This is an AU I am working on called Sburb 1989, where instead of it being 2009, it's 198,9 and the kids play "Sburb: A Tabletop Adventure" in John's basement. In this AU, Sburb is just a D&D-esque game that they all play together after school. I wanted their fashion to also be reminiscent of that time period as well lol
Jade has big hair that's held together with lots of hairspray, and I made her kind of a geeky girl with a long skirt. Long skirts were really popular in the 80s for some reason!
Rose is a Trad Goth girl who also wears a long dress. A lot of goths would recycle clothing from older time periods, like bridal gowns, and I wanted to show that with her wearing a pretty old-looking dress. Frizzy hair was also pretty popular with goths, so instead of a bob, I thought it'd be cool if her hair looked sort of teased like that.
John is too normal-looking. Unfortunately, even in canon, he is already pretty 80s-coded, what with his obsession with Ghostbusters. So not much about his design has changed. The only thing I changed was giving him little braces like Jade lol.
Dave has a whole new outfit, obviously, so I had to think for a while about what he would wear in the 80s. So I just made him wear stuff that really popular rappers wore back then, plus the giant boombox lol I feel if he couldn't be a DJ or whatever, he would definitely be the kid in cartoons that carries one everywhere. The only real change was that his shades are square instead of a rounded oval. They reminded me of Stunner shades, which were really popular for rappers to wear then. He's only 13 in this AU, so I didn't give him a bunch of gold chains and stuff (where would a 13 year old get a chain from anyway lmao)
