

she wasnt doing great with some of the theory at first, not bc she didnt understand it but bc she thought it was stupid

she never really got over that but once she saw how it applied to moroi politics and dealing with council, she figured it was worth it

she loves her law classes 

she doesn’t just think they’re interesting, but she realizes that by studying law, she can figure out how to work around the rules without actually breaking them

when the have a break and come home to dimitri and christian, and she tells dimitri exactly that, he gets scared

like “great, now she can get away with anything, just what we needed”

christian has the same thought.

shes excited for school for the first time 

despite dimitri’s initial fear of rose’s law breaking, he’s really proud of rose and so happy for her that she found this

when abe gets wind of this, he’s also super proud

and can’t stop thinking of all the mafia family possibilities

just one more thing for dimitri to worry about

when they graduate rose has a higher gpa than lissa

and she wont stop talking about it

anyway

rose sorta becomes lissa’s unofficial advisor

which works out perfectly

so rose spends hours and hours with lissa pouring over official document, planning for meetings, writing and editing speeches, researching ancient moroi law

between that, her guarding shifts, and the desk work/ planning she has to do as a royal guard, lissa realizes shes taking up a lot of rose’s time

so she starts to pay her for it

rose is like lissa wtf

but she just goes with it after a while

lissa consults her on almost everything

and rose is really great about advocating about dhampir issues that lissa hadn’t even thought of bc they’re not discussed and lissa doesn’t have that lived experience 

i have this one scene in my head that i can never stop thinking about

lissa, christian, dimitri, and rose are all having a little family dinner sorta thing in lissa and christian’s apt complex, royal living quarters or whatever

lissa and rose are on the couch/ coffee table area going over laws strategizing for a council meeting about guardian rights and benefits, so they’re also going over some really old laws and trying to figure out exactly what they’re saying

and they’re super caught up in it

and dimitri and christian are making dinner (and by now they’re really good friends; i wanna write about their friendship development at some point)

they’ve done this so many times that they’ve got a really good rhythm going 

one of them call out that dinner is ready

and lissa mumbles back something about “wrapping it up”

and dimitri just pauses and looks at rose

and he’s just like

wow

and christian does the same

and they’re gushing to each other about how cool their significant others are

and rose gets up from the couch and she’s all

“talkin’ about us?” knowing full well that they were

dimitri’s just like “yeah” and leans in for a kiss

and lissa comes up to join everyone

they start setting the table and sitting down to eat

and its just super cute and domestic

also

sometimes its the reverse

where dimitri and christian are working on lesson plans and proposals for moroi defense classes and mandates and such

and lissa and rose cook

except its mostly lissa cooking and rose reading ingredients and instructions and then doing paper work or something

sometimes they’re all too busy

and they sit around working on all their respective stuff together bc they just enjoy all being in the same space

so they order in

they have a drawer full of takeout menus from around court

with all their favorite orders marked 

ugh i j love them all so much

wow this really got away from me

feel free to add stuff! i always like to hear what you guys think!