#Franchela

[corporalicent]

when harry met sally + my favorite bridgerton couples

kanthony | benophie | franchel(a)

[didanagy]

BRIDGERTON SEASON 3 (2024)

FRANCESCA AND MICHAELA

3.08

[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?

[thefabulousfab-3]

If you cannot separate your hate for a character from the actor that plays them, you need help. If you are a grown ass adult and are harassing showrunners/writers because they made a decision you don’t like, you need help. If you feel the need to harass fans of a certain ship or character, you need help. At the end of the day it’s a tv show and those characters aren’t real. It’s never worth it to send actual death threats to people and harass them to the point of deleting social media. The fact that all this behavior is being perpetrated mainly by grown ass adults is even more disgusting.

[rebecca-arielle]

hello have not been on here in literal years and reactivated simply to post my modern bridgerton hcs that came to me as i was falling asleep would not let me go until i wrote them down! enjoy!

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the entire family is still very much british upper class - they regularly interact with the royals and attend all the family event like wimbledon and ascot. they are regularly featured in the pages of the tabloids much to their annoyance. they also went to either oxford, cambridge, or st. andrew’s (franny)

- anthony - still who he is, took over edmund’s position in the family business. huge company either a law firm, business like real estate or holdings. he’s ceo and damn good at his job. still viscount but it is really in name only.

- kate - still very much who she is, i can see her either going very much a lawyer or the artist route but i like to think of her as leaving her art as a hobby that she does simply for the pleasure of it.

- benedict - artist can do either painting or photography but has become very famous for it, initially it was because of the family name but then people started seeing his talent for what it is. his photos have been featured a bunch of times in british vogue and he is one of their go to photographers.

- sophie - very much a primary school teacher because of her experience with araminta as a child she was determined to not let that happen for other children so she makes damn sure that while they are at school in her class they know some one is looking out for them.

- colin - travel writer. he works for some magazine and has his own column. the magazine is owned by like some big media company that has their own building.

- penelope - pen works for a different magazine that is owned by the same parent company as colin’s so they work in the same building when colin is not on assignment. she secretly still runs lady whistledown that is like deux moi and once she gets outed she starts her own mini media empire. still besties with eloise.

- daphne - she is very much the perfect socialite philanthropist that is so perfect she seems like she would be a bitch but truly is that nice. is still married to simon after they fake dated due to some media scandal. lives her absolute best WAG life and has the season down to a science.

- simon - is a huge sports star, think david beckham. technically was still the duke but officially gave up the title to piss off his father. this man was born to be girl dad.

- eloise - once she realized just how much privilege she has, she put her money where her mouth is and is constantly going to protests much to anthony’s annoyance (not because he doesn’t agree with the cause just because she is giving the family a bad name in the press, he actually super proud of her.) el went to school for a degree in women and gender studies and is super involved in academia when not getting arrested.

- phillip/a - a botany professor at the university where el is based out of. still has the kids from their previous relationship with marina but they were able to get a divorce because it is the 21st century and co parent the twins quite well. their gender honestly doesn’t matter for this, they love plants and eloise - the order of that is not important.

- francesca - autistic, it is important to me that you know that. she is a film composer, she loves getting to create the score for movies and that it doesn’t require that much human interaction.

- john - still unfortunately passes away, but prior to that was some kind of finance guy. was generally the nicest guy and loved fran with his entire heart.

- michael/michaela - hot. like the most beautiful human being you have ever laid eyes on. they work as an actor because it’s fun but secretly are insanely smart and like build computers for fun.

- gregory - anthony’s mini me and he wouldn’t have it any other way. he works for the family company and loves it. generally small bean like but is insanely tall, like taller than benedict much to everyone’s annoyance but no one more than hyacinth. he worships the ground lucy walks on but they only have three or four kids because they have access to birth control.

- lucy - a mini kate. also a lawyer who’s family firm got bought by kate’s and then started working under her where she eventually met greg when he was visiting his favorite sister kate for their monthly lunch date. has ocd.

- hyacinth - a child prodigy, started university at like 15 (which she never lets greg forget) works as a ta (or whatever the uk equivalent is) for agatha who is an old family friend through whom she meets gareth. her field is like archeology or some other super niche thing. (agatha does not have to teach, she does it because if she doesn’t how else will the new generation ever be taught the right way to do things)

- gareth - is so fucking chill but absolutely matches hyacinths freak. no one is quite sure what he does, he has explained it many times but no one truly knows even hyacinth.

- violet - was besties with princess diana (old money england) she unfortunately passes around the same time as edmund and she just loses it. luckily it is the modern days was able to get help but it took a little while. though once she is back on her feet she is a force to be reckoned with. she runs the family foundation which focuses on mental health and allergy awareness.

thank you for reading this! i will take no criticism at this time but welcome any addition thoughts!

[writtenbygracewilliams]

I hyperfocused a bit too hard, time to start posting a smau I first came up with *checks notes* less than 24 hours ago. Everything in this series will be tagged #obligated smau and all the parts are linked at the bottom of this post. If you prefer smau’s on Twitter the thread is here.

Obligated {franchela centric smau} part 1/?

Francesca was born into the royal family, she knows what all of the rules are. She just didn’t think they all applied quite the same to the fifth child in the line up.

Let’s meet the family! This is their website!

[might’ve tried a bit too hard on the accuracy, please don’t snitch me for copyright to the British royal family] [but I came up with that crest myself #graphic design is my passion]

Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Part 6 Part 7 Part 8 Part 9 Part 10 Part 11 Part 12 Part 13 Part 14 Part 15 Part 16 Part 17 Part 18.1 Part 18.2 Part 19 Part 20 Part 21 Part 22 Part 23 Part 24 Part 25 Part 26 Part 27 Part 28 Part 29 Part 30 Part 31 Part 32 Part 33 Part 34 Part 35 Part 36 Part 37 Part 38 Part 39 Part 40 Part 41 Part 42 Part 43 Part 44 Part 45 Part 46

–Grace Williams xo

[doomed2repeat]

Anthony and Kate going to Polin’s wedding but skipping Francesca and John’s

Kanthony: Don’t worry Frannie I’ll be at your next wedding.

Frannie: wut

kanthony: wut

[livsoulsecrets]

Michaela/Francesca Fic - If the pain is real, then why can’t I find a cure?

@fandombingo Prompt from Wonderland Bingo: "Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go am here?”

Fandom: Bridgerton (TV)

Rating: Teen and Up Audiences

Content Warnings: Death, Grief

Summary: In the wake of John’s death, Michaela and Francesca become each other’s anchors.

“John… He was my north. I never imagined the day would come when I would move towards a future without him.” Michaela inhaled sharply before continuing, “This is the worst day of our lives. All that I ask is that you try to survive it.”

Read on AO3.

The hours had blended together into an unending sequence of eerie silence and unstoppable sobs for Francesca.

She had no idea how Michaela was still standing, giving the servants directions and making arrangements.

Francesca watched as Michaela took the reins of the situation to the best of her abilities when she could not move. She observed as the woman dried her tears every few minutes, suffocating her own pain in order to ease Francesca’s.

She had never been more grateful for her presence. Francesca was not sure she could have managed without her. From the moment she saw John’s lifeless body, her soul had shattered, rendering her completely useless.

The mere thought of John—kind, brilliant, sweet John—as a body turned Francesca’s stomach.

It was unnatural. It was simply wrong.

“Francesca,” she distantly heard.

He could not be gone. Maybe they were wrong. Perhaps John was still there. If she called out for him loud enough, he would wake up again and smile at her and Michaela with the brightness of a thousand suns.

“Francesca,” Michaela’s voice sounded again, firmer. “Francesca, look at me.”

She pulled her mind away from the desperate thoughts of denial to stare at Michaela, sitting by Francesca’s side on the living room couch.

“You should eat,” Michaela muttered, reaching for a plate of biscuits placed on the center table.

“I am not hungry,” she replied, crossing her hands atop her lap.

“I understand, but you must eat anyway. It has been too long since breakfast, and you have not eaten since. These are your favorite.”

Michaela raised the plate closer to Francesca, but she pushed it away.

“I don’t think I can. I can’t eat. I can’t sleep. I can barely breathe as it is.”

Michaela put the plate away and instead took Francesca’s hands in hers.

“I am so sorry for asking of you more than you feel capable of giving,” she stated very quietly.

For a moment, the distant sounds of the maids preparing John’s body disappeared. There was just the coldness of her heart threatening to swallow her whole and the warmth of Michaela keeping it at bay.

“John… He was my north. I never imagined the day would come when I would move towards a future without him.” Michaela inhaled sharply before continuing, “This is the worst day of our lives. All that I ask is that you try to survive it.”

Francesca shook her hand, incapable of looking into Michaela’s eyes. “I do not think myself strong enough for that.”

“You must be,” Michaela said firmly.

Francesca was reminded of John’s stories of his childhood. Most of them involved Michaela leading John into some adventure that inadvertently ended in trouble.

She had asked him once, “Why did you follow her every time if you knew the chances of it ending poorly?”

He had shrugged and taken his time to think his answer through. “She has always been incredibly convincing. Besides, if there is one thing I have learned, it’s that, in times of crisis, Michaela is the person you want by your side.”

John had smiled, and his face had relaxed into a peaceful expression. “She will not let you drown.”

And that was precisely what Michaela attempted to do now.

She was trying to keep Francesca afloat.

“You must eat because you must live. And you must live because John loved you more than life itself. Otherwise, his love will die with you.”

Those were rough words to hear in the aftermath of such a heartbreaking loss. Had they come from anyone else, Francesca might have thought them cruel, but that was Michaela.

Her voice was a lighthouse amidst a storm—a balm to the tragedy that struck Francesca’s home.

She presented her indisputable truths, for she had known John longer than Francesca had been alive.

That was the cousin of each of her adventures, the brother she had been granted by life, and the twin flame of her very soul.

Michaela was giving Francesca the gift of truth when others would have given her false words of comfort and kind lies.

“Then, would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?” Francesca begged, her voice trembling.

Michaela paused, taking a moment to wipe away the tears that ran freely down her cheeks.

“I am afraid I do not hold the answer to your question. I have survived this day through sheer willpower and not much else. All I do know is what John would have wished for us—a life. Perhaps not an easy one, or even a happy one in this very moment, but a life nonetheless.”

Michaela squeezed Francesca’s hands. “So, please, Francesca, just eat.”

She did not want to. What Francesca wanted was to run as far away from this pain as she could.

Instead, she picked up one of the biscuits and forced herself to chew.

She swallowed one after the other, and cleared the plate, willing her stomach to keep them down.

Michaela kept hold of one of her hands through it all—an anchor, a tether to the here and now.

This pain was familiar in a way. The need to ground herself was too.

Francesca had just turned six at the time of her father’s passing, too young to remember much about those dark times, but what she did remember was the loudness of it.

The Bridgertons had never been a quiet bunch—it was the whole reason why she stood out from her siblings and mother, after all.

They laughed freely, they spoke loudly, and they grieved even more so.

Her mother’s cries remained in Francesca’s nightmares for years. She recalled Anthony’s despair as he yelled at them to back away, trying to protect his siblings from the vision of their dead father.

In the days that followed, Francesca was woken up by Eloise’s screaming as she called out for their dad and Daphne’s voice, just as desperate but somehow more contained, urging her to calm down.

There were no such noises now. Francesca’s beloved home, away from most of society and its distractions, was drenched in complete silence.

Grief had always been so deeply ingrained with outbursts for Francesca that it felt off-putting to have none of that now.

Even the normalcy of loss had been taken from her.

There were only her, Michaela, and the servants now. The only sounds were those of hurried footsteps and Francesca’s uneven breathing.

Francesca would have taken her mother’s sobs, Anthony’s firm yelling, and Hyacinth and Gregory’s endless bickering over the eerily quiet if only it meant she wasn’t alone with her grief.

Francesca missed their chaos, for she had realized it was the only reason she had survived loss the first time around.

“I want…” She started weekly, then felt her voice trailing off. Michaela bent forward, listening attentively.

“I need my family.” She managed to say, “My mother, my siblings. Please.”

Michaela was nodding before she even finished speaking. “I can send out a message to them. It may take a few days to be delivered, but I will do what I can. If you wish, we can go to them once the funeral is performed. I will accompany you. If you will have me.”

Francesca’s breath caught. “I can not possibly ask this of you.”

“You are not asking. I am making the offer. You must not be alone in that journey, should you choose to make it.”

Michaela stopped for a moment, and her voice broke a few times before she managed to speak again. “Neither should I, to be honest.”

Francesca watched as Michaela lost her battle to the tears that spilled freely down her cheeks.

The weight of that day seemed to have seized her completely.

Francesca pulled her in. She circled Michaela’s fragile frame with her arms and held her tightly as she sobbed.

Finally, the loudness had returned to her. That she knew how to deal with.

Far more grateful than Francesca ever thought she would be on such a disgraceful day, she laid her head atop Michaela’s and whispered words of comfort back to her.

[grace-williams-xo]

A franchela centric modern royals smau… who do I make the monarch [note: the monarch has to impose some rules and order on the family that do not always go down well]

[gimmiesophiebaek]

Spirits Ch. 9

The first of the stand-alone chapters of Spirits, from Frannie & Michaela’s POV!

[grace-williams-xo]

ALL. OF. THIS. Especially the part about the first kiss!!!

Ew….

“infertility isn’t emotional enough” first off she can have her fertility issues with john for 2seasons, wlw have fertility issues… 2 women who can’t get pregnant that’s emotional, they can easily adopt or not lose the baby after john dies

secondly the fertility story was hardly even in the book even julia quinn forgot about it till she was writing their second epilogue

“ruin the best couple” he told her he wants to keep her tied to a bed till she gave him a child (she literally struggles with fertility that’s vile and disgusting) and guilt tripped her into marriage while she said she felt used

mid you want fertility representation there is plenty of it in fact since the 1960s there has been perfect representation of it in films and tv

this show is literally just straight ppl

wlw never get good representation, the kinda good ones we get end up only getting one season bc streaming services basically fetishise gay relationships but think wlw is gross (my interpretation) we deserve our representation and this show is all about giving ppl representation

PLSS SHUT UP🤍🤍🤍

[litwomn]

franchela aesthetic

[purpleangel35]

When they announced Michaela instead of Michael, I was annoyed, not gonna lie. I quite like Fran's story because I relate to it on a personal level.

However, as soon as I started seeing people hating on the actress, being racist and homophobic, I stopped being annoyed and started shipping Franchela. In fact, I want every single Bridgerton to be queer. Make Anthony have a panic crush on sir Phillip. Make Eloise be a rake about Scotland with anything and everything that moves, have Penelope get all flustered by Michaela and have Colin choke on his words with Lord Anderson, have Hyacinth and Lucy be lovers before Lucy meets Gregory (who has a bi lover called Garreth), idc.

It's time people accepted that the show and the books are completely different universes, and that they are just using the historical setting and the names from the book. They are two completely different stories, so time to stop expecting accuracy.

Also, strat demanding a Violet spinoff, I want to see her story with Edmund and I want to see why lady Cowper hates her so so so much (my theory is that she had a crush on Edmund but when he chose violet, she had no other choice but to go with Lord Cowper).

Anyways, if you hate on Michaela and write on Instagram posts "we want Michael back", please do me a favor and shove grass up your ass.

[marcosernestomarsal]

UNO, DOS, ¡TRES! UY...

Dice que Franchela se juntó con Goyty, hicieron un robot a cuerda y lo tiraron a predicar por Baires 00′ (Gualegaichu y Sanabria). Se llamaba -Galf- y va a regresar, en forma de fichas.

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Rh1BdQw-HDTxdO64UHw-7f5qrGXpp4rV?usp=share_link

[viscountessevie]

@ Franchels - I Need Help!

[SO Sorry to the anon I just got and anyone else who saw the first glitched out mess of a post with word links instead of the linked IG posts showing up as pictures in the last post but here is a repost with screenshots instead!]

Hello hello everyone! I’m currently working on a T4T Franchela piece for @franchaelweek where I’m doing a list of HC plot points of WHWW with post-WHWW scenes about John II & Janet, but in this version Fran is genderfluid and Michaela is now a transwoman!

I have the perfect Fran picked out, you’re going to love them!! However, I can’t decide on Michaela so here’s where yall can come in and help. These three goregous ladies below are in the running for Michaela! I usually default to the darker skinned actresses cos I’m darker and we need more rep. However, I am not married to Alexandra and honestly next to her, Quei would make a GREAT Johanna but John is staying John in this AU for plot purposes. Arisce does have the vibe but I am worried she looks too much like a Barbie??

Alexandra:

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Quei:  

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Arisce:

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[Also looking back at all three together, I might go with Quei she looks ETHEREAL IN THAT PIC - still tho let me know yall!]

Anyways, let me know in the comment/tags/reblogs, who yall think fits Michaela best! Of course you can imagine whoever you want when you read my HCs when I post it, I just personally like having a visual reference! Thanks yall!!

Also hellooo anon I see you! Your vote for Alexandra has been counted! 

[Do let me know if any of you’d like to be tagged in the final HC post]

[writtenbygracewilliams]

Obligated, franchaela smau, pt 39

Part 1

They’re engaged!!! I kind of always planned for them to get engaged before their relationship went public, and I hope you all enjoyed this. I also spent quite a while deliberating on the ring so I hope you like it, and thanks to the Franchaela Hive on Twitter for helping me decide.

Daphne has trauma of her own, Colin might get kicked out of the group chat, and Cressida’s father is still a dick. Lots more action to come idk when this story will end lmao

–GW xo