[quote=@LowKey123]
If a high school rp is done right, I can see it having decent character development. Don't expect that in the Free section, though. Most of the people that enter those roleplays are still in high school. It's a familiar subject, why not do a roleplay based off of it

I still don't know who popularized the orphanage stuff. I'm thinking it's just the one that creates all of them.
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I want to say orphanages have a sort of mystical special-snowflake mystique to them, if possibly coerced out by characters in young-adult novels who are themselves orphans technically: Harry Potter, Lemony Snicket.

Orphanages also grant a free excuse to pull the, "My parents are dead" card so you never have to feel worried about that baggage and you're liberated from ever considering them. But there more-often than not often seems there's a penchant for teen-made OCs to be orphans for sympathy points or to have super-hero tier parents so they can get off on have special powers or physical attributes to fill in a Mary/Marty Sue daydream.