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bakerstreet2016-01-15 08:34 am
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Don't you...forget about me.
Mostly because I'm surprised we've never had this kind of meme before. We love high school AUs. We love romance. Why not combine those into a glorious mix?
Your teen years are important, formatively speaking. You're trying to find out just where you belong and what kind of person you're going to be. This already daunting task is complicated by the soul-sucking demon known as high school. If you weren't having a hard time before coming here, you certainly are now.
Add into this mixture raging hormones, and baby, you've got a misery stew cooking. But it's not all bad! Sometimes high school crushes can be sweet, and the occasional high school relationship lasts.
So whether you're too cool or distracted for romance or always on to the next good looking stud, come on down and try to navigate the romantic labyrinth that is the halls of Bakerstreet High.
HOW TO PLAY
- Comment with your character and preferences. Needless to say, aging down and AUing is welcomed and probably necessary. Have fun with it! Feel free to include a short blurb about your character's Bakerstreet High self. Are they popular? The class clown? A drifter? A band geek?
- Comment to others.
- Use the RNG. Or not.
PROMPTS
- childhood: You've known each other forever. Puberty has changed a couple of things, though.
- friends to more: Best buds, right? Can you let a little crush get between you?
- always there for you: You've seen the person you've liked for forever get hurt time and time again, always offering a shoulder to cry on. You should make your own move, unless you're content in the background forever.
- bad boy/good girl: Or bad girl/good boy, or bad boy/good boy...there's a certain appeal.
- the innocent: They're the delicate little pure flower of the school. Do you genuinely want to date them or is this a mission for corruption.
- smitten puppy: You know the type. Always following the object of their adoration around. Don't you want to sweep them off their feet and show them there's other fish in the sea?
- the ice queen/king: You have to defrost them.
- 10 things: You were challenged to ask them out or bed them, but shit got real.
- never noticed anyone before: You'll never be into all this love and sex stuff. Your classmates are crazy - wait, who's that? Your face is flushing. Why?
- never noticed: This person's always been there for you. You feel silly that you've never noticed.
- the unattainable: Is the school's hottest cheerleader or football player really all that high above you?
- follow you until you love me: It's not stalking! You just happen to be in the same place as them...all the time.
- hate at first sight: You hate their guts but you can't stay away.
- sudden hottie: Were they always so bangin', or did taking off their glasses or pulling down their ponytail do that much?
- too shy, too blind: you're too shy to tell them how you feel. you also don't see that they clearly feel the same.
- kindness counts: They were kind to you, which is a pretty big deal in high school especially if you're an outcast, and you can't help nursing an even bigger crush.
- sudden attraction: You're the kind who falls instantly and hard.
- always on the move: You change crushes or dates like underwear. Maybe this one is the one, though.
- nerd love: Both of you are social pariahs. At least you have each other.
- into older people: He or she is the kind of teen who's so mature and always dating college students or even real adults. But you can change their mind about their peers, right?
- differences in social classes: One of you is popular, the other so not. Can you make it work, or will the popular part be ashamed?
- opposites attract: Sometimes, the weirdos get the hottest babes.
- awkward confessions: You want to get your feelings out into the open - curse your voice cracking.
- asking you out: You'll totally borrow your dad's car to take them to the movies. Or here, here's your letterman jacket. Go steady?
- parents don't understand: Your parents want to keep you apart or are too tragically uncool.
- dates: If you have to go dutch at McDonald's, it's sad. Maybe stay-at-home dates are better.
- prom: Limos, tuxes, wasted money, oh my!
- slow dance: The DJ popped in that best of the 90s love songs megamix CD. Now's your chance.
- sadie hawkins: The Sadie Hawkins Dance. Get your khaki pants. Oh oh oh. Girls ask the guys. It's always a surprise.
- sneaking out: The most romantic times are past curfew.
- detention: As the Breakfast Club taught us, it's possible to find love in a hopeless place.
- experimentation: It doesn't count if it's above the belt, right? And finger definitely don't count.
- over the top: You're that couple that is always on the PDA or being schloopy and goopy romantic. Don't be that couple.
- first kiss: Pucker up.
- first time: Is it romantic and slow or in the back of someone's car?
- drunk: Drunk confessions and attempts to make passes are ill-advised.
- fight: High school couple fights can be deadly. Avoid at all costs
- the volatile couple: Speaking of, there's always a couple that seems to be fighting 24/7? When they're hot, they're hot, when they're cold, they're glacial.
- finally together: You're the will-they-won't-they of high school, and when you get together senior year, the whole class will give you a standing ovation because FINALLY.
- long term couple: When did you guys get together? Probably like middle school or something. You've always been together.
- hide who you are: Unfortunately, even these days some people make it necessary for those who don't conform to the "ideals" to hide their true selves.
- break up: Statistically, it was bound to fail.
- after graduation: Can you guys make it work after you lose the common ground of school? This can be challenging if you're going to be living in different places.
- WILDCARD
Dean Winchester | Supernatural
Mai | ATLA | OTA
Walter Nebicher | Automan
astrid hofferson | httyd | ota
Faramir | Lord of the Rings
14 + 30 go go go -- I'M BREAKING OUT THE AGED-DOWN ICONS EVEN IF HE STILL LOOKS SLIGHTLY TOO OLD
Not to go to house parties, or raves, or to get in fights. No -- it's true he's in an establishment that serves alcohol and stays open late, but he's not here to drink.
He's here for poetry.
Open poetry slams happen here, and Aaron loves them. They're worth risking his godfather's ire (not an insignificant thing). He's just an audience member tonight -- he hasn't been picked as a judge, though he'd like to be -- sitting in jeans and flannel and a warm scarf, his feet crossed at the ankles under the table, listening with rapt attention.
--wait. That person who was just handed the microphone. He looks familiar. Where has Aaron seen him before?]
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[...well, that's a little misleading. Boromir's urging has been to get out of the house, out from under their father's thumb, and get a social life. The poetry part of it is all Faramir, and he'd be humiliated if Boromir found out, honestly]
[He clears his throat again, self-consciously tucks his shoulder-length hair back behind his ear, and pulls himself up to his full height]
This is called, er, River.
[Another deep breath. He's had coaching in public speaking. He's on the debate team. He can do this]
I went walking by the winter waters
Where wistful winds still whine and whisper
Washing the summer sun away
Where watery daylight splits across the waves
Like broken glass
I wondered at the river, where it wandered
What tears had watered it, where it had woven
Through the empty wasteland of the parking lots
Through the bones of industry that stand with empty windows
Of broken glass
I asked the river where it goes
What it thinks when it trembles on the brink
Of washing into the wider ocean waves
A tiny brittle thread reflected
In broken glass
I asked the river, are you afraid?
Oh whispering water, beneath your shattered cloak
Are you afraid to be split apart
Into a thousand shattered droplets of yourself
Like broken glass?
The river answered
It hurts to break apart
But mirrors have a lesser light
Than seas of broken glass.
[He rakes his hair back, and holds the microphone back out, suddenly awkward again. It isn't until he's coming down off the stage that he sees a familiar face. He knows that guy. Which probably means Boromir knows that guy. Which means...]
[...that Aaron is getting a visitor at his table, flushed and suddenly shy]
...Look, don't tell anyone at school I was here, okay?
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...he has a good voice.
What. What. It is hard to reconcile this with the Faramir Aaron knows from school -- but easier when Faramir turns up in front of him, uncertain and embarrassed.
...surprised admiration turns into a wholly unexpected and kind of weird surge of affection. Weird. Weird weird weird. But the weirdness doesn't keep the smile off of Aaron's face as he says:]
...I won't if you won't.
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Deal.
You're Aaron, right?
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[There's amusement in it, half a tease -- he's genuinely curious. Aaron has no intention of talking, but would Boromir approve, or not?]
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[He never has been any good at lying]
He thinks I'm out clubbing.
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Does he? Oh, man. Well -- your secret is safe with me. Both of them.
Come on, sit down. Tell me more about why you're here and not in a club, and maybe how long you've been coming here.
[Play it cool. There's no reason for Faramir to know why Aaron is weirdly invested in getting Faramir to sit down and talk with him more. It's friendship, right? He just really intensely, immediately likes Faramir. There's nothing wrong with that.]
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...I went to a club once. With Boromir. I couldn't hear myself think, and it kinda felt like you needed to be drunk to enjoy it.
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I like this sort of place better, too.
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[No, he hasn't registered how much that sounds like a pick-up line, why do you ask?]
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Do you come here often?
[He's throwing it at Faramir like a pick-up line, feeling an irresistible urge to tease for reasons he only half-understands. Aaron doesn't usually want to get a reaction out of the people he speaks to, but this is -- this is different.]
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...I've been a few times. This is the first time I've performed, though.
Sans | Undertale | OTA
Yin | Darker Than Black
Shimizu Kiyoko || Haikyuu!!