Recently got like a thousand notes on an AU idea which is INSANE because most of the time my AU ideas are actual nonsense. Example:
For the last like three days all I’ve been able to do is listen to Fifteen Minutes by Sabrina Carpenter because I came up with this Steddie AU where Eddie is a streamer and a well-known guitarist who like guest-guitars (is that a thing?) for major artists once word gets out that he’s hugely popular on the internet and also basically a prodigy. One of those artists is Sabrina Carpenter at some point (she arrests him during the show, he get’s on stage. I’m not sure she even has a band on stage during her concerts—if not he’s just ripping some solos and shit along with her normal music whatever, we’re just having fun here).
Despite having a very public life, Eddie has one VERY well-kept secret, and that’s “Princess.”
Eddie’s fans/fandom knows he has a partner, but the only indication is every once in a while, a knock will sound at the door of his office while he’s streaming, and he’ll say— “Just one second, Princess!” or something like that, and literally shut down the stream to talk to her. People have no clue what she looks like, sounds like, nothing. Eddie doesn’t even post about her really, other than the occasional mention of a significant other in his videos or collabs. She’s quite literally a ghost.
Of course, that doesn’t stop the fans from speculating, and because of “Princess” everyone assumes it’s some girl. They do the whole bit—conspiracy boards connecting Eddie to other influencers, digging through his high school yearbooks to find girls who MIGHT fit the bill, arguing over what he’s probably attracted to, etc. Like, there’s people drawing fanart of Eddie with women, which his friends give him absolute hell for because he’s the gayest man on earth.
Obviously, nobody comes within a hundred miles of the actual answer.
Then, one day, Sabrina randomly hits up Eddie with this idea for a music video for 15 Minutes that’s Cinderella themed (that song NEEDS a goofy Cinderella themed video just listen to it omg) and she’s like “I want you to be my prince” and Eddie’s like “Hold up, do you want this thing to go viral or go viral?” and of course Sabrina is down to clown.
Eddie and Steve have been ready to go public for a while. Eddie just wanted to do it in the most dramatic way possible and what’s more dramatic than making his babygirl boyfriend star in a Sabrina Carpenter music video?
So Eddie’s the prince, Steve’s Cinderella, and Sabrina’s the fairy godmother. It’s very loose fantasy, like they’ve got completely modern technology and fashion going on, and it’s just pure, unadulterated fun. Of course Sabrina starts it out, then notices Steve not going to the ball and they do a makeover montage, then the ball is more like a club (of course Rob and Nancy and Chrissy are all involved, other “princesses” trying to win Eddie’s affection despite his obvious disinterest, which is poking fun at everybody assuming he’s straight hehe), Steve and Eddie dance and make out, the whole midnight bit happens, there’s a funny montage of the girls trying on his shoe (it’s like a DUDE’S shoe, and they’re still fucking trying) until finally happily ever after, Eddie puts a tiara on Steve, princess reveal!
The internet loses it’s fucking shit, the end.
But yeah anyway my ideas are generally music-fueled nonsense and I can’t BELIEVE I had a thought coherent enough to get a thousand notes, Jesus Christ.
