IMPORTANT A/N: Okay, this will be confusing, but I will explain as best as I can. My roommate gave me the prompt to write the Teen Titans without any powers in a "traditional american university", so naturally I had to return to a time BEFORE they got their powers, which means none of them have their hero alias. Garfield is Beast Boy, Victor is Cyborg, Richard is Robin, Kory is Starfire, and Raven stays the same… But don't worry, stick with me here, all of them get nicknames the same as or very reminiscent of their hero aliases. There are also hints of Rose Wilson, (yes, Slade's daughter) as she is part of the Teen Titans in the comic books. This will be a universe I'll revisit, so I would give this a shot! *wrings hands*
"Hey, BB!" Go long!" Victor shouted, throwing a football across a grassy field in front of the mathematics building. The zoology student, Garfield Logan, teasingly nicknamed Beast Boy by his friends for his undying love of animals, dropped his books on the ground and sprinted across campus, stretching his arms high over his head to make the catch.
"Booyah! Nice one!" Victor cheered. BB threw it back, trotting back across the field to collect his abandoned books.
"Hey, BB!" A woman's voice echoed across campus. "Nice catch!" Kory, an astronomy student intent on finding her own space thing be it a universe, galaxy, or star cluster, approached the two, a brooding girl on her arm.
"Quite…virtuoso…" the girl said, her face buried in a book.
"I'm surprised you looked up from your poetry long enough to see it, Rae," Victor joked.
Raven was an english major with a soft spot for beat poetry and Edgar Allen Poe. She was easily the most quiet of the group, but she was always good for a coffee and a long talk when needed.
"Well we can't all be football stars, 'Cyborg the Football Machine'," Raven smirked.
"Please, please, ladies," Victor joked right back, "Call me Cy."
"Hey," Beast Boy said suddenly to Kory, "find your own star-galaxy-cluster yet?"
"Not today!" Kory said, three or four versions of the same astronomy textbook under her arm. "But I will! So help me the Starfire Galaxy will exist!"
"Sure, Star," a voice said. The astronomy student turned on her heel and captured the new addition to their friend group in a hug.
"Richard! Good to see you!"
"Ugh! Guys, I told you! Please call me Robin; Richard is an atrocious name."
"Atrocious…" Raven echoed.
"Yeah, there are no good nicknames! Rich? Dick? No thank you."
'Robin' was the newest member of this small group of friends, having transferred to Jump University almost three weeks ago. His major was still undecided, which was a bit of a sore spot with him amongst his new friends, all of which, to him, seemed to have their lives figured out. That was one of the reasons he'd come to Jump University. He couldn't figure out what he wanted to do with his life at Gotham University.
"So, Robin," Beast Boy spoke up, wriggling his eyebrows."Seen Rose around anywhere?"
"Um, no, I haven't," Robin said. The girl was very studious, and though she'd been in "the group" the longest, she wasn't the most active participant, choosing to focus more on her studies. "Maybe she's in class?" Robin's unspoken Like you all should be was clear, but it fell on deaf ears.
"Aww," Beast Boy sighed.
"Speaking of class…?" Robin tried again. Raven raised an eyebrow at him. Starfire just giggled. "For heaven's sake! Do any of you actually go to school here?" The boy stalked off, disappearing inside the mathematics building.
"I wonder when he'll realize that classes don't take roll call?" Beast Boy said, nudging Cyborg playfully.
"Come on, Squirt, you should get to class. Soon we're gonna have to start calling you CC."
"Oh bro that was terrible!" BB chuckled, sprinting after the other boy.
"Are we going to class too?" Raven asked, not looking up from her book. Starfire giggled.
'I was thinking some shopping instead!"