As I’ve mentioned twice in two previous posts, not to be mistaken for the Theatre Kids created by @msweebyness
So as I mentioned before, the members of the Theatre Club were inspired by the characters in @booksrbetterthanpeople’s fanfic MacDeath, where characters hinted at looking like characters from musicals
Those being Veronica Sawyer from Heathers, Connor Murphy from Dear Evan Hansen, Michael Mell and Christine Canigula from Be More Chill, and Beetlejuice from Beetlejuice
As I also said, I asked Books if I could use them for the concept of Tales of Theatre Bug and Munkustrap
We started with naming them, Ronnie, Cole, Michel, Benny, and Christine stayed as Christine as she was named such in Macdeath
Then we chose more characters:
Greaseball from Starlight Express
Jane Doe from Ride the Cyclone
Peggy Schuyler from Hamilton
Sheila Franklin from Hair
and Audrey from Little Shop of Horrors
I admit to rolling a 20 sided die while looking at the list of characters and picked whichever number was on that list, specifically the last five mentioned since Anne and Carrie were the first we thought of
From there, we came up with names, usernames, which Miraculous they would have and what names they’d have
Mylène and Zoé are part of it, yes, but that only makes sixteen, right?
Lila Rossi makes seventeen, inspired by Books’ version of her
Also, because there are more girls than guys, I did what the mangaka of MHA did and genderbent one of the girls to have at least one more guy, and while they have preferences and bits of personality attributed to who they’re based on, I did want them to be their own people
I’ll put full names, like I said, we had recently finished coming up with the last of the surnames, and not all of them have the same initials as those characters
Ronnie Sinclair- Veronica Sawyer
Michel Moreau- Michael Mell
Christine Capet- Christine Canigula
Cole Martin- Connor Murphy
Benoit “Benny” Joyeux- Beetlejuice
Adam Beauchamp- Anne Boleyn
Candace Lavigne- Carrie White
Gavin Matthias Baker- Greaseball
Sage Florent- Shelia Franklin
Maggie Cartier- Peggy Schuyler
Juliette Lafleur- Jane Doe
Of course, we even came up with the teacher, M. Salvatore Fiero, who is based on Prince Fiyero Tigelaar from Wicked, who is very protective of his students, is like a cross between a cool uncle and father figure, and he and his partner Adrianna even took in Candace after her mother got institutionalized
As mentioned, in this universe, Jean and Johan are the ladybug and cat heroes, and they chose their fellow club members as the temp heroes, and I’ll just send the list of their names and who has it
Chistery: Benoit “Benny” Joyeux
Hurricane: Maggie Cartier
R.L.: Gavin Matthias Baker
Miss Honey: Zoe Lee (I still facepalm for not thinking of this one sooner)
Calamity: Aurélie Garnier
Trunchbull: Ronnie Sinclair
Virgil: Mylène Haprèle (I know Virgil is a rat and Mullo is a mouse, but it’s a rat in the Chinese zodiac)
White Rabbit: Candace Lavigne
Could you get all the references to those hero names? 😉
