Jane Austen + Bandom = Insanity?

[scribblinlenore]

I'm watching Pride and Prejudice tonight (the Colin Firth version, naturally), and of course I'm always thinking about Pete and Patrick, and the two things started mingling together in my head. So now I'm trying to figure out how I could make a Pete/Patrick P&P AU work.

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[jankato]

This sounds superb. Your outline gave me lots of ideas.

What do you think about Hey Chris for the Wickham role? When he and Pete had a falling out IRL, he posted some pretty negative thoughts about Pete's character on his blog.

Perhaps the Bennett sister counterparts could be Patrick's classmates or bandmates. "Jane" falls for one of Pete's entourage and the Lydia character could have drug or alcohol problems and somehow Pete is instrumental in saving hm/her.

And please don't forget Mr Collins! Surely there would be people developing inapproriate crushes on Patrick.

Could Lady Catherine be Pete's manager, who has other plans for Pete's future and sees Patrick as a distraction and a threat to his vision?

Take or leave those ideas, but please, please, please write P&P with PxP.

[scribblinlenore]

These are great ideas!! Thanks so much

[margueritem]

Jane/Bingley -> Jon/Ryan!!! or Jon/Spencer or Jon/Brendon. Since Panic would be on Pete's label and Jon could be Patrick's friend. And he's always laid-back and cool about everything, only when he doesn't get into the band he's all :-(

[jankato]

Yep, that Jane/Bingley subplot works.

So what have you come up with for "Lydia?" How about "Lydia" does something that puts the whole music program in jeopardy? Perhaps she's an aspiring pop princess who steals someone else's material and passes it off as her own? Or, she's hiding some deep dark secret, something hyperdramatic, but I'm not sure how you'd make that a crisis for Patrick.

I'm really invested in this story now - you will be writing it, won't you?

[scribblinlenore]

"Lydia" is tough. I do like the idea of someone being accused of stealing a song. I was thinking maybe that's even what "Wickham" accuses Pete of. As for "Lydia," I like your idea about someone having a drug and alcohol problem. I was thinking maybe "Lydia" is the younger sister of someone in the music program. She's always tagging along, wanting to be part of things, wanting to be in a band, too. Somehow she meets up with "Wickham," and he tells her all kinds of seductive things about how he could make her a star, and convinces her to run off with him to L.A. Hmm. Maybe something like that.

Anyway...I do really want to write this. Someone else mentioned that there is already a Pete/Patrick P&P AU, so I'm going to try to track that down and make sure the story I want to tell is sufficiently different. But barring some huge coincidence, I'm going to start rereading the book and making notes of quotes I want to bandom-ize. :)

Thanks again for your help!