✿ parallels --- andie anderson (how to lose a guy in 10 days) / mia thermopolis (the princess diaries) / hermione granger (harry potter) / cather avery (fangirl)
back at it again with another subpar graphic and a request!! this time for a group of old high school friends reuniting for the wedding of a certain, ellie knight. pulled back together from new jobs, relationships, homes and more - they find themselves back once more on familiar ground, navigating the murky waters of relationships left untouched for ten or so years.
back in high school they were a bit of the golden kids - perfect, enviable, popular and it was probably near impossible to penetrate their little bubble. were they a little too codependent and attached to each other? probably. did that lead to a fuck load of complications and messiness towards the end of it? absolutely. i don’t want to dictate way too much but i figure they were probably on shaky ground once graduation happened - either if because of a group dynamic that had changed (a couple breaking up, some casual cheating??? a bad argument that forced them to choose sides???) or because the reality of going to colleges on the opposite side of the country. either way, by the time most of them settled into college - things just .... sort of naturally fell off. calls started to go unanswered, it took longer and longer to back to each other about meet ups, and they made way for new friends that left their old ones in the figurative dust.
fast forward about ten or so years and things aren’t what they were back in high school anymore and the people coming back aren’t quite who they were when they left. still, despite new lives, relationships and more they are pulled back together by the wedding of probably the last person on earth they’d ever thought would get married. as you can imagine, with this group it doesn’t take long for old wounds to get reopened, past habits to flare up and maybe just a little bit of the comfort they had when they were all together. as can be expected, some could be super successful while others have found it harder to break out into the job market. some could have stayed away from portland while others could have come back and made new lives for themselves. whatever it is, they’re probably not ready for the shit show that will inevitably be stirred up.
now i know typically in these sorts of request the bride and groom are played by someone but since i want us to have more control over the events of the wedding (which will feature ellie booking it down the aisle and out of the chapel + everyone sticking around to eat the after party food bc its there anyway + hilarity). other than that, i’ve got some simple requirements here - 27+ (though i figure most of them are on the 28-30 range) and an even ratio ya dig. i’ll cap this around 8 probs, though could wiggle up to 10 if necessary.
bridget hayes, 28, margot robbie, played by lana
margot mckenzie, 28, lily collins, played by megan
name, age, blake lively, played by bri
quinn halperin, 27, ebr, played by maddie
millie rush, 29, melissa benoist, played by cora
elias orr, age, matthew daddario, played by caroline
raised by a single mother, in a ridiculously poor household, with no father to speak of. got bullied pretty badly as a kid, so he learned to fight back when necessary. sweet, but scrappy. never had a lot of friends, but was always content to watch from the outside or tag along with someone who recruited him. constantly chain smokes - but not in an angsty way, just in an i grew up in a bad neighborhood and got peer pressured into smoking at 14 kind of way. lives for other people really, is very much the protector of the people he loves. will absolutely, without a doubt, without hesitation, get into a fist fight if you look at his people the wrong way. an idealist to a fault. somehow wound up being an orderly/uap in a nursing home and he’ll complain about it if you do but he fucking loves those old people. super self-sufficient and would basically rather die than ask for help. the first thing he stole was a belt from tj maxx when he was 15, and he hasn’t stopped since - it’s his way of rebelling, and he’s convinced he’ll never get caught, but doesn’t everyone? currently, he’s coasting - he’s happy, but coasting, waiting for something to happen in his life that probably won’t.
needs / if you have a friend group he could plausibly fit in please hmu with a link or an idea or something! i can really see him fitting in with any type of people, it’s just whether those people see him and pick him out and say “hey! be my friend!”. he needs one more of his step-siblings (though i doubt they refer to each other as anything but brother and sister because they’re genuinely thick as thieves ok). other than that, i think he could use some exes, some girls he slept with and fell in love with instantly and got rejected, some puppy dog crushes, etc.
everything and every place is temporary, but he hasn’t quite managed to shake memories of a past love. he’s gentle, soft-spoken, unselfconscious, and quick with a wide, boyish grin or— if he considers you a friend— a bear hug. but, as affable as liam is, the closer you get to him the more you’ll realize you don’t know anything substantial about him.
about » one of those hartwells / the Buzzkill™ / so vain that he thought that song was about him / dresses for success / the responsible-ish one / always on the brink of a migraine / febreezes in constant battle against the aroma of marijuana / doesn’t get high off his own supply (unless it’s been a really bad day aka a tuesday) / gets enough calls from the precinct that the number’s saved in his phone / sleeps “on silk sheets, rolling naked in money” (he wishes) / an ace in the (spread)sheets / runs on coffee and cynicism / loves himself dearly and thinks everyone else should too
needs » friends to mock his over-inflated ego and bug him to do their taxes / flirts? exes? he is particular about who he sleeps with and dates, since they’re usually people he sees himself getting serious with, but whether he can get his head out of his a** long enough to make it work is another question / cops who know him and his family all too well
lives with four other roommates. her other personality, at least two ghosts, and a demonic entity she summoned dabbling in dark magic. she may just be high. doesn’t like to hear no and finds it charming when people call her a handful. skips out on the family business, but takes the freebies. instead she loiters outside of the dispensary encouraging people to steal ‘cause she’s a little shit. refuses to be apart of this “legal” business and having to work under the thumb of the man/government. covers all of her laptop cameras with tape but gives out free nudes on snapchat. the point? who knows. always smells like citrus spiced palo santo and carries around smudge spray to cleanse you of your demons (she’s the demon). has probably broken into your pool before. or like ran over your lawn bc she missed judged where the curb was. a quote unquote “activist for female rights” hashtag #anarchist. all according to her instagram profile. the reason your brother checked himself into a psychic center after dating her. described by her exs as “absolutely fucking mental.... yanno if she’s still single tho?”
needs: friends?? friendly people?? i think she’s friendless at the moment. the last two spots in the hartwell family here. some exs/hookups whatever. and any cops who want to be exasperated after a days work. and other non-family members that work at the hartwell dispensary that she frequently tries to get to run her errands (that’s not their job but she can try).
likes: dancing, boys, leather, causing trouble, happy hour, a kick ass beat, drama, good wine, tinder, choreographing, watching drama go down, clubbing, asking his dad for money, commentating isaac's love life drama
dislikes: not getting what he wants, responsibility, bad sex, dog hair on his clothes, being rejected, commitment, people who insist they can’t dance because everyone can dance, wearing last season’s fashion
tropes: annoying younger sibling, asian airhead, camp gay, the charmer, the ditz, mr. fanservice, platonic life partners with isaac, spoiled brat, the twink