Missing your veil inspired model Bernard au if you have any more ideas for it please share would love to hear them 🙏🏻🙏🏻
god i havent thought about this au in sooo long but i do have some hc!! (og veil!au posts here and here)
so after the Billboard Incident, tim becomes, like, obsessed, with bear and he doesn't realize it's bernard until he's on like a 2am deep dive and finds out that "bear" is just bernard's modeling name and his real name is bernard dowd
and tim's a little confused bc what the hell is bear doing modeling??? back when then were in high school, bear used to talk all the time about cooking
but also, tim's famous!!! bear's famous!!! why did he never reach out?
and then one day, tim's doing like a photoshoot to announce the new wayne collab with some up and coming modeling house and the director of the photoshoot says that he'll be working with another model
cool, whatever, at least he gets to work with a pro right? and the door opens and out comes bear with his hair artfully tousled and lips painted a pretty pink and he's wearing clothes that show off his broad shoulders and oh my god, the fucking boner is back
and as he discreetly tries to hide it, he opens his mouth to greet bear except, bear's eyes go stone cold and the grip on his coffee cup gets tighter
"what the hell is this?" bear says coldly and then he turns around to talk to his manager
"you said i wouldn't have to work with him. in fact, it was the one thing you promised me, when i signed that contract."
tim sinks back into seat stunned as bear's manager drags him off for a quick conversation. when bear comes back the shoot goes off without a hitch but bear says nothing but the bare minimum to him the whole time
tim pulls bear's manager aside to talk privately before the shoot ends
"did i do something wrong?" / "mister drake, you know i can't tell you what my client has told me in private and even if i could, i still wouldn't"
"i havent seen him since high school. i just wish i knew what he was mad about."
"mister drake, more than bernard being my most valuable client, he is also my friend. i can't and i won't tell you the reason but, you look like a good guy. and in all honesty, i think you'd be good for him. so i'll leave you with a hint: maybe it's not about what you did do, and more about what you didn't do."
"if you're his friend, why're you helping me?"
"bear's good now, he'll be great when he can move on from whatever's stopping him. i think it's you. this hurt has been festering for almost a decade and if we're being brutally honest, it's your fault. so you fix it, so that my bernard can be up there with the greats."
bear's manager turns to leave and right before he exits the door he looks back and says, "and if all else fails mister drake, just remember that apologies are usually a good place to start."
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Ok so here's where I'm at with Icarus:
I'm essentially - for lack of better term - calling their bluff.
Icarus says they don't *want* to hurt their friends and family, but will do so if needed.
Mans couldn't even leave Rae alone when they splashed them with Skulk, so they've already proven that they can't fully follow through.
And today when Icarus was saying, "I don't want to hurt you, Athena." -
No, no, no, you're the big bad villain now. You've got to what you think is right, so go ahead and do it! Go on a killing spree and kill/hurt your friends and family, cause even if you Fable wins, oh I'm *sure* they'll forgive and still trust you after all is done.
You claim that you've never been good, that you're a killer, so go on...
Go on...
Unless you can't?
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if you havent seen hadestown in person (or otherwise) i need you to know that in the center of the stage a giant circle is inlaid. (two, if you want to be precise) it can spin in place, and the middle is a platform that raises up and down at certain points in the show. you can see it unmoving here in this gifset.
it makes for some truly captivating choreo
but more importantly is what it silently adds to the layers of metaphor;
hadestown as being an inherently cyclical, doomed to repeat story. we keep telling it, hermes tells us, despite the ending always being the same.
(we gasp, the audience, every time orpheus turns around. why?)
hadestown, taking place on a stage with a turning table. where the characters keep walking in circles, over and over, forever.
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