#and Belphie actually is a professor I think???? At least hes working on a thesis statment on a relativly new field

[torchstelechos]

Im only on season 1, so pardon me if this has been explained or at least acknowledged, but why the fuck are the brothers still in school? Its been on my mind for ages now because they’re how old? Literal eons? Okay, how long does it take to graduate from education? 20ish years? Okay cool, how the fuck are they still in the education system. Are they dumb? Are they teachers? Are they there to relearn information as technology and science has evolved over the years?? What the fuck are they doing??

[frankpanioncube]

Obey Me Graduate Studies AU - Part 2

Pt 1; Diavolo, Lucifer, Mammon, Leviathan, Satan and Asmodeus.

Pt 2 - Beelzebub, Belphegor, Siemon, Solomon

A continuation of the AU where RAD is a University and the characters are all profs/grad students/postdocs.

Beelzebub: One would THINK Asmo would be on the pulse of everything happening in the University, but surprisingly if you want to know department drama you really should be tracking down Beel. That’s because he goes to every. single. Department. Party. And steals food (this does not change once he’s making a steady paycheque. It would not change if he ever got tenured.). And will occasionally hand it out in the library at late hours (if there’s any left....and a couple of bottles of wine at cubicles have occasionally not been spotted by librarians...) Getting Beel as an advisor is winning the jackpot; you will actually be treated as more than a brain on a stick; nothing gets done in his office hours before there’s coffee/tea/biscuits anyway. Haven’t been to breakfast yet? For the past week? That’s it then, you’re doing this adviser meeting in the dining hall and he won’t even begin to discuss your work until he can see you put food in your mouth. Plus he loves his undergrads and genuinely wants them to do well. He’s physically upset if he has to fail anyone. Early on there was some investigation into the fact that he had really positive feedback from students and they certainly did very well, but A LOT of students challenged his grades; something that would be expected of someone unsuited to lecturing.  Turned out that Beel was encouraging those who had low grades to try to challenge them - to give them a fighting chance. It doesn’t work the way he hopes but he keeps doing it anyway. Beel is usually working with a partner on his publications, mostly because he’s willling to do the leg work - lab or research others are not.

Belphegor: You know that one SUPER FRUSTRATING kid in undergrad who you saw maybe once on the first day, then disappeared off the face of the planet and you assumed they dropped the course? Never went to lectures, read the textbook a few times over the night before the midterm, showed up and got inexplicably high-to-perfect grades without even trying, disappeared again until finals and did the same? Belphegor was definitely that student. Unfortunately that particular student will be finding it VERY tough to get recommendations for grad school from professors who know him only as a student number. Well, lucky for him Lucifer happened to know who he was as he found his essays memorable, having been the one to mark them and was able to put a style and subject matter to a student number. UNLUCKILY for Belphegor, the stipulation was that although he would be receiving an acceptance letter,he would be not going in as a Thesis-based Masters’ program, but rather a course-based one. With a side job of teaching seminars. That meant, much to Belphegor’s chagrin - that he would be getting up for a 8-3 lecture every day, having to attend the lectures of the course he was doing the seminar for - and as a nice little bonus which he was TOLD was because he was the youngest and least experienced (but let’s face it - was definitely just twisting the knife) would have the most horrible late night monday back-to-back seminar times. However. Belphie’s up to the challenge because Lucifer’s not all that. Just wait until his path crosses with Satan’s. 

Siemon: Another one that a lot of students have a MASSIVE crush on. Siemon’s aware and he’s old enough (he’s tenured!) that he finds it very disturbing. He kind of tries to look scruffy and focus on the material but is really bad at the former and just tends to look more attractive. Fortunately or Unfortunately for Siemon, he’s got a lot more things to worry about than whether or not his students’ eyes are glazed over with attraction or the subject matter of his lectures is that boring. One such thing is that a lot of people think that he should be instated as head of the department - which is followed closely by the fact that although he doesn’t agree with Diavolo’s methods he doesn’t want the job and he also rather likes Diavolo. It puts him in a frustratingly awkward position. He’s refused being on senate a few times as well to this end, he’d not have his seniority there and then he could do nothing. As an adviser he’s a bit stiffer than, say, Beel and not as jovial as Diavolo, but they have the same vibe. He cares immensely for his students. He also has the ability to hand pick so the ‘winning the lottery’ - you are going to be taken care of. You got writers’ block? Didn’t do as well on that presentation as you hoped? Want to cry about how fucking unfair life is right now? Yeah, Siemon’s door’s always open. Not to mention, his reputation precedes him. Anything you do from here on out will be taken notice of - for better or worse. 

Solomon: No one really knows? What Solomon Does? Apparently it’s some big independent study. And ODDLY enough, Asmo is involved? But somehow, Solomon is always -around- Once he was caught smoking on campus...but apparently was never charged because he was actually 15 metres away from any building? Which was kind of the point because it wasn’t something that was thought possible? There are rumors about this man and it is INCREDIBLY hard to separate fact from fiction. I mean - surely the weed farm he’s growing on campus? That’s not...well...now you THINK about it, it might be possible...The fact that there’s a drink named after him in the student union? ...Is true. What is in it, most undergrads haven’t heard of. Most people haven’t heard of outside of googling it online. And looking his name up in the library has his name appended to dozens and dozens of unconnected projects. It’s sort of headache inducing. and no one seems to have ever really stuck with tracking down exactly WHAT it is he does at the University...maybe sometimes the myth is better than the reality. Take that as you will.