Talk:Modern AU/@comment-2600:1015:B004:C76C:E5CD:BEE9:8EAB:AD13-20180319001850/@comment-147.75.209.249-20180320032611

Oh, thank God, this AU page on the Wiki isn't dead, that's good! 😀☺ Anyway, could I please ask for your advice and help on something? You see, I'm going to be writing an RotBTD Modern/Rentboy AU (if you don't know what a Rentboy AU is, I suggest looking up the term 'Hookerfic' on Fanlore), and I was wondering if you could give me some tips and/or advice on how to write it properly. 'Cause, even though I've been writing stories for this fandom since around early 2016, at least (I think), I'm still a struggling writer, and I could always afford to learn more, from anyone, regardless of whether they're writers themselves or not. Anyway, here are the main, confirmed, endgame pairings that will be in this fic, in order of appearance and overall importance in the end to the story's plot (in my opinion, at least):

1. Guycup/Higguy (Guy x Hiccup Horrendous Haddock lll)

2. Meripunzel (Merida DunBroch x Rapunzel Corona)

3. Nodgene/Flynnod (Nod x Flynn Rider/Eugene Fitzherbert)

4. Frostler (Jack Frost x Once-ler)

5. Wilro/Hirbur (Wilbur Robinson x Hiro Hamada)

And finally, 6. Penley (Penny Forrester x Riley Andersen)

Now, this is most likely going to be, at least a VERY, romanticized take on the life of modern-day...well, to put it bluntly, hookers. Yes, at least a few, or maybe even several, I haven't decided yet, characters are going to be male and female sexworkers/hookers/strippers, whatever it is you want to call them, that is what they are going to be. The main genres, I THINK, in this story, are going to be Drama and Romance, with a bit of Slice of Life thrown in there for good measure, as those three genres are the ones I'm most comfortable working in, plus they're what I'm most used to writing in, as well. Now, I have, at least several, questions and inquiries regarding characterisation and how I should portray them in my fic, but first, I'll give you a rough overview/draft of the plot of my story, and where I'd like it to go:the basic plot is, Hiccup (or Guy, I'll probably need help deciding which one of these characters fits the role more) is a struggling college student who is waist-deep in debt and college loans, and who lives in the metropolis-like, but Gotham-like (in terms of crime rates when it comes to things like petty crimes like muggings, thrift store, convenience store, and gas station robberies, bank robberies, drug and human trafficking, drug dealing, murder, rape, you know, that sort of stuff) city of Berk, who realizes that the only job that he can afford without spending any of his hard-earned, saved-up cash which he still has left over in his savings account in the bank (which admittedly, isn't that much) is to become a rent boy/stripper/pole dancer at the local neighborhood night club and gay bar for men, which is simply called The Starstrand (I'm just going to assume you can guess why ;)). Anyway, he finds that, after only a few weeks of working there at The Starstrand, which is owned by the mysterious, millionaire man called The Once-ler (no one really knows his true name or identity, or what it is exactly that he does, they just know he's very good at it), life working there as a rent boy/stripper/pole dancer, is really not all that bad;he gets paid VERY well by the customers, and treated (for the most part, anyway, there's still some drunk, perverted 19-year-olds who like to roughly grope his ass and treat him like complete horse shit) much the same.

Then, one night, Hiccup or Guy, meets rich engineering mogul, ingenious scientist, and prolific philanthropist Dr. Guy Cavrin (or if Guy is the hooker-type, than it would be him meeting Dr. Henrik 'Henry/Hiccup' Harvey Haddock lll), who is just looking for some place to get drunk, and maybe have himself a 'good time' (if you know what I mean ;)). They meet, talk over drinks, and a bond starts to slowly but surely form between them. Then, there's Merida DunBroch, who is also a rather smart, yet brash and rather hot-headed young scientist, who is also looking for a good time. She ends up going to the local neighborhood night club and lesbian bar simply called Liberties, and there, she meets a 'new girl', as the owner and manager, Kozmotis 'Pitch' Black, who is a very refined, reserved, but VERY intimidating and commanding person, who Merida quickly finds scares Rapunzel quite a lot, as Rapunzel is the new high-class 'call girl', but she is also a new stripper, waitress, and pole dancer, as she had to take up one of all of these positions because the last girl that worked them, and one who happened to be Rapunzel's best friend at the time, named Mavis Dracul, had suddenly quit, for reasons unknown to not even her at that time, her best friend, the one she confided everything to.

Soon, Merida and Rapunzel slowly but surely also start to form a close bond with each other, which just grows closer and closer as time slowly passes by. Next, we have Nathan 'Nate/Nod' Nelson, a gay single father who just divorced his ex-husband Kristoff Bjorgman only one short week ago, which lead to a rather messy and particularly heated battle over the custody of their two sperm-donored children, Jamie and Sopie. Before the divorce and before they had kids, they were living together for a few years in the exact same house that Kristoff owns now. Yep, they settled on a deal:Kristoff got the house, the car, and all their worldly possessions, while Nate got the kids. And Nate'd be lying if he said he wasn't feeling more than a little spurned, and maybe even a little jealous. I mean yeah, sure, he loves his kids dearly and wouldn't trade them for anything in the entire WORLD, but when you live on a 1'500 dollar monthly penchant, working as a local contractor for the city's one and only construction sight team, living in a well-paid-for, but still rather shitty-looking apartment, and living off of a diet of virtually nothing but Chinese and Indian takeout, instant ramen noodles, whatever you can buy from the expensive food trucks that constantly prowl the city streets day and night, and whatever is leftover in the fridge from last night, it's hard I'll bet for ANYONE to be living and to have to go through those same situations, and not feel at least a LITTLE bit jealous at your ex-spouse. Especially when that same exact ex-spouse tried to take your beloved kids away. Anyway, one night, Nate (or Nod, as he's also often called) just decides to say a big "Fuck you!" to the world, and he decides to call a babysitter, so that he can go out, and maybe, MAYBE, have some ACTUAL FUN for once in his sad, miserable life. So, he heads over to, you guessed it (I mean, c'mon, wherelse would he go? ;)), The Starstrand, and as soon as he walks in, he immediately starts to calm down, at least a little bit. He goes over to the bar, and orders a drink ("Whiskey, on the rocks."). Then, he notices, at the far end of the night club section of the place, that there is a rather handsome man with tan skin, short and thick brown hair, and gorgeous brown eyes, dressed in a VERY suggestive outfit (sparkling red suit with matching waistcoat, no shirt though, matching sparkling red pants, sparkling red shoes, and a sparkling bright purple bow-tie), and he is, apparently, though it's hard for Nate to judge, since he's sitting all the way in the back part of the club on the left side of the entrance, where the long bar table is located at, starting to SING to the gathered crowd of drinking (or already drunk or mostly drunk) customers, who are all immediately, as Nate soon sees for himself, as he moves to get a better view of the singing man at the very front of the club, sitting down at a seat directly in front of the man in the very middle of the large clusters of tables and chairs that are spread throughout the establishment, enraptured by his soft, yet also rather rough dulcet tenorish tones, as he sings, what is clearly supposed to be, at least to Nathan's ears, a male version of 'Why Don't You Do Right', sung originally by the character of Jessica Rabbit from the movie Who Framed Roger Rabbit?. Nate is also immediately enraptured by his clear, dulcet tones, and as the song nears its end, Nate takes out a twenty, and holds it up between his index and third fingers, smirking coyly all the while. And as the man nears the climax (XD) of his song, he slowly walks towards Nate from off of the 'stage';leans down across the table in front of him;and he finally ends on a soft, tenorish grand high note, that is practically whispered into Nathan's ear, but is still loud enough for all of the rest of the men to hear, as he then slowly takes the money from between Nate's fingers, turns around slowly, and then he just struts calmly and seductively away, all while looking Nate right in the eyes, a very coy and sly smile tugging at the edges of his lips. And Nathan knows, right then and there, that he HAS to get an audience with this man, there's no question about it.

Though, Nate realizes it's going to be rather hard, seeing as the singing man, who Nate learns by asking around that his stage name is 'Flynn Rider', that he's 25 years old, and that that's all anybody who doesn't work at The Starstrand really knows about him, is The Once-ler's (again, the owner of this 'fine establishment', if that's what you would call it) own personal little boy toy, and that he lets nobody, and I mean NOBODY, but himself touch him. ('Well, this is gonna be fun...,' Nate thinks to himself). Next, we have Jackson 'Jack' Frost, who is a one-time petty thief, who lost a bet with his best friend Terra 'Tooth' Toothiana that said that if he couldn't eat a whole plate of spicy noodles in one go, without drinking ANY water, than he would have to get a job as a high-end 'rent boy' at The Starstrand. And as was stated previously, he LOST that bet, and Jack usually NEVER loses bets. Except when they're bets that come from his sweet, but secretly a Beware-the-Cute-Ones level Stepford Smiler best friend. Honestly, Jack should have known, he should have KNOWN that NOTHING good could can come from, nor ever comes from, making bets with Tooth. But, a bet is a bet, so he has to go through with it anyway, regardless of whether he wants to or not. And besides, it'd just be plain rude to rufuse to do it now anyways, so he might as well get this job 'interview' with the owner of The Strastrand done and over with. Meanwhile, over on The Once-ler's AKA, Ozymandias 'Oz/Ozzy' Oddleton's, side of things, he's not really expecting much to come out of this interview:probably just some random junkie, punk-scene-type-of-kid who is just trying to earn some extra money so that he can buy more drugs. ('Honestly, kids these days...,' The Once-ler thinks to himself, as he sips at a clear crystal shot glass which contains his favorite brandy, Hines VSOP Label Cognac, while sitting at his richly-designed and detailed mahogany desk in his spacious office, which is located on the very top floor of the four-story night club and gay bar. Honestly, he makes a LOT of money off of this place, most of it going towards...well, I won't spoil it for you, just know that Mr. Once-ler, is not a very nice man, especially when comes to - 'Ugh, God forbid,' He thinks - ACTUALLY INTERACTING with people. He prefers quiet, peaceful solitude, to the very loud, very OBNOXIOUS and QUITE annoying beings known as OTHER PEOPLE.). But, when he meets Jack Frost, the 23-year-old young man who, to Ozzy, looks MUCH younger than he is, most likeley he looks to be at least 19, but, as he checks over the kid's credentials one last time in the portfolio he had typed up and sent to him only about three days ago, he confirms instantly that yes, he is, in fact, 23 years of age. He just LOOKS like a fresh-faced, virginal boy of 19. ('God, I really hope this kid isn't a virgin...'Cause that'll make my job even MORE harder to do than it already was.' Once-ler thinks to hemself again, as he gestures for the young man to sit in a comfortable-looking, high-backed chair right across fom him, while he continues to sip at his brandy. There is silence between them for a few moments.). And then, Jack clears his throat, not saying anything, but subtly gesturing with his eyes that he's ready to begin the interview. And so, without giving anything more away about this subscenario of the story than I already most likely have (I'm sorry if you didn't want ANY spoilers to this by the way, my mind tends to takeover when I'm writing or typing, XD), they finally move on with the interview. And (no surprise here, at least XD), Jack gets the job. Though, he decides to initially leave out the whole part about the bet with Tooth, and that he's only here because he lost said bet, figuring he can just tell his new 'boss' down the road later. And, just like with all the others so far, they slowly, but surely, start to form a particularly close bond with each other.

Meanwhile with the four close-nit, best friends known as Hiro Hamada, Wilbur Robinson, Riley Andersen, and Penny Forrester, their lives are going pretty good right now:they have all been friends since Hiro moved to Berk from San Fransokyo several months ago, and since then, their friendship has been stronger than it has ever been. On the surface, at least;privately, though, they all each struggle with thier own insecurities and issues with their families:Hiro is INSANELY depressed about the recent death (though it was several months ago, just several weeks before he moved here to Berk with his Aunt Cass and his cat Mochi) of his beloved older brother Tadashi, who tragically died in a hit-and-run collision with a drunk driver on a nearby highyway, and because of that, he's contemplated suicide (either by downing a bottle of pills or cutting himself) MANY times before, yet no one knows, not even his Aunt Cass, and no one seems more the wiser to the fact that he's been cutting himself across his wrists lately, just so he can dull the emotional pain and so he can replace it with something more tangible, more PHYSICAL, if you will;Wilbur is constantly being overshadowed by his genious engineer/inventor/scientist of a father, Lewis Robinson, who also is very obssessed with his work, but near-completely neglects his son, and while he knows that his Dad's inventions aren't as well-known, and don't make him as rich as a CERTAIN Mr. Haddock, he otherwise lives a very successful, very fulfilling life, or so it would seem to Wilbur, and seemingly ONLY Wilbur, on the surface;Riley is dealing with certain emotional traumas, due to suffering from a clear and overwhelming lack of emotional support from her parents who, try as they might, just can't seem to connect with their daughter on as clear of an emotional level as they used to;and finally, FINALLY we get to the VERY LAST CHARACTER that I will be explaining about, Penny:her problem is that she just lost her Dad to a very rough bout with lung cancer, and for whatever reason, she blames her mother for not doing enough to help him;so whenever she's not hanging out with her friends who, like I've explained previously, have all got their own inner battles and personal issues to fight and grapple with, she can usually be found spending time up in her room or in her backyard alone with her three pets, her white German Shepard dog Bolt, her black and white cat Mittens, and her hamster Rhino. As the days slowly pass by, she finds herself, slowly but surely, getting closer to Riley, and Riley with her. Same with Hiro and Wilbur. Could this be the possible start of something more wholesome, meaningful, and deep than just simple friendship?

But yeah, that was my REEEAAALLLY long story summary, and I probably gave away more than I should have, but like I said, when I write or type, my mind just COMPLETELY takes over. So, tell me what you think. By the way, as I write this, I realize that it took me the ENTIRE LATTER HALF OF THE DAY to finish actually TYPING it all, because I had to constantly check for spelling and grammatical mistakes, and I realize now that, I actually DON'T have any questions for you, at least, not right now anyway, and I would still like some tips and advice on how to write this all out on paper, exactly. Anyway, I'm gonna FINALLY STOP TYPING NOW, as my arms are both COMPLETELY tuckered out from all this typing I've been doing on my tablet device. So, see ya later, goodbye! 😁