I’ve been going to more live music lately and it’s got me thinking abt a band au…. Me just rambling my thoughts be warned
im ngl I’ve gotten on the redgobo train (thanks charlie) but also my redkey….. my soloution is a love triangle where red perpetually puts her foot in her mouth and gets herself into deeper and deeper shit
I’m my mind this is set in uni. Gobo Red and Wembley are a preestablished friend group, but Red and Wembley don’t know each other masses? Red and gobo know each other from sports and gobo and Wembley are friends since childhood but Wembley and Red are still getting to know each other. Maybe gobo and Red went to the same primary but different secondaries??? Idk (also I don’t know enough abt American school systems this is based off the uk one)
anyways gobo is the Cool Guy With A Guitar. My biggest character flaw is that even men that I hate become hot as fuck if they can sing well + play guitar. This is the case with gobo. The three of them chill in gobo and Wembley’s room (they have a shared room, red lives in a single in a different building) and gobo plays guitar and sings randomly while they’re hanging out. I’m thinking one on the bed one on the chair one on the floor, chatting and listening to music.
anyways gobos chatting about starting a band and red says she wants to join. She’s probably already stressed today idk, but gobo offers her his guitar, and she just can’t play it right. She gets annoyed but it’s fine because noones judging her, right?
Wembley pulls a ‘a brush with jealousy’ and accidentally massively insults her. Mixes his words and tells her she’s shit instead of being supportive.
Red storms out, and on her way back to her dorm she decides she’s going to start a band too. I’m imagining the sequence in Moxie where the mc makes her first zine; Red draws a poster for band auditions. She puts one up on the corkboard in her buildings entrance, then goes to bed.
the next day she’s chilling in an empty band room doing homework. She’s not actually expecting anyone to show up for auditions, but about an hour in someone opens the door.
Mokey!!!!!!!! Mokeys here, she plays guitar, and she’s interested in joining a band. She also presumes from the ‘artistic style’ of the poster that it’s a punk band. Red nods enthusiastically and goes it is!!!!!! And to herself is going yeahhh I can do punk I can do punk. That’s fine.
Mokey says she knows a drummer, and if reds a bassist then they’ve got a band. Red takes a moment to realise that she didn’t know the difference between a bassist and a guitarist but she’d have to learn a new instrument either way so at least she knows which one to figure out.
(I’m enjoying making her blag with all her might because it’s such a red thing to me. She does not know when to quit.)
at this point red does not have a crush on Mokey. This is very important. They spend a few weeks with their new drummer (Boober. Who does not want to be there.) messing around with music, not really writing any songs but just getting to know each others vibes. Reds slowly growing crush/rivalry with gobo means that she has locked in so hard to try and learn bass. She’s still shit but she’s got a good guitarist and drummer so it’s fine.
She first realises a growing crush on Mokey when they enter a local open mic for a few songs, and Mokey decides they should ‘dress the part’. They all get ready together in mokeys dorm, and somewhere between Mokey getting into striped tights and a cut up shirt and her sitting on reds lap to do her eyeliner, red realises that fuck. She is in deep.
that’s mainly what I’ve been brainstorming. Love triangle where red starts a band to rival gobos. To ignore her crush. Then accidentally falls for one of her bandmates.
(At some point Wembley and Boober start dating and no one notices because of the shit going on with the other three lol)
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