#Franchael au

[laremsworld]

*Anthony after finding out that Eloise and Francesca are both gay*

Anthony: So you actually like girls and you actually like girls, too?

Eloise and Francesca: *nodding shyly*

Anthony: great, just great. İs there anyone in this house who actually likes boys?

Benedict:

Everyone:

Benedict: Well, now that you brought it up…

[sea-owl]

Had a funny thought. You know, in Asian dramas, how sometimes important people just hide out in the family company as a low level, probably minium wage worker for one reason or another? Imagine Violet doing that, but the reason she's doing low-level work is that she can freely spouse hunt for her kids.

Violet technically never has to work a day in her life again if she so wished to. But Violet also has a mission to find the perfect spouse for each of her kids, and in her mind, she's gonna get better insight of potential partners as the janitor to Bridgerton Industries than as Lady Bridgerton. She'll get to learn intresting things that anyone would normally hide around her.

And meet some interesting people Violet did indeed! Like Simon, the young man who runs Hastings Inc., Bridgerton Industries' biggest partner company. He always greeted Violet with a warm smile. Or that nice vet, Dr. Kate Sharma! She was brought in alongside a trainer when the company started using therapy dogs. Her sweet boy Newton always happily ran up to Violet.

There's also the two lovley girls that regularly go to tea with Violet. Sophie, who works down in the company's childcare facility. Oh she's so good with the children. There's also Penelope, who works for Danbury Publishing but sometimes gets loaned out to Bridgerton Industries to help edit things like newsletters and important emails.

Oh, there's also that smart boy Phillip! It's adorable how he'll go on about plants, he even brings flowers he grew himself! He's the brains in his family's company while his brother runs the office politics. If Violet remembers correctly their company and Bridgerton Industries are teaming up to make Bridgerton Industries more environmentally healthy.

Then there are those two, some would say, devilish twins Michael and Michaela. Violet often sees them when their cousin comes to talk business with Anthony. Michael, that charmer always had a few words to make Violet blush. Though Michaela really isn't any better. Violet is and yet isn't surprised they're the heads of PR over in their family's company.

The last two Violet really likes are these two interns. Gareth, well, Violet isn't sure where he's interning. She knows it's either at Danbury Publishing or Hastings Inc., maybe both? She knows she sees him often enough with Lady Danbury and Simon, and knows he's in school to study archeology. Lucy is Kate's little intern who works more as an assistant while she's in school to studying for her degree. They'll happily chat with Violet if they see her around on one of their visits.

Violet just knows they're the ones for her children. Now, how to get them to see?

[newtonsheffield]

No because now I need to see how HRH Michael Stirling ends up with Francesca ! This family is just collecting royalty like they’re Pokémon

Bold of you to assume that Michael’s not already met Francesca, while she was abroad. It leads to a somewhat awkward conversation between Michael and Kate during which she clears her throat as they sip champagne,

“You should probably know that I’m seeing someone.” She let her eyes flick to Anthony, watching from the corner, his brow furrowed angrily and his mouth in a tight line.

Michael Stirling raised his eyebrows, “Is that so?”

“Yes. It’s… new but I’m not interested in anyone else. Sorry.”

Michael sighed, “Well then you should probably know, and this is no reflection on you I actually think we could be great fucking friends: But I accepted the Queen’s invitation because the someone that I’m seeing lives in the city here. And I needed an excuse to get here.”

Kate felt her lips smile, “Are we the Royal version of filthy sluts?”

Michael’s face split into a wide grin, “That depends? Is the lucky boy that bodyguard over there who’s looked like he wanted to kill me since I arrived?”

“That’s him.”

Michael raised his glass, first to Anthony covertly and then to Kate, “To being sluts and friends then.”

“Sluts and friends”

[crazychicke]

Bridgerton moodboards: Francesca Bridgerton feat. John and Michaela Stirling

[pensbridge]

Since the rom-com element came up again in interviews, it's as good a time as any to say now that I imagine an au where Philoise is You've Got Mail, Polin is When Harry Met Sally, and Franchael is Sleepless in Seattle except Michael is basically Meg Ryan.

[thesevenstarfoxes]

Eloise, the patron of scholars, is known for her disdain for love and marriage.There is Rumor that she has taken an oath of virginity, but Eloise has certainly never done such nonsense - she has lovers, thank you very much. She corresponds with many scholars around the world about their research topics, and one day, when she gets tired of the world of gods, she decides to randomly choose one of her pen pals and live with him for a while. None of them have a reason to object, do they? She appears on the doorstep of Philip Crane, a talented botanist full of passion for learning, with whom she has corresponded since his studies at Cambridge. But in none of their letters did he mention that he got married, or had twins, or was widowed. But Eloise stays, because it's still a change from the world of the gods, and Philip's twins are quite bright and will be excellent scholars in the future, and Philip himself… Suddenly, Eloise begins to understand why her other brothers (well, not including Anthony) talk so much about love…

John and Michael are the two young princes of a small, rainy island called Kilmartin, which is known for its music. The islanders have always told stories of gods and monsters, but as befits an island of musicians, most of their stories revolved around the elusive patroness of music, Francesca, who is featured in so many artworks on the island, with her long chestnut hair, beautiful blue eyes and mysterious smile. Michael never thought they'd actually meet her, and he certainly didn't expect her and John to fall in love with each other. When John died unexpectedly, Francesca's grief washed over the island with songs full of pain and grief for months, but only after Michael begged her to return his cousin and best friend for life, not understanding that even powerful beings like her could not do such a thing, she returned to the world of gods. After four years with no sign of her, Michael, now King of Kilmartin in place of John, had already given up hope of seeing her again. But one day as he was wandering in the fields, he heard music, and there she was, sitting on the side of a hill, just as the first day he had seen her, playing a sweet tune to John who looked at her adoringly.

part2/3

[hopepaigeturner]

how old is everyone in the umbrella academy au? just to understand the age gaps

So the age gaps between the Bridgertons are a little askew in my AU, as I want the youngest characters to be at least 16. So…

Anthony=31 (two months older than Simon)

Benedict=28/29

Colin=26

Daphne= 24

Eloise= 22

Francesca=21 (18 months between E&F)

Gregory= 17/18

Hyacinth= 16

And for the Umbrellas I’m gonna really mess around.

Simon=30 (the age difference between A and Simon is yet another annoyance for the pair)

Kate= 27

Sophie= 25

Phillip= 26

Penelope= 22

Michael=24

John= 23 (yes, a ghost, but Michael is still vehemnet that he is part of the team)

Gareth= 17 when he time travels. His age when he comes back…to be revealed 👀

Lucy= 16

These are my estimates. Basically in my version of UA law, the meteor strike has been passing over the earth for 3 decades and one child is born with powers each year.

Hope that helps!!!

As always, credit must got to @bridgertonbabe for spawning this AU :)

[sarcasticsweetlara]

I definitely see Hyacinth doing this

Mystery of the sexy paintings au

Today on another episode of aus I talk about with @seaowl when I am high on energy drinks

Mystery of the sexy paintings au

In which 17yo Gareth St Claire, good for nothing, except painting riske pictures that get him into trouble in the uni, comes up with a plan to con the ton into buying his amateur paintings for an exorbitant price, so he can get the cash he needs to pay for tuition. Enter, his friends/models. Who were nice enough to model for him for free.

The problem is, that the Bridgertons may have made mysterious French painter Gautier-Gautier / 17yo Gareth, rich overnight, but also, now they’re trying to discover his identity. How was Gareth supposed to know his friends attracted so many lunatics.

Sophie, he can understand, Benedict was the initial target of this whole fake art show business. Con the delusional rich guy into buying the painting of odalisque Lady in Silver (wearing a mask and a transparent sheet). But what he didn’t expect was that Benedict would fall inlove at first sight and make a shrine for the painting in his room. Benedict also makes his sister’s lady’s maid clean the shrine, who happens to be Sophie. The very same Sophie who got so fed up with Benedict’s Lady in Silver delulu after a masquerade a year ago, that she was willing to pose semi naked for Gareth and was 100% unapologetic about conning the Benedict out of millions in cash. Now she’s cleaning a shrine to the painting of her own semi naked body and this close to killing Benedict.

  Kate, well Gareth doesn’t even know why Kate agreed to let him paint her naked back and buttocks in all their sultry and exquisite glory. All he knows is that she felt sorry for him and that some guy she disliked said she was uptight and priggish and hadn’t done one wild thing in her life, so Kate told Gareth to paint her buttocks on top of a mushroom and get as much cash as he could manage from auctioning off her likeness. Gareth thinks Kate may hate him, because a furious Anthony Bridgerton saw the painting and immediately had people looking for Gautier-Gautier. Gareth knows Anthony can’t prove the naked back-buttocks model in the painting is Kate, but boy is the man trying his best to make Kate confess to her evil misdeeds. He also knows from Sophie that Anthony keeps Kate’s painting in a secret place only he can enter and that he spends way way too much time there. On the bright side, Anthony paid a lot of money for the faceless mushroom fairy, so Gareth has to thank Kate for her honorable, if spiteful gift of charity.

Penelope volunteered to help Gareth because she thought his paintings of Sophie and Kate were beautiful and she was even fine with her face being visible because in her reasoning, nobody would recognize HER wearing negligee anyway, she was a wallflower, if people saw the resemblance, well, redheads were a dime a dozen in popular paintings, nobody would think it was her. Gareth thought so too, and he was happy to help Penelope get in touch with her desirable femininity by painting her as the goddess of love. He was proud of the redhead seductress he painted. That is until another furious Bridgerton walked away from the art show with the painting AND the woman he clearly recognized in tow. Gareth doesn’t know much about Colin Bridgerton, but he looked about to shoot somebody the moment he saw Penelope, and the painting of the goddess of love that everyone was admiring. Penelope at least tried to explain, but Colin was fit to be tied. Gareth really hopes his friend is okay and not locked away somewhere being ravished by Colin Bridgerton. the man did pay an exorbitant amount of money for the painting, but Gareth is okay with accusing Colin of kidnapping Penelope if he doesn’t hear from her in a few days.   

Phillip, okay yes Gareth did it on purpose, he painted the man as a dark sexy demon wearing a loincloth, but to be fair Gareth asked for help, Phillip said no, because #thinkOfMyChildren, so Gareth had to resort to blackmail. And while, yes it is wrong for Gareth to use Phillip’s sad depressive diary against him, it was also wrong of Phillip to say no to posing semi-nude for Gareth’s moneymaking schemes. What better way to celebrate being in London for a hot widowed father than to do Gareth a favor.  In the end the bidding war among the thirsty debutantes made loin cloth fire demon the hit of the night, I mean Eloise Bridgerton probably bankrupted a few years of her allowance with how much she put on the pot to take the painting. Now Phillip is complaining that Eloise is sniffing around too much when he’s shirtless in the gardens trying to teach his kids about plants. Honestly for Gareth that sounds like the opposite of a problem, but Phillip has this thing called modesty that Gareth can’t quite get.

Look at cousin Simon and his boxing buddy Michael, they were both good sports about being part of the art show. Sure Simon almost fainted with Daphne Bridgerton began arguing with her brother about the whole ‘if you can take the mushroom fairy, I can take the semi naked warrior, so give me the money’ ordeal, because you know, Anthony was Simon’s university pal and could recognize those warrior biceps anywhere. But in the end, he couldn’t deny Daphne her wish without explaining that she was thirsting over semi naked Simon, and giving up the mushroom fairy painting that other gentlemen were eying with envy was a non negotiable. Daphne walked away with her painting and so did dowager duchess Francesca Stirling, who took one look at Archangel Michael’s painting, paid a king’s ransom for it and walked out without so much as looking around, you gotta admire a woman on a mission really.  

Lucy’s painting was probably the less risque of the lot, because while she was only a year older than him, she still wanted to participate in the gautier-gautier moneymaking scheme and help Gareth, so Gareth painted her as a beautiful mermaid, in honor of their childhood friendship. She was dressed…sort of. I mean look at Greg Bridgerton, he bought it for her didn’t he? He thinks the art looks pretty. He thinks the art looks like Lucy. And with the way Greg talks about the mermaid, Gareth wonders how the man can be so dense. But that’s Lucy’s problem to worry about.

Enter his current problem. Debutate and diamond extraordinaire, way too perceptive to be sixteen, Hyacinth Bridgerton, who apparently knows all about Gareth’s secret identity as Gautier-Gautier and is threatening to let her siblings know, unless Gareth gives her a self portrait… for free.  

An: I’m thinking about writing a drabble about this, mainly just the part of Gareth and the fabulous seven coming up with the idea and actually implementing it. tagging @sea-owl my au loving buddy who is okay with hearing me ramble

[bellascarousel]

This Valdemar AU has really got me in its clutches. My brain has been having so much fun mentally writing the next couple chapters. I'm ACTUALLY still writing chapter 1, which is almost more of a prologue. We meet Newton the Companion, get a bit of info on Anthony's relationships with Violet and Benedict while Newton ponders his options. We'll see the reactions to him going on Search rather than Choosing Violet. And then we meet Kate and get her reaction to being Chosen.

It's once she gets to Haven that the humor comes out. Which will start in chapter 2. Some highlights include:

Herald-Chronicler Penelope bantering/bickering with Princess Eloise

Benedict being the next one to meet Kate, and Mind-speaking to Anthony that his new Monarch's Own is here and "she's very pretty."

Anthony greeting Kate, taking one look in her eyes and being lost. Then Mind-speaking to Benedict to berate him for calling Kate "very pretty" when she is the most beautiful woman in the world

Benedict realizing what just happened and calling the other 6 siblings together to inform them that "our idiot older brother has gone and gotten himself Lifebonded."

The Bridgersibs all being delighted with this and also finding it hilarious

Hyacinth pointing out to Kate that Hyacinth may be a princess, but as the Monarch's Own, Kate outranks everyone except Anthony. Then pointing out that since Kate and Anthony are Lifebonded, she's going to be Queen one day, "and even without Valdemar's different politics, a queen outranks a princess." (Kate has known Anthony for a week, at this point.)

A fun family meeting where the Bridgersibs try to determine if Anthony will actually be allowed to marry Kate. Led by head of Foreign Affairs, Prince Colin.

Today, my brain decided to start mentally writing the epilogue while I was eating dinner. It is very sweet, and it made me cry.

I am also trying to figure out which pairs are Lifebonded. Not all of the couples are, in part because of exactly what Lifebonding IS. Polin can't be, because a friends to lovers story doesn't WORK with a Lifebond. Franchael also can't be, because of the John situation. Grucy definitely is, though. Gregory being a hopeless romantic with a tendency to fall in love at first sight works PERFECTLY with a Lifebond.

Other things I'm still working on are everybody's Gifts, who is and is not a Herald, exactly what everyone DOES (including who I'm going to make my weaponsmaster), and who knows what else. But it's fun.

[sofwrites]

hi i just finished when he was wicked and i LOOVVED it

do you have franchel fic recs? thank you

AHHHH I'm so excited for you!!! I love WHWW and Franchael so much (they, polin, and grucy are my top couples) 😭🙏 and I'm honored you asked me. I'd also love to know what about it you loved!!

Fic recs :) 💙

As Long As You're Mine - very beloved hockey au, 11k

a correspondance - a cute post-HEA fic with the Bridgerton fam, 2.5k

let your mind fly to the sunrise - a smutty, happy modern Franchael fic, 2.2k

The Language of Food - modern au of chef!Michael trying to win the heart of a new neighbor, 5.6k

addicted to her - sweet college/coffee-shop au, 1.9k

And then I have two of my own: This is why we eloped (flirty couple Franchael with badgering family Bridgertons 2.1k) and How to lose an earl in ten days (the eternally unfinished au that I hope to eventually finish, 4k)

[laremsworld]

Can you guys imagine the pain that Violet Bridgerton must have felt when she found out that her daughter - and not only any daughter, the most sensitive one, the one who could never open up, the one who was so hurt after her father‘s death that she never really dared to let anyone near her after - has lost her husband while being pregnant?!

Can you imagine Violet, Anthony and Benedict on their way to Scotland, crying ugly tears for the whole journey, because they remember vividly how they felt after Edmund died?

Can you imagine Anthony trying to comfort Francesca and telling her that they will get through this together, just like they helped Violet to recover from loosing her husband?

Can you imagine Violet just unconsiously shaking her head because she never really got over Edmund dying?

Can you imagine Violet telling her daughter that she must be strong for the baby in her? That this baby is going to be her rescue just like Hyacinth has been hers?

And finally, can you imagine the day were Fran looses that baby? The day were Benedict, Anthony and Violet look helplessly at each other and realize that the only chance that Francesca haf for a fast recovery is gone now?

Oh Francesca‘s story is going to destroy us all 😭

[bellascarousel]

I'm really good at "one-shots" that don't stay that way. And then there's my Franchael soulmate AU. I'm like 3k in and we've just gotten to Michael's return from India...

BEFORE WRITING: Oh, this fic idea is so cute, and it won't take any time at all! WHILE WRITING: Oh...oh, no...I Underestimated this. Again.

[sea-owl]

You know, rework the Bridgerton books a little bit, and you could fit them into a dark romance genre.

There are already elements of dark romance there. How quick the Bridgertons are to fixate and obsess over their spouses. Anthony is the head of the family who doesn't take no for an answer. Benedict blackmailing to keep his lady love close. Colin stalking his future wife and was ready to duel any man he thought she might be meeting. Gregory straight-up kidnapping.

The sisters are no better either. Daphne was ready to throw hands with all the men around her in the books until motherhood mostly mellower her out. Quick shot Eloise, who wasted no time in trying to compromise a single father. Even if it was unintentional, I still claim Francesca was trying to seduce Michael. She was into Michael's exploits a little too much with the whole tell me something wicked nonsense. Hyacinth, like Gregory, just has a list of crimes ranging from breaking and entering to theft.

Hmm, dark historical romance. I might have to go look into it.

[youwerenevermine]

Jonerys AU | “Tell me something wicked...” 🔹 Moodboard

For my dear friends @riezsouvents and @magalidragon, the culprits behind my newfound obsession for Francesca Bridgerton & Michael Stirling ♥️

And here’s a little snippet from Magali’s fic “Wicked Words”

He closed his eyes, pinching his nose and slumped in his seat. “She is the bane of my existence.” 

“You need a wife, darling.” 

His eyes sprang open and he turned, gazing out the window, spotting Dany outside talking to one of the gardeners. He folded his hands in his lap, murmuring. “I’m working on it Mum.”

Lyanna stood up and walked over, leaning down to kiss his head. She ruffled his hair and sighed. “Don’t get burned darling.  Dragons have a habit of doing that.”

He nodded absently. Aye, he thought, watching her laugh, the rare Northern sun playing off her silver hair, her smile bright. He sighed. “I know Mum,” he murmured.

“I have a few burns already.”

[crazychicke]

moodboards: Francesca x John x Michael from Bridgerton

[magalidragon]

wicked words | a Bridgerton AU | teaser

Um so, the fic that I was going to have for June is now almost 10k and we are NOWHERE near the end. So, before I disappear on a needed vacation, I’m going to post part one. Enjoy a bit of a teaser for chapter 1!

He narrowed his gaze on her, his lips twisting in a sly smile. "You make a habit of tracking my comings and goings?"

"It is easy when you disappear for years on end."

That had his smile breaking and his eyes shuttering. The gray turned inky black. He would be lost his head soon, she thought, her jaw tightening. It was hard to tell some days what could send him off into hours of brooding, could even spur him to take the next ship from White Harbor to Essos. He broke his gaze from her, turning the page in his book. "You still insist upon this ridiculous notion of marrying anyone but me?"

"Yes." They were back to that? Good Gods. She got up, brushing her hands over hers kirts. "If you'll be so kind, Lord Winterfell, I'd like to depart my personal study and go to the stables to collect my horse and go for a ride." She exagerated a curtsy, a simpering voice. "Might I do so with your permission? You seem to believe you have to give it on all matters of my decisions."

"Marriage is different!" He slammed the book shut, throwing it aside and got to his feet. He might not have been a tall man, but he was imposing, with his dark looks and darker demeanor. He had an 'aura', that's what her niece Rhaenys had said when she'd first met Jon.

It called to her.

She ignored it.

"How Jon, how is marriage different?"

There had been a strange tension in them since she made that announcement. It was a change. They had fallen into a nice normalcy. She ran the estates with him, he traveled as he needed for the estate, she lived in the Countess of Winterfell's rooms and sometimes visited her family in Dragonstone. He came with her from time to time, to visit family and friends who had moved down to Kings Landing. He liked Rhaegar; Rhaegar liked him. Then again, Rhaegar had always liked Jon. They had a lot in common. More than he had with Robb.

Stop thinking about Robb. Robb is dead and has been for two bloody years.

She squeezed her hands at her sides to steady her nerves. "I told you," she whispered, her gaze locked on his. He stared straight into her. Jon had that way about him. From the moment she met him. his eyes were so peculiar. They were almost as silver as her hair, but when he laughed they turned bright gray. Then they changed to the color of storm clouds when he was angry. Pure black when he was furious. Or frustrated.

Or...like now.

She didn't want to think what that might mean; although she knew.

He was aroused.

"Told me what?" he breathed, taking another step towards her. She chanced at look at his hands. He had them clenched, much like hers, but he would flex his right fingers when he was trying to find his thoughts. Like he was right now.

"I told you no, I won't marry you."

"I told you that we'd see about that."

"What are you going to do Jon? Throw me over your shoulder and carry me to the nearest godswood?" She caught a breath in her throat, his brows arching, a tiny smile tugging at his lips. She gasped. "You're not seriously considering it!?"

Did she want that?

Bloody seven hells she might.

No, no, no, no! He's Robb's cousin! He's practically his brother!

That was always what stood between them and it always would. He was Robb's brother by relation if not by blood. Jon would never betray him and she would not betray Robb. That's why she could scarcely believe his insistence that they marry. It was shocking to her, honestly.

"That's the funny thing about being in the North, Dany." He took another step, lifting his finger, wagging it knowingly and he smiled again. Now his eyes were positively coal colored. He husked, "our religion. We don't need septons or septs or even witnesses. We just need the gods and they...well they're all around us."

Seven hells! “You wouldn't," she threatened.

"Would I?"