Raoul is not an American High School Jock

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When people write High School AU fanfic, Erik is always cast as the sensitive loner and Raoul as the 'jock' with seamless self-confidence who bullies him; from Raoul's point of view, a more realistic rendition would be to cast *him* as the wimpy kid who doesn't know how to handle his crush on that girl from the other side of the tracks who hangs around with all the wrong people. The boy who messes up every time he tries to talk to her and gets generally ignored and laughed at, and who finds threatening notes left on his locker from one of the 'seniors' with a reputation for beating people up in dark corridors and creeping out the younger girls.( Read more... )