#anyway she was definitely the nicest band director I ever had. she put up with so much shit from us and gave us only kindness in return

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every time I see the gay hockey comic I have a !!! moment bc the author is the sister of my band director from high school. Truly my number one seven degrees of separation moment

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Hey listen no one asked for this but listen losers club marching band au

Like DUDE im,,, in marching band and I couldn't resistresist so here are my headcanons hhahah if y'all wanna add anything PLEASE DO

Ok so first of all my boi Mike??? Drumline for sure you best BET that boy has the best tempo like??? He's nearly always on beat bc he's the only one in drumline that watches the drum major

he's either tenors or base drum, tho I CAN see him as a snare i think he'd be more of a tenor player

he does drums normally as well bc when he was young he would bang on pots and pans all the time and make little beats and his parent thought it was great and got him one of those super cheap beginner drum sets and it escalated from there (I'm a slut for the book so mikes parents are alive and love him very much)

now stan the man over here gives me a flute kinda vibe he can hold his breath for hours

richie makes some joke abt it ofc

something like "I wonder what kind of things you get up to to hold ur breath like that ;)"

stan just deadpan says "I don't breathe richie. Ever. I don't have lungs." and richie, looking at stans fucking sheet music is just like "yeah fair point"

once Henry Bowers (the fucker) have him a swirly in the boys bathroom down by the cafeteria and stan just sat there for 3 or 4 whole minutes NOT BREATHING and it freaked out the Bowers gang bc they thought he was dead

he wasn't

stan probably actually does a lot of breathing exercises for his playing and stuff and that is why he can hold his breath for so long

Now for Ben, I think ben would be a marching baritone? Or maybe a tuba

better yet he starts with tuba but goes to clarinet because it sounds cool and he wants to try something new

he doesn't ever hang out with his section though he hangs with bev mostly (none of the losers ever hang out with their sections)

ben is definitely the only clarinet that listens to directions like?? He's the sweetest boy ever you can NOT tell me he acts like a rude clarinet he is the sweetest

he offers to help the section leaders with absolutely everything

helps pit move things without being asked all the time. He once almost offered to help pit move things off field after a comp but the band director didn't let him

Bev is either drum major or color guard fight me on this

like for color guard she's the color guard captain and she's amazing at it

best posture, very clean movements, she just puts so much hard work into this

disrespect bev and die bc listen she's a SECTION LEADER and does her job WELL

Bev and Ben (despite Ben being a clarinet) ride the same bus for a while but then they started dating and Ben had to move to the brass bus :(

on the bright side bev gets to hang with eddie who is on pit and Ben gets to hang out with bill and richie

Eddie plays the marimba out of spite

like hear me out here his mom finds out he's joining marching band and FLIPS bc he could get hurt or sick or blah blah blah

and eddie really wanted to march he wanted to try Mellophone! It sounds nice!! But nooo his mom had to ruin that too

so of course he's not just going to DROP marching band. He gets her to let him be in pit at the very least

he does not tell her he chose the BIGGEST FUCKING INSTRUMENT

like listen man eddie - my tiny, short boy - playing a big ass marimba

he practices so hard all the time and he has a solo that took him so long to get the tempo right on bc it's probably like,,, the tempo is 160 and he has to play 16th notes Idk something fast

but he gets it right and is so proud and just AAAAAA

Eddie is the pit leader fight me on this

now, haha, richie??? A trumpet. For sure.

you Can Not convince me Richie is not a trumpet

he was originally going to choose sax, for the humor of it but stan was like no richie pick one you'll actually enjoy and have fun with *looks around* here pick trumpet

stan was spot on he played trumpet for a week and LOVED IT

richie is absolutely not section leader do nOT give this boy responsibility

he also helps pit push things

and by he helps pit push things I mean he pushes Eddie's marimba cause he wants to impress him/spend more time with him and Eddie's like "ok cool thanks for getting that babe" and proceeds to push one of the big ass speakers they have across the field and richies like <3<3<3

he makes the worst band jokes ever

EVER

one time someone fucked up their intrument rly bad and everyone in brass was freaking out bc this poor trombone cadet was gonna get murdered by the band director and richie just fucking "nah hey it's fine see you just gotta tune it" "richie wha-" "it's just a little FLAT" "RICHIE WHAT THE FRESH HELL"

he got dropped for 20 pushups for that one (it was totally worth it according to richie)

tried to trick the band director into letting him transfer to the color guard bus so he could hang with bev and eddie but the drum major caught on as soon as they saw richie talking to Eddie abt it and was like "richie big mood but n o"

Now last but most certainly not least is my boi big bill

Bill is a mellophone player I think

he's definitely a section leader and honestly he's probably brass captain

if not brass captain he's a loading officer but either way he's leadership

he's the one that dropped richie for 20 pushups for the joke abt the flat trombone

has no hesitation putting cadets in their place if you're here you're here to play not screw around

is still one of the nicest section leaders he really helpful if you're doing what you're supposed to be doing

"brass help pit push things inside!"

has a stash of gloves he bought during a Halloween sale the year before for when people lose their gloves they don't have to get in trouble

"no swearing in uniform- I'm looking at you richie"

spends his third quarter with bev and or stan and mike

his favorite part of games is meeting the other band let's be real here

His stutter gets in the way a lot even though he's been getting a lot better 1st controlling it and he's not SUPER intimidating but brass still listens to him bc he's a section leader and the drum major always backs him up

And make so anyway those are my headcanons for the losers club in marching band feel free to add on to this pls