Take 'em to school

[morphs]

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

Yancy Becket • Pacific Rim

[stepintomyhead]

(because why not?)

[oldladyenough]

(Mix of 30 and 39 sound good?)

roxanne { a goofy movie } f/m

[i2i]

[ Roxanne is available as-is or as a human. ]

noctis lucis caelum ( ffxv )

[innoctuous]

[nothingreally]

( it's been awhile...! did you want another thread? i've got prom and noct! )

prompto argentum ( ffxv )

[photoop]

i'm going to hell but it will be cute / 29

[inkbled]

( Rosa loves a dance. Any excuse for fun, even if the run up involves extra shifts at her part time job and the cheek-biting that comes with the urge to ask her family for money like other people do. Her eyes light up the second their homeroom teacher begins her speech about the Sadie Hawkins dance - now, students, as you all know, making time for recreation is important. Best series of words next to anything about free food or getting out of class homework-free.

Honestly? The teacher hasn't even finished saying the words Sadie Hawkins before there's a piece of paper landing on Prompto's desk, all Open me! and adorned with quickly scribbled smiley faces. )

1Dance + 1You + 1Me = _____*

*Answer key: Yes.

( What's shame? )

diana ; wonder woman (2017) ; ota

[10x]

[ mini-diana comes to man's world...only it's the 2010s/whatever time period we decide on and she's a teenager, so she has to go to high school? idk it's just ridiculous enough to work. ]

Maxxie Oliver | Skins | M/M

[not_a_hobby]

{OOC: British, involved in art, drama, dance, etc. For this setting, let's assume he's a foreign student transfer from UK].

Rey || Star Wars: The Force Awakens || F/M

[talentedscavenger]

[Smart, loner kid in school that has hand-me-downs, lives alone, and likes to build things.]

Laslow | Fire Emblem Fates

[dancingduelist]

Peter Parker | MCU | ota

[spideysense]

[most likely to be the smitten puppy]

[dannyrand]

[/eyebrow wiggle y/y?]

Gabriel Starling | OC

[dogamidstmen]

[ ota with m/m preferences, no smut please. whatever's going on he'll be a shy, inexperienced goober. ]

Paul | Pokemon | OTA

[battlestandby]

[ohh boy. Pretty open to most of the prompts, but here's the ones he's best suited for: 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 13, 14, 18, 20, 32, 35, 36, 38.]

Robert Small 🔪 Dream Daddy (a dad dating simulator) 🔪 ota

[fourknives]

[ oh boy. here we go. iirc Robert is from Brooklyn depending on certain details, so we can also make him the new kid who just moved to maple bay, bc adding on the couple extra outsider points works for him. I'm cool with most prompts aside from some boringish sounding ones like 33, 43... that's mostly it actually. ]

44 - wildcards, baby

[wontgraham]

It's nothing like camping.

That's been the lie Will had been relying on to get through the first two nights. It's a lie that's feeling about as tired and soggy as he and his backpack are by now.

It's not as hot as it would've been, back in Louisiana. But it's also not as cold as it used to get in Montana. Will counts himself lucky that his dad reached a breaking point in a place with a somewhat-more-hospitable climate and no scorpions to speak of.

But tonight, it's raining. It's raining and fucking miserable out, and Will's run out of his excuses to stay in the library. He's forced off school grounds, goes downtown and gnaws on his cheek while he debates trying to be responsible with his food money or just buying a hot meal from the pizza place.

In the end, he scuffs back to hide under the eaves of the school gym, and makes himself peanut butter sandwiches from the only meal supplies he's got shoved in his bookbag.

It's just shy of six o'clock when Will slides in while a janitor has a door open, hides under the bleaches until he doesn't hear a push-broom being dragged across polished floors anymore. He roams the halls, trying to guess at where a nice place to sleep might be. He's slept outside the first few nights, but it's so fucking damp and gross outside now...he doesn't want to risk it.

He ends up in the library, a place that he already associates with being able to lie low and away from prying eyes. It also has the convenience of lots of secluded areas - it's a high school library, not a real one, but the shelves are high and make him feel a bit more secure. He hunkers down in one of them, hunched over himself and too exhausted to feel angry, and for the third night in a row tries to make his backpack into something that feels like an appealing pillow.

Goodnight, fucking no one. Will's been sleeping poorly the last few days, and sleep still doesn't come easily to him. But by midnight, there's a vague form spread out along the floor of the library, tucked up tight against sections RE-Z of the fiction section.

evie | disney descendants

[4hearts]

[Any but 19 or 33; also open to all characters]

cloud strife | ffvii

[omnislasher]

[ open to all of the prompts ]

Janet van Dyne ; Marvel (AU / AvAc)

[buzzbuzz]

[ sure, why not? f/m or f/f, open to canonmates and cross-canon. ]

Malyen Oretsev | The Grisha Trilogy

[ablade]

Aaron Minyard | All for the Game

[assumptions]

Jasper Jordan | The 100

[herbsandstuff]

Trenton | MR ROBOT | f/f

[inshallah]

Amy Santiago | Brooklyn Nine-Nine

[powerpose]

Nicky Hemmick | All for the Game | m/m

[prideflag]

Jesse Custer | Preacher

[heypreacher]

Pablo | Dream Daddy: A Dad Dating Simulator

[vacantveil]

[Anything goes, if it's spun right! For the purposes of basics though, I'm saying he's been in Maple Bay since he started middle school, his dad only having just completely pulling out of his life, yadda-yadda poor kid taking care of mom yadda.]

Mary Christiansen | dream daddy

[cabernetsauvyourself]

[ teen queen! ]

13 + 31 (palindrome numbers! spooooky)

[fourknives]

[ Robert is pretty convinced that the school is using some kind of electronic device to torture the students trapped in this detention room with high pitched signals of some kind. He can hear them -- and they only happen in the after school hours. He thinks it comes out of this announcement speaker attached to the wall above the chalk board. Or is it in the fluorescent light? Is there a dimmer switch on this thing? Is that how they control the frequency?

A very tired and very nondescript teacher opens the door to the room, standing in the doorway and holding the door. He asks in a tone that announces how capital-D Done he is with everything in his life, for Mister Small to please go back to his desk. ]

I'm on the cusp of figuring out your guys' scheme here. [ Robert replies with all of the threat that a seventeen year old loser can possibly exude as he skulks back to the desk he claimed for the afternoon. The teacher's eyes roll up into their lids as he expels a sigh.

The teacher then motions for someone to enter -- and ho-ly shit.

Robert stares as Mary, queen of the bitches, in all of her sourpuss glory, enters the Delinquent's Dungeon. Is this real? Is he actually going to have to sit through detention with her? ]

Well, well, well. [ Robert plants his elbows on his desk and grins, eyes alight with something mischievous. ] What're you in for? Did some girl flush your pocket Bible down the toilet? Did you go all Wrath of God on her?