#theatre kids too obsessed with each other and their craft they're basically in a cult

[lohstandfound]

okay but no im thinking about this again

maybe its all the shakespeare because of the richjake bapo au and thats literally the only thing they study in iwwv

i dont want to like assign them all iwwv characters (aside from Jake and Chloe mirroring Richard and Meredith, toxic royal pains absolutely obsessed with one another and refusing to see how terrible they are)

but i want to put them in a scenario where they met like the characters of iwwv

applying for one of the most prestigious universities to persue theatre

a university that treats the world of the arts with the intesity of cult-like behaviour

the group are lucky to make it this far

and they are so so close with each other, nothing can break them apart

they let their characters consume them, losing a bit of themselves in the process of shedding their characters. sometimes they lose themselves entirely when they're given a role to play. its not chloe they're talking to, it's lady macbeth. its not brooke they're talking to its viola. its not jake they're talking to, its romeo.

and they're obsessed with each other, there's no secrets in the tower. not really. not when they've gone through so much together, and not when their teachers force them to pry themselves open and lay out their vulnerabilities for the others to examine

we have jake and chloe oh so obsessed with each other, paired up as love interests for every show ever since they started. they took the roles they had been given, fell too deep into their characters, and they never fully emerged from their first show together. and it doesn't help that they're being thrown the same roles time and time again. they're so used to being intimate with each other during rehearsals or classes or a show, they just carried over that obsession and infatuation into this intoxicating relationship

(but, of course, they're not really in love with each other, are they? no, they're in love with the idea of them. the idea of this perfect relationship. i mean, there's a reason why the relationship between jake's hamlet and rich's horatio was so intense. or chloe's olivia and brooke's viola/cesario)

they lose themselves too much into this world they have created for themselves that perhaps, maybe, it has some unwanted consequences. and they won't want to admit that they've done something bad.

maybe I'll make an if we were villains au /j