[ SECRET POST #2956 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2956 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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09. [ SPOILERS for Fiddler on the Roof ]



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12. [ WARNING for abuse ]



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13. [ WARNING for suicide ]



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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I LOL'd at first at the idea that the writers of these things were older people looking back. Looking through the comments, apparently I'm wrong, and it varies from fandom to fandom. Most of my fandoms are manga/anime, and High School AUs are rife, but: 1) usually the authors are (or very recently have been) high school students, and 2) the characters of most anime are high school age in RL terms, regardless of what they may up to in canon (think Naruto for a mainstream example: the main cast are all magic ninjas who left school at 12, and they're still only 16-17 years old by the end of the series).

My main problem with the High School AUs I encounter (or any AU that makes sweeping changes from canon, for that matter) is that people use it as an excuse to throw out all the canon details they don't like. Hero and Antagonist truly despise each other in canon? - don't worry, this is AU, now they can be best friends! Author hates the Main Female Character? - suddenly she's a shrill bitchy hanger-on that all the others try to avoid! etc.

If in other fandoms, people are taking adults and turning them into teens for their AU, it must necessarily mean taking away huge parts of their maturity and the growth arcs that have led to their canon characterisation - often ending up with characters who have the same name and same looks (only now younger and - arguably - 'hotter'), but probably very few other similarities to their canon counterparts. I've come to believe that for many authors, this is the appeal of extreme AUs.