for the au ask meme can you do teacher!jon au headcanons please :)
YAY ONE OF MY FAVE AUS THO!!
Okay I'm gonna preface this by saying I am American and everything I know about the British educational system I learned from books, TV, and Wikipedia whereas I know a lot of American schoolteachers so it's gonna be inaccurate.
But. I love me a teacher!Jon.
Let's go with No Fears Teacher!Jon AU because that sounds like fun.
1) Jon would be a really great teacher, I think, once he got past the grumpy. My favorite teachers/professors were always the ones that got really into their subjects and whatever Jon taught he'd be really into. I know most teacher!Jon AUs have him teaching, like, history, but I kind of want him to be an English teacher and supervise the drama club. Do they have drama club at English schools? I don't care, they do in this AU. He's really good at helping kids find their niche, like, some kids aren't great at being on stage but are really great at costuming or stage managing or whatever, some kids are good at composition and some aren't, and Jon's got a knack for figuring out what the kids will be good at and enjoy.
2) Everyone knows Mr. Sims will rip apart your essay if it's not good but he'll also heap lavish praise if it meets his standards and he's always willing to answer questions and stay late. He doesn't play favorites, except maybe in helping the kids who need more help, and he doesn't put up with bullies, at all, but he doesn't give up on them either. He has a glare and a way of forcing people to re-evaluate their own actions. He'll say things like "everyone is the protagonist of their own story" and try to teach kids compassion, and how to understand even when you cannot forgive, how to become a better person when you've done things you cannot take back.
3) Tim teaches languages and Sasha teaches computing. Sasha and Jon have long arguments in the staff room but they're very friendly arguments. They all live together and sit around grading papers at home over takeout. (Do British teachers have to take their work home with them the way American ones do? I have no idea, again. They do in this AU. :P)
4) Martin's the new librarian, because of course he's the new librarian. When Jon and Martin first meet Martin's messed up an order of books Jon needed for his class and Jon pegged him as "incompetent" in his head when really it was just that Martin was new and the software for ordering was incomprehensible. Tim and Sasha both try to get Jon to just talk to him already but nope, Martin is That Incompetent Librarian now and that is that. Martin retaliates by wondering aloud in the staff room why an English teacher hates poetry and complains about re-reading books. Maybe he's not that good at his job. Etc.
5) This all comes to a head when Jon desperately needs help for the spring musical (do English schools have spring musicals? THEY DO IN THIS AU) and Tim and Sasha are "too busy" and Martin is the only one left to ask. And Martin hates theatre, but he relents because Jon apologizes so nicely and he really does look like he's in over his head. And ofc they wind up bonding and falling in love and it's very sweet.
And then Martin moves in with the other three and marries Jon and they all live happily ever after because now I'm in the mood for that. :D
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