#cafe master dwight

[ylfva-remade]

if cafe master dwight doesnt give me a clover sweet ill kill us both

[thethethethethesomething]

isn’t home cooking just the best?

[hellmersy]

mini rants about my DBD survivor mains (plus the outfits I have for them) bc I have THOUGHTS AND FEELINGS. (Also sorry, ik I'm pretty much just talking about the same survivors over and over again but I'm like totally feral for them and will literally talk about them any chance I get)

Zarina Kassir: Despite being an overall good person Zarina does have a bit of a darker side to her. Her time spent undercover has affected her morals in some ways and by that I mean she has 100% killed someone before. We know from her lore that she had her Father's murderers arrested and convicted, but one time she went deep for an expo piece about a human trafficking ring and the things she witnessed in those two years changed her as a person. When all was said and done she lured the "ring master" back to his home, drugged him, set it ablaze and didn't look back. She talks with Tapp about cases that went wrong sometimes, about what they wish they had done right or better the first time, people they wish they could have saved. It's cathartic for them both in a way, nothing close to closure but something akin to it and for that she is greatfull.

David King: The reason it took David so long to come out is mostly due to the aristocratic brainwashing he has been fed since he was a child. When he came into the realm he was cold and distant but with time he became the protector, the person who fought for his friends even if it meant he died as a result. The lessons he had been taught from an early age told him that if he really was "one of those queers" then his value as a person would become non-existent and his friends and family would abandon him. His "friends" before the fog took him however, were basically tailor made to his parents expectations; All from other wealthy families, promising futures with good connections. Eventually he realized he wasn't a person to his family at all, he was a marketing campaign, a tool to expand their company further. He didn't know what to expect from these people that, despite him having died for multiple times, he still didn't truly trust, he didn't want them to be the same. So he never told them. Claudette was the first person to ask why he looked at Dwight like he was in love with him. David got defensive, then angry, then broke down sobbing. It was very dramatic. Claudette gives the best hugs for such a petite woman and he's eternally grateful for her friendship.

Mikaela Reid: Mikaela's debut to the arcane and witchcraft was a desperate attempt to contact her Father's spirit. She was 16 and alone, living in a shitty New England foster home that barely gave her the bare necessities and she just wanted to have a proper goodbye. She didn't get it... The Moonstone Cafe was her safe space, it was her salvation tucked into a little hole in the wall, but her Foster Parents had strict rules and harsh punishments that followed them. Starting her job at the Moonstone was the first good thing since her dad died, and was pretty much the only time she got out of the foster home aside from school. The second best thing was Julian, they met at one of the open mic storytelling nights and connected instantly, he was her muse and her best friend, he loved her and her stories and wanted only for her to thrive with the shit hand life dealt her. Now she mourns, because she can feel it in her soul that he's dead. The thing that took her ensured there would be no witnesses to it, and she hates it. Little does she know her hatred only makes it stronger...

Felix Richter: Felix often finds himself disassociating while not in a trial. All those years of thinking his parents were some part insane only to find out they were right all along, it broke something in him. His anxious ways are replaced by a catatonia that only Elodie can guide him out of and despite being in the realm for some time before she showed up he's only now starting to connect with others. Elodie is the one to tell him that his wife was pregnant the last she'd heard of her, that she was safe and mourning and starting to get her life back in order. This didn't exactly bring the sort of comfort that she'd hoped for.

SURVIVOR OUTFITS

Zarina Kassir 1: Asymmetrical Pink, Armored Undercover Jacket, White Denim.

Zarina Kassir 2: Easy Beanie, Convenient Jacket (Blue), Dark Denims (Teal).

Zarina Kassir 3: Defiant Shades, Leather Jacket (you only get this if you bought the chains of hate chapter, otherwise I also just use her default sometimes), Urban Cargo Pants.

David King 1: Trendy Specs (these are a rift cosmetic from Tome 11 so if you don't have them I recommend "Matinee Idol"), Dress Shirt & Suspenders, Dress Pants & Loafers.

David King 2: Golden Strands (these were a login reward during the 5th year anniversary. I think... If you don't have them I recommend "Hangover Style" 😉), Flashy Bartender, Distressed Denim (these two pieces were also part of the rift from tome 11).

David King 2.5: Stubborn Mug (or the "bloody David" headpiece if you have him at P6 after the prestige rework), Foggy Day Jacket, Cargo Trousers

David King 3: Hungover Haircut, Newsboy Vest, Checkered Past.

Mikaela Reid 1: Mystical Updo (headpiece from the current rift as of September 2022), Crescent Denim Jacket, Studded Shoes (leg piece from the current rift)

Mikaela Reid 2: Short Copper Curls, Golden Bangles (body piece from the current rift), Studded Shoes.

Mikaela Reid 3: Soft Round Crown Hat, Violet Off-Shoulder Top, Plum Thorn Tights & Shorts.

Felix Richter 1: Autumn Beard, Fashion Bomber, Business Trousers ( aka his default pants).

Felix Richter 2: Side Quiff, Designer Button-up, Boots & Blues.

Felix Richter 2.5: Charming Hair, Vested Design, Handsome Trousers (White)

Felix Richter 3: Post-Shower Hairstyle, Bowling Shirt, Ripped Midnight Jeans.

BONUS

The Huntress: Snow Ram Skull, Thick Hunters Coat, Wrapped Broad Axe.

The Artist: Inky Gaze, Nonconformist Dress, Mournful Blade (or Venous Blade).

The Trickster: Frosty Eyes, Polychrome Streetwear, Acute Head-Smasher.

The Legion: Atlas Flint Mask, Taped-Up Jumpsuit, Stealthy Blade.

The Hag: Ashen Locks, Molten Limbs, Calcified Talons.

The Pig: Reverse Bear Trap, Genuine Cool, Thorn's Kiss.

The Nurse: Dark Rose Gauze, Choking Corset, Lamenting Saw.

[diamondsandlemons]

I DID IT

I’LL NEVER HAVE TO TALK TO CAFE MASTERS DWIGHT, BERNARD, OR RICHARD EVER AGAIN

[cookiedoughmeagain]

Haven DVD Commentaries; 5.05 - The Old Switcheroo (Part I)

Notes on the commentary with Adam Copeland (Dwight), Adam Higgs (Writer), and Bian Millikin (Executive Story Editor). Officially this commentary is just with the two Adams, but Brian is there as well (setting up the equipment??) and joins in after a while. 

(It is possible I’ve mixed Brian and Adam Higgs up sometimes, sometimes all the different voices blur together a bit in my head. Adam Copeland’s is easier to separate because his is more familiar.)

AH: We’re going to give a shout out to Cindy McCreery and Scott Shepherd who wrote these two episodes (we’re just talking about 505 right now, but we’ll get to 506 in a bit), and they sadly couldn’t be with us today but we’re going to do our best. AC: This is very important to the Havenites; pancakes. And the fact that they are not enjoyed [by Mara] which is very strange because Audrey loves her pancakes, but Mara doesn’t. AH: Do you like pancakes? AC: I devour pancakes. Some call me the master of pancakes. Yeah I’m like Paul Bunyan. AH: What do you put in a pancake? AC: Well I usually just buy them because I would butcher it, and I know that going in.

AC: That is the Grey Gull. AH: And it’s a grey day. AC: Which in Nova Scotia is not necessarily that strange, but a beautiful place, one of my favourite places and favourite sets. I actually contemplated buying the Grey Gull because it’s for sale. But I think there’s no plumbing, or no toilet. AH: That would be a bit of a difficulty. AC: Yeah. So that was my reason for not buying the Grey Gull. What do you think about that Brian Millikin? BM: I think that was a smart investment move on your part. AC: That’s Brian Millikin, sitting in the rafters. AH: There’s Manteo. Who do we know who has ties to North Carolina? Brian Millikin, maybe you and Nick Parker (another illustrious writer on the show)? BM: I love the way North Carolina looks just like Nova Scotia. AH: Yes, we did not actually go to North Carolina to shoot these episodes. AC: If we had it would have been closer to my home in Ashville, so it would have been a lot easier for me. AH: We should have just shot at your house.

AC: Ah, Richard Donat, aka Vince Teagues, one of my favourite men that I’ve ever met. Such a quiet and strong presence on set. He pretty much just rocks. I’ve been told that’s what I will look like when I’m his age. AH: Maybe it’s time travel. You’re a younger version of Richard, sent from the past? Or the future? AC: Yeah. It could be the case. That could be a spoiler alert. *laughs all round* AC: OK. It’s not. But it could be! Who knows; Dwight Teagues. I just heard all your minds blowing out there, Havenites. AH: Well there is a lot in this season; we’ve got a lot of father/son dynamics between the two  of you. Maybe it could explain it. AC: It could explain all of it. AH: Both leaders of the Guard at different times. I’m just saying. AC: Yeah, the alpha male, banging of heads. We both have large craniums. You know, it could fit. AH: I like this theory.

AC: North Carolina was a nice change of pace, to take it out of Maine. AH: I haven’t been on the show very long, but Brian Millikin who has, and is still sitting in the rafters, how many times have we left Haven on the show? BM: I’m going to go ahead and say this is the second time ever. We went to Boston at the beginning of season four. AC: Brian was actually on a swing hanging from the rafters of the building, and he’s now hopped off so he’s back with us.

[As we see Vince and Dave switching bodies] AC: This is one of my favourite bits actually, because John Dunsworth (Dave) and Richard are just amazing, and I love them both. So to see them inhabit each other’s characters was fun. AH: And this was a nice episode too, because one of the things we wanted to do was give them a bit of a spotlight epsiode. We never get to spend as much time as we want to with the brothers Teagues and we decided, well let’s do it - let’s have them drive a plot and have fun with it.

[As Vince knocks his head on the doorframe in the cafe] AH: I love that gag. We had so much fun with the height thing when we were coming up with this episode. AC: But it makes total sense, that’s the great part of it. If you were that tall and suddenly you’re in a frame … you know because Richard is 6’3”, 240 pounds; he’s a huge man. And John is, not. [As Gloria comes up to talk to Vince in Dave’s body] AC: Ah, I love Jayne Eastwood, I love Gloria. This is a combination I’d been dying to see together, just because of the comedic talent involved. These two, they’re comedic … we’ll I’ll say legends, in Canada. Both so funny, so I was really looking forward to that short interaction. AH: And it’s been fun, it’s the miscommunications and it’s very much a farce kind of episode. Besides the murder and death. AC: Besides the choking and murdering and psychiatric wards, you know. AH: And this is not the first time we’ve been to the Freddy. I look again to Brian Millikin who has moved down from the rafters. BM: This is the first time since season one, episode three. AC: Wow, you are a fountain of Haven knowledge my friend. BM: I have been here since the very beginning. AC: A veritable fountain. BM: I’m going to cut in though for a second, I’ll say this much; as someone who has been here from the very beginning, the body swap idea for an episode is sort of the low-hanging fruit for any genre show, any supernatural show will eventually get there. And we always knew that we were going to have to do it at some point in time. People were asking, they asked at comic book conventions and they asked on twitter. They asked in the street. When are you going to do it? Primarily because of Duke and Nathan. They have history with each other, they’re both great characters, strong actors. It just made sense that they would have to switch places at some point. Especially because Nathan can’t feel anything. But we just needed a time, like we needed the story to make sense. We didn’t want to do it just to do it, we wanted there to be a reason, so it did feel like we were just doing the thing. Like, our groundhog day episode is another low-hanging fruit of a genre show but it felt like it really fit in the moment because of the story we were telling. So we were super-lucky that this one came into play. We knew that we were going to do this Vince and Dave road trip, but we needed to tie what they were doing to what was going on in Haven. And that’s where we started thinking, now we can do the body swap. And then, we didn’t want to just do Vince and Dave, we didn’t want to just do Nathan and Duke, we wanted to somehow work in Dwight. We were like, who do we do? We can’t do Mara, because she’s immune to the Troubles. So who else is there. And then we were like; oh my god. We now have Jayne Eastwood, we added her last year. So we were like; what if we swapped Dwight and Gloria? And as soon as that came out of someone’s mouth, our showrunners Matt and Gab were like, So we’re definitely doing that; we’re doing this episode, and that’s happening before the Nathan/Duke swap. And as soon as we landed on that, there was no turning back. [As we see the swapped Dwight and Gloria walk up to each other, Gloria checking out her new face in the mirror] AC: This was an interesting shot, because Eric Cayla our DP was on a handheld and had to whip around and follow me, so the timing on that was really interesting. BM: You were so good in this episode. AC: This was my favourite ad lib. AH: I love that. BM: So funny. AC: That was an ad lib, no one knew that I was going to grab my crotch, but thankfully they went down with me and I saw they went down and I thought; OK good, I hope they use that take. And they did. BM: Now, I heard a rumour, I don’t know if it’s true but as soon as we heard it we were like; I hope it’s true. Because we heard that you went back and watched episodes of Haven that she was in, to sort of learn her tricks. AC: I did. I watched all of her scenes. I tried to stand like her and pick up her mannerisms BM: You can tell. AH: Yeah, all those funny little touches. AC: The way that she’s just kind of over it. And her kind of sarcastic nature. But after watching her episodes, I tried to relate her to a male actor who I could then watch and see how a man would do it. BM: Such a good idea. AC: And so she was De Niro from Meet the Parents. BM: Yeah! AC: So then I watched Meet The Parents, and I watched how De Niro acted. And I tried to take her stance with hands on hips and slouched forward a little bit, and tried to maintain that posture throughout, which was … I did forget sometimes. But this was a lot of fun when I found out this was going to be happening. I knew the comedic potential on this. Which up until this point as Dwight, I haven’t really had the ability to show. BM: Yeah, a couple jokes but that’s it. AC: Yeah, so I was really looking forward to sinking my teeth into this because I don’t know if anyone really knew if I had comedy in me. And in WWE initially my character was all comedy. So it was nice to be able to dip back into that. [As Nathan is getting Mara out of the bronco] BM: Well look and even in the background of this shot right there [Adam in his hands on hips stance] AC: Yeah she would stand sometimes with her hands on her lower back, so I really just tried to watch everything that she would do. BM: Well, we just got such a kick out of watching it. Or even writing it. Because this was the only one where it was a gender swap also. And a real age swap. You know, Duke and Nathan are the same age. So, this was really going for it. And you crushed it. I remember when the dailies would come in and we would just pause what we were doing in the writing room and we would just put them up and watch them. We were just having so much fun with it. AC: Well it was interesting because Dwight as a character is kind of reserved and close to the vest, so it was more of a challenge for Jayne to figure out how to pull of Dwight. Because he’s not very over the top in anything that he does, and that was by design, that’s how I always tried to attack Dwight. So it was a big challenge for Jayne I think because Gloria’s character there’s so much to work with, there’s so much to play with. And with Vince and Dave there’s so much to play with. [On screen Vince is checking the wound on Dave’s leg] That was pretty nasty. Great job by the makeup department. It looked really gross that day too. I was like; that looks disgusting. [As Vince is answering Dave’s phone] Is that a Blackberry? AH: Well this is taking place in the past. What year is this actually in Brian Millikin? BM: This would be the year 2011, going on 2012. AC: OK. BM: Despite the fact that it aired in 2014. AH: And this is something we would constantly have to remind ourselves when we were writing the show, like - wait a minute it’s not 2014, it’s actually … And we’d just all look at Brian. BM: It’s a real problem in serialised TV shows. Like Lost, the first three years took place over 90 days. AC: Wow. And that’s always a challenge too from the performance aspect for the continuity. And also just in each show, because everything’s shot out of sequence. So you’re always questioning, what did we just come from? What did we just do? Why are we here? And that can be a huge thing to keep track of sometimes. And thankfully there’s people on it, as well as you’re supposed to be on it too. But, it can get lost sometimes.

AH: There’s a lot of little humour things, just Mara reading the “Me, Myself & I” schizophrenia brochure. I think in a lot of ways these are probably our most humorous episodes of the season, which was a lot of fun. We can be very grim and gritty some days and just to take a step back and come up with some of the little goofs and gags for what everyone can do once they’re swapped was a lot of fun. AC: Well yeah Haven can be a pretty heavy place, so when you can kind of lighten that weight a little bit it’s nice. [As we see Nathan talking to Audrey in the Freddy] This was a really interesting change for Emily. And you can just see the switch in her eyes which was really great. AH: Yeah credit to her acting there. AC: Because you knew instantly; something just happened. Just from the look in her eyes. AH: Yeah; that’s Audrey not Mara. Which is not an easy thing to do, and she pulled it off. And it became very complicated on the page when we were going, OK so these people are in different bodies but now this is Mara, but Audrey’s come to the surface. And trying to keep that whole piece together was interesting. Brian do you want to tell the story here? Or just give a little insight into the behind the scenes scriptwork that had to be done on the formatting of the scripts here. BM: Oh my gosh, well maybe it showed our level of inexperience with bodyswap episodes from other shows that have done them before; we probably should have looked at them. But one issue that we ran into was that it happened with so many different characters, you know a lot of shows it’ll just be Sam and Dean Winchester from Supernatural or whatever. But we eventually got hold of the Freaky Friday scripts, the original one way back when, just to see how they did it. Because the problem we ran into was that you couldn’t tell from reading the script who was who. We got the script in, and it was great, but at no point could you ever tell what character was saying what to whom or why. And so it was impossible. A script is like a blueprint and you need to be able to read it and know what you’re seeing on screen. And when the actors read it at a table read, they need to be able to know who is who. And it was impossible. Because, when it was you speaking in the scene right now Adam, it would have said Gloria then parentheses Dwight. And then you’re talking to Gloria parentheses Dwight. And it was just like; I don’t know what’s going on here. So we eventually had it just say Dwight in quotation marks. It was important for it to say who it is that you’re looking at, so that you [Adam] knew you’re still reading the Dwight dialogue but we’ve got these quotes around it so you know that’s not quite Dwight. AC: And what was interesting was, Gloria in Dwight’s body, she doesn’t have bad eyes but she instinctively goes to squint. So those were little things that Dwight’s not used to wearing glasses, so just all of those little things that we tried to add in. Gloria’s always so bemused which, I knew it would be so much fun to play her. And it was. BM: That’s amazing. We kind of didn’t know how far to go with some of the gags. Like with the bathroom gag. How much … would she check herself out? What are we doing here? What show are we working on? So I think we went too far and then pulled it back.

AH: I remember the table read for this was a lot of fun. AC: And it was interesting at the table read to see everyone take on the other character and to see the reaction from the other person watching their character and their mannerisms be recreated at this table read. It was actual fun to be a fly on the wall for it. AH: And I don’t know if we’re doing the bloopers this year but some of the stuff between takes were just as fun. Like; I do that? What are you doing? I do that?

[As Gloria in Dwight’s body is finishing up her milkshake] BM: We loved the idea that she was put into like, Captain America’s body. Like a super soldier so she can now just do whatever she wants. At one point we were she was going to be eating doughnuts and stuff in every scene. AH: Every single scene. AC: Thank you for not doing that to me. BM: Pizza. AH: Yeah it was just non stop. Burgers. AC: I think that was actually ice tea that I was slurping because I wanted to do a nice long exaggerated slurp on it. This was a lot of fun to do this episode, it really was. As we’ve talked about because it was such a departure from the norm. And I think a chance for the audience to just take a breath. AH: Yeah because it was about to get heavy. AC: Yeah and you kind of need that small gap to take a breath, reboot, get ready for… AH: And just have some fun with the characters. AC: Yeah. And see a different side of them too.

AH: Now I remember Brian, and fill me in if you recall this stuff too, but in the room we also played a lot with the distance between Haven and North Carolina. BM: Are you asking to insert an apology to people who live on the East coast? Because we make it seem like they can get around a lot faster. The distance between coastal Maine and the outer banks of North Carolina, that’s … you so could not do that in a single day. AC: I’ve driven it. And it’s not a fast drive. There was also debate about how to pronounce Manteo *tries out different possibilities* AH: That’s right. But we had experts in the room, thankfully. AC: Yeah. But there were a few takes where the wrong pronunciation still snuck in. AH: And the other one was Croatoan that we had in this episode as well. Where there was a pronunciation issue. BM: That’s right. It’s a pretty popular local legend down in that part of the world, that’s where I’m from. I had not know that it was … There was a lot of people working on the show who didn’t really know about it. AH: I had not heard about it. And I remember being in the room and everyone talking about it as if it was something everyone should know about. And I think I pretended for the first hour and then opened up the Wikipedia … Ah, I see. BM: We were shooting the last episode before this one, when Croatoan first gets named dropped, when Sleepy Hollow had an episode where they also dealt with it. They go to the lost colony and everything else, and we all slapped our foreheads because we thought we were so clever. So that was very upsetting.

[As Duke and Nathan are talking while Mara is asleep] AC: By the way; Lucas Bryant and those cheekbones. AH: *laughs* full stop. AC: I always bust his chops. AH: The fans love his cheekbones. AC: They do. You could … It’s like climbing a cliff, those cheekbones. Essentially my job, besides being Dwight, was trying to bust Lucas Bryant’s chops BM: It’s an important job. AC: It is, someone had to do it. AH: You guys’re from really close to each other, right? AC: Yeah, we … for the Americans we grew up about 20 miles apart. AH: That’s crazy. AC: Yeah. Unbeknownst to us. We didn’t know. So we obviously hit it off pretty quickly because we both watched Polka Dot Door growing up as a child. All the Canadians will be going whoop whoop. AH: Yeah, the Polka Dot Door! Polkaroo! AC: Polkaroo! *The two Adams start singing what I assume is the theme tune* AC: Casey and Finnegan. The Friendly Giant. The Friendly Giant made us both cry as a matter of fact. Being both sensitive souls, and creative souls as Lucas and I are, we cried during the music for The Friendly Giant. AH: I remember when he passed away, that was very sad. It was a great show. AC: Yeah. *another snippet of song*. There’s so many people right now going; What the hell is he talking about? While we’re on the subject i also loved the Hilarious House of Frankenstein. You’d like it Brian. AH: You would actually. That would be right up your alley. BM: You guys are speaking a different language. AC: Yes. It’s southern Ontarian. AH: Now you know how it feels when you mention Croatoan to a Canadian.

BM: I’m going to add one other comment here. Since we’re looking at Emily Rose as Audrey/Mara. She was one of the other reasons why we did this bodyswap episode. She in a sense for this entire season, got to do that. I think it’s a nice thing to be able to deliver to one of your actors that they (especially in the fifth season of a show) get to play a different character. And we sort of felt, almost a little bad that it was just her. And even the year before with the Lexie/Audrey of it all. And so I think emotionally we wanted to deliver a bodyswap two parter just so that you and Lucas and Eric got to do some of that too. We didn’t want her just to have all the fun. AC: Well it is fun to throw on a different skin after you’ve worn that skin for four or five years. But there’s something uncomfortable about that too, but it’s a nice challenge. And I know Emily had fun with it too. AH: Absolutely, she killed it. AC: Because Mara was so different, and so evil, and so vile. BM: And big, you know? AC: Yes. BM: And she did a great job. AC: Yes. And I know she had a lot of fun with it. And it’s interesting too, although also the challenge of how she was so evil - I think that was a part of the challenge. Because, you know Emily in having to take on this evil character had to say things that were just horrible. Like talking about Dwight’s daughter and all of those things, I know it bothered her. And to be able to step up to the plate and do it, there’s something to be said for that.

AH: And there’s a doughnut! How many doughnuts did you eat? AC: It was about four. And that was the one where I got so deep into it, I knew that ... BM: It’s not easy to get the perfect amount of schmeer. AC: Well that was the one where it was so deep and I was like, I’m going to have to do the rest of the scene with chocolate all over my face. *much laughing over Gloria and Dwight in their swapped bodies* BM: We should have just kept you guys. AC: I think Nathan slash Lucas had a really good time being the straight man for it as well. Because he was the straight man for their interactions a lot of the time. BM: We so wanted to send you guys off to the crime scene. But there was just going to be so many people in those scenes it would have just taken forever, schedule-wise. But we wanted to get you guys in on the action. We wanted it so bad but we couldn’t do it. AC: Well in the morgue we got into some of it, with the mitts fitting the gloves and feeling like she could punch through ceilings. BM: And we wanted her to … or you, but Gloria’s body … to have to chase after a perp, run him down, you know, like an action sequence. Or you have to punch somebody and not know how strong you are. There could be an entire show. AC: Well and then the interesting aspect is, does she know how to throw a punch? Or does Dwight’s body just automatically know how? And there as a performer you go, well which is it? AH: It’s a good question. BM: I think it’s the former, not the latter. I think she would know what to do. It’s a different brain in there. AC: Right? Because it’s a different brain but instinctively, like with the glasses Dwight doesn’t need them but Gloria thought she did so she squinted but then realised she didn’t need to. So I think there would still be a moment of … um BM: I think we just came up with the Haven spinoff by the way. You two swap again; can’t switch back; solve crimes. AH: I would watch that. AC: I could work with Jayne Eastwood for the rest of my life without a doubt. BM: But you have to be swapped with her. AC: Yes. BM: But, we also like you as Dwight so maybe, go back and forth. AC: Yep, but the majority of the time if I got to play that, that would be a whole lot of fun.

[As Gloria and Dwight are on the video call with Vince and Dave] BM: I imagine this was a tough scene to shoot because there was nothing on that screen, right? AC: Yeah, it’s an empty computer. AH: And they add it in in post AC: And your eyeline on the computer has to be right, and all of those - sometimes those technical things are the most difficult becuase you’re acting to nothing.

AC: What’s interesting too is to see how over the seasons and years how everyone has grown. And not just from a character perspective but from a personal perspective. AH: You get to grow up a bit as a family, it’s nice. We were just talking before we came in here about how much older everyone’s kids are getting and everything. AC: Yeah. And well I mean Emily, they had their son. Beth and I we had our daughter. Lucas and Kirsty’s daughter has grown. And just all of the families that have grown or have started since the beginning of this show, it’s pretty incredible. AH: And it’s always interesting when you look at a show that lasts this long, with the crew sometimes relationships have formed, or there are kids because of relationships that have formed, and it’s just amazing to see the community that grows up around a television show. AC: Yeah it always felt good walking on set too. Because there was just a sense of comfort to it.

AC: Jayne really played straight so well. Because playing that straight when you’re someone that’s usually so animated, it’s hard. And she pulled it off, she really restrained her natural kind of … I guess her natural charisma.

[As Duke and Nathan are swapping bodies] AH: And I’m sure everyone at home was just waiting for this to happen. It just had to at some point. AC: And then at this particular moment as well. [As Duke in Nathan’s body realises he can’t feel] AH: And just a little tease of what’s to come with the Troubles not transferring with the soul. AC: This was a really interesting swap to watch, because Eric, Duke, has the same job as Jayne and Gloria had, in that Nathan is a very reserved character. So pulling back, because Duke is very animated, as you’ll see from Lucas’s portrayal of Duke, so it was pretty hilarious. On both sides. AC: The hands, that was what I really noticed. AH: The pointing is my favourite. AC: Yes, and the hands on the hips. And I know for Lucas that was a lot of fun. Because Nathan is a very reserved, stoic, contained character. And Duke is the opposite of that. BM: Yeah. Well, Lucas Bryant is also the opposite of that. AC: Yeah. Yes, Lucas is a complete moron *laughter*, so the fact that he gets to be more animated is much closer to his actual personality. It also goes to show that having acted and worked with someone for that long, how much you just inherently pick up from just spending so much time together as those characters. Even just those things like the delivery … AH: The delivery, the timing. And this was a good idea to have this early conversation between the two of them, just so that you can really see the difference. AC: Yeah, it was fun. And this was actually fun at the table read too. It was also really interesting because you get so used to seeing Duke as Duke, or Eric as Duke and Lucas as Nathan, it was interesting to see them play completely different characters. Like, there were times when I would go out to dinner with some of the crew and they’d see me without the bullet proof vest and be really surprised - because you get so used to it. You know, like; wow you wear real clothes, you don’t walk around in a bullet proof vest, I forgot. So when you inhabit those characters for so long it’s interesting to see all of that get flipped on it’s head. How about that orange house back there by the way? [Behind Eric’s head outside Audrey’s apartment]. AH: It’s kind of a scene stealer. AC: Yeah, right? That’s one of the great things about Nova Scotia too. You’ll have a purple house with seafoam green shutters. Which on paper sounds disgusting, but it works. BM: They pull it off. That house, we actually finally shot outside of it in …. Hmmm I don’t remember. AC: You don’t remember?! *surprised noises from both Adams* Woah. Hold on, record scratch. BM: Was it season three, at some point?

[As Vince in Dave’s body starts to get affected by the thinny] AC: I love that part! Because Vince does that! He would kind of do the tasmanian devil spin to get his mouth going sometimes, and John picked up on that. These two were so needed to the show. And always brought a sense of levity, but every time they popped up on screen I would smile.

AH: Well, thank you for listening and we’re going to be right back doing 506.

[ofthomasyorks]

reclaiming the narrative

The day of his trial was upon them and Thomas was exhausted. He wasn’t drained, his usual form of exhausted, and his body was feeling fine. But sitting in the cell, staring at the wall, or laying on the bed, staring at the ceiling, nothing was happening to motivate him to get up. This may well be the end for him. Usually that knowledge was good enough to get him through the day, but it had never been true quite so literally before. If Dwight didn’t pull off an absolute miracle to get him out of prison, he would be stuck there until long after the revolution he helped set up would either fail or succeed. This was not how it was meant to be at all. 

  The suit felt uncomfortable more than ever. He wasn’t in any way used to the clothes provided for him by the prison, but the suit made him into someone he had never been: the image of a person that the Council needed him to be. The kid that had lost everything and grew up into a successful man with a great job, a great fiancée and a great house had been a myth before it was even true. Thomas rather thought the Council knew it, too. But governing had never been about the truth, knowledge he had abused time and time again, and it showed again in this particular situation. Thomas York dating a nineteen year old boy didn’t fit the image and Gavin Rosett disliked him enough to do something about it.   He was going over the list of witnesses in his head when the guard in front of his cell announced that his lawyer had arrived. Thomas got up slowly and headed for the door, where he was handcuffed yet again. Where did they think he was going? The guard lead him towards the offices, where Jeffrey was waiting for him. He frowned at the other, but didn’t say a word until they were outside the prison building and  crossing the street to the building of justice. “Did Dwight give up?” Thomas questioned. “You’re not qualified to defend me and you’re meant to identify yourself as Dwight. How did you even get this far?”   Jeffrey smirked a little. “No one is clever enough to be able to tell us apart. I just took his ID card. And you don’t have to worry about Dwight. He went past the hospital before coming there and asked me to get you out early. We’ll switch our ID cards back in the hall.”    This was typical Jeffrey and Dwight behavior. They did it when they were younger and had to attend a class or do a test that the other was better at. These days when Jeffrey had a formal occasion to attend at the Council  and didn’t have the right mindset or when Dwight was supposed to show up at a course case that he couldn’t sit through, they switched. They may be twins, but they weren’t identical. Someone who had seen them every week for years, like Thomas, knew who he had in front of him with one look. The others didn’t look right, or didn’t realize what they were looking at.      Thomas shook his head, but opted not to comment. “What was he doing in the hospital?” “Making sweet, sweet love to his wife,” Jeffrey said melodramatically, causing Thomas to side-eye him. “I’m not even kidding, mostly. They haven’t seen each other in days. But he’s probably making sure the trauma department is prepared.”   “Why?” Thomas asked.  “Screw you, Thomas,” was Jeffrey’s instant reaction, as though he had seen Thomas’ question coming. “You and I both know why. You and I also know he won’t be around much once you’re there and he’ll feel bad for it, so he’s already trying to make up for it.”   Thomas considered that for a couple of seconds as they walked up the stairs of the justice building. The guards were still walking a safe few feet behind them. “He doesn’t have to feel guilty,” Thomas said. “If he gets me out I’ll owe him big time. You seem very sure that he will, though. What makes you so sure?”   “I never doubt Dwight,” Jeffrey said. “He’s the clever one of the family.” He seemed to think about that statement briefly as he opened the door to let Thomas in first. “He has a plan. A plan that’ll work. The witness list is perfect and will see to it. We discussed it with everyone and they all know what to say.”   Jeffrey, Kaya, Brooke, Drake and Steffen. It still made zero sense to Thomas.

 Once they arrived in the entrance hall, most people that Thomas expected were already there. He greeted Lucy and Kaya before turning to Noa and Drake. Drake surprisingly approached cautiously and proceeded to put his arms around him, a hug that Thomas accepted hesitantly with a look in Noa’s direction, who seemed to try her best to smile at him.   “Are you okay?” Noa asked once Drake let go off him.   Thomas nodded. “I’m fine,” he declared, ignoring the way that Drake and Noa exchanged a glance. “How has everything at home been? Did Drake burn down the house yet?”   “That’s not funny,” Drake said as he glared at Thomas momentarily. “You have to be home. I can’t be in that house by myself. And not with Brooke and Steffen, either. It’s weird.”   “Well, whether I’ll be home or not isn’t really up to me any more,” Thomas said matter-of-fact.   From the corner of his eye, he saw Dwight and Steffen arrive alongside Brooke. He watched the three of them for a couple of seconds before he averted his gaze.   “I don’t think you’re supposed to be staring at your victim,” Jeffrey commented.   Thomas turned to look at his best friend. “My what now?”  Jeffrey moved in his direction to stand behind him. “Your victim. That’s how they see Steffen. You used your authority and your position of power to get him in your bed.” He laid his hands on Thomas’ shoulders with the intention to massage some of the tension out, but all he got from only the first motion was Thomas tensing up further and puling away immediately. Jeffrey glared at him. Thomas glared back. The words I knew it! and Don’t say a word about this were almost floating in the air before both of them averted their gazes abruptly.    “You don’t have to worry,” Jeffrey said as he moved, more carefully this time around, to stand next to Thomas and laid a hand on his arm. “We’re going to reclaim the narrative. You’ll see.” Thomas had no idea what that meant. Jeffrey had no intention of explaining it to him. “I’m gonna swap my ID card with Dwight again. I’ll be right back.”

jeffrey.

  It took no time at all, once the charges were read, for Dwight to start his so-called master plan. Thomas wished his lawyer’s brother would stop referring to it as such, because it would look really dumb if said master plan failed. Because it was a fast-tracked court case, the defense got to select a number of witnesses that the plaintiff would be using too. The evidence would be provided by both parties, because the evidence that Thomas was arrested for would have to be used and more evidence could be added. It was an improvisation case, another term that Jeffrey used, and that was in their favor. 

  The first witness to be called to the stand was Jeffrey. After stating his name and age and swearing that he wouldn’t lie (with a smirk that made Thomas sure that he would), he sat down and immediately slumped, as though incredibly relaxed on that chair.  

  “Mister Peterson,” Dwight started, and had both Thomas and Jeffrey immediately grinning over the way he addressed his brother like the two little children they could behave like, “tell us a little about your friendship with mister York.”   Right on cue, the Council’s lawyer had something to say. “How is this relevant? This court is about the question whether or not Thomas York abused Steffen West. Why don’t we skip right ahead to the boy so we can get this over with?”

  “We will do no such thing,” Dwight replied sharply, only to redirect himself towards the judge. “My aim is to establish how my client is in day-to-day life to give you a clear idea of him as a person. Once you understand his pattern of behavior, it’ll be much easier to make a well-informed choice about whether or not he is guilty. It is therefore very relevant that I ask multiple people with different roles in his life about him.”   “I’ll allow it,” the judge conceded, who was apparently looking forward to the long sit.    Thomas thought he was starting to get it. This was what Jeffrey meant with reclaiming the narrative. The judge thought of him a certain way because that was what he had been told by Gavin Rosett, the Council and no doubt the papers, since they would be all over this kind of trial. The only reason they weren’t in the justice building or the courtroom was because they weren’t allowed to be there. Nor did they need to, though. Surely someone working for the Council would be happy to leak some information to the press.    “So, my friendship with Thomas,” Jeffrey repeated, only to sit up straight, smirk and stretch, the three telltale signs of Jeffrey ready to start an entire monologue. “Thomas York is my best friend. I know at least three other people that would say the same thing and it’s true. Thomas is a best friend to all of us. Of course I can only speak for myself, and I love this man. I love poking fun at him. I love occasionally slightly humiliating him. But what I love way more than that is going running with him, as we do weekly. I love spending my evenings with him, whether that’s in the cafe or at one of our houses. He makes discussing work fun and that’s not fun with anyone.”   “So what you’re saying is that Thomas is a very good friend of yours,” Dwight interrupted. Jeffrey could surely have gone on for another ten minutes when uninterrupted. “What is he like in day-to-day life?”  Jeffrey studied Thomas for a couple of seconds, clearly considering it. “Thomas is the calm in a crisis and the logic in chaos. Thomas is the sarcastic comment when the situation desperately needs one. He’s clever and he’s sensitive. He’s the most loyal friend imaginable.”   “When have the two of you met?” Dwight queried.   Jeffrey pulled a face at that, probably at the strangeness of it all. He was talking to Dwight, no doubt as he was told to, but he was telling stories where Dwight had been by his side for. Dwight knew all this, but he couldn’t be questioning himself. “We met through our sister Kaya, the next witness,” he said. “He was eighteen and we hit it off immediately. We spend those formative years together when the world is wide and scary and all there for you to figure out. We helped him paint his house and raise his younger brother, and he helped us pick our houses, do our taxes and plan our weddings. He’s the best. He’s the reason why we both insisted to have two best men at our weddings. Dwight, you had Thomas and me. And I had Thomas and you.”   “What would you say that the relationship between Steffen and Thomas is like?” Dwight asked. “You see him every week, you said, and you’ve been close to him for years. Surely you discuss stuff like this together.”   “We sure do,” Jeffrey said with a grin that made Thomas afraid of what he was going to disclose next. “All the time. We have no secrets. And that’s why I know all about Steffen West and Thomas’ feelings for him. Thomas is badly in love with that man. I’d never seen him like that before. He was between being afraid of screwing up Drake’s friendship with Steffen and not wanting to break the law. Their love was stronger than that.”  As the plaintiff took over and started asking Jeffrey questions, Thomas tuned out. Jeffrey had a way with words. This wasn’t the one he was worried about.

kaya.

This wasn’t the one he was worried about, either.   She sauntered over to the front of the courtroom and mentioned her name and age matter-of-fact, only to swear she would tell the truth with the same grin on her face that Jeffrey was sporting earlier. Definitely related, those two. She sat down, her elbows on the small table in front of her that was meant to put down evidence on in case there was any, and glared at the Council’s judge for a couple of seconds before averting her gaze and smiling up at Dwight.     “Miss Peterson,” Dwight addressed her, smiling back. “When did you first meet Thomas?”  At school. That was an easy one and that wasn’t at all relevant. Thomas himself was about to protest about relevance (he didn’t think he was allowed to do that) when Kaya spoke to reply to the question.   “I first met Thomas when I was thirteen and when I was fourteen. It was the first day of school. I was with the girls and he was the odd kid at the back of the class,” Kaya said, a smile still on her face. “But I really met Thomas when I showed up at the hospital when he hadn’t shown up at school for over a week.”   Oh no. Oh, no. “Dwight,” Thomas hissed under his breath, “steer her away.”   “Shut up,” Dwight said after turning in his direction, not at all bothering to lower his voice. “Sit down and sit through this.”   What else was he going to do if his lawyer and the current witness decided to be cooperative? He couldn’t exactly walk out of the courtroom.   “My apologies,” Dwight said. “Miss Peterson, you were saying?”   “The hospital was what I was saying,” she said. “The weird kid from the back of the class had been gone for over a week, so I went on an investigation. Our class mentor redirected me to his foster parents, who in turn send me to the hospital with the tentative hope of Thomas talking to someone for a chance. When I arrived at the third floor I thought they were making fun of me. For those of you that don’t know, the left wing of the third floor is the psychiatric wing. But he was there. Room number nine, sitting on the bed reading a magazine.”   “What happened once you walked into that room?” Dwight asked.   “He wanted me to go away,” Kaya said with a light chuckle. “Said he didn’t want my pity or curiosity. That was fair, considering we hardly spoke three words before that day. But it wasn’t either one of those things, so I kept insisting until I got him to give me his phone number. I came back the next day with books to read and I kept showing up. Gradually he started to trust me and open up, but it took him a few weeks to tell me what he was in the hospital for. He was so miserable that he tried to kill himself. I realized that I would have missed out on meeting this incredible boy if that were the case and that just wouldn’t do. Of course, I couldn’t have guessed how important to me he would become, but I was convinced he was too special for me to give up on, so I never have and I never regretted it.”   “What happened after Thomas came back to school?” Dwight queried.   “I immediately introduced him to my brothers and my cousin,” Kaya said. “And they loved him almost immediately for his matter-of-fact ways and his quirky and sarcastic sense of humor. I sat with him in all our shared classes and we had the most fun. All I regret is not approaching him years earlier. When he quit high school after sixth year I was mad at him for a while because who else was going to make me laugh and remind me of my homework? He was the best thing about high school by a long shot. Other than meeting my wife, probably.” Probably?   “How would you describe Thomas?” Dwight asked. “In the way you know him, what description fits him best?”   Kaya smiled slowly. “He’s the best person in any room, always,” she said. “He’s thoughtful and sensitive, two traits that I miss in men often and therefore love in him. He’s always there when I need him. He’s the kindest and the smartest person I know. If I were straight, this wouldn’t be a court case because I’d have married him in a heartbeat and he wouldn’t have had the chance to fall in love with someone else.” Taking a breath, she added: “He’d never do what the plaintiff claims he did. There’s just no way. Thomas is a difficult man. He feels too much and doesn’t always know what to do with it. I’ve always imagined that his mind is a dark place that he doesn’t want to involve us in, but he manages admirably. He loves harder and is kinder because of it.”   The plaintiff tried to make Kaya say that because Thomas’ head was a dark place he would do things against the law and that they would protect him, but there was no cracking Kaya. Instead, she was very persistent in denying every claim going in that direction and had the audacity to laugh when they insinuated maybe she didn’t know him well enough to know that side of him. It made him grin a little himself, despite of everything. Kaya knew him and he knew Kaya, through and through. 

brooke.

This was the one he was worried about.   Not because he didn’t think Brooke wouldn’t be honest. Maybe that was part of the problem. No, Brooke was the kind of girl that was easy to persuade and make her change her mind. If anyone was the weak link in this line-up of witnesses, it was Brooke. Everyone could see that she was nervous as she approached the judge and smiled weakly. Her voice was trembling when she stated her name and her age and swore to tell the truth. When Thomas looked behind him into the crowd, he saw Anthony Reyes sit there. When the other met his gaze, Thomas looked back to Brooke resolutely. He yet had to figure out how this fell in Dwight’s master plan, because usually an ex-fiancée wouldn’t have anything good to say.    “Miss West,” Dwight spoke, approaching her so he could look at her directly. “How did you meet Thomas? What was your first impression of him?”  Brooke looked aside at him and smiled a little. “I knew of Thomas, at first. I think everybody does. He was the overly successful financial director of the hotel. He was living the dream according to many, with that job at his age. There were always pieces in the paper about how great the hotel was doing under his leadership and what other projects he could be taking on. But then he taught a guest seminar at our school. I didn’t take the class, but my best friend May did. According to her he was gorgeous and dreamy and I wanted to see, so I approached him and we talked for a minute. May was right.”   Gorgeous and dreamy? He had spoken to Brooke before the engagement? He wasn’t sure what he was more shocked by.   “You got engaged to Thomas through the Council,” Dwight said. “As you can find in evidence D, if you must. Engagement papers with their signatures. Similarly, evidence E, divorce papers with their signatures. Can you tell me something about that relationship?”   “Of course,” Brooke said, who seemed to relax a little. “When I turned twenty, I decided to sign up for the match program. It seemed logical to me, because it’s better to find someone who is well-suited to me based on our character traits than to count on falling in love with a guy that I wanted to spend my entire life with.” She glanced behind Thomas at Anthony. Thomas had to suppress the urge to make a sarcastic comment about that. “And it was Thomas,” Brooke continued. “Thomas was my perfect match. He was perfect to me, at first. He had a great job, a house, he always asked how I was doing and put in a lot of effort.”   “He was perfect at first, you said,” Dwight picked up. “What changed?”   “I learned to see him for the person that he was, instead of the picture that was painted by his file and the facade that he tried to hold up,” Brooke replied with a little smile. “What he really was, was a guy that was trying really hard to make his relationship work but struggling to do so. I loved that guy more than I ever could with that perfect picture. Thomas isn’t perfect. He’s flawed. But his biggest flaw is - ” She paused to look at him, her lips pressed together. Thomas looked back at her and wondered what she was seeing.    “He doesn’t love himself,” Brooke said as though she had just decided that. “That’s his biggest flaw.”   “What do you mean?” Dwight said, who had clearly lost her as well.    “I mean -” Brooke paused again and Thomas could see the insecurity sinking back in, but she pushed through. “It’s not that he needs validation. He rarely asks for it. But he beats himself up inside. He broods. He has trouble sleeping because he overthinks so much that he can’t shut down. He doubts himself constantly and seems to convince himself that he’s not worth whatever is happening in his life, whether that’s his friends, his brother or me. Right now he’s probably thinking he’s not worth all the effort of this trial.”   Well that was painful. Was is that obvious that even Brooke saw it?   “Miss West, the plaintiff is going to want to ask you about your sex life with mister York, so I’m going to beat them to it,” Dwight said calmly. Was that really necessary? Apparently. “Could you tell me about your sex life with him?”    “I could, but there’s nothing to tell,” Brooke said with a light shrug of his shoulders. “We agreed to wait until marriage to sleep together, so we had some time to get to know each other first. We both wanted to form that emotional bond that a couple should have before being intimate. He was always very insistent on being careful. He always knocked before walking into the bedroom when I was there and never walked into the bathroom when I was in the shower. Of course we did some things - we made out, shared baths, did some stuff  over the clothes - but that’s it.”  And just like that, Brooke took whatever the plaintiff could have asked of her about their sex life and spun it in a way that it was worthless for them to work with. When Dwight turned back around to Thomas with the words ‘no further questions’ he had a grin on his face that Thomas recognized as the smirk he had on his face when he was winning.    The plaintiff didn’t agree, though. “Miss West. Why did you divorce mister York?” Did they seriously think that was how they were going to find dirt? Well, they were wrong.   “Thomas and I mutually agreed on the divorce after I admitted that I -” Both Thomas and Dwight were shaking their heads at her, because she couldn’t tell the truth in this instance. Even if it may be good for Thomas’ case, Thomas really didn’t want his ex-fiancée going to jail over telling the truth during his court case. She should not be admitting she cheated on him. Thankfully, she caught on. “That I was in love with someone else,” she finished her sentence. “I broke his heart. I’m still sorry about that. He deserved better.”   “And two days later he was sitting in a hot tub with your little brother? Evidence A, the security footage picture of the hotel’s penthouse.” Of course they had those.   “Objection, that’s not a question,” Dwight remarked, still sharp.    “I’ll rephrase,” the Council’s lawyer said. “Were you aware that Thomas and your little brother were spending time together intimately?”   Brooke had been ready for that question, as it turned out. “Yes,” she said. “He told me that he had been in love with Steffen and that Steffen had been in love with him before he turned twenty-three and the engagement was agreed on. He distanced himself from Steffen. All that time I’ve thought that they just couldn’t stand each other, but in reality they were faced with the person they loved every day with the knowledge they couldn’t be with them. When I confessed to being in love with someone else and he told me about Steffen, it was only logical to me that he would return to being with Steffen, just as I was with the person I was in love with.”   “Do you believe they’re in love, miss West?”   “Yes,” Brooke said without blinking. “I know my little brother and I know my ex-fiancé. If Steffen has set his sights on what he wants, he’s not afraid to go after it. As it turns out, what he wanted was Thomas. So the moment the divorce was finalized, that was exactly what he did. He went after what he wanted.”

drake.

  Drake looked so uncomfortable in the suit - one of Thomas’ suits, he realized when he looked again - that it made Thomas have to smother a grin. Drake caught it and glared at him. “I’m Drake York, I’m twenty, and I swear I’ll tell the truth,” he said before falling down on the chair for the witness and sighing deeply.   “Drake, arguably you’re the person here that knows Thomas best,” Dwight said as he got up from his chair and walked towards the witness stand. “You’re his brother. You grew up with him. Can you tell me a little about your childhood together?”   “Sure,” Drake said. This was going to be painful, Thomas expected, and not in the social form of being slightly humiliated by the truth. This was the harsh version of painful, where the story was just unbearable to tell. “Thomas was the only constant in my childhood. Our parents died when we were eleven and eight. We went through three foster families since. I don’t remember all that much of the first two, to be honest. All I knew was that I was always clinging to Thomas and he was always there. When I didn’t want to come out of my room, he would get to me. When I didn’t want to eat, he would convince me. When I didn’t want to go to school, he would tell me why I had to. The families tried to do what Thomas did, but never could.”    Dwight wanted to ask another question, but Drake beat him to speaking. “Can I continue? Can I just talk about Thomas for a while? Because this court case is bullshit. I know Thomas. The idea that he would do anything to hurt another human like that is hilarious, never mind Steffen.”   Thomas had to suppress his laughter. Behind him, Kaya and Jeffrey weren’t bothering to do the same.   “Sure,” Dwight said. “Say what you feel needs to be said.”   “Thomas put up with all my crap,” Drake declared. “He raised me. No matter what the three foster families may tell you otherwise, I know it was Thomas and he knows it too. He taught me how to treat others, how to cook, he helped me with my homework and even sat me down for the sex talk, which I suspect was horrible for the both of us. He proceeded to take me to the stores to buy condoms and made me promise to never touch someone unless they explicitly gave me content to do so. I’ve seen him with Gianna and with Steffen. He’s careful. He’s romantic. He’s how I wish I could be. I’m sorry for being a lousy boyfriend, Noa.”   Thomas didn’t think he could listen to this. Drake was all over the place because of how terrified he was of the prospect of losing Thomas and was oversharing because of it. Dwight shouldn’t have let him talk because he was going to let something slip he shouldn’t.    Thankfully, Dwight caught up on that as well. “Drake, you’re also friends with Steffen, correct?”   “Best friends,” Drake said. “For years now.”   “So arguably you’re closest to both people this lawsuit is about,” Dwight said. “One of them is your best friend. The other is your brother. Did you know about their relationship?”   “Yes,” Drake said. “Eventually, a couple of months into when they were dating, I figured it out. I wasn’t very nice about it, at first. I thought it would just be heartbreak, which it was. I was right about that. I also thought it wasn’t worth it, but I was wrong about that. What they have is real, otherwise they would never have handled themselves the way they have. They have been pining after each other but not even getting near each other ever since January. They knew what their relationship had been was too good to screw that up with making mistakes after it was done. I was happy for them when they got back together. They belong together. And it’s great for me to have my best friend and brother dating each other, of course.”   Dwight glanced aside at the Council’s lawyer momentarily. “Do you believe that Thomas could have abused Steffen in any way?”   “No,” Drake said, loud and clear. “The thought wouldn’t even enter Thomas’ head.”

[torentialtribute]

Crystal Palace cult hero Sasa Curcic relives his antics both on and off the pitch

It is 20 years since Sasa Curcic last played for Crystal Palace but he remains a cult hero . He is also well remembered in Aston Villa as much for his off-the-field antics as what he did on it.

Most recently mastered in his native Serbia, Sportsmail caught up. with the eccentric playmaker for a walk around London reflecting on a crazy career …

Former Crystal Palace and Aston Villa midfielder Sasa Curcic talks to Sportsmail & Craig Hope

Sasa Curcic walks five every day miles around London, just for fun. We meet on the South Bank, cross the Thames and head to the heart of the capital.

"Cafe de Paris …" he says about the nightclub at Leicester Square. "Myself and Stan (Collymore) left at 2 am and saw a double-decker party bus – open roof, champagne, beautiful girls. I said, "Stan, we have to do this, I'll get one."

& # 39; I did that. A few weeks later I rented a bus for the team and brought models. It was great, driving around, drinking, singing. They talked about it for months in the dressing room of the villa! & # 39;

Further north is the cosmetic capital Harley Street. Eth Gareth Southgate tells the story about me that I miss a Villa game for a nose operation. Come on, I just wanted to look better. Gareth was jealous. I told him and Andy Townsend: “Guys, if you ever get a discount, three noses for the price of two!” & # 39;

Bolton fans called him the & # 39; Serbian George Best & # 39 ;, a maverick who could play and party

Curcic arrived in Bolton in 1995 for a £ 1.5 million club record of Partizan Belgrade

He became & # 39; the Serbian George Best & # 39 ; called a maverick who could play and party.

When he retired at the age of 29, he stated: & I would not sign for another club, even if I was offered $ 15 million.

& # 39; It would be different if they would offer me 15 women from all over the world. I would say to the president: "Please, let me make these women happy."

Now 47, he welcomes the resemblance to Best. "At best I was like him, a dribbler, an entertainer. I also spent my money on women, fast cars & alcohol, but I agree with him, we wasted the rest! & # 39;

Laughter disappears and Curcic pauses. He wants to mention time for the comparison.

Every day, the 47-year-old-old walks five miles through the streets of the capital just for fun

& He lost the way. I am different, I have changed my path. I have stopped drinking for six years now. I didn't want to finish it that way, it was sad.

"My past is an important part of my journey. High and low. Then you come back. But you have to look in the mirror, believe it and be strong. Now I live on the training grounds. & # 39;

Before enchanting Curcic in Serbia earlier this year, he had been a coach at the Academy of the Palace and the Palace for Life Foundation. It is dusk and we stop for a drink on the Thames, cafe lounges around.

"In the past 10 years I have rebuilt my life. I won the Big Brother from Serbia, but I had no job, no money. I thought, "What should I do?" Commit suicide? No, go to the job center. Start again. I thought about becoming a painter, driving a bus, building.

"But my friends said:" Look at all the parks, millions of children play football in London. You have a name, open an academy. & # 39; And I did. I started putting brochures through doors

He is fond of being remembered at Aston Villa, both for his antics outside the field and for what he did on it

& # 39; Sometimes it is difficult to coach children, they have an idea how they can drip from a Playstation No, look at me!

now I have some more possibilities to go abroad d to coach. Maybe someday I'll be back, my dream is to make it in England. & # 39;

Curcic was born in a fishing village near Belgrade called Besni Fok, which translates to Wild Canal, and there was something of the unmanageable river about his playing style.

& # 39; I taught myself & # 39 ;, he says. "I watched European games on TV and then played until dark." He uses his hand to dribble between the coffee cups.

"I was an individual. That scared people. First I struggled in Bolton and watched the ball go over my head. Then they realized. I would go to (defend) Alan Stubbs: "Here, Stubbsy, just give me the ball." Then I can really do damage. & # 39;

Glenn Hoddle and Chelsea will testify. Curcic & # 39; s first Premier League goal was at Stamford Bridge, halfway with four blue jerseys.

I show that to my players. They love it, like a slalom, always moving, looking for space, that's what I try to teach them. & # 39;

Bolton was relegated and Curcic joined Villa for £ 4 million, another club record.

Despite the fact that he only had 25 appearances during the 1998/99 season, Curcic is a palace legend

An error. I should have stayed, I was a hero. Roy McFarland (boss of Bolton) would say, "Sasa, don't worry about defense, get the ball and do your thing." In Villa Brian Little tried to defend me. What a waste. & # 39;

It was in Bolton that Curcic made his first famous friend, not that presenter Vernon Kay was famous at the time.

"He was just a kid in a nightclub with his friends, who recited my name. We started talking and he said: "In Bolton we are now going for an Indian meal, a few pints, you'll love it". He was right! We have been friends ever since. & # 39;

It was Kay who later introduced Curcic to George Michael, a boy's idol that he considered both pop star and English teacher.

& # 39; I spoke English well because of music and movies. When the first Betamax arrived in the village, all the children would gather and watch Rambo. Even today, when I want to watch a movie, I like: "Bang, Rambo!".

I grew up on UB40. I thought they were Jamaican. One night I and Dwight Yorke were in a nightclub in Birmingham and the front man was there. I was like, "What the …" Dwight said, "Yes, they are Brummies." I went to him and hugged him all night, like a little child. & # 39;

Curcic earned £ 15,000 a week in Villa and started socializing with people like Robbie Williams. He was married and later divorced, the girl from Dudley.

The Serbian missed training to protest in Downing Street against NATO bombing on Belgrade

But his tone changes. It feels as if the high life has left a sour taste, probably champagne.

I cannot say that I did not enjoy it, I do, & he begins. "But my dream was to play for Partizan, my team. I should have stayed. I would have my own booth, I would be a manager.

"Here came an accident. Bolton came to see our right back, but he was injured. I said that I would play, that was not the intention. The scout loved me and … "He runs away.

" But all the craziness here, the crazy money, it spoiled me, it ruined me. I would have been a different person. I would not have created millions of pounds, I had not been brought that way. & # 39;

Are you left of your career income?

"Plenty – in the pockets of others. The owners of the night clubs are rich anyway. & # 39;

Despite the fact that he only performed 25 times, Curcic is a palace legend. In 2017, after a 3-0 win over Arsenal, he joined the team in a lap of honor and danced for the fans.

Does he regret not spending more time on that field?

Curcic earned £ 15,000 a week in Villa and started to socialize with people like Robbie Williams Robbie Williams

& Many things happened. Some days I missed training because I was on Downing Street, protesting against NATO bombing Belgrade. I was the leader with the signs.

& # 39; It is a shame that politics often interfered, but I believed in my case. & # 39;

Then he escaped London's chaos in the summer of 1999, albeit for New York.

& # 39; MetroStars wanted me. "Wow, okay, let's enjoy this and then leave." I knew I wouldn't last long. & # 39;

He was right, he had stopped within six months, but not before he tasted the American Dream.

& # 39; I went to Las Vegas with Dennis Rodman I'm a pimp and whore dress up party. That guy … wow. He pulled off his top and the women fell at his feet. & # 39;

Curcic had dinner with Michael Jordan and met the cast of Sopranos during a MetroStars game, which led to preferential treatment in the best restaurants in town. & # 39; I remember getting a table one night while Silvio Berlusconi had to wait, they loved me there. & # 39;

And so for Motherwell. "A little difference, yes?" He says. Five games later – and after a few messing around with the old company – he retired.

Then a phone call from Big Brother.

& I was home again, camping and fishing, just me and the birds. Then I am on television every night for millions.

"Nobody knows this, but I always knocked on the door:" I want to go, get me out ". But they couldn't allow it, everyone looked because of me.

" And then When I came out, there were thousands of people, including the President, I was like a Beatle! "

Like George Best.

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The Prairie Aesthetic

If you keep seeing me banter about Frank Lloyd Wright, casually referring to Prairie style, and are left wondering what the heck I am talking about, well, then, you're probably not alone man with a van. Today we take a short break from immersion in the architectural classroom that is Oak Park, Illinois and try to discover a little bit about Prairie style. Where it comes from, what it means, what it looks like, and the tools to locate the Prairie influences in your own neighborhood. Join me, I will try not to ramble.

Introduction to the style

Prairie style is one of the few architectural styles to have originated in the United States. The short-lived style evolved, matured and waned in popularity between about 1900-1920. It was developed by a group of Chicago architects that were affiliated with Frank Lloyd Wright, or his mentor Louis Sullivan (of Adler and Sullivan); the style and the architects became collectively known as the Prairie School (although there was never really a school). It is Wright's 1893 Winslow House that may be the very first Prairie style house, and he is the avowed and undisputed master of the Prairie house. The style comes straight out of Chicago, Wright established his first architectural practice in the suburb of Oak Park. Oak Park, as we have seen, along with adjacent River Forest, Illinois, contains one of the largest concentrations of residential Frank Lloyd Wright buildings in the world, as well as masterpieces by an assortment of other well-known Prairie School architects.

Architects

*Frank Lloyd Wright - (wiki) - As said, the creator and undisputed master of the Prairie style house. Wright was an interesting and complex man whose architectural style was as varied as his event filled life. The wiki is a good place to start but Wright's whole story has been told in multiple volumes by several biographers, and even, filmaker Ken Burns.

Wright's major works: Guggenheim Museum (NYC), Arthur Heurtley House (PDF), Fallingwater, et. al.

*George Washington Maher (pictured) - (wiki) - For a time, Maher worked under early Wright mentor and employer Joseph Lyman Silsbee, it was then he was associated with Wright. Maher eventually established his own practice. He was a very important Prairie School architect. The wiki is a good jumping off point, make sure to look at the reference links in the article.

Maher's major works: Pleasant Home

*Robert C. Spencer, Jr. - (no wiki: bio) - Spencer was a friend of Frank Lloyd Wright who, unlike Wright never abandoned the references to tradition in his work. To this end he was heavily influenced by two years spent in Europe on the Rotch Traveling Scholarship. Spencer's work utilizes geometric, planned surfaces and plays on light and shadows.

Spencer's major works: Chicago Public Library (interior), published 50+ articles including an important first article on the work of Frank Lloyd Wright in a 1900 issue of Architectural Review.

*Thomas E. Tallmadge - (no wiki: bio) - Tallmadge was a well-known Chicago architect who designed a variety of buildings. Tallmadge was tragically killed in a train accident in Douglas County, Illinois in 1941. Oddly, he was the only person killed it would seem man with a van nyc. As a partner with Vernon Watson, their firm, Tallmadge and Watson designed many Prairie style buildings. Later they migrated toward a more traditional style and designed more than 25 churches throughout the Midwest.

Tallmadge's major works: A list of some residential works

*John S. Van Bergen - (wiki) - Van Bergen worked in Frank Lloyd Wright's Oak Park studio beginning in 1909. Under Wright he did drawings for, and supervised work on the famous Robie House and Laura Gale House. The wiki is a great starting point (I compiled it for you). Make sure you see the main references Martin Hackl's web pages about Van Bergen are amazing.

Van Bergen's major works: Allan Miller House, A.O. Anderson House et. al.

*Eben Ezra Roberts (pictured) - (wiki) - Roberts was an important Prairie School architect despite the fact that his only professional association with Frank Lloyd Wright was as a competitor. Compete he did, Roberts' practice rivaled Wright's, in Oak Park alone Roberts designed more than 200 houses. Roberts had his own interpretation of the Prairie aesthetic and it shows in his works. Another Dr. Gonzo compiled wiki on the man is a good jumping off point to learn more about Roberts, one of my favorite architects.

Roberts' major works: Henry P. Magill House, Frank W. Hall House, Charles Schwerin House, Louis Brink House, E.E. Roberts House, Masonic Temple Building (all in Oak Park), et. al.

*Marion Mahoney Griffin - (wiki) Mahony was a Chicago native and 1894 graduate of MIT. After working briefly with her cousin Dwight Heald Perkins (see below) she went to work for Frank Lloyd Wright. She worked with Wright for 14 years becoming one of his top designers and designing numerous interior furnishings for Wright projects, and later her own. She was also well known for her distinctive Japanese-influenced style of architectural rendering; a skill that brought much acclaim to Wright's studio. She helped complete many of Wright's unfinished projects when he ran off to Europe. She married Walter Burley Griffin (see below) in 1911 and they practiced together for the next 28 years.

Mahony's major works: Fair Lane, Amberg House Lucknow University Library

Artist's Studio - 1894 (Watercolor and ink by Mahony)

*Walter Burley Griffin - (wiki) - Griffin was a native of the Chicago suburb of Maywood. He worked with Frank Lloyd Wright for several years and after that under a number of other important Prairie School architects (incl. Robert C. Spencer Jr., and Dwight Heald Perkins) He and his wife Marion Mahony (see above) lived in Australia during which time they executed many designs including numerous city/town plans. Griffin was commissioned to design the Australian capital of Canberra, though he eventually left the project and none of his building designs were ever executed.

Griffin's major works: Newman College, City/town plans in: Leeton, Griffith, Eaglemont, et. al., all in Australia, Capitol Theatre, John Gauler House, et. al.

*Dwight Heald Perkins - (wiki) - Perkins was a prolific architect who originally hailed from Memphis. He was well-educated, despite having only completed three months of high school. He was later educated at MIT and returned to Chicago in 1891 where he worked for Burnham and Root. He served as Chicago School Board architect, a position he left over politically charged accusations of incompetence. Those accusations are regarded to have been because Perkins refused to kowtow to the corrupt school board members in Chicago. Perkins was nearly deaf by 1925, effectively ending his career. He died in 1941 in New Mexico while on vacation.

Perkins' major works: Lincoln Park Zoo Lion House and the refectory (now Cafe Brauer), Alfred Nobel School, Carl Schurz High School, collaborated with Wright for part of the design for Abraham Lincoln Center and All Soul's Unitarian Church, et. al. (40+ Chicago schools, many residential designs)

These are but a few of the "Prairie School" architects, there were other important architects as well. The Wikipedia article on Prairie School is scant in information but it does list several of the notable architects.

How to identify a Prairie style house

There are a number of elements very common to Prairie style, depending upon the house, it may contain all or some of the common elements listed below. By knowing what to look for you can find Prairie style homes all around you. I have included a description and, where it's useful, I have linked architectural terms to the related Wikipedia article (some don't have sources but these topics are not controversial).

*Roof: Obviously they have roofs, but the roof is one of the items that give away Prairie style houses. Roofs on Prairie homes are usually low-pitched roof, sometimes flat even. Many times, this low-pitched roof will be a hip roof. A hip roof is distinguished from a gabled roof because a hip roof meets the walls of the house on all four sides, it's a pyramidal shape. The eaves on a Prairie style house are usually wide, and usually overhanging the edge of the wall significantly.

*Height: Prairie houses are generally two stories, and can commonly have a one story wing, and /or a large porch. The porch on a Prairie house will overwhelm the front entrance, often seeming to bury it completely. In many cases, the porch is supported by massive pillars.

*Horizontal emphasis: This is the key to a Prairie style building. Finding that horizontal emphasis in the eaves, cornices, even the brick courses, is what will be a dead give away for a Prairie style house. Some Prairie houses even continue the theme using longer, narrower Roman bricks instead of standard bricks. At first it might be kind of difficult to spot, but once you've seen it, once you know what is meant by "horizontal emphasis" you will never miss it again in any building. This is the sort of knowledge that lets you impress your friends, when all of the sudden you know about how old a building is just by looking at it for a second.

*Chimneys: Massive chimneys (larger and wider than what is considered "normal"), often centrally located in mature Prairie homes. Early Prairie houses sometimes have the chimney along one of the facades, but it is still usually larger and wider. This stemmed from Frank Lloyd Wright's belief that the house should contribute to the closeness of a family, a large hearth, given center place, was one way to accomplish this.

*Setback and entryway: Expect many Prairie houses to be set further back from the street than the counterparts in their neighborhood. Of course, space considerations sometimes prevent this. Entrances on Prairie style houses can be difficult to locate or in unexpected places.

Types of Prairie houses

1. American Foursquare

There are four main types of Prairie style home with a few derivatives of each of those types. Two of the types fall into a sweeping style category known as American Foursquare. American Foursquare was probably the most popular incarnation of the Prairie aesthetic. Foursquare designs were distributed through pattern book and mail-order companies, including Sears, contributing to their popularity. There is almost guaranteed to be a Foursquare pattern-book house in your town if it has more than 100 people, and is located in or around the American Midwest.

Foursquares are easy to pick out. They are symmetical, square shaped, have low-pitched hip roofs, and large front porches supported by corner pillars. The entrance can be located on the front or on the side, depending on which "subtype" of Foursquare the house is. Many Foursquare houses show a heavy American Craftsman influence and commonly have a front, centrally located dormer. They are usually brick, or stucco clad, but can be wooden as well.

2. Gabled

Gabled Prairie houses, that are not of the Foursquare variety simply have a gable roof, as opposed to the hip roof more commonly seen. They still have the horizontal emphasis and overhanging eaves that are hallmark of Prairie. Other elements such as sprawling terraces and art glass are also commonly found in gabled Prairie houses.

3. Asymmetical

Most high-style examples of Prairie architecture are asymmetrical. The may have sprawling porches and terraces, large one story ells, or areas that extend beyond the general height of the house. The asymmetrical group of Prairie homes often have most or all of the elements described above.

Sorry, no online resources this time, there are too many to choose from. I suggest you start with Google and the names of the architects. Tomorrow, we dive into the evolution of Frank Lloyd Wright's Prairie style.

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