Title: My Way
Premise: Kirsty’s base fic, follows the plot of Gilmore Girls with limited variations
Season(s): 1-7, possibly beyond canon
Love Interest: Tristan Dugray & Logan Huntzberger
Summary: Kirsty Gilmore loved her family, she loved her town, and she loved her life. Really, she wouldn’t change a thing. But when she suddenly finds herself transferring to Chilton with her sister, change becomes inevitable. And with a new school, new friends, and a new world to explore, Kirsty finds herself wondering if she might want to be more than just a Gilmore Girl.
Title: Piece By Piece
Premise: Kirsty x Jess AU; what if Tristan did go to military school? Follows the plot of Gilmore Girls with moderate variations
Season(s): 2-7, possibly beyond canon
Love Interest: Jess Mariano (eventual & Finn?)
Summary: When Tristan was sent to military school, he made Kirsty promise that she would move on, that she would think about her own happiness for once. And she had tried. Over the next few months, she’d found herself growing closer and closer to Jess, until the accident. His sudden departure brought an abrupt end to whatever could have been growing between them.
Even after her blowout fight with Lorelai, she’d hoped that a summer on Broadway would be exactly what she needed to keep her promise, to clear her head and hit reset, but it was proving to be just the opposite. Exhausted, lonely, and ready to pack up and give in, Kirsty is quickly losing faith in New York.
That is, until something — fate, a panic attack, a thunderstorm, a lack of any clean clothes, take your pick — led her into a small diner and Jess Mariano’s arms.
Title: The Girl Who Drove Away
Premise: After high school graduation, Kirsty and Jess leave Stars Hollow for their own Great American Road Trip, canon divergent after season 3
Season(s): 3 onwards
Love Interest: Jess Mariano
Summary: Kirsty Gilmore had always had her life planned out. She would dance whenever the opportunity presented itself, graduate high school at the top of her class, go to Yale — majoring in dance studies, then going to law school — and work for the New York ballet for as long as her body would let her. It was written in her DNA: she would get her early decision for Yale and the sickening ball of anxiety in her gut would unravel, she would get away from the judging eyes of Chilton and the harsh criticisms of both her parents and grandparents, she would finally get her fresh start.
But when she crossed the stage with her high school diploma in hand, Jess gave her a new option. Get in the car and just go. He was going to follow his father out to California, stick around the West Coast for as long as it worked out. He was going to live his own On The Road, have his great American road trip, write the next great American novel. And the passenger seat had her name written on it. All she had to do was take the risk. She could be mad, she could chase the sun, she could finally find freedom. All she had to do was get in the car and go.
It should have been an easy decision. After all, she was the valedictorian, and the valedictorian goes to college.
But, what if she doesn’t?
Title: Style
Premise: Kirsty and Jess decide to stay in New York at the end of summer, Emily enrolls them at Constance Billard & St. Jude’s. Gossip Girl crossover, canon divergent from season 3 onwards
Season(s): Gilmore Girls season 3 onwards; Gossip Girl season 2 onwards
Love Interest: Jess Mariano
Summary:
Title: Once Upon A Time (In New York City)
Premise: When fourteen year old Kirsty Gilmore runs away from Stars Hollow for a day, she finds herself in New York City where she bumps into none other than Jess Mariano
Season(s): pre-canon through season 7
Love Interest: Jess Mariano
Summary:
Title: Crossroads
Premise: When Christopher returns to town shortly after Kirsty turns 16, she packs a bag and leaves Stars Hollow. In New York, she meets Jess Mariano, who lets him stay with her for two weeks while his mom is off with her newest boyfriend
Season(s): pre-canon through season 7
Love Interest: Jess Mariano
Summary:
Title: Exhale
Premise: kirsty & rory start at chilton in grade 7 and get exposed to hartford society early
Season(s): pre-canon through s7
Love Interest: Jess Mariano
Summary: At thirteen, the Gilmore twins got accepted into Chilton Prep. Rory and Lorelai are over the moon, and Kirsty is... tentatively not pessimistic. But there’s a catch. In exchange for help with tuition, the Gilmores have to spend every Friday night having dinner with their mostly estranged grandparents. And unfortunately for Kirsty, the harsh criticism that she’s used to receiving from her grandmother is nothing compared to her scorn as she tries to mould her granddaughters into proper members of Hartford society.
Title: Poster Child Prodigy
Premise: Lorelai knows that she can’t raise two children on her own, so Kirsty is raised by Emily and Richard
Season(s): pre-canon through s7
Love Interest: tbd
Summary:
Title: On Purpose
Premise: My Way AU where the natural progression of Kirsty & Jess’ codependency turns into a poly quartet in the Yale years
Season(s): 4-7
Love Interest: Jess Mariano & Tristan Dugray & Logan Huntzberger
Summary:
Title: Little Wonders
Premise: When Kirsty is in the hospital after the accident in S2, she discovers that she’s pregnant
Season(s): s2-7
Love Interest: Tristan Dugray; eventual & Logan Huntzberger
Summary:
Title: The Middle Of Starting Over
Premise: Liz sends Jess to live with Luke when he’s still a child, he and Kirsty grow up as best friends
Season(s): pre-canon through s7
Love Interest: tbd
Summary:
Title: Winterglow
Premise: Kirsty and Jess meeting in New York one Christmas when they're young, while Kirsty is in town to dance in the nutcracker — they had a seasonal friendship until Jess gets sent to stars hollow and "wait what are you doing here"
Season(s): pre-canon through s7
Love Interest: Jess Mariano
Summary:
Title: Can I Have This Dance?
Premise: the ballet au absolutely no one asked for
from a fairly young age Jess has known the importance of having money of his own and one day decided to audition for the nutcracker bc "how hard can it be" and it paid, he turns out to have a natural aptitude for it and gets cast, he and Kirsty have done the nutcracker together every year since they were 7, then Jess gets sent to stars hollow and "wait what are you doing here"
Season(s): pre-canon through s7
Love Interest: Jess Mariano
Summary:
Title: Miles To Go
Premise: Jess gets sent to Stars Hollow to start high school instead of as a junior
Season(s): pre-canon through s7
Love Interest: Jess Mariano
Summary:
Title: Perfect For You
Premise: Liz marries a Chilton dad and Jess ends up at chilton
Season(s): 1-7
Love Interest: Jess Mariano
Summary: Jess Mariano was used to his mom being flighty. He was used to the endless stream of new boyfriends and husbands, used to moving from apartment to apartment at a moment’s notice, used to always being an afterthought to his mother’s latest whims. But still, those whims had never brought him out of New York, so at least there was one constant in his life. At least there had been, until his sophomore year of high school, when his mom met and married her latest rich man. Only this time, he wasn’t from New York, he was from Hartford. And come January, Jess would find himself not only living in Connecticut, but stuck at Chilton. A fucking prep school.
He was expecting the stuck up rich kids, the condescending teachers, and even the bullshit social ladder. He wasn’t expecting the whirlwind that was Kirsty Gilmore.
Title: Lost In The Memory
Premise: august au
Season(s): 3-7
Love Interest: Jess Mariano
Summary: When Tristan left for military school, Kirsty found her eyes — and thoughts — wandering towards Jess Mariano. She knew that nothing would come of it, he only had eyes for Rory, but she couldn’t stop herself from hoping. Then came the car accident — which was not Jess’ fault, no matter what her mother might say — and Jess left, and Kirsty said goodbye to that hope. But when she found herself in New York, stumbling into Jess’ diner, her hope came back. And when she found herself in his bed, she no longer needed to hope.
Summer was everything she could have wanted. It was almost too good to be true, really, but she knew that it would have to end. After all, she was going back to Stars Hollow, and as far as she knew, Jess wasn’t.She should have been excited to be proven wrong. She would have been excited, if she hadn’t found out by seeing him making out with Shane in the middle of town; if he hadn’t gone right back to only having eyes for Rory.
At least she still had the memories, but memory might not be enough to make up for the hurt she felt.
Title: Dreamland
Premise: arranged marriage au bc why not
Season(s): 1-7
Love Interest: Jess Mariano
Summary:
Title: Run Away With Me
Premise: post accident runaway/road trip au
Season(s): 2-7
Love Interest: Jess Mariano
Summary: When Jess climbed out the hospital window, respecting Kirsty’s desire to keep he and Lorelai apart, he made her promise to call him. He expected her to check in, to ask where he’d gone and to let him know that she was okay. He didn’t expect her to call him in tears, telling him that her mom had invited her dad to visit despite Kirsty begging her not to tell him. “I can’t be here anymore,” she’d told him, the words desperate but not untrue.
When Kirsty called Jess, she’d only been planning to confirm that she was home and — mostly — okay. She hadn’t expected to break down in tears when he’d asked how she was, to tell him that her fractured ankle had killed her shot at a Broadway role, or to confess to how desperately she wanted to be away from Christopher, away from her mother.
Neither of them had anticipated that Jess would drive up from New York, knocking on her window in the middle of the night with an offer of freedom, an invitation to get in the passenger’s seat of his car and just... leave.
And they definitely hadn’t expected that she would say yes.
Title: Lost In A Film Scene
Premise: child costarts to lovers (reunite in stars hollow)
Season(s): pre-canon-7
Love Interest: Jess Mariano
Summary:
Title: Miss Americana (And The Heartbreak Prince)
Premise: child costarts to lovers (acting together all their lives)
Season(s): pre-canon-7
Love Interest: Jess Mariano
Summary:
Title: Lonely World
Premise: raised by christopher au
Season(s): pre-canon-7
Love Interest: Jess Mariano
Summary:
Title: Begin Again
Premise: new york kirstess with no twins
Season(s): pre-canon-7
Love Interest: Jess Mariano
Summary: Going to New York was supposed to be everything that Kirsty Gilmore ever wanted. A chance to follow her dreams all the way to Broadway, a chance to experience living away from home, and even a chance to more past the heartbreak of her breakup with Tristan. But instead of the best summer ever, Kirsty has never felt so hopeless. Alone, friendless, struggling to go from the biggest fish in a tiny pond to a tiny fish in the biggest pond, Kirsty is ready to pack it up and give up on New York — maybe forever.
That is, until something — fate, a panic attack, a thunderstorm, a lack of any clean clothes, take your pick — led her into a small diner and Jess Mariano’s arms.
Title: Broken Scene
Premise: the one where Kirsty & Jess meet in a hospital
Season(s): pre-canon-7
Love Interest: Jess Mariano
Summary:
Title: Fifteen
Premise: boarding school au 1 bc i’m predictable as fuck
Season(s): s1-7
Love Interest: Tristan Dugray (eventual logan huntzberger?)
Summary:
Title: Thread By Thread
Premise: boarding school au 2 bc I’m predictable as fuck, ft. this time jess is there too
Season(s): s1-7
Love Interest: Jess Mariano
Summary:
Title: State Of Dreaming
Premise: writer jess & muse/dancer Kirsty (jess never went to stars hollow)
Season(s): post-s3, maybe post s7
Love Interest: Jess Mariano
Summary:
Title: Dream Come True
Premise: piece by piece AU where Finn is more than a little interested in the cute girl in his photography lecture and just as interested in the hot barista at his favourite coffee shop — little does he know that they have two children together
Season(s): s5 or s7
Love Interest: Jess Mariano & Finn
Summary:
Title: Beautiful Stranger
Premise: writer jess & photographer finn & dancer Kirsty who is both of their muse (jess never went to stars hollow)
Season(s): 5-7
Love Interest: Jess Mariano & Finn
Summary:
Title: Mother Knows Best
Premise: dance moms AU
Season(s): N/A
Love Interest: Potential Jess Mariano
Summary:
Title: In A Daydream
Premise: another arranged marriage au
Season(s): 1-7
Love Interest: Tristan Dugray
Summary:
Title: Golden Hour
Premise: another another arranged marriage au
Season(s): 1-7
Love Interest: Logan Huntzberger
Summary:
other aus: figure skating au, gymnastics au, broadway au, hamptons au, hamptons au 2, kirsty x finn au, kirsty x finn x colin au, kirsty x finn x logan au, kirsty x finn x colin x logan au, royalty au, modern royalty au, equestrian au
note: while none of these are directly inspired by a specific fic, the vast majority of my overall au vibes come from reading Hallie fics
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so i’ve been thinking about names prompt Kirsty & Tristan?
“So, I’ve been thinking about names,” Kirsty said, as soon as Tristan entered the apartment.
Immediately, three heads turned to her.
“I thought you wanted to wait for the next ultrasound to start brainstorming?” Tristan said, once Logan had turned the TV off.
Kirsty shrugged as best as she could from where she was sprawled across the couch, head in Jess’ lap.
“I know, I know... but fetus kicked for the first time today,” she explained, “and it just... I don’t know, it clicked.”
“What are you thinking?” Logan asked, giving Tristan a chaste kiss when the other blond joined him on the loveseat.
Kirsty sat up, leaning against Jess, who immediately wrapped an arm around her shoulders.
“I... if you don’t like it, that’s okay. It’s kind of personal, and it shouldn’t just be my decision so like, please don’t say okay just to keep me happy or whatever.”
“I should—” Jess moved to stand, but Kirsty pulled him back down.
“You’re our family, Jess, I want your opinion too. Actually like... I really need you here to tell me if it’s a terrible idea.”
“What is it?” Tristan prompted.
“Luke. Well, Lucas. Or Lucy, but I have a feeling it’ll be a Lucas. Or not a Lucas, if you don’t like it. Or if you,” she glanced up at Jess, “think he’ll hate it.”
“He won’t hate it,” Jess promised. “He might cry, but he won’t hate it.”
“I think it’s perfect,” Tristan agreed, and Logan nodded beside him. “Lucas Gilmore-Dugray-Huntzberger?”
Jess snorted. “I’m glad you have a first name, but you seriously need to figure out the last name situation.”
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