#gus (thread)

concept: gus hosts a horror podcast and your muse is his cohost, a friend, a skeptic along for the ride, up to you, and they just had a terrifying and unexplained experience and gus's priorities are out of whack.

GUS ALDRIDGE.  20s.  he/him.  bisexual.  podcaster. ▶︎ MORE INFO

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His hands are still shaking as he pulls into the Waffle House parking lot, the entire drive it felt like he was on autopilot, and yet here they were. "What?" He says looking over at his passenger. "I'll be able to process whatever that was better with a plate of cheap comfort food in me."

Gus was surprised that she agreed to the initial interview. It did take a fair share of convincing as Gus tried to manage the balance between focus and being a little too overzealous. The last thing he wanted was to lose a good contact. A first person's perspective was just what his documentary needs to be something great. That being said he was aware this was much bigger than his passion project. There were lives in the mix here. People who were still very much alive were effected by this cult and he wanted to handle it with as much care as possible while getting right to the truth of it all. It wasn't always an easy ask. For somebody with a big heart he didn't always have the best tact.

shuffled: swoon by beach weather 

It was one thing to run into each other at his neighborhood coffee shop.  It had been where Gus would settle in and write-- rotating between drinking bitter black coffee and far too sweet iced lattes.  It felt like life was moving in slow motion the moment she walked in.  It wasn’t like he didn’t see bits of her all across the city-- posters of that band she liked, laughter that sounded a little too much like hers in the distance, the scent of her perfume coming from somebody near by on the subway.  However, it was never really attached to her until now.  

After a surprise reunion that lead to a few hours of playing catch up they parted ways to head back to their respective apartments, but it didn’t take long for them to realize they were going in the same direction.  When they approached the same building and it clicked that she was his new neighbor he was at a loss for words.  Perhaps the only person he ever really loved, but was simply pulled away by the distance of settling on different coasts  was now going to be just right across the hall.  

“Neighbors,” he echoes in disbelief.    “In that case do you maybe wanna come in?  I can give you the lowdown on the building.  Y’know who who wanna avoid, which washers are gonna steal your quarters in the laundry room and all that.”  Any excuse to have a little more time with her.  

concept: our respective spouses / partners are close business associates and gus has found pretty damning evidence that they’re having an affair so he goes to your muse.  

( In this verse Gus is a 42 year old stand up comedian. ) 

Gus had spent the last week wading through waves of denial so he wasn’t expecting them to just believe him off the bat.  He never questioned his partner’s close business relationship, they were successful so he wasn’t going to go around asking to fix what isn’t broken, right?  Gus trusted them completely and now he could feel that trust crumbling, and most days it felt like he was the only one trying to keep things together.  

“It doesn’t change the fact that the conference they’re supposed to be at got cancelled.  Weeks ago,” he shows them the phone with the announcement on the website.  “I had to find out from some hotel clerk when trying to ring the room.”  He gives the other a moment to take it all in.  

The thing about Gus is that he is very much an idea man.  He’s got imagination for days but practical building skills?  Not so much.  The only reason Fin and his old treehouse was still standing was because Fin knew which tools to steal from their dad’s toolbox to make Gus’s dreams a reality.  

Well, it seemed as if history was repeating itself as Gus designed a massive entertainment system... and needed to rely mostly on Casper for it to come to life.  Gus hovered nearby trying his best to be helpful which generally meant handing Casper whatever tools he needed and also distracting him plenty.  

concept: based on post in source.  tldr:  scream / slasher movie vibes.  you know the drill.  

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