#unsaid reggie

[jegulusofwesper]

what’s two of the saddest things that you can think of? unsaid emily and marauders fics, especially the black brothers? perfect! that’s the correct answer!

boy do i have just the thing for you!

[iamfarfromvibingrightnow]

I feel like we as a society sleep on the lyricism that exists within the JATP soundtrack.

Like "I feel your rhythm in my heart. You are my brightest burning star. I never knew a love so real. We're heaven on earth. Melody and words. When we're together we're in perfect harmony", "Consider me the pearly gates to your new favorite thrills", "The rain don't blind the rising souls, they got too much to see", " "If I could take us back, if I could just do that, and write in every empty space the words "I love you" in replace, then maybe time would not erase me.", " The words I most regret are the ones I never meant to leave unsaid", "Love me as I am. I'll hold your music here inside my hands", "When all the days felt black and white, those were the best shades of my life", "Wake up if it's all you do. Look out, look inside of you. It's not what you lost, it's what you'll gain, raising your voice to the rain", "Life is a risk but I will take it, close my eyes and jump", "And I use the pain, 'cause it's part of me and I'm ready to power through it", "Keep dreaming like we'll live forever, but live it like it's now or never"

[polls4you]

Julie and the Phantoms: Choose your favorite song!

Listen to the songs below the cut!

[fleursfairies]

stand tall makes me cry more than unsaid emily

[hemeraomara]

This has completely taken over my brain!

Almost everything is the same as it was in the show with some minor changes made by moi.

Obvi, Percy Jackson is Luke and Annabeth Chase is Julie. I struggled with which PJO characters would best fit Alex and Reggie before I finally settled on Will Solace and Leo Valdez, respectively. I was super tempted to have Will be Willie, but I decided Nico would be the better choice for Willie. Kronos is Caleb, cause of course. Thus, I made Luke Castellan Nick. As much as I do not like Lukabeth, he fits the best (especially after the season 1 finale). Drew Tanaka as Carrie, Lacy as Kayla, and Chiron as Mrs. Harrington. I struggled a lot with who I wanted Bobby to be, but in the end I chose Chris Rodriguez (don’t think too hard about him being Drew’s dad, it’s an AU).

I split Carlos into Bobby and Matthew and kinda replaced Aunt Victoria with Helen. In this AU, she is still Annabeth’s stepmom, but she’s not an evil stepmother, y’know? I’m thinking she and Fredrick both recently lost their spouses and decided to move in together out of convenience. Matthew and Bobby are Annabeth’s stepbrothers.

I have so many ideas for this AU and not enough time to draw them (I will as soon as school is over). I even found a way to make Unsaid Emily even MORE heartbreaking!

[misteravan]

[munsonwinchester]

They really didn’t have to go that hard with Unsaid Emily! It’s 10pm on a Tuesday and I’m trying to explain why I’m crying over a dead musician ghost who died eating hotdogs to my boyfriend 😭💕

[prettygirlcse]

why are all the jatp songs actually SO GOOD?!?!!! like i actually love them so much it makes me very happy

[ginervacade]

Ooo would love to hear about Protector 🎵!!!

You my Darlin have stumbled upon Alex’s Unsaid Emily.

The episode opens to Julie, Alex, and Luke just hanging out in the garage. Julie is flipping through the song book and comes upon a torn out page that she’s never seen before.

“ Luke who wrote this? It’s Reggie’s style but your awful handwriting.” Luke comes over to look at it and seems a little confused, “ Hey Lex, C’mere. I don’t remember this,” he says.

When Alex sees it he freezes. “ That’s um- she- I have to go.” Alex poofs out of the garage, leaving Julie worried. Luke seems to get it, he tells Julie not to let Reggie see the song. Camera fades out from the page where “ Hey There Darlin’” emblazons the top.

Cue a flashback. Fade back into to a pair of feminine hands writing out the same words. We see Luke sneak up behind her, throwing his hands onto her shoulders and cackling when she jumps and shreiks. Upon reading the title over her shoulder his smirk only grows.

“ You’re writing about Reggie” he teases.

“ Shut up!” He teases her some more but then changes, “ Hey, do good at your audition. But also try to get there more than 5 minutes before show time, K?”

“ I’ll be there Luke.”

This is Alex’s little sister Chrissy. We see more scenes of her with the band. The way her eyes tend to linger on Reggie. The way she squeezes Alex’s hand and talks him down when he starts to panic. The way she can prevent fights from breaking out when Luke and Bobby get too worked up. We see Chrissy comforting and giggling and adding a little more light to the band. We find out that Alex and Reggie’s parents made them both play basketball their freshman year so Chrissy had joined the cheer team so she could always be there for them both. We see her pushing back against their parents after Alex had come out to them, then curling up with him in his room as he cried.

Mixed with this flashback we see Alex wondering through the city, and hear his voice singing a song called Protector.

“ I was supposed to be yours but you always had to be mine. Since I wasn’t strong you always had to be fine. I wish I could go back and be.. your protector.”

We see the police lights again just like we did before. Chrissy never made it to the show.

We leave Alex on a swing, wondering what happened to his little sister who he couldn’t be there to protect. At least she didn’t die of hotdog poisoning with the boys.

Back in the garage Julie plays about four notes of Hey There Darlin on the piano.

In an Alleyway near the Orpheum we see Willie skating, when suddenly there’s a very feminine scream and someone falls out of nowhere, not unlike the boys had when Now or Never played.

“ Woah! Hey there, are you ok?”

The girl stands up, looks at Willie, “ I’m dead, aren’t I?”

“ Seems like it. Sorry kid. I’m Willie, welcome to life as a ghost!”

“ Thanks, I think.” She shakes the hand he offers “ Chrissy Mercer.”

Credits

[chillychive]

Okay but imagine if Luke's unfinished business was making up with his parents/mom and the events of Unsaid Emily did that. So when he poofed out he just was gone. Julie would leave their house and when she got home, no Luke. She'd probably think she overstepped, and he was angry. She'd find Alex and Reggie and they wouldn't know where he was either. Julie would be worried that she overstepped and he was angry, and they would reassure her that he probably wasn't upset. She'd probably go to bed thinking that he just needed time to cool his head. After a couple days and no Luke, they'd start to search for him. At his house, at the Orpheum, all the places he frequented in life, all the haunts he found after, even the places he wanted to travel to, but never got the chance, and they wouldn't find him anywhere. Eventually, they would put the pieces together after scouring every inch of Hollywood. He was gone. He crossed over.

[cat-crowned-8]

Look me in the eyes and tell me that this isn't sirius towards regulus after he leaves the Black house and can't save reggie.

"All of the lines rehearsed Disappeared from my mind When things got loud One of us running out"

"If I could take us back, if I could just do that And write in every empty space the words "I love you" in replace Then maybe time would not erase me If you could only know I never let you go And the words I most regret Are the ones I never meant to leave"

ESPECIALLY:

"Silent days, mysteries and mistakes Who'd be the first to break? I guess we're alike that way"

[quodekash]

What happens when Emily and Mitch eventually find Julie’s YouTube or smth. Like. They just see their dead son. Singing with the girl who gave his song to them a few weeks back. And they’re in the place he ran away to. And he’s just right there. 

What would they do? 

I think they’d be amazed and devastated and a little angry, cos the natural assumption (especially with him being at the house he literally ran away to) would be that he never left, his spirit just went to - what they would assume is - the only place he ever felt truly at home. 

If that were me, I’d feel pretty horrible/angry that he never came to visit or give me a sign that he was (kind of) okay, and he just fully ignored me. And I know he didn’t actually ignore them, he just wasn’t around at al for 25 years, but they wouldn’t know that and I wish we could have a season 2 for them to explore the angst and feels and stuff around that situation. 

Adding on to that, possibly the way that they’d find out is through Bobby. He’d see they’re all somehow still alive in a way, and he’d tell anyone he could that would listen to him. Including the devastated parents of the kids he was in a band with. 

I’d also like to just add that Bobby would’ve  been pretty gosh darn traumatised by the events. Like any normal person who’s in a band with three of their closest friends and then they find out all three of them literally died and now they’re completely alone? They’d be pretty traumatised. He mentions to Carrie at one point “I’m gonna go see my therapist”, and it makes sense that he’d have a therapist, cos three of his friends literally died when they were all teenagers. 

I also think that Bobby would’ve been one of the first people to discover they’re dead. Like either it would be those random people in the background at the start, or the hot dog vendor guy, who would realise these kids are dying and call the ambulance, in which case Bobby probably wouldn’t be notified (cos he wasn’t with them at all) until he’d come outside eventually to tell them they’re on in five or smth and either find no one there at all, or find an ambulance speeding away, or see a bunch of paramedics lifting his friends’ bodies into an ambulance. Orrr he would go outside to find them, and then he himself - a flipping 16-18 year old, a literal teenager, minor, child - sees them asleep and tries to wake them up and nothing happens and he checks their pulses and fear grips his chest and he grabs out his phone (under the assumption that the garage/house is his family’s, and it’s a really nice house, so the conclusion there is that is his family is pretty rich, so I’d assume he’d have a phone with him) and calls emergency services, and that’s the last time he ever sees his friends. 

And then the guys go and haunt him, and he’s probably already been haunted by memories and the thought of their still, lifeless bodies, without the help of actually being genuinely haunted. 

And yeah, it was rly messed up that he stole their songs and gave no credit - or even mentioned them to Julie or rose or even Carrie. But also the guys doing that is messed up. It’s no wonder he never gave them credit or mentioned them to anyone, cos doing that would presumably awaken bad memories inside him, which he very much would not want. Poor guy is bloody traumatised. And carrie basically not reacting at all to her dad going to see his therapist implies that he sees his therapist a lot, probably frequently like once a week, so not only is he traumatised but he’s getting constant therapy for it and still needs more. And yeah, it’s possible those are just regular checkups cos everyone should get therapy whether they’re in a bad place or not, but the fact that he was clearly verbally and visibly distressed, and Carrie still doesn’t react, implies that he might have episodes a lot where he remembers the guys or thinks about them or whatever. 

AND ALSO HE DOES MEDITATION, which could be a coping technique from his therapist, or a way for him to clear his mind and thoughts. 

Whatever happened right after the guys died, whoever it was to find their bodies, it would be bloody traumatising for a group of four to suddenly be a group of one. He’d need extensive therapy and help for that, he’d be very much not okay, anyone in his shoes would be very much not okay. 

He might’ve contacted his friends’ families immediately, to tell them what happened, cos the guys didn’t like their parents at all. Reggie’s we’re right about to divorce. Luke’s didn’t want him in the band. Alex’s were homophobic. They all probably escaped from all of that every single day by going to Bobby’s house, to the one place where they could all be themselves without hate. So not only would it be horrifying to have a suddenly empty garage every day, for your friends to no longer be there, to know that they’ll never come back, Bobby would also probably have possessions from all of them, and no one other than Bobby would be able to give those to their families. Not only that, they probably wouldn’t even know for a while, because of how much their kids hated them. It’s possible they didn’t know for literally days, and they just assumed that their kids were staying overnight at Bobby’s. They wouldn’t think to contact their kids, or their kids’ friends and friends’ families, they’d just assume they’re okay. It was probably Bobby who had to break the news to all of them. So there’s some extra trauma and horrible-feelings piled on top of that. And he’d break the news to them as well as probably give them some things to remind their parents of their kids or something. Imagine an entire fic or episode or something based on Bobby’s experiences after the guys died. 

He’d go to Reggie’s place, interrupting a fight between his parents. He’d tell them their son is dead. He’d give them Reggie’s favourite pick or something. Reggie may be a mess, but something tells me he doesn’t leave his stuff lying around, like both physical objects and real things. He probably always thought he could just internalise it all, make it into jokes, not go into detail about how much his parents’ fights affect him and how scary it is, how he has to shield his younger siblings when he’s at home, to try and keep them safe and happy. Same with physical things: he would seem like the kind of person to forget to clean up after himself, who would leave it all lying around. But he keeps it clean, cos if he can’t clean out his mind and his own house, can’t get rid of the fighting, he might as well get rid of the things he could, take control of what he could. So he probably wouldn’t leave much lying around the garage, wouldn’t even own that much stuff to leave around the garage. He’d give it to Reggie’s parents and they would fight more, saying that it’s his fault Reggie died no it’s her fault and the other kids would cowed behind a corner and Bobby would hug the kids, try to protect them how Reggie used to, but knowing there’s no use. 

He’d go to Luke’s house, tell them their son is dead. They’d cry, they’d scream. Emily would be sure it’s her fault. Mitch would break down and fall to his knees. Bobby would stand there, unsure what to do. 

He’d go to Alex’s house. He’d hesitate at the door, not wanting to interact with these horrible people. Then he’d knock. He’d tell them the horrible news. He’d say he’s sorry. He’d say he wishes Alex could still be alive. Alex’s dad would stare at him menacingly. Alex’s dad would say “serves him right, doing the devils work”. Bobby would fill with anger. Alex’s mum would say “I’d feel sorry if he could’ve brought us a girlfriend rather than that boy. And a rebellious boy at that, he ran away from home to be in your little band.” Bobby would crack, the rage spilling over. He’d yell at them, scream at them, say they’re horrible parents, they didn’t deserve a beautiful amazing child like alex, that it wasn’t his choice, that they should be at least a little bit sad that their only child is gone, that someone they raised is gone from the world and he was only 17, that they could’ve had an ounce of respect or kindness in them to make alex actually feel like a person. He’d take a small pride flag out of his pocket, the one Alex left behind, shove it in their faces and say that everyone is a person. He’d storm away, going back to his home. He’d hang up the pride flag in his room, bright, proud, loud. He’d fall to the floor, crying, lost, terrified. He’d be horrified that someone can hate another person because of who they love, even when that person is their child, the literal result of their love, and they hate him because of love. He’d reflect on hate and love, two very different but very similar things, how they intertwine with one another, like some terrible but beautiful dance. 

[jukeboxtheatre]

I’m not saying I hyper fixate hard… but… the numbers speak for themselves

[polls4you]

Julie and the Phantoms: Choose your favorite song!

[fleursfairies]

hot take: unsaid emily and perfect harmony are low on my hypothetical ranking of jatp songs

[darkphoenix180]

Everyone seems to like them lol.