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Gil Bajoras
Gil is both romance- and sex-repulsed.
Gil's gaydar is awful, but his acedar (is that a word? is now) is on point.
Gil doesn't understand technology but when they're in town he makes Ian look up Youtube videos of people hurting themselves.
Gil is a closet soap opera lover.
Gil spends more time in Tomas dorms, not only because he's terrified of Ari but because he sneaky sneak watches soap operas over Icarus's shoulder.
Gil is a HUGE FAN OF CLASSICAL.
Gil insists he's GREAT at math and NEVER lets anyone help because they'd be in awe of how awesome he is. Spoiler: Gil's actually really awful, worse than Scarlett.

Ariadne Gambino
Ari's less aro-like before emotional connection and more akioromantic-like, as in she likes you until you start reciprocating her feelings. However, that can change if there's a bond made considering she's demi.
Ari is really really good at chess. Mostly because she makes her opponent incredibly nervous during their moves and checkmates them pretty fast.
Ari's sense of humor is very dark.
Ari hates math and gets through it really fast because she has no idea what she's doing. Nobody gets to see her test scores because then people would realize she's actually really terrible.

Scarlett Heyne
Scarlett has a single page in her sketchbook of a heart with a cross through it to signify that she's aroace. So many people have simply assumed this means she has a broken heart that the next page is filled with text explaining asexuality and aromanticism. It's one of the only pages in the entire book that has words.
Once Scarlett reveals in-universe that she's aroace, nobody will understand at first except other aroace characters. Gil will probably be the first one to realize it.
Scarlett likes to play dressup games. She might own a few dressup dolls too.
Scarlett and Lucifer are penpals. The school owls were having trouble crossing dimensions, so instead Lucifer just sends a horrific flying demon to deliver letters. Scarlett's named it Fred and sneaks beef jerky from the kitchen for it.
Going to the movies with Scarlett is an experience, since she can't see her notebook in the dark. For example, go with her to a horror movie and when you ask her what she thinks of the woman being stabbed onscreen, she might hold up the ': D' face instead of the 'D:' face.
Scarlett is a HUGE METAL FAN.
Scarlett and James have actually met at the art store. They swap tips.
Scarlett is really bad at math and gets Ari and Icarus to tutor her. Except she drives both of them insane with how awful she is, but Icarus can't leave her alone because somewhere in the world she'd be doing it wrong because he wasn't there to help.

Muna Nejem
Muna doesn't understand [Cards Against Humanity], so Bijan picks cards for him. Bijan usually picks ones that are obviously jabs towards the other kids.
Muna has, more than once, recommended porn sites/videos to people because "they'll like the actress's hair" or some other reason. The Merchant sees no reason to stop him.
Muna listens to rap and R&B.
Muna likes math because it's the same wherever you go, wherever it's taught.
Muna bribes [the piano] with sheet music to stay quiet while he sneaks out.

Charlotte Ryan
Charlotte spends a lot of time in Justus because there's actually wifi there, as well as a phone signal.
When Charlotte heard the Janus dorms had a flatscreen, she got very excited. When she tried to turn it on, it switched back to whiteboard status. Someone had drawn an anatomically-correct d**k on it. Charlotte doesn't visit Janus dorms anymore.
Charlotte brought Cards Against Humanity to campus.

End
End speaks very carefully and tends to sound like he doesn't have much confidence.
End doesn't understand [Cards Against Humanity], but he's pretty good at it.
End does the Makoto Tachibana smile.
End likes everything as long as it doesn't sound scary or is sweary // derogative.

Shanta Thakkar
Sometimes Shanta gives up on sleeping and hangs out on the roof until sunrise.
Shanta sometimes sings in the shower. After the first time, Silas bought earplugs. End is too polite to take them, Krystal sleeps through it, and Aurinia always happens to be somewhere else.
Once somebody tried vacuuming Shanta's carpet. They were scared of rugs for a week.
Shanta ends up picking cards [in CAH] that don't make sense, but once in a while she'll put something down that is so perfect everyone else stares at her quizzically.
Shanta is autochorisromantic, meaning that while she loves the idea of a relationship, she doesn't want to be in one herself.
Shanta is asexual.
Shanta's been spending most of her days staring at the ceiling or playing card games with End. And hiding from Pele.
Shanta likes Indian folk.
Shanta's completely indifferent about math.
Shanta has taken to finishing her journal writing on the roof while Yani and Pele drag End around searching for her. With the bat.
Shanta takes to bodily threatening anyone that refers to fairies as insects.

Averill Hammershod
Averill doesn't like junkfood or cigarettes and it seems stupid to him that people would willingly put that s**t in their body (Cuz it's bad 4 u)
Averill speaks very precisely and has good pronunciation.
Averill's the guy that plays the dirty humor cards [in CAH].
Averill is trying to learn how to be a DJ (because its technical, but it gets the chickas!) but the equipment he cobbles together keeps disappearing...
Averill probably pretends not to like metal but is a closet fan.

Nina Pelaia
Nina has the worst sense of humor of them all.
Nina is actually rather fashionable with her clothes, terrible at singing though.

Naomi Pritchett
Naomi is very polite to all her professors, and pretty well-liked by them. This usually leads to hisses of "fake b***h".
Naomi has a great singing voice. Except she never sings, because Sylvia walked in on her once.
Naomi can play the lyre and piano.
Come ball time, Naomi charges for makeovers. She makes a surprisingly decent amount of cash.
Naomi swimming looks more like a dolphin, but she's fast.
Thunder makes Naomi irritable.
Naomi's sense of humor is very dark.
Naomi visits her mom frequently, and even when she doesn't have news she just sits in silence.
Naomi's great at math. She's offered to help Ari countless times. Ari refuses. Every. Time. (Sheesh, those Lucians and their pride.)

Ian Schiller
Ian is a fantastic baker. His chocolate-chip cookies are to die for.
Ian's Steam account is filled with RPGs and popular games. He owns the FNAF games but doesn't ever play them.
Ian also owns the deluxe version of Hatoful Boyfriend. And has played every. Single. Route.
Ian is actually decently religious and goes to Justus on Friday evenings and Saturday mornings so he can livestream temple services.
Ian watches anime. Nearly every genre. He's one of those guys that writes complex analyses about various scenes.
...He's probably a closet fan of Sailor Moon. Heh.
Ian is the xkit guy.
Ian likes Vocaloid like the weaboo trash he is.
Ian not only likes math, he's invented a new type of math to work with magic calculations, creating forty-odd symbols and formulas to deal with the concepts in a numerical fashion. When he first started he had to convert everything to regular numbers and then convert everything back; now he just does it in his head.
Anyone who claims it makes no sense gets a lecture on the symbols and formulas that can last anywhere between ten minutes to a half hour depending on how in depth Ian gets to get.
He calls it "mathemagick". Lame.
Ian fixes the Janus flatscreen so at least now it'll play movies. He can't control when it'll switch to a whiteboard though.
Ian is also officially the guy to go to if you want your electronics tricked out. More like he'll beg you to let him upgrade it.

Sylvia Wood
Sylvia has mixed signals from her teachers. Some like her, some despise her. She has straight A's in every class.
Sylvia is also the most likely student to break into offices at night when she needs something.
Just to mess around, for like a week [after walking in on Naomi sing] every time Sylvia would look at Naomi she would cackle.
Sylvia dominates in terms of points [in CAH].

Icarus Domitor
Icarus has at least one stuffed animal in his bed. He keeps it hidden under the blankets so nobody will know it exists.
Icarus is pretty desensitized to jokes about his name by now.
Icarus is a closet soap opera lover.
Icarus is a complete sucker for fluff.
Icarus is always aware [Gilrin is] there [when watching soap operas] but never mentions it because he'd be at risk of being yelled at.
Icarus likes soft rock and probably cries when he listens to The Fray.
Icarus loves math because you can't manipulate numbers. Numbers are friends.
Icarus learns mathemagick purely to do magic problems on occasion.
Icarus alters his handwriting and sneaks into Lucian Dorms at night to make corrections [to Gil's math].

Casimir Jaunius
Casimir is one of those people that doesn't seem to notice anything going on around them, when in fact they notice everything.
Casimir, who often stumbles across this secret soap watching, is less afraid of the rage of Gil and will casually bring it up to Ian in conversation occasionally.
Casimir has this really weird talent of finding great vines.

Yvonne Lorendi
Yvonne is average at math. She makes enough mistakes to drive Ian and Icarus insane, but if she really tries she's pretty good.

Gage Rosequartz
Whenever Gage handles small animals, he's very delicate because he doesn't want to accidentally squash them.
Gage's pet bear hangs out at Carrmin's a lot. Sometimes Gage comes in to feed her and finds Carrmin and his bear curled up.
Gage is responsible for starting fires in the Tomas dorms. Other dorms frequently request his services, because none of them know how to start a fire for s**t. Eventually Aerykah just leaves instructions for starting a fire on the Tomas dorms door.
Gage's arms are able to withstand ridiculous amounts of weight and are very, very strong. He's usually asked to open jars and can pick people up ridiculously easy because it doesn't actually put bodily strain on him. (Save for the magical exertion, but his capacity is pretty high from binge meditating.)
Gage takes [Cards Against Humanity] very literally, and only cracks a smile when Din or Aerykah play something amusing.
Most first years and other light people can (and probably have) sat or swung on Gage's outstretched arm and everything was perfectly fine.
Gage has fluctuating feelings on both romance and sex. He goes between repulsed and indifferent on a regular basis (and is perfectly fine with both after he becomes attracted to someone via strong emotional bond). Not that he really shows where he's at ever at all.
There are some days where something is really wrong with one of Gage's arms so he takes the entire thing off to wipe it down or adjust it or something. Din found him like that once and asked if Gage needed a hand. Gage held up the arm.

Aerykah Sampson
After Vivian left, Aerykah started sleeping in the boy's side of the dorms more.
Aerykah buys hair dye in bulk and uses the empty bunks in the dorms to store it.
Aerykah's favorite card game is BS.

Carrmin
Carrmin is one of the few people around that isn't wary of Ari at all.
Carrmin enjoys kid games like hide and seek, hopscotch, jump rope, and tag, but he has a bookshelf in his house full of books with extremely flowery language. Nobody else can comprehend what the hell it says except for him.
Carrmin takes care of pets that are released into the forest when the students forget.
Carrmin also visits the mole family frequently.

Merchant
Contrary to popular belief, Merchant is freakin' fantastic at math. He can do complex calc problems in his head at the turn of a dime.
Take one of Merchant's books and risk your life. The guy can get really creative with his death threats.
The Merchant works Muna to the bone for a week while getting back on his feet. There's restocking, organizing, and selling to do after all!

Marianne
Marianne is responsible for the Janus flatscreen switching to a whiteboard. She's also responsible for the d**k drawn on it in permanent marker.

General
Merlin tried doing clubs to encourage students to stop doing dangerous s**t on the weekends but it just ended up in a lot of messes in the classrooms.
Chocolates are banned on Valentine's day because students kept doing weird s**t with it.
There is at least one dimension on campus that's made up of projects that artists thought were deep that ended up being thrown in the trash.
Third years and up generally work well together, because they've been through this s**t before.
Each dorm has a piano and each piano behaves differently.
Flare is renovating and will soon have a weight room. That's not actually a headcanon, that's canon. That's a thing that's happening.
In order, from best-stocked kitchen to least-stocked kitchen: Tomas, Ekaterina, Lucian, Janus.

Lucians
Lucians are the first ones to be terrified of Ariande.
The Lucians' idea of "quality bonding time" is all of them in the same room, doing their own thing.
The Lucian piano plays music for the flowers. Once, Ari intimidated the piano into shutting up, and the flowers started wilting immediately. Ari apologized when nobody was watching.
On Ari's orders, the Lucian piano sounds a cacophonous alarm consisting of mashing keys if anyone tries to sneak out after curfew.

Ekaterina
Most of the Ekaterina's bookshelves consist of books that were never returned to the library & books from student's personal collections & books left by fourth year students.
The Librarian knows all of the Ekaterina students by name.
Ekaterina's 'bonding time' often consists of group reading, or study sessions!
The Ekaterina piano's music changes on the time of day. During exams? Gentle music to help students focus. In the morning? Suspenseful music to make students panic and get the hell out faster. The rest of the time? Soft classical since half the time people are reading or doing some other work anyway.
The Ekaterina piano also takes requests, but it won't play any "trashy" music. It's kind of pretentious. (M'piano *tips lid*)
The Ekaterina piano stops only when all the candles in the Ekat dorms are out.

Tomas
Tomas dorms has both an extensive kitchen and a s**t ton of board games. Gage and Din like Go Fish the most.
Monopoly is a bonding game for the Tomas kids. It was actually on the verge of being banned from campus because it kept causing fights but they managed to save it. The only board left is in their dorms.
The piano in Tomas plays music to suit the mood. It also takes requests.

Janus
The Janus piano always plays upbeat, cheerful music, unless someone's doing something REALLY STUPID AND DANGEROUS. (Which is often.) Then it starts playing a funeral dirge.
The Janus piano does not stop playing until all the students are trying to sleep. One kid's still up, writing by the last candle? It'll keep playing. (It's usually Shanta.) This has often led to manhunts to find the one last Janus that is keeping everyone else the ******** awake.

Blood Pact

[note: pairings do not have to be romantic or even made of just two people.]

Din/Gage
Din and Gage are queer platonics.
Gage will buy Din literally anything, and contributes a lot to eir's wardrobe.
People who don't know Gage are really impressed when Din walks up to this big scary-looking metal guy and starts talking to him.
Din and Gage are both really good at meditating and can slip into it easily.

Naomi/Aerykah
Even if Aery and Naomi are fighting, they set aside their differences to survive... just so they can b***h more at each other.

End/Shanta
End and Shanta have been playing a game of checkers for the last 3 weeks. Just one game. They both take forever to make their moves.

Sylvia/Naomi
Sylvia and Naomi are usually the ones with the most points [in CAH], because after a while of playing they figure out who is likely to pick which cards when Card Czar.

Gil/Icarus
Gilrin and Icarus get in heated arguments about the soaps they watch. Who is best with who, what'll happen next, and so on.

Gil/Scarlett
Scarlett and Gil are both horror movie fans - Gil because there's rarely any romance in such movies, and Scarlett because the people in said movies are always such idiots and she can usually predict who's going to die first.

Ian/Icarus
Icarus starts pointing out mistakes in Ian's math when he looks over his shoulder. Ian is incredibly offended because he invented the stuff. And Icarus doesn't really want to seem like an a*****e, but he cannot stand people making mistakes in math.
Sometimes Ian just lets him do the entire problem because he'll whine otherwise. Also, the calculations are much cleaner when Icarus does them because he's more efficient.
When Ian gets annoyed at Icarus, he starts making a lot of mistakes in his math on purpose and doesn't let Icarus help him. Icarus offers to literally pay him because it's causing him so much emotional turmoil. Ian only lets up when he smells tears.