#dorm of the strange

[shiningdesignersreflections]

Marina: Cool Girl

Designer's Reflection: Cool Girl

Obtained: Vol. 2 Ch. 3 workshop

Rarity: SR

Attribute: Blue/Cool

Awakened Suit: Camo Girl

Story - transcripts from Designer's Reflection

Chapter 1 - Academy First Experience

Chapter 2 - Club War

Chapter 3 - Stranger's Promise

Story - summarized

While Aeon searches the archives at Cicia School of Design, Marina skates around campus looking for something to do. She's only been homeschooled by her brother, so she's never been to a "real school."

She spies on one of the classes through the window. There are boring students that take lots of notes, like Aeon would, and there are students in the back that sleep or play games. Marina is interested in them. How often does this happen in college?

The bell rings, and all the students pile out of the classroom. Today happens to be a club fair, and everyone is eager to join a club. One of them has a skateboard rink. Marina is excited to join, showing off her skateboarding skills, surpassing the other students.

But the club members all make excuses for why she can't join: she's too young, she's not a student, etc. Upset, Marina storms off.

A girl named Cersei stops her and asks Marina to join her club. It's the Research of Magical Humans Club, and they reside in the Dorm of the Strange. All of them are weirdos that have been ignored by the others, and they hang out and share their hobbies and fascinations. Despite Marina not being a student, they allow her to join.

Marina spends the rest of the day with them, until Aeon calls for her to go home. She's too excited to see her new friends again, and she asks Aeon if she can come to study at Cicia School of Design.

But once he lists off the classes she needs to take to pass the entry exam, she loses interest in going to college.

Connections

-The fifth member of the club is Ashley. At the start of Vol. 2, she breaks free from one of the Mirrors on the Ark. She wanders into Cicia, and she meets the Dorm of the Strange group, who welcome her wholeheartedly.

-Cersei may have pretended to see Marina's fate in joining the club, but she truly is a witch. We help her get her family's wand in Magic Hare Wand, and we travel through time to meet one of the most powerful witches in Cersei's family in the gothic wedding event: Celina.

Fun Facts

-While it's not stated directly, it seems the Dorm of the Strange accepts trans and intersex students, like Princess and Prince. Ninir's standard of beauty seems so strict, superficial, and binary, that it makes sense for general society to reject anyone who doesn't conform.

-Marina's Profile in the Index confirms that she is old in terms of age, but forever a kid, in the "About Nikki" section. It's why she doesn't get offended at being called an "elementary kid," but she doesn't like condescension.

[lifeisstrangearchive]

Posters in Max's Nightmare

[suntails]

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[kedaked]

Me n gang we we are going to infiltrate the bitchass rich kid’s (nathan) parents mansion snd risk getting jailed

[ph7soy]

[IBHWS] warren & nathan’s dorm ~ chapter 11

Warren is hit by a sudden wave of sobering realization as the cold, hard reality of the situation dawns on him. He’s in a very compromising position right now and if Nathan found him like this–well, to put things as simply as possible: Warren would be colossally, supremely fucked.

warren finally (& possibly very irrationally) returns to his dorm room for the first time since that cursed™ frat party, where he may or may not run into nathan, his angry roommate who’s on a ragefueled rampage?!

guess whose side of the dorm is which (difficulty level: impossible) :P

[queernymphdoll]

Was hella fun LIS’ing my dorm~🎀

Not at Black Well ᡣ𐭩, but as a queer. Art. Student. Minus the super powers~ ᡣ𐭩

[crimescrimson]

The Scenery of Life Is Strange (2015) [Masterlist]: [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [18] [19]

[dandp]

I'm so afraid of Phil in this new era of being an instigator/referring to us and comments we make

[steaksex]

Frankensteins laboratory should have a cuck chair so i can sit in it

[valoflunar]

Marlene,Barty and James aka the impulse buying trio

[shiningdesignersreflections]

Chapter 3: Stranger's Promise

Narrated by Marina.

Narrator: I glance around Cersei's stall. On the black velvet tablecloth lies an old, frayed set of tarot cards.

Narrator: A tall girl in an elegant, classy gown and a crystal crown is sitting behind the table. She looks like a beautiful princess!

Narrator: She shuffles the cards gracefully. I'm surprised to spot some green stubble under her veil.

Narrator: Cersei's deskmate, the youth in the noble outfit, is also standing at the side.

Noble Youth: Where are you from, young lady?

Marina: The voice...

You: So that "youth" is actually a girl...

Narrator: Meanwhile, a figure clad entirely in metal scraps is attempting to get up from the couch in the back, producing a series of loud clangs.

Robot: Activating... 20%... 30%, 35%... Activation failed.

Narrator: The strange metal man gives up his attempt and sinks back into the couch.

Cersei: Hey, Robot, don't scare our sixth member away.

Marina: What a group of weirdos.

Cersei: Bingo! That's right! We're weirdos indeed. You're indeed destined to be our sixth member.

Cersei: Let me introduce you. This is our Princess. This one is Prince. The robot dude is human, but you can just call him Robot.

Marina: You can call me Marina.

Prince: A very good name. Easy to remember.

Cersei: We all live in the Dorm of the Strange. The other students all call our building a forbidden zone!

Marina: Is that something worth being proud of?

Cersei: Anyway, if you join our club, you get free access to the Dorm of the Strange. You'll be one of us!

Narrator: Her words simply put me in a bad mood once again.

Marina: But I'm not even a student in your school.

Narrator: Princess, who has been standing silently at the side, finally sighs.

Stubbled Princess: Yeah, she's right. She's a kid. Can't you tell?

Cersei: So? She can just join the club now and enter Cicia School of Design later.

Narrator: I look up in surprise to meet Cersei's genuine, intense gaze.

Marina: B-but by the time I get in... you'll all have graduated.

Cersei: Nah, I should've graduated 4 years ago, and I'm still here. Who knows when I'll graduate? We might become classmates.

Cersei: By the way, where do you live, Marina?

Marina: I live on a big, big ship! Bigger than the whole campus, actually.

Marina: We sail all day. I don't know where to, but my brother says we'll find our destination someday.

Cersei: Wow, that sounds amazing. I deserve my own ship, too.

Narrator: Princess nods elegantly, stroking the stubble on her chin.

Stubbled Princess: It'd be nice to go tanning on the deck with a glass of champagne.

Prince: So, do you know how to steer a ship, Miss Marina?

Marina: Of course! I can do anything!

Robot: A ship bigger than the whole campus... It must be powered by cutting-edge technology. Maybe tech from the Ruins.

Narrator: They all start chatting. It's like they've already accepted me and fully believe I really do live on a gigantic ship.

Narrator: I feel right at home hanging out with them. It's almost magical. How should I describe this feeling?

Choose either "It's friendship" or "It's the mutual understanding between weirdos."

If "friendship," ...

You: It's friendship! You've made some great friends.

Narrator: So, is this what having friends feels like? Now I see why people find university fun.

If "weirdos," ...

You: It's the mutual understanding between weirdos. You fit perfectly with each other.

Narrator: Who cares if others find me weird? And what makes them so "normal" anyway?

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Marina: But... I'm the 6th member, right? Shouldn't there be one more person here in that case?

Cersei: She went out to buy something. Oh, I see her over there!

Aeon: Marina!

Narrator: Before I can see the face of the fifth member, my brother has come looking for me.

Aeon: Where have you been? I've been looking for you for a while.

Marina: Aeon! You're already done?

Aeon: Yeah, it's time to go home.

Narrator: I hurriedly say goodbye to the members of the Research of Magical Humans Club and run over to take my brother's hand.

Narrator: From a distance away, I turn back and let my gaze linger on the stall a little bit longer.

Narrator: A new, grayish figure is standing by the small table now. The silhouette reminds me a little of a mirror we have on the Ark.

Aeon: What are you looking at, Marina?

Marina: Nothing, nothing! I didn't see a thing.

Marina: Aeon, can I study here in the future? I made some new friends and promised we'll become classmates someday!

Aeon: You want to go to school? Of course, you can go.

Marina: Really? You're the best!

Aeon: But if you want to pass the exam, you'll need lessons in history, languages, math, and more. Let's start lessons once we get home!

Marina: Huh? Nooooo! I don't wanna go to university anymore!

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

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Nathan Prescott's room

[theloveinc]

plagued by thoughts of bakugo losing his mind if pregnancy makes you food averse for w/e reason

[xnarlie-starlightx]

Created: himi-ko from DeviantArt

Alternative reality where Nathan himself isn’t manipulated from Jefferson because Mark narrowly came to Arcadia Bay, gets to have Kate as his supporting and caring friend but forwardly turned out as slow burn lovers.

Kate and her bunny, Alice, are only Nathan’s family after his father still doesn’t wants to deal with his son.

[fizzytoo]

just a pretty boy marine biology student in run-down university housing 😔