ooooh step up au please??
hmmmm how to explain without over or underexplaining XD
I had the idea of like a Juke situation with step up, only the whole dance thing doesn't really apply to them, so then my brain was like, well Carrie dances, and we like Reggie with Carrie sometimes so I think the whole "my partner dropped me" "oh maybe i can help with that" thing is going to be part their story - even though this was going to just be a Juke fic originally
Luke is the Tyler, only instead of damaging the art school and having to do community hours there to make up for it, everyone is aged up in college or possibly even grad school? @onlygenxhere helped me brainstorm some thoughts on why Luke is there but not in school (we think he maybe emancipated himself from his parents at a young age and couldn't get enough scholarships to get in, but he lives near his dream school and is going to give music lessons to students as a way to support himself)(/ conveniently gets him on campus to meet everyone)
Reggie is a music production major, and his capstone project is producing an entire album. Nick was supposed to help as a tradesies for Reggie working on his album, but N droos them at the last minute for his own self serving needs (like Nora's asshole boyfriend in the movie), and when Reg finds Luke putting up tutoring lesson posters, he swipes him to help out with his project, a super experimental session album.
(I am actually really excited about the project - kind of based on something I saw on instagram; each person is given a key, a time signature, and a genre/theme/general idea and they record their parts individually and then put them all together to see if it works and obviously this is how they're going to realize they've really got something good together ;))
Julie (Nora) is dating Nick - and like the movie/as stated above, he's a royal asshole who only thinks of himself. Nick the Dick strikes again. (Sorry, Sacha.) There's more to her story that I haven't fully figured out yet
There is also some background Willex as of now but I want to pull their story more to the forefront - I just have no idea what this looks like yet either
There will be lots of shenanigans that move everyone closer together - looootsss of moving pieces I'm still working through. No idea when this story will ever be done but that's half the fun, no?
Somehow I feel I both overexplained and underexplained lol
Thanks for asking friend ♡