Thursday: Performer AUs
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comment_ficToday'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
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
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Weirder than the Black Keys
Date: 2012-07-08 03:29 am (UTC)“No, Grubbs, I don’t care what you want. I refuse to do another gig as long as he’s our manager!” Bec screams, throwing her headset on the ground.
“Come on, Bec, we’re so close. This is Bamboozle and everyone is out there, including Fueled by Ramen. We’ve been trying to get a shot with them for years,” Grubbs says, putting down his guitar. “I know that it’s a million degrees outside and that we’re playing in a parking lot in Jersey, but can you just think of how big of a break this would be for us?”
Grubbs looks into Bec’s eyes as imploringly as he can manage without openly begging. Leave it to Kernel to blow his plan to pieces.
“Look at us Grubbs, we’re hopeless. I mean, most other bands have something going for them. Paramore has the girl singer, flanked by guys, the Black Keys have two nerdy white guys that sound like Motown artists, and Florence’s machine churns out a new personality for her to wear every night,” Kernel interjectes morosely.
“What did I say about mentioning Florence and her fucking machine, Corneluis?” Bec shouted, throwing a bottle of Evian water at him. If Kernel hadn’t ducked it would have hit him squarely in the face.
“Bec, please,” Grubbs soothes, picking up the abandoned water bottle from the floor and moving to sit on a speaker.
“The woman doesn’t even sing, Kernel. She spends half of her songs vocalizing and people say that she has a ‘haunting’ voice? Falling? Heavy in Your Arms? Drumming Song?” Bec screamed across the rehearsal space.
“I’m pretty sure she sang in that last one,” Kernel responds shrilly. “And you only said that because you know I like her music.”
“It doesn’t count as music if I can’t distinguish one word from another. That’s called noise,” Bec says, hanging her head. Grubbs knows that she’s overexaggerating her hatred for Florence Welsh, just to start a fight.
“If you children are done arguing, can we please get back to work? Hell's Heroes isn't going to rehearse itself,” Beranabus says, standing up from where he had been fiddling with the amp on his bass guitar. Even when he wasn’t playing the damned instrument he still treated it better than Grubbs had seen him treat any person, living or dead.
“Oh, God, we’re even weirder than the Black Keys,” Bec cried, wringing her hands through her hair. “We consist of a blind, black drummer, a pasty white boy on guitar, a grandpa on bass, and a demon for a manager. Fuck, we’re never getting booked.”
“And a bitchy female lead,” Kernel adds.
“Did you just call me grandpa? I’ve been playing bass longer than you’ve been born. That’s called experience,” Beranabus says before Bec can cross the closet sized space to throttle their drummer.
“You really need to stop calling Lord Loss a demon - ” Grubbs attempts even if he feels uneasy about Lord Loss as well. He was the only person who had agreed to take them on and had gotten them an afternoon gig at Bamboozle. It wasn’t the Warped Tour, but it wasn’t Kernel’s garage either.
“He makes us call him Lord. Besides, have you seen all of the people who die in freak accidents around him? He may have gotten us this gig, but what if he killed the other bands to open up a spot for us,” Bec says, her voice softening at the end. Grubbs can tell that he isn’t the only one who wants to chide her for her irrational fear, but none of them can. They feel it too.
“Bottom line: We do this gig. We drop Lord Loss and sign with Fueled By Ramen. Does that plan appeal to everyone?” Grubbs says, watching as everyone nods in agreement. “All right then. Kah Gash is back in business.”
Re: Weirder than the Black Keys
Date: 2012-07-10 03:31 pm (UTC)Re: Weirder than the Black Keys
Date: 2012-07-10 10:24 pm (UTC)Not gonna lie, I thought that this prompt was too out there for me, but I found out that Kernel was black and suddenly their differences made for a hilarious band setting. I'm glad you liked reading this it because I had a ton of fun writing it. :D