Let Daniel Craig kiss Hugh Grant in the next Knives out Movie, pretty please. Let Phillip call Blanc “My darling” or “My dear” and let Blanc call Phillip “My sweetheart” or “my good husband”.
(TLDR: Let Phillip and Blanc be gay together, thanks)
Would love to see a fic of how Blanc and Philip might have met where Blanc is out somewhere (maybe a fancy little bar or got invited to some party) and women keep flirting with him, but he’s too nice and southern to tell them he’s gay so Philip swoops in all “there you are, dear! I was looking for you” to make it seem like they’re a couple and they finally get the message and go away and now the detective is flustered because of this charming British stranger pretending to be his partner so women will stop flirting with him
I realized I never posted this here! here's my full piece from the @pressmanque Glass Knives zine, which is available for free download!!! Check it out if you wanna see a bunch of cool art and fics. Thanks so much to @tvheit and the rest of the mod team for having me!!
I know we want to know what Phillip does so he can support both himself and Mr-designer clothes-investigator as a hobby-won't charge for solving the case-Blanc, and I've seen a lot of people say lawyer.
My idea is that he is actually either a thief or an assassin for hire and he just pretends he has this boring office job, and Blanc hasn't realized it yet, because he doesn't do well with obvious clues.
*benoit blanc voice* Yoar tellin’ me, this heah applicashon, tumblah dot com is obsessin’ ova the extracshon from vanilla beans? Strange, very strange. And ah, who began this heaya trend? No one?? Intrestin’ tha’s very intrestin’. Phillip, darlin’, what do you make of this phenomena? Not surprised, eh? I must’a get online moar I believe.
Anyways. The fact that Benoit Blanc's fame in Knives Out universe is just so well-known to the point Google defining him as the greatest detective and Miles recognizing him right on just confirms Benoit must have WAY TOO MANY PEOPLE WANTING HIM DEAD, and also implies that at some point in their romcom love story, Philip might have or might have not been one of those who tried to either stop Benoit from solving a case by being paid to kill him or something, which could also mean Philip has almost the same skill sets as James Bond but never as brilliant as Benoit to NOT ONLY SOLVE A MYSTERY but also managed to prevent this future husband of his from endangering lives (including himself)