In full seriousness: probably better than things go for like 90% of the cast.I think the Justice pair are on the sidelines as they tend to be for Gopnik AU proper. (Aksug-wise, I think I may play out their story in short little narratives in between subplots, rather than full-blown subplots like Franck’s and Gesa/Brodi’s, because their story is just as ongoing as Seb and Vinco’s are.) Funnily enough, this is probably what makes their relationship the healthiest one in hard Gopnik AU - both of them definitely survive and definitely live a happy life together, which is more than what I can say for most players of hard Gopnik AU.
I had an idea that they are middlemen ranked beneath the likes of Seb and Gesa. Gaspard belongs to the former, Xavier to the latter. They were childhood friends that went different paths in life before meeting up again, but in different cities and in different factions. Thankfully, Seb’s area and Gesa’s area don’t really overlap, and as far as violent crime AUs go, there’s no conflict between those factions either. What Seb does with Vinco Kavinsky suka and what Gesa does with his kinky boss tendencies are none of each other’s businesses, but further down the food chain, the Justice pair serve as the middle link who meet up occasionally to trade products and help draw lines on the sand. Professional criminals, in other words, but not so involved in the hunting down traitors or active drug dealing or shootouts or forcing people to walk on glass kind of thing.They like to snark at each other and ask each other out for drinks, though the other always declines out of wariness. I like to think they eventually get together and enjoy discreet meet-ups, and when shit goes south on Seb’s side, Gaspard will just bail and join Xavier without too much trouble. Gaspard was not so well-known among Seb’s people that there could be any kind of call to take him down personally, and even if Gesa knew about him, Gesa’s benevolence can be... ahem... magnanimous. As Brodi found out, of course.
