There's a kg band au in my head (just like the uep once was, took three years to develop it, yikes) but as always the first thing I develop is carlonty so here it is.
So in this au, monty and penny are distant cousins (of course) and, because penny was a singer, anecdotally, monty began taking piano classes to accompany her bc there was a gigantic piano in penny's mom's victorian style living room and his moms insisted. he turned out to be great at it and he moved on to the keyboard, although he thought of it as a lowly version of piano (ofc he did little arrogant bitch).
Anyways, penny and him drifted apart with age and he started university. this girl in his class (carla) got on his fucking nerves so bad because she wanted a scholarship HE also wanted and they were competing for it SO hard all the time, their classmates had to carry around earbuds just so they wouldn't hear them bicker and fight in class all the fucking time. their teacher, dr. danner, showed clear favouritism towards carla because she reminded him of his own daughter diana, so monty was pretty much FUCKED.
one day however, penny quite literally came back out of nowhere and assaulted him at uni to tell him a very famous music producer (mr. huxley) was hosting an underground musical contest in the city and she wanted to participate but didn't have a band. monty was reticent at first, but the prize money was literally twice the scholarship, so he accepted. he collected his friends jerome on the guitar and buggs on the drums. im thinking cindy could be the bass only because I wanna write underground pop-rock yuri and I feel she fits the overall vibe of their band. anyways they would be named some bullshit like "unicorn sparkles" or some shi because penny chose the name ofc.
they get to the eliminatory round or whoever you say it in english and lo and behold, who's on the stage performing for their lives? carla. carla and her fucking band. her band consisting of her (a.k.a Hottest Girl Alive™), a blonde british twink with eyeliner on the guitar, fucking alice on the fucking keyboard, her fucking boyfriend austin mr. perfect pitch on the fucking bass and EMMY on the drums (self-explanatory). so monty knows they're fucked. unsurprisingly, they're already pretty famous for performing in underground bars and carla's literally called THEE underground pop-rock princess and monty's the only fucking bum who didn't know this.
anyways unicorn sparkles goes up to perform and they do a fairly good job and when they get off, they see carla's band talking to each other near the snacks table. monty goes up to them because god forbid he goes a day without embarrassing himself, and also he just wants to confront carla because she's already getting the scholarship so why the fuck is she also going for HIS prize money. however, when he stands in front of her with his Scowl™, she looks him up and down and starts FLIRTING with him and monty has NEVER been so confused before in his life, he's rendered completely SPEECHLESS. at one point he's like "don't you recognize me" and she goes "I think I would remember a face like that" or sum hot girl shi like that and this man notices that he's wearing SHIT TONS of eyeliner and no glasses and contacts and his hair is all messed up and he's sweaty and wearing all rock leather clothes and stuff and he's like "you're right you've never seen me before" and she just laughs in his face because she genuinely thinks he's being funny on purpose. she asks for his name and he says "uhhhh im dave" and she's like "aight bye bye dave" and then she leaves and leaves him STUNNED because he should've hated that but he obviously didn't.
and thus begins the greatest love story of all time LMAOOOO.
clap if you want me to draw rocker monty aka dave at some point
