#caroline.....control your wips challenge

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Answering @galvanizedfriend here because I accidentally deleted your ask which was so clumsy of me!

Stripper AU aka To Dancing and Second Chances

Caroline has a one night stand in Vegas with someone that ends up being the same guy who's hired her best friend to strip for a bachelor party that weekend - only she fills in, and ends up inciting a full-on brawl between brothers as soon as Klaus realizes the situation...

No real draft here unfortunately, it's mainly just an idea I've been playing around with.

HOWEVER, you asked about the Morning Show WIP too and I happen to have quite a lot of material on that one! So, here you go. Enjoy:

Morning Show AU

Caroline works at a morning news show and is prepping for an interview with some ceo/owner/whatevs of some organisation that has recently gotten a lot of bad press and need to smooth things over with the public.

Enter: a smug, smirking, too-good-looking-to-be-legal narcissist who mistakes her for a PA and drops some comment about his brother "Sending a pretty face his way to make things easy for him."

Well, that's just not going to work for Caroline, who only started this gig as a stepping stone for some real, hard-truth journalism. So, when the show starts and the guy is shortly thrown off by her being one of the co-anchors, she finds that she quite enjoys watching the lopsided all-knowing face of his drop. But as her colleagues go on to puff him up with soft questions and basically just offering him some easy publicity, she decides to jump in with some questions of her own. Going off-script and totally putting him in the hot seat. Even throwing his words back in his face...

(an excerpt from the draft:)

"So, Mr. Mikaelson..." she began, starting in one direction as she was about to follow up on the subject of his most recent philanthropic work... but finding herself taking a completely different path. "Where do you stand on the leaked news of members of your organisation using radical means to protest your own product?"

She isn't surprised when he repeats his perfectly rehearsed line from some diplomacy handbook about "bad apples". But she's not letting him off that easy.

"So, you don't find yourself responsible for the sort of message that your people are sending out into the world?"

A tiny smirk pulls at the corners of his mouth, a light shining in his gaze as if catching onto her challenge. He folds his hands on the table before him, shrugging lightly as he responds. "Well, we have currently about 20.000 men and women within our employ, and while we do our best to ensure that everyone keeps true to our codes of conduct, I hardly believe it fair to-"

Her head snapped up at that. "Fair to what, Mr. Mikaelson?" she interjected, smiling the brilliantly sweet pageant smile that won her Miss Mystic three times in a row. Her eyes cold as she could barely keep them from rolling at his words.

"To assume - nay, hope that you as leader of the company take your role seriously. And that you not believe yourself exempt from the very same agenda which your employees have been spreading on social media as well as in the press these past few weeks..." she pressed, imitating his shrug. "Unless, of course, you do not consider yourself in control of your employees?"

"If you are asking me whether I am in a position to dictate my workers' opinions, Ms. Forbes. Then the answer is no."

"Right. You're just in a position to dictate their visibility, their platform, their contributions to your workforce." she listed off nonchalantly. "No, I get it. I suppose you are right in distancing yourself from the protests and the current acts of civil unrest on your part... Since, it appears to me that you are merely there to look the part. No more than a... pretty face. Did I get that right, Mr. Mikaelson?"

The way he was watching her spit his own insult back at him, with something dark and all-knowing, made her ears burn as she waited for a reply. Silence hung heavy between them while the other anchors had lost their voices already and both the audience and the rest of the cast held their breaths in anticipation. Clearly expecting the man to blow up, to throw his mic in the air - or worse, at her - or to simply storm off in protest.

But instead, he smiled. Nodding slowly as he licked his lips in thought. The room immediately relaxed as he seemed to not take any offence after all. "Well, Ms. Forbes..." he drawled, his voice rasping just slightly and giving his barely-contained rage away to the reporter as she struggled not to smile in triumph. Pleased to have rattled him. "I suppose you have me all figured out."

To be continued...

[katierosefun]

author interview tag game

thank you for the tag, @pandora15! <3

Name: caroline

Fandoms: mostly the clone wars, but i also have some marvel stuff, and waaay back in the day, i wrote some doctor who and merlin stuff!

Where you post: primarily on ao3! i mostly just write on tumblr when i’m accepting prompts from like...ask games or something.

Most Popular Oneshot: real

Most Popular Multichap: to these memories (this fic only recently hit 1k kudos, and my heart?? w h a t)

Favorite Story You’ve Written: def. to these memories because a) longest fic i’ve ever written, and b) oh, the hours i logged into writing this fic, and c) oh, the outlining that went into this fic...i’m very proud of myself for completing the fic, and of course, i credit this to everyone who showed their lovely support for the story. :’)

Fic You Were Nervous to Post: uhhh definitely too far just because it’s...rather personal. i sometimes say that there’ll be a scene or two or just straight up a line or two that’s plucked out of my real life, and i think it’s inevitable for writers of any kind, including fic writers, to isolate their real lives completely from whatever they’re writing, and?? this fic is probably the most personal for me because of that. i remember kinda hem-hawwing about posting it, because i was like whoa, maybe this is a little too personal? but then i steeled myself and was like, “okay, well, would this have lifted my spirits when i needed a story like this??” and then decided to post it.

How you choose your titles: i def. toss and turn between titles! there’s a few fics of mine that are straight-up song lyrics (no surprise there), but to my surprise (as i was looking through my catalogue of fics just now), i realize that a lot of my fics are usually just words or two about what i think might have been extremely important to the story. (or captures the overall tone/theme of the story, anyways.)

Do you outline? for multi-chapter fics and relatively long one-shots with lots of moving parts, i’ll outline. but for shorter one-shots and prompts, i’ll usually just stick with the image that compelled me to write the prompt/one-shot in the first place! (and then kinda write around that.)

Complete: uhhhhh, i’m gonna answer relatively for all my clone wars fics, because in total, i have 74 completed fics. (make that...75, hopefully in a few minutes or hours!) but out of clone wars fics, i have 46 completed fics! (and again, hopefully 47 in a little while.) a part of me is lowkey hoping that i’ll get up to 100 total fics by the end of this year. a part of me highly doubts it, but given how much i was able to write over summer break, i’m...intruiged if i wind up somehow writing another twenty or so fics by the end of this year. (asfsf my wip list is long enough to fill in for another twenty fics. caroline finish all your wips challenge.)

In Progress: okay, so officially, time, wondrous time is in progress and online. but in terms of the works in progress on my laptop...i have...*mutters, counting* fourteen official wips. (ten of them are one-shots, and the other four are longform fics. one of them, i’m hoping to release next week (!!!), and another, i’m hoping to release hopefully around mid-december. uhhh so fingers crossed??)

Coming Soon/Not Yet Started: oops, i guess i kinda already answered that question, but eh, might as well! the one coming out next week (hopefully!! caroline get your shit together challenge!!) is titled most ardently, and it’s an obitine au based off pride & prejudice because i cannot and will not shut up about obitine being the period drama ship out of star wars okay--

and then the other longform fic that is very overdue is called getting lost in a big galaxy, which is a fix-it of sorts taking place after season 5. anakin’s gone missing, and obi-wan winds up going on a galaxy-ride road trip with ahsoka (who, remember, has left the order) to find their idiot. this is honestly my excuse to just write more obi-wan and ahsoka content. hopefully, that’ll be posted in december!! (despite the fact i...originally meant to post it in august oOps.)

and then there’s this other longform fic which...might be coming in early 2021 called red, underlined, which is essentially...uh. everyone’s a stressed out law-school student, and anakin might have accidentally murdered professor palpatine, and now anakin, obi-wan, ahsoka, padme, and rex are all trying to find out what the hell to do with themselves because they’re all in on it. (def. influenced by how to get away with murder except without the criminal justice professor to lead them through the ropes. so more chaos. kind of a dark comedy vibe, if anything else? anakin no is major theme in this one. uh, i mean, maybe anakin was justified in murdering creep palpatine because our gang’s gonna find out what was going on in the background, but either way! lots of “holy shit are we good people are we bad people what are we doing”. lots of questions about morality! ethics! law school student study nights with anakin sprawled out on the floor and obi-wan wearing glasses (which he pushes up the bridge of his nose whenever he’s about to lecture anakin that no, that’s not how that statute works, dumbass) and ahsoka just bringing snacks and rex catching paper airplanes and padme being the one to supply everyone with very neat flashcards. this fic is gonna be an absolute beheamoth, and i’m estimating about 45 chapters? like...130K+ words? help? yeah idk either this really blew up in my head

and then...this stupid, wonderful, boring, amazing job, which is...office x tcw au. only not? it’s very, very loosely based off the office, but not really. obi-wan moves in as a new manager of a company, and we’ve got anakin being like “lol new guy i’m gonna mess with him”, and ahsoka being the one who’s both like “please don’t mess with our new boss” but also being like “actually, wait, lemme help”, rex being in hr and being like “i don’t get paid enough for this”. (also there’s some parts that are written like actual interviews like you would find in the office, so there’s this one bit where uhhh

Obi-Wan flicks his eyes to the cameras in silent question before turning back to Ahsoka. “Well, if you need to call maintenance, then I hardly think you need my permission—”

“Thanks!” Ahsoka says quickly, and she’s about to disappear from the doorway when Obi-Wan stands up.

“Wait, Ahsoka, what exactly—”

Ahsoka re-appears at the doorway. “Oh, right,” she says. “Um—maybe just stay away from the men’s bathroom for a little bit.” She pauses.

“Actually, just stay away from them for the rest of the day.” She hovers by the door for a minute longer, and then she adds quickly, “And maybe also avoid the breakroom. Everything’s fine!”

And with a perfectly not-fine smile, Ahsoka disappears from the doorway.

Obi-Wan stares at where Ahsoka was just a moment ago, and the he turns to the cameras in disbelief. “Did she just—” Unable to finish his own sentence, Obi-Wan starts out the door. “Ahsoka?”

The camera follows Obi-Wan out of the conference room and into the breakroom. There are only muffled shouts—Anakin’s shouts, and then Rex’s, and then Ahsoka’s frantic “no, sorry, everything’s fine!”, and then Obi-Wan’s loud, “What is going on in here?”

surprise y’all just got a snippet i’m sorry can you tell i’m weirdly into this au?? i need to rewrite some scenes but uh there you go

Prompts: for the most part, yes! i have some stuff in my faq about prompts that i’ll probably turn down (mostly anything that’s...above a certain rating/really, realy heavy themes that i just don’t think i can tackle with justice or with enough education on my end). i can be a little slow with prompts, but i’ll get to all of them in time!

Upcoming Work You’re Most Excited About: uhhhh i have too many that i’m excited about. literally i can write a mini essay on every single one of the fics i’m working on? but uhhh i guess since i already talked about all my major longform fics above (asdfasdfsd didn’t mean to do that, i’m so sorry for everyone who had to scroll past that word-vomit), i guess the one i’m most excited about releasing is the post season 7 obi-wan-and-ahsoka-finally-talk-about-how-they-miss-each-other-also-sorry-for-fighting-with-you-i-know-you-were-just-trying-your-best fic. (not a whole ton of spoilers for this one, but uh. i’m looking at some of these scenes and making frustrated sounds because there’s this one particular instance where i’m like, ahsoka. ahsoka just talk to him just ta lk to him but then lol no talking :)) also maybe some h/c? lowkey sickfic might be involved in this somehow? might have accidentally served as a precursor to to these memories? help? this fic just ballooned. caroline keep your ideas contained challenge!)

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