High School/College AU prompts
Each month leading up to the posting dates, we will be posting a list of AU prompts that anyone can use and post regardless of whether or not you’ve signed up for a fic. No word count minimum and no word count maximum! We can’t wait to see everyone’s fics :)
(Fully inspired by @buddieversion / @thatbuddie monthly prompt lists. We love you Maria.)
These are meant to spark ideas! Feel free to take a prompt and run with it in whatever direction feels right.
Make sure to tag @buddieau or tag it with #buddie au prompts so we can reblog it here.
Promposal – Person A constructs a series of increasingly elaborate attempts to ask person B to prom. Each goes hilariously wrong in their own way.
Person A is the star player on the football team. Person B is on the yearbook staff and has to take pictures of the game. Person A can’t help but flirt with the cute photographer the whole time.
Person A offers to tutor person B, a jock struggling with their science homework. There’s more chemistry than they bargained for.
Person A gets assigned a locker right next to person B the first day of freshman year. We see how their relationship develops through the locker’s POV.
Voted ‘Cutest Couple’ in the yearbook, but they’re not actually together.
Popular x Geek and they’re hiding their relationship because the geek is worried about his popular bf’s reputation, but his popular bf just wants to show him off.
Valentine’s Day secret admirer notes in locker.
Best friends who get paired in health class to take care of a robot baby.
Enemies to lovers lab partners
Person A tries and tries to convince person B to sign up for their extra-curricular. Person B does, but only because they need it for their college applications.
Person A is the punk loner. Person B is the jock who thinks his eyeliner and lip ring are really fucking cool.
Person A meets person B during moving into the dorms – they quite literally run into each other. The next day, they end up sitting right next to each other in class. Fate just seems to keep shoving them together.
Established relationship long distance AU. Person A’s friends don’t believe that Person A actually has a perfect, hot boyfriend because Person B seems too good to be real.
Get into a debate in class during the first week of school. Sexual tension ensues.
Person A’s best friend runs a blog where they interview people on campus and one day they interview Person B and Person A falls in love with their responses and quick wit (and the picture attached isn’t too bad, either).
Person A only knows person B as the cute barista in the campus coffee shop who always gets their order just right. Until, that is, class rankings come out. Then, all bets are off.
Inspired by the CUT video of straight guys kissing guys for the first time. A mutual friend is doing a social experiment for a project and they rope Person A and B into participating.
It’s three months before graduation, and person B is rushing to submit their thesis, but they need one more set of interviews to complete it. Enter person A.
Outside POV – neighbor can’t tell if the guys in the next dorm room are really kinky or hate each other
Outsider POV – two college students, a bunsen burner, and one hell of a love story.
Both students are competing for the same postgraduate job. They go toe to toe all the way through the recruitment process, and don’t see how close they get.
we hope this sparks inspo!
