One time in high school I was waiting to talk to the Vice Principal and this other kid came in and sat down next to me. He said “What are you in for?” And I said “Oh, they just want to know if it’s cool if I miss my classes tomorrow to run sound and lights for a presentation in the auditorium. What are you in for?” and he said that he stabbed a kid with a screwdriver. I told him we led very different lives and he agreed.
imagine ur otp
Roxanne and Megamind but I can’t decide which one is which, because Megamind as the troublemaker is the obvious choice, but I also fully believe that Roxanne would stab someone with a screwdriver
so what if the school realized that they could solve the dual issue of having no budget for much-needed a/v repairs and Megamind constantly being in detention with one move: he’s recruited to fix and run the system, effectively doing community service to work off his detention time so he won’t have to come back after class two years after graduating to handle the backlog.
Meanwhile, a guy in shop class thought it’d be funny to snap Roxanne’s bra strap.
ooh! Megamind gives an impassioned impromptu plea in Roxanne’s defense, claims he needs an extra pair of hands for the repair work, and convinces the vice principal to let her work off her punishment in regards to the Screwdriver Incident by helping him.
They’re reluctant because stabbing is pretty bad – even Megamind’s victims don’t usually need stitches – but Roxanne points out that half the girls in class had been trying to report the guy for sexual harassment for months now, only to be told “Boys just do that to girls they like”, which seems like a failure on the administration’s part … it could go really badly if they wanted to victim-blame, say, the daughter of a lawyer?
Self-defense suddenly seems like a reasonable argument to them, but they negotiate to describe the ‘community service’ in the most ominous terms possible when the parents of the stabbing victim inevitably call the office, to make it sound like it’s even worse than suspending her.
They make sure to mention that she’s going to be working with Megamind–cue a list of some of Megamind’s most dangerous-sounding accidents–“on a community service work program specially designed for our most troubled and problematic students”.
They manage to make it sound like working with Megamind is going to be a punishment in and of itself, and obliquely hint at it possibly being dangerous for her.
The administration is also careful to make it sound, to anyone else who asks about Megamind, like working with Roxanne is going to be punishment enough for him, and obliquely hint that she might be dangerous for him.
Megamind and Roxanne are both worried that the other one is going to believe it, but of course they don’t, and the two of them end up sarcastically joking about it, like “oh, you’d better let me have the last cookie in the packet or I might STAB YOU”.
Megamind buys her a screwdriver as a present.
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