( goths & skaters & jocks & nerds & theatre kids & etc )

[valerianandathousandsocks]

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

Geralt of Rivia - Netflix Witcher - very ota

[evil_is_evil]

((I'm feeling a little called out by that picture and so very here for it.))

Re: Geralt of Rivia - Netflix Witcher - very ota

[breadpants]

_{[Hello I am here for it too would you like to be here for it together]}

[evil_is_evil]

Geralt is relatively new to school after yet another transfer. If he doesn't manage to stay in this one, Vesemir will have his head. Geralt doesn't really talk to anyone, not after his catastrophic breakup with Yenifer the year before.

Nope. He's not putting himself out there again.

So he throws himself into sports. Football. It's not really his style but he's a viciously effective lineman and the potential for scholarships can't be overlooked. But it's shop that he prefers, making things with his hands. Metal and fire and heat.

One more year.
One more year and he's done, he can work on what he loves rather than what he's supposed to.

Clint Barton

[nexttarget]

Open to anything (shipping M/M)

Childhood sounded cute so here you go!

[blind_devil]

Matt felt like such a moron being all awkward around Clint right now. They'd know each other since they were five, why make things weird now. But what was he supposed to do with his changing feelings either. He liked Clint as more than a friend, but had no idea how to go about making the change he wanted to.

Not to mention the being bi thing kind of being a big no no for Catholics....he didn't exactly have anywhere else to go if the nuns threw him out.

Henry - ALVH / Last American Vampire

[whichisit]

Bucky Barnes

[not_a_commie]

Terra Bradford | FFVI / Dissidia version | OTA

[esper_magic]

Evie | Disney's Descendants | ota

[4hearts]

[All of these look fun, but especially ice queen, sneaking out, and detention.]

izumi saito ( original ) m/m

[umbel]

Pepper Potts | MCU | OTA

[onthelease]

Chuuya Nakahara | Bungou Stray Dogs | M/M

[thetaintedsorrow]

John Constantine l DCTV l ota

[lostsoulwizard]

[Bad boy, trash fire, pick your poison with this one]

Wei Wuxian | Mo Dao Zu Shi / The Untamed - ota

[sadflutenoises]

Peridot | SU | OTA

[acrystalclod]

[ooc: no spoilers after "Familiar", pls? wanna watch new eps blind once they premiere here) besides, this is highschool AU, anyway, why'd there be spoilers / ooc]

Cirilla Fiona Elen Riannon | Wiedźmin (Hexer / Witcher) (book saga)| OTA

[przeznaczona]

Allura | VLD | F/M romance, OTA gen

[making_sacrifices]

Jin Ling | Mo Dao Zu Shi

[impetuosity]

> rng > 20 but make it fake

[spikelet]

If you asked her teachers, they would tell you that A-Qing was a demure, bright girl who did remarkably well considering her disability. Prone to the occasional fit of dramatics, but who wouldn't be, given her circumstances?

If you asked her peers, they would tell you that A-Qing was a foul-mouthed loner who cared about perhaps three people, tops. They would also tell you eagerly that there was a rumour that one day after one guy in class three tripped her in the halls, she paid some delinquent from the local college to threaten him with a switchblade.

She encouraged the rumour at first; it kept people from trying anything. Except, now there was a different rumour, that she was dating the aforementioned delinquent, and...

Gross. He was a creep, a jerk, and their transaction had been strictly business.

She needed a charm offensive, and she'd picked out just the guy. He was cute, smart, and in the same class. And more importantly, he wasn't looking where he was going.

She steered into him.

Geralt of Rivia | Netflix Witcher | OTA

[whitehaired]

A mash of so many but 11/12/16?

[whatupbuttercup]

Jaskier was popular.

Of course he was popular.

He could smooth talk with the best of them, he could play several instruments, he could sing, he was charming and had nice hair (he thought), but he could never really move into the upper echelons of popularity. He flitted from group to group, welcome (generally) at all of them but not quite a part of them. He had a plethora of friends, knew practically everyone, but nobody was especially close to him.

He blamed his ex-best friend for that. Valdo just loved to talk shit and had been doing it since he lost out on a leading part in a play freshman year. He held grudges like no one would believe. People gave him the occasional odd look, Valdo's rumors were very convincing, but Jaskier couldn't like...disprove most of them.

The very last thing he wanted was to talk about his life outside school. Then everyone would know he was a trust fund kid and then he'd never know if anyone liked him. No, absolutely no talk about his life beyond school, so...no particularly close friends. Fine. He could live with that. Ostensibly.

Really it had started to bother him but, one day, a group of kids were laughing about Valdo's newest smear campaign while they were supposed to be playing football and the most handsome and wonderful voice spoke up in his defense. Jaskier knew who Geralt was, of course, he was two years his senior, varsity football, and possibly the most handsome young man anyone had ever seen. He had become besotted instantly--the very moment the senior had declared "That's both stupid and impossible." and killed that rumor, Jaskier had become the president of the Geralt fanclub.

It was a pity, then, that Geralt had no idea who Jaskier was and barely seemed to notice him as he trailed after him at lunch, or posted up and watched practice, or cheered at games. He'd have to do something singular to get his attention, of course, but he had no idea what.

Stanisław Tarkowski (Staś) | W pustyni i w puszczy | M/F romance, OTA gen

[whendefending]

Romelle | V:LD | OTA

[ihadmydoubts]

Nico Moreno | OC | M/F

[salvando_vidas]

Grace Callahan | OC | F/M

[new_beginnings]