The Student AU is an informally defined alternate universe where many characters from the world of Offetstine are reimagined as students, often with completely different backgrounds to their canon selves.
Setting
The Student AU is set within and around Cedar Crest University, in an indeterminate mid-late 2000s timeframe. With very few exceptions, each character has had their occupation replaced with studying a relevant course. Many characters have also been relocated to nearby student accommodation, with others usually somewhere else within Winthorpe.
Character Changes
Clover Lamont
Lamont is no longer a vampire or associated with firearms, instead studying forensic science while taking part in inter-school MMA events (a sport which, in this universe, got as out-of-hand as football did with American schools). She is frequently seen wearing workout clothes with a long coat, and at least one visible injury, usually a bandaged eye.
Modeste Daniau
As in her respective canon, Modeste Daniau is the assumed vampiric identity of Serena Markov following a bout of amnesia, she is represented in the Student AU as two individuals rather than one. In the AU, Markov and Daniau are twins who take their surnames from their parents, as neither of them wished to assume the surname of the other, as is otherwise common in marriage in the English-speaking world.
In the Offetstine canon, Daniau has criminal ties with the Coalition due to being groomed by the organization official Athena as an assassin. However, in the Student AU, Daniau and Markov owe their wealth to their mother, Stirling Markov. Due to her name, she was often mistaken for a man during her life, and quickly became a formidable force in the Winthorpe criminal underworld, before voluntarily turning herself into a vampire after learning about demi-humanity. She was allied with the Ringleaders since her transformation and has amassed a significant amount of wealth, generally suspended in stocks and non-liquid assets, before bequeathing it to her husband and children following her death in a motorcycle stunt crash. The father of the Daniau-Markov family is Clément Daniau, who in Offetstine canon is Modeste's father.
Much like her canon self before her death, Markov is studying computer science, specializing in scientific computing, as her introduction to the field of computer science was through the video game market of the 1990s. Despite being human, she has a brash and outspoken personality, and as such is frequently mistaken for her younger twin, the more soft-spoken Daniau. She is not shy about her parent's criminal ties and figures that while it may endanger her as a survivor, she has no reservations about living life to the fullest especially with her inherited assets. Despite this, she is reputed as a loyal and dependable friend.
In contrast to this, Daniau is reimagined as having been turned into a vampire by Stirling. Her cautious and soft-spoken nature are more prominent in the Student AU than in canon, and she attempts to live as human a life as she can, though she is not unwilling to use her powers to defend her friends and family, including Markov. Daniau is studying the culinary arts and aspires to be a chef. She openly denounces her mother's criminal ties and ill-begotten wealth, and is ashamed of her vampirism, though it has led her and Markov closer to the magical scene in Cedar Crest. Daniau shares a dormitory with Constance Vivas.
Constance Vivas
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