#and afformentioned other prof constantly makes petty remarks abt Russian(said other prof's department)

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vettonso soulmate au im begging catie

Soulmates x Teachers

Hehe ty Ari, I had to think on this for a bit cause I don't tend to do modern AUs, but I think what I came up w is pretty fun and silly. As you can probably tell, I like forcing them to be in situations. This is very personal to me, but I love to imagine them as foreign language professors in a relatively small department. Fundamentally they should get along, as they have very similar backgrounds, but they have to fight for resources, so they despise each other…yet feel an inexplicable pull to each other and can’t stop bumping into each other. Anytime one of their students references even just the other’s courses, they just can’t help themselves from making some petty comment, like: “Oh you’re going on an abroad trip? But it’s with Dr. Vettel? That trip sounds cool, but I wouldn’t want to be stuck with him that long.” “Spanish? Oh yeah I wouldn’t take any classes with Dr. Alonso, I’ve heard he’s a pretty ruthless grader.” But on one fateful day, the department head decides that as a bonding activity, they will have to accompany the French professor on a multilingual abroad trip as additional guides. Oh no, their planes seats are next to each other, uh oh the hostel messed up and now they have a joint room, uh oh! Is it soulmates if they’re constantly forced by outside forces to constantly be around each other? They don’t have a lot of obligations as they’re mainly just in France, so they have a lot of free time and don’t want to be alone, so they begrudgingly hang out. And now that they’re away from the hypercompetitive environment, it’s just them walking around on the quaint French town like “omg you like [blank] too??” And then in a couple semesters after the trip, they run a joint linguistics history class, and finish each others sentences and grade papers together, and everyone wishes they'd go back to pretending to hating each other. The petty remarks were more palatable than having to watch them practically commit HR violations in front of a class of innocent students bystanders

#lmao i constantly think abt how my one prof unprompted said that exact remark about abroad trips abt my other prof #and afformentioned other prof constantly makes petty remarks abt Russian(said other prof's department) #not that theyre soulmates LOL but like that is the petty energy these guys would have #just absolutely cannot have a convo without namedropping the other and its always something super petty and not at all related to the convo #and then they get together and do the same thing but now its gooey compliments and thinly veiled declarations of love #all their closest students before this were like omg how do we fix their toxic relationship :( and now are like 'oh god theyre soulmates' #also i hope this is soulmatey enough for you???? #they're pretty drawn to each other but dont want to get along w each other cause theyre in compeition(to win the hearts & minds of students #but as stated feel inexplicably drawn to each other and cant stop running into each other at every turn #and this trip is just the final straw and they cant keep away from each other anymore #vettonso #catie.asks