#britgate might be over

[defultuser]

britverse masterpost aka julie and the mandem

luke 

yorkshire

lowkey talented but some undiagnosed adhd plus lack of care for anything thats not music means no one notices.

canon style but the cut off hoodie make many frequent appearances. aways trying to take his blaser off even though teachers don’t let him 

spent some time working at maccies and subway but keeps applying to new places try new things 

came out when reg hit him with a saucepan and he called it “pan on pan crime”

reggie 

a roadman

could be smart but not really trying, just at school to see friends

enemies to lovers with bobby. 

works at pets at home

accidentally came out by posting a bbc news article about something lgbt on his public insta rather than his anonymous one

bobby 

irish and/or chav

 gifted burnout kid already even though its only year ten. 

starts kinda chav style slowly evolves into whatever the hell he wants - slightly dark academia/ canon style.

works at toys r us / an off brand toys r us. he’s the giraffe 

came out by correcting a museum’s lgbt exhibit forgetting he was on a school trip and not out

alex

RP

parents are rich tory aholes but hes mid rebellion at the moment so hanging out with all the kinds of people they hate, not so subtle crush on willie.

 style is a mishmash of those around him, it takes him a while to get comfortable to wear pink but when he does he loves it. 

was made to apply for leadership by his parents, does not do his job (i don’t know what i’m doing how am i meant to help the year 7′s)

works at waitrose 

came out during his gcse drama cause he forgot his lines and made a joke about liking Willie (person and Brit meaning)

they all have a complicated relationship with the school uniform. [x] [x] 

flynn 

manchester

enemies to lovers with carrie, plays sport to compete (read flirt) with carrie 

applyed for leadership to compete with carrie is now responsible for charity events of something like that.

willie 

(did we agree birmingham) 

art kid

runs a tuck shop from his bag to compete with caleb

is aware of alex’s crush (and if he starts helping in the drama department no says anything about it)  

always covered in paint, volunteers at primary school to teach crafts after school

trying his best to set up a GSA at the school (mixed results so far)

julie 

american (it does not matter that this takes place in the uk we don’t replace madison) 

luke pisses her off in every class thats not music - she actually likes him in those classes

in on all the drama, gossips with willie during their shared art class about it, 

teachers favorite, although they wish she’d find better friends than the phantoms. 

prefect, head of house.

volunteers at charity shops 

carrie 

lowkey essex girl  

netball girl, centre and head of the team

always competing with flynn

is going to make the most out of high school. 

skirt rolled as high as she can get it, always in her netball hoodie.

 student leadership sports role (like sports captain or whatever you’d called it)

helps at her dad cricket club and is passive agressive to the rude customers 

nick

west country

kinda popular but nice

plays a sport and is good (either cricket, badminton or football) 

super smart so all the teachers love him. 

was a prefect maybe even head boy.

kayla

art student buddy with willie but she doesn’t care for the rest of the gossip, but she finds flynn and carries flirting rather entertaining. 

southern coastal town/city cornwall/dorset way (personal headcanon but no one has said otherwise yet)

works at a care home/ teaching workouts to old people 

trevor 

popular singer

always away for work so never sees his kids (bobby and carrie)

has a hot tub and lets the kids host parties at theirs. 

caleb

(did we agree scottish)

runs the corner store from which hes banned the whole group

also works at the hgc (now a spoons), and plays accordion

 (hes somehow everywhere always annoyed at the phantoms)

shops at waitrose and bullies the staff while he does 

britverse 

the phantoms busk on the local high street, definitely get in trouble more than once.  

julie flynns and alex’s drama teacher is definitely queer and everyones favorite teacher, 

the bright lighting guy is a tech drama student, while the kid from the orpheum is an alevel drama student that helps in their class,

they all did dofe.  

all help at open evening to various degrees of success. 

these are the classes they took.  

non-uniform  day is about as successful as you’d expect and is always for the same few charities. 

They meet as following : 

As kids - Julie meets carrie and bobby  primary school - bobby meets Luke, Julie and carrie at a different school meet Flynn  Year 6 (camping trip) - Julie/flynn fall out with carrie, all meet Luke  Year 7 - carrie meets Kayla, Luke meets reggie  Year 8- reggie falls in with the wrong crowd but Luke saves him - he still acts like a roadman though from his time with them  Year 9 - bobby joins (after going to a different school for two years) Alex joins and instantly gets accepted by the guys  Year 10 - willie joins the school, carrie and Julie share a music class and reform friendship, willex pining for the whole year after meeting in town.  Year 11 - one big friend group

Edits

roadman reggie artwork

boggie bi flag

stupid deaths

playlist

britverse boggie pride icons

SMAU’s

@queenmolina ‘s smau + sequel

@latinposeidon ‘s character profiles 

the performance part 1 and 2

accidental coming outs

the aftermath part 1 and 2

netball captains are assholes 

julie vs british slang

@defultuser’s open day part 1 2 3 

the investigation of caleb part 1 2 3 

@defultuser and @thegirlfulloffandoms ‘s charity event 

Fics 

coursework

britgate boggie init? 

bobby’s a vampire

britgate fic init

I've Got Friends on the Other Side (The Other Side Being The UK)

St Cuthbert's charity chaos

britgate boggie fic

britgate team: @queenmolina @apples-bees @sapphicflynn @lesducks @latinposeidon @faetalflaw @thegirlfulloffandoms @defultuser @spaceacekid

[defultuser]

Britverse fic

Inspired by this post. Thanks to @theladyfae and the whole britgate team for your help 

As the bell rings Julie looks round her music class. Luke is diligently scribbling in his notebook, she thinks music is the only class where he’s not racing to leave as soon as it's possible for him to do so. While the rest of the class leave Julie silently motions to Mrs Harrison, a request for her and her friends to stay in her class during lunch. After receiving confirmation and watching Harrison leave Julie pulls out her phone to see a text from Flynn in the group chat, an offer to get food from the cafeteria for anyone that wants; Julie replies with a thumbs up and sandwich emoji before letting them know to come music once they have food. 

Turning back round she sees the class is empty but herself, Luke and Carrie; who pulls out her salad before throwing her pen at Luke’s head effectively waking him from his musical coma. With Luke’s attention back on them Julie asks, “Did you want to practice for the performance Saturday while we wait for the others?���

It's a pretty certain bet Luke will do just about anything with the promise of music so it comes as no surprise when in place of an answer he stands and grabs his guitar. The pair begin to sing through the song while Carrie eats and watches, preparing feedback. 

“That song is fit my g’s” 

No matter how many years Julie has lived in the UK she will never understand a word that comes out of Reggie Peter’s mouth. Just last week he called her pencil case, phone, and both her parents peng, apparently it's a compliment. Putting down his guitar Luke walks over to his friends and begins a handshake far too complex for people that ‘don’t care for all that stupid friendship stuff’. Willie joins her and they take their seats on the tables with their feet on the chairs.

“How was media? Miss like your homework?” She turns and asks the guys. 

“Her lessons are so dead man, Miss Ellis is so dry” Reggie answers she gives Bobby a confused look, 

“Bad, he’s saying that it was boring, as always.” He translates as he pulls Reggie into his lap where he’s sitting in Harrison's chair. Cause yeah that's a thing now. Despite spending most of year 9 fighting and most of year 10 deep into school conspiracies, they both accidentally came out just before the start of year 11 and they've been sort of romantic ever since; by romantic she means they go Mcdonalds as a pair and have been caught on one too many occasions making out in various classrooms. But they seem happy enough so none of the group questions it.

Julie's internal monologue is cut short by the arrival of Flynn and therefore food. 

“Food!’ Julie screams as if announcing it to the group, as she heads over to Flynn to collect her lunch, an unappealing pasta and bottle of water. Nick sets about handing out food for the rest of the group that asked for some. 

“Hotdog” Willie calls as Alex makes his way over to him and takes Julie's spot, with a kiss on the cheek Willie asks, “How was class?”

“Not too bad, we had a test but it was on what I revised last night.”

“Lucky bitch!” Flynn calls from where they're sitting, feet half in Carrie’s lap “some of us had netball so didn't study.”

“Probably should have studied, would have been better than your help at the game.” Carrie argues which sets off a chain reaction. 

“What are you trying to suggest? At least I didn't spend 45 minutes making sure my tracksuit looked good. A tracksuit you only wore on the bus”

“Yeah 45 minutes you could have revised cause you sure as hell were not making yourself look good.”

“Yeah i’m naturally this fit,” 

It's at this point Julie steps in “Girls enough!”

“No at least let them trade blows next time,'' Bobby complains, earning him a middle figure from both netball girls. 

At this moment Kayla, late from her film studies lesson enters. In place of a hello she greets the group with “Fuck me french film is pretentious,” she gives Carrie a hug and collects her lunch from Flynn. 

“That bad?” Willie questions and Kayla heads over to Harrison's desk to eat, in place of an answer she groans earning a laugh from the group. 

The group drifts off into the kind of comfortable silence you can only get around your friends. Willie and Alex chat amongst themselves, while Luke and Nick discuss his latest song, occasionally strumming a chord or two, Carrie is deeply engrossed in her instagram feed. With the rest working on homework over at Harrison’s desk Julie pulls her folder out of her bag and joins the study sesh. Every now and again someone will address the room and sometimes a lasting conversation will form, such as “Did you see Ms Mathew’s computer? Her background, it's her and Harrison on a beach.” It would seem Bobby isn't quite out of his conspiracy theory phase just yet, this was one of their favorites, are Mrs Harrison and Ms Mathew dating? As Julie has already tried to explain, they've been married for years now but that seems like too easy of an answer for walking conspiracy podcast Bobby Wilson. It's not long until silence falls over the room again. 

Luke suddenly jumps up guitar in hand. As if taunting him the rest pay him no attention. “Guys!” he screams.

“What ?” Julie rolls her eyes.

“I got it, the melody, listen” he begins to play, Julie recognises some of the chords and lyrics from earlier in lunch, she’ll admit it's a good song, incomplete but good. Before he’s able to finish Mr Davids walks into the room, looking as sour faced as ever. 

“Um folks, what are we doing here?” He calls in that voice all teachers can do “It's lunchtime … What are we doing in this classroom? You know you’re not allowed in here without a teacher.” 

Reggie clearly with more confidence than the rest goes to answer before getting cut off by Davids. 

“No Mr Peters, don't answer me back.”

Not shaken Luke cuts in “Mrs Harrison let us stay here,”  

“Mrs Harrison said you could be in here, well is this Mrs Harrison’s room? er i didn’t think so,” Davids is so quick to tell them off he doesn't listen to Carrie’s protest that it is Harrison’s room “All of you out!” Figuring it's easier to leave than argue they start collecting their things, “Go outside, eat, be sociable.”

“We were just practising” Luke grumbles catching Davids attention 

“You’re practising? Really, Mr Patterson for what? Last I checked only yourself Miss Wilson and Miss Molina were music students” 

“A gig” Luke mumbles Davids is clearly not a fan of this answer,

“For a gig, umm is that a school event... it isn’t?” again Davids doesn't even wait for a reply “Right. Well then I suggest you practice outside of school. You’re here to learn not trash a classroom… out!” 

In perhaps what might be the only time they've ever been grateful for the far too short lunch break at this school, they don't find themselves classroom-less for long; almost as soon as Davids shuts the door on the music room, locking them out, the bell rings and they're sent off the afternoon form. Both couples share a kiss before separating for class. Luke and Alex leave first in what can only be described as a sprint, after all their form is unfairly far away from everyone else’s. And Carrie drags a begrudging Reggie away to their shared form. The rest offer a series of “see you in class” and “meet me at the shop after school”s before Julie leaves with Willie and Kayla following as they cut through the drama studio and into the art department. 

Once the register is called Julie is free to work on her homework, although songwriting isn't strictly homework. She finds herself drawn to the lyrics Luke had been working on earlier; perhaps she could finish it for him and they could play it at the Hollywood Ghost Pub’s open mic night. Already imagining how it'll go: the surprise and excitement on Luke's face as she presents it to him, the perfect song to play with the boys, the amazing performance as they give it their all, she smiles losing herself in the daydream.