People acting out of character is usually a hallmark of Bad!fic, which we openly embrace here on this comm (see #badfic tag for examples). However, characters can act out of character for actual reasons. Either way works - your story can have someone being out of character the whole fic, or they could be out of character reasons unknown to the other characters. How would the others react? Would it raise red flags?
Authors: please tag your fic with your author tag. If you are new, I will make a tag for you as soon as I get the posting notification.
This challenge will run until August 25, 2019 at midnight, Chicago time (CDT, UTC-6). Please tag your entries with 'challenge: out of character’. Have fun, everyone!
If you have suggestions for future challenges, please comment to the
community sticky post with your idea