Coffee Shop AU

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COFFEE SHOP

An absolute staple. No matter what side of the counter you're on, the coffee shop is the absolute center of your life. Whether you're a barista, or just camped out in the corner with the good outlet while you write your novel. Perhaps you just really want to tell the cute person behind the counter that you've loved them since they gave you that coffee six months ago. Or you're overwhelmed with orders and nothing is going right. For good or bad, everyone needs their caffiene. ♨ Post a top level with your character and canon. Include any preferences you may have. If you're feeling bold, write a starter! ♨ Tag around, make your own world. ♨ Please mark any potentially triggering content

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Grantaire / Les Mis

[wouldhave]

[ It's like every Les Mis modern AU ever! Grantaire has tattoos! He may or may not be a student, if he is he never goes to lectures! He wears a green beanie! He drinks only black coffee! He's wearing a nametag that just has "R" written on it!




He's terrible at making coffee, please don't actually let him make you anything he's only covering for a few weeks. But definitely ask him why he has skulls all down one arm and latin poetry and flowers down the other. Also ask if he's ever brushed his hair or if he deliberately makes it like that.
But don't ask why he smells like wine, that's too much. ]

listen

[logomachist]

[The most pressing question is why someone who should smell like (a) nothing in particular or (b) coffee smells like wine, though.




Just kidding. The most pressing question is actually why the means of production have been so firmly cemented out of the hands of the people to the extent that the underlying goodness of revolutionary politics has been able to be sullied and marginalized into the caste of 'unpatriotic' when really, a person who loves their country should essentially be constantly willing to die for the advancement of their fellow man into something like stable parity with those seeking his oppression.

But the right now question is:] S--even cups, please.

[There were probably fancy drinks demanded. However, electing Enjolras to acquire caffeine for them means everyone gets a small black coffee and likes it (or, more likely, winds up going back to order their own).]

Beric Dondarrion | Game of Thrones

[sixtimesdead]

[He's stopping in for a cup in the middle of working a double shift down at the station. Better give him the extra shot of espresso....or three. Poor guy looks dead on his feet and could likely use it.]

Lurine Hollister | Agent of Hel

[thelamia]

[Lurine is one of those people that's always a step or two ahead of everyone else when it comes to what is considered popular. So of course she's discovered the fabulously little niche coffehouse before all the hipsters descend on it like a swarm of mosquitoes. She orders the most expensive drinks on the menu, always makes sure to tip, and spends her time in one of the rather comfortable chairs sipping slowly while she sizes up everyone around her.]

Ivar "The Boneless" Ragnarsson | Vikings

[ragnarsson]

[You're not really a college student unless you're mainlining coffee like it's about to go out of style. Ivar's no exception, though he's never uses it to cram in more study time like most do. He's brilliant enough just to skate on by with little effort, much to the chagrin of his fellow students.

Instead, he comes purely to people-watch, deciding if he wants to try and play nice with anyone by acting like an actual human being instead of some wild predator like a wolf. Usually he does, and on the rare occasion he doesn't, he can usually be asked to leave without too much trouble coming forth.]

Wrench | FX Fargo | OTA

[wwrench]

[He mainlines caffeine like it's his lifeblood, and don't let an intimidating appearance fool you: he's not drinking it black or scalding. Bring on the cold brews and the flavored syrups. It's a hipster nightmare. Never mind the fact that he's probably hogging one of the few electric outlets to charge his phone.]

timothy upham ➣ saving private ryan

[misericordieux]

[ Tim's a fourth-year French/German double major. He lives for the café vibe, so expect to catch him there most days, either working on his thesis or tutoring. He has papers everywhere, but all of the other tables are probably occupied and he'd be glad to share, sooooo. ]

Castiel | Supernatural | OTA

[aprofoundbond]

[Can't actually taste anything consumable but that doesn't mean he won't drink or eat it anyway, even if just for show. Enjoys people watching and could use a break from the latest apocalypse. Open to all, canon, crosscanon, etc. Would love to toss him at Good Omens folks.]

[goodoldfashioned]

(OOC: You rang :D?)

[Aziraphale looks over the menu with some confusion. He'd heard that coffee shops had started selling more than just coffee, tea, or hot cocoa some years ago, but he'd never seen much evidence of it before. He orders a macchiato and a slice of coffee cake, and is more than a bit dismayed when he gets an enormous caramel concoction and not an espresso like he'd expected.]

Ah. So they've changed the definition. [He sounds more than a bit passive aggressive about it, too, though he knows better than to take it out on the barista.]

Aziraphale | Good Omens (Book!Verse)

[goodoldfashioned]

(Mr. Fell owns a coffee shop, in that there is coffee in it and it is, theoretically, a shop. Good luck actually purchasing anything, though. Cash only. Odd hours. The Works. He has an impressive book collection, though, and if you get lucky, sometimes you can camp out there reading for a few hours before he notices you're there.)

[sparkofgoodness]

Crowley likes coffee shops.

He likes people watching, honestly. Everyone in a rush, people snipping at each other before their morning coffee, snipping at baristas over wrong drinks, gossiping with friends in corners, meeting up with a potential employer -- so much goes on. Always a couple of potential temptations there, but also always something interesting.

Aziraphale's coffee shop is no less interesting than the normal ones, Crowley might admit it's more interesting if pressed, but it's certainly --

Different.

Quieter.

It's genuinely the most unfriendly coffee shop he's ever seen, and he sort of loves that about it.

Of course, the only person he can watch here most days is Aziraphale -- but that's fine too. Crowley enjoys that.

He also enjoys helping by discouraging anyone else who decides to come in. Previous tactics have included turning into a snake and surprising the customer (successful), talking loudly on his phone (did at least make the person leave faster) and, in a particularly inspired moment, watching Fox News on his phone at full volume.

"They left a one star review," Crowley informs Aziraphale. "I think it's doing the trick."

Min Seunwoo - Antique

[cakeprince]

(He works in a cake/tea shop! He's the pâtissier and will likely be in the kitchen but sometimes does come out to serve - can be done here!)

Remilia Scarlet (Aged up) | Touhou Project | OTA

[scarlet_devil]

[Just some rich college girl with far too much money. Oh, and happens to be fond of this little cafè. Aged up since... well, some radom kid will be kind of out of place.]

Kariya Masaki | Inazuma Eleven GO! | ota

[netting_nettles]

[Kariya is the local café's latest hire and most likely explanation for why your latte tastes funny this morning.

It's not his fault! He didn't even want to take this job, but he also hadn't wanted to ask his resident fake-space-alien/not-adoptive-father-figure for spending money.

How was he supposed to know how many different, weirdly precise ways people wanted their morning coffee? Watch him for a while, and you'll notice he's getting the hang of it quickly enough. When he's only focused on the equipment and his tickets, firmly in the zone, he even looks graceful. But there's so much to learn, and when the crowd of customers waiting starts to pile up he gets...edgy.

And that is why you got four shots layered under solid cappuccino foam, dosed with two pumps of straight mint syrup. Enjoy.]

Anathema Device ] Good Omens

[anathematics]

[listen: you can have your ethically sourced, bird-friendly coffee and vegan muffin if and only if you let the unnecessarily intense barista talk to you about whales and power plants for at least five minutes.

most people just stop by to browse the bring-a-book, leave-a-book wall and avoid making eye contact.]

Mary Walker | Iron Fist S2

[mornin]

[ While raindrops dot, slip and streak down the window, Mary's sits next to it at a table for two. She's peacefully drawing with her sketchbook spread open and the strap of an expensive camera lying across the corner of the page. She certainly looks like the type of person who would be found in a coffee shop, but if it were a regular thing, she'd have remembered to order a drink or some food. She didn't, so technically, she's loitering. In an approachable way, if she can help it. Today could be the day someone notices her art, if hope springs eternal. ]

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Neku Sakuraba | The World Ends With You

[phoneafriend]

[Someone just started working at WildKat? Or maybe he's waiting for his order. He seems to be a regular, one way or another.]

Adelia Van Helsing + OC + OTA

[ihazaraven]

Adelia loved working at the Roost. Sure, it was the Hipsteriest of hipster coffee shops, but Shannon was an old friend, and let her kick people out if they tried to order something by the name -or fucked up sizing- of one of the Multinational Conglomerate's drinks. Which she didn't always, but did sometimes if they were dicks about it.

Their sizes were small, medium, large and 'finals' which a customer needed a valid current-semester student -or faculty- ID to purchase, and had so far as Adelia knew, never been a problem.

She also liked it because Shannon -nor any of the others- ever questioned why she occasionally came in with a black eye or a splint or as she was at the moment, with her arm in a sling. Shannon knew why, the others always just guessed, and while the guesses were never anywhere in the same vicinity as correct, she always just picked the one she liked best and claimed it as true and they all went up on the board next to the pickup counter. The current excuse was 'caber toss accident'.

Radical Edward l Cowboy Bebop AU

[radical_hacker]

[Uber perky grad student in computer science by day, white hat hacker by night. She's always in the booth by a plus with tons of computer gear.]

Eliot Spencer | Leverage | OTA

[90minutesofsleep]

[If he's an employee it's probably cover for a case, but he's probably still good at it, because that's how he does things.
If he's a customer it could be anything, could be a little local place he hasn't told the team about because sometimes he needs to be away from them from an hour or two, it might be a safe place to meet a client, it might be he's casing the place for a job, it might be he's waiting out a suspect, there's many many options.]

Steve Rogers | MCU | OTA

[about45seconds]

[Chances are he's 'highly incognito' with his sunglasses and his ball cap and his highly defensible table in a corner where he can see all the exits.
Or maybe it's in the now-reversed post-snap five years, and it's a quiet place near his apartment with good coffee and fresh doughnuts where he can sit and do the crossword without getting interrupted.
Or maybe we're living in the 'everyone lives on their own floor of the tower' universe and it's the StarkBucks Cafe on the ground floor of the tower where he stops in every morning after his run.]

[lacunas]

[ Coffee tastes different than it did in the 1930s and vastly different than it did during the war when rationing was everything. It's less like tar or watered down tar, and actually tasty. Especially when it's got heaps of sugar and cream — none of that non-fat or soymilk bullshit for Bucky Barnes.

Caffeine doesn't actually affect him anymore, not with everything Hydra did to him, but it's habit and routine and even though it tastes different, a reminder of easier times. Well. It still had been rough, what with the Depression and then the war and all, but he'd been whole. Had family, friends, a mind that didn't leak and the nightmares had been manageable. He wants to capture a little of that, hold on to what memories he can.

So now, he finds his way down to the StarkBucks as Steve's nearing the end of his run, orders a black coffee with room for cream (and liberally pours in the cream and goes through enough packets of sugar that the baristas have to restock the bar) and waits for Steve to return. It's still too early for him, but he likes seeing Steve wander in, likes knowing Steve's okay.

Bucky settles into a corner where he can see all the exits and waits. ]

Angie | Agent Carter | OTA

[criesoncue]

The only time anyone could remember the L&L being closed was when there had been a gas leak in the building next door, once when there was a blizzard advisory, and again when the entire street had been closed down due to a movie being shot there for the better part of a day.

Other than that the place was open 24/7, 365 days a year.

Angie usually worked graveyard shifts, because the worst they had to deal with then was the college students cramming for finals, the occasional group of stage-actors after a show or a rehearsal, and the long-haul truckers, and none of those groups of people caused anybody problems on purpose, not like the daytime customers did.

[shieldingfoundation]

And should any of those groups of people cause an issue, the regular but exhausted brunette who just parked herself in a stool at the counter would be delighted in helping deal with them. Preferably with a fork, or really any silverware that might be within reach when needed.

"Please tell me you have pie left, Angie." Peggy knows there's coffee because it's the first thing she smelled when she walked in. Though it's not the reason why she came here instead of heading to any of the nearby coffee spots. She might have memorized a certain waitress's schedule. Peggy just hopes with the way she feels there's enough coffee to keep her awake the rest of the night.

Honey Lemon | Big Hero 6

[mieldelimon]

((The cute barista making your drink! Or Honey Lemon could be on break or on her date off. She's made for this AU.))

Esther Moreau | OC | OTA

[57times]

[ A regular who tips well but doesn't say much. Usually has a book or laptop with her. ]

Louie Duck | Ducktales 2017 | ota

[lyingthroughyourbeak]

[ Most likely aged up - either a business student here for his fix or a lazy barista more likely to flirt rather than actually work. ]

Elias Ainsworth // Ancient Magus Bride

[gentlemanmonster]

[Likely in disguise as a human unless the cafe is in a fantasy or sci-fi world. Prefers tea but will likely try whatever the favored blend of the cafe is. I can start if you like, pm me with any questions!]

Arthur | Inception | OTA

[domsconsigliere]

[Any job that lasts more than a few days -which is a few of them- anywhere in the world, Arthur's going to have a favorite local coffee shop. Maybe he's told the rest of the team about it, maybe he hasn't.

If he has, it's because the place really is that good and they can take over one of the tables with non-classified work. If he hasn't, it's because he needs someplace he can sit and have a cup of coffee and not be working for just a few minutes every day, where he can play candy crush in peace and not worry about the job falling apart without him for a while.]

Armitage Hux | Star Wars (AU) | OTA

[empires_heir]

[As a customer he's a high-strung architecture and design student who probably shouldn't be having any more coffee or he's liable to vibrate himself to another plane of existence, and it's more likely to be the on-campus coffee shop/student lounge than it is to be anywhere outside.

As an employee he's a low-key kitchen witch, drawing good luck charm runes in the latte foam of to-go cups before snapping the lids on, making drink or snack suggestions based on people's star signs, but never overbearing about it, which works, since the cafe is probably half tea-leaves-reading tea shop as it is.]