Thanks For The Memories

by randombiwriter

Summary:

A new summer camp has opened, and parents have been dropping kids there due to its policy about teaching them about jobs.

10 year old Sunset doesn't care about that. She's just here to for free food and a place to sleep in until either the summer ends or the counsellors realized she snucked into camp.

Now if only her cabin mates would stop bugging her and leave her alone.

Notes:

Do I know how a camp works? Absolutely not. I just suddenly remembered a childhood moment where my parents droped me and my sister at this "kid city" thing at the mall. We don't actually learn about job stuff there but there was an incident where the boys and girls have a war and everyone was being really dramatic with the dying stuff some were even pretending to be doctors and nurses. There was a ball pit at the second floor and I was there the entire time sleeping and didn't even know about the war until some kid shot me in the face with one of those toy guns.

Sorry getting off topic. But I have been thinking for a "childhood friends au" for a while now with these exact cast since before I was in College. (Well, Bloom and Anne were late additions but its fine) I just never wrote it because I thought like a single oc in cast and it full of canon in a childhood friends setting was kind of cringe and probably a self-insert. Now though? I don't really care anymore, time to embrace the cringe.

I choose a camp bc at first I wanted Sunset to have a "Like You from Hazbin Hotel" moment when she first arrived in the human world and my Oc swoops in to stop that and introduced her to the rest of the cast who are already a friend group and their shenanigans would take place in a town/city but that feels...imbalanced for the lack of a better term? So I figured everyone are strangers to each other at start would be a better idea, and I needed a reason on how they even met and started hanging out in the first place so I figured a camp would be great with them as cabin mates would be a place to start.

Chapter 1

Sunset has been living in the human world for a month now.

 

She hates it. She hates this place and she hates this body even more. Everywhere she goes, it feels like everything is mocking her.

 

...at least she doesn't have to worry about her.

 

But now she has a different problem. Where is she going to get food? The last box of apples she stole from a truck is starting to rot. Plus it's been raining for a while now, she can't keep sleeping in the junkyard.

 

She needs a plan right away, but...she doesn't even know where to begin. This isn't even something that magic can solve.

 

Hmm?

 

The glowing box tv its called a tv is saying something.

 

A funny looking man is announcing something.

 

A camp?

 

...huh.

 

That might be the very thing she needs right now. She can just sneak into the camp and pretend to be camper.

 

It's not like she'll be making friends there anyway.

Notes:

How old is everyone? Kid aged. Ayano is the oldest while Marinette is the youngest.

Fair warning though: Shuichi is going to be out of character in this au.