High School Never Ends

[atyourservices]

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 The Love 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 The Love 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

Rossweisse | High School DXD | OTA

[recruited_recruiter]

((OoC: She's canonically a teacher despite her young age (well, young APPArent age, the series is vague on how old everyone actually is...) but I don't mind playing her as a student.))

[lasthungrywolf]

[I figure either she seems him and recognize him by chance, or he leaps recklessly to her defense, since he does that kind of thing, but I'm open to other meeting ideas! You're welcome to start off if you've got something in mind, or I can!]

[recruited_recruiter]

[[Say she recognized him by chance, and took him in by kindness, and continued teaching him? And they're in the middle of a tutoring sessions when she sees he keeps looking at her, and she decides to ask him about it and then make her move?]]

Mikleo | Tales of Zestiria | OTA

[theanswerer]

( likely a loner. canonly he gets a school dlc of being a really serious student. he's likely to be someone who spends a lot of his time studying. )

Kamina | Gurren Lagann | M/M

[blunette]

[ Probably a senior who has been kept back a year or two. ]

Pit | Kid Icarus | M/F

[angelicbadass]

[Most likely an athlete here.]

Luppi Antenor | Bleach | ota

[luppi]

[He could be the asshole cool kid, the asshole art or drama kid, the asshole skater kid. I'm going for a theme here. But he definitely wouldn't be on the sweet and innocent side of the meme options.]

sawada tsunayoshi ○ katekyo hitman reborn! (m/m preferred)

[hiiieee]

(big 'ol no good loser over here. bad grades? check. horrible athlete? check. clumsy little nerd? double check! he has his small group of friends and is super great at being picked on and looked over. canon too. haha.)

Koushi Sugawara| Haikyuu!! | OTA

[warmsetter]

[Resident mother hen here. He'll make sure you're alright, help you out with your studies, and be there to help you in gym since he's an athlete. Very friendly, watches out for his friends, and keep up their spirit even if he doesn't do a very good job of taking care of himself at times.]

Kenma Kozume | Haikyuu | OTA

[nekogamer]

[The quiet kid in the back of the room who does his work and plays his games during break. He's pretty shy so if someone comes up to talk to him he will respond, but won't meet your eyes for a while. It's not that he doesn't want to talk he didn't think you wanted to talk to him. Once he's calm though he'll speak.]

Aether Brandier | Original | M/F

[halfremembered]

[ He's likely to be a history or literature teacher due to his age, but I'm open to him being a senior student. Any and all necessary information is in his journal. ]

Cornelia li Britannia | Code Geass | OTA

[knightmare_princess]

[ Definitely a teacher. Any prompt. ]

Celaena Sardothien || Throne of Glass || OTA

[sass_in_assassin]

[Let's see. She'd be a brat, popular, pretty, supremely self-confident, and athletic.

So definitely 'unattainable', with a dash of 'hate at first sight' and 'difference in social classes'.

She's also secretly a 'bad girl', and also has a hidden love of books, so... closet nerd, maybe?]

hikage || senran kagura || f/f

[emotionles]

[ student, teacher, student teacher, anything works for me and I'm happy to start. ]

Dean Winchester | Supernatural | OTA Canonmates

[ghostlife]

[ The jock who cuts classes and never does his homework but still gets straight A's (except in English because the teacher's a bitch) because he's the football team's star quarterback.

Alternately, the shop teacher who's every delinquent boy's best friend and every high school girl's crush because he wears oxfords without a tie and the sleeves rolled up, and he's got a leather jacket hanging off his desk chair and a classic car in the teacher's lot. ]

like half of these prompts apply tbh, also boarding school because that's how i do

[heavenonearth]

[ pulling dean winchester as a roommate his senior year had been, castiel thought, just about the worst arrangement he could have hoped for. they have nothing at all in common, and seem to him to be opposites in almost every way. dean is athletic and loud, boisterous, pushy. he's always in trouble but has a knack for worming his way out of it, by his own merit, to be sure, but in no small way helped by his position on the football team. he's popular and forward, smug, brazen and aggressive. he's one of the most obnoxious people that castiel has ever known, long before they became roommates. perfect, he had thought, bitterly, when he'd seen their names together on the plan; the most important year of his high school career, and he has to spend it with dean.

he hates himself now, for forcing himself to eat those words. sure, dean is all of those terrible things, but over the months that passed castiel had found that he is also so much more. he's funny and interesting, he's witty, sharp, and determined. he's, surprisingly, very smart, even if he hides it well enough, even if he doesn't apply himself nearly as much as he should, and he's surprisingly warm and kind, beneath all of the rugged, overblown masculine pride. he's a good cook, a family man, and loyal to those he deems worthy. and worst of all he's charming, and flirty, and incredibly, devastatingly handsome with a wonderful smile, and an even better laugh. he gets drunk on the weekends (and sometimes the weekdays) and hangs all over castiel, grinning and ribbing him, smelling like leather and whiskey and all those bad-boy things that drive the girls wild - and, unfairly, in castiel's case, him as well.

he hides it well, he thinks, even if sometimes he knows he looks into dean's eyes a little too long, or smiles at him in a way that must clearly, stupidly say yes hello i am incredibly smitten. but he never acts on it, and at least dean doesn't seem to have picked up on it, for which castiel is incredibly grateful. dean is a nicer, better guy than castiel would have ever given him credit for before knowing him, but he's a notorious skirt chaser, gets uncomfortable when things between them get a little too close, or when people crack gay jokes at him, and while castiel likes to hope that maybe he's just overcompensating, he's not really that hopeful. besides, if dean really were interested, he'd go for it, wouldn't he? he's not really the type to hold back. so no, thank you, but castiel keeps his fantasies all to himself; he only needs to make it through this one year before he's off to college, where he can let dean winchester become a fond memory of something never reciprocated.

for now, he suffers. it's only winter. five months still to go.

and tonight dean is, of course, ornery as always, because it's friday night and he wants to do something fun, and since they've become friends he's seemed to feel the need to drag castiel along when he can, and screw what his other friends have to say about it. dean goes and gets defensive over him and that, too, is wholly unfair, makes it that much more impossible not to fall in love with him. regardless, right now he's reading, ready to settle in for a nice, quiet weekend, but dean is so damned persistent it's impossible to concentrate. castiel is trying to use his patient voice. ]

Dean, you've had me to yourself the last two weekends; I'm never going to finish this book if you're always in my hair.

you know where it's at

[ghostlife]

[ If they didn't know him better, someone might think Dean hates bookworms. He's a stupid jock, quarterback for the football team well on their way towards their fourth state championship, all thanks to him. He's going to get a college ride out of it easy, his future all laid out. Doesn't keep a girlfriend because he can get any girl he wants and would rather do just that, a new one every weekend. He's the kind of guy you'd expect to be tripping guys like Castiel, shoving them into lockers and laughing about it with his school jacket wearing teammates. But Dean's never been like that. Truth is, most bookworms hate him, not the other way around. He doesn't pick on anybody, is quicker to defend a classmate than start a fight. His dad raised him with a glass of whiskey in one hand a belt in the other, and Dean keeps his nose clean and his head above water because of it. Yeah, sure, he ditches classes and has a bad habit of smarting off to teachers who think they know everything about him and peg him before he's even bothered showing up for classes. (Which is why he doesn't go half the time). Bookworms hate him, teachers included.

It didn't bother him the cold shoulder he got from Cas when they both moved in, or all the angry glares and long silences he got for weeks after. Dean joked around with him anyway, kept inviting him out to parties even though Cas never agreed, always sat next to him in the cafeteria when poor Cas had the misfortune of being there when Dean arrived. In fact, that may be why he bugged Cas so much, was because Cas seem to hate him right off the bat. It's easier to like people who you know aren't trying to be friends with you just to get invited places and to ride your coattails.

Besides, Cas is smart. Dean knew that right away, but Cas isn't just book-smart, he's fierce. The one liners he's zinged off when he really gets mad have had Dean almost in tears. Then there's the philosophy he just injects into random conversations, like it's normal to talk about existentialism and cognitive psychology while watching a magical girl anime over Dean's shoulder. He's seriously incredible, like nobody else Dean knows. And yeah, Cas is socially awkward in ways that would put a piece of cardboard to shame, but he learns quick when given half a shot, and he's a lot more fun to be around than most of "normal" kids who sit next to Dean at every party and talk about how unfair their parents are, or their teachers are, or their other friends are when they don't know how good they've got it. If Dean could pick anybody to get locked in a room with for 24 hours, it'd be Cas. No question.

He doesn't get why everybody gets so mad about Cas. Girls especially. Seriously, what do they have to be jealous about? It's not like they're dating. Cas is a guy and they're both straight, end of story. They're just friends. Getting all uppity about it is just stupid, but then Dean's got a lot of really stupid people in his life, thanks to football career he got railroaded into by his dad. Just another reason to spend more time in his room with Cas, who's about as far from stupid as they come.

But Dean's a social kind of person. It's just his nature to move around, to get out and meet people, explore places. And he's not like Cas. He can't actually spend entire weekends in his room, reading and watching TV. He needs to get out. Most of the time he can wheedle Cas into it easily, but sometimes Cas digs his heels in and Dean really has to work at it. Like right now, for instance, when all Dean wants is to go out and drink and listen to music and watch the world go by with a couple of close friends, and all Cas wants to do is sit inside like a freaking piece of furniture bolted to the floor.

Dean's got his own wooden chair dragged up right next to where Cas is sitting, just inches away so there's no way he can be ignored. And he's sitting in it backwards, leaning over the back, giving Cas the best puppy eyes he can manage. And he's good at the puppy eyes. Girls tell him all the time. Long eyelashes, which they've assured him is a perfectly manly feature to have. ]

Come on, be real. You'll finish that thing in like an hour tops, and you've got all weekend to do it. It's a freaking Friday night, Cas! Just come with me. Give me three hours.

Derek Hale | Teen Wolf

[conspecific]

[ AU - high school age, along with the rest of the teens. Still a wolf. ]

Saeko Busujima || Highschool of the Dead || f/m

[skillisms]

[Clearly a student, top student of her class and captain of the Kendo Club. She is a kind and reliable person, so have at.]

[lasthungrywolf]

[Total juvenile delinquent and a gang member (or at least an ex-gang member) with a reputation for getting in fights, swearing, and having capital-I Issues with authority. ...but in less-popular circles, he's also known to stand up for other people against tough guys twice his size without flinching. He might not be in the Kendo club, but he could definitely have an adorkable crush that he'll avoid admitting to because obviously she's way out of his league as far as he can tell. ...but it's not like he's all that subtle, so she can probably tell, and decide if she wants to force his hand. Probably some 4 and 21, could include 1 and/or 2 if you wanted, and open to other ideas!]

Zaveid | Tales of Zestiria.| M/F

[windpendulum]

[Going with student.]

[fulfill]

( If I'm not too late to the party, would you be up for a mix of 4 and 30 with both of them as students? )

Rachnera Arachnera | Monster Musume | ota

[speedweaving]

[ Student. ]

Richard | Tales of Graces | ota

[cloakfetish]

[[He's that posh transfer student you've hearing about. The one the drama club keeps trying to recruit.]]

Tiphane Fortanceste | Final Fantasy XIV (oc) | ota

[synthesises]

[Really quiet, weird, tall transfer with a cute and popular older brother. Sits in the library reading high fantasy...when he's not eating lunch in the toilets.

Necessary character info's in his journal, and let me know if you want his kink list since I'm on mobile atm!]