I want to send like a million Agent Carter AUs so here goes: LIBRARIAN AU?
Heeeeee, I don’t mind! <3 I don’t think I’ll manage all of them, but they are such lovely inspiration. :D
Welcome to the town library for Shield Grove, pop. 30,000 or so.
The library is run by Miriam Frye, or as everyone calls her (not to her face), Battleaxe. One thing about it, though – she is THE BEST at squeezing funding for their cash-strapped medium-sized-town library out of the tight-fisted city council. It is very hard to say no to Miriam.
Peggy is your basic librarian. She does a lot of outreach stuff and all the kids love her.
There are rumors about her ~mysterious past~ before she came to town, but no one really knows for sure, except a few things she’s said have hinted that she’s traveled more widely than your typical librarian and there’s also that rumor about the time she almost broke a guy’s arm when she caught him trying to sneak a videotape past the security sensors, though no one is sure if it’s true or not.
Daniel works in the back doing bookkeeping. He’s a disabled Afghanistan veteran who got a job at the library after he got out of the service, and mostly he’s kind of shy and no one seems to know him very well.
Jack is an administrator who was shoehorned in against Miriam’s wishes because his uncle is on the city council and he needed a job even though he knows literally NOTHING about libraries.
Peggy (validly) resents him because that was supposed to be her job; she was going to be promoted, but then the city council made Miriam take him in return for funding a grant to replace the library roof.
Jack can’t believe he’s stuck at a small library in the middle of nowhere. He had a FUTURE, dammit. Now he’s got PTSD and a drinking problem and a job working at a library, which he mostly half-asses his way through.
Peggy can’t believe she has to work for this asshole.
This particular AU contains fewer spy shenanigans than a typical Agent Carter AU and is really more like Parks & Rec at a library. XD
