Youtuber!Ralbert Au - Part Two
once again inspired by the wonderful and fabulous @we-are-inevitable and you can find her original concept here
part one to this series can be found here
and my valentine’s concept can be found here
i finally did it guys are you proud ✨
LETS DO THIS THING
now that we’re here, i realized i forgot some vital information last time (aka i hadn’t come up with it yet but ranting to jorja helped me solidify the world thank you mother goose)
so race’s online handle is radioactive racer, and albert’s is, as we know, chaotic red
both of these come from when they were in middle school and had just made vine accounts
albert’s entire account was just videos of race doing dumb shit while he cackled in the background
race’s was just memes
but because this was middle school, race looks WILDLY DIFFERENT compared to now
he was in his full dyed hair and guyliner phase, and before he grew 8 inches the summer before freshman year, so he’s fairly unrecognizable in the vines of him (plus,,,, they were dumb 13 year olds, only their friends saw their vines)
but there’s just,,,, an account full of very cringe videos of 7th grade racetrack higgins on the internet that nobody’s connected to them yet, so we’ll do something with that eventually
now back to your regularly scheduled programming ✨
so race and ‘red’ announced they were dating about a month ago, and it’s getting increasingly difficult to make sure al’s face isn’t visible in any clips
also both of their channels are gaining more traction, and race is getting recognized more in public (which he adores, i might add)
but it means that eventually someone’s going to make the connection between the redhead race is walking around with and chaotic red
so despite how anxious it makes him
how genuinely terrified he is that he won’t live up to expectations and everyone will be disappointed
he decides to post a Q&A video to his channel and reveal his identity
it starts with him adjusting the focus onto the couch in their living room, before his stocky frame, black sabbath shirt, jewelry and freckles walk on screen, and he sits down
if anybody had any idea what to expect, the crooked grin, lip ring and custom snapback probably weren’t terribly high on their list
he lets out a breath and his grin gets a bit wider, before he waves into the camera “hey guys! so,,,, this is probably a bit out of left field, but i wanted to properly introduce myself. i’m albert, nice to meet you, but please, call me red.”
his eyes flicker to behind the camera and he rolls his eyes slightly at race’s chuckling that barely audible to the audience
“don’t you dare laugh at me, i’ve never done this before!”
“you’re doing great babe, you’re just a massive dork.”
“stuff it, blondie.”
al can’t really hold back his laughter, not completely, so he huffs a bit before turning back to the camera and properly answer questions to “let the people get to know me”
the dynamic from race’s original video revealing their roommates is flipped
the audience finally getting to see that albert’s grin pulls up slightly farther on the left side than the right
or that he fidgets with his lip ring when he’s thinking through an answer
or the utterly s o f t look he has in his eyes when he looks at racer, one that seriously doesn’t match his mischievous expression or abrasive voice
he answers questions with more ease than he expected, excited to finally be sharing, but once it comes time to hit upload he freezes
“race i don’t think i can do this”
“of course you can sweetheart, everyone already loves you”
“but what if they’re disappointed? what if i’m not cool or interesting or attractive enough? what if-“
“al i k n o w you did not just look at me with t h a t face and claim to not be ‘attractive enough’. attractive enough for who, red? people that are gonna say mean shit anyway?”
al ends up hitting the upload button and promptly hitting his forehead on his desk in anguish cause holy shit what’d i just do
all his worrying ends up being for nothing because everyone absolutely adores him and won’t stop saying how p r o u d they are and how pretty he is
“i told you, dumbass. you’re the prettiest person i know.”
“stop it, you sap.”
he starts using face cams for his (and race’s, when he’s on the chaotic red channel) gameplays and his focused face is s o c u t e
race finally doesn’t have to be sneaky or beg him to take pictures anymore
race is also incredibly excited to not have to aggressively edit all his videos to make sure you can’t see al’s face/hear his name in any of them
race “accidentally” leaves the clip of them slow dancing in the kitchen to ed sheeran in the vlog right after the face reveal
when al next films a sit down video, race is behind the camera, and they’re going through old pictures of albert from childhood (most of them have race in them too, he might as well be there)
this is when the fans discover albert blushes when he’s embarrassed
this video is also how everyone connects the old chaotic red vine account to them and race is m o r t i f i e d
they make it to a picture of them just after they got together, race leaning into albert’s side loosing his shit at something jack is doing off camera, but in-the-picture albert is too busy looking completely head over heels for race to notice whatever they’re doing over there
al just grins and looks up at race with the same stupid mushy expression
“that’s when i knew i was really in love with you”
you can basically hear race m e l t behind the camera and he just tackles al into a hug on the couch and it’s SUCH a cute couple-y moment
“yeah, and you were calling m e the sap earlier. s u r e, whatever helps you sleep at night, albie.”
“it ain’t sappy if it’s true, tonio.”
and editing-al cuts it off, but race had untucked his face from al’s neck and dragged him into a kiss
when he finally got back to filming, al may or may not have had to use cover up on his neck to make it less conspicuous, but that’s neither here nor there to be honest
also this isn’t a necessary addition but every once in awhile race or al will forget to cover up marks on their necks before filming and get absolutely ROASTED on twitter
i have a thousand more ideas for this au so i promise i will be making more at some point but here’s ✨this✨ for now
lmk if you want me to add you to a tag list or whatever cause i’m down with that
ok fín