John Hughes style

[celebratory]

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

1. childhood: You've known each other forever. Puberty has changed a couple of things, though.
2. friends to more: Best buds, right? Can you let a little crush get between you?
3. 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.
4. bad boy/good girl: Or bad girl/good boy, or bad boy/good boy...there's a certain appeal.
5. 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.
6. 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?
7. the ice queen/king: You have to defrost them.
8. 10 things: You were challenged to ask them out or bed them, but shit got real.
9. 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?
10. never noticed: This person's always been there for you. You feel silly that you've never noticed.
11. the unattainable: Is the school's hottest cheerleader or football player really all that high above you?
12. follow you until you love me: It's not stalking! You just happen to be in the same place as them...all the time.
13. hate at first sight: You hate their guts but you can't stay away.
14. sudden hottie: Were they always so bangin', or did taking off their glasses or pulling down their ponytail do that much?
15. 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.
16. 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.
17. sudden attraction: You're the kind who falls instantly and hard.
18. always on the move: You change crushes or dates like underwear. Maybe this one is the one, though.
19. nerd love: Both of you are social pariahs. At least you have each other.
20. 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?
21. 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?
22. opposites attract: Sometimes, the weirdos get the hottest babes.
23. awkward confessions: You want to get your feelings out into the open - curse your voice cracking.
24. 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?
25. parents don't understand: Your parents want to keep you apart or are too tragically uncool.
26. dates: If you have to go dutch at McDonald's, it's sad. Maybe stay-at-home dates are better.
27. prom: Limos, tuxes, wasted money, oh my!
28. slow dance: The DJ popped in that best of the 90s love songs megamix CD. Now's your chance.
29. sadie hawkins: The Sadie Hawkins Dance. Get your khaki pants. Oh oh oh. Girls ask the guys. It's always a surprise.
30. sneaking out: The most romantic times are past curfew.
31. detention: As the Breakfast Club taught us, it's possible to find love in a hopeless place.
32. experimentation: It doesn't count if it's above the belt, right? And finger definitely don't count.
33. over the top: You're that couple that is always on the PDA or being schloopy and goopy romantic. Don't be that couple.
34. first kiss: Pucker up.
35. first time: Is it romantic and slow or in the back of someone's car?
36. drunk: Drunk confessions and attempts to make passes are ill-advised.
37. fight: High school couple fights can be deadly. Avoid at all costs
38. 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.
39. 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.
40. long term couple: When did you guys get together? Probably like middle school or something. You've always been together.
41. 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.
42. break up: Statistically, it was bound to fail.
43. 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.
44. WILDCARD

Comments

Hiyama Chinatsu | Welcome to the Ballroom

[redmare]

Ganymede | mythology | OTA

[the_cupbearer]

[ ABSOLUTELY. For someone who never went to formal 'school', they kind of fascinate him. ]

Togame Jo | Wind Breaker

[goldgeneral]

MJ Jones | MCU | OTA

[neverdisappointed]

Atem ( Yu-Gi-Oh! DM ) m/m

[millenniumpharaoh]

Agnes Claudel | Kuro no Kiseki | OTA

[octogenesis]

[ Polite, demure good girl, not -quite- teacher's pet type as she does sneak off sometimes to do who knows what, clearly comes from money but isn't snobby about it. Some of her friends probably try to keep her away from the 'bad boy types' which she finds a little tiresome though. M/f for anything shippy, ota for gen, cross canon loved, etc. ]

Claire Bennet ∞ Heroes ∞ OTA

[infinite1ups]

( ignoring/rewriting the first two seasons of Heroes, let's gooooo. )

becca nova ♠ original ♠ ota

[cafeultra]

( Maybe this will be nicer than her actual backstory, maybe not, lmao. )

delirium | sandman | ota

[plagued]

[ del is the weird punk girl in high school who’s impossible to ignore. with her outlandish outfits, mismatched eye contacts, and a reputation for doing exactly what she wants, she’s the subject of every whispered hallway rumor (especially the ones about her being hospitalized). but despite her chaotic vibe, del has a strange and irresistible charm that draws everyone in. ]

[rando_dork]

[How about another slightly more moody punk girl? She's a drummer in a band, a little bit of loner, but her heart is the right place.]

[plagued]

[ let's do it! which prompt do you want to use? ]

[rando_dork]

[Maybe awkward confessions or sneaking out? Open to any other ideas too.]

claire standish | the breakfast club ( f/m )

[claires]

[ She is me, I am she. ]

Enji Todoroki | My Hero Academia | ota

[flashfirefist]

[standoffish, irritable, overachieving jock—with issues.]

Rey || Star Wars || F/M

[talentedscavenger]

Dorian Pavus | Dragon Age | m/m

[luxuriousdespair]

[normal mundane high school or some kind of modern au mage/wizard school, etc]

Vi(olet) | Arcane | f/f

[bitchmittens]

[She's was a punk, she did ballet sharpshooting. Vi deserves a normal high school au I think. Would also welcome boys for awkward/stupid/lesbian awakenings type stuff.]

[clavesregni]

[Can I interest you in the "she did sharpshooting ballet" half of this relationship? And if so, do you have any particular prompts that tickle your fancy?]

[bitchmittens]

[You absolutely can please ignore how long it took me to respond. You know how it can be sometimes......... gestures at everything. If you are still at all interested we could do that here or on a journal/box! 4, 13, 16, 19, 21, 23, 24, 30, 34, 39 all look good for them for me!]

[clavesregni]

[No worries, I completely understand the... everything. I'm definitely still interested! Maybe some combination of 23, 30, and 34, Caitlyn sneaking out past her curfew to go on a date with Vi, leading to awkward confessions of Serious Feelings and potentially a first kiss?

I can definitely work w that. this isn't heartthrob au but it isnt NOT heartthrob au

[bitchmittens]

[Vi has never been very good at staying still. She is supposed to wait here, on the street corner where the shadows are darkest, and be still and not be seen. It should be a simple job, the easiest of things, but she finds that her pent up energy finds it's way out. She leans against the dead-bulb lamp, jiggling one leg. Then she's standing and rolling on the balls of her feet.]

[She doesn't know why she's so damn jittery. This isn't even- well, it isn't explicitly a date. She'd challenged one of the richest girls at school, a known rule follower goody-two-shoes teacher's pet type, saying she'd never dare sneak out or do anything out of line. It wasn't the first time she's taunted the up-towner, but it is the first time she's gotten any kind of reaction like this. Vi finds herself wondering what changed. Wondering if maybe she's walked into a prank. A set-up. Maybe Caitlyn's dad is about to come out here and whoop her ass or something.]

[She watches the house, and jiggles her leg some more.]

[clavesregni]

[Caitlyn's bedroom window is on the second floor of her parents' very large house, directly over a row of bushes. Trying to climb down would certainly be a foolish idea. And yet, once the sun had set and she's said goodnight to her parents and retired for the night to "do some homework" (already finished) and then "get a good night's sleep" (she couldn't sleep right now if she tried), Caitlyn quietly opens the window, hauls herself over the sill, and accidentally loses her grip and goes spilling into the bushes.

For a very long, heart-pounding moment, she's terrified that she's about to be caught, but there's no crisp click of her mother's heels coming to investigate, no window opening so her father can stick his head out to look around. Everything is dark and quiet. Carefully, so as not to make any further loud noises, she picks herself up and meticulously brushes herself off. She doesn't want to look a mess.

Vi has made comments to her before. At first, Caitlyn had thought the other girl was trying to be friendly, but quickly realised her words were intended as taunts. And then came the challenge. And Caitlyn has never been keen to shirk from a challenge.

As she approaches the dark street corner, she hisses in an overly-loud whisper:] Vi?

[not_yet_screaming]

OOC: Care for a high school queen bee (and honours student)? Probably senior year, transferred in with concealed PTSD and almost immediately started working on taking over the school hierarchy?

[bitchmittens]

[I'd be delighted. I'm sorry I fucking DIED and ghosted literally everyone, I have no great excuse except for the Everything. If you're still interested I'd be glad to give it a go and we can move off ancient bakerstreet memes if you'd rather, also. The vibes feel like a potential conflicty sort of thing, or maybe flirting with bad girls is Lydia's secret vice who knows. If Vi has any social hierarchy power its as the leader of the outcasts/bad kids.]

[not_yet_screaming]

OOC: Life is a four letter word.

And I'm now thinking an early rather than late Lydia. Queen bee and also the beard of the star jock (there is genuine affection there and he's in denial in part due to homophobic parents). Lydia herself is bi - and if her boyfriend can sleep with her male best friend (which she is in favour of) she's allowed to sleep with girls without it being cheating. And her tastes are absolutely for bad girls and boys even if she wants to keep her rep.

[bitchmittens]

[ooc: Loving it. Little extra bit of fear of getting caught and of anathema to it. Vi clearly is into girls "out of her league" in some way, and frankly if Lydia is showing any interest in her it's hook line sinker. Lydia being the pursuer delights me immensely if you're cool with that. I think Vi's shock about it would be hilarious.]

[not_yet_screaming]

OOC: Lydia wouldn't pursue if she wasn't absolutely sure Vi was interested and wouldn't bother to pursue long if Vi played hard to get. But absolutely would tell Vi that if she was interested she had a chance right now.

[bitchmittens]

[ooc: that's so fair. I could even see Vi sort of dropping a casual catcall/half-joke comment that she doesn't not mean but is more just to show off for the other bad kids or to try to be a punkass and Lydia takes it as the seed it is?]

[not_yet_screaming]

OOC: She would do that. And would then tell Vi to stop being so hesitant. Oh, is Vi the clothes tearing type?

[bitchmittens]

[ooc: lmao yessss make it a challenge for her and watch her brain record scratch. unfortunately I think she's probably too poor to feel good about wasting perfectly good clothes.... but if asked, maybe... she is eager to please and follows instructions]

[not_yet_screaming]

[OOC: I'm thinking it would be more of a challenge to back up what she just said. Especially as Jackson (her boyfriend) having a half open closet door is probably known to Vi's clique but Lydia being a bisexual disaster with terrible taste is a much better kept secret]

Isadora 'Izzy' Fairbanks | XMCU OC

[theshadowed]

(m/f about )

Narumi Gen | Kaiju No. 8

[gomupanda]