[ SECRET POST #2140 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2140 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Me, too, OP, me, too.
Especially high school AUs. I seriously don't understand the appeal of them because...doesn't so much of the character have to do their setting and being whatever they are in canon? I guess people make up different backstories to explain personalities, like if they set Naruto in high school, but it just never seems to be the same to me.

Once I saw a challenge to write a Naruto AU with Neji as a business banker
and I just
I...I couldn't even wrap my head around that.

(Although, same here. People obviously enjoy them, so I just don't personally read them, after the first few I tried. Still doesn't make the concept NOT bizarre to me, though.)

[pts]

The reason that high school AUs are so popular is that they impose artificial constraints upon the characters. This is why high school versions of Jane Austen stories work so well:

I think movies and TV shows like to set things in high schools because they can create artificial constraints on characters' behavior and force characters to continue interacting and to compete for limited goods (social status, boyfriends, etc.) from within a limited pool. It's tricky to modernize Jane Austen because people aren't trapped in a limited social world with very limited life choices -- today Lizzie Bennet and Darcy could get married with no real social stigma, but Lizzie would have gone off to Princeton on a fencing scholarship anyway and majored in anthropology and interned at a snarky feminist magazine based in NYC. But! If you stick the characters in an American high school, they have a limited pool of other humans to interact with and a limited set of life choices available and they must try to achieve status and success within that constrained milieu, as Austen's characters did. Which is why "Clueless" is such a successful update of "Emma."

[inkdust]

That makes so much sense.

[(Anonymous)]

That's probably part of it, but I think what accounts more for the popularity of high school AUs is that a lot of fanfic writers are high school students, and they're writing what they know.