woke up this morning to this little headcanon list in the notes app on my phone and i only vaguely remember writing it lmao. i took out the typos but other than that, here's 1am-me's thoughts on this au:

alex and willie run a bakery together and they do a ton of custom cake designs. reggie is their taste tester and he also designed a handy little form for on their website that customers can fill out with custom cake info

bobby lives relatively nearby with luke, his infuriating best friend who is obsessed with alex and willie’s cakes. whenever bobby has a message he really wants to get across, he’ll have them put it on a cake. also, he likes the cakes too

sometimes the messages are serious (if you don't stop leaving dirty socks on the floor i'm kicking you out) and sometimes they're just as much of the bee movie script as can fit in the box on the form

alex and willie haven’t met bobby beyond when he’s picking up the cakes and because it’s usually so crowded in the bakery, they haven’t had the opportunity to ask about any of them. they’re both fascinated by bobby’s random messages, a little scared of the aggressiveness in some, and also find the whole cake messages as a way of communication to be kind of very adorable

they also just find bobby cute

they put notes on the cake box to thank bobby for his orders and stuff. bobby replies to them in his reviews of their bakery. there's an entire thread of theories about the good place scattered between cakes, cake boxes, and the reviews

one day, bobby orders a cake that requests them to put the lyrics to rick astley’s never gonna give you up on it. it’ll be a cake-shaped rickroll

but he forgot to fill in what flavour the cake should be, which gives willie and alex the opportunity to call him (the phone number is included on the form but they’ve never had a proper reason to call and they’re Professionals who wouldn’t abuse such knowledge), and of course, before they say anything, willie plays the song over speaker to rickroll bobby

the cake will be chocolate chip. alex and willie will deliver it right before they pick up bobby for their first date

Hiya lottie, thankies for the ask! (Send me any sentences and I’ll write a short fic from it :)) have some boblexie

“And what exactly did you think was going to happen, when you decided to do this?”

Alex is struck suddenly with the realisation that Luke has finally taken his place, stood in front of the kitchen table with his hands firmly on his hips, not at all regulating his volume despite the fact that Alex knows Luke exactly how painful every damn word is. He shrugs helplessly, groaning at the wave of nausea that rolls through him. “I don’t know,” he complains, keeping his eyes trained on the box of Bobby’s cereal on the counter. “It seemed like a good idea at the time!”

Hi hi hi sydly ty for the ask :))

Boblexie angst is basically just a fun little jaunt down down anxiety lane, where Willie asks Alex if he’d be interested in dating Bobby as well and Alex kinda takes it the wrong way ajd gets insecure, but it all ends happily ever after bc I don’t do sad endings, and it’s lots of fluff and reassurance after a little bit of the sads yk

(Here’s a list of 35 of my wips - send me one or more names and ask me anything :))