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[sentientfunfetti]

Yandere! Actor Wally, please...

possessive actor!wally/reader hcs

(actor wally and his au was made by @/frillsand on tumblr! go support their work!)

REBLOGS AND FEEDBACK APPRECIATED!

CW// POSSESSIVE THEMES

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of course, like any other version of him, this one would be very cautious and closed off at first. he wouldn’t share much with you and if he does it’s brief, but after you ‘prove yourself’ to him he immediately becomes attached to you. he's absolutely stuck by you. you're just his assistant but he falls hard. harder than he ever has.

seeing as how you’re the first person to ever see him for who he is, he lets you get away…with a lot. it’s all bias of course, and you may not even use it but you start to notice that your small mistakes barely go noticed. he doesn't even allow anyone else to scold you either. you can tell that his patience is still thin, however.

he values your time with him. in his downtime he’s hellbent on spending time with you and you only, even if this means dragging you along on subtly planned ‘lunch breaks’ with him. (these are dates) or calling you for petty tasks he could have easily done himself just to see you.

he likes spoiling you, and that becomes very obvious very fast. he loves it when you tell him ‘thank you’ for buying you lunch or getting you coffee. he goes from sending you in to get these things for him to go in with you, bringing his bodyguards along.

you take up so much of his mind he starts to stumble in rehearsal. this actually frustrates him at first. he takes his frustration out on you a tad before finally cooling down.

practically demands all of your attention. he goes to you for just about everything. input, script reading, any excuse to see you. any excuse to get closer. he hates the fact that you two have such a professional relationship and wants to be more, even if that means breaking a few rules. it's not like you're a fan, you're his assistant. no harm done.

ignores fanmail entirely. when you ask why he brushes it off the way he usually does. "why would i want a bunch of strangers telling me what i already know?". the truth is very different, however. he secretly wishes to be praised by you and you only.

speaking of, he may not show it but he soaks up any and all praise you give him and internalizes it almost immediately. no matter how small. he loves it when you compliment him.

it's hard to keep his cool when he sees you getting the same treatment from others, however. he silently watches from the corner, fuming. how dare they. until he can muster up the courage to fully compliment you himself, he glares daggers at people who do. repeat offenders get fired and blacklisted from acting entirely.

he is not above blackmail to get his way. not to you, no of course not! other people, however? free game. he has dirt on just about everyone. they don't even know.

even though he has a tendency of doing horrible things to get his way, he always tries to steer away from that entirely. he keeps trying to convince himself that he’s above that and he’s a changed man. unfortunately, you make that a bit hard with how many other people you seem to attract every other day.

appreciates your patience with him most of all. set aside the fact you're not weird about the fact that he's a puppet like most people, he loves your kind heart and wants to protect that, even if that means burning bridges to see more of you. he craves intimacy with you. he hates how weak you make him feel, but he can't help but let all of those walls come crumbling down when you're that nice to him.

isn't good with physical contact at first, so he sticks to small things: 'accidental' brushes against you, linking pinkies with you, shoving you along. he’s experimenting, give him time.

drags you along to rehearse his lines. he loves using his 'deadlines' as an excuse to get your help. he knows he could ask anyone else but why would he? you say yes every time anyway because that's how nice you are. he absolutely loves the scenes where he gets to subtly flirt with you. did the script call for improv? ssssh. doesn't matter. your red face makes it all worth it in the end.

is not above using the character he's playing mannerisms to get his way. he knows he's good at what he does, and he knows he's adorable. he uses this to his advantage, even incorporating past character's mannerisms into his own when he notices people stick to them. this includes you. if he notices you like a certain thing about a character he's playing he is quick to pick up on this and use that against you.

in the end, his end goal is for you to date, and maybe be something more in the future. he's willing to do whatever that takes, even if that means working on himself more just to make sure you're more comfortable with the idea of dating. has no issue with having a 'secret' relationship if that's what you want.

isn't much of a pet name person but he would call you 'hun' sarcastically at first but over time it would become a genuine pet name for him.

if you two do something together then expect that to be something you two do together. he would get upset at people who try and 'butt in' in the things you two do together. those things are for you two and you two only. certified gatekeeper.

author’s note ⊹˚. ♡

funny thing! i actually got two requests to do this guy!

it was a bit hard to do seeing as how i don’t really know much about the au, but thank you for requesting it anyway! (both of you LMFAO). i have a few more planned, and two more requests to do. i’m still working on my reboot wally/reader fic so if i seem a bit slow that’s why. please be patient. i already have the outlines and things like that made for the requests i’ve gotten.

thanks for the request, neighbor!

[sailorgreywolf-german]

Hey being a Jewish person in the fandom, just wanted to say that I strongly agree on your Austria hc; it just makes more sense to me he'd be catholic and while it's not everyone I see a lot of gentiles using the head canon to get around confronting Austria's history with antisemitism (the last thing this fandom needs is more ww2 fics, but it's when they decide to focus on it anyways and just use the Jewish headcanon to woobify that it bothers me). I do miss having Jewish characters, though, especially given there's so much interesting Jewish history to work with, including in Austria. I did wonder how if you had thoughts about how to represent that history? I take the approach of OCs for non-state actors, like personifying the Pale of Settlement or Galitzianers, but I have no idea how most people go about it. No pressure to answer this ask, it's a niche thing and not really what you asked for questions about but wanted to send the first bit regardless. Tschüss!

Thanks for the ask. I appreciate it.

The shortest version of my view on the matter is that I'm absolutely neutral on him being Jewish in AUs. I don't really write AUs outside of events (and not even really then). But from a historical perspective, Austria was Catholic and the empire was the predominant Catholic empire for a long time. I have a book I can recommend if anyone wants to read about how deeply Catholicism was entwined with the raison d'etre of the state itself.

Maybe it's because this fandom only thinks about the 20th century a lot of the time, but I find it interesting that people forget that the Austrian and Spanish Habsburgs spearheaded the Counter-Reformation.

But I also do understand wanting to explore Jewish history. The Habsburg empire had a lot of important and interesting Jewish history. A lot of the intellectuals we think of from the empire were Jewish (Freud, Mahler, Kafka, Roth, etc.) And there is the fact that, even with as Catholic as the Habsburg empire was, Central Europe became a much more dangerous place to be Jewish without it. You can also, however, turn it around to point at how antisemitic populism got one of its first significant footholds in Vienna. This empire contains multitudes.

But by the same token, you could argue that quite a few states in Central Europe had large Jewish populations. The Yiddish literary movement, for example, happened in the Russian partition of Poland too. The Pale of Settlement was a Russian legal construction in what is now Poland and Lithuania. So why don't we have these ongoing arguments about Feliks? (I know actually, but hopefully you see my point here.)

I think there is plenty of rationale for personifying non-state actors, because if you really think about it, there are plenty of those in canon who will become states later (like Slovakia). To kind of over-simplify it, beyond the established kingdoms like Hungary or Croatia, the personifications are sort of ethnic groups within the Habsburg empire. So, if you want to take that route, you could.

I admittedly haven't tangled with how to portray it, but I am intrigued by your idea and will definitely contemplate it more.

Danke, for the chance to ramble about this a bit.

[ellewords]

https://throttlee.tumblr.com/post/637059715775496192 I COULD HONESTLY SEE THIS FANART OF THE MSBY BOYS HAPPNING IN CANON but imagine it in the actor au and their actors are just casually napping like this while taking a break from filming (it sneakily gets posted on the official twitter by one of the other actors and goes viral and now everyone else is trying to post candid shots of each other like that)

i also love the idea of the actors going around filming little vlogs, whether it’s during breaks or while other actors are filming—kinda like the bts bombs or loona TV, and then these videos would be uploaded to the official youtube channel!! i bet the most-viewed ones are the most chaotic.......there’s a bts bomb from a few years ago where some of the boys are having a snowball fight outside and at one point one guy (i forget who, maybe it was jungkook or something? iirc jimin was filming but i haven’t seen it in a long time so my memory’s very fuzzy) starts running towards the others with a HUGE chunk of snow in his hands anyways this but it’s either the seijoh four or the captains LMAOOOOO — 🌸

aaaah pls the msby boys napping ??? peak devastation for me oh gosh ty for showing me that im so soft 🥺 i feel like ushi or maybe even kags was the one who took that photo and shared it on twt ; i also like to think that only filmed one (1) scene and they were just like “okay...nap time !! ” anyways tysm for this, hope you are having a wonderful day !! <3

also what i think the cast’s little vlogs would contain (bec i love that idea too) :

question and answer with the fans in their dressing rooms -> usually done by the karasuno first years ; there was a time yams had to put his hand over hinata’s mouth because he was very close to entering spoiler territory.

dramatic fanfiction readings -> for some reason the captains love doing this ?? and they’re very sweet about it too, compliments writing and characterization whenever they finish reading and you can tell they’re really sincere about it.

pranks on the cast and crew -> tendou, kuroo, atsumu and occasionally oikawa ; always harmless and fun, nothing too serious ; sometimes they’ll just randomly attack people with waterguns when they know they’re done with filming.

episode watch-along / reaction / commentary -> every single person on the cast has done this at least once, esp. if a particular episode is integral to their character’s development ; where cast / scene secrets / tea is usually spilled.

just generally a variety of things wherein the cast are put in certain situations (mostly as promo for the latest season) -> escape rooms, karaoke, obstacle courses ; the crew tries to mix it up when it comes to grouping the cast together, so while fans still get the usual gym three, aces, etc. they could also get something like daishou + shirabu + tsukki

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[marsandsaturn]

aot actor au: tik tok addition hcs

—this was supposed to be a small little thing bc of a tik tok i saw and the idea of them seeing these tik toks made me happy, but i got carried away lmao. anyways so if there are typos, i did this ok my phone and i rushed this (finished this under an hour so…) anyways enjoy

so each actor is on tik tol which means they see the aot videos on there fyp and they follow a bunch of people but they don’t want the fans to find out so their usetnames are not associated with their names. this is their usernames:

eren yeager: jeankirsteinshorsie

mikasa ackerman: aruminarureruto

armin arlert: konisupuringa

jean kirstein: humantitteshope

sasha braus: asianwargoddess

connie springer: potatogirl

levi ackerman: hangezoestitties

hange zoe: erwinsmithbigasseyebrows

erwin smith: humantittiesstrongest

reiner braun: femaletitansteponme

annie leonhart: iamthearmoredtitan

bertolt hoover: beastitansimp

zeke yeager: andheisthecolossaltitan

pieck finger: jawbreakerporco

porco galliard: warhammerthisass

falco grice: keepmovingfowarderen

gabi braun: iamfounderymir

historia reiss: attacktitanthispussy

no one would know bc they literally act like the fans on there so most of the time the fans are geeking out about their favorite characters with the actual actors

fun facts:

levi has seen all the thirst post about him on there, and i mean all of them. he also likes them and saves them.

armin as seem rhe “veronica open the door” tik tol bc of eren. ended up saving it bc he likes the animation style. (he doesn’t condone the actions of said video tho)

eren sees all the ship wars happening and likes to contribute to them as a joke. in reality he doesn’t ship eren with anyone (whole ass lie as he ships eren with jean but secretly)

eren also sees all the thirst traps of him and saves them. he even goes as far as to comment on them.

i.e. (😍😍😍) (🥵🥵🥵) (😩😩😩) (😏😏😏)

mikasa saves all the edits of her friends (she particularly likes the jean ones bc some of them make her laugh)

sasha cried when she saw the ones honoring her after her death in the show. she has a whole folder.

eren also likes the animations (especially the ones his spanish songs {his mother is cubn okay you can fight me all you want but its true} ) and hes showing them to his parents.

connie laughs at the crack ships on there (his favorite is conkasa and he dhows mikasa who also laughs)

levi actually likes the skits of him and zeke (he generally laughs and saves them)

erwin likes all the hange skits, bc the irl hange isn’t crazy like the hange in the show

zeke isn’t on it as much but when he is he’s always saving the eren pnes bc hes proud at how popular his brother is (wish he had thirst edits of him bc there isn’t many)

annie saved the armin “veronica open the door” video bc he looks hot (secretly an armin simp, even tho thete dating????)

bertolt loves the video of people purposely writing his name that isn’t his name. i.e. birth control, bo burham, bearturtle, benadryl, benedict cumbetbatch, birthhole, burrito, and his personal favorite, barnes and noble.

gabi likes every video of falco and always comments ‘🥰🥰🥰 my little on them jaw titan bird thingy🥰🥰🥰’ it makes falco blush every time bc she sends them to him after

falco also limes every gabi video that praises her and defends the videos that hate her (he gets ratioed but he doesn’t care as long ad he defends get he’s all good)

historia saves the yumihisu ones bc they are so cute (she also sends them to ymir)

as soon as porco saw the ones of him before his death thirsting over him his ego sky rocketed. he showed them to everyone who teased him.

pieck saves the one of people making fun of zeke to tease him, but also the ones thirsting over zeke (also the baby zeke edits make her squeal bc zeke was such a cute baby, but look at him now LMAO)

hange loves the people who cosplay her (literally her dream come true) and saves them to her phone (she shows them to levi and erwin to smile at her) (before you come at me isayama said you and interpret hange as whatever gender, i use she/her and sometimes they/them for hange)

reiner loves the one with him and eren, thinks they are cool and is always sharing them. he especially loves the animation ones bc it takes a lot of time and effort, so hes always sharing them so they gain more attention

they all show each other aot tik tokd whenever they appear on their fyp if they are all together. they also have a group chat and they send tik tols there

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if you want more let me know but i stopped bc im getting tired and i need to finish chapter one of my fic which im almost done with :)

[mychemicalxmen]

The Umbrella Academy College Theatre Kid AU Plot

Alright bitches, ask and ye shall receive. 

Here’s the 6k summary of this ten-chapter monstrosity I almost wrote a year ago and just now attempted to flesh out.

Canon divergence from the point of their birth onward. The Commission doesn’t exist here, it would just make everything a little too complicated. No Luther/Allison either, personal preference. If anyone would want to try writing or drawing a scene from this universe, I would be over the heckin moon, please feel free to do w/e if any part of this inspires anyone. And if anyone just wants to shoot hc, pop off!

But yeah. This is a crack concept treated dead seriously. Buckle up.

Chapter One - “Overture”

-I wrote this chapter, but it’s Really Not Good. I had just watched the show and hadn’t written fic in a Hot Minute.

-Welcome to Umbrella University, a top-tier school with a sacrilegiously large budget for the fine arts!

-They’re all freshman atm.

-Basically, all of our kiddos (except Five, we’ll get there) are cleaning the theater between shows in the fall season. Allison is acting House Crew Chief and is overseeing the whole thing. The others are on House Crew for various reasons - tech class credit, volunteer hours, etc. No one is actually studying theatre for their major except Allison, who’s double-majoring in acting and something else

-They’re essentially strangers (except Ben and Klaus, who are assigned roommates). They’re all aware of their own powers, but not any of the others’.

-As they clean, the host on the radio is going on about the one-year anniversary of his favorite “Hargreeves Five” (the current Academy, made up of different kids from the 43, and definitely not based on the ASBO Five) battle, apprehending a robber named Erick Webber in New York City. He was a starving actor who stole from large donation funds that were supposed to be distributed to other starving artists. The battle got violent, and fire got involved. What a spectacle!

-Vanya, who has accidentally skipped her meds that day, sees a rat and screams, prompting Luther to drop the lighting equipment he’s working on. Loud sound. Telekinetic energy starts going.

-There is a comically convenient chain reaction in which all of the siblings’ powers are triggered at once - Diego throws something, Klaus levitates, the Horror has to hold up the light rig, Allison has to rumor to memory-wipe the witnesses, etc.

-Once they have the situation under control, they realize it’s… weird. The odds are absolutely astronomical. How the hell did they all end up in the same place??

-There’s no reason to believe anyone brought them together on purpose, except maybe fate, or whatever Mysterious Space Magic caused their birth in the first place. They have a private House Crew meeting with a lot of freaking out and questions and bonding.

Chapter Two - “God I Hope I Get It”

-Fast forward to junior year. Since that fateful day, the theater has become the siblings’ home base. Luther is the shop foreman this year, Allison is seated at the right hand of the theatre department director (a sharp middle-aged woman who directs half of the shows), Diego knows his way around lights, and Klaus frequently builds and paints in the scene shop. Allison’s the only one of them who actually performs.

-The fall season includes Hair and Othello, and the joint audition for both is quickly approaching.

-Vanya, however, has been drifting away from it all for some reason. Allison finds her in the quad one day and encourages her to audition for Othello. Apparently, the theatre director has observed Vanya’s love of reading plays from afar and asked for her specifically. Vanya doesn’t want to go anywhere near the theater, but she’s touched by Allison’s belief in her and reluctantly says she’ll think about it.

-Diego is going through his classes and can’t help but feel like there’s this one freshman that’s just… following him. Looking at him funny. Keeps showing up in all his usual spots. Must be one of those obnoxious wiz kids - there’s no way in hell that he’s eighteen years old.

-Vanya has a monologue in her back pocket, her favorite from Winter’s Tale, ready to go. But when the day of the audition comes, she walks into the theater for the first time in months, and she breaks down and runs to the bathroom. Allison is too busy helping the director to console her, so she sends Klaus to check on her.

-Klaus talks to her through the door and tries to hype her up for the audition. Ghost!Ben tells him to reel it in.

-Vanya eventually admits that she drifted away from the theater because it was always a special place for the six of them, but after Ben died in a car crash in sophomore year, thinking about it just broke her heart all over again.

-Klaus doesn’t quite have the tact of language to bring her comfort, but Ben does. Without revealing he can see Ben, Klaus just echoes his words. Saying that Ben would still want her to be happy here. Saying that it’s okay to take time to work through all those feelings. He stays there until Vanya’s calm enough to come out of the bathroom, hug him for a really long time, and then go into her audition.

-The cast lists go out, and all the siblings run to see the one for Othello. Allison is the stage manager, to the surprise of no one, and has already seen that she’ll be playing Dionne in Hair. The headmaster’s kid (who I never gave a name, so let’s just call him Ollie) is playing Othello, some guy named Leonard is playing Roderigo, and Vanya is playing Desdemona. While they’re leaving to celebrate, Diego sees The Weird Freshman sign his initial on the cast list, confirming his role. He takes a peek at it later and wonders how this five-foot-six gremlin was cast as Iago, and what kind of a name is Five, anyway?

Chapter Three - “Good Morning Starshine”

-Production on Hair has begun.

-Diego is still a vigilante, but like, specifically for the college’s organization for fighting sexual harassment. Make no mistake, he is not endorsed by the club in any way, shape, or form. But when fellow criminal justice major Eudora Patch gets catcalled on a late night walk home from the library, a fraternity douchebag gets his hoodie pinned to the wall with a knife and receives an extremely harsh talking-to.

-Eudora just sighs into the darkness like “Diego was that really necessary” and keeps walking and Diego runs up to meet her like “yes??”

-Insert exposition here about how they’re exes but there’s still that Tension and fond bickering from the show. Eudora thinks he should get involved in other things on campus, but he immediately rejects it. No. Nope. Nothing else going on. Just lights. And Batman.

-Luther and Allison often hang out in one of the hallways of the theater for lunch. Allison complains that she’s in charge of a lot of little projects in the program, and it’s hard to get people to listen to her. Luther complains that Diego hasn’t been showing up to help in the shop lately. Even though Diego’s not officially on set crew, it’s a little suspicious that he hasn’t been around.

-The mainstage theater has been going through a very fancy refurbishment, and a new chandelier just came in. How the department has the money for a chandelier, no one has any idea. There’s an inside joke that the theatre director must be having a scandalous lesbian affair with the headmaster.

-After a while, Luther enlists Klaus to help him to figure out what Diego’s hiding. With their single shared braincell, it takes them a little too long to realize that Diego’s name is on the Hair cast list. But that can’t possibly be right.

-Luther and Klaus sneak into the blackbox (a smaller, more intimate theater) in the middle of a Hair rehearsal and, sure enough, holy shit, Diego is actually onstage as one of the tribe people, lowkey having the time of his life.

-Enter UT Dallas transfer David Katz in the role of Claude. And it’s just. On sight. Klaus is down for the goddamn count.

-“Who is that??” “I know, right? Like, that’s our brother.” “No, no, not him. The really pretty one.”

-At the end of whatever song they’re doing, Diego locks eyes with Luther and almost dies of embarrassment right then and there.

-Cue big long childish argument of “why didn’t you tell us you had any interest in being in the musical?” and “I didn’t know I had any interest either oKAY you weren’t supposed to find out” “how wouldn’t we have found out you IDIOT we LIVE HERE.”

-At the end of rehearsal, Diego is feeling entirely beaten down. As is Allison, up to her eyeballs in responsibility. They sit on the loading dock and Diego admits he didn't want to make a big deal out of the fact that he was in Hair. But he’s actually really digging the songs and the messages and the comradery. Even though musical theatre is dumb. Allison assures him it’s nothing to be embarrassed about.

Chapter Four - “What’s the Buzz?”

-Production on Othello has begun.

-Fluffy opening that’s just a montage of Disaster Klaus repeatedly trying to justify sitting in on Hair rehearsal. “Sure, Allison, let me cut out those gels.” “Sure, Dance Captain, I can record the choreography.” “Shut up, Ben, I’m just really into American military history.”

-Meanwhile he’s just…… watching the show, listening to Dave sing, waiting for the right moment to strike up a Totally Casual Conversation with him.

-And it happens! Eventually.

-Diego meets Eudora on the loading dock and comes clean to her about the fact that he’s in the musical. Eudora is shocked and amused and teases him a little for it, but she’s ultimately supportive. And endeared. Cute bickering.

-When she leaves for her next class, Five is six feet away sipping coffee like “Oh, you’re both the same major? Aww that’s adorable.”

-Diego finally confronts him and asks him what his deal is and Five says something cryptic about “Reggie’s bastards”. Diego grabs him by the arm and drags him to the empty dressing room and interrogates him on everything he knows.

-Five is somewhere in his thirties, he can teleport, his body’s been screwed up by time travel complications, he knows about all the others, and he’s “played a game of hopscotch with an unsympathetic god”. When asked why he came back to this time in particular, he dodges the question with some snarky reply of how he’s not sure he made the right call.

-They decide not to tell everyone else all at once, until they hear faint movement. They find Klaus buried under a throw blanket on The Couch that every theater has, a little stoned, stirring from a midday dressing room nap.

-”I’m a BOY in LOVE, leave me aLONE.”

Chapter Five - “No One is Alone”

-Once again, Allison is overwhelmed. She had rumored her way into the double major when she didn’t actually have the high school credits necessary to graduate on time, but since meeting the other siblings, she’d sworn off using her power. If she was caught, it could start a breadcrumb trail to the others and expose all of them. And like, they just want to get out of here with their degrees, man.

-The theatre department director has had to assign her the most incompetent freshmen in the world to manage with assorted housekeeping tasks. They have an attitude, they don’t know how anything works, and Allison simply doesn’t have the time to lead them. She comes to the theatre director to explain this.

-And for the first time in a long while, the director expresses sternness to her. And it hurts.

-”Come on, Allison, we both know you’re good with people. You can be very persuasive when you want to be. You will work this out.”

-It’s very pointed. She will work this out. There is no other option.

-And. Not to be self-centered, but the spring musical is going to be Cabaret, and Allison has been convinced she had Sally Bowles in the bag. But if she gets on the director’s bad side halfway through junior year…

-It’s a particularly tense day, ten minutes before she has to sign in for Hair rehearsal. Some poor freshman is organizing the costume closet and just doesn’t get it and doesn’t want to be here and the director demands that this is done by the end of the day.

-So. It’s just one. It’s no big deal. She just heard the oddest little rumor that the student could make the closet perfectly tidy within the hour.

-Five and Vanya are at rehearsal for Othello. Now that he’s actually talked to Diego and Klaus, he feels a little more at ease being in this place and time. The two have plenty of time to chat while on breaks. And because Vanya is such a chill, calming force compared to the stubborn and impulsive Diego, it goes a lot smoother.

-Neither of them can stand Ollie, the headmasters’ pretentious son who’s playing Othello, going on and on about his actor step-brother in New York. Whatever. He likes to creep around the scene shop, too. Like he’s judging the tech. I’d like to see YOU pick up a drill, sir.

-He’s also really close to the theatre director. No one’s ever heard them interact, but they’ve sure seen them together. And he’s not even putting in all the hours for her that Allison is.

-Vanya and Five probably get coffee before rehearsal. Run lines. Five rambles about the flaws in Shakespeare’s philosophies over an americano. And they eventually tell each other their stories.

-Pogo had gone with Sir Reginald to examine the children and their potential prior to adoption. Reginald’s technology sensed great power in Vanya, even as an infant. After Vanya’s mother refused to sell, Pogo went behind Reginald’s back and made contact with the mother, advising her on how to suppress Vanya’s powers (but not emotions) with medication whenever they couldn’t be internally controlled. Vanya was good at self-control for much of her childhood, but the adjustment to college and grief of losing Ben put her back in a risky zone, so she’s been leaning a little more heavily on her medicine these days. She knows the adrenaline she gets onstage is good and natural, but it makes her nervous about forgetting a dose again.

-Five’s mother was quite a character. The name came from the fact that, during birth, Five first hit the air at exactly 12:00:05.

-Five had practiced his time jumps all through his childhood. (With none of the spite and rush he had in canon, he had no need to leap years right away, so he took it slow.) Sometimes he would get stuck in a place for a while, but his mom was cool and understood this. He would adapt to the new environment, anywhere between hours and weeks, and jump right back when he got enough rest to use his power again. There were some bugs, some problems with exact accuracy of destination, but he was always working on it. He was very lonely, though, never getting to meet with any of the other 43 and being discouraged from doing so by his mother.

-There was a portion of the future he got stuck in as a teenager in which the nation was governed by a tyrannical organization called “The Macbeth Enterprise”.

-Vanya immediately tries to shush him at this point in the story because he said the Bad Theatre Word. The director is very superstitious. She takes it deadly seriously and has threatened to actually penalty anyone who says it in the theater. Five just chuckles.

-And luckily, they’re rehearsing in the blackbox today, so even if the director could hear, it’s not “in the theater”.

-The future he saw was a century ahead of them, far beyond their lifetime. He was able to glean a little information about the origins of the Enterprise, but he shares none of this with Vanya. Firstly, those in power had high-tech augmentation that gave them a perfect replica of the kind of superpowers the 43 had - mind manipulation, immortality, etc. And secondly, they were credited with destroying the Hargreeves Five. As if the Hargreeves Five were a danger to society.

-What he does tell Vanya is that he’d never made any attempt to change the timeline before, but that’s just what he decided to do. With what little information he had, the only thing he could think of was to ruin the Enterprise’s namesake.

-Five spent literal years of his life, traveling from city to city across centuries, dooming various productions of Macbeth with Commission-level pragmatism until the name of the play itself became the taboo we know irl today.

-Vanya’s laughing. Five is too, honestly. It’s crazy.

-But he didn’t do what he did out of a ridiculous dare to himself. He did it out of desperation to not only to save the country, but to save his family as well. The family he’d never known. The kids all across the globe who went through the same strange hell of differentness that he had since birth. The Hargreeves Five, of course, needed to survive, as they’re responsible for maintaining peace on earth anyway. But if the Hargreeves Five were hunted down, why would the Enterprise stop there? Wouldn’t all 43 of them be in danger? Would all their gifts be harvested from them, and would they then be thrown away?

-But who knows if Five actually made a difference? He prays that it did. But the years of isolation in his personal mission convinced him of one thing - he should know his family. He had no idea when the country would start falling to shit - if it still would - but he could keep an eye on it alongside people who understood him. And with his foresight, maybe they could rise against the evil together.

-And maybe he was just so tired of being alone.

-So, digging was done through the Internet and several libraries in several eras. He found his insertion point at the University. He knew he’d have to look a little younger to fit in.

-But naturally, he got some equations wrong.

-Eventually, Five is formally introduced to Luther and Allison, who welcome him with slight skepticism, followed by a strong bear hug. Five’s not sure how to take the physical affection. He nods, which is a completely normal response to a hug, wraps his arms back around them, and tries to keep his eyes from leaking.

Chapter Six - “Whispering”

-It’s tech week of Hair, and because he’s been blowing his voice out in rehearsal from underdeveloped technique, Diego is on vocal rest.

-Most of this chapter is Diego Is On Vocal Rest and Everyone Gives Him Shit About It in a Loving Way.

-“Everyone” includes Eudora. She just bought her tickets for opening night.

-One early afternoon, Luther and Klaus are back in the scene shop together - Luther’s moving some lumber around and Klaus is carefully painting a setting onto a flat - and Luther vents that he’s not looking forward to running spotlight on Othello. He knows he can do it, but he wishes the theatre director would trust him with more authority and let him be Technical Director.

-Ben is eternally rolling his eyes and bitching about how entitled Luther sounds. He’s already the goddamn shop foreman. Klaus tries not to laugh at how annoyed Ben is about this.

-“But Diego could totally go back to lights for Othello! Hair will be over by then! He’s the pro! If I were TD I’d put him back on in an instant!”

-Dave wanders into the shop and says “hey” and Klaus nearly drops his wet paint brush onto the floor.

-After the brief succession of clumsy attempts Klaus had made to connect with Dave, Dave is actually bothering to return the effort.

-Luther is oblivious as hell while he’s toting the lumber around just like “Oh hi! Welcome! You’re new right? I’m Luther. I’m the shop foreman. You ever been on a tech crew before?” and this whole cringey spiel of small talk he usually gives to new students.

-About a minute into the small talk Luther finally sees how awkward Dave feels and how tense Klaus looks and he’s just like ohhhhh.

-He moves his task about eight feet further away to give them some space to talk. Even though that’s definitely not where the lumber is supposed to go. He just doesn’t want to make it weirder.

-Anyway. Insert fluff that isn’t obscenely flirtatious but is like… flirting with flirtatious.

-Later on that day, Leonard is tapped by the headmaster to join Student Government. Must’ve been one hell of a GPA. The new commitment forces him to give up the part of Roderigo in Othello.

-Leonard tells Allison this. Shit. Just what she needed today. She turns to her assistant stage manager and murmurs, shrugging off the guilt as she says it: “I heard a rumor you broke the news to our director as gently as possible.”

-After an eternity of assembling, dusting, and re-dusting, the Umbrella University theater chandelier is finally risen, ready for the first show of the season.

Chapter Seven - “The Life of the Party”

-After a hurried round of reviewing the audition tapes from the beginning of the year, Dave has been cast to fill the part of Roderigo.

-The technical director of Othello quit. No one’s really sure why. He was solid. But Luther’s been asked to step up, and he’s been trusted to pick anyone he wants to fill his previous spot on lights.

-Cue super petty conversation about how they both know Diego’s bomb at lights but they still annoy each other just by existing. Nonetheless, Diego agrees to hop onto Othello crew.

-Guess what, y’all, it’s opening night of Hair.

-Hard cut to Eudora, Luther, and Klaus, standing awkwardly together in the theater lobby, holding bouquets of various sizes and colors, convincing themselves that it’s a totally platonic gift to give to an actor.

-The show goes great. At the end of opening weekend, the cast and crew and friends go out to celebrate at the local bar and grill.

-At some point, the drinks are on Ollie, and everyone knows he and his mom are loaded. So. More drinks are had than ought to be had.

-ESPECIALLY by Five. He starts rambling about this girl named Delores in his quantum physics class and how he’s not sure if he’s allowed to find her attractive because of how complicated his age is.

-Vanya needed to get drunk. She deserved it. Now she’s yelling about this girl named Sissy in her chamber orchestra. What is happening.

-I’m not saying that Klaus and Dave had their first kiss while buzzed and behind the TUA equivalent of an Applebee’s, but I’m not not saying it.

-Luther has like two beers and starts getting emotional about how pretty the moon is.

-In classes the next morning, everyone’s hungover as shit.

-Except Allison, who was the extra careful Mom Friend and made sure her siblings made it home safe.

-Except Klaus. Who. Y’know. Didn’t really make it home. Ben goes to his 8 AM and takes Ghost Notes for him.

-Sometime that week, Luther comes into the director’s office with a question and sees her finishing a phone call, looking distraught.

-He asks if she’s okay. She doesn’t want to explain, but it eventually comes out that her son was in an accident of sorts three years ago. It’s almost the anniversary. He just got another treatment for the burn scars across half of his face. The director is still grieving the fact that it’s highly unlikely he’ll find success in his dream to be a Broadway actor.

-Luther warns Allison that the director might be in a worse mood this week. So that’s great.

-At an Othello rehearsal, Allison is calling cues from her promptbook. She pretty much has them memorized. But apparently, as the theatre director tells her, she keeps getting them wrong today?

-Allison could swear that last time she was at rehearsal, her book was different. What she’s reading is unfamiliar - lefts instead of rights, blue-outs instead of black-outs, etc. So she’s stumbling.

-On break, the theatre director expresses her frustration to Allison. We’re almost in tech week, for God’s sake. Allison apologizes and promises it won’t happen in the run.

-Allison blames her screw-ups on the stress of her overcommitments. Vanya sees she’s a little upset after the exchange and invites her to hang with her and Five after rehearsal.

-Vanya and Five have actually opened a pretty decent dialogue on mental health as it relates to their abilities, with Five’s powers damaging his psychological state and Vanya’s mood being an element of her telekinesis. Vanya reminds Allison that she’s got a lot on her plate, so she should try to take it easy where she can.

-Vanya still has anxiety, and it tends to flare at the part in the play where Othello smothers Desdemona with a pillow. They had worked out a safe plan in rehearsal. The pillow is thin and held at an angle so Vanya can still breathe, and it is only going to be held for a count of twelve. No longer, no shorter.

-Vanya and her siblings also take some more time to bitch about Ollie, too. Did you hear him accidentally call the director “mom” the other day? How embarrassing. What a dork.

-Hair closes and Othello tech week begins.

-A new batch of freshman House Crew members are cleaning up the theater one day with the radio on.

-It’s now the three year anniversary of the host’s favorite Hargreeves Five battle, a showdown against aspiring actor and convicted robber Erick Webber that went up in flames.

Chapter Eight - “Brush Up Your Shakespeare”

-The twelve-hour cue-to-cue tech rehearsal for Othello is a nightmare. But aren’t all cue-to-cues nightmares?

-They are.

-There might be some fluffy sibling stuff here, but nothing important. Luther, Diego, and Allison are speaking on headset with each other (“on com”). The channel also includes the assistant stage manager and assistant tech director.

-About five hours in, Luther and Diego get real sick of each other. Luther is redundant with his directions. Diego knows what to do. Diego keeps jumping the gun on cues. Passive aggression ensues.

-Allison has had it up to HERE and says “Look, if you’re gonna be children, can you please do it on a different channel?”

-And they do. They dedicate a whole other radio channel to Luther and Diego arguing where the rest of the crew can’t hear it.

-It’s during the cue-to-cue that Allison screws up the calls one too many times - is someone editing her promptbook when she’s not around? - and gets one more comment from the director. It’s worded like encouragement but spoken like a threat.

-“Allison, you were doing so well with the freshman. Just tell yourself you can do this. You’ll be perfect.”

-At lunch break, she wants to collapse. She goes to the bathroom, locks the door, and looks into the mirror.

-“I heard a rumor that you followed that promptbook perfectly.”

-The day after cue-to-cue, Vanya realizes she’s lost her meds. They have to be in the theater somewhere, but she can’t find them. Her siblings assure her that being in the show has improved her overall confidence, and they’ll all come running if she starts to have a meltdown for any reason. She’ll be able to control her emotions until she can get a refill. This warms her lil heart.

-The final dress rehearsals come to pass. Vanya continues to flourish. Five continues to impress and confound. Allison is flawless. Luther and Diego get over themselves. Klaus and Eudora get front row seats for opening night. It’s going to be a packed house. The local news are coming and filming segments to promote the program. As if the program needs any more support. The chandelier still boggles the mind.

-Opening night. The show is going spectacularly until Act V, when Ollie starts pressing the pillow over Vanya’s face.

-This is always the hard part. But it’s just a count of twelve, underscored by two bars of music.

-Until it isn’t. 

-Ollie keeps pressing. This wasn’t what we rehearsed. 

-Allison sees this from the booth and almost feels like they should call a hold, but her rumor kicks in and she can’t help but keep calling the show as normal.

-Vanya starts to hear the music amplified in her ears and starts to lose control of her power.

-Luther and Diego are both in Allison’s headset as the building starts to shake. “Allison, you need to call hold. Right now. Call hold!”

-Panicking, Vanya sends a pulse of energy out, knocking Ollie halfway across the stage, sending the flats crashing down, and shattering a row of stage lights. When she stands up, Ollie is smiling.

-The news crew caught it on tape. The audience is freaking out. Most of them try to flee but are trapped inside at the back of the house.

-Allison’s next call is the newest and strangest unauthorized edit she’s seen in her promptbook. It’s for the wrong play.

-“Spot B to Macbeth.”

-At the first time that its trigger phrase has ever been uttered in the building, the chandelier starts to glow and expand. Then, it drops, lower and lower, until it is right in front of the stage.

-It was never just a chandelier. It’s a piece of extra-terrestrial technology. Standing on the shelf on top of it are the director and the headmaster.

Chapter Nine - “The Point of No Return”

-I don’t know exactly how I’d reveal all of this, but here’s the gist.

-By the way, this is them coming out as extra-as-hell supervillains. So the way this is revealed is probably extra as hell.

-The director’s son is Erick Webber, a starving artist who resorted to a life of crime to pay his bills and got himself tangled with the Hargreeves Five, who are responsible for half of his face burning in the heat of battle.

-The director and the headmaster actually have been romantically involved for a few years, all but legally married.

-When the directors’ son was forever barred from the career of his dreams, the director and very wealthy headmaster first got together. The headmaster got her a job at the school.

-They wanted revenge for their son. But they also deduced that the Hargreeves Five were too immature for their powers and potential to ruin lives. They were just dumb kids. Their powers must be taken from them and placed into more capable hands.

-The couple had done extensive research, learned about the power potential in the 43, tracked down as many of them as they could find - preferably those already living in America - and hired all sorts of people and services to promote Umbrella University to them. They offered each one of them a sizable scholarship.

-They got seven of them.

-And they arranged meetings with characters that Hargreeves had done some shady deals with so they could acquire the otherworldly technology needed to set their plan into motion.

-And Macbeth was the trigger word for the invention - the story of an old celebrated king slain to make room for the rightful leader, as plotted by an empowered and bloodthirsty woman - so they had to put it in a theater. They had to ensure the trigger wasn’t spoken in the room until the correct time.

-Five realizes at this point that the efforts he made to change the past didn’t stop the Macbeth Enterprise, it just gave them a way more convenient origin. God dammit.

-The siblings realize Ollie was in on the whole thing. He had to make sure all seven of the kids were in the theater at the right time, so he snooped around and reported back to the Evil Moms. They let Luther be TD so Diego could cover lights. They cast Five, made Allison recruit Vanya, and made Allison SM. They took out Leonard and cast Dave to ensure Klaus and Ben would be there for opening. Ollie hid Vanya’s pills during the cue-to-cue.

-Allison realizes the director knew about her power all along and really was suggesting that she use it. Allison had done exactly what they wanted her to. They must’ve had someone re-do the promptbook each day and everything.

-The point is, there’s now news footage of a girl with unpredictably dangerous powers ruining a perfectly good school play and two women making a solid case that these children can’t be trusted with their gifts. The chandelier machinery revs up to perform its task - stripping all of their powers away.

-Five knows it won’t end there - the powers will be turned against the Hargreeves Five. Their abilities will be harvested too. And the hands that they’ll all end up in will be military-minded and will seize control of the nation, ruling by fear.

-There’s an extensive fight scene here. One that, again, I have no idea how I would write. It’s something that involves a level of family teamwork that they would not have if the theatre program didn’t bring them so close together in the first place. So it’s pretty ironic and kinda sweet.

-We find out that Dave and Eudora are absolutely ride-or-die for their idiot boyfriends that they just found out have terrifying superpowers, and they each have a moment where they contribute to the takedown.

-Ben is summoned because he legally has to be. The Horror can do some serious damage to the machine, and he finds he’s unaffected by its drainage because he’s dead as hell.

-Vanya grabs a violin from the pit where the underscoring was being played and shreds away at it to channel her power.

-The fight has heavy parallels to the prologue scene, where everyone’s powers went berserk because Vanya saw a rat and freaked out. Except there’s obviously a lot more at stake and a lot more direction in it.

-All of that gets resolved, somehow. Any of their power that gets drained gets returned to them once they get the machine shut down. Luther effortlessly snaps the tape of evidence in half.

-Allison uses her last rumor of junior year to memory-wipe and send away the cameramen and the witnesses.

-Except Eudora and Dave, who are surprisingly chill about this and promise to keep it all secret.

-The gang has no idea how to explain all the damage to the authorities, but the Criminal Justice Duo knows how to detain the bad guys in the costume closet and highlight some evidence to draw the focus to the less-than-legal dealings they made to set up their plot in the first place.

-Corruption? In college administration?? Pssshhh noooooooo never.

-The story embedded in the rumor is that the chandelier overheated and combusted, so everyone ran out. The police will discover the alien tech and go from there.

-Still, the superpower squad realizes they should lay low. Play dumb if interviewed. Skip class for a couple days and stay far away from the theatre department.

-Diego is up on the catwalk - the walkway above the audience where they maneuver the spotlights - collecting his stuff. He hears some footsteps on the ladder and sees Eudora climbing up to meet him.

-Diego starts to say something snarky and casual and Eudora’s like “No. Shut up. Just. Please. Shut up.” and kisses him.

-After weeks of pretending not to care as much as they really did and a solid half hour of having no idea if the other would live or die, here they are, standing over the decimated theater, finally at ease in each other’s arms

Chapter Ten - “Curtain Call”

-And that’s… it. When the siblings start coming back to classes, no one comes after them for whatever happened.

-Needless to say, the rest of the run of Othello has been cancelled. All theatre classes will be moved online or converted to classroom formats until repairs can be made to the building. There’s a new interim headmaster and theatre department director.

-It’s going to take forever for them to fix the damage done to the theater, and even when they do, it doesn’t feel right to keep that as their home base. So, where to now? How are they gonna fill the rest of their electives?

-All of the fine arts buildings are stacked close together. Music major Vanya has an idea.

-Second semester, Diego takes beginning percussion. Luther joins the marching band (and far exceeds the athletic demands for it). Klaus picks guitar back up. Allison ventures into vocal jazz. Five is a natural at composition.

-Sharing practice rooms. Cramming for theory exams. The entire works. They’re music kids now!

-They’re thrilled when they find out that all of their respective ensembles will be featured in the spring concert. 

-But does the conductor of Vanya’s chamber orchestra seem a little… eccentric to you?

...

im a broken woman from this. god dammit.

[fanforthefics]

For your send me an au and I’ll give you 5 hc for sidgeno. Assistant Geno and boss’s husband/boyfriend Sidney

this went a little sideways, but: 

1) These are the things Geno knows about Sidney Crosby, before he starts working for Flower:

he’s one of the best actors in the world (Geno would argue he is the best, but apparently some people disagree). He’s been acting since he was about ten, won his first Oscar at 21, and is still the best ever. 

He’s reputedly awkward in person, though no one says a bad word about him. Very Canadian, the articles tend to say--polite and polished like all child stars are. No whisper of any of the excesses of child stars, though; the sort of squeaky clean that makes people imagine he must be into something really weird. 

He’s really good looking. This is maybe very related to 1, though Geno would argue it isn’t. 

He’s probably dating Marc-Andre Fleury, and has been for years. 

2) Geno gets the job as Flower’s assistant mainly out of luck and the good fortune of being old family friends with Sergei Gonchar. He knows just how lucky he is; he’s only a few years in the US, right out of grad school in communications, and that’s not exactly a profile that screams employable. but somehow Sergei knew someone who knew Flower’s agent, and now Geno is Flower’s personal assistant. 

It’s a good job, and a fun job, honestly. Geno had expected that being an actor’s personal assistant would mean a lot of being bossed around by some bratty, entitled diva, but Flower’s great--he respects Geno’s time and space, he generally asks Geno for things instead of demanding them, and really, it seems more like he just wants someone to hang around with than anything else. 

Except for the pranks. The pranks Geno was warned about beforehand. 

So Geno likes his job, and it’s really interesting to see this side of the industry. There’s just one issue. That issue is 5′10, built just as thick in real life as he seems on a screen, is just as polite as on screen but also playful and personable with his friends in a way that Geno was not expecting from someone who always seems so serious on screen, and also there. A lot. 

“Yeah, Sid’s coming over,” Flower had said, the first time it happened. “We’re gonna run lines or whatever.” He’d paused, as Geno had gaped more than a little. “Is that okay?” 

“Sid? Sidney Crosby?” Geno had mumbled, and Flower had laughed. 

“Yeah, he’ll be over a lot,” he’d said, and that was that. Sidney Crosby came over. Geno stammered out something even though he really did know English. Sid was unfailingly kind and polite. Sid and Flower had disappeared into a lounge. Geno had screamed into a pillow. Everything was fine. 

3) If it had just stayed as that, everything would probably have been fine. Except Sid was over a lot. Sid was over a lot, or he and Flower went out and did things a lot with Geno hanging around, or they went to events together, and so Sid was just there a lot, until he stopped being Sidney Crosby and started being Sid, who was polite and kind but also ridiculously intense and competitive and a little awkward and so much more than jsut Sidney Crosby. 

And also, Geno had to remind himself, Flower’s boyfriend. Well, Flower was pretty quiet about that stuff, about all his stuff from before he made it, and Sid’s need for privacy was legendary, but--Sid was always there, and they went to events together and laughed on the red carpet, and sometimes their friend Tanger came over and teased them about the magazines, so--Flower’s boyfriend. Geno’s bosses boyfriend. A movie star. Not, Geno told himself, every time Sid smiled at him, interested in Geno. 

4) Flower finds Sid’s crush hilarious. 

“Of course he’s your type!” he crows, the first time Sid comes over, sees a tall guy with a great smile and a face that’s interesting, which in Sid’s experience is far more rare than one that’s handsome, and immediately drops into media mode as self-preservation. “I couldn’t have planned this better myself!” 

“You could have warned me,” Sid hisses, glancing at the door. Geno’s just outside. 

Flower laughs. “Why would I do that when i could see you squirm?” he asks, and Sid punches him for that, with the ease of a decades long friendship. 

So maybe Sid comes over more often than he usually would. Maybe he spends more time hanging out with Geno than mingling at events or chatting with his other friends. He doesn’t neglect anything, of course, and Geno’s--he’s smart, and more than that he’s genuine, he doesn’t hide anything. What he feels, he feels; it’s written all over his face. It’s refreshing, for Sid who’s lived around Hollywood since he was a child. 

“Why don’t you just ask him out?” Flower asks, after Sid spends the first ten minutes of going to a bar with Tanger’s with Flower chatting with Geno, instead of sitting in a booth with them. 

Sid scoffs. “I can’t do that.” 

Tanger raises his eyebrow. He’s an outside observer here, but he is also very amused and gives Sid a lot of shit. Sometimes Sid thinks he needs better best friends. “He looks at you a lot. He’ll say yes.” 

“That’s not--he’s smart. He went to college. He doesn’t want...this,” Sid says, waving a hand at himself. 

“Oh he wants that,” Flower retorts, waving a hand specifically at Sid’s ass. 

“Okay, so he thinks I’m hot. So do a lot of people who get annoyed by me.” 

Flower rolls his eyes. “Sid--” 

“And,” Sid fixes him with a serious look. “I can’t bring him into this, even if he is really into me. That’s not what anyone wants.” Flower opens his mouth, but Sid keeps going. “As you of all people should know.” 

Flower shuts his mouth. He is the person who has been using Sid as a shield for years so people don’t ask about where he goes when he disappears off to Montreal to live with Vero and be a normal person for a while. 

“So no, I’m not asking him out,” Sid says, firmly, and hopes it’s firm enough for Flower and Tanger to let it go, even if not to stop teasing him about it. 

5) “He is very impressive, is he not?” someone asks, and Geno spins from where he was watching the shot. Kris Le Tang had appeared there, like models generally melt out of the woodwork on a movie set Which maybe they do, but this one is Sid’s movie set, and Flower’s just there because shooting went long and they were supposed to go out for lunch. Which maybe is why Tanger is there too, now Geno thinks about it. 

“Yes, is very good,” Geno agrees, glancing back at Sid. It’s an understatement, of course. “Think everyone knows that.” 

“Sure they do,” Tanger agrees. Geno doesn’t know him as well as Sid, though he knows that Tanger’s the third in the trio. He’s a little harder to read, a little more dangerous seeming--like how he looks at Geno now, a little sharply, a little like a cat considering a mouse. “You definitely do, I think.” 

“I’m--fan, yes,” Geno agrees. He’s not ashamed of that. “You fan too, I think, or else not friend?” 

“Sid needs friends who aren’t fans,” Tanger replies. He’s looking very intently at Geno, like he’s trying to say something more than his words. Given that it’s in both of their second language, Geno wishes him well. “Fans don’t really know him, not like friends do.” 

“Yes, I’m see,” Geno says. He’s still watching Sid, as he laughs with the sound guy fixing his mic, easy and casual. “Has lots more to him than fan sees, yes?” 

There’s a pause, then Tanger claps him on the shoulder. “He does,” Tanger says. “I think you’ll do.” 

He walks away, and goes to find Flower, who’s standing by the food because apparently he couldn’t wait for lunch. Sid looks up from the microphones, sees Geno watching, and smiles at him. Geno smiles back. 

It’s not until later, after Geno spends a long time but less time than he would like watching Sid work, that he realizes what Tanger was doing. Sid needs friends, not fans--he’s warning Geno away from Sid, reminding him that Sid and Flower are a thing, because he must have noticed how Geno looks at Sid. 

Geno can take a hint. From what he’s heard of Tanger and how he defends his friends, he should maybe he glad the warning was this subtle. 

6)  They both pine for a long time--Geno thinks Sid is out of his league and also dating his boss, Sid isn’t sure how to read honest interest in him, if it’s just attraction or more, and would be cautious anyway. Flower and Tanger watch with interest. Until--

7) One of the main problems with Geno’s job is that it generally requires punctuality. Geno is against punctuality as a rule, and Flower doesn’t seem to mind (Sid sometimes gets a little antsy, but Sid isn’t paying Geno, so Geno tells him that he’s ignoring Sid, which usually gets Sid to giggle), so usually it’s okay. But one day, for whatever reason, he manages to be early, which is basically unheard of. 

Which is probably why he overhears Flower on the phone, talking in French, but in an unmistakable sort of tone. It’s...sappy, in a way that Geno hasn’t ever heard Sid and Flower interact before; they’ve always been very proper in public. But this is definitely sweet. It makes Geno feel a little better and a little worse--better, because he does what Sid and Flower to be happy; worse, because he’d maybe been having ridiculous fantasies about how Flower and Sid would figure out they actually don’t love each other and then Geno could, like, sweep Sid off his feet or something and show him how someone really ought to treat him. But if this is how they act when Geno’s not there...

Except the phone must be on speaker, because then Geno catches very feminine laughter from the other side of the call, and some more French in that same tone. 

Geno goes very still. He doesn’t--the conclusion is inescapable, and it’s even more so, when he hears the sign off with what sounds like a kiss. Flower is cheating on Sid. It’s--he doesn’t know what to do. 

He’s sure he seems stunned, when Flower comes out and sees him there, greets him. Geno definitely growls at him, or something, before he catches himself, but Flower apparently just puts it up to a bad mood. 

Geno goes through the rest of the day on autopilot. He does his job, but--how is he supposed to look at Flower, knowing this? But also maybe his loyalty should be to Flower, who is after all his boss? But--cheating on Sid? Friendly, deceptively open Sid, who only allows a few people close enough to see his soft belly (Metaphorically, Geno has yet to see Sid shirtless outside of a screen and thinks that’s probably best for his continued sanity. Also, he’s pretty sure it’s not soft). Sid, who clearly adores Flower. Who--

Geno makes it the rest of the day, before he ends up snapping something at Flower as he leaves, then he ends up at Sid’s door. Well, the gates to Sid’s house; there’s an insane amount of security on it. Geno’s been inside a few times, dropping Flower off or picking him up, but he’s never gone there on his own. 

Still, he gets inside easily enough when he says his name; the door opens and he’s ushered inside by a Sid in sweatpants, bare feet, and a t-shirt that’s seen better days. Geno is momentarily speechless. 

“What’s up?” Sid asks, shutting the door behind him. For all his millions, the house is--big, but not ostentatious. Maybe even homey. “Did Flower need something? He shouldn’t have sent you over, I could have messengered whatever it--” 

“He’s cheat,” Geno bursts out, because he can’t hold it in any longer with Sid talking at him all sweet and--Sid like. 

Sid’s eyebrows go way up. “What?” 

“Flower, I hear, he--talk to woman, he’s cheat on you. I’m not want to tell you, because he’s my boss, but--you should know. Is not right, what he do. To you.” 

“Um, Geno,” Sid starts, and he sounds the sort of gentle that means he doesn’t believe Geno, so Geno keeps going. 

“I know you not want to believe, I’m not want to either, but I hear, and I’m sure.” 

“Yeah, I know you--” 

That’s even worse! “You know!” Geno demands, his voice getting louder. “You know, and you not say anything? Is not--you should not put up with this, should--you deserve more,” he settles on, because that’s what he knows is true. “More than boyfriend who’s cheat. You deserve--everything. Should not stay if--” 

“Geno,” Sid snaps, and Geno’s mouth snaps closed. He’s not sure he’s ever heard that tone from Sid, the sudden command in it, but of course Sid can do that too. “Geno,” Sid says again, a little softer. “This woman Flower was speaking to--it was in French?” Geno nods. Sid’s face relaxes, a little. “Oh, yeah, that’s Vero, don’t worry about it.” 

“Vero?” Geno repeats. “Who’s--you have,” he hesitates, finds the English, “Open relationship? Poly?” If he did

Sid goes a little red, then shakes his head. “Has Flower seriously not said anything to you? After all this time?” 

“Sid,” Geno whines. He’s starting to feel like he missed something. 

“If Flower hasn’t said--” 

“Sid, tell me. What do I not know?” Geno demands. Sid’s lips twitch. 

“Vero’s Flower’s long time girlfriend.” 

Geno pauses. Blinks. “No, you’re his long time boyfriend.” 

Sid shakes his head. “No, we just--hang out, and we’re good friends so the media sometimes thinks that, you know? And we let them, because it lets Flower and Vero stay low key and keep her away from the spotlight, and it keeps people away from me.” Geno blinks. This is--he can’t quite compute it. “You really didn’t know?” Sid asks, and now he sounds confused. “You’ve seen us together a lot. You thought we were actually together?” 

“I’m not know, I think you’re private! Not want me to see!” Geno bursts out. “I’m not think too hard about it.” 

"But that makes no sense,” Sid argues, because of course he does. “Flower’s all sappy with Vero, in relationships, and even I’m more affectionate than that. I don’t treat boyfriends like I treat Flower.”

“How am I suppose to know that?” Geno retorts. Then, “Boyfriends?” he asks. “That--that’s true?” 

Sid goes a little flushed, but it’s pretty clear Geno doesn’t have an issue with that at this point, so, “Yeah,” he says, clearly and firmly. 

Geno nods. Swallows. “You have one now?” he asks, and Sid shakes his head. “Oh.” 

“I’m busy,” Sid goes on, like he needs to explain it. “Shooting’s been insane this year, and I’ve got my work with the Foundation, and--” 

“Yes, I know,” Geno does. He’s been there for a lot of it, or heard Flower talk about it. “So. You single?” 

“Um, yeah. But don’t spread it, the thing Flower and I do works, and--” 

“Yes, of course,” Geno snaps. He’s not going to just betray them like that. (And, a part of him he doesn’t want to listen to says, as long as people think Sid’s dating Flower no one else is going to ask him out and Geno might--). “Um. I should go, if no--” 

“You could stay, watch the game,” Sid suggests, offhand. 

“Yes!” Geno maybe says it too quick, too eager, but Sid only grins. 

“Um, warning, I’m apparently annoying to watch games with, I get--” 

“Yes, I see,” Geno agrees. He’s seen Sid and Flower watch games before, seen how much Sid talks and how into it he gets. Geno’s sometimes annoyed by it, but also ridiculously fond of him for it. As long as Geno’s in the right mood, it’s fun to argue with him about it.  “I want to watch still.” 

“Oh.” Sid’s cheeks are a little red. 

“I tell you how you’re wrong,” Geno goes on, and SId tilts his head back and laughs, and Geno can’t look away. 

8) Flower definitely laughs himself sick, when Sid tells him what Geno said. “You never tell, how I”m supposed to know?” Geno protests, but Flower keeps laughing and texting Vero. Sid is...suspicious, maybe. Flower would definitely do something like this as a plot. 

“Well, yeah,” Flower agrees, when Sid gets him alone outside of Geno’s earshot. “Not at first, but then--yeah.” 

“Flower, that wasn’t--” 

“Making him wait for it was good for him,” Flower says, waving his hand dismissively. “If he’d asked you out right away, he wouldn’t have known you, and then you’d have gotten your heart broken. Again,” he adds, pointedly, which--fine, Sid knows it’s happened before. “Now he knows you, so when he asks you out, it won’t be blind.” 

Sid hates his friends, sometimes. “He didn’t ask me out,” Sid points out. That seems like a glaring problem with Flower’s plan. 

“Yeah, I don’t know what’s taking him so long,” Flower hums. He’s got a light in his eyes like he’s plotting something. 

“No.” 

“I don’t know what you’re talking about,” Flower says, and Sid groans. 

9) This is what Flower plots: 

“So you should ask out Sid,” he says, and next to him Tanger crosses his arms and nods menacingly. “Not in a, I’m your boss and I’m ordering you to do it way, but in a, he’d definitely say yes if you wanted to way.” Tanger nods again. It is, for some reason, still menacing. 

Geno gapes. This is not what he expected when Flower asked Geno to come into his office. “You tell me not to!” he protests, throwing it at Tanger. “You say I’m not--” 

“I said Sid shouldn’t go out with a fan,” Tanger says, smirking again like he knew exactly what he said. Geno is beginning to think all of Sid’s friends are just evil. “You aren’t just a fan anymore though, are you?” 

“That’s not--” Geno gives up on that threat, “And he’s movie star! He’s who should ask me!” 

“He’s not going to.” Flower’s serious, suddenly. “He doesn’t want to leverage any sort of admiration you might have had for him, no? And it is not easy, to go out with actor. This is why I kept Vero a secret. So he will not ask that of you.” 

“But--" Geno gets that, he does. He’s seen Flower’s life, Sid’s. But--it would be worth it, he thinks. And Sid’s so private anyway. “I could.” 

“See?” Flower turns to Tanger. “Told you.” 

Tanger shrugs, very gallicly. “I never said he would not.” He looks at Geno. He’s not smiling. “I said he should be very careful, if he did.” 

Geno glares back. He’s not going to just--back down, or shit. Tanger can glare at him all he wants. Tanger starts to smile back. 

10) In the end, Geno asking Sid out is a non-event. Sid showed up early to Flower’s set before they were going out for dinner, and while they’re waiting, Geno leans over to Sid. “You want to come over for dinner, sometime?” he asks. He’s maybe been thinking about this a while, what to do for the man who has everything, or the money to buy everything. 

Sid’s eyes are sharp, but he smiles. “You can cook?” he teases, trying to feel out what’s happening. What sort of invitation this is.

Geno shrugs. “I warm up food mama left,” he admits, shameless. Anyway, that matters more, in some ways, than cooking himself, and Sid’s been around long enough to get that; his eyes widen, and he flushes. 

But, “Yeah,” Sid agrees, watching Geno evenly. “I’d like that.” 

Geno grins. He’s going to treat Sid exactly like he deserves, and it’s going to be great. 

11) Here are the things Geno knows about Sidney Crosby: 

he’s the best actor in the world (Geno’s making a stand on this one). 

He’s not nearly as awkward as people think he is, and he’s more extroverted than anyone thinks. He’s also deeply weird, talkative, competitive, and kind, but that’s only for people who know him well. 

He’s probably the most handsome man in the world too. 

He is definitely not dating Marc Andre Fleury. Geno is damn sure of that. 

[s-oulpunk]

Headcanons about “ricky is Eddie's son” please

Thank you for this ask🥺I have so many hc’s, but I’m gonna try to steer clear of any that give away too much of the plot.

Okayokay so in the original post I mentioned that I think Ricky would release an album.  I think his music style would be similar to Cavetown or Conan Gray or Rex Orange County, but in-universe all his songs are going to just be songs Joshua Bassett has written. (Although I feel like “Devil Town” by Cavetown is something he could have written in this AU.  It reminds me of him and how he would react to Derry and IT.)

I’m thinking the story takes place the summer before the events of hsmtmts, so all the Losers come to see his show.  They all sit in a row and whisper really loud throughout the whole thing.  Stan and Ben are the only ones who can actually whisper, so the rest of them are just like yelling down the row.  And most of what they’re yelling is tea Ricky’s told them, because let’s be real, he told them everything.

And that’s pretty horrifying for Ricky, to realize that his entire family (bc he definitely considers the Losers Club his aunts and uncles) are unwillingly telling his classmates everything he’s said about them the past few months.

The Losers also have been giving him advice the whole time, but it’s about a 50/50 shot of whether or not the advice is actually good.  But Richie almost never has good advice.  But, then again, he wasn’t particularly skilled at flirting with Eddie, so he’s not exactly who anyone should look to for relationship advice.

Speaking of Ricky’s relationship, I’m still debating whether or not I should stick with canon.  Either Ricky can stay with Nini, or Nini can date Gina and I can pick another love interest for Ricky.  It wouldn’t be anyone from the show, but I have a few ideas.  But feel free to send an ask with which you would prefer!  I can’t guarantee that it’s what I’ll go with, but I’ll definitely take it into consideration.

^also I’ll only need a love interest for Ricky if I do make this into a series

I also mentioned that I think Ricky would be in one of Bill’s movies and in a TV show Richie writes.  If I make this into a series, I’ll probably go more in depth with these ideas.  All the other actors would be characters from other pieces of media that have had acting/theatre as part of the plot (i.e. Love Simon, Rise)

Anyway sorry this is kinda just me rambling, I hope this is sort of what you were looking for!

[gaygwenpool]

*slams fists on table* MYSTELEON

I knew you wouldnt disappoint! :D  tho you already know most of these lmaoo  lotsa credit to @herbofoo anyway, i dont remember which of these you came up with but Patchwork wouldnt be the same without your Good Good Content! (And of course thanks for all your patience as i cry about comics lmao)

I’ve lost all shame long since ive started shipping them so brace yourself for the self-indulgent cheese that is Chameleon/Mysterio in my Patchwork verse. (its reallly. really Melodramatic. i gave up all pretense.. also under the cut cuz its long..)

ask meme

Who cooks:

Mysterio! Although Chameleon is objectively The Superior Cook thanks to the long years of being a servant to picky russian nobility BUT exactly because of that, he really doesnt enjoy it, even less when cooking for others and not just himself. So it is usually Beck who prepares meals (that are not bad either, they are just simpler) but as often as they can, they eat out. That said, Cham is very well aware Quentin loves his cooking so sometimes, he makes them something. (Being sick isnt so bad when it means Chammy bringin you a big bowl of hot borscht :)

On the other hand, Cham has quite a sweet tooth which Q notices Fast and decides to learn how to bake. It took more effort and failed tries than it could have, mostly because he got cocky, how hard could this be and just. kept forgetting he put stuff in the oven.. But now he makes quite delicious cookies n cakes which make Dmitri almost tear up because tasty + Quentin baked something Specifically for him?? 

Who does the laundry and other chores:

Mysterio’s laundry is usually booby trapped so he has to clean it himself and he doesnt even let Cham near it. And he keeps forgetting gadgets in his civvies. Not to mention that again, for the same servant reason, Cham really doesnt enjoy house chores in general, so he usually just gets his own clothes cleaned somewhere else (especially since his fancy suits and even fancier gowns are the highest quality and delicate materials, he doesnt even Know how to clean them..) 

As for the rest of the chores, its pretty balanced, although Cham has more of an eye for things that needs to be cleaned up (and Beck already has cooking duties) so he does a tad more. 

How many children do they have + Any pets:

In my Patchwork universe there’s a whole Thing about Leon, the Chameleon of the Ultimate universe but I’ve tried to type up a short summary and failed, it’s a long story lmao ^^;; and anyway he isnt exactly their kid, he is just much younger than them and they ended up sorta mentoring him. 

However, they have Celavi, the escaped ex-spy beluga.(Yes, it started as a joke based on this post that accidentally grew more and more serious until @herbofoo and me were too attached to let it go) She counts pretty much as their adopted daughter that they both spoil to hell and back, I mean no surprise, she saved Cham’s life once and sometimes, she helps out with heists. (Mostly for the show, you should have SEEN the look on Spider’s face when a beluga splashed him. He is used to humanoid sharks, to Hydroman.. not like. real life beluga that LAUGHS at him) Beck’s voice: “Dont you dare to insult her, SHE IS PERFECT AND FLAWLESS and A GOODNESS INCARNATE!! -she is literally a deserted russian spy that was trained to gather everything that could be used to harm USA-yea, i have a soft spot for those ;)“

She was always surprisingly clever so she never really counted as a “pet” and at one point, she even bonds with a symbiote (together they are Vague, again long story ah ha). They dont talk but have quite some range of vocalisations so communication isnt a problem. 

Who’s more dominant: 

They both have pretty dominant strong personalities (ok chameleon’s a bit more complicated with that but like.) with big egos who dont like others questioning their superiority. (Of course not at the level of like Doc Ock etc, they are surprisingly flexible and good team players that can be willing to let someone else take the spotlight if they are Nice) But the whole point of their relationship is that neither of them is dominant over the other, they get enough of that literally everywhere else. It’s very reassuring to be so sure that they are on equal footing, cooperating, no hidden nooses around their neck. Especially in their line of work of course! 

(Also, for the other interpretation of this question: anythin remotely sexual happens Pretty Late in the story and both of them are somewhere on the ace spectrum so it doesnt happen that often but they are both verses tho Beck bottoms more)

Favorite nonsexual activity:

MOVIES!! Sprawled on the giant comfy couch, closer than technically needed, cuddling and watching old movies with great special effects and/or great actors! Listening to Beck excitedly rant through the most dramatic speech of the story as he explains how the next cliffhanger is done with hydraulics! Focusing so hard on the stars in his eyes and his excited tone and gestures and just the tone of his voice you forgot to listen to the words themselves! Watching Cham’s face flawlessly mimic the faces on the screen in a blink of an eye and secretly guessing which one will he pick next. Feeling his head slowly fall on your shoulder, eyes closed, his mask smooth but not tense, instead just.. peaceful. Slight ping of annoyance, after all, this is A Classic movie dammit, but it’s gone in a second because Mitya hasnt slept since thursday and you are just relieved he is finally getting his rest. Feeling his warmth under your hand on his shoulders and suddenly never ever wanting to get up again.. EHM. anyway

PLANING HEISTS TOGETHER!! and more or less successfully executing them but planning is actually even more fun aside from the Big Reveals and Entrances which are actually harder to coordinate than one would think! 

Lots of shobiz/job talk actually, they really enjoy what they do! Lots of people already mentioned that in their hc compilations but i agree, they love goin to see all kinds of movies and plays and performances as well as acting various scenes with one another!  

Their favorite place to be together:

NEW YORK CITY BABEYY. Sure they love to travel and see other countries (and cause mayhem there) but.. they love their mess of a city, it’s never the same without the webhead around as well as the bazillion of other heroes n villains bashin each other’s heads. 

Any traditions:

Oh so many pop culture references and inside jokes, oh my god. One time, they spent the entire heist (and its planning period) speaking strictly in famous movie lines and titles, Max and other sixers tried to join but didnt last too long :’D 

Beck also has a habit of taking pictures of people with Interesting faces or styles he sees and sends them to Cham. Also another fanon classic: together they have a running game, disguising themselves as moderately famous people and the other guessing who..

Their “song”:

‘This is me’ from the Greatest Showman, i just live for the two of them singin it in Cham’s car,off key but fully immersed and living it. 

What they do for each other on holidays:

Neither of them are religious but that doesnt stop Beck from going ALL OUT at any opportunity, Sin Six doesn’t do any heists around holidays because you Know he’d make them dress for the occasion or worse, write them themed lines…  They still meet for Christmas and Hanukkah and sometimes other holidays too because this is my AU and you can pry festivities-related shenanigans from my cold, cold hands. It’s always at Beck’s place tho because he can turn his hideout into the tackiest holiday-themed showcase but he aint roping them into it.  

On the other hand, Cham despises American commercialized holidays in general and Christmas time especially, since it’s not a big thing in Russia and  also once again, he has family issues for days. (Although relatively speaking, he is pretty over these, he is not gonna like mope around or anything) 

Anyway, what they do for each other is that they try to compromise, Dmitri doesnt sneer at stupid kitsch decorations every 5 minutes and Quentin ..chills a little. :’D To be fair, Beck makes everything fun and having Cham there makes Beck appreciate the details more instead of just goin into BETTER!BIGGER! frenzy.

Where did they go for their honeymoon:

After the fuckin Ages of pinning, when they finally end up together for realsies, they wanted somethin Big and Flashy! (Well Beck wanted and Cham kinda too but also with the option to merge with the crowd unnoticed and take some chill time) Anyway they went on a whole world wide tour! Starting with a luxury cruise, they took their time, lots of crime sprees to plan and execute, lots of local shows to see, lots of dumb heroes to fool, they’re gonna have it all! 

Where did they first meet:

Around the time when Cham and Hammerhead had their criminal empire running Fisk to the ground, Otto decided the Sin Six should team up with them for their ressources needed on one heist or something. They agreed but Cham insisted on actually going in the field, it’s been a while since he really stretched his face legs like this and the mafia life was starting to bore him. Doc made him team up with Mysterio much to the fishbowl’s dismay because why do they need another disguise artist?? He is the Master Of Illusions dammit, he can run circles around this guy, what the fuck Otto?? So at the start, he pouts and fumes under his helmet and in general he is his v unpleasant self but… He can’t help but notice that the new guy is a real professional, he even uses Traditional masks, he likes the same movies… And most importantly, he is actually interested in Mysti’s craft, asking questions and even LISTENING to his long winded answers… At one point he even wondered if that X thing was meant as a HOMMAGE to the Y movie, the Six never did that!! (Usually the rest of the sixers dont know the reference, heathens, and when they do, they mock him for it, that he’s copying ideas and mixin them ridiculously.  BUT THIS GUY GETS IT!!) So it doesn’t take long for them to hit it off, of course at this point without any real Trust behind it but it’s a start. 

(Though Beck does pay a visit to Otto like, buddy pal i know you’ve been planning on manipulating these crimelords to your end somehow and honestly, any other day i’d be down, i actually had a robot prepared for my own backstab but i was thinking they werent that bad and maybe we Could hold our end of the bargain this time and just. leave each other on good terms? Mabye? Obviously it’s purely out of respect for our teammate Kraven since him and Chameleon seem to have some history, nothing more, definitely nothing to do with how bright Cham’s eyes were when i was showing him the back of my stage… ) 

What do they fight over:

this whole post has been a mountain of cheese but im bringing more! Honestly, goin through my notes on Patchwork, their biggest arguments have always been about.. the other one not taking proper care of himself :’D Or them lashing out because they were scared and worried about the other and they cant stand being so vulnerable while the other pretends it’s not a big deal because they dont know how to handle genuine concern directed at them. 

Do they go on vacations, if so where:

GIVE!!! BECK!!!! HIS!!!! ISLAND!!!!!!They actually do have one, it’s where Celavi spends most of the time and they visit her often. But never for too long, neither of them can actually spend too long doing nothing.. 

[eyecicles]

give me ALL THE QUESTIONS THEN please

MelloxMatt:

1. Who makes the first move and how?

Technically Mello, even though Matt had flirted with him for literal years:

“Hey Mello, your ass look great in those pants.”

“Yeah? Wanna touch it?”

“Are you fucking with me?”

“Only if you kiss me first.”

2. Who is the most insecure and what makes them feel better?

Definitely Mello. And like a lot of other DN characters, Mello places his entire sense of self-worth on a single goal, so there isn’t much you could try to cheer him up with. But I think he probably appreciates how much Matt trusts him and his abilities & Matt knows that there’s not much else he can do for him. Mello is not exactly the type who lets himself getting comforting by some nice words.

3. Who is the most romantic?

Neither of them is terribly romantic, haha. And that’s probably what they like about each other.

4. Who can’t keep their hands to themselves?

Matt. He doesn’t care what other people think and Mello wears clothes that are nice to touch all the time, so it’s his fault anyway (from point of his view). Mello doesn’t really mind as long as Matt doesn’t get his leather dirty.

5. Who says ‘I love you’ first?

Poor Mello is completely stunted emotionally, so I guess that falls on Matt. It would be in the middle of them lazing around & eating junk food together. “Dude, I love you, you know that, right?”

6. Who would they ask if they ever had a threesome?

Matt would ask Near just for the lolz. Mello isn’t interested in casual threesomes so this would only work in a polyamorous relationship, imo.

7. What do they get up to on a night out?

They would break into an observatory or some shit

8. What do they like in bed?

I like to think of Mello as a powerbottom. He’s very intense and straightforward with lots of biting kisses, tongue, and tugging, and Matt would totally be into that. Probably loves to get ridden by Mello. And honestly, I think getting topped by Mello would be a scary but interesting experience - something you only want to do a couple of times. So while Matt wouldn’t be totally against it, he would only do it every few months or so.

Matt would also love to watch Mello strip, while Mello would get turned on by Matt’s adoring gaze. (Totally another DN character with a praise kink, ha!)

They would also be into simple humping and handjobs, I think, but I also hc Mello to be someone who gives great head, so yeah.

I’m sure both of them are pretty dirty and kinky, so I don’t even want to know what else they might do with each other.

9. What is the most embarrassing thing they have done in front of each other?

Like L, Matt does everything in front of his partner. But one of the most embarrassing things was actually when he kicked in his monitor because some 12 years old set his helicopter on fire in GTA.

The most embarrassing thing Mello did, was falling asleep with a piece of chocolate in his open mouth.

10. What two songs, two books and two luxury items do they take to a desert island?

Mello: Never Enough by The Cure, probably one of his own unfinished books so he can work on it there, a gun

Matt: Make It Wit Chu by Queens of The Stone Age, some shitty erotica, his NIntendo DS

11. What do they hide from one another?

Mello hides how hard he actually works. He wants to look competent and ingeniouseffortlessly.

Matt probably only hides some of his more disgusting porn magazines, haha

12. What first changes when it starts getting serious?

Their relationship is based on a years-long friendship and I don’t think much would change. One day, they would look back and realise how long they already know each other, how long they made this relationship work and that they’re still an extremely good team, and that’s it.

13. When do they realise they should get together?

After the first time they have sex. Turns out sleeping with someone you care about can be more fulfilling than casual sex, after all.

14. When one has a cold, what does the other do?

Mello sends Matt to the bedroom because he doesn’t want his bacteria anywhere near him.

Matt probably just laughs at Mello sniffling and sweating andmaybe offers him minty bubble gum.

15. When they watch a film what do they choose and why? Who gets the final vote?

I think they both are fans of Tarantino but it’s definitely Mello who gets the final vote, if they can’t agree on a movie. Matt also likes stuff with zombies, while Mello finds them ugly and prefers movies with a nicer (but still gritty) aesthetic.

16. When the zombie apocalypse comes, how do they cope together?

With lots of dark humour, guns, and geekiness. They would do well enough, I imagine.

17. When they find a time machine, where do they go?

Oooh, that’s interesting! Probably to the future, but not to a date too many years ahead. Matt wants to see new technology and Mello just likes knowing things no one else knows about.

This actually sounds like a hilarious AU idea!

18. When they fight, how do they make up?

Matt will mainly make up via lame jokes but in a way that would make it clear to Mello that he’s sincerely sorry. Mello would simply invite Matt to a ride on his bike. If he’s still angry, though, it wouldn’t be the most comfortable experience, haha.

19. Where do they go on their first date?

I doubt they would go on “dates”

20. Where do they go on holiday?

Mainly California and Japan. I also have this hc that they would eventually buy a house in Brazil.

21. Where do they get nervous about going with one another?

They would be a bit nervous about the possibility of ruining their lifelong friendship but otherwise they feel pretty secure and chill with each other & don’ think there’s much to worry about

22. Where does their first kiss happen?

In a shitty hotel room, right after Matt compliments Mello’s ass for the 973th time

23. Where is their favourite place to be together?

In Matt’s car

24. Where do they first have sex?

Also in a shitty hotel room - most likely on the floor. Mello prefers to have sex on hard surfaces & they rarely do it in bed.

25. Why do they fight?

They don’t fight often but Mello gets angry at Matt when he can sense that he’s worried about him. He wants Matt’s complete trust, no matter how insane his plans are.

26. Why do they need to have a serious chat?

Uuh, definitely about Mello’s inferiority complex. Good luck, Matt, I don’t want to be you.

27. Why do their friends get annoyed with them?

Because they so obviously have all those secret schemes and love to act self-important, like a power couple of one of the movies they love so much. They think they’re supercool, and sometimes they are, but often enough it’s just annoying.

28. Why do they get jealous?

Mello gets jealous because Matt doesn’t shut up about all the models, actors, and video game characters he finds hot. Even though Mello knows it doesn’t mean anything, it still annoys him a bit. Matt only feels a little jealous of Near sometimes, because he seems to be on Mello’s mind so often.

29. Why do they fall a little bit more in love?

After many years, Mello realises that Matt indeed always has his back. He can trust him to bail him out of everything, he’s incredibly crafty, and, that’s something Mello almost doesn’t want to admit, Matt puts up with a lot of bullshit because of him.

Matt mainly falls more in love with Mello because of his incredible fighting spirit, creativity and ambition. He can’t relate to how hard Mello tries but he still finds it inspiring and admirable.

30. Why does it work (or not work) between them?

It works because of how long they’ve known each other; they’re a well practised team and they compliment each other well, all while being mostly chill and honest with each other

[nicklightbunny]

ANYWAYS i am not having the bestest of days send actor au hc’s pls

[pog-wizard]

so im making my no sburb au hc family dynamic in the sims which right now includes getting alpha rose to write The Books and alpha dave to write the screenplays for an indeterminate amount of sbahj movies while also being a world class actor because i want them to have backstory before faking their own deaths and abandoning toddler dirk and baby roxy because im a dramatic bitch. anyway. i was kind of expecting rose to at least write one of hers before dave got to his but fuckin.... the VERY FIRST THING he writes is ALREADY A BESTSELLER so obvi i HAVE TO PUBLISH IT. hes not even high enough level to send it to the real good publisher and im kinda hoes mad about it. thats probably what i get for giving him a cc trait thats just "talented" but still man like come on. also when he went to his first acting gig and while doing hair it gave him a god awful goatee and i thought "FUCK THATS WHATS MISSING" and then it gave him the hair and he looked like billy ray cyrus. i legiterally started crying.

[ellewords]

based off of what you said, i love the idea of iwaizumi and ushijima being the two that flub their takes the most!

whenever iwa does it, you can sort of tell immediately that you have to restart. he just stops mid sentence like he’s processing what he just did, he turns super red in the face, and he looks around to see if anyone caught him. of course, they did. oikawa gets the stupidest grin on his face, and even if matsukawa and hanamaki aren’t on camera, you could bet money that they’ll be the first to start laughing. iwaizumi breaks character so quickly that the fandom often jokes that they get whiplash when he makes a mistake because his character is so blunt and snarky but actor iwa is so apologetic and embarrassed when he messes up. he immediately offers to make up for it somehow, and he feels so bad that he doesn’t realize he’s allowed to laugh about it until he sees that no one is actually angry with him. and he always keeps his word and makes up for it, even if the mess up wasn’t too bad.

with ushijima, i feel like he messes up lines on the regular, and when he realizes he messed up, he’d curse and try to make a joke out of it. and to make it even better, he says it all with a straight face and still in character so sometimes it doesn’t even register that it’s not his line until he starts to crack a stupid smile. “i only have three lines, how the f*ck did i mess that up? sorry, let’s run it again, my bad guys.” and he does look apologetic but he’s also chuckling and making dumb faces at the camera to try to lighten the mood. every time he messes up, tendo, semi and goshiki absolutely lose it because they just can’t comprehend how he can say things that are so unlike his character but make them work. in the blooper reel, they show all of those types of mess ups one after the other, and there’s a counter to keep track of how many times he says f*ck(ing). (hint: it’s 22 times).

omg omg anon i love your additions pls ushijima swearing why do i love that so much ??? and absolute sweetie actor iwa just <33 literally can’t get actor au out of my head !! ty for this, i hope you’re having a wonderful day <33

anyways, a few additions :

iwa sends a message at the end of the day (usually about a paragraph or so long) to the cast and cast + crew groupchats for the times he’s made a mistake during filming ; everyone finds it super endearing.

for some reason i also imagine iwa going through his lines and just muttering a quiet “that’s kinda mean” when he read that he has to call oikawa ‘crappykawa’ ; mattsun has a video of it and posts it on all his social media...it goes viral immediately.

everybody just smiles whenever iwa messes up a line because they’re aware of how absolutely adorable he is when he’s flustered, literally no one minds if they have to do the scene a couple more times.

as for ushi, i like to think he’s really different from his character that the first time he missed his cue is because he was busy trying to keep a neutral face and reminding himself to be as calm and stoic as possible that it doesn’t register that everyone’s waiting for him to say his line.

as for the swear counter, all of the cast and crew placed bets on how many times ushi was going to swear throughout the season. hinata was way too far off with 54, so was ukai with 6, semi and reon were almost there with 19 and 21 respectively. akaashi just gave a random number and got extremely lucky bec he got it exactly right with 22. and they were never even in the same scene ?!?!?

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[ellewords]

also haikyuu would definitely win a crap ton of tv show awards

the best supporting actor trophy almost always goes to a haikyuu actor, and it changes by the season

oikawa receives the trophy for s1, and true to his character, he manages to slip in the fact in every interview

“oikawa-san! what’s your favourite bts moment?”

“there was this one time i accidentally hit iwa with my best supporting actor trophy. fun times.”

oh they definitely would and omg oikawa bragging about his award every chance he gets,,,, i love him i really do 🤧

anyways quick awards hcs :

dominates writing + acting awards every year, literally no one is surprised that they’re nominated ; it’s expected

kags and hinata are almost always nominated for lead actor for different award giving bodies and they have a little playful rivalry because of it ; each of them have won once and they’re really trying to break that tie.

they always win best ensemble, no questions asked. it would be a genuine shock if they didn’t.

even though everyone expects them to win this, literally no one in the cast has a speech prepared and the first ten seconds is them just passing the mic around. much to the delight of the crowd and the annoyance of the people who run the show.

oikawa’s speech was surprisingly quick when he won, very lighthearted and fun. but when he got backstage and really felt the award in his hand, and the feeling of actually winning sinks in, he lets a few tears slip out 🥺

kuroo probs got nominated for supporting in s2, tsukki and ushi for s3, and kita and tsumu for s4

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[ellewords]

OH MY FOR THE ACTOR HQ AU I MEAN

imagine the fans’ surprise when the cast does one of those “do you know this slang?” videos and ushijima’s the one who gets the most correct answers like

“periodt? it means ok, in a good way. like that outfit! periodt.”

tendou laughs whenever ushijima gets one correct bc he KNOWS the fandom will go feral like are you sure??? he plays ushijima????

ushi omg :<< pls imagine ushi saying all that in character,,, like this disconnect ????? how is that man even real... this feels so weird.

anyways a little more of my thoughts on those slang videos,

ushi immediately knows what the answer is but he wants to give his castmates a fighting chance at winning the game so he stays quiet.

unfortunately, it’s very rare that the rest of the cast actually knows the meaning and all of them are just usually very confused ( “tea? like the one we drink? would spilling it mean it’s bad? or is it one of those instances that it’s good?” “getting bread? wouldn’t that just mean you’re hungry?”)

for all the times they spend on the internet, they sure suck at games like this, “can’t you just ask us to play volleyball? we’ll even do it in these really uncomfy suits 😩”

everyone just ends up side-eyeing each other before quietly turning to ushijima for the answer lmao

i cannot get the thought of ushijima saying periodt out of my mind :<<

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[ellewords]

Let’s say that those types of questions become more and more common after/during season two’s run because Yachi is new and much more susceptible to feeling like she has to answer when she’s alone, so the Karasuno first years suggest they do a promotional photo shoot for season three where all of the boys wear super provocative, feminine things that Yachi and Kiyoko have been asked to wear during multiple interviews or online while Yachi herself wears the most attractive, flattering but not overly sexual suit anyone has ever seen.

Every photo has Yachi in it as the main focus, and the boys cycle through as her eye-candy in the stereotypical doting, support female lead poses. There are some jokey ones of Hinata in the bunny girl costume and Tsukishima in a maid outfit, but there are also serious ones of Kageyama and Yamaguchi in pretty, but revealing dresses as Yachi stands in the forefront posing in a way that most men had been posed to show how powerful and confident they were. Kiyoko and the second and third years do a similar photo shoot to promote the fourth season, and it turns out just as amazing as the first year shoot. After both of the photo shoot releases, interviewers ask about what the meaning of the shoot was, and some of them try to spin it to mean something sexist. When they do, the boys tend to wait to see how the girls are going to react because they don’t want to speak over them.

When any of the boys interview with Yachi, she tends to get flustered at first, so she often gives them permission to speak up about how shitty the industry can be for making women feel inferior to men before she grows more confident seeing their support for her. Then she’ll take over and set the interviewer and anyone that agrees with the industry in their place.

Kiyoko tends to plainly explain to the interviewer why they did the shoot in a tone that is polite and warm but is also meant to highlight how absolutely stupid they sound asking her questions like she isn’t going to say something about how messed up it all is and then she’ll ease up just a bit and allow the boys to speak as well but really they just reiterate what she says and talk about it from the perspective of someone who benefits from it but wants to change it.

If any of the interviewers try to argue in favor of the industry, they get blacklisted from being allowed to do interviews with the cast again.

And though the other school casts don’t do an official photo shoot, a ton of the cast posts photos of them dressed accordingly on their socials in solidarity. (Saeko in a suit goes viral in under ten minutes, and she loves to tease Oikawa about it because his photo of himself in a replica of one of her dresses only goes viral in thirty minutes)

hold on i really love this idea anon !! putting my thoughts underneath the cut bec i have quite a bit of them and i also go on a very quick tangent/rant about sexism in the entertainment industry ;-;

okay so first of all i’m going to get my quick rant out of the way first so if you don’t wanna read my ramble then proceed to the next part, won’t hold it against you, i just need to get my feelings out bec i feel very strongly about this—- anyways, it stresses me out so much how rampant blatant sexism is in the entertainment industry. like during press interviews alone, women are almost always asked more about their looks, who they’re dating, what they’re wearing, etc. but there’s usually never any much of that for men : they get questions on how they get into character, what they think about the story. sure they get asked about the trivial stuff that women do but it’s not always at the forefront, usually just as an aside to their body of work. while the reverse applies to women. it’s really so ingrained in the institution/ industry that no matter how many times they’re called out for it,,, nothing changes??? and i know it’s the absolute bare minimum but it’s nice to see male actors speak up in solidarity for their female costars and even nicer when they let them take the lead and not talk over them (which is why i love your addition of the hq boys waiting to see how the girls react bec they don’t want to speak over them). okay rant over idk if what i said made any sense it’s really a word dump of feelings rather than like an actual essay or something

anyways :

that photoshoot : i would love to see it !! they would all look so so good 😩 i also like to think that they organized the shoot themselves instead of like hiring people or a studio for them. they’ll get somebody else from the cast to take the photos, find their own looks or costumes, locations, etc. i feel like it’s a project that’s quite close to all of their hearts so they want to be the ones to take the reigns — esp. yachi and kiyoko who have most, if not all, of the creative control.

during interviews wherein yachi lets the boys call out interviewers and just the industry in general : i feel like tsukishima would be the most visibly angry or frustrated, like a scowl just immediately forms as soon as the question / statement is asked / said ; gets quite fired up. kags on the other hand isn’t as visibly angry, his cool demeanor is kept, but you could hear it in his tone that he’s pissed. yams and hinata are a lot more passive aggressive, expect tons of eye rolls, raised brows, and ‘are you being serious right now’ looks.

but when yachi gets past the initial nervousness and flusteredness, damn. the boys take a backseat just watch her in complete awe and admiration. she’s very well spoken, keeps her voice as calm and as collected as possible while she explains the purpose of the photoshoot and her thoughts on the industry as a whole. never raises her voice, or gets too riled up. you could take what she said word for word and submit it as an essay honestly. same applies with kiyoko.

the cast never forgets. if the interviewers apologize, they’ll forgive and let it go for as long as they learned. but if they do it again, or insist that nothing is wrong—- yeah, no more for them.

also i see your oikawa and saeko and i agree, but i would also like to offer : the haiba siblings and the miya twins 😳

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