HIGH SCHOOL NEVER ENDS

[smutanon]

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

Jackson Deveaux | The Arcana Chronicles

[deveaux]

Eugene Sledge | The Pacific

[dungarees]

June Colburn | Don't Trust the B in Apt 23

[newjune]

Kenny | The War At Home | m/m

[rainbowflavored]

Elliot Alderson | MR ROBOT

[viewsource]

[carefulnow]

[ hmm idk if crosscanon is fine. ]

[viewsource]

[It's completely fine with me!]

[carefulnow]

[ ok! any particular prompt that might work? ]

[viewsource]

[Maybe a bit of a mix of 16 and 29?]

Duo Maxwell - Gundam Wing - M/M

[deathsangel]

Remus Lupin | Harry Potter

[siriusno]

Pyrrha Nikos| RWBY|OTA

[reluctant_destiny]

JUVIE!MICK | pre-flash | OTA

[burneverything]

ethan lockwood ⛤ oc

[withlust]

[ worst four years of life ]

Hajime Hinata | SDR2 | ota

[hopefragment]

[DANGAN RONPA SPOILERS PROBABLY?? does anyone care.

Can be played from beginning of DR3: Despair Arc as a Reserve Course student, AU where he actually has a SHSL talent (Counselor) to get him into Hope's Peak as a regular student, AU where there's no Hope's Peak at all and it's just a normal Japanese high school?? It's all good.]

sneaking out!!

[tookforgranite]

[So of course, when she wanted to see her boyfriend she couldn't really do it in her own room. If her brother were to come in there and see something Hajime may have left behind? Or what if he wore cologne one day and he caught a whiff of that? Poor Hajime wouldn't know what hit him. And she can't have that.

Besides, it's exciting! Carefully making her way out of her own dorm room and building, sneaking through the campus to his building, throwing some rocks at his window to get his attention...kind of like all those books you read about high school romance.

Hey asshole! Your girl is standing under your window outside and it's pretty cold out! You better be awake and answer her!]

[hopefragment]

[Hinata is completely, 100% fine with her brother not knowing what they get up to together. He likes all his fingers attached to his hands and also unbroken? And for the time being, at least, he assumes Natsumi feels the same way.

He's totally zoned out from doing homework, leaning his desk chair back on its legs and idly twirling a pen. And probably talking to himself, because what else do people do when they're protags alone?? So of course her thrown rocks startle him badly enough that he topples over, catching his foot against the lamp and yanking it down with him. All Natsumi will be able to see, of course, is his light suddenly going dark and maybe a flurry of movement behind the curtain before he yanks it back and pushes the window open.]

A-ah, Kuzuryuu!

[Holy shit they are going to get in so much trouble if anyone sees her?? But he's happy to see her, at least, offering a somewhat-dorky wave down to her as he continues to speak in his stage whisper. No teachers can hear it's Inaudible. Obviously.]

H-hang on, I'll come down. Or I can toss my keys to you...?

[Let him just grab his jacket? It's really cold why is it like this. Whichever she wants, he'll do, though.]

[tookforgranite]

[Why did the light go out...what's with all of that movement? Jeez she didn't scare you that badly did she? At least she patiently waited for him to recover from whatever happened, flashing a grin and raising a hand in return.]

Come get me! Sneaking around is no fun if you're not trying to get me in your dorm unnoticed.

[Sure, it would probably be easier to get away with it if only one of them is sneaking, but where's the excitement of that? No where. Come on, Hajime, get your delinquent on.]

asking you out... or is it?

[splinten]

[In fact, Dirk has never asked Hinata out. He has, however, asked Hinata to a surprising number of 'date-like' locations. These include a movie theatre (Dirk talked too much and was kicked out), an ice cream parlour (Dirk offered to explain their social history to Hinata), a drive in movie theatre (thank God, they can't get kicked out of that), one of his brother's movie launches as his plus one (Dirk asked Hinata to dress hyperformally so they could heighten their contrast with his brother's casual attire), and once an extremely upscale restaurant that served postmodern food (Dirk only ate the orange things). In all of these event, Dirk has never attempted so much as holding Hinata's hand. The closest they ever got was when Dirk's Bro pulled them into a red carpet picture, and for that they had the famous author Rose Lalonde's daughter between them with an arm around both of their waists.

Needless to say, Dirk has not been very clear about his intentions. They could be platonic. Perhaps they are! And these 'date-like' activities are helpfully intermingled with ordinary friend hangouts, like playing video games or sportsball. So it's perfectly possible that all of these events are in no way romantic overtures, and are instead part of Dirk's pursuit of the highest echelons of irony. Or less charitably, are yet another sign that Dirk has not been socialized well.]

Hey. Wanna drive up to Make-Out Point tonight?

[There is literally no change in expression when Dirk asks Hinata this in between fifth and sixth period.]

ffs dirk

[hopefragment]

[Hinata had just wanted to drink his orange juice juicebox before the next class. That is literally all he had wanted from this time between classes.

Dirk's question leaves him gagging rather spectacularly on the straw, almost choking on his poor, innocent juicebox. Give him a second.]

W-what?

[He... didn't mishear that, right? Then again, his reaction is a little unwarranted, considering this is probably yet another attempt at an ironic date. The only reasons Hinata can imagine that Dirk keeps coming to him with these absurdly over-the-top date plans are 1: the higher pursuit of an irony Hinata literally does not understand, and 2: he really has been socialized so badly that Hinata is the only person in the entire school who would put up with this weirdness.

So he just sighs, rubs his sleeve over his mouth to mop up any remaining orange juice, and then offers the other boy the juicebox. Because he's considerate. It's not even because it can be considered an indirect kiss, it's literally just that he wants to share.]

Sure, why not. I don't have anything going on tonight besides studying for English.

[Which he's absolutely terrible at and all the studying in the world isn't going to help him with that.

Also he kind of has the sneaking suspicion that he's getting roped into helping to film some kind of risque puppet theater at makeout point.]

[splinten]

[He takes a sip from the orange juice, briefly, then hands it back.]

Cool. I'll pick you up at eight.

[And Dirk just leaves...... so unless Hinata has further questions, cut to: Dirk outside Hinata's house on a goddamned motorbike because what do you think Dirk Strider drives?t a minivan? only ironically and if Dave isn't using it.]

Sora // Kingdom Hearts // OTA

[skyhighblue]

Lance | Voltron: Legendary Defender

[the_tailor]

chiaki nanami | dangan ronpa 3 ( ota )

[classicmode]

athena cykes | ace attorney ( ota )

[cykeologist]