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Teacher/Student
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| Related tropes/genres | Mentor Fic, High School AU, College AU, Age Difference |
| See also | Underage, Forbidden Love |
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Teacher/Student is a trope that describes the forbidden love of a teacher and their student, usually either in a high school or college setting. The trope usually includes age difference, and has acquired a bad rep for 'encouraging pedophilia' according to antis.
Teacher/Student Relationships in Canon
- Netflix original drama Riverdale featured a romance between Archie Andrews and his teacher, Geraldine Grundy.
- Shoujo manga Faster Than A Kiss paired protagonist schoolgirl Fumino Kaji and her fiancé, and teacher, Kazuma Ojiro.
- Meiko Akizuki and Professor Namura from Marmalade Boy start dating in secret when he's still a university student and she's in junior high. Then he graduates and becomes her teacher in her first year of senior high.
Student/Teacher Relationship in Fandom
Canon Students and Teachers
Some works are set in the canonverse, and pair characters who are teachers with their students. This is particularly common in Harry Potter fandom where the majority of characters are either students or teachers at Hogwarts. Popular pairings include:
Student/Teacher AUs
Other works use AU settings, often High School AU or College AU, and cast one character from the pairing as a teacher, and the other half of the pairing as their student. As of Sept 2022, over 3000 AO3 works used the Alternate Universe - Student/Teacher tag. The most represented fandoms in the tag were:
- Bangtan Boys
- MCU (especially Tony Stark/Peter Parker)
- Star Wars (especially Reylo)
Example Fanworks
All stats as of September 2022:
- Young girl, get out of my mind by SilentRain91, an epic The 100 Clexa AU (2016, 153k words with 124k hits and 5k kudos)
- The universe says so by SilentRain91, a Supergirl Kara/Lena AU (2017, 78k words, 106k hits and 4k kudos)
- Baby, It's Just Biology by Polkadotdotdot (2018, Reylo, A/B/O, 112k words, 145k hits, 4k kudos)
- Someone Will Remember Us by starsthatburn, Once Upon a Time, Regina Mills/Emma Swan (2019, 117k words, 80k hits and 4k kudos)
- MFA (Most Fuckable Ass)
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Archives & Links
- Teacher-Student Relationship works on Ao3
- AU Student/Teacher works on Ao3