Why isn't there any drum corps aus?
Like drum corps has
Forced proximity
Showering together (I mean literally, like 4 people will share a single shower head. You get used to it.)
Constantly busy and separated from other sections
Reasonable to be up at 4am having a conversation ranging from deep trauma dumping to which staff member would look best in drag
Forced proximity
Hot, sweaty, tan, SHIRTLESS people (even women)
Really high emotions
Similarly, extreme amount of stress
Forced proximity
Working out regularly
Basically living together but on the road
Performances (which I know is hard to romanticize if you don't do it but trust - love for people and performing is surprisingly simple to interweave)
Forced proximity
So yeah do with this what you will, feel free to add on
14. Just... Drum Corps. It has occurred to me that a lot of people don't even know what drum corps is. Basically, around 150 14-22 year olds are outside in the American summer, ALL DAY, working, playing music, dancing, learning, reping over and over, and two months of that season will include competitive performances in the evening. and it's notoriously physically demanding. There's a thing called preseason where marchers in their own time have to spend months training their bodies. Ankle injuries, concussions, heat and sun related injuries, and season enders are all very common and most drum corps require marchers to undergo safety training. They sleep on gym floors, spend approximately a week's worth of time living on a tour bus, bond with their corps mates. They go through entire high school dramas in the span of 3 months because there's only three things they CAN do when they're not practicing or performing, and those are eat, talk, and shower.
15. Uniforms. And if you're unfamiliar with guard uniforms, they're often things people have to leave their comfort zone to wear. Like skin tight, occasionally revealing, not visually appealing outside of the show
16. People getting injured. A lot.
17. Literal sleeping together.
18. Crammed together on tour buses