[ AUDIENCE: TAICHI YAGAMI ]

[dormheads]

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[dormheads]

It feels like you're in cahoots with Yamato and Luxanna. Trying to see if my answers stay the same?

I'm taking English, algebra, a P.E. sort of class, and a communications class.

[goalsides]

pretty straightforward then. please tell me there's a chance some of those will have open seats later and we aren't stuck with what we have...

[first of all, shut up. don't perceive him. there's a moment where the messages seem to stop before he continues.]

didn't know about luxanna but yamato and i sometimes think alike i guess?
and it's not about making sure the answers are the same. sometimes i just want to hear them myself
...to be completely honest with you, part of why i do want to get to know you better is you're the head of his dorm
is that a problem?

[dormheads]

[luke types are you his boyfriend or something? before erasing it]

I wouldn't get your hopes up. Even if you get some like those, the professors can be pretty weird.

That's fine with me. Are you friends?

[goalsides]

[i see luke wants to destroy this friendship before it even starts.]

not sure how they can be weirder than professor derulo but if you say so
we're from the same place. we've been friends since elementary school
we've never been in the same class or anything even if we're in the same grade, but being in different dorms is a little weird

[dormheads]

Don't worry. I plan to take care of my dorm.

You and him can switch dorms, you know. Not that I want him to leave.

[goalsides]

i guess i'm just surprised you would want to
not everybody would want that kind of responsibility
and i know
it's an option

[which is the diplomatic way of saying they vaguely talked about it and he doesn't have an answer for what to do about it.]

i get that you guys earn points for having people in your dorm
but do you get like negative points if people leave?

[dormheads]

The responsibility is why I wanted to be a Dorm Head. I made a mistake last year, and I want to prove I can do it.

We don't get negative points. But lacking people means we won't have many people to help us get points.

[goalsides]

nothing wrong with that
you're probably doing an okay job so far. i don't know if i'd answer my emails as fast as you guys do
but how do you even become a dorm head? different application and hope you're better than other people who apply?
viola told me that we're allowed to trade vouchers with any of you. so in theory even if a dorm was smaller, could that head still make up for the points if people traded with them?

[dormheads]

You apply for it. I had to get special permission, so I'm not like the others.

Maybe. It'd be easy for people to haggle me out of asking prices, though. I'd end up with less vouchers anyway.

[goalsides]

because of your age?
even if people haggle you down, you get more people to trade with you. i think that's how it works
but what makes you say that? just being a nice person?

[are you a pushover, luke...]

[dormheads]

[shut up no]

Because I failed a class last year.

I meant it would be easy for someone to get me to come down on a price just to get any vouchers. I'd have to or I wouldn't get any. Guess we'll see how it goes.

[goalsides]

[hm.]

it's just one class, what's the big deal? you can retake it, can't you?
🤔🤔🤔
pretty sure you're underselling yourself dude

[dormheads]

Failing meant I couldn't play baseball anymore. So I wouldn't have been able to be a Dorm Head either if not for Principal Bear.

[goalsides]

...so that's what you meant when you said you used to play
think you're gonna go back to it after you finish this year?

[dormheads]

Yeah.

If I don't make any more mistakes, I will. Or I guess I should say if I'm able to face the team again.

[goalsides]

they can't be that mad at you for failing a class, can they?

[...then again, actually, maybe they can. if he applies this in jock terms it really does make sense. hm.]

[dormheads]

I was the catcher, so I think I let them down.

[goalsides]

have you asked any of them, or are you just thinking you did?

[dormheads]

No, they probably didn't want to talk to me. So I just avoided them.

[goalsides]

[...wow.]

and you didn't think that by avoiding them maybe they thought you didn't want to talk to them instead?

[dormheads]

[it takes a bit for the reply to come back because obviously when put like that luke thinks it sounds foolish]

I felt like I couldn't face them after what happened.

[goalsides]

[this time it's taichi turn to pause because hm. yeah. yeah...]

i understand
it was something that shouldn't have happened, but still something that feels like your fault
so even if they would've been okay with it, it didn't feel right to talk to them until you got better
something like that?

[dormheads]

Sort of, yeah.

It was my fault, though. I failed the class because I cheated when it turned out to be tougher than I thought.

[goalsides]

[bro...]

got in over your head?
wait is that why you wouldn't let me cheat off of your dorm's homework?

[dormheads]

Yeah. Don't cheat.

The class was harder than I thought it'd be. I've never had problems passing any class until that one.