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[joyfulseeker]

Y'all, I want to do a meme. And I like love! And I'm a total copycat, because gigantic has the best ideas. Therefore:

Give me any two characters bandslash or popslash and I'll tell you how they fell in love.

Yes? Yes.

ETA: Okay, all set! Thanks, guys!

Comments

[trumpeterofdoom]

I'm going to be completely obvious and ask about AJ and JC. :D

hm. am verbose (1/2)

[joyfulseeker]

AJ and JC, AJ and JC... Okay!

AJ has just broken off with his third long-term relationship Post Sobriety, and he just, he just doesn't know what he's doing wrong. Like, his ladies keep cheating on him, and his gentlemen keep telling him he's sweet but they just need other things out of the relationship (and secretly he thinks they're cheating on him too, they're just better at hiding it), and so he decides that he needs to clear his mind, gain some distance from everything. Nick comes around for dinner one night, bringing along his newest woman, a little thing who wears a lot of wooden bracelets and has long curly brown hair and giggles a lot, and she spends the dinner talking about her experiences at this spiritual retreat she just got back from, while Nick nods and says, "Sure, baby, sure," and playing with the strap on her tank top. AJ tries not to stare down her shirt, even though he can see the see-through edge of her bra whenever she leans over to emphasize a point, but by the end of the evening, he knows one thing.

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[joyfulseeker]

"Oh," JC says, looking down at his plate. "Sorry. About that. I can leave if you--" He makes to get up, and AJ pounds his fist lightly on JC's shoulder.

"Sit. Stay," he says. "Hey. Why don't we start over?" He clears his throat, scraping his hand through the air like he's capturing something and throwing it away, and JC starts to smile just a little around his eyes. "All right. Hey, JC, buddy! Damn, man, I can't believe I ran into you in this here spi-rit-ual retreat. That's amazing! How the hell are you?" JC starts grinning and breaks into laughter at the end, and AJ smiles

[gigantic]

Frank/Patrick, okthx!

[mumblemutter]

Oh wow, that was my first thought after dismissing all the obvious ones. Can we second other people's comments? *does so anyway*

[joyfulseeker]

Frank/Patrick. Frank/Patrick. Okay. So

Possibly not what you had in mind, but....

[lovelypoet]

Tell me how Bob Bryar and Joey Fatone fell in love.

Re: Possibly not what you had in mind, but.... (1/2)

[joyfulseeker]

Bob! Okay, this one actually took some looking up of various timelines, which means that I officially lose at memes, but whatever

Re: Possibly not what you had in mind, but.... (2/2)

[joyfulseeker]

They hung out a little bit, or at least, that’s what Bob defined it in his mind because that was really what it felt like, Joey saying, “Hey, I got that new kung fu movie, Crouching Squirrel, whatever?” and Bob saying, “Oh, rad, I’ve been meaning to check that out,” and then they’d watch Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon in Joey’s hotel room, and sometimes the other guys were around, and sometimes they weren’t

Re: Possibly not what you had in mind, but.... (2/2)

[callsigns]

Oh my god, you broke my heart with Bob Bryar/Joey Fatone. How did you do that? Obviously you must now write their present-day reunion where Bob teaches Brianna to fuck with equipment AND to fix it, but tells her not to until Joey buys her something (which, you know, takes 2 seconds, since Joey's a push-over).

[callsigns]

Please tell me how William and Jon fell in love! I am DYING to know!

[joyfulseeker]

William and Jon!

William fell in love with Jon when they were wee young things on the Chicago scene, and they'd meet up on street corners in large groups of friends and head on in to shows together and then push and shove and sweat and jump and afterwards head out to a diner somewhere to have burgers at midnight before William had to split off to try and sneak back into his house at 1 am. He fell in love one night when they were talking about being in bands. William's band had just fallen apart for the fifth time and the lead guitarist, in leaving, had hissed, "Well, what the fuck do you expect, with your shitty lyrics?" and William was just feeling rather bruised about it all, and maybe like this band thing wasn't entirely all it was cracked up to be. Maybe he ought to become an artist.

"Like, pottery," William said. "I saw this thing--"

"What the fuck are you talking about?" Jon said.

"There was a program," William said. He stabbed at his stack of pancakes

[callsigns]

Oh my GOD, that is so. I mean. Please don't be offended when I say it feels like gen, because that means it feels uber-realistic, like SO realistic, oh my gosh! I can hear the bean conversation happening right now! Man, that's nice.

[joyfulseeker]

Yay! Hahhhhh, I was totally running through your rules on how to write William Beckett while doing this one, too. Yay fandom!

Oh YES.

[mumblemutter]

Jon and Brendon. ♥

Re: Oh YES.

[joyfulseeker]

Brendon's told the story of meeting Jon a million times, the way Brendon started singing "A Whole New World" and Jon chimed in with the Princess Jasmine part in a wicked falsetto. "And then," Brendon would say, throwing his arm over Jon's shoulder, or draping himself across Jon's back, or plucking at Jon's beard, "and then, I fell in love." He usually contorts his face or fake cries or something and ends up in Jon's lap, with Jon making to shove him off. Sometimes Jon coos, "I love you too, honeybun," because Jon is good like that.

The thing is, Brendon kind of means it. He'd been having a shitty day. Spencer had yelled at him twice and Ryan wasn't speaking to him at all. He suspected the two were connected, because Brendon had insulted Ryan's backing vocals during a really trying rehearsal session in one of the venue bathrooms by saying, "Could you sound and flatter, Ryan? Jesus. The note is here." Ryan and Spencer were like thirteen-year-old girls sometimes. It got old. But, yeah, not one of his finer moments, he's

Re: Oh YES.

[mumblemutter]

...oh man, you have no clue how much I needed to wake up to this today (much earlier today, obviously). Gosh they're so precious. This is canon. They're in love. Thank you.

"Could you sound any flatter, Ryan? Jesus. The note is here."

Brendon is my faaaaavourite. ♥♥♥

Re: Oh YES.

[joyfulseeker]

Awwwwww, you even corrected my typo in your quote! Also, I'm glad you liked it, as I was like, hmm, this one, a bit obvious, maybe? Except, yes, it's canon, and how could I not take advantage of that? Aaaaanyways. I'm glad you liked it. :)