Buckle up bitches, there are SO many people over the last few months that have suggested to me or I’ve just seen and was like “Yeah that guy can be John/Michael!” Also with the conception of my Trans!Franchela AU, I also have two more NEW Franchel to show off. While I wanted to keep it a surprise, I already missed all of Franchel Week @franchaelweek, I ain’t missing Fancast Day ahahah.
Without further ado, here’s my collection of the Stirlings and a surprise Genderfluid!Fran & Michaela cast!!
The Stirling Boys
Note: I have actually sort of compiled a list of them before here but it has since been updated with more people for them ahaha and also I didn’t put in pictures of all of them which will be done here!! [Also would recommend looking at this post on mobile so all the pictures are sized the same!]
The Very First One: Dev Patel
We shouldn’t forget our roots lmao and he was the very first person I saw in my mind as Michael when I first read WHWW and also the Stirlings being Indian-Scottish helps erase Coloniser!Michael in the two years he ran away to India and was ‘working’ there, instead I can see him going there to honour John’s memory and pay pilgrimage to scatter John’s ashes.
Never really thought about who his John could be but my fave John fancast of all time at the moment is:
My Favourite John: Raymond Ablack
Yes I chose a shirtless picture on purpose, we ALLL need to simp for John more and give his due, okay?? He’s related to Michael so OF COURSE THEY ARE BOTH HOT and they were bestie so I imagine they were pretty alike, John was just more covert about being a hoe in public lol. That doesn’t make him Michael 2.0, just as hot, realistically related to and having a friendship with his cousin and Frannie deserves that.
So I have talked about this in the previous fancast post but I love love the idea of the Stirlings looking SUPER alike since their fathers were twins and so when I found Raymond Ablack and @hptriviachamp Triv suggested her favourite Michael fancast, I knew I had to put them together! Especially since while watching Ginny & Georgia, I thought Raymond was:
Rahul Kohli - An Angsty, Twinning Michael
Okay this isn’t a smouldering angsty gifset I just want to show yall him in a suit LMAO, THIS is his Michael!
Ik Ik he’s a DILF in Midnight Mass and much older but Sheriff Hassan’s vibe feels very Michael post John’s death!
Then we have our Filipino!Stirlings who was suggested to me by Lil @sharmasandcorgis who said Manny Jacinto would make a great Michael and she’s RIGHT:
Manny Jacinto: THE Hottie
I want him to TOP ME so badly lmao but yes, the Filipino Stirlings also tied into me liking the idea of Latino Stirlings who are named Miguel and Juan and while I don’t have any Latino guys in mind now (tho Danny Ramirez as one of them 👀👀), Filipino people using Latin names works for this fancast!
So I present Miguel Stirling ^^ and here’s
Rene Gube as Juan Stirling:
[Don’t mind the slight blurriness - he’s a pretty niche actor and all his ‘soft bf vibes’ pictures were with his wife and they are cute af but they weren’t screaming Franchel ya know?]
Honourable Mention Stirlings:
In the ask linked above, the anon suggested Sameer Usmani and I’ve talked about how I feel about him on that post if yall are curious to read! So here’s a hot picture of him to speak for itself ahahah:
Sameer Usmani: In Clothes Dating 300 Years Older Than Bridgerton
When They Were Wicked: A T4T Franchela Cast
Okay so this upcoming person was suggested to be by Lil again (girlie has so many brilliant ideas!!) when she saw me obsessively posting abt Top Gun on my other account and I made a post on it. And while at the time I saw him as Michael, now I’ve decided he’s my John for the T4T Franchela AU!!
Fighter Pilot Turned Earl of Kilmartin: Greg Tarzan Davis
HOTTIE JOHN: View on IG
John Vibes FR FR: View on IG
I decided on him as John because I finally picked out my Michaela and here she is:
Now the moment yall have been waiting for!! Genderfluid Fran is hereee - initially wanted to make it a surprise but I’m just too excited to share them!! Drumroll Please!
Brigette Lundy-Paine IS Fran Bridgerton, Consort of Kilmartin
Also I LOVE this photoset of them, it’s what convinced me they were Fran!! I also love that they look like they could be Ruby’s older sister ehehe. They have SO many amazing pictures of them, I honestly couldn’t decide which one to use but then realise I could save them for the edit I’m making to go with my Trans!AU ehehe
I know this got long, so thank you if you read through the whole thing. Let me know what you think of these casts and who are your FCs for the Stirlings or any alternative Frans - of a different gender or racebent Frans (Amita Suman is my Indian!Frannie here)!
Thanks again to the creators of Franchael Week for organising this week!! Hopefully my late content makes up for not posting on time 😂😂
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the
Organization for Transformative Works
Michael looked at her consideringly, and said at some length, "Every marriage has its own rules, its own set of little games.”
Color once more crept into Francesca's cheeks. When he put it like that… yes, she had some inkling about the games one employed within a marriage. His eyes raked across her blushing features, and she was so sure he would tease her about it, but he didn’t.
“But you would know all about that, wouldn’t you?” he instead asked softly, almost bitterly, and she had no idea what to make of it. “After all, you’re the married one.”
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