Small details I’d include in the recast!Holywebs AU (a combo of my au and @the-maid-of-witchwood’s because I’m thinking about them again)
Mariah!Grace starts curling her hair a bit to get an 80s blowout look like Holloway. My irrelevant but consistent belief about this AU is that Holloway and Wilbur keep influencing people’s hair choices.
(A separate silly au is Wilbur and Holloway as rival hair dressers)
Bryce!Holloway and Mariah!Grace don’t have similar curl patterns at all (in fact Grace has no curls lol) but Grace sees Holloway and the 80s vibes zap into her body and she must obey them.
When Steph joins up with the Sleuth Squad she tries to ragebait Shapiro. Unlike the circumstances of Steph and Shapiro’s dynamic in canon where Steph is Actively Wanted For Murder, they’re on a more even playing field and she kinda wants to see if she can break her.
They lock in and get the job done of course, but Steph sees it as a bit of a game to get her mind off of the whole “weird shit is happening and idk how to cope with it” that this au throws at her
I just like that Angela!Steph is slightly more of a little shit and I think it’s funny.
I like to use a lot of star motifs for Grace in the au because of her connection to the black book, but because Mariah!Grace is specifically connected with Blinky, there would be a lot more eye imagery.
If I were to draw her I’d have a subtle eye like pattern in her sweater (which I may do in a later drawing). Mirrors would definitely be a recurring theme, they sort of are in the og au (Wilbur appears to Grace in mirrors to tell her to kill people and use more hair gel), but like especially in this variation.
There’s definitely a scene where she chases the freak of the week bad guy into a mirror maze at watcher world and we are treated to her looking back at herself and back at herself and back at herself over and over again. Maybe some of her reflections differ. She gains the yellow blood shot eyes of Blinky… and maybe she has to put blankets over her mirrors at home who knows!!
Not quite sure if Bryce!Holloway has red hair in the official recast au, but I like to draw her with bright dyed hair since it matches up with her Jem and The Holograms theming and they all have bright dyed hair colors (or I guess hologramed hair colors… but this post isn’t about Jem).
James!Duke sees red hair and he gets flashbacks of Holloway and he gets sad. Duke is not happy in either versions of this au. Like he barely remembers to shave his eye bags are awful he misses his wife but doesn’t remember her and also every child he meets is going through something terrible. Also apparently all this has to do with how his dad died.
If the Holywebs dukes were to meet I think they’d need a good hug. The kind where it kind hurts cuz you’re getting squeezed so tight but it also grounds you. I don’t know why I want to make him so sad in this au. He’s coped fine before in canon, but trying to follow Grace and Holloway’s messed up trail is putting a lot of stress on him especially with all the memory loss.
