Outer Banks

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Name: Outer Banks
Abbreviation(s): OBX
Creator: Jonas Pate, Josh Pate, and Shannon Burke
Date(s): April 15th, 2020 - present
Medium: Television
Country of Origin: United States
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Outer Banks is a TV series that follows a group of teenage friends, John B., Kiara, Pope and JJ as they try to find the lost gold of the Royal Merchant shipwreck; an obsession of John B's missing father. Along the way, they enlist the help of Kook Princess Sarah Cameron and learn that Pope's ancestor was the only survivor of the Royal Merchant wreck and hid the gold on land. Their dangerous quest often brings them into conflict with the police, the wealthy Kooks and their own parents.

The series is set on an island town where there is a stark socio-economic divide between the Haves and the Have Nots. The wealthy residents of the island live on Figure Eight and are known as Kooks, while Pogues is the term used to describe working class residents that live in the Cut. Within the show, the main cast all refer to themselves as Pogues even though Sarah was originally a Kook Princess and Kiara grew up on wealthy side of town.

Fandom

The Kooks vs. Pogues dynamic often appears in fanworks. Role Reversal is a common AU fic trope in the fandom. There are works that recast one of Pogues as a Kook, usually setting up Alternate First Meetings with the Pogues and an opposites attract romance. Reader Insert stories often use tags to distinguish between Kook Reader and Pogue Reader stories. There are also works that focus on Kie's Kook Year.

The Pogues

The Kooks

The Parents


Pairings

M/F Pairings

F/F Pairings

M/M Pairings

OT3 Pairings

Reader/You/Original Character Pairings

There is also a significant amount of reader-insert and original character fanfictions written for the main characters of the show. The most popular are:

Example Fanworks

Fanfiction

OBX fanfiction can be found on AO3, Wattpad, and FanFiction.Net. There were a total of 188 Outer Banks fanfiction on FanFiction.Net as of November 1st, 2023.

Archives & Fannish Links

Fan Communities

References