Hello! Daydreams for a summary of actorverse. Can u send a synopsis? Loads of affection!
Hi there :D Thanks again for your Ao3 comment and for your continued interest in my little story!
Regarding Happily Ever After...Maybe (which is the sequel to my Xavierine/Cherik actorsverse fic From Lovers to Friends and Back Again), here's the original summary:
Logan and Charles are finally together, after ten years of going back and forth and back again. Now the studio wants Charles and his ex-lover Erik Lehnsherr to make a sequel to the Academy Award winning ’First Class’, and with a part tailor-made for Logan too.
Add in a new studio head who just wants to dominate Awards Season, a talented if slightly crazy director, and a pitched battle on social media between their respective fanbases and the shoot for ’Days of Future Past’ is guaranteed to be one giant shit show.
So the first two chapters basically sets up the story, which is that the studio is finally ordering a sequel to Charles and Erik's smash hit 'First Class', and they're both contractually obligated to return. There's also a part written by the screenwriter specifically for Logan, and Charles and Raven convinces him to take the role for reasons (they get to play lovers in the sequel, its a prestige film - the first one won Charles an Oscar - and the script has a scene where he gets to punch Erik in the face lol). So he agrees even if he's still concerned for Charles, because he knows how difficult it will be for his boyfriend to have to work with his ex again.
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In broad strokes, the rest of the fic basically takes Logan and Charles to New Zealand, where they begin work with multi-award winning director Sebastian Shaw on the sequel. Charles reprises his role as a teacher - now headmaster - at a private school in 1912 where he is in a secret love affair with the school's groundskeeper (played by Logan). The plot of 'Days of Future Past' is essentially a love triangle, where Erik's teacher character returns to the school after having left 10 years ago (at the end of FC). The shoot starts off reasonably well, with Charles and Erik maintaining a professional if cool distance when they're not on set/shooting scenes. But then things rapidly begin to go off the rails when Shaw starts making changes, pushing the writer to beef up the interaction between Charles and Erik's characters for the sake of 'story' when really he's hoping that sparks will fly again and give him a better movie. There's shenanigans, and poor Charles ends up falling into a pond that inspires Shaw to insert a 'dripping wet coming out of the water' scene like the one in Pride and Prejudice with Colin Firth's Darcy, and the shoot is just super chaotic because Shaw is crazy (but brilliant and demanding) and everyone is on pins and needles waiting for things between Charles and Erik to boil over. Only what happens is what Logan was afraid of in the first place, that being in close proximity again, playing the same characters as they did when they fell in love in the first place is making the UST ramp up and those feelings resurface (even as Charles denies feeling anything for Erik, and that he can handle the increasing number of love/sex scenes being added into the script for them). Things come to a head when Logan realizes from watching them together that they have SO MANY unresolved feelings, and ends up breaking things off with Charles so he can figure out what he really wants, once and for all.
In the meantime, social media goes absolutely bonkers over every set pic that gets leaked, and fans are losing it over Team Charles/Erik vs. Team Charles/Logan online (the media gets in on it too of course). And we finally find out the reason(s) why they broke up in the first place, which is a combination of a) them falling hard and fast before realizing they were fundamentally different people with very different backgrounds and motivations, b) professional jealousy and differences over why they chose acting as careers and finally c) Erik stealing Charles' agent Azazel because he wanted the best in the industry to help him get the awards recognition he craved.
Of course in the end, Charles chooses Logan, and they live 'happily ever after' again :D
