Sooo, I finished the show like two days ago and loved it. Anyways, I was scrolling through the tag yesterday when I saw one of the gifs of Diego and Klaus, when Klaus says “His name was Dave.” Cut there, freeze frame, and the au is planted with that is perfectly coinciding with Roger’s “Her name was April.”. So for your pleasure I present a Rent AU I will never write, but give if anyone else wants to....
Klaus Hargreeves as Roger Davis or Mimi Marquez.
The once well known, inspiring man loses it all to a drug addiction, and by the time he manages to pull himself out of it, he’s dying of AIDS. In the end he’s trying to better himself, but it’s hard, because temptation is always just around the corner. He’s trying his best to keep his friends away from it as well.
Or, self-destructive and largely alone, Klaus found himself escaping home and spiralling into drug addiction, and a haze of forgotten days. Eventually he contracts AIDS. When he tries to rehabilitate himself he just falls down again, after his family splintered apart.
Ben Hargreeves as Mark Cohen.
Cautious, bookish Ben, who’s spent years looking over Klaus, making sure he takes his AZT and makes good choices. He’s overlooked most of the time, but he watches everyone,and it’s through him we see much of the world, truthfully. He’s watched his family break and fall apart, all while holding onto the little bit he has left.
Diego Hargreeves as Thomas Collins.
He’d been family with Ben, Klaus, and Vanya once, and then he tried to go and do the respectable, legitimate thing. Being a police officer seemed like it would be such a good thing Methods and beliefs conflicted though, and he came back when he realised that the police hated the poor, and they didn\t seem like they were helping as much as they could. When he came back, Diego makes sure to keep an eye on the others, making sure they stay alive.
Eudora Patch as Angel Dumott Schunard.
There’s moments when her methods are a little bit more questionable, but usually she’s a good person. Eudora is the who welcomes the others, however odd they may seem. And it’s her untimely death that causes things to shift, and her memory that stops things from getting worse than they have to.
Allison Hargreeves as Maureen Johnson.
Allison Hargreeves is a performer. Forever passing from one whim to the next until she met consequences, and then it made her think. She loves her family, even if it’s hard and they fight, she’ll come back, and when the need arises, she’ll protect and care for them. She wants to do the right thing, however much some people disagree with her methods.
Luther Hargreeves as Joanne Jefferson.
There’s right, and there’s proper, and intentions mean something. For Luthor he’s the odd one out, even if he’s closer to them than Vanya. He tries to do the proper thing, he listens to their father, when his relationship with Allison falls apart he stays around. It’s not easy, but they’re his family.
Vanya Hargreeves as Benjamin Coffin III.
There had been a point where staying at home had ceased to be an option. So she didn’t. She left, and in one movement, both inexorably linked herself to the others, and distances herself. Sometimes what she did makes it harder for them, and sometimes they don’t notice. Years later she comes back, with something that’s not quite good intentions, and the others are suspicious, and distrustful.
