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[noblest-roman-of-them-all]

New AU idea. The Zombie Apocalypse AU I wrote a lot of for Whumptober is actually just Remus getting carried away with a project for his film class. Mishap by Moonlight (which I initially wrote last year) was initially the whole project, but Remus got carried away with the writing and filming and conned everyone into going along with it.

Just about everything stays the same except for Logan’s mentor within the zombie storyline is only emotionally/mentally abusive and doesn't actually touch him because while Remus would in fact write something like that, he's not going to ask his friend to play that out for his project. Remus still writes his character as killing Marcus and still writes Marcus as getting creepy with him, as a way of coping with some actual abuse he's dealing with. This scene prompts Logan to talk to him about some abuse he's also actually dealing with from his advisor.

At some point between filming Remus is in a car accident or something and actually loses his leg and due to his commit to the bite disease just writes it into the script that Janus cuts off his leg to avoid weird continuity stuff and so he doesn't have to try hide his prosthetic.

Remus deliberately writes Logan and Thomas as idiots to lovers because they're genuinely idiots to lovers and he's subtly trying to help them out. It actually works to his surpise and the little heart to heart scene he writes for their characters actually gets them talking. He also writes Emil and Roman as partners because they've also been skirting around each other for two years and he can't take it anymore and hopes writing their characters as an established couple will help them sort it out.

Later on (which I am working on writing) Remus is plying around with some drams ideas and recruites his buddy Chris, who is taking an assortment of classes to figure out what he's actually passionate about after an accident he and his brother were in the year before and also has a penchant for the color green, to brainstorm ideas with him.

Chris everso helpful shrugs and suggests someone come after him as revenge for killing Marcus and in the process kills someone else. They draw names from a hat and Emile is the lucky victim.

Remus does love a good tragedy, but also find there's something to be said for the drama of a scare and writes two versions of the scene, one in which Emile dies and one where he doesn't. Day of filming comes around and no one bothered to double check that they were all on the same page leading to Roman thinking Emile is actually dead in a filming accident gone horrifically wrong.

The whole thing does end in a confession of feeling, but Remus does wish he could have accomplished this without traumatizing the shit out of his poor twin.

That said at the end of it he's two for two on the match making scene in this film project he's already turned in and gotten an A on, so when Chris jokingly offers up time traveling to stop the apocalypse it takes no time at all for Remus to agree, provided Chris can get Zach and the rest of his friend group involved. His reasoning behind this is that he can write in Jimmy's side project of designing a ship shaped like a turtle can be incorporated and actually turned into the time machine.

Somehow Chris actually manages to get everyone on board with Zach and Aviva being the hardest sells because they each have other projects that they're working on, Chris points out that once Remus is done with this for his class he could put it on YouTube and it would show off parts of their projects and they both agree. Koki's already been in on the project helping with post editing and all that couldn't careless to be in the production itself, but Jimmy convinces her to join in. The two bantering back and forth practically write their own parts, and Remus is pleased to find Martin has a surprising amount of commit to the bit disease himself and seems to be the only one to get Aviva to play along. This all works out really well for Remus, who's sole motivation for bringing such a big new group into the storyline is to once again play match maker, this time with Chris and Zach.

During filming at some point Zach falls ill and instead of trying to hide it or make Zach work through it, he just writes his character as suffering from anemia and malnutrition due to the apocalypse and has Zach use his wheelchair when he can or wants to show up. Little does he know that Zach is actually battling an eating disorder, the reason he's actually sick, it all comes to a head when Remus writes Zach's character as eating on screen and Zach breaks down about it, leading to Chris intervining and the two finally talking. (Remus immediately offers to delete the footage and rework things to cut out any mention of malnutrition. Zach agrees it's okay as long as he just curs out the last bit of filming.)

Remus is now three for three and Roman confronts him about his matchmaking habits. Remus admits that, yes, he's been doing this on purpose and hasn't tried to set up Remy, Patton, or Virgil in any way because they all just seem so settled in without being paired off and it would feel weird to try to set up two of them and just leave the other hanging. He's shocked when Roman tells him the three of them are an established ploycule and have been this entire time.