#💖 — about elanor.

[mosaickiwi]

14DWY As a Drama AU

Hey remember when I said I’d post this in February oopsies!! (don’t ask me about demon!ren i will cry)

Open at your own risk this thing is LONG. Tried to give everyone at least a little something! upon putting this in my drafts i realized olivia exists i'll add her at some point uhhh. Also you can tell how much I love Elanor... hehe

14 Days With You is an 18+ Yandere Visual Novel. MINORS DNI

The cult classic romantic thriller, 14 Days With You, is now a drama! Coming to all your favorite streaming platforms this summer. A whirlwind romance gone right and wrong that you DON’T want to miss.

Cast List

[REDACTED]

🖤 Quiet kid that used the after school theater program to delay returning home. Never wanted to perform, but loved doing costumes, make up, and correcting others (in his mind) on how to portray their roles. 

🖤 Spent a little extra time perfecting the costumes of a certain someone who didn't even know they existed. He always traded house chores with his sister so she'd sit in the audience to solely film Tree #2's performance.

🖤 Was an apprentice special effects makeup artist after graduation at first, particularly for horror films, but it didn't exactly pay the bills when they left home.

🖤 Easily rose to the top in their acting career due to his dedication for crafting characters to perfection. 

🖤 Dolly Parton/Lady Gaga-esque in their separation of work and life—completely unrecognizable in their regular civilian attire. Paparazzi have never gotten a picture of them in all their years trying.

🖤 Has zero issues getting into character, but does "method acting" on occasion to make sure people leave them alone on set. And also to fuck with directors and producers they don't like. Notoriously difficult to work with because of it + their overall attitude towards others, still gets hired somehow.

🖤 Got offered the role as the main love interest in 14DWY without an audition, thanks to a previous manipulative pink haired character he played in a film that ended up never being released. (2017 Ren because it's funny)

 Angel (you!)

💜 Participated in the same after school theater program as [REDACTED] and Leon for a few semesters before you got bored of it. Curiosity for acting resurfaced later in life.

💜 Newbie actor at the recently formed talent agency of your friend. Only starred as non-speaking roles or background characters in small productions until the drama. You moved back to Corland Bay after uni for the better industry prospects.

💜 You initially auditioned for a very small role in the drama as an employee in a seaside shop at first, but somehow you wound up as the lead? (un)lucky you.

💜 Feel free to fill in the blank for any whys and hows you think of to fit your OC/self/sona as you so please <3

Elanor

💖 Normally an actress and casting director, first time as an executive producer for the drama. Dreams of bringing her own romantic screenplays to life. Hasn't quite proven herself the way she wants in the industry to feel confident enough in them. 

💖 Catalyst for the drama being made. A "friend" mistakenly recommended the 14DWY book to her. She absolutely loathes all the psychological horror of it but sees the potential it has.

💖 Also the reason [REDACTED] was immediately cast, and you as well once she saw your chemistry with him while reading for a minor role. He hadn't shown a fraction of as much interest when reading lines with other potential candidates, so she decided to take the risk of an untested talent as the headliner.

💖 Refuses to use her family's name to get her stuff made. She wants her works to speak for themselves. Very picky about who she works with due to her family having hands in most of Corland's entertainment industry so she hardly gets a genuine interaction beyond ass-kissing.

💖 Always partial to working with Conan's small studio since he was the only director to give her any sort of criticism in spite of her family, as gentle and polite as it was. She still cried a little in the dressing room though.

💖 Genuine confusion when Conan wants her to act as both a producer and assist with direction. She only intended to bring it to his interest. But how could she say no to someone whose judgment and opinion she respects so much?

Conan

💖 Runs and owns a small scale studio in the Bay that seems to pick and choose its productions at random. It is in fact Alice sneaking into her dad's home office and putting scented stickers on the ones she likes. (She only reads the titles)

💖 Extremely proud of Elanor for getting so far on her own, and would take on one of her dozens of scripts no questions asked if she'd only work up the courage to show him one. So imagine his surprise when she comes to him with a romantic horror instead of one of the fairy tale romances he sees her scribbling notes on during breaks.

💖 While he’s the one with the final say, he does try to let Elanor have as much free reign as possible on the project in the hopes to boost her confidence.

Kiara

💖 A super-star actress and model that got her start in Corland’s local industry, but quickly hit it big. 

💖 When she isn’t drowning in work, she’ll swing through town to check in on her sister.

💖 Desperately wants to star in one of Elanor’s productions, but respects her sister’s desire for independence. Though she does like to tease about certain casting decisions on the drama when made aware of them.

the rest of the cast are unfortunately very silly i couldn't resist

Moth

💖 Started a talent agency out of spite for the terrible castings in their favorite media. Got further invested upon realizing they could read the scripts before the movies or show adaptations were even announced.

💖 The one who pushed you to audition for a minor role in the production once the rumor about who was cast as the main love interest reaches them. They've heard all the horror stories about [REDACTED] so wanted the inside scoop. Horrified and fascinated to find out you get the lead role. It’s like watching a train wreck.

Leon

💖 Joined the theater program initially because of you, but got really into it. Moved away to attend a performing arts school until his mother got sick.

💖 Took every wacky infomercial or street performance gig he could find to pay the hospital bills until Teo found out and swooped in.

💖 Eternally grateful for the burden of financial ruin being relieved, so he always accepts the jobs Teo gets for him. He definitely won’t complain since he’s not dressed in an animal costume and shouting nonsensical slogans for cleaning products.

Teo

💖 Met Leon through a shared production and quickly bonded. Attended a different performing arts school and met Jae as a child.

💖 Almost the exact opposite of his game character purely for the funnies. Shy, introverted, can’t flirt to save his life. Still a nepo baby but he can hold his own in acting. Doesn’t like his character much, but is extremely jealous of the confidence he oozes.

💖 Leon and Jae are his only friends in the industry so he uses his sway to get them parts if they haven't already gotten a call back. Gets REALLY nervous on set for certain roles so he needs their support.

Jae

💖 Attended the same school as Teo when they were kids, and is constantly pitching intentionally bad ideas and joking on set to reassure his friend.

💖 A little bit of a thrill seeker, so does all his own small stunts if he thinks he’s capable. Stands there and gawks watching the more extreme stunts, loudest to clap when they go well.

💖 Kept bringing Maple to the shoots cause how could he even think about leaving her at home? She would occasionally break her leash and wander into a scene for head scratches and kisses. The film crew always booed when a PA came to take her off set.

Violet

💖 Completely terrible at caring for plants. Inspired by her role, she starts vlogging about her plant mom journey before shooting even begins. All her advice is completely wrong and terrible. Her personal assistant keeps her in the dark by tending to the plants themselves to fix her mistakes.

💖 Finds out she has a talent for flower arrangement, though. Does thank you vases for the cast and crew on all her future productions that last a lifetime because her PA made sure all the flowers were fake.

Exposition

(silly on set shenanigans)

🎬 Scenes get retaken quite a bit, since you’re still extremely new to it all. Most of the cast and crew expect anger out of [REDACTED] after the 4th call for a re-shoot on the first day’s library scene, but he’s surprisingly cracking jokes about his dye job and reassuring you that you’re doing great. The infamously ill-tempered actor is smiling somehow… even being patient? Not glaring down his co-star for minor slip ups? They cannot recognize this person.

🎬 Violet and [REDACTED] naturally butt heads on set. She respects their acting, not the actor. Zero hesitation to snap back if he’s getting snarky with a PA. You’re the one people have to beg to separate them, and you’re completely baffled that [REDACTED] doesn’t treat others as nicely as he treats you.

🎬 Even though Elanor is a nervous wreck about the first real thing to ultimately make or break her career, she’s scarily efficient on set—as long as no one distracts her. She does get sidetracked once in a while, only because she loves chatting and answering any questions the cast or crew might have. She even brings one of her own cats to set during a slower day to see if they can get along with Maple. Leaves Conan in charge when the horror scenes are being shot. They’re both put off by how vivid they feel, but Conan at least can grin and bear it. 

🎬 You and Leon manage to catch up on set while [REDACTED] is otherwise occupied shooting said horror scenes. You tease him about a few infomercials you saw when looking up his actor reel, and Leon teases you back about your unlucky streak of being a tree or a rock in every play the theater program put on when y’all were younger. Laughs even harder once he finds out your most prominent roles until then were “unnamed zombie #5 at the bottom of the pile” and “sleeping train passenger.”

🎬 Try as he might, [REDACTED] doesn’t convince Elanor to change up a few crucial parts of the script for his benefit. His offhand threats of leaving the production fall on deaf ears, as she is all too happy to do re-shoots to make Teo the lead. His innocent hints to you about the shoddy script fly over your head for some reason! You love how it's turning out, what does he mean?

🎬 Super shy Teo prefaces and warns his co-stars before acting in every scene of his character being excessively flirty. Most of the actors have worked with him at some point or another beforehand, so they let him go through his routine without issue. Some crew members love the whiplash of him switching between overly courteous and smarmy, others vastly prefer the flirty character and mourn the loss as production comes to a close.

The Build Up

📺 The higher ups pressure Violet to start a short-lived streaming career to boost interest, since she’s hopeless with plants. She amasses a cult following for her MMO reviews, blind raids on new patches, and her wild ride of a Minecraft playthrough. In the end she winds up preferring to play games off stream, but once in a blue moon she’ll do a first time raid stream so her more dedicated fans can join and watch her alliance get wiped. Creative trolling is highly encouraged.

📺 Teo, Jae, and Leon appear on a late night TV show for promotion. It was meant to be for Teo and [REDACTED] at first. (Where’s the leading lover? [REDACTED] refused all promo appearances or sit downs without you being involved in them.) The host plays a clip that Teo’s particularly embarrassed about, and he hides his face in shame when the crowd hoots and hollers praise about his portrayal.

📺 [REDACTED] comes across as doting and overprotective of you once you’re pushed into the spotlight of celebrity, and shows increasingly concerning behaviors as the premiere looms closer. Depending on your response, they’ll back off to a point or dial it up. Interviewers and consumers mistake it as the eccentric actor’s “method acting” so the red flags just slide right past.

📺 Elanor and Conan guest star in a podcast for off-the-cuff romance enthusiasts. Their strangely cagey and joking comments like “there were so many retakes we couldn’t keep track of what was meant to be the actors messing around or part of the final cuts,” and “we’ve actually sent all the reviewers 1 of 14 versions with completely different endings,” leave listeners all the more curious to see the film.

The Climax

🎉 Reception is huge, in good ways for most. The majority of the cast see a surge in popularity if they didn’t already from the hype. 

🎉 Teo bemoans his endless offerings for sarcastic pretty boy jobs, Leon makes enough to get picky about his roles (and pay Teo back), Jae somehow cons a studio into an action film starring Maple—and subsequently adopts every single one of her stunt doubles. 

🎉 Moth throws the agency away to start adapting anime and manga themselves. Elanor finally feels validated enough to bring one of her romantic screenplays to the big screen, starring her sister Kiara and a very enthusiastic Violet as the leading couple. 

🎉 Conan’s studio is overloaded with scripts, and Alice runs out of scented stickers that much quicker. They are severely backlogged send help.

🎉 One determined conspiracy theorist sets out to prove those missing 13 versions of the ending are real, based on minor cuts and inconsistencies purposefully left in the public release.

The End, Roll Credits

choose your own ending

Bad End 💔 - A Falling Star

💔 If you respond negatively to [REDACTED]’s demeanor during shoots and promo: he plays the waiting game, uses his connections and blackmail to make sure all your roles without his name attached don’t garner nearly as much attention as the ones where you’re co-stars.

💔 Your negotiating power quickly plummets as you fall out of demand and end up begging just for the non-speaking roles you once loathed.

💔 The careers of anyone you got close to on set fall apart much faster than yours, before they’re outright blacklisted in the industry.

💔 You begrudgingly call up your last option. He can’t do much for your friends, but their offer to help you make a comeback is always open.

Neutral End 💌 - Just One More Try

💌 If you respond indifferently to [REDACTED]’s demeanor: the drama leads to you getting more offers, though a handful are for playing opposite of [REDACTED], as the on-screen chemistry was too much for studios to ignore for cash grabs.

💌 Elanor has rid herself of the drama’s subsequent rights, despite positive reception, so a sequel sprouts up in the works at a different studio. One that doesn’t mind catering to the whims of their actors when it comes to script integrity.

💌 You arrive on the set to find that not just one, but all of your cast mates except for them were written to have much smaller parts in the sequel. In fact, you rarely find a scene in the revised script where [REDACTED] isn’t alongside you.

💌 Sadly the contract is air tight, just put up with it until it’s over… What’s this clause about further sequels?

Good End 💍 - Off Into the Sunset

💍 If you respond positively to [REDACTED]’s demeanor: you’ll sadly announce at the post premiere press conference that acting was a one-and-done adventure for you. Retired effective immediately, no farewell interviews.

💍 You’re spotted around town for a few weeks in a mask with a tall, darkly dressed companion at your side before you disappear from the public eye and Corland Bay all together.

💍 A few of your friends at least have an idea of where you are, and they meet up with you whenever you're in a nearby city. None of them can recognize the man glued to your side, though. Not that he'd say anything to clue them in.

💍 After months of near inactivity, [REDACTED] mysteriously deletes their socials without a word, sparking confusion and outrage among hardcore fans still desperately hoping for a sequel.

#14 days with you #14dwy #14dwy au #momo writing #wow look i posted not requested stuff #and it's NOT only emo boy??? wild #<- i am capable of this sometimes #wrote it in like 2 days back in november from brainrot ngl #and now it's here so it can stop haunting me!!! #i do wanna write little drabbles (mostly about angel's audition) but who knows if that'll happen #if u see issues bc of having to remove discord formatting no u didn't #AND if u saw this on discord b4 no u didn't #i wanna add river once he's in da game cause i have many ideas

[verecunda]

There have been many, many excellent posts about how Aragorn in both the book and the films, is openly emotional, not afraid to shed tears, etc.

But I have never seen anyone talk about this:

At the hill’s foot Frodo found Aragorn, standing still and silent as a tree; but in his hand was a small golden bloom of elanor, and a light was in his eyes. He was wrapped in some fair memory: and as Frodo looked at him he knew that he beheld things as they once had been in this same place. For the grim years were removed from the face of Aragorn, and he seemed clothed in white, a young lord tall and fair; and he spoke words in the Elvish tongue to one whom Frodo could not see. Arwen vanimelda, namárië! he said, and then he drew a breath, and returning out of his thought he looked at Frodo and smiled.

Look at him, just look at him! This great big sap, standing there twirling a flower in his hands, just going 😍😍😍 while he thinks about Arwen.

God, he’s everything. 💖

#Lord of the Rings #Aragorn

[frodo-with-glasses]

💖💖💖💖!!!! Frodo and Elanor!!!

3, 4, and 10!

HECK YESSSSS I’ve been looking forward to doing this one for SO LONG!! We’re gonna go with my Magnolia AU for this (the one where Frodo stays in the Shire long enough to meet all of Sam’s kids), since that’s the more interesting version of their relationship.

(Brace yourself, this is gonna get SadTM.)

3. “A random headcanon I have of them”

I haven’t settled in my mind when exactly Frodo sails to Valinor in the Magnolia AU (or whether he does at all). There MUST have been more elven ships that left in the years following the War of the Ring, so he could catch one of those, if he so wished; I assume that’s the way Sam got there in canon.

All of that to say, if/when Frodo ever left for Valinor—after doing all he could to find peace and happiness in Middle Earth, and managing to find some joy in the Gamgees, but never truly being completely healed—I think he left just about everything in his study to Elanor. Books, maps, scrolls, letters, half-scribbled attempts at poetry; anything he couldn’t fit into his pockets to take onto the ship, he left with her.

Elanor was his favorite of the Gamgee children. She was his brightest and most attentive student. She had the best of her father’s love for elves, and of her adopted uncle’s love for history and lore, and if any of Sam’s children could be found in Mr. Frodo’s study in their free time, it would have been her. All of the little Gamgees were distraught that Uncle Frodo had to leave, of course—and there were many tears and wailed “I don’t want you to go”s—but Elanor, being the oldest, and by then more of a young lady than a little girl, held herself together for the most part.

It was only when Frodo and Elanor got a little time alone in the study afterwards that she absolutely broke down crying. She knew he was in pain. She knew he was. She’d watched him suffer all her life. She’d learned to dread certain days on the calendar, because those were the days that her dear old uncle wouldn’t be himself, and it terrified her. But that didn’t change the fact that—selfishly, she called it, although he quickly and firmly assured her that it wasn’t selfish at all—she felt that she was losing her second father.

He held her until she stopped shaking, and brushed away her tears with his thumb, and whispered assurances through his own choked voice, and urged her, gently, wherever she missed him, to peel open these books again and imagine him there with her. He would miss her dearly. He would not do this if he felt he had any other choice. He feared if he stayed…he wouldn’t live to see another one of her birthdays, and he couldn’t do that to her family, not after they’d been so kind.

He urged her to take comfort, whenever she thought of him, in the knowledge that he was alive, he was healing, and likelier than not…he was thinking of her too.

He urged her to take comfort in the knowledge that he loved her.

Most of his books and parchments came with her in the move to the Tower Hills, but some days when she came to visit her mother and father in Hobbiton, she’d sit in the chair by the study window and watch the dust float lazily in the sunbeams, and think about her uncle’s voice.

When Frodo left for Valinor, he had in his pocket a “letter” from Elanor; one of the first things she’d ever written, back when she was a small lass just learning to hold a pen, and she’d scratched down in a child’s big, shaking scrawl, “DEar uncLe FRodo: I LOVE YOU! Sinseerlee, ELanoR”

4. “My favorite thing about them”

The best thing about the Magnolia AU is getting to watch Frodo pass on to the Gamgee children everything that Bilbo had given to him. Bilbo was the uncle who adopted Frodo; Frodo is the uncle who (unofficially, but undeniably) adopted Elanor. He gets to see what that relationship is like from the other side.

And just, I dunno…Frodo being a father figure, man. It just gets me. He’s not a conventional father figure by any means—how could he, when he didn’t have a conventional father figure himself??—but he’s a loving one, in spite of all his pain and mental issues, and there’s just something about kids and having someone small and innocent to love that I think would’ve been really good for him.

(Am I projecting a little bit?? Do I have at least one parental figure who struggles with mental health stuff and yet whom I love with everything I’ve got??? Would I give anything in the world to see that hypothetical parent finally be healed??? Maybe!! 8-D Maybe that just means I know what I’m taking about.)

10. “A song that reminds me of them”

I’ll go with my go-to song for when I want to be in PainTM over how it feels to love someone with mental illness: “Medicine”, by Daughter.

FRIENDSHIP ASK GAME!

#ask game #frodo baggins #elanor gamgee #lord of the rings #lotr #my writing #magnolia au #i dunno if it's just 2:30 in the morning but writing this.....literally put a physical pain in my chest #i think that means i'm doing the SadTM right

[oh-katsuki]

yesss, I would LOVE some reccs! I’m a fantasy, coming-of-age, and classics type of gal myself, but I love books in general, so I’d love to hear from you! 💖

i don't read much fantasy, but i have read a (kind of) coming of age book that i think about on an almost daily basis!!!

okay so the kind of coming-of-age one is the virgin suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides (though i'd hardly classify it as coming of age, maybe mystery or drama?). obviously a HUGE trigger warning with this one. if you've seen the movie i HIGHLY recommend you read the book because it's got such beautiful prose and i absolutely adore it. it's told in collective first person (which is super cool to read) from the perspective of the neighborhood boys going home after they've grown up to reflect on the events that transpired in the home of the Lisbon girls. i truly love it and cannot praise it enough.

another one is called the collector by john fowles. this one is a psychological thriller about a man who collects butterflies and the way he justifies his obsession with an art student at the nearby university. it's scary but it's incredibly interesting. plus john fowles is a fantastic writer.

if you want teen romance, elanor and park is fantastic. though it's a book for teens so the reading level is a little low. it's about two high school kids falling in love and navigating life.

and then i haven't finished it yet, but no longer human by osamu dazai is an incredible story about a man who feels that he lacks the ability to relate to humans around him. it's hard to summarize and it's a really painful story, but it's wonderfully written. as for the translations, there are two prominent ones. the most prominent and easiest to read as an English speaker is donald keene's translation, but if you want something more faithful to the original Japanese, A Shameful Life translated by Mark Gibeau is good. though that's only based on what i'd heard before purchasing the book (i'm reading keene's translation).

#[ 🏩 – chatting ] #book recs #tw: suicide mention #tw: stalking mention

[toss-a-coin-to-your-bard]

Zeus, Demeter, Sphynx, Ogygia, The Labyrinth

Poe, my sweetest friend, you can ask the hardest questions! I'm right in my feels and I love you 🥺😭💖

Zeus | What’s your name or nickname?

My irl name is Elanor actually and people call me El, Ela, and Ellie sometimes (yes I identify as genderqueer, no I honestly didn't choose my name - it was chosen at my birth)

Demeter - Do you have any pets?

I had three rabbits in my live and my mom has a canary I sometimes pet sit when she's gone. I wanna have a rabbit or a cat in the near future 🥰

Sphinx - Last text you sent?

Im constantly using gifs in my communication and this one was very in line with my usual shenanigans

Ogygia - Describe your dream husband/wife/life partner?

...humor and kindness and a warmth that radiates from the heart outward and hugs and some sort of common sense and someone that I can share a silence and a laugh with and that makes me laugh at myself sometimes and that just....loves me and respects me and who's presence inspires me to love and grow more every day. A shared interest I can info dump about would be bonus but not a requirement lmao (no im not a sappy romantic what are u talking about)

The Labyrinth - Have you ever died and came back to life as a vampire?

Ok funny thing, I really started to think about this for a hot sec there so...maybe??? In another life 😌👀

#i talk #asked and answered #toss a heart to your poe #poe my beloved #hi yes hello #poe ily <3