The High School AU Romance Meme

[wrongs]

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

Sam [Crane] | OC | ota

[samsiam]

Basic Info; clownish, optimistic!jokes all over the place. Detention? Pffft, no biggie.

Feda Gandamak | OC

[notbloodylikely]

The basics!

usagi tsukino ( sailor moon ) f/m

[tiare]

( Usagi is the same as she is in canon. A sweet girl, but more than a bit of a ditz and terrible at actual schoolwork. She's not incredibly popular but isn't unpopular, either. She makes friends easily and is likely to be kind to everyone...except for those who tease her or act superior.

She probably has a reputation as a crybaby and a romantic. Most likely, she'll be found slacking off and secretly reading comics or binging on snacks in between classes. A tutor is something she'll definitely need. )

Astrid Hofferson | HTTYD

[stormflies]

Blake Belladonna | RWBY

[descendsfromshadow]

[OOC: She's the weird quiet girl who likes books and has opinions and snarks at people. She definitely doesn't have time for any of this high school romance stuff.]

1, and 23, of course

[dramaticals]

[she totally does have time for high school romance stuff.

...then again, adam has always known her for the quiet type that is far too invested in her books. even now, he was sitting across from her at one of the tables in the library. he had come to hang out with her, but when he finally found her he felt more than disappointed. what could he expect, honestly, she never did put these books down.]

Blake. [adam started, sighing a little. he had a hand resting against his cheek, elbow on the table and he looked rather bored behind his sunglasses. adam was the type to wear them indoors, and while he was made fun of for it he just preferred to keep his eyes covered up.]

Are you gonna be here all day? [...he had plans, after all, which involved her at least looking at him.]

[descendsfromshadow]

[She definitely does not.]

[But, really, Adam should have at least tried to catch her in the hallways, or maybe at lunch. As many would-be romancers have already learned, trying to get the time of day from Blake Belladonna when she had her nose securely stuck in a book was nigh-impossible. So it really was a testament to how long they'd known each other that she actually glances over the top of the cover at him when she answers, sighing quietly.]

Just one more chapter.

[... Hadn't she said that three chapters ago?]

[dramaticals]

[no, it was more like five chapters ago she said that.

the man sighs, rather obnoxiously, and then leans back in his seat. adam can be quite childish at times, immature would be the better word, so when she refused to put the book down he started to tap on the table with his hand.

he stared at her behind his sunglasses... wondering what else he could possibly do to get her attention. he's the type that prefers to tease her in these kinds of situations anyways. bother the one you have a crush on? of course, that's the best way.

...

tap. tap. tap. tap. taptaptap. taptap.]

[descendsfromshadow]

[Who can keep track? Anyway, this book was just getting to the good part so she'll get right back to it.]

[Or at least she'll certainly try to, until SOMEBODY starts tapping away at the table. She knows what he's doing and she will valiantly tune it out. For a minute or two anyway, until she turns a page and shifts in her seat and gives him a kick to the leg.]

Oops.

[dramaticals]

Guh-!

[DAMMIT BLAKE! adam grunts at that sudden collision, and just ends up slumping forward and putting his head down on the table. yes, this is happening.]

Blake, I've been waiting for forty minutes now! [don't make him wait any longer!! he's been so nervous about confessing to her for as long as he could remember, and things like this just make it even harder. what was a man to do? leave a note in her locker? ...no that wasn't cool enough. graffiti the walls with the confession? ...he considered that but so many people would see.

...wait... he got it. aha this is the perfect idea! he brought his head up and off the table, and he glanced around the library....]

[descendsfromshadow]

[Just rolling her eyes. She hadn't even kicked him very hard. He was such a baby sometimes.]

Stop being so dramatic.

[But he had made it clear that her time with peace and quiet was at an end. She gives another sigh and stands up, ready to check the book out.]

Alright. You win.

31 - that's right

[simia]

[DON'T LOOK AT HIM HE DIDN'T DO IT...

...okay, so he totally did do it. he can't help it, the test answers were right there for the picking! well, they were hidden in the teacher's desk, which he went and tried to steal. he so would have gotten away with it if he hadn't ran into blake.

literally.

and the papers had been scattered. they were both caught and sent to detention. oops. sun looked over at blake, an apologetic smile on his features.]

I'll totally make it up to you.

[descendsfromshadow]

[This was unbelievable. It wasn't as if Blake was any stranger to detention or anything, having landed in there for such activities as posting up flyers about deforestation which included numbers on how much paper the school wasted in a month, and loudly protesting the banning of certain books from the school library by purchasing several copies and leaving them on the shelves. That's right, Sun, you're in detention with THAT girl.]

[But being in detention for stealing test answers? That was a whole different ballgame! And all because she'd stopped to investigate some noises in a classroom, only to be bowled over by the real culprit.]

[She wasn't even allowed a book in here. Nothing to do but sit silently and wait for her sentence to be up. Or at least it should have been silent in here.]

Don't talk to me please.

[Sun, she is not happy with you. And your gorgeous stupid grin is not helping any.]

[simia]

[rofl tree hugger

awww!! sun laughed nervously at that, just sitting back in his seat. he brought his hands behind his head, lacing them there and he stared at the ceiling.]

No I mean really, like- you'll love how I'll make it up to you. You'll forget this whole detention thingy even happened.

[descendsfromshadow]

[Delinquent.]

Hmph. [And she'll very pointedly look anywhere else in the room, leaning her head on her hand. She absolutely was not staring. She's too angry to stare.]

I sincerely doubt that. [Sigh.] All I want is to get this over with, and then forget all about it.

[simia]

All you can eat sushi, on me.

[you can't turn that down blake, you totally can't. and even though she's not looking (he knows she secretly is) he winks at her. it was a little too fun to tease the girl, but of course he was doing it because he genuinely did feel a little bad about all this. it was supposed to just be him in trouble, not her too.]

[descendsfromshadow]

[Well, the teachers who had busted them hadn't exactly been willing to listen to the whole story. Blake was already something of a troublemaker so it was easy to jump to conclusions there.]

[Wait, all she can eat...? Okay, that was just unfair at this point. She turns to him again, arms folded and managing to at least still look annoyed even at the prospect of sushi.]

Are you really trying to ask me out after you got me stuck with a week of detention?

Harry Dresden | The Dresden Files

[no_love_potions]

[OOC: And for a different aspect of the high school romance. This guy isn't a student at all but here nonetheless for all your "crushing on the cool teacher" needs, if you're into that. Don't count on much though, his stupid morality doesn't let him have any fun.]

ariel ( the little mermaid ) f/m ( ask about f/f )

[seacups]

( My favorite headcanon in the world for modern human Ariel is from morloth88 on Deviantart, where she's obsessed with aliens like canon Ariel is obsessed with humans. She bubbly, big into sci-fi, and believes that there's life on other planets and it's AWESOME. She dresses in bizarre clothes that look more like she throws on whatever she thinks is cool rather than anything cohesive. Still, she gets away with this relatively scott free because a. she's fairly charming and b. her dad is rich as hell. Think a slightly less spacey Luna Lovegood.

She's actually smart enough, she's just not dedicated to school work that isn't science at all. Most everyone in the school would have probably at least heard of her because, actually, she's in almost every club yet practically never attends meetings because she's skipping classes for adventures or stargazing. The only thing that can break her away from her thirst for excitement is her proclivity to get big fat crushes.

That tunnel vision also makes it difficult for her to see when people have crushes on her. )

rapunzel ( tangled ) f/m ( ask about f/f )

[daydreaming]

( Rapunzel is the obligatory home school kid who's come into the game late in high school. At first, she seems like a sort of weird, overprotected girl...

...which she is, but as soon as she finds her niche, she blossoms. That niche, of course, is art. She's always doing something creative, whether it be painting a school mural or playing guitar out on the green. Her appearance has moved from frumpy conservative wear complete with long denim skirt and hair bump to something more befitting of an artsy girl.

She's a smart cookie with somewhat misinformed ideas, and while at first she's a bit wary of new people, she easily makes friends and isn't afraid to go out in a limb and be adventurous. Romance really isn't on her agenda, though, but her falling for someone isn't out of the question at all even if the whole idea's completely new and awkward as heck to her.

Just don't ask about the mother. Or the long hair. Or the baggage that comes with a frying pan in her backpack. )

Steve Rogers l MCU l OTA

[feels_taller]

[Steve is the jock who everyone looks up to but in his heart of hearts he is a serious art lover who doodles on everything and wants to share his art work with someone special. He is also very smart and loves to read but only when people can see him do it.]

Phil Coluson l MCU l OTA

[leavelolalone]

[Phil is the ice king history teacher who shows off shades of humor when in the right mood. He is a hard taskmaster who loves his subject matter but who also can kick ass when he needs to.]

Ai Shindou | Kyoukai no Kanata | OTA

[purrfecto]

[ that cutesy little excited sophomore who like performing art like dancing and singing. she's a klutz, and falls in love easily. she likes bad boys/girls with big hearts. and she a nerd. nerd ahoy! ]

Helga Pataki [ Hey Arnold ] Open to All

[criminy]

[ Yes. So. This is a thing. Teenage!Helga is almost canon, because at one point there was a planned show which would be a timeskip of Hey Arnold! focused on Helga and her dysfunctional family.

Anyway, Helga is still kind of a hardass, though she's mellowed out considerably since we last saw her at PS-118. She puts on the facade of being above most everything when she's not being the kind of girl who throws her fists up at the slightest provocation. Behind all that, she remains the poetic, tortured soul that she's apparently been since birth.

She also is still in love with a certain football head, but don't tell her you know that. ]

the stuco president | daily lives of highschool boys

[honcho]