Coffeeshop AU. Hunger Games AU. Historical AU. [Pairing is of your choice :)) ]
Anis! thanks for playing meme <3 Here are 5 headcanons for the AUs you asked for. And since you so kindly let me pick the pairing, I picked a variety, hahaha.
Coffeeshop AU (hannigram).
i actually don’t like coffee shops so whenever i think about what a coffee shop au would be like they all turn out to be boba/pearl milk tea aus because i actually enjoy going to boba places and don’t enjoy coffee shops.
hannibal, for some unknown reason, has opened a boba store and will graham is dragged there by bev in as-am solidarity where all asian-americans partake in other asian cultures as if it were their own.
hannibal is delighted by will, though will has no idea why.
any story about this would probably be told through bubbly mandopop romance songs playing in the background of the boba store complete with ktv style music videos which means this is truly a story that i would never write because this is growing more and more unrelatable to the general fandom community as i think about it.
hannibal probably uses the mandopop ktv in the background to try to communicate to will who is completely oblivious.
the boba is people, of course.
Hunger Games AU (seblaine).
sebastian is a career tribute from district 1, trained to be the best. he volunteers for the games, convinced that he’ll win.
blaine is from district 6, and has actually traveled to many other districts before with his family. he does not volunteer. he’s chosen regardless.
sebastian sees blaine and hits on him shamelessly throughout the preliminaries. he flirts shamelessly with blaine and even openly talks about blaine’s ass on television. blaine is immediately suspicious of a career tribute showing interest in him.
when the games start, everybody assumes that sebastian will team up with blaine. he does try, but blaine suspects that sebastian has an ulterior motive and refuses, instead teaming up with a rag-tag bunch from other districts, including kurt. sebastian teams up with the other career tributes instead.
“there has to be some way for all of us to win,” blaine says. he believes that there is a future out there, for all of them. it is his only choice. he has nothing else to believe.
“not with people like sebastian,” kurt insists. sebastian, after all, is a career tribute. he trained his whole life to murder in the name of proving himself superior. he volunteered for these games.
blaine shakes his head, but he can’t deny the logic. he goes with kurt. they run and hide, and blaine does not stop believing that there is a way for all of them to come out alive.
sebastian sees only one path to victory, and everybody is merely in his way. he is trained, and experienced, and strong. he has never known hunger like so many of the other tributes. he, along with his allies slaughter everybody, one after another, because the other option is death.
the gameskeepers manipulate the stadium so sebastian and blaine’s group are forced to meet. the careers successfully wipe out blaine’s group, though some of them are also killed. sebastian lives, and blaine is greviously wounded.
blaine knows he won’t live. sebastian approaches him. blaine thinks about a future where all of them live, where none of them have to fight, where sebastian could have asked him out on a date and blaine could have accepted without wondering if this was a ploy for murder.
sebastian does not ask how they could have had a happy ending. he does not ask what he should have done instead, for blaine to have accepted him.
blaine answers him anyways. “make a better world.”
Historical AU (seblaine).
ironically, since i know too much about the regency era thanks to all of the random factoids i’ve gleaned from kinokodon’s late-night information sessions, this would probably end up being a regency au.
this would be a TERRIBLE regency au because it would just talk about how they had trousers tucked into boots like 99% of the time and how they rode on horses and went hunting because the regency era was all about SPORTS!!!
(no seriously the regency era had this resurgence of interest in the greeks, which is why woman’s fashion is columnar dresses and this emphasis on going hunting and riding around one’s estate on horses, because the idea of sports was much better. also the development of fabric that allowed for more movement helped a lot).
having written three bullet points without saying anything about seblaine, this would probably involve wealthy gentry, of which both sebastian and blaine were wealthy gentry.
they probably would go hunting together and share many affectionate hand touches.
(blaine would write very poetic letters to sebastian who pretends that they’re ridiculous but actually keeps them all in a wooden box in his room and takes them out to look at them occasionally).
sebastian would actually NOT talk about being french because britain was at war with the french for the beginning part of the regency era which is why there was a huge push to NOT BE FRENCH so sebastian would not actually talk about his time in paris much in public.
but blaine asks. he likes to hear. he knows they’re at war. he still loves to sit, shoulders pressed together, and listen to sebastian paint a picture of another city.
thank you, again, for asking <33 meme is here for others who want to play
