GarrettHannah role reversal AU
Just read the first chapter of this fic that roughly follows this concept (Hannah is an hockey player and Garrett is more nerdy in the general lines..) and i just needed to give my 2 cents on this bc it got me pretty inspired - different take than the og fic though. warning, its gets a little dark in some places..! mentions of domestic abuse, SA.
Garrett :
- 2 years after his mom's death, he's enduring the hits, the emotional abuse, the stress and the pressure, Garrett flat out refuses to continue his father's legacy. Enough is enough. Oh it makes his dad angry, so very angry and mad, him who spents all his years building something great and his own son is refusing him this very thing? Garrett ends in hospital and nothing consequent come out of it because of course his father's influence, his money, his connections, and he knows how to charm the right people the right way. (he hates that its something they have in common) - between is 12-15yo, he is then sent to his aunt, (his mother's sister) in the countryside : he begins hitting the drums, (his aunt has a local band) + his mom is the one who transmitted him his musicality and it helps him to remember positive memories abt them together before. It grounds him a little bit; - he continues to go on the ice, to skate, and exercising his hockey skills : he refused to continue training for his father, but he still loves the game ( and habits forced on you from when you were 4/5yo tend to die hard ) - there's an old man who comes often from time to time, that he finds a bit ridiculous in the beginning (the macho culture of hockey instilled in him), but from conversations to conversations, opening up a bit and here he is, dancing on ice... - between that, the drums, the music and his aunt, he starts to get a little better emotionally. -> its immediately put to a stop when he gets bullied/mocked/physically harassed for it, and his 'professor' get badly injured (in the coma) by hockey bullies (paralleling Hannah's agression) but instead of being put down, he gets angry (violent), he hunts those thugs and beat them up. His father's son he cant help thinking, mournfully, crying. - he comes back to his dad, who used his influence so he wouldnt have any issues with the family of the victims and especially so wouldnt hurt his reputation (yeah paralleling again Hannah and her story, and there's so much to unpack here eheh) - he blackmails his own son: from now on, if he wants something, then he has to work for the money (eating? clothes? new materials for school?? phone?? you name it, he's alone in this). But if he takes hockey again? no problems. -> he accepts his father's deal (until he gets his scholarship on his own) under the condition he can do what he wants when training's done. (music, 'a useless and weak hobby', but his father agrees.) - he gets a job to clean up boxing rings at night when his father believes he's training for hockey; the guy's working here is nice (adding kind ppl aroung him, because i dont want him to turn into a brooding/dark caveman), sees the potential and the emotions rising up - the needs for this rougher edge- in him so he offers to come whenever to train him. (With his dad, hockey/skating doesnt offer him the same peace nor the same emotional/physical outlet for his volatile emotions as when he was with his aunt, thats why boxing works. ) - there's the playboy/womanizer/flirty side as well, but i dont think he is really. for me the popularity that hockey's projected on him made him act all charming, searching and open to sex, but honestly, he goes to them when bad memories are coming back and it's all too much, when he needs to feel someone that wont leave him for the night.and yeah, he's not into relationship/big love story either ) - of course he gets a scholarship for his music major, and of course his father's furious, cutting him off completely. (he takes it like a punch to the gut, even though he expected the blow. But he had set aside money for this situation + the bit of money his mother left him + his aunt helping him. It's not great but he manages. ) [hockey's not off the table either: he did work hard to comply to Graham senior wishes orders, the problem never was hockey in itself, but what his father did ...maybe he will play again with someone(s) wink wink!]
Hannah :
- Hannah does not get raped, but she gets beaten up and is sexually assaulted. -> the day before the party, she surpasses and win over the son of the mayor on ice in front of basically everyone, the school students, the professors, recruiters; (she doesnt get roofied, but he physically subdues her, stripping off her clothes, touching her, humiliating her and physically violent. unfortunately alcohol lowers her defenses and her inhibitions so although she succeds in defending herself, leaving marks and lacerations...it is not enough); - during the trial, he reports the bruises on her body and the scratches on his arms/face as from an hockey's game. (his friends confirm it); -> consequences: she has a hard time going to parties or drink - (alone in a romantic setting with a boy) -> she physically cant step on ice for the 2 next years, (despite a very good beginning in front of professionals and getting noticed by coaches) -> and has an even harder time accepting the violence happening on it (which breaks her heart because god does she love this sport), - in her last year of highschool, (after 2 years of therapy, talking with her mother, etcetc..), she decides not let her trauma stop her anymore: she worked on it, had support, her family. She re-step on the rink, works her ass off and eventually get herself an hockey scholarship with her own blood sweat and tears; - she obviously excels in every subject in college, (i personally dont think playing hockey would lower her intellectually or would stop her from getting good grades sorry lol she's just a high achieving student like that), - due to her past, she's not fond of being agressive towards her opponents on the rink; which comes to be a problem during some matches since she plays a foward center position (and since she wants to center herself to play professionally/ and obviously hockey is inherently a violent sport) (-> she meets Garrett the year she becomes captain of her team in her third year) in the meantime, she make up for it with her rapidity on ice and skills, studying religiously video of legends such as Vicky Sunohara, Hayley Wickenheiser, Manon Rhéaume (they're all Canadian for most part but i looked some of them up and by god they are goated),; - she still has to work at Malone for her meals, but thats abt it (she signed off deal with some online brands that helps her with money : she's pretty, she got noticed in school for her talent and being a young prodigy, had a bit of social media presence bc of it/the fact she's her way to play pro - which means more online coverage and popularity...you bet sport brands are interested. ); - at first, she's a little wary of Garrett, as he comes a little roughen up, (from boxing), and well, she doesnt know what he does to earn those on him ( instinctively tho?? she knows he's not violent just for the sake of it and to dominate ppl, and sees bit of emotions in his body's language/eyes mirroring her owns)
- the deal: - wouldnt change much from the show/book; she does it for her crush on Justin; (later on, they circle (literally) each other on ice, skating together, exchanging abt their past, the brutality of hockey, figure skating and he teaches her how to manage and not retreat from the violence. to control it.) - for him, he realized that music doesnt cut it anymore - and, listen idk if its possible, but lets say it is, (plus he is Garrett Graham after all) he wants to integrates the male hockey team and needs her help?? (he watched her train late at night, when he thought he was the only one here)
[something abt music tying them together make me go brrrr, no matter what AU; (his mom: Kate Bush, Bjork, Courtney love/Hole, Suede..his father hates it ) Garrett: Nick Cave, Violent femmes, Talking Heads, Joy Division, blink-182/Artic Monkeys, Twenty one pilots, Paramore (he dances to What makes a good man when he's a little tipsy) Hannah: all genre of it really! she has her preferences, but she's not picky; not like Garrett who dislike 1D hehe: Paloma Paris (duh), One direction, Florence + the Machine, Mitski, Coldplay, nsync, Britney Spears; Fleetwood mac, PJ Harvey, Nick Drake, Goo Goo Dolls, Duran Duran, Blondie. (some its by her mom, others during these 2 years off the ice, she concentrated on music/singers/bands)
I im stopping here! i have so much more to add but its getting a little long ..(forgive any irl inacurracies i'm french and dk shit abt american uni/hockey etc.) (obv i'm thinking abt other characters too! Allie/Dean both being hockey players would be hilarious to me, but in same time i feel her commenting the hockey matches would be soo hilarious. she's funny, a little snarky, witty and grew up with a dad always making unintentional sex hockey puns. She would rock that. - and i have some kinda plot/ scenes in my head for her and Dean)
