The Return of the District Suite Meme

[etcircenses]

Basically, this meme is to figure out what it's like living with each other if our characters don't have CR already! Go below to your District thread and post what it's like living with your character. Do they leave their dirty dishes in the bathroom? Hit their snooze button eighteen times each morning? Steal food out of the fridge? Sexile people out of the living room? Leave passive-aggressive notes? Arrange "talking pillow" circles whenever someone forgets to say thank you?

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DISTRICT 4

[etcircenses]

[ka_sera_sera]

Roland's a pretty good roomate. Keeps to himself mostly, but tends to hang out in the common room and eavesdrop on conversations when he wants some company. He might make amused or derisive noises at other people's conversations but won't verbally involve himself in what other people are doing unless he's invited to.

When he first arrived he might have watched people operate the kitchen equipment for a while, and was probably fairly obvious about the staring. Now that he knows, he usually only makes very simple meals, and then only for himself. Roland tries not to take food that others have obviously reserved for themselves, but he may have stolen someone's soda once or twice because some temptations shouldn't be resisted.

He always cleans up after himself and tends to find himself cleaning up after others, too, though occasionally he'll pause, realize what he's doing, and make disgruntled faces. But he always needs something to keep him busy, so he probably ends up cleaning up after everyone even when he'd rather not. He doesn't complain about doing so, because he doesn't feel like it's something that 'has' to be done. Just something he wants to do.

His room is pretty sparse, bed always made. There are occasionally bits of string and needles lying around that he's been pickpocketing from his stylist, but the only thing of note in Roland's bedroom is a picture of Cuthbert lying face-down on the nightstand.

He's been keeping to himself and to his own room a little more lately, but occasionally he'll plop his blanket-wrapped self onto a couch just in case anyone's around and try not to cough on anyone. Or, depending on how many district 4 people are still in the arena, he'll hang there by himself just because it feels a little less isolated.

Soon, I think, he'll be teaching himself to knit or something, and he may start making things that he's heard his suitemates talking about needing or wanting and just grunting and handing it to them whenever they're both around. Possibly non-suitemate tributes too if he gets too bored and anyone makes a specific request to him. Tell me if you want your character to get some clumsily knitted socks or a scarf or whatever.

[iselldrugstothecommunity]

Howard probably drops in looking for R sometimes and quietly says hi and waves at Roland. That's Howard's version of friendly.

[ka_sera_sera]

Roland would solemnly nod back. That's his version of friendly too. XD

[dividedgirlofmine]

But does he straighten pictures?

[ka_sera_sera]

XD If there are any on the walls in the common areas, definitely.

Rokk Krinn

[oredinary_hero]

Rokk is a pretty decent roomie to have for the most part. He cleans up after himself, he doesn't leave stuff lying around or make a lot of noise and won't touch anything that's not his. He's also not there much, mostly just stopping by the suites to eat and sleep although when he is there he tends to be in one of the common areas, watching the Games or something on the TV or reading or watching what his roommates are up to. He's an early riser and spends a lot of his time in the training centre or out in the city.

If anyone bothers to look in his room they'll get a lecture about privacy if they get caught but also see it's pretty bare. Virtually no personal possessions and it's kept very neat. He eats ridiculously healthy, vegan food and will make disparaging remarks and lecture people about eating or preparing meat or any kind of animal products or sugary foods because ew! He has fairly basic cooking skills and only ever makes enough for himself and is very careful not to waste anything. He'll also tell people off if he catches them throwing away food that's not spoilt or generally being wasteful in other ways.

He doesn't go out of his way to be friendly with his roomates but if they try to strike up a conversation he'll be generally civil. Not particularly nice as he doesn't actually want people to like him but he mostly won't insult people. He likes to keep track of who comes and goes from the suite and may occasionally grill people he doesn't know if they just barge in.

And, in case I didn't mention it already, if someone takes something of his or doesn't clean up after themselves or just does something he disapproves of he will question everyone till he tracks down the culprit and lectures them. And keeps lecturing until they fix it/agree never to do it again/find a way to escape. Assuming they can get away because he will get in their face and bar their way and keep lecturing. It doesn't matter if you're older than him or could throw him across the room one handed, he will still lecture you like he's your dad. It's pretty lucky for everyone he's depowered in this respect as otherwise he has a tendency to drag people around whenever suits him so there's no escape when he starts in. Actually it's pretty obvious he's used to having some kind of power as he'll occasionally just wave his hands about and then get grumpy when nothing happens.

[ka_sera_sera]

God Roland would NOT enjoy being lectured at. He definitely cooks meat, so it's probably happened once or twice. Roland would just grunt and try to be polite for about a minute before he just started glaring and trying to ignore the lecture.

[oredinary_hero]

Yeah especially considering the age difference I don't see that going down well. The anti-meat lectures probably tapered off after a while - so long as Roland thoroughly washed up everything that was in contact with animal flesh *shudders* Cos would probably only hassle about him about it when he wanted to be an ass. So you know, maybe only once a week. xp

But he definitely would've gotten in his face about it a few times. And just not. shut. up. Even if he's being ignored.... Sorry.

[ka_sera_sera]

Roland would take great pleasure in ignoring Cos all the way to his room and then shutting the door in his face. Would the age difference make things worse?