#assisfriedkin

[urlocallesbiab]

Fandom: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (TV 2016)

Relationship: Michael Assistent/Hugo Friedkin

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Words: 1,291; Chapters: 1/1

Tags: Screenplay/Script Format, Strangers to Lovers, specifically, Coworkers to Friends to Lovers, Vignette, Fluff, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, (imagine if instead of ken it was michael who read the files + took over)

Summary:

Preserved fragments of the Season 2 script from another universe, where things went a little bit differently. Supervisor Hugo Friedkin starts relying on Lieutenant Michael Assistent's help in performing his role as the leader — then, starts relying on him as a person.

Additional notes:

WHA-A-A-AT'S UP, ASSISFRIEDKIN NATION!! RISE UP 🙌

[generalized-incompetence]

“You have, like, books here, right?”

Myrtle, the librarian, looks up from her desk, at the library, where she has been finalizing a new order of library books. 

“Yes,” she says. “We do.”

Read on AO3 here

“Oh!” says the man with a relieved smile. “Great.”

Myrtle eyes him over the stacks of books and notepads on her desk. She has been a librarian for nearly four decades, and she’s seen all sorts, though she can’t recall anyone ever asking this particular question. The man in front of the desk is… hm. Muscular is the best word she can think of, though she would have more choice adjectives if she was a few decades younger and/or inclined in that direction. Chiseled, perhaps. Blonde, predictably, with the sort of haircut that had been popular on Ken dolls, back in the day (do they still have Ken dolls? Barbie has certainly traveled; she’d heard something about a breakup?). His smile is pleasant enough, though somewhat vacant, and judging by his question, this might be the first library he’s entered in his life.

But, librarians didn’t judge - not books by their cover, and not patrons by their questions - so she shifts away from her computer and says, “Can I help you find anything in particular?”

“Oh!” says the man, brightening at the offer of help. “The thing is, this guy Mike? He’s, like, really smart? And I’m not? So I thought, maybe, if I read some books and stuff, he might like me more?”

He looks so hopeful that Myrtle doesn’t have the heart to tell him that changing oneself is rarely worthwhile, and that his best hope with this “Mike” likely involves who he is now. The man misinterprets her silence and blunders forth with, “Not like like, obviously. Just as, um. Is there a word for, like, people who hang out all the time, and talk a lot, and think the other person is really smart and cool and funny and just make each other, um, I guess. Happy?”

Myrtle raises an eyebrow. “...Friends?” she says.

“Yeah!” says the man with the biggest smile yet. “Yeah. Friends.”

Myrtle has always considered her duties as a librarian to extend past the books and towards the well-being of her patrons, but she feels this man may need more help than she is able to provide. “What kind of books does this Michael enjoy?” she asks. “Any subjects he’s interested in?”

“Aliens,” says the man instantly.

“Aliens?” says Myrtle.

The man nods enthusiastically. “He knows everything about them,” he says. “Like, all the stuff the government’s been covering up - he got access, or I guess I gave him access, and he says it’s just what he thought the whole time and people are super not paying attention. And then he said a bunch of science things that sounded really smart. So maybe if you have some books that could, um, explain that?”

“You’re looking for,” says Myrtle slowly, “scientific books about aliens?”

“Yeah!” says the man.

Myrtle takes off her glasses, polishes them on her sweater, and puts them back on. “I’ll… see what I can do,” she says.

“Oh! One more thing,” says the man. “Sorry, I know you’re a librarian and everything, but reading, like, kinda sucks? So if there’s any books you have that you, like, don’t have to read to get smart - could you find those?”

Ah, she thinks. Thoughts of UFOs fly out of her head as she recalibrates her illicit judgments. There are reasons she is a librarian, and this man is one of them. She is suddenly and overwhelmingly grateful that this man has chosen this library, on this day, to walk in and present her with an opportunity to unlock literature, outside the written word.

“Have you ever tried,” she says, “audiobooks?”

An hour and a half later, she has loaded the man down with several audiobooks; a stack of graphic novels; links to browser extensions for changing font size/spacing and rendering text to speech; and, of course, a brand-new library card. 

“Now, these are all just starting places,” she says, methodically scanning out each graphic novel in turn. “If any of them don’t work for you, you don’t need to push it. But if it does work, then you feel free to come back and ask me for more, alright?”

The man, who, to his credit, did not flee when she went Full Librarian, swallows. “I - I guess,” he says. “But, I mean. Are you sure? Like, this isn’t really reading, right? Picture books are for babies.”

“These aren’t picture books,” she says snippily. “They’re graphic novels. It’s a perfectly legitimate form of literature, and if anyone gives you a hard time, you send them straight to me.”

He pulls the closest book towards him and flips through the pages, lingering over some of the more vivid illustrations. She’s had this conversation so many times she could have it in her sleep, but it still breaks her heart a little, to think a little thing like formatting has stood in his way for so long. 

“We’ve only had writing for about five thousand years,” she tells him, “but we’ve always had stories. True purists should still be sitting around a fire carrying on the oral tradition. There are plenty of ways to read that don’t involve words on a page.”

“Huh,” says the man, staring at a full-page spread of a detailed spaceship. “That’s - that’s kinda cool.”

“It certainly is,” says Myrtle. She finishes checking him out and slides the rest of the books and resources across the desk. “Good luck with your Michael,” she says, looking him straight in the eye. “And everything else.”

“Thanks!” he says with a bright smile. “You know, I always thought libraries sucked? But you don’t suck at all.”

Myrtle refrains from a sigh. “Thank you,” she says instead, and waves him out.

—

She thinks of him a few times over the next couple weeks. She doesn’t seriously expect to see him again; there are return bins outside, and her shifts are fairly irregular. But roughly three weeks later, she looks up and there he is, with a slight, nervous-looking man in tow.

“Hey, it’s you again!” says the man with an oversized wave. “Mike, this is the nice librarian lady who gave me all those, um, graphic novels. Hey, librarian lady, those links you gave me were so cool! I never knew there were all those things that would read emails and stuff to you, so you don’t have to read them at all!”

Myrtle does try to remain somewhat detached, but she can’t help but feel warmed by this outcome. Even better, Mike responds to this speech with a fond smile, first in the man’s direction and then in hers. “Thank you,” he says. “That was, um. Overdue, I think.”

“Oh, no, I turned all the books in on the day they said!” says the man quickly. “No library fines here!”

Mike laughs and pats the man’s arm. “Come on,” he says. “Didn’t you want to look for the Predator sequels?”

“Yes,” says the man, and tows Mike inside. Myrtle watches them go, still feeling like a job well done. Maybe she needs a new slogan, she thinks. Libraries: We don’t suck at all! She snorts and shakes her head. She’ll work on it. She has plenty more patrons to practice on.

[urlocallesbiab]

tags via @generalized-incompetence :

#i appreciate all these answers and love the hugo hcs spreading but i am absolutely losing it over the 13 in 1 shampoo

#he's like "more is better right?? save time AND money!!" and mike is like "sometimes... less... is more..."

#and hugo is like "hm no i don't think that's how math works aren't you supposed to be the smart one?"

#the queer eye team showing up to hugo's house and going into cardiac arrest over his attempted time saving products

#(it's uhhh cheer up buttercup reread time)

#poor hugo he is trying

unathorized cheer up buttercup sequel (kidding, i wouldn't use sherlock's idea for fic without asking them first; also i just wouldn't be able to pull that fic off to begin with) where mike shows up, confused about the chaotic war zone of bath goods that is their shop and in desperate need of assistance, and hugo needs to learn to Actually tell the products apart to help him, and slowly but surely they bond and grow

(mike immediately gets a puppy crush on the universally beloved bath goods psychic dirk, who mentally goes "Excuse?? i have a boyfriend (who is lovely and perfect and wonderful) already!!" but verbally doesn't know what to do because mike doesn't quite flirt as much as just stare wistfully at him, so dirk just starts randomly exchanging shifts with other workers in order to avoid him, and mike ends up running into hugo the most; que mike going "why is every man is this store so fucking hot, and WHY is every single one of them either taken or straight!!", and hugo having a sexuality crisis)

(not using the special characters bc its a pain in the ass to copy them on the app) old age hc for dirk, quirks/hobbies for todd, bedroom and appearance hcs for character(s) of your choosing who isn't dirk, todd, farah or amanda, please?

�� -. old age/aging headcanon (Dirk)

hes pretty insecure about it. i hc him to be slightly older than todd (not drastically like 36 to todds 33) but hes the oldest of the agency and due to having his childhood wasted (and the first years out of blackwing he was just trying to function in the world again) he feels like a lot of life was wasted and hes very aware of it overtime hes a lot more at peace with his age now he has friends/family

♦ - quirks/hobbies headcanon (Todd)

he likes to collect things- usually cds of obscure bands and also his growing collection of clocks (he just finds them neat) he also stitches and sews (he had to make his cool guy jacket somehow)- when he gets into his stride (its quite rhythmic) he finds it very relaxing (even if he pricks his finger a bunch)

■ -  Bedroom/house/living quarters headcanon (Mike)

in his childhood he was pretty ignored by his parents so he filled his bedroom with x-files merch and various other shows/movies with aliens and/or conspiracy theories in blackwing (assuming he has living quarters there) he dials it way back cause blackwing uses shit against you (regardless if youre a project) plus i doubt blackwing lets you personalise your room all that much even if you work there

☼ - appearance headcanon (Hugo)

he uses this

thanks for the ask!

headcanon asks

[urlocallesbiab]

it is the devil's trap to spend more time than is necessarily wise on analysing character motivations, proposing various theoritical models of their inner worlds & considering which directions the plot could go in post-canon and which themes it could develop, and i have totally fucking fallen for it. now, having spent too much time on both the babygirlification of hugo friedkin and tinkering with s3 possibilities and headcanons, i am lost as how to being explaining to others the occult knowledge of hugo friedkin/michael assistent being fated lovers and literally perfect for each other, or mona wilder & farah black being best friends forever and impeccable foils to each other. i have dug for myself the rabbit hole/grave of obscure headcanons and rareships, and now must lie in it.

[urlocallesbiab]

folks does anyone else have issues with tumblr randomly rolling drafts back to their previous iterations? i have this stupid huge post that ive been nibbing at for like a month, and today i've discovered that tumblr recided to reduce it back to the title and a single paragraph form in which it has initially existed. it's not a horrible loss bc i've managed to access most of the text from an old tab that sat unupdated for some time (and 99% of it is just resources i've gathered from across various discord chats and tumblr tags, not original writing), but also now i'm unsure if i should compose posts directly on tumblr, because what if it eats everything again? i got lucky this time but i can't be sure it won't happen again :(

[urlocallesbiab]

this fandom needs more weird and niche rareships. assisfriedkin, farona, mona/hugo, priest/adams, brotzman/estevez fans RISE UP i love eeeeevery single one of all so madly

honestly sound off your rareships in the notes i wanna see what yall got

oh and bonus round: people who hadn’t interacted once in canon but absolutely should've been friends (i will preemtpively mention tina & mona from kp's coffeshop au, tina & panto from i think that one conversation we had once, and bart & assistent from electricteatime's fic i havent yet read but heard a lot about)

[urlocallesbiab]

rewatching assistent-related bits & pieces of s2ep10 for the purposes of keeping my facts straight in a dubious assisfriedkin au and god, michael assistent really is a loser, an asshole and a coward. *dreamily* can't believe i'm in love with the guy [genuine]

he evokes Such strong blorbo feelings in me, i wish to squeeze him until his eyes pop out [affectionate]

[urlocallesbiab]

damn i really miss making moodboards / asthetic collages.... i feel like i should try again but i don't have any Good Ideas maybe just something for an obscure ship/character interaction? assisfriedkin moodboard? farona? idk im just thinking out loud could've very easily noy posted this but i'm Manifesting actually doing something about my creative desires

[urlocallesbiab]

TELL ME ABOUT ASSISFRIEDKIN!!! I assume it’s friedkin and lt assistent?

yeag themst! i was promising myself i would someday make a Proper post (and even kept a similar ask as a reminder for myself, sorry i never got back to you tumblr user dykebarbie, i SEE U and APPRECIATE YOU), but i just never have enough energy/motivation for that (maybe i should've changed my blog name lmao, but also i love assisfriedkin :3), SO. instead.

i'll hand you this mcfucking google doc that was meant to be a collection of resources for me to make a post from. tysm for asking, genuinely, and have fun!

also if im bothered enough times there's a chance ill finish the outline for that au where friedkin is replaced with an alternative friedkin from a timeline where he wasn't a bad guy (i call that alt!hugo au), and that makes both him and mike have soooo many kinds of existential crises <3

oh also both kp (@generalized-incompetence) and phoebe (@clockworkcheetah) have assisfriedkin headcanons — guys, would you mind sharing, or adding screenshots/links of old stuff?

also kp i beg of you to link that library fic of yours, i love it so so much :3 :3 :3 my fac thingie, my comfort read!!

[urlocallesbiab]

thank you so much for the links!! my beloved works for my beloved ship from my beloved author ✨ and for the shout-out too 🥰

also here's an active link to the doc, it was silly of me to just paste it as text

TELL ME ABOUT ASSISFRIEDKIN!!! I assume it’s friedkin and lt assistent?

yeag themst! i was promising myself i would someday make a Proper most (and even kept a similar ask as a reminder for myself, sorry i never got back to you tumblr user dykebarbie, i SEE U and APPRECIATE YOU), but i just never have enough energy/motivation for that (maybe i should've changed my blog name lmao, but also i love assisfriedkin :3), SO. instead.

i'll hand you this mcfucking google doc that was meant to be a collection of resources for me to make a post from. tysm for asking, genuinely, and have fun! https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rLpDet6hLlWWxq4c9NIe63BZ5KdCcUfNw5QOkcGt33U/edit?usp=drivesdk

also if im bothered enough times there's a chance ill finish the outline for that au where friedkin is replaced with an alternative friedkin from a timeline where he wasn't a bad guy (i call that alt!hugo au), and that makes both him and mike have soooo many kinds of existential crises <3

oh also both kp (@generalized-incompetence) and phoebe (@clockworkcheetah) have assisfriedkin hcs — guys, would you mind sharing, or adding screenshots/links of old stuff?

also kp i beg of you to link that library fic of yours, i love it so so much :3 :3 :3 my fac thingie, my comfort read!!

[urlocallesbiab]

OHHH and it's another parallel between brotzly and assisfriedkin! well, specifically unhinged au assisfriedkin with parallel-world-hugo where characterization for both him and mike is so convoluted, strange and painful it's really only tangentially related to canon — but i have a real soft spot for that au so eh, bear with me. there, too, hugo never hides his unrequited hopeless genuine love, because it's impossible and pointless to hide. it shines, openly, desperately, like a beacon in the night.

(but also a fixture of that au is this love slowly, very slowly morphing into resentment, until hugo snaps and admits that ugly feeling both to himself and mike, and only then he realizes how fucking wrong that is and snaps out of it, and only then they're finally able to connect as people: not fully cut off from the legacies of their other selves, but finally not overshadowed and crushed by them either, finally able to see each other)

i guess i have Feelings about characters being in such boundless love it becomes desperation, which in turn becomes honesty.

lately, nearly everything i write or think about, in terms of media, comes back to themes of lies and honesty. which kinda makes sense, given what kind of person i am? ah, i guess you never really stop being 14 after all

im so glad ive got back into mp100 and Majorly into serirei bc the many similarities between them and brotzly really highlight the differences and help me appreciate smaller things abt brotzly that previously were overshadowed by Main Narratival Points

like now i'm noticing that a thing i really love about their dynamic, a thing i keep coming back to in my fantasies/snippets/aus, is how desperate dirk is for todd. how he wears his heart on his sleeve, has no qualms about stating his feelings directly — ALL THE WHILE being a compulsive liar who struggles with telling truth!! my boy contains multitudes — though wait, wait, that's exactly why it hits!! it's so hard for him to tell the truth, even to todd whom he probably trusts more than anyone ever, and yet his love is fully direct and open, because it's so large it's uncontainable, it's bursting out of him, flowing out like a faucet smashed open; love so powerful and world-shaking it's impossible to hide, so he never hides it. when a liar, a coward, a cat-got-his-tongue, to whom truth is like a blade over his neck, when a man like this says "we're meant to know each other!", "i need your help. will you help me?", "you're my best friend", when he says "i need you, i need you, i need you", "i love you" — that's a love the likes of which the earth has never seen before.

[urlocallesbiab]

tags via @generalized-incompetence:

#VIKA I AM THINKING ABOUT IT

#VIKA I TRIED TO WRITE YOU AN ASSISFRIEDKIN AND IT TURNED INTO A SOAPBOX ABOUT UNDIAGNOSED DYSLEXIA

KP I WONT KNOW A SEMBLANCE OF PEACE ON THIS EARTH UNTIL I HAVE READ THAT FIC.

#VIKA I HAVE BEEN THINKING ABOUT TINA FOR ALMPST TWO YEARS

THE TRAGEDY!!! AND THE HEALING!!!!

#CHARACTERS THAT DESERVED BETTER

amen!!!!

anyone else tonight thinking about hugo friedkin's undiagnosed adhd?

[urlocallesbiab]

yes yes yes same hugo hcs for all 3 of us!! :D

slipping through the cracks of a system too large for him...

honestly i think i'll use that as an excuse to repost our mike and hugo hcs from the groupchat bc the world needs to be subjected to the assisfriedkin agenda

(please tell me if you mind, though!)

@generalized-incompetence:

I HAVE MORE (these are all up for discussion I'm just throwing things at the assisfriedkin bulletin board):

- Hugo is from a huge family (something like 7-12 kids, he's not really sure, cousins and neighbors got mixed up and his parents never gave him a straight answer) but he got generally lost in the shuffle and when he shows up with his new boyfriend it is a complete non event.

- Mike is an only child and somewhat of an accident; his parents pretty much ignored him growing up despite his efforts to join every club and league in school. He is envious of Hugo's giant, rowdy, vaguely loving family and manages to learn all their names, even the cousins. It is however very exhausting when he actually meets them and they end up just doing holidays by themselves most of the time.

clockworkcheetah:

i have similar family hcs. i think mike was a bit ignored growing up and he took that a fair bit into adulthood

urlocallesbiab:

learned to make a ghost out of himself

clockworkcheetah:

more or less- im p sure the only people he interacted with are hugo and dirk (might be wrong there tho)

urlocallesbiab:

i like these family hcs bc they tie in nicely into the whole "so different and yet the same" deal

bc when one's family is huge its easy to fall through the cracks; and sure hugo's family loves him but they've got only so much time in their day, and he never gets the attention and support he needs, no psych evaluation no accommodations, and eventually fucks off into military service because that's the only thing he's good for

and mike has every door open to him but none of them matter when he comes home to someone who barely lifts their eyes up from their book to say hello

one's parents are so full of love they give it out left and right; the other's can't muster enough for a single child. and yet the end result is quite similar

(not using the special characters bc its a pain in the ass to copy them on the app) old age hc for dirk, quirks/hobbies for todd, bedroom and appearance hcs for character(s) of your choosing who isn't dirk, todd, farah or amanda, please?

∇ -. old age/aging headcanon (Dirk)

hes pretty insecure about it. i hc him to be slightly older than todd (not drastically like 36 to todds 33) but hes the oldest of the agency and due to having his childhood wasted (and the first years out of blackwing he was just trying to function in the world again) he feels like a lot of life was wasted and hes very aware of itovertime hes a lot more at peace with his age now he has friends/family

♦ - quirks/hobbies headcanon (Todd)

he likes to collect things- usually cds of obscure bands and also his growing collection of clocks (he just finds them neat)he also stitches and sews (he had to make his cool guy jacket somehow)- when he gets into his stride (its quite rhythmic) he finds it very relaxing (even if he pricks his finger a bunch)

■ -  Bedroom/house/living quarters headcanon (Mike)

in his childhood he was pretty ignored by his parents so he filled his bedroom with x-files merch and various other shows/movies with aliens and/or conspiracy theoriesin blackwing (assuming he has living quarters there) he dials it way back cause blackwing uses shit against you (regardless if youre a project) plus i doubt blackwing lets you personalise your room all that much even if you work there

☼ - appearance headcanon (Hugo)

he uses this

thanks for the ask!

headcanon asks

[generalized-incompetence]

HIGHLY recommend Vika's doc - I think most of my headcanons are in there! In short I think they're both starving for love and acceptance, and Mike could get a lot from Hugo's unwavering nonjudgmental support while Hugo could get a lot from literally one single person believing in him. Also shoutout to this from the doc:

friedkin's Coolness Ranking System probably includes such things as guns, especially machine guns, and giant robots, and big cats, and extinct megafauna, and explosions, but you know what could easily take the crown as The Coolest? aliens. nothing is cooler than aliens.

Here's a couple short fics from me:

Libraries: They Don't Suck! - Hugo goes to the library in an attempt to impress Mike, but comes back with something much more valuable

Planetary Rotation Eve - When Michael's aliens finally arrive, he goes to Hugo for help - and ends up celebrating New Year's in unexpected new ways.

TELL ME ABOUT ASSISFRIEDKIN!!! I assume it’s friedkin and lt assistent?

yeag themst! i was promising myself i would someday make a Proper most (and even kept a similar ask as a reminder for myself, sorry i never got back to you tumblr user dykebarbie, i SEE U and APPRECIATE YOU), but i just never have enough energy/motivation for that (maybe i should've changed my blog name lmao, but also i love assisfriedkin :3), SO. instead.

i'll hand you this mcfucking google doc that was meant to be a collection of resources for me to make a post from. tysm for asking, genuinely, and have fun! https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rLpDet6hLlWWxq4c9NIe63BZ5KdCcUfNw5QOkcGt33U/edit?usp=drivesdk

also if im bothered enough times there's a chance ill finish the outline for that au where friedkin is replaced with an alternative friedkin from a timeline where he wasn't a bad guy (i call that alt!hugo au), and that makes both him and mike have soooo many kinds of existential crises <3

oh also both kp (@generalized-incompetence) and phoebe (@clockworkcheetah) have assisfriedkin hcs — guys, would you mind sharing, or adding screenshots/links of old stuff?

also kp i beg of you to link that library fic of yours, i love it so so much :3 :3 :3 my fac thingie, my comfort read!!

[urlocallesbiab]

tags via @generalized-incompetence:

#how did you post this on the day the assisfriedkin brainrot consumed me again

#my one rarepair offering is amanda and litzibitz but i have a million friendship pairings

#they're animated children's show characters to me and i am writing only filler episodes

#farah and estevez i think we've established but i haven't seen much fic about it (thanks kate though!!!)

#lydia and literally anyone. lydia and tina: shenanigans. lydia and farson: two children who tried to suceed where the adults failed. lydia #and mona: she just thinks mona's neat. lydia and hobbs: the father she never had.

#zimmerfield and wygar

#farson and francis!!! i feel like farson was a little bit of a francis stand in

#tina and panto and i also wanna say tina and panto's mom

#i feel like she would shock and appall panto's mom by like forcibly redecorating but eventually they would be wine friends

(this got way too long for prev-tagging it)

amanda and litzibitz!!! who knows maybe if amanda stayed in wendimoor to study extra magic..... maybe litzi would've snuck out to meet the mysterious witchacookoo... maybe farson would've introduced them! i think they would get along great, they're both very fierce young women willing to risk themselves / whats important to them if it means keeping people safe, burdened both by responsibility (the wise witch of her realm/the princess of her people) and by limited power to fulfill it (not enough control over her magic / over her father's decicions). what is shipping if not picking two characters with similar and/or compatible trauma and shoving them together! also given that i solidly hc manda as aromantic (and also bi and polyam but i digress) that makes me think what if litzi also was aromantic? 1 give it up for hot sapphic sex and friendship, 2 it's kinda funny to me to imagine litzibitz being on the fence abt her brother's relationship partially bc she just doesn't get why would he go that far for the sake of romance

LYDIA AND FARSON!!!! you're a teenager. your single parent has been keeping secrets from you. there's a feud that's been going on for years. you go out to meet up with the enemy: you want truth, you want peace, you want closure. it doesn't go well. you're kidnapped; your older sibling gets in trouble over it. your little stunt gets people killed. your body is changed in a way that's perfectly physically reversible but irreversibly traumatizes you. in the end, all is well, the day is saved and the problem is solved, but. you've gotten people killed. what's now, little heir?

in honor of tina & panto i tried to find more hcs from that one convo but it turned out we didn't share any, we were just picking roles for an omgcp au 😭 but anyway!! these two would get up to So Many shenanigans i know it. neither panto nor tina don't really need any more enabling as it is, but they'd absolutely enable each others and the amounts of bullshit would be Gorgeous. tina would hype him up bc she's a huge fan of hot people with weapons ("you're almost as badass as my girlfriend!"), and panto would have genuine deep respect for her skillset, and it'd be an iconic friendship! chaos queers at large: beware.

also on the topic of that au role assignements, i can't believe i forgot tina/amanda!! now That's a rareship. in that specific situation the ship wasn't actually prompted by "what would happen if we removed farah from the equation?", but in general i think that The most funny/interesting character dynamics can be achieved through taking a triangle-like situation (whether romantic or platonic or familial or whatever or a mix) and removing the centerpoint character, shoving the other two directly together. tina/amanda. silas & bart. panto × ken. todd × mike. NOW we're talking NOW THAT'S something!!! anyway i think that the fact that tina and amanda have never met and probably barely even heard of each other is the only thing that stopped them from instantly bonding for life. two bisexual weed-smoking musical subcultre girls in their mid-to-late twenties with debilitating mental and/or physical health issues and complexes over their older brothers, previously choking to death on boredom in their small and depressing enviroments and now getting embroiled in a terrible but exciting adventure larger than them? that relationship is writing itself!! y'all've heard about tina/farah parallels, now give it up for tina/amanda parallels!!!

on topic of tina & panto's mom, i don't remember the trosts having a mother? iirc they only had the father, jeppum, and the dengdamors only had the mother, lady frija. please PLEASE tell me you've invented a wendimoor oc for panto's mother and if yes PLEASE tell me about it i LOVE your hcs and incorporating them into my worldview

this fandom needs more weird and niche rareships. assisfriedkin, farona, mona/hugo, priest/adams, brotzman/estevez fans RISE UP i love eeeeevery single one of all so madly

honestly sound off your rareships in the notes i wanna see what yall got

oh and bonus round: people who hadn’t interacted once in canon but absolutely should've been friends (i will preemtpively mention tina & mona from kp's coffeshop au, tina & panto from i think that one conversation we had once, and bart & assistent from electricteatime's fic i havent yet read but heard a lot about)