- We both attend a boarding school and we aren’t supposed to be out this late. I thought I heard a teacher. Quick hide in this small space with me!
- I tried to sneak out using my window and now I’m hanging from it can you help me?
- I was skipping class to sleep in an empty class room and you caught me but the door closed behind you and now we’re trapped inside cause the inside lock is broken.
- Teacher left us alone in detention wanna make out??
- I may have brought my pet to school by accident and it may have escaped you have to help me.
- You just caught me stealing my phone back from the teachers desk and it turns out you were here to steal the lesson plans. Wow you’re a thief….
- I just accidentally kicked a rock too hard and it broke that window and you saw it happen
- I run a (technically illegal) snack shop in school and you’re the student council president who caught me
- You accidentally broke the clay figure the boss keeps on their desk and some how I’m helping you fix it???
- I accidentally stumbled upon your makeshift hideout on school grounds let me nap here and I won’t say a word.
- I may or may not be the one who set off those fireworks but on the off chance that I was what would I have to do to get out of trouble???
- You know that I’m the one who set the teachers ringtone to boys moaning and called them during class now you’re using this against me.
- Someone has been leaving post it notes with hyper realistic dicks drawn on them around the school and as Student Council President I have to find out who it is
Performing Arts AUs
- We’re both auditioning for the same part and I kinda hope you get it.
- You’re the star of the show and I’m just ensemble, there’s no way you’d ever notice me, right?
- I make the costumes and you keep bringing yours back for adjustments- how many times can someone ‘accidentally’ rip a seam?
- You need an accompanist and I just so happen to play the piano.
- *OR* You need an accompanist and
I lied and told you I did so now I have to learn those pieces real quick.
- I know we’re both acting but wow, this on-stage chemistry is really convincing.
- I walked past an open window and heard someone singing, now I can’t get that voice out of my head.
- I have to learn to dance for this play, and you have three weeks to teach me.
- I think we should rehearse scene 4 a little more. Oh, is that the one where our characters kiss? I didn’t realize.
- I’m the director and you repeatedly show up late with starbucks.
- I use improv class as an excuse to flirt with you.
- I work the night shift at this diner with you to pay my way through drama school, could you test me on my lines while we work?
- I do ballet and you do modern, the studio’s been double-booked so we have to share it.
- Please stop practicing your solo song when I’m trying to sleep.
- It’s the day before opening night and I’ve lost my voice, you have to nurse this melodramatic ailing actor back to health.
- I have a key to the theatre, and sometimes I go there when I need to think. Apparently so do you.
- I fell into the orchestra pit and landed on you.
- *OR* I fell into the orchestra pit and landed on you. Again.
- My new roommate is a tap-dancer/opera singer.
- You’re the demanding star and I’m your personal assistant.
- We both dream of performing on the stage but we’re selling ice-creams in the interval instead.
- We’re broke aspiring actors sharing a tiny apartment in the city.
- We went to drama school together, four years later only one of us is famous.
oh god royal aus
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- “your country’s trying to take over/annex my country and you’re making it difficult to hate you because you’re so nice and attractive stop it” au
- “we’ve been engaged to be married since we were three but this is the first time we’ve met and your portraits really don’t do you justice” au
- “i’m a prince/ss and you’re a servant and we’re not supposed to hang out but we’re gonna fall in love anyways” au
- “i’m a prince/ss and you’re my bodyguard and we’re so not supposed to bang but we kind of did anyways” au (bonus: limo sex is great sex)
- princess diaries style “i grew up not knowing i was royal and suddenly my royal grandparent showed up out of nowhere and told me i was so now i guess i’m the heir to the throne and you’re my crush from my pre-royal days but i still have a crush on you” au
- alternately, “i grew up not knowing i was royal and now i guess i’m heir to a throne and you’re the guy who’s supposed to be teaching me how to be royal bc i suck at it and oops we made out” au
- “i’m a prince/ss from a small country nobody’s heard of and i’m in college pretending not to be royal and you’re another student who’s always calling me out on my bs” au
- “my country’s going through some issues so i’m here in hiding and you’re a civilian who lives in the same apartment complex as me” au
hot mess otp aus pt. 3:
- ‘i called the wrong number and started talking about my life and you only interrupted me after a few a few minutes of me revealing some pretty personal stuff and now youre invested in my life troubles’ au
- ‘you’re a vet and i’m pleading with you to save my goldfish and you’re the first vet i’ve visited to not ask me if i’m sure i don’t want to go and buy another goldfish for three dollars’ au
- ‘it’s my turn to open up the cafe today and you were sleeping under one of the tables when i came in and i don’t know what to say so i’m just sweeping awkwardly around you’ au
- ‘i’m drunk on public transport and you’re high and we both keep looking at each other knowingly’ au
- ‘you found me in a mall crying over a bowl of noodles i dropped and i s2g im not usually like this im just having a really weird week’ au
- ‘you thought i was someone else and started making out with me at a club and you’re really hot so i just went with it and now we’re heading back to your place and idk how to break it to you’ au
list of au’s to consider where one or both of ur otp is a hot mess:
- ‘i met you last night when you were drunkenly patting my dog in my backyard at 3 in the morning and when i asked you what the hell you were doing you slurred something about dogs being great and then you threw up on my feet and then fifteen minutes later you were passed out on my couch so that’s why you’re here right now also what the fuck is your name and why were you patting a dog in a stranger’s backyard in the middle of the night’ au
- ‘i’m an ikea employee and every day for the last week i’ve had to ask you to leave the store bc you keep coming in and sleeping in the beds seriously are you homeless or something i can call a shelter’ au
- ‘i don’t know who you are but we keep running into each other on the street and getting into screaming arguments over the stupidest things and i’m actually looking forward to our next meeting bc you’re annoying as hell but gdi you’re hot as fuck and its kind of fun to argue with you’ au
- ‘i’m in my underpants in a laundromat waiting for my clothes to get washed and your clothes are in the machine next to mine and i noticed that when you put your clothes in they were all covered in blood what the fuck’ au
- ‘last night was a haze for both of us and somehow we woke up hungover in a bed that isn’t either of ours and also neither of us recognize this apartment we should probably get out of here before someone calls the cops on us’ au
- ‘last night was supposed to be a one night stand but we drunkenly got each other’s names tattooed on each other’s ass cheeks so now its kind of hard to forget you’ au
- ‘you found me hanging by my fingertips from your window and i don’t want to tell you i was trying to rob you but idk how else to explain this and i don’t want to go to jail and also you’re kind of cute we should make out when i’m not clinging onto your window ledge for my life’ au
Please consider:
- “You’re a celebrity and I’m a paparazzo, sorry friend I have to take pictures of you to pay my rent next month” AU
- “You’re a store clerk and oh shit I just spotted my ex please let me hide behind your desk-thing” AU
- "I don’t know you but I need some place to stay for the night, my roommate’s getting some” AU
- “I’m helping my niece’s girl scout troop sell cookies and hell no, fuck off soccer coach, we were here first” AU
- "This has been a very bad week and you just grabbed the last box of my favorite comfort food at the supermarket” AU
- “You’ve locked yourself outside of your apartment and there’s a storm rolling in and I pity you so I’ll let you into mine” AU
- “We’re neighbors who don’t really talk but your cat might have gotten my cat pregnant?? We must raise this little kitty family together” AU
- “A toddler broke your nose and I may or may not have snapped my thumb during a very intense game of Mario Kart and now we’re both sitting next to each other in the hospital waiting room” AU
more otp hot mess aus:
- ‘you’re lying on the floor of the movie theater crying and i’m the employee who has to tell you another movie starts in five minutes so you have to leave and i’m really sorry but im also confused as to why a documentary on lightbugs affected you so much’ au
- ‘i found you sleeping on my balcony when i went out to water my plants why are you here and more importantly how did you get here we’re eighteen floors up’ au
- ‘i’m having a minor breakdown in the middle of bed bath and beyond and you’re a bewildered shopper who wants to buy plates but also to make sure i’m okay bc im wailing a little bit in the kitchenware section’ au
- ‘i asked a staff member and they said you’ve been coming to the pound every day to play with the dog i’m taking home today and that’s why you’re getting weirdly emotional’ au
- ‘why are you dancing in your underwear to kelly clarkson in a public bathroom while brushing your teeth’ au
I understand that a lot of people enjoy writing shipfics where they transplant characters into a college setting. Since some writers may not be in college, or may have graduated a long time ago, I thought I’d offer a helpful list of realistic college meet not-so-cute scenarios. Forget baristas. This is where it’s at.
– I’m really passionate about this cause and I will give you this flier if I have to shove it down your throat
– vicious battle over the only left handed desk in the room
– my roommate’s boyfriend is staying over so can I please sleep on your floor
– it’s pouring and my final paper is in my backpack so I guess we’re stuck under this tiny awning together. do you think they’d deliver pizza here
– hey I have to photograph someone for class will you be my model
– hey I have to take someone’s blood pressure for class will you be my victim
– variations of the above
– I know I keep coming to the cookie shop and for some reason it’s always your shift but don’t you dare judge me I need these for my sanity
– all our friends are drunk
– it’s 3 am and I’m still in the library studying for finals and I’m losing my grip on reality and I think I just saw a ghost
– we’re the only two people in this club. what is this club even for
– humans vs zombies (see you can still have your zombie AU, best of both worlds)
– we’re the only people who ever talk in discussions it’s awful
– GROUP PROJECT
#both of us turned up at the wrong room for this lecture but don’t know where its meant to be#waiting outside for pizza to be delivered and both of ours are super late#you keep parking in the space outside my student house you absolute asshole#we live in halls opposite each other and I keep seeing you changing through your window#you’re the only other person in the room when I break the printer and I’m panicking (little-smartass)
– Neither of us bought the expensive textbook but there is only one copy in the library and it can’t leave the building
– This awesome professor only has one TA slot and we’re rivals
– I found your USB drive still in the computer
– I thought I was the only one who liked the waffle station in the cafeteria
– You keep reserving the good study room in the corner of the library with the windows
– We’re studying in the library and there are two people very obviously fucking in the stacks and we keep sharing embarrassed glances
– We’re both donating blood in the blood donation van in the quad to get out of the same class
– You decked me in the head while you were playing frisbee golf
– Wait, I actually have a competent lab partner?
– You’re the RA and you’re trying to bust me for having hermit crabs
– You’re baking cookies in the communal kitchen at 3am and I’m angry but also really hungry
– What are you doing at this table at the career fair
– Waiting for office hours
– I’ve been sitting in this seat all semester why did you decide to sit in it today
– Clearly we’re both really uncomfortable at this party
– You peed on my car. You were drunk. I was in the car. There will be hell to pay.
– We started racing up the three flights of stairs to class for some reason and we can’t stop
– You’re REALLY GOOD at using the right search terms for the academic databases and I’m on a deadline
-my friend dragged me to this party and I just saw my ex quick make out with me
-we’re always at the fitness center at the same time and end up competing on the treadmill
– Sorry my roommate puked on your shoes
– Can I borrow a dryer sheet? I ran out and the ones in the vending machine give me a rash
-Your school mailbox is right next to mine
-I saw you sneaking captain crunch and cutlery out of the dining hall
-My roommate borrowed your contraband hotpot and managed to set it on fire
-You keep using my preferred shower stall in the floor bathrooms when I’m trying to get ready for class
-My computer crashed and you’re the student worker at the IT center
-we’re both on althetic teams that aren’t as cool as the football team and they give us shit
– You’re part of the guerrilla theater club on campus and crashed my class for a performance
-What do you mean we’re under a tornado warning?
-its 3am, in the dead of winter, some motherfucker pulled/set off the fire alarm and I am being very vocal about how I’m gonna make that fucker pay
-you’re the fucker who set off the fire alarm with your awful cooking
-I’m the fucker who set off the fire alarm with my awful cooking
-my shower isn’t working can I use yours
-RA mandated floor party
-I couldn’t help but notice you’re watching a show I like instead of studying in the computer lab
-dude your headphones are really loud like I can make out most of Kayne’s lyrics and I’m sitting across the fucking room
-hey the semester’s almost over and I have way too much money on my cafeteria account, do you want anything??? this shit’s just gonna disappear into the college’s pocket otherwise
-THERE IS A BOUNCY CASTLE IN THE OVAL AND I AM VERY EXCITED
You know why I love AUs? Because the whole point of them is that everything is changed, and yet these two people are still going to meet and fall in love- that they’re so set in stone and so meant to be that you can change literally everything in a hundred universes and they’ll fall in love over and over again.
