Renaissance Fair AU ( Not fic/plot-thing)
Title: Renaissance Fair AU
Author:Tomato_one
Fandom: Bandom, MCR,
Pairings: Frand and Gerard, ( The others will kind of be a suprise?)
> Frank and Ray are in a band together. They sort of drive around the U.S. and do shows and stuff. When the drummer gets strep and the bassist breaks his leg( into like a bazillion places) (This all happens in like the same week, how is this Frank and Rays life. ) They're kind of stuck in this little Podunk town near the hospital in Texas of all places IN THE EARLY SUMMER. Do the powers that be hate them or ?
They end up in a shitty little no name motel, but its cheap so w/e. The lobby smells like the walls are stuffed with moldy waffles. beds squeak every time someone moves and frank refuses to shower until Ray kills and cleans all of the spiders out of the bathroom. that shit is not ok :[
Frank and Ray know Mikey from Jersey...they sort of know his older brother went missing a few years ago. Sometimes Frank ~wonders~
>Gerard ran away from Art school after Elna passed away. Unable to deal with his own grief and 'failures' he starts drinking a lot. First at home and then when his mom gets upset about all the bottles from the liquor cabinet are ...watery.. he starts going out to bars. Which is where he meets Bob .( Bob works as a bar hand in the 'off season' Gerard kind of drunkenly wonders what that means and if Bob plays baseball or something. Bob is nice even it he looks grumpy and totally cuts Gerard off before he can gets blitzed off his face like he wants. He gets that Bobs trying to help tho. So Bob and Gee bust out of town one night when Gerard just 'can't' anymore. Its rainy and cold and gross outside and Gerard totally leaves a note on the fridge. ( that doesn't get noticed for like 3 days and then its Mikey alone skipping Chem. cause he hasn't sen his big bro for a few days and hes like -___- stupid drunkface Gerard where r u. but then he sees the note and ;_________;and it sort of breaks Mikey's heart a little. ;;____________;; he doesn't even say WHERE hes going and-)
About two days later Gerard during one of his more sober moments finds out Bob plays drums in a Ren fair band( and sells sandal socks on the side. it is a very lucrative business *pokerface*)
They drive South DEEP South and end up in Arkansas where the fair's annual meeting ground is. During the ~journey~ Gerard has his face kind of pressed against the window the almost the whole time. Mostly because hes detoxing and sleepy and he barfs like A LOT, Bob is like -________- don't get it on my car or I will maim you. Gerard inserts a snappy comeback between sticking his head out the window to barf and wiping his mouth with a grimy gas station napkin.
A lot of unfamiliar highway names and backwater motels later they actually GET to Arkansas. ( they almost didn't because Gerard had an altercation with a hotel mirror and his face. So hes kind of scraped and battered looking...not to mention hella tired and unhealthy. At least all of his baby fat pudge is gone.
So they get there tired and scraped up and kind of gross smelling. and Bob is like 'Welp ....this is home for the next 6 months. Take it or leave it. '
Gerard takes it because hes not an idiot (debatable) and he just detoxed over several hundred miles. With no one but Bob fucking Bryar for company.
A failure freak like him is bout to find work here...right?
>So Frank is his usual punkish self in these stories we write. His parents split pissed him off and made him sort of ........angryish. He plays gutiar and all that jazz from a young age. He sneaks out to go see shows. He tries to keep his grades up and nose clean in Catholic school.Because nuns are scary and he wants to be able to go out on the weekends OK? Hes trying to get a band together so he REALLY wants all the possible weekend time avalable for jamming and other such amazing things.
He finishes highschool and goes to Rutgers BUT DOES NOT HAVE TO LIKE IT OK....tho it makes his mom his mom so there's that. But busness school is so not him. He can't stand the stiff button down shirts and the stupid pattered ties and how everyone is all fakenice to eachorher. So after awhile he quits. His mom is upset but she kind of gets it after a while. for a while Frank just bounces around working all sorts of jobs. Telamraketing kitchen appliances,tire store, barkeep ( hes barely legal for this and gets so sick of the shitty tips and attudes of the patrons he kind of just quit after a few months.) a community library where he meets Mikeyway (about 6 months after Gerard ran off ) and fianlly a music store where he meets Ray Toro of the the Amazing Lava Lamp Hair. Who incdentally is an amazing gutarist like REALLY amazing. Frank and his bby Pansy kind of feel inadaquate like woah. (Somwhere along all that Pency Prep happend. It was awsome for a while and then ....bleh Frank dosen't want to talk about it. )
So one day at the music shop when there are like no customers and they're just kind of fucking around on gutairs Ray's like "Dude we should totes start a band together" and frank says something like "Are you on crack? Do you not see my sadface everytime I talk about how pency went down in flames?"
Ray is like kind of jokingly "pssshhh not everything is about you Frank I was-"
The Frank is like 'YOU ARE CORRECT SIR!' A plus brains dude! and starts kind of jittering in place and PLOTTING.
Which always freaks Ray out because they've known eachother for a while now and Ray is fully aware of Franks evil alter ego. For srs.
So Frank plans and plots also he includes Mikeyway in this because Mikey works for Eyeball reccords and could beg his boss to throw Frank and Ray a bone. Ray just kind of frets and worries about Frank being such a hyper little shit around all of the instraments in his shop.
So the band HAPPENS and they get other people to join ( Vauge stuff goes here bleabae fill in later.)
And everyone is about to throw up because what if epic fail and BOOing?
But they are flawless.....ok maybe not a little rough around the edges and a little offbeat but its GREAT and the crowd is like \o/\o/\o/ because its kind of small and in a dive bar. But YES a band GOOD. Frank is so hyper and happy and YES.
So to make this backround a bit shorter we're gonna wrap this up: The band is great and they totes get a good following on the scene and they get to the point that they get signed ( With eyeball of course) and sort of think about doing small tours.
Small tours turn into driving in a van from here to kingdom come.Which leads us to the sick drummer and brokeleg bassist.
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