#in the t9s au the name leia will forever be gross eww

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Donna Pinciotti-Forman, in the 80s...

For @that70sshowrocks. :)

-At UW Madison, she majors in journalism and communications, and minors in political science. She's super active in the political scene on campus, and starts to become a budding activist.

-She works as a print journalist in the mid-80s (and beyond), and gets enveloped in whatever political scene she encounters. Coffee is her second husband (after Eric, of course).

-She and Eric get engaged again circa 1980, and have an impromptu courthouse wedding in the mid-1980s (not because Donna got pregnant). For their parents, they make it "official" in the Formans' backyard.

-Eric insists on having The Beatles as their soundtrack for the wedding, and he constantly compares them to Paul and Linda. It's better than being compared to Luke and Leia (he stopped that in '83, anyway, for obvious reasons).

-She loves Fleetwood Mac, Aerosmith, Bon Jovi, and Tracy Chapman. And something about Don Henley's "Dirty Laundry" is strangely prophetic, but Eric keeps blasting "The End of the Innocence" instead (*groans*).

-She jokes that Eric is a "dude that looks like a lady."

-She loves shoulder pads and tweed, both of which Jackie hates (something about how it makes women look like fancy linebackers).

-She wears mom jeans before she even becomes a mom (by the end of the decade). In my verse, she has Kate circa '86 and Leah pops out on New Year's Day, '90.

-Eric is traumatized by Luke and Leia being twins. Donna jokes if they ever have twins, she'll name them Luke and Leia. Eric is horrified, and tries to prove that he (Luke) and Donna (Leia) aren't related, by researching their respective family trees. They're thirteenth cousins.

-Eric and Donna travel a lot in the summer, while they're out of school. Eric tries to use Star Wars locations as a travel guide (and it largely works). He's thrilled to visit Tatooine (aka, Tunisia).

-She hates Reagan, but Mondale isn't all that much better (while Eric still has a soft spot for Carter). Meanwhile, Eric doesn't like the Star Wars program, despite its name.