🎶twitter au in which the phantoms are alive and Julie and the Phantoms is a steadily rising band🎶
Some more character profiles!! These are the other characters that will be making appearances throughout the AU, some more than others. Had a lot of fun with these!
A lot of these names are entirely by @skateboardtotheheart. She gave Lindsey, Mandi, and Sarah their first names, and she also created the characters Tyler and Dylan based on the extras played by Ryan McEwen and Samuel Scherzer. Faye's fanfics starring Tyler and Dylan as step-brothers (as well as Nick x Tyler/Nyler/the best crackship ever) can be found here. I highly recommend reading them <3
Stay tuned for more of this AU!! ✨
TAG-LIST IN REBLOGS ; let me know if you want to be added to it by replying to this post or sending me an ask!
Julie giggled into the microphone as she watched her best friends jump and dance along to their song, draping an arm around her boyfriend's shoulder as they belted the outro and Bright ended.
"Yes! That was amazing!" Flynn grinned, always the one to hype up their best friend.
"But was it 'performing at a cafe' amazing, or 'performing at tomorrow's Pride parade' amazing?" Julie asked, and Luke rolled his eyes fondly and reached up to tuck a curl behind Julie's ear.
"Definitely 'Pride parade' amazing, estrella." He promised her and pressed a kiss to her cheek.
Julie blushed and scrunched her nose as Alex, Reggie, Bobby, Willie, Nick, Carrie and the Dirty Candy crew immediately agreed.
"I'm a much harsher judge than your darling Luke, and I can confirm it was flawless." Carrie assured Julie with a grin.
Julie chuckled fondly and shook her head, rolling her eyes. "If you all insist."
"We do. Now," Willie clapped their hands, clasping them together. "I request to hear Now Or Never."
"Ooh, I second the request!" Carrie nodded.
"Third!"
"Fourth!"
"Your wish is our command." Luke smiled and Alex counted to start the song, everyone smiling as Ray walked in with a snack and water tray.
"Hey, kids."
"Hi, Mr. Molina!"
"Hi, papa!"
Ray grinned as he walked through the door in time to catch a song and leaned against the wall, lip syncing along.
Julie and the boys rehearsed the song and stopped for a water break, chatting about how excited they all were to be performing at something as big as a Pride parade. It was a pretty damn huge thing for everyone.
No one slept that night, too wired to even think about it.
Julie grinned as she looked up and turned off her phone alarm, running to open Carlos and her parents' bedroom doors. "Happy Pride!" She grinned as she ran back to her room and opened her laptop to Zoom. Soon, she had Flynn, Willie, Nick, Carrie, her girls, and her boys on screen as she ran to grab her hair products. "Hey, my people!"
"Hey, superstar! Boys. Rapunzel. Blond Troy Bolton. Twilight Sparkle. Biliam. Flynnigan. Candy Stripers." Luke grinned and blew a kiss, in the middle of changing into his POISON t shirt.
"Hey, Julianna! Lucas. Alexander. Robert. William. Nicholas. Caroline. Flynnie. Crew." Reggie grinned as he combed his hair and waved.
"Hi, Julie! Ladies. Love of my life. Boys. Willie-boo." Carrie grinned as she brushed her wig out to re-curl it later.
"Hey, Jules! Sweets. Gigi. Lexi. Lulu. Chaos crew." Bobby winked as he sprayed on deodorant.
"Hi, Julie! Candy canes. Boys. Partners in crime." Flynn smiled, braiding pink, white and orange ribbon into their hair.
"Hello, Julie. Luke. Reginald. Bobbles. Flynn-tastic. Care-bear. Nicky. Honeybunch. Candy fruits." Alex smiled before downing a glass of orange juice.
"Hey, Julie! Hot dog. PeterPatter. Chaos siblings. Sweethearts." Willie waved, braiding rainbow ribbons into his hair.
"Julie. Ladies. Boys. Enby buds." Nick waved, combing his hair.
"Julie. Ladies. Men. Non-binary friends." Kayla blew a kiss, popping a gummy vitamin in her mouth.
"Hi, Julie! Candy crew. Chaos children." Halle grinned, brushing the bangs of her wig.
"Hey, my darlings!" Sofia grinned, waving as she nibbled on her toast.
"Hi, gayngels!" Kyra giggled, flipping her pancakes.
"How are the members of The Rainbow Brigade on this fine day, my loves?" Julie asked as she combed her curls. She laughed as everyone started to answer the question at the same time, resuming her hair combing.
"All good here, Julie." Flynn answered once she stopped giggling.
"Here as well." Willie gave a thumbs up.
"Almost perfect but I'm all out of eyeliner." Reggie pouted.
"About as good as it's gonna get in the Patterson household." Luke shrugged. "Sparkle, Bobble?"
"All is well in the Wilson mansion, loves." Carrie grinned, looking up when she heard a knock on the door. "Yeah, daddy?" She asked once she opened it.
"Hi, baby. Hi, kids!" Trevor grinned and waved.
"Hi, Mr. Wilson!" Julie called and everyone else followed.
"So remind me of the carpooling situation?"
"Oh, we're gonna pick up my girls and Luke, Alex, and Reggie since their parents still dislike Luke and Bobby for 'corrupting their babies' and Nick only has room in his car to pick up Flynn and Willie and we're all going to Julie's to get ready together."
"Oh, ok. I'm gonna go pack all our bags with snacks and water, then. Breakfast is almost ready downstairs." Trevor smiled, walking out with a peace sign.
"Thanks for the ride, by the way." Reggie smiled.
"Hey, anything for my Gigi." Bobby promised.
Julie giggled, bringing her laptop downstairs to the kitchen where everyone was eating breakfast. "Hey, Carlos. Mom, dad! Say hey to the rainbow brigade!"
"Hey, brigade!"
"Hey, mijos, mijas." Ray grinned.
"Hey, babies!" Rose blew a quick kiss.
"Hi, Carlos! Hi, Mr. and Mrs. Molina! Looking good as always!"
"Thank you, Carrie. Julie, do you want some eggs? They're scrambled."
"Ooh, yes please." Julie nodded and then a plate of eggs, toast and pancakes appeared in front of her. "Gracias, mama."
"Mind saving some eggs for me, amor?"
"Always, cariño."
Luke smiled appreciatively and blushed. "I love you."
Julie smiled, scrunching her nose. "I love you, too."
"Hey, hey. Keep your nauseating adorable-ness to your private Skype sessions." Reggie pretended to gag.
Carrie scoffed, rolling her eyes. "Like you and my brother don't act the same way." She pointed out.
"So do you and Flynn!" Willie accused.
"Willie, so do you and Lexi!" Flynn laughed.
"I would like to point out that so do Halle and Sofia." Nick chimed in.
"True." Kayla nodded in agreement.
"OK, anyone coming over for dinner tonight, niños? I'm making my famous pastelon!" Rose piped up as she appeared next to Julie and wrapped an arm around her, the both of them laughing.
Flynn raised a hand immediately. "Ooh, I'm in! Mom said she's gonna try another duck recipe and my stomach can't take that."
"Me, too!" Alex nodded.
"Noted." Julie nodded.
"Bobins, Care-bear, can I go to your place tonight? I'm not feeling up to week-old left overs." Reggie asked.
Bobby opened his door and poked his head out. "Dad, can Reggie come for dinner tonight? ...OK!" He closed the door with a smile. "Yup."
The group laughed as they chatted and ate their breakfasts, moving their conversation to the group chat as the others made their ways to the Molina household. The groups piled out of their cars and headed inside, greeting Julie and her family with tight hugs.
"Hey, my love." Luke said in a gentle voice and pressed a kiss to her forehead, making Julie blush and scrunch her nose.
"Hi, Lucas." Julie said softly and kissed his lips, giggling against him when she heard fake gags from Alex and Reggie. "Hi, Lexi-love. Reggie boo." She said as she wrapped her arms around them, taking their bags of clothes.
"Here's your eggs, mijo."
Luke grinned as Ray presented him a plate of eggs and some waffles as a treat. "Thank you." He nodded and started eating, leaning against a wall.
"Do I see new earrings, Mrs. Molina?" Carrie asked with a grin.
"Uh-huh. You like them?" Rose grinned, showing off her turquoise earrings.
"Love! They're so pretty!" Carrie nodded.
Julie smiled as she looked around and watched her family and her found family get along so well, joking and laughing with each other. She leaned her head onto Flynn's shoulder, her smile growing when Flynn wrapped an arm around her. "Having a good time, Flynnie?"
"Absolute blast."
After Luke finished his eggs, the group stampeded upstairs and formed a line to the bathroom to change into their Pride outfits. One by one, the brigade stepped in and out in new outfits and walked to the garage to have more room to start doing their make up.
Julie hummed as she and Reggie did their eyeliner next to each other, half listening to the boys talking about how cool it was that they were singing certain songs together for the first time.
"Sunset Curve's fans are gonna get to hear our oldest hits belted out by a little wrecking ball of talent, boys! It's only the single most exciting and awesome thing that can possibly happen!" Luke bragged in excitement, huffing as he was held down in his chair and Flynn and Carrie were glittering up his face.
"I know! Dude, it's so cool!" Alex nodded, glittering up his own face. "And it's even better that it's a- Kayla, your left wing's bigger." He interrupted himself to point to Kayla's make up. "A Pride parade!"
"Oh, shoot. Thanks, Lexi." Kayla smiled and proceeded to fix it with concealer.
"And you're totally gonna come out of this with new fans, too! Think of all the people that are gonna film it for YouTube and so many people are going to watch!" Willie gushed.
"I know!" Bobby nodded and pressed a kiss to Reggie's cheek, applying black eye shadow to his eyes.
"And imagine how much Dirty Candy are gonna love watching you all sing at Pride, too!" Julie grinned. "Maybe then they'll get the whole sparkly rainbow costumes thing."
"Oh, yeah!" The group laughed as they finished glittering up and fixing wigs, and piled into their cars to go to the parade.
Dirty Candy performed a few of their favorite self love songs to the crowd and gave a few speeches about self love, acceptance and Pride to the crowd, getting the response of cheers and pride flags thrown their ways. The girls individually thanked the crowd, and Carrie glanced off stage toward Sunset Curve before announcing the next artist. "And now, a group that always has been and always will be very special to me and my girls, and not just because they're our best friends... Sunset Curve!"
The crowd erupted in screams as the girls stepped off to let the band take the stage, and Luke smiled at them, giving a playful wink to a few boys and girls in the front holding bi and pan pride flags.
"Hi, everybody! Happy Pride month!" Julie greeted, her pink, purple and blue dress sparkling in the sunlight. "How about our girls, Dirty Candy, huh?" She chuckled as the crowd screamed in agreement and glanced at Bobby, who just smiled.
"The pink one is my sister."
"And they are too powerful together." Luke joked.
"They're so much to handle." Reggie complained with a smile.
"You say that like you and Julie aren't a lot." Alex deadpanned.
Julie laughed and shook her head. "Ok, ok. Enough joking. So our first song of the day is called Edge Of Great." She announced, and the crowd screamed and started to throw flags as she sang the intro. As the boys joined in the chorus, Julie hopped and ran around, laughing and joking with the boys.
Reggie and Bobby laughed as Julie hopped around them and draped bi and ace flags around their necks.
Julie giggled and bopped their noses, skipping off to share the mic with Luke. She kissed him at the end of the song and smiled when the crowd started chanting their ship name, leaning her head on his neck. "Yeah, yeah. We get it. We're cute." She joked and Luke cackled.
"You are pretty cute." Alex agreed with a shrug.
Julie snickered and blew a kiss to Alex who threw one back and sighed, giving Luke another kiss on the cheek before launching into a speech about pride featuring comments here and there from the boys. "Boys, what do you say to Stand Tall?" She asked.
"I say yes."
"Definitely."
"Absolutely."
"Obviously."
"Well, that's a unanimous yes!" Julie announced and headed to the piano to play the song. She smiled as she played one of her favorite songs, skipping her way toward Alex as his solo came up. She draped a rainbow flag over his shoulders like a cape and kissed his cheek.
Alex whispered a quick "Love you, Julie." in her ear and she whispered "I love you." back, tapping his cheek before the group nailed the high note.
They sang the final chorus and this time it was Luke who kicked off a speech about doing what makes you happy, with Julie making a comment about Alex dating Willie even with his staunch Christian parents.
"Willie's actually here today. He's right over there." Julie pointed a thumb in the direction of Willie who blew a kiss at Alex. "Alex's parents aren't great, but Willie's grandparents are pretty cool." She chuckled.
"And that's Julie's best friend and Carrie's girlfriend, Flynn is right next to him." Reggie piped up. "Hey, Flynn."
Julie beamed as she walked toward Bobby and put an arm around him. "So this is a song is one that my boys wrote together, before I came into the picture, that they have so graciously transposed into my key so we can all sing it together-"
"Because we love you!" Bobby interrupted.
"And your voice is incredible!" Alex yelled.
"And we wanted to include you!" Luke insisted.
"Yeah, what they said. Love you, Julie." Reggie grinned.
"I love you, too." Julie grinned, looking back at her boys. "So that we can sing it together because of what it means to all of us. It's all about being free and being yourself. It's about having pride in who you are. It's called Finally Free."
The crowd erupted in cheers as Julie started to sing, leaning her head on Bobby's shoulder. She looked up as they hit the chorus and sprinted toward Luke, singing to him as Reggie shared Bobby's mic.
They sang through a few more Sunset Curve songs, the crowd screaming along to every one of them with speeches thrown in between a few songs, before it was nearly time to go. "Our last song of the day-" Julie cut herself off to giggle as the crowd awww'd and booed at her words, shaking her head. "I know! I know! We're sad about it, too." She joked and pouted. "Our last song is very special to me and my boys. It's about going for what you want, dreaming your dreams, and living. Like. It's Now Or Never."
Boos turned into cheers as the band started to play the song and Luke and Julie sang the opening lyrics together, the both of them looking up when they felt raindrops. They looked at each other with twin smirks and nodded, kicking and jumping into the puddles.
Julie giggled as she kicked a puddle in Reggie's direction and he laughed and kicked it back at her, neither of them caring about their make up or body glitter anymore.
Alex laughed through singing his harmonies with the boys, the rainwater bouncing off his drums with every hit.
Bobby and Reggie were once again sharing a microphone as they kicked puddles in Alex's direction and shook the water from their hair, glitter falling away with the water drops.
Luke laughed as he ran toward Alex's drums set and jumped onto the drum platform, wagging his tongue at his best friend.
Julie giggled as she hopped in a puddle and belted out her new solo of a second pre-chorus, bouncing her way toward Bobby while Reggie and Luke ran toward Alex.
Bobby chuckled as he and Julie did their new dance, specially choreographed just for them to do during Alex and Reggie's solos in Now Or Never: Hop twice, left step back, right step back, right step forward, hop once, high five.
Julie whooped as Reggie shouted the lyric about singing in the rain, and held her microphone out to the crowd to sing with her, holding up a fist as everyone screamed the final chorus. She sang the final line in harmony with the boys and the crowd cheered as they waved and took each other's hands, running off stage. She ran straight into the arms of her family, mentally placing this day up high in The Top Ten Best Days Of Her Life.
