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Everyone gets a high school romance. Yes, even you.

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

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

(y/n? preferences? i feel like way too many could apply here so i need some help narrowing it down.)

(yes please! 9, 16 and 21 all sound like they could be fun)

[well this would be adorable

rng offered up 21, 24, and/or 16. thoughts?]

[omg so adorable. 21 leading into a 24?]

It's not so much that Foggy's unpopular. People like her okay, more or less. But she's kind of pudgy and has Insecurities and a bad habit of occasionally insulting people with way more social clout than she has for being assholes. Also, there are definitely people in the school from whom the nickname Foggy sounds way more like an insult than an affectionate nickname. But she has her friends (and sworn frenemy Brett), and at her best, she's pretty much forgettable.

Or at least, she was until she got paired up by chance on a bio project with Matt Murdock, who transferred a while back from a Catholic school and is unfairly cute and charming and once saved someone from getting hit by a truck (okay, that last part might be the thing Foggy fixates on more than other students), and basically, if Foggy has a crush on him she'd definitely be excused for it because so does, like, half the school, she's pretty sure. And then, even after the project is over, he just kind of keeps talking to her for reasons Foggy has yet to fathom, not that she's complaining. At all. (Candace is of the opinion that he likes her, but Foggy maintains that this is the stupidest thing she's ever heard, okay, Matt has a History of dating basically models which Foggy is decidedly not, like seriously, Elektra Natchios? She was a complete bitch and Foggy is not exactly sad that she had to move but good goddamn was she gorgeous. So basically, Candace has no idea what she's talking about, but that's what Foggy gets for talking about her social life with her little sister.)

And apparently Matt's actually waiting for her at her locker on this fine day, which is exciting and new and confusing. "Um. Good morning?"

Edited 2017-09-15 15:07 (UTC)

It's never fun being transferred mid-year, but it's happened so often now that Matt has learned to roll with the punches. Not all schools were set up to deal with blind students but now that they've finally found a good one to place him in, he's going to stick around for the rest of the year and hopefully long enough to graduate.

There were a few people he hung out with, but not many. Matt just sort of drifts around the social circles, making friends where he goes and even discreetly taking down a bully or two along the way. He never really gives much thought to popular or not, to be honest. He just is.

It was her voice he heard first, arguing with another student that 'visually impaired' might be politically correct but it's also the dumbest thing she had ever heard. There was so much confidence in her voice as she argued. In fact there was usually confidence in her voice when she was arguing with someone who was being an idiot and Matt respected that.

No. He liked that. He liked it a lot and things only got better when they were assigned to work that big bio project a few months back. Matt got a chance to get to know her and the more he knew? The more he wanted to hang out with Foggy.

So a month after Elektra had moved away (which was for the best really. They were a volatile couple and as much as Matt wanted it to work, he knew in his heart it never would) he's waiting for Foggy at her locker, hoping he doesn't look as nervous as he feels.

"Hi Foggy." He's trying hard not to fiddle with his cane. "So I was wondering with the long weekend coming up if.. if you had any plans?"

She tilts her head at him, vaguely wondering if he's about to ask her for, like, homework help or something. Not that he really needs help as far as she's aware, but aside from the bio project, they haven't really been on hang out outside of school grounds terms. Which is fine, Foggy is happy to take whatever time with him she can get, and she would probably say yes even if he wanted help with something she's absolutely terrible at because it's that kind of crush. "Not really. Why?"

He's only been rehearsing this in his head for a week now. Foggy is sweet and smart and she challenges him in all the ways that leave him smiling like an idiot for hours after they've gone their separate ways. "There's a concert at the park Friday night, I was wondering if you wanted to come with me?"

So... not a study buddy thing, then. Foggy's thoughts (and heart, honestly) kind of stutter for a second, skittering over the question like a friend-date or a date date? before she decides that no, that's dumb, she really needs to stop talking to Candace about things. Any things. The answer's the same either way, though, so: "--Yeah. That sounds nice."

"Yeah? That's.. that's great. I can meet you there around six? We can get a burger over at Josie's after the show if you want." Yes. She said yes. Nothing in the world is gonna wipe the stupid smile off his face for the rest of the day. Sure he'll have to navigate the bus system to get down to the park (Stick will give him no end of shit for going out) but it'll totally be worth it.

Oh. That's... that's really not a friend-date kind of smile, is it? Her heart speeds up for a second as it occurs to her that she might just... have an actual date with Matt Murdock. (Also, it's a really nice smile. That might also be doing something to her heartrate.) "Yeah. That sounds really good."

--She should probably get her stuff out of her locker at some point.

His head tilts slightly, "I think the warning bell is about to go off." Impulse has him digging into his pocket for his phone. "Can you program your name and number in for me?" He could, but it gives him an excuse to linger for another minute or two.

"It's set up with a verbal ringer, so I'll know it's you if you call."

"That's pretty cool." And according to the time on his phone, the bell is going to go off soon, so she quickly puts her information into his contacts, hands back his phone, and finally actually opens her locker instead of standing around staring at him. "So, um. I'll talk to you later?"

If their fingers brush when he takes his phone back, that's okay right? Because he's finally asked her on a real date. A nod and another grin. "Yeah. Yeah I'll see you in bio later."

He'll still be smiling in bio.

"Yeah," she echoes a little faintly.

She might not be at her best in classes the rest of the day, on account of being slightly distracted, by nothing in particular. Just, you know. Stuff. And come bio class, she considers sitting closer to him than usual, but by the time she's finished debating it with herself (the winning argument is this is stupid, he invited you out so obviously he wants to spend time with you), her window of opportunity on empty seats is already closed.

Which is fine. She sits in her usual spot, and there's nothing wrong with that except that Matt's on the other side of the room. And also it's near one of the cattier girls in the grade, who Foggy has had words with on occasion. After class has started, she discreetly passes Foggy a folded-up note, like they're in the nineteen-fifties or something: omg I heard Matt Murdock asked you out??

Foggy, mildly baffled that this is even a topic of conversation right now, glances in her direction and shrugs, like--yes? Kind of?

aww that's so cute! and it's so great that he can't, like, SEE you, right? :) you should tell me how it goes!!

She breaks the point of her pencil. And then raises her hand and asks for the hall pass before she does or says something that the school disciplinary system is going to make her regret.

There's the usual shuffling of books and papers, pens scratching on paper and murmuring between students as they settle in between classes. Matt had hoped that by getting to class early he'd have given Foggy enough time to grab the desk next to him but maybe she was held up?

Oh well. He can talk to her after class or even text her, right? She gave him her number after all.

Then Foggy is asking for a hall pass and Matt's head snaps up. He can hear the tension in her voice. Something happened during the review and he completely missed it. His grip is tight on his cane as class winds down and he packs up his things to head towards Foggy's locker first. He can get his things in a minute.

Foggy will find him waiting for her, a concerned frown on his face. "Is everything all right?"

So it's her day for finding Matt Murdock waiting at her locker. Usually, this would be absolutely, 100% okay by her, but right now she's starting to feel a creeping case of petty bitchitis, and also--ugh, just. Foggy absolutely does not value the opinion of someone who feels the need to fuck with another human being just for fun, and blah blah pretty isn't everything but she is going to need a little longer than twenty minutes before she can look at him and not think of that stupid note or what he might say if she happened to start a conversation with hey, Matt, not that it's important or anything but you know I'm not that hot, right?

"Yeah. Everything's fine." Totally fine. That's why her words are so clipped--because that's what fine sounds like.

That's not what fine sounds like at all. Not even close, as a matter of fact and Matt isn't going to take her at her word. "No it isn't. What happened in class? Why are you upset?" What didn't he see? What could he have missed that suddenly has her on edge?

Because if someone made her upset, Matt was going to find out and they were going to have words.

It's so great that he can't, like, SEE you, right? plays on a mean loop in her head and God, when did her life turn into a cliché'd high school movie? Someone just shoot her now.

"Nothing happened," she says, heart beating out lie, lie, lie. "Just leave it, okay?" She digs her things out of her locker and shuts it with perhaps a little more force than strictly necessary.

She's lying. He may be blind but he isn't stupid. When the locker slams shut he backs off a step, holding up one hand. "Okay. Okay I'll leave it." He doesn't want to, but he can't keep pushing when she's this upset.

"I'll talk to you later." And he turns towards his own locker, cane tapping along the floor as he goes.

There will be a text later that evening.

'I'm sorry you had a bad day.
Are we still on for this weekend?'

She has one brief, totally insane thought when she sees his text that she should just cancel and save them both the trouble. Except that would be stupid, Foggy really really wants to go with him, and it would also be giving wannabe-Regina George what she wants and honestly? Fuck her.

yeah, we're still on, she texts back, masterfully sidestepping having to admit that she'd had a bad day and re-open the possibility that he'll try to get her to talk about it. What bad day? Her day was great.

ok good.
you know you can talk to me right? I'm told being blind makes me a pretty good listener ha-ha.

Okay so it's a dumb joke, but maybe it'll at least help? Something made Foggy unhappy and there's a very angry part of Matt Murdock that wants to find out what it was and beat it senseless several times over.

heading in for boxing, call me later if you want?

yeah, thanks, she texts back. have fun.

She doesn't end up taking him up on his offer. What she does do is show up for Friday classes with about 50% more effort put into her appearance than usual. Which Candace may have helped with, not because Foggy is bad at this stuff but because Candace is overly enthusiastic about it (and super-thrilled to deliver an I told you so on the topic of Matt's feelings re: Foggy). Maybe letting herself look like a stupid note got to her is going to all but paint a target on her back in bio, but on the other hand, dressing nice to feel better about yourself is a time-honored tradition for a reason.

So, new day. Hopefully better day, and she may or may not have vague plans to head to his locker to apologize for sort of blowing him off, if he doesn't show up at hers first.

Matt doesn't press, even though he's a little disappointed that Foggy didn't call or text him the rest of the evening. But Stick tends to demand a lot of his time and attention so after boxing, studying and making sure his notes are transcribed it's time to go to bed and get ready to face the next day.

As much as he wants to stop by her locker, he respects her distance and doesn't, lingering by his own and reviewing recorded lectures for the few minutes before classes start.

When he's not there, she grabs her stuff as quickly as she can and books it to his locker. Her footsteps sound a little different (different shoes than usual) and she's accompanied by an atypical light strawberry scent, cause Candace talked Foggy into trying her conditioner as part of Operation Look Awesome, Feel Awesome, Be Awesome (not actual name).

Still her when she starts talking, though. "Hey. Um." Get it over with. "I kind of blew you off yesterday? I'm sorry."

The shoes sound different, so does the light and sweet smell of strawberry, but Matt would know Foggy anywhere and he pauses, taking out the earbud and stopping the playback to give her his full attention. There's a red scrape across his right cheekbone, but that's what he gets for not keeping his guard up at boxing the night before.

"It's all right Foggy." After all, she doesn't really owe him an explanation, right?

Still. Matt reaches out, hoping he can find her hand without too much fumbling. "But I want you to know that I'd listen, if you wanted someone to talk to."

He doesn't have to fumble at all because when she sees him reaching out for her, she reaches out to meet it. "It's really--it wasn't that important." Or, at least, she's determined to not let it be that important, which is practically the same thing. "I'm fine now."

And time for a change of subject: "What happened to your cheek?"

Their hands fit together nicely, her hand is warm and dry in his and Matt can wrap his fingers around hers. It's nice and it makes him smile all over again, despite the pull on his cheek when he does.

"Boxing last night, it's fine. I wasn't keeping my guard up when I should have been." And really he got lucky, it could have been a hell of a lot worse.

See? They're both fine. Totally fine.

"Oh." Honestly, she's never really understood how he keeps up boxing blind, but she's never figured out a way to ask that doesn't sound terrible. And it's not like she knows much about boxing in the first place. "Does it hurt?"

People never ask. And it's not that Matt would take offense one way or another, but he'd almost welcome it sometimes because it might help people understand the world that he's lived in since the accident.

He shakes his head with a smile, ignoring the pull as he does so. "It's fine. I've taken worse hits practicing. I'm pretty sure Gus was just trying to get my attention."

"Okay." Maybe she will ask at some point, as soon as she can figure out how to make it sound less like I don't think you can do it and more like obviously you can but how DO you do it.

Bell's about to ring. She sighs. "Um, we should get to class, but--I'll talk to you later?"

Matt smiles, bringing her hand up, just brushing his lips across her knuckles. "Yeah. Yeah I'll talk to you later Foggy."

He closes his locker and unfolds his cane. "Have a good day." At least better than yesterday.

--Well. If she had any doubt still that their plan for the weekend is definitely a date, then it's definitely gone now. "--Yeah. You, too."

She doesn't chicken out on sitting next to him in bio this time, so it's already going better. "Hi."

Hey, if he has to state his intentions plainly, he might as well do it right up front.

Matt is in the process of pulling out his notes, fingers gliding over the braille textbook when his head turns towards her voice with a smile. "Hi." She sounds happier and that's reason enough for him to smile. "Better day today?"

"So far so good." Of course, this is the class where things will probably take a turn for the worse if it's going to happen, but Foggy may be hoping her favorite Regina George-wannabe won't have the guts to start sending her shitty notes when she's literally sitting right next to Matt. Not that she's actually sitting next to him to use him as a shield or anything, it'd just be a nice bonus if he acts as unwitting deterrent. "What about you?"

Matt likes having her beside him in class. She asks interesting questions during their discussions and she never seems to mind that his recorder or his Braille notes tend to take up more than his half of the table.

A smile as his fingers start tracking over his notes. "Good. But it's also gotten a lot better."

Smooth, Murdock. Real smooth. Or real corny.
Maybe both.

Corny and smooth, definitely. A+. Foggy ducks her head to hide her grin from the class at large while she grabs her books and things out of her bag and sets them on the table. The teacher starts the class before she can think of anything equally corny and/or smooth to say back. But that's okay, because she still gets to sit next to him and let her arm brush against his while she's taking notes. It's nice.

It's nice until a crumpled up piece of paper hits her foot, and she realizes that her favorite classmate took a seat behind them while Foggy was busy living her life. She almost doesn't pick it up at all, but then she sighs and unfolds it. Today's offering is much like yesterday's: extremely passive aggressive, backhanded comments about her thing with Matt Murdock, implying that he'd never want to go out with her if he knew what she actually looked like.

She twists around in her seat and hisses, "Okay, seriously, do you just wake up every morning and think what I really want out of life is to be a two-dimensional bitch, or--"

The teacher says her name sharply, and yeah, okay, she is so getting detention.

Can you imagine this fluffer in a High School AU?

I can XD

Open to most prompts, just not 42 or 20.

[Well, he just failed to appear in the somehow canonical one...]

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Everyone gets a high school romance. Yes, even you.

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Gabriel Starling | OC | OTA

Matt Murdock - Daredevil/Defenders - Netflix - OTA

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lemme know if this needs tweaking.

No this looks great!

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she's totally still not 100% sure this is an actual date. also I'm sorry, Foggy.

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