Eridan's fingers tapped against his arm as he sized up the other man in front of him. How exactly he had wound up with this pauper standing outside the door to his room was beyond his abilities to understand. Perhaps it was some practical joke made by his father; he wouldn't put it past the man to slip a few bills to whomever assigned the rooms to play him such a cruel hand of fate.

The other male looked at him, one eyebrow raised and a somewhat bleary expresion on his face, he was obviously only half awake and this only served to piss Eridan off even more. How DARE he arrive to their first meeting in this sort of state! Did he have no idea who he was going to be rooming with? How insanely LUCKY he was! Putting aside the initial impression, Eridan stuck a hand out to him. May as well attempt to get along with the heathen, should they be sharing a dormatory.

"Ampora," he said, the corner of his mouth twitching up plesantly as he saw the slight recognition of the name on the other man's face. "Eridan Ampora. I assume you're going to be my dormmate?"

"Lookth like it." The other man responds, with a strong lisp that he didn't seem able to control. He begrudgingly accepts the handshake, licking his lips with what appeared to be a split toung How... common of him. Assuming he'd had it done on purpose. "Captor. Sollux Captor."

"Captor...ha, my apologies, but I'm afraid I don't place the name?" Eridan raised a well-groomed eyebrow as he shook the Sollux's hand firmly-his grip was surprisingly good for the spindly creature, he noticed-and he ran his eyes briskly over him. He wasn't unattractive, he had to admit; if he had to live with someone, much less a tired-eyed delinquent such as Captor seemed to be, he may as well be easy on the eyes. With a shower and a new wardrobe, he could likely be tolerable company.

He runs his free hand through his mustard coloured hair. "That'th becauthe you've never heard it before, dipthhit. It'th a mathname. My dad'th made it when they tied the knot becauth they thought it wath cute, now I'm thtuck with it."

"...Right," Eridan mumbled, a mildly pained smile spreading over his face. So much for the chance that perhaps his roommate may have been someone more important than he let on. A prank by father indeed, if not Seahorse. That damned valet bastard, he was sneaky enough to have figured out a way to do something like that.

Sollux's brow scrunched as regarded the overdressed fop. "Tho...are we going to go in or are we thtanding here all day?" he asked, fiddling with his card key.

"Ah, yes. That would be prudent, I suppose," Eridan said, pulling out his key and swiping it in the lock before the other boy could. He could tell that the man was glowering at him through those cheesy 3D glasses of his. Hah.

He stepped into the room, barely able to keep himself from recoiling at the relative emptiness of it. The living room was spartan, nothing but a sofa on one side, a pair of minifridges holding up an oversized television on the other. This place was in dire need of some sort of decoration; it looked even more like a prison than he was expecting.

With a sigh, he walked over to one of the bedroom doors. He turned the knob-nothing. Odd. A turn, a shake, a kick...

"Yo, motherfucker, I'd love to chat but a brother needs his beauty rest," groaned a sleepy-sounding voice from within the room.

"What the fuck? Are we in the wrong room?" Eridan asked, recoiling from the door. Sollux snorted in amusement.

"Thith ith a four-perthon room, idiot," he said, pushing open the door to the other room. Eridan peered back, looking on in horror as he saw Sollux throw his little bag onto one of the two beds.

Hell. No.

"This must be some sort of mistake. Obviously I was meant to be put into a single room?"

"It'th a random draw." Sollux looked at him skeptically. "Did you jutht ignore all the fucking 'Welcome to Univerthity' thit they thent uth?"

Eridan pursed his lips, pulling his suitcases behind him into the small room. "I skimmed it. Wwhat's it to you?"

Sollux paused, then grinned. "What wath that?"

"Wwhat? Oh...shit..." Eridan clapped a hand over his mouth as Sollux started to snicker. "Oh, shut your mouth."

"It thuitth you," Sollux said, falling back onto the bed he claimed as Eridan started to unzip his suitcases, frowning.

This was going to be a long term.