im imagining an au where everyone survives at the end of ch2, and bill goes on to write a novel inspired by the events of the losers club. he doesn’t tell the exact story of pennywise- just a monster loosely based off of IT and a group of characters inspired by his best friends.
when it finally comes out of course the losers read it, and as richie’s reading it he can quickly identify which characters are supposed to be who, and he has to say he’s a little flattered by his own character’s portrayal. but then as he keeps reading, he begins to pick up on the way that his character and what is clearly eddie’s character interact with each other….. to the point where richie calls up bill and asks him why there’s a whole romantic sub plot between his and eddie’s characters. bill, who would definitely win an award for the most oblivious person out there, is confused, he’s like “??? i didn’t write any romance between you guys…?”
and richie’s like “no you did, they way they’re acting, it’s so obvious that there’s something more going on there.” and bill just says, “i don’t know what to tell you, man, i just wrote them the exact same way that the two of you used to be when we were kids.”
and that’s when it all hit richie, that eddie- his childhood crush who he realized he never really fell out of love with after reuniting after 27 years- maybe felt the same way. meanwhile eddie is also reading the book and freaking out because “holy shit i never thought i was that obvious about my feelings for him but jesus christ how did he never notice if this is the way we were acting with each other ?!?!?!!?!??”
Richie: Why did you write us gay?
Bill: … I didn’t? What’re you talking about?
Richie: But the characters who are Eddie and me are acting so gay together.
Bill: … Dunno what to tell you, dude. I just wrote them like you two used to act together.
Richie: So you’re saying … we acted gay?
Bill: No, *you’re* saying you acted gay. Have fun with contemplating the ramifications of that.
The theme of this day was ‘ATLAB’ au. Lorence would be a coward of a fire bender. Johnny, Richie, and Flynn would be from the Earth Kingdom and have a traveling show to con money out of people. Johnny would be a Non-Bender but deal with hyping up the customers. Richie would a Earth bender and is probably the most talented of the group. Flynn would be a metal bender, only he is really bad at it and can only move metal a little bit. They would dress Flynn up as a psychic and use his metal bending as proof of his ‘psychic powers’. Lorence would run away from the army because he’s a coward and Johnny, Richie, and Flynn would find him. They would befriend Lorence and use Lorence to make special explosions effects in their show.
