#she’s truly the sorry for the eldritch horror that lives inside of my brain do u still want me

[gyeolsim]

hello team it’s 3 am and i have this au concept rapid fire don’t think too hard about it don’t question me just come along with me in this journey

we’re in a dangerous and gloomy megacity by the sea, sharp with skyscrapers and misty alleys, always dark, always damp, corroded by salt and blood, hiding something, violent and seedy, an elder, eldritch city that breathes and bleeds as alive as its citizens, populated by strange and unusual beings that slither and writhe through the streets with everyday normalcy, gangsters and saints, gods and monsters, a city where fighting and stealing are the norm, where every man is out for himself, where you could really picture some cool-ass noir-style neon shots with a mad cool lovecraftian twist

drop our kids in this city, rapid fire, all of them living through their worst, most violent, tragic timelines: daisy’s mom has been freshly murdered and daisy is coping poorly with the grief and meddling with dark forces, the sirens are mercenaries laundering money through a brothel, moire is a too-young hitwoman, nick’s enrolling in a corrupt police academy, reagan and aud are insatiable con artists, ai’s the isolated daughter of a crooked politician, arash is, like, a repo man or something, val’s auntie’s cursed servant, damian’s damian. you name it: none of them have ever known anything but the horrors and terrors and of the city and they’re jaded to it, come to embrace it, the city is all they know and all they will ever know, the city is home

ok are we following? yes? good, ok, rapid fire, hear me out: this is an idealized, dark-comedy, moulin rouge-esque over-the-top dramatics, musical about teenage growing pains 

like there’s clearly all this darkness and misery around them and our nebulous story doesn’t quite shy away from it but it also is never truly centered, all the storylines focus on the mundane teenage worries/dreams/aspirations of this ensemble, their crushes and feelings of belonging and like, stupid friendship drama: the juxtaposition of this innocence of youth that refuses to die even in the darkest circumstances

shh, shh, no questions, just follow along and ignore my lack of knowledge when it comes to variety in musical theatre:

ai escapes the suffocating constrict of her corrupt fathers’ watchful eye to ~experience~ the city, headscarf around her head, and ends up somewhere in the violent and brutal fight ring where moire is an indisputable champion, immediately is smitten, sings fight for me from heathers the musical. val, similarly under auntie’s command, has a tender moment as she makes a delivery and sings ring of keys from funhome.

I ACTUALLY don’t have a plot of any kind but rapid fire don’t think too hard about it  reagan of course sings freeze your brain, while aud robs whoever its distracting with its faux internal turmoil blind, nick sings there are worse things i could do from grease (kdgdkjgkdkdfkfljkdfd) fuck fuck i don’t know enough about musical theatre time to use crazy ex-girlfriend im sorry

arash sings i give good parent, while like, preparing to meet a date’s parents while also cleaning blood off his apartment, very american psycho. uhh im running out of ideas i’m giving damian you stupid bitch, i feel like oh my god i think i like you really fits in this musical but it’s super nsfw so i can’t think of anyone lmao. we change sex for violence so it’s actually this really silly and fun sequence of clea tagging along with daisy as daisy kills and maims her way through the city and them realizing they have a crush (but as he’s begging you to stop / writhing around on the floor / i feel somethin' deep inside I never felt before… oh my god i think i like you!)

olly gets research me obsessively of course, as someone is trying to investigate her disappearance, moire and daisy have a dead girl walking interlude (daisy is veronica, moire’s JD), misha sings about wanting to find love with waitres’s when he sees me, and he has a really bittersweet choreography with a bunch of guys a la florence  that teeters between romanticism and violence.

daisy and nick definitely sing seventeen which is actually the thesis statement of this musical au because i love them and this is my au