bakerstreet | Boarding school

The Boarding School Meme

It's like your high school AU meme with an extra step - each student and even some staff are provided their own living quarters within the school campus. Nobody has to roll up in a nice car, or run towards the train station with a toast in their mouth (they can still do that when they're late to class though). So try to enjoy it, you're gonna be here for a whole year.

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1. Post with your character name, canon, and preferences in the subject line. Additional preferences in the comment section is encouraged but not required. Student or staff, shipping/smut preferences, the type of boarding school, the time period, or what scenarios you're looking to play.
2. ???
3. Welcome back to school.

TYPE:

1. Single-Sex - A girls only, or boys only school. They can be conveniently right next to each other, with a lot of sneaking around going on, or rivalries between clubs and sports teams.
2. Co-Ed - Boys and girls are integrated.
3. Military/Monastic- A grittier/holier version. Instead of dorms, students are expected to live in barracks/temples.
4. Horror - The school's secluded campus is the least creepy thing going on here. The school itself could be haunted, home to a cult, or someone got dared to summon a demon.
5. Super/Magic - A school for teaching a new generation of kids with superhuman and/or magical abilities. Can crossover with military or horror, depending on your tastes.

PROMPTS:

1. first day
Catch up with old friends, brave new teachers, fight your way through the sea of students, and hope you're in the right classroom. Oh, you're the new kid. Well, that's okay as long as you've got more than enough summer vacation anecdotes to fill ten pages of Times New Roman size 12, single-spaced.

2. first period
You're gonna be late! Or are you already there? Class hasn't started just yet, so chat it up or copy your classmate's homework before the teacher gets here.

3. lesson proper
You're probably diligently taking notes, looking out the window daydreaming or reciting in class, much to your teacher's delight - or dismay. Try not to be too obvious when counting down the minutes and pass that note as discreetly as possible.

4. faculty
Have a bone to pick with your terror math teacher. A crush on the cute chemistry teacher? There might be something you want to ask your homeroom teacher about. In any case, you plan on seeing a faculty member today. Or maybe they plan on seeing you!

5. lunch break
Man, you are starving. Hopefully, today's menu has something good. If the crowded cafeteria's not your thing, try the rooftop.

6. hooky
One of you is skipping class. You should try talking them out of it if that's your thing.

7. detention
What on earth did you do to get this? Oh well. Detention can't be that bad when you've got all these very nice, approachable model students around to talk to.

8. p.e.
Baseball, basketball, dodgeball - no matter the sport, just remember: you are the star. It's you. At least, you hope it is.

9. home ec
Sewing! Cooking! ... Try not to burn the school down!

10. lab work
Frog dissections! Explosions!

11. school fair/festival
Every school has one of these. What's your class doing this year?

12. theater
Oh boy, oh boy, being the star of this play is your dream. It isn't? Oh. You're still helping with the props and costumes, right?

13. library
If you need to look something up or just want some peace and quiet, this is the place. Whatever you do, shh, people are trying to read.

14. bully
Whether they take the form of Nelson Muntz or Regina George, if you choose to meet them at the gym at four o' clock or else, be ready to face the consequences... or maybe you don't have to. Not when someone's here to help you out. (This can go either way - one of the participants can be the bully or someone helping the victim.)

15. tutor
You're having trouble with a class or you're trying to make up for the days you were absent. It's a good thing someone was nice enough to offer their assistance.

16. clubs
Assuming that you actually have one. Are you writing for the school paper? Part of the student council? The marching band? Maybe you're a member of one of those weird occult clubs or something...

17. prom
Do you have a dress? A date? Who are you voting for prom king? Is being on prom committee is driving you crazy? Do you even care?

18. graduation
Well, it was fun while it lasted. It's time to say those last words, settle those scores and get ready to grow up.

19. roll again/make your own scenario
Getting to your new room and meeting the roommates, sneaking into or heading on over to the boys/girls campus, school visits, field trips, going to the nearest town, winter or spring break - you name it!

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

( Superpower school settings especially loved. She could be a student, or I could age her up as a professor - though she'll still look like a student, lol. Otherwise I'm open to discussing other options with the exception of a magic school. )

( no 5. in her default backstory she goes to regular public school but it is definitely acceptable AU territory for her parents to send her to some stuffy, uptight boarding school to "set her straight" which of course doesn't work at all. )

( open to either student or professor. m/m preferred for shipping. )

(any interest in this boy?)

( yes, always! )

(Yeah! There's so many ways we can do this. I have a few ideas. Either they're both professors who are sneaking a moment to be lovers or they're students doing the same thing.

Maybe they're helping with the festival or they're at said festival.

Or Thoma is being amazing at home ec... Ooor Ayato is making him eat weird stuff at lunch.

Rng gave me 6 and 11. Maybe we can combine them? They play hooky and end to at the festival?

( ohhh, yes! they're both so naturally slippery that playing hooky would be very easy to do on the downlow. plus, they can still hit up the food stalls at the festival for some fun/weird food concoctions if they find any.

who could resist a cute festival date? c: )

It was great weather for a walk. Thoma had plenty to do in school today but it was nothing he couldn't make up on his own time later. It was harder to make alone time for Ayato and himself.

It wasn't difficult to slip out of the campus and wander onto the beach. There's plenty of activity, the are food stalls and a temporary market being assembled for the festival tonight.

Thoma loved being out in the sun, especially with his favorite heir to the Kamisato clan.

It may never work out, he may only ever be Ayato's servant but he's thrilled anytime he gets this.

Currently he's collecting shells.

"Look at these! Do you think Miss Ayaka would appreciate them if you sent them to her in your next letter?" he sifts through a few and holds one up. It's half an abalone shell. "The blue in the one matches your hair. I wonder if I could make a button out of it..."

[Superpower/magic school is always fun, but make it a more regular school for added angst. OTA for most shipping, student/professor is a no-go. It is however fine for platonic relations.]