Thursday: Performer AUs

[alba17.livejournal.com]

Today's theme is one of my favorites - performer AUs: make your characters musicians, actors, movie stars, ballet dancers, DJs, pop stars, a rock band, reality show contestants, TV news people.

Rules:
No more than three prompts to a single fandom
No more than five prompts at a time
No spoilers in the prompts and if your fill has spoilers, please warn and and leave at least three spaces

Format:
Fandom, Character, Prompt
Fandom, Character/Character, Prompt

Examples:

Hawaii Five-0, Steve/Danny, Steve is an actor who plays the lead on a formerly hit TV show whose ratings are failing; Danny plays the new character brought in to revive the show.
Merlin, Arthur/Merlin, Shakespearean AU
Suits, Harvey/Mike, reality show AU in which Harvey and Mike are rival contestants.
Avengers, all, the Avengers are superstars brought together to record a song to raise money for charity.




tag=performer AU

Comments

[anidawehi.livejournal.com]

They're the stars of the circus. Well, to an extent. No one would deny that The Flying Grayson was the main draw, but Hawkeye The World's Greatest Marksman was a very close second. Trowa would have been right up there with them too, if the audience was aware that the clown who could balance on anything was also catching Grayson and getting shot at by Hawkeye and sticking his head in the mouths of lions during his free time just because he could.

One would expect that they wouldn't get along, competing for the spotlight and all, but the truth was that they were close. Clint claimed it was too much work to hate Dick, he'd just follow you around trying to make you laugh until you gave in, and Dick had always wanted brothers so he'd adopted Clint pretty much the second Clint showed up. Trowa had come along later and didn't much get anyone's attention until he'd appeared one day while Barney was smacking Clint around and proceeded to beat the hell out of Barney with a truly terrifying amount of skill and absolutely no remorse. Clint hadn't been happy about it, 'cause it wasn't any of the new kid's business, but Dick had adopted Trowa too and Clint put up with him long enough to see that under the emotionless mask Trowa put up, there was a kid who had seen a lot of bad stuff, just like him. Trowa didn't talk much, and no one knew where he came from, but he worked hard and didn't flinch when Clint shot at him or the tigers took swipes at him through the bars so they just gave him a bunch of work to do and let him stay. (Trowa wasn't afraid of anything, and Clint knew that kind of fearlessness intimately. It was the kind that came when you didn't care if you survived or not. He'd stopped feeling that way thanks to Dick, and figured he should pass the favor on, in the interests of karma or something.)

Anyway, they became a weird little unit where Dick talked too much and Trowa didn't talk enough, and Clint talked about everything, but only if it didn't matter and by the time they were in their twenties the center ring was home to a truly one of a kind show. Dick and Trowa flipped through the air after one another, swinging off of ropes that Clint had shot into place seconds before they were needed, dashing from one aerial platform to the next and doing his own fair share of death defying acrobatics. It was insane and dangerous and never would have worked if they didn't trust one another so much. But Dick loved his 'little brothers' unconditionally and he and Trowa had never let Clint down, and no one asked Trowa who he really was or what he was running from, and that turned out to be enough.

[tigriswolf]

Oh, yes, this is perfect, and totally how it would go. Boys!

Thank you so very much!

[anidawehi.livejournal.com]

I'm so glad you liked it! I couldn't resist the prompt, though I've only written one fic with Clint in it before. I hope he wasn't too out of character!

[tigriswolf]

All the boys seem in-character to me.

[anidawehi.livejournal.com]

Sooooo This kinda turned into a 'verse. I'm posting a lot more if you want to read it: http://archiveofourown.org/works/460028/chapters/792780 Thank you again for the prompt!