please rant to me about your carol!harlivy au🙏💖
eeeee thank you bri should have known i could count on you
okay so the basic premise: obviously it’s inspired by the 2015 film Carol. but i would say it’s more inspired by than like fully based on/a full on Carol AU. it’s more a 1950s AU with heavy Carol inspiration?? if that makes sense
But similar to Carol, Harley is married to a shitty husband (The Joker) and has a child with him (Lucy). She’s a housewife and she meets Ivy when she’s out shopping. Ivy does something with florals or gardening for sure. She’s maybe the owner of or clerk at a Florist/Floral department. And Harley runs into her buying flowers for Joker or smth like that and the two instantly connects. In classic Carol and meet cute fashion Harley leaves behind her gloves and Ivy uses the information left with her order to contact her. The two start seeing each other more regularly and eventually (way down the line because hello slow burn) the two act on their feelings for each other.
Harley is also planning to divorce Joker bc he’s a POS. But she’s also scared because she really loves Lucy and Joker is threatening to take custody of her just to hurt and manipulate her. And Harley is trying to hide her relationship with Ivy because she’s afraid Joker will use it against her and she also doesn’t want Joker to find out and ruin Ivy’s life out of spite.
And this is where it divulges from Carol because I was thinking that Harley and Ivy might plot Joker’s murder (🫣) because he’s an abusive asshole. Or maybe they just plan to take Lucy and run away together. Or maybe they just find a way for Harley to win the legal battle. I’m still not 100% certain on what I would want to go with.
And yeah in terms of character archetypes Harley is kind of both Carol and Therese. And Ivy is also both Carol and Therese lol. Harley is like Carol as the married woman and mother but is more like Therese in terms of vibes and relationship dynamic. Ivy is like Therese in that she’s the clerk with dreams of doing more with her life who falls for the married woman. But I definitely see Ivy with more of the vibes of Carol in terms of the more confident and experienced one. And like-
tell me this wouldn’t be ivy’s vibe????
but yeah basically a deeply angsty but also fluffy slowburn 1950s romance (with possible murder?)!
and i don’t know if any of this makes any sense but i hope you see the vision
thank you for coming to my ted talk ❤️💚
