#fuego jatp

[squishiefelix]

I actually can't stop thinking about a JATP x Dead Boy Detectives crossover.

Willie contacting DBD to finally get something done about Caleb

Caleb's gaydar going off for Edwin and then trying to pair him off with Dante and Fuego like he did for Alex.

Caleb working his manipulative ways to make DBD believe he's not the bad one and it's actually 'Willie and his boyfriend's little boyband' that are causing the chaos.

DBD being suspicious but following along anyway and meeting Julie and The Phantoms.

Crystal and Julie having a bonding moment about being girls with ghost boys as pets - instantly certain there's no way this group are the trouble just because of their similarities.

Charles asking the band which one of them is Willie's boyfriend, and when everyone turns to Alex, Edwin can't stop watching him - not because he's attracted to him, but there's another gay ghost that has actually managed to get a boyfriend after death. Fascinating.

Luke being super defensive about the group, Charles being super defensive about their investigation, so they start off butting heads. Somewhere along the line, Charles mentions being alive in the 80s and then Luke's like '... omg me too' and they just forget they weren't getting along.

Eventually Edwin starts talking to Alex and asks him about how he found Willie and how he even made the move to be his boyfriend and Alex gets all shy about it and then tells Edwin his story and Edwin's like 'the only boys that have shown interest in me have been a crow and a cat' and Alex just goes '.... okay....'

Niko and Reggie, meanwhile, are talking about horses and Reggie's country songs

#jatp #julie and the phantoms #dead boy detectives

[innytoes]

Inny rewatches JATP 4-6

Episode 4:

-Okay so this school has: a swim team (mentioned at the rally) and lacrosse team, cheerleaders, special FURRY cheerleaders, and a marching band. Dances in the middle of the week. Who the fuck is funding this school?

-I've decided I'm going full rarepair and I ship Nick with That Poor Boy Whose Sticks Julie Steals.

-When the boys write Hello Bobby on the mirror, the y has the little Sunset Curve swoop.

Episode 5:

-Willie enjoying the show while also saying hi to all his ghost club coworker pals never stops being good.

-Having fun going through the parts I've matched a million times and noticing all the little details. Did you know the bottoms of Caleb's shoes are shiny purple? I can just see him at his desk with a bottle of shimmering nail polish.

-Also spotted some some ladies dancing together. Dante and Fuego have competition. Let's go lesbians!

-The tiniest little nod when Alex asks Caleb to let Willie know he was looking for him and you're like: GAY ACCEPTANCE. HE'S BEEN WHERE YOU ARE. MY FEELS.... and then like 5 seconds later you're reminded Caleb is still a soulstealing evil bastard.

Episode 6:

-Still not over who the hell planned a dance on a school night. Julie missed THREE CLASSES? And then all those people going to Carrie's after party... I'm sure she wasn't the only one who overslept.

-Luke and his sadness flannel and the chocolate cake and I'm not crying my eyes are just sweating.

-Ray you know I love you but babe what is that hat. Please, sir. No.

-Also it is my personal belief that Ray went to Eats and Beats to see Carrie because he knows her fucking dad won't and even though she and Julie aren't friends anymore he wants there to be an adult who supports her.

#Inny rewatches jatp #julie and the phantoms #personal waffling #like julie and carrie and trevor talked about music all the time she said #so clearly carrie probably knew Rose and Ray as well

[mac-lilly]

BTTMW2 Recap - Day 2:

I'm sorry for all the spelling and grammatical mistakes; I typed this on my tablet so auto-correct keeps "correcting" my words.

JATP ending:

So, in the M&G Kenny made us pinky swear that we won't disclose anything JATP-related we talked about. Nothing has changed, though: The show remains cancelled (no season 2; no movie)

Neither during the M&G nor the panel they talked about a tour.

Kenny is still very angry at Netflix because of it

But he's working on new projects and is very excited about them

During the panel, a fan asked about the ending and Kenny refused to give an official answer. Instead he let Madi, Owen, and Jeremy talk about how they imagined the end:

Madi: No ending

Jeremy: Every Phantom gets the ending that they needed as individuals, not as a band. Maybe one coming back to life while others cross over

Owen (joke answer): Alex and Willie move up and become the main ship. The show gets renamed and focuses on them building a family

Owen (real answer): They move on and meet Julie's mom

JATP in general:

They were asked about with whom (character-wise) they'd like to be friends with: Jeremy with Reggie, Kenny with Willie and Alex.

Favorite quotes/moments:

Madi: Wake up

Owen: When he was breaking character by smiling when they left the HGC and Reggie/Jeremy imitates Caleb

Jeremy: "I think they can't see us." "I wish I couldn't see you."

Sacha: I got the music

(Charlie's answer was just ... 🤣 He wasn't very serios about it)

Same when he was asked about his favorite dynamic in the show: The trio Dante, Fuego, and Alex

Owen is so grateful for the project as it was his first time acting as an adult and Kenny, Jeremy, and Charlie helped him a lot

They want to be friends forever. Their friendship is very important for them.

Even though the Orpheum Tour (All the billboards around the globe with "save JATP") didn't get us what we wanted, it left an impact. According to Kenny, many people in the film industry were impressed. And the cast is so grateful about it.

JATP cast fun facts and my unrelated rambling/experience:

Kenny likes Charlie so much because he reminds him of a character he used to play in a musical that set him free and inspired him to become evolve from an actor to a director

Charlie's tattoo "Raison d'être" that he has on his wrist is written in Kenny's handwriting as he inspired it and there's an entire story behind it why this statement is so important to Kenny ... it included raisin bread

Kenny is so inspiring as a person. When he talks about his passion he's just so encouraging. There was so much energy in the room

Charlie liked the wolf on my shirt which is weird cause it was actually a fox.

Mission accomplished: I spoke German to Owen

I wore my "Ghosted" shirt for the Sunset Curve Trio. Jeremy approved. (Btw, I love how this photo turned out.)

Got the "Stand Tall" pose photo. Was great. But I was to short to reach Owen's hand. 🤣

Can't say it enough: They are just incredibly nice and down-to-earth people. All of them -- not just the JATP cast. They really wanted to make you feel comfortable around them.

The autographs for Charlie, Owen, Jeremy, Madi, and Mitchell took so long caused because they really talked to their fans and wanted to know so many things. (Unfortunately, that's also why some people didn't get autographs because they were running out of time.)

Also big shout-out to all the fans who were there. Just as nice as the cast

DreamIt on the other hand: Well, most of the staff tried to be helpful. But the lack of information in English was just not funny. (French people really living up to their reputation, I'm afraid.)

I'm on the selfie 🤣:

I will rant about DreamIt in detail later.

So that's most of the stuff I remember from day 2. Maybe I add some other stuff later as I don't remember much from the closing ceremony. But I recorded it. So can check (and even share it if sb is interested)

#julie and the phantoms #jatp #bttmw2

[legolasghosty]

214 for you :D

Heheh thank you!!! This is a little more than that, from my JatP Jem and the Holograms AU!

She could feel her brothers’ anticipation gathering around her in the small space, gathering against her skin; an energy that connected the four of them. And then the elevator doors slid open with a soft ding, and she got her first glimpse of the LA skyline out the floor to ceiling windows on the other side of the room, and she felt that energy inside her too. Because they were here. Up at the top of the City of Angels.

Caleb didn’t waste any time admiring the view. He headed straight out of the elevator, motioning for them to follow over his shoulder. Julie made herself take a proper breath in as she hurried after him. Dang the guy walked fast. Even Alex, who had the longest legs out of the four of them, seemed to be struggling to keep up.

“-clothes, hair obviously, then band practice so I can see how they sound,” Caleb was telling a short, blond man with rather striking pink eye shadow when they caught up to him. 

The guy flashed him a smile and a nod, then stepped past him to offer a hand to Julie. “Dahlia, great to meet you,” he said. His makeup sort of reminded Julie of a line from some show about eyeliner being like tiger stripes: a sign to stay on your toes. “I’m Fuego, Mr. Covington’s assistant, welcome to HGC Records.”

“Nice to meet you,” Julie responded, feeling underdressed as she shook his hand. “Julie is fine though, and this is Luke, Reggie, and Alex.”

(Send me a number and I'll write that many words in one of my WIPs and show you!)

#legolas tag #julie and the phantoms #legolas ask #jatp #jatp jem and the holograms au #this fic my beloved and also it goes so slowwwww #but hey I wrote like 1.3k on it cause of this! #progress! #they met Carrie! #now we're down to... I think just 2 more major characters to meet? #cause Willie and Flynn haven't showed up yet #but I think most everyone else has? #at least briefly?

[wr0temyway0ut]

Bar tender au

Thank you for the ask!

-Willie learned how to mix drinks at a very young age, like very soon after Caleb adopted them. He starts out mixing mocktails bc Caleb won't let him near real alcohol (not without direct supervision anyway).

-By the time he's fifteen he's so good that Caleb hires him to bar tend at the Club. Some people are amused, others are appalled, but Caleb makes sure Dante and/or Fuego and/or himself are always there to supervise and make sure Willie's not drinking anything

-JatP plays at the Club in high school and Alex is mesmerized by this seventeen year old bartender who's somehow more skilled than the adult bartenders and falls in love

-Alternatively, in adulthood Reggie gets a bar tending job at the club to help fund the band and Willie has to train him. They bond over how bad Reggie is at it and fall in love <3

-Despite being a master at mixing drinks, Willie actually prefers mocktails. He gets really creative with them and can drink as much as he wants since they won't get him drunk

(send me an AU and I'll write 5+ headcanons for it)

#asks #ask games #headcanon game

[squirrelno2]

someday I’m gonna write a jatp au where I’m not mean to Fuego and don’t make him buy into Caleb’s bullshit but so far that day has yet to arrive. sorry Fuego

#he changes so much from au to au and yet. he is consistent in this way #don't ask me why i decided this guy is so heavily manipulated by caleb that's just what went down in my brain #this is about the fic that i'm writing in response to the poll i made way back when by the way #so if you were wondering where that is. It's in process!

[thedragonemperess]

Remember when the entire JATP fandom just simultaneously agreed that Danté and Fuego were fruity, married, and had a forbidden romance since only one of them is dead?

Yeah, that was fun.

#plankton speaks because why not #jatp stuff #shut up shut up shut up shut up shut up #i am in DENIAL #dante jatp #fuego jatp #jatp

[lakesidereflection-campau]

Are there adults at this camp? Who’s in charge here?

they’re all besties 

#i literally just made up names idk if these guys have canon names or not #i think i’ve seen people call white suit guy fernando and i know dante and fuego are canon but for the other two i just made it up 👍 #dodies art #jatp campAU #jatp #julie and the phantoms #hollywood ghost club #hgc #jatp willie #willie jatp #willie nolastname #dante jatp #jatp dante #fuego jatp #jatp fuego

[nicksreggies]

so anyways dante and fuego from jatp are going to superhell for gay crimes and also being a part of the hgc

@yourfaveisgoingtosuperhell​

#your fave is going to super hell #dante jatp #fuego jatp #dante and fuego #jatp #julie and the phantoms #netflix #jatp netflix #the hollywood ghost club #the hgc #hgc #hgc ghosts

[between-two-fandoms]

The Hollywood Ghost Club (a JatP Spinoff Show - this isnt real I just wish it was)

Netflix hire me I need a job.

Starring Chyenne Jackson and Booboo Stewart. Guest starring Tori Caro, Taylor Kare, and the actors who played Dante and Fuego, and Rose. As well as various little easter eggs towards JatP like maybe we see Ray at a photo shoot in the background, or Rose walking home after a shift at her job.

The first pre-logo/intro scene in the first episode is the night Caleb died. (Sort of a callback to how JATP starts).

Takes place over the 25 years the boys were in the darkroom, maybe even before then, to explain how Caleb got in control of the club to begin with and how he became who he is today.

Willie centric on the side mayhaps? We see how Caleb and Willie met and their relationship throughout the show. Also we see how Willie begins to get used to ghost powers and stuff.

It shows how the club works in more depth, brings to light the more sinister side of the club. Maybe how Willie meets Caleb?

A personal hc of mine is that Caleb tried to recruit Trevor as Bobby began to become famous/during when he changed his name, but failed so that could also be a good plot to write into an episode or two.

Each episode guest stars an IRL famous person who Caleb or Willie try to recruit for the club - oLiViA rOdRiGo?! They could guest star Dove Cameron and the other descendants cast too!!

In true Kenny fashion the show will of course have it's own showstopping Emmy award winning original songs and soundtrack.

OMG I just thought of this but they could also take the club out of LA since it disappears to a new location every night.

We could see different cultural dances from around the world (ofc in a respectful manner and all of that).

Like guys this could be a really cool show.

Hi Netflix hire me to write this show please and thank you.

Rb to add ur own ideas!

#ren brainrot #jatp #hollywood ghost club spin off #i would actually watch the shit out of this #no cap #booboo stewart #chyenne jackson #willie ortega #willie jatp #caleb covington #dante jatp #fuego jatp #taylor kare #bobby shaw #trevor wilson #jatp brainrot #HHC spinoff brainrot

[violetwolfraven]

Willie Headcanons

So I actually came up with this like a month ago and forgot to post it. Anyway enjoy my headcanons about our favorite sk8er boi. Be ready for feels.

Tw: death, car accident mention, emotional manipulation.

...

In my mind, Willie had a good relationship with his parents. They were supportive and everything. They both loved Willie very much.

And Willie has youngest child energy so I’m saying he has a sister who’s 2 years older and a brother who’s 5 years older. Their names are Delilah and Austin.

AND ALL THREE OF THEM ARE ADRENALINE JUNKIES.

Seriously imagine the worst possible combination of head empty only skateboarding and you’ve got Willie, Delilah, and Austin.

Austin started skating when he was 7 and got Delilah hooked on it a year later.

Their parents kinda didn’t like the idea of it but those two had already started teaching Willie basic stuff by the time he was 3.

But... the other two had other interests. Delilah was into art (painting) and Austin played piano (like, really well).

For Willie, skateboarding was his thing. And it always was.

He had fun with it when his big brother would put his hands on his and teach him to play a bit, or his sister would give him some paint and a spare canvas and they’d doodle together, but it wasn’t like skating.

As far as I’ve seen (which admittedly isn’t that far) it’s widely accepted that Willie has ADHD so I’m leaning into that here.

And Willie inherited his brain from his dad, who had a bad experience with meds and so wouldn’t let any of his kids go through it.

So Willie grew up unmedicated but probably better off for the time period. His dad taught him coping mechanisms. Him and Austin. Delilah didn’t inherit it but she was taught to empathize with her brothers and recognize when they needed her help with something.

She’s a badass who can and does beat up anybody who’s mean to her brothers for missing social cues.

But anyway while Austin had piano (and skating as a side thing) Willie got even more hooked on skateboarding than either of his siblings because his brain latched onto it from a young age and couldn’t let go.

We all have our outlets. The chaos in our brains has to go somewhere. For Willie it goes into skating.

When he’s young he and his siblings will skateboard to school and then after school they’ll skate all around Hollywood for hours.

They do their homework in random McDonalds and Denny’s and tbh become local cryptid customers. Like they’re just these 3 super friendly skater siblings who tip really well and visit every fast food place within a 20 mile radius of their house with varying frequency.

They also find e v e r y skatepark, empty pool, and vacant lot in that 20 mile radius that they can possibly find.

Their parents have to bail them out of jail for trespassing and the occasional vandalism every so often.

Sometimes one of them has stuff to do and it’s just two of them out skating but if two of them are busy the other one never goes out alone cause it’s dangerous. We’ll get back to that later.

So anyway when they’re 17, 14, and 12, Delilah comes out as a lesbian.

And the family is supportive of course because they’re a good family.

But her coming out gets Willie thinking. About how some of his friends have crushes on girls but he just... doesn’t see the appeal.

Like he has a couple friends who are girls and they’re great and he likes hanging out with them at recess but he doesn’t get the hype. They’re just more friends. So he doesn’t really see what his big sister is so interested in either.

In my mind Willie actually is from around the same time as the boys (dying in like 1999) so one day while nobody else in their house is home he and Delilah are watching Star Wars: Return of the Jedi and Willie’s again wondering why people think Leia is so hot cause she’s cool and all but Luke is right there and he looks really good and—

Willie: I think I might be gay.

Delilah: Yeah I know.

They talk about it and Willie does decide to tell the rest of the family but he’s a bit wary about anyone else because he saw how some of Delilah’s friends turned on her after she came out. He doesn’t want that to happen to him.

He does end up telling a few of his friends but he doesn’t quite not care what people think of him the way his big sister does.

Austin is the only straight one and he’s like. So awkward about it but in a sweet way.

Austin: So, Britney Spears is hot, right?

Delilah: Stop.

And

Austin: So I saw you hanging around Chris the other day are you two..?

Willie: ...no...???

Austin: Cool, yeah I didn’t think so. Just had to make sure. Not that I’m doubting your ability to get boys but I’d have to shovel talk him if you were.

Willie: If I ever do get a boyfriend, please don’t.

He tries. He’s a himbo if that wasn’t clear. Where did you think Willie learned it?

So anyway fast forward a couple years and they’re 22, 19, and 17. Austin and Delilah are both in college and Willie’s the last one left at home and things between their parents start getting... tense.

Like they don’t fight exactly but they’ve fallen out of love and things are awkward.

Even Austin and Delilah can tell and they’re only home on breaks and some weekends but for Willie it’s right there and he’s watching it happen. He has no option but to see.

They used to have a rule that they don’t go skating alone because it’s dangerous but Willie just can’t make himself stay home so he goes out skateboarding.

At first it’s never too far from home or anywhere where there’s too much traffic but as things get increasingly awkward at home he goes out farther and farther, chasing the adrenaline high he used to get from going anywhere and everywhere every day after school with his siblings.

Then his parents officially tell him they’re getting divorced and

And it’s not like he couldn’t see it coming, but... it still hurts.

And neither of his siblings are coming home any time soon so

So he goes out skating on his own, way too far from home. He keeps going until he doesn’t even know where he is anymore.

He isn’t really paying attention the way he should but that’s not why he runs into trouble.

The driver of that red pickup is drunk and he rounds the corner out of nowhere.

If Delilah or Austin had been there they could have yelled for Willie to jump out of the way, or maybe up on the hood so the impact wouldn’t be as bad, but he’s alone.

So he gets hit, and the car was going fast enough that he’s dead before he even hits the pavement.

After that there’s a lot of confusion but once Willie figures out he’s a ghost... it’s too painful to think about going home, so he just... doesn’t.

He doesn’t want to see his family mourning him, so he just distracts himself, skating everywhere he couldn’t before without getting busted.

Plus some old routes where he used to go with Delilah and Austin, just for something that’s familiar but not too familiar.

He’s on one of those more familiar routes a few weeks after his death when he’s skating down Sunset Boulevard one night, singing along to Toxic by Britney Spears blasting from a nearby club and a man dressed in a purple suit comments on how he’s got a good voice.

Honestly Willie is just so relieved to have someone to talk to that he forgets about stranger danger completely.

Plus he recognizes an Elder Gay in Caleb and assumes he can trust him because the Elder Gays he met at pride that one time he went with Delilah were so nice and understanding of how reassuring it was to see queer people of older generations who got a happy ending.

Caleb barely even has to try. He just lets this 17-year-old obviously-queer ghost rant at him for a few minutes, asks a few questions and finds out that he also can play piano, and convinces him to come to the Hollywood Ghost Club the next night.

From there it’s not like Willie has anyone to save him so of course he has to join the club.

At first he’s completely alone because the other performers scare him almost as much as Caleb does.

Then slowly, he sees how they give him space because they know he’s scared of them. How they turn a blind eye when he leaves the club without permission. How they don’t critique his mistakes with the same sarcasm they show each other.

Willie starts to realize that the other performers are doing their best to look out for him, and he starts being less afraid.

They’re all too concerned with their own survival to really protect him but if they draw some attention to themselves occasionally so Caleb doesn’t notice Willie being slow to pick up some tricky choreography, that’s not too risky.

The others are all like 21 at the youngest and they really don’t appreciate Caleb tricking a literal child into working for him no matter how talented said child is. (Cause Willie is good at singing and piano. It’s just not his passion.)

The twins are 22 but they died in 1925 and before that they were performing to support a younger brother who they never got to say goodbye to so maybe they see Willie as a kind of second chance.

Lyssa (what I decided to name drummer woman because I don’t know her real name if she has one) is 25 and she died in 1984. She had a daughter who’d be about Willie’s age now and... who knows? Maybe they were friends.

Fuego is 24 and from 1951 and he had a childhood best friend who enlisted and died in WWII that he thought he might get to see when he died but that boy moved on and so... well, Willie’s just a little younger than his friend was the last time he saw him.

In short Willie becomes everyone’s baby brother and they do what they can to look out for him even if they’re just as scared of Caleb as he is.

And the better adjusted Willie gets to (after)life at the HGC and the better they get to know him, the guiltier the others start to feel about him being stuck there.

Eventually a combination of guilt and worked-up courage leads Fuego tells him about the whole unfinished business thing, in hopes maybe he can figure his out and get away from Caleb.

It doesn’t take Willie long to think of his family, how hopeless he felt about the divorce, how worried he was it would change everything and then how scared he was to see his family in pain because of his death.

He realizes his unfinished business is probably seeing them. Letting himself say goodbye.

He almost gets away with it.

Caleb catches up and stops him in the driveway of his house and poofs them back to the HGC.

He convinces (gaslights) Willie into believing that saying goodbye was never his unfinished business and even if it was it’s not like it would matter because Caleb wouldn’t let him do it.

The next morning he ships the HGC out to Tokyo. They stay on the move for a long time and when they are in town, Willie is basically locked in his room.

The next time he’s allowed out in Hollywood, his parents don’t live in their old house anymore and he has no way to find them.

As a coping mechanism, he just starts making the best of a bad situation. Becoming better friends with the other ghosts. Helping soften the blow whenever someone new comes along.

None of that means he stops checking the faces of passing skaters or keeping eyes on restaurants his folks used to like, but it does mean he more or less gives up hope.

That’s what he’s doing when he bumps into Alex.

Look, Willie loves his friends at the HGC. He really does. But there’s a big difference between 17 and 20-something. Like the others will drink alcohol some nights and technically Willie was born over 21 years ago but he still feels weird enough about it that he doesn’t drink.

He hasn’t talked to anyone his age in a long time so Alex is a breath of fresh air.

Also he’s like. Really cute. And sweet. And funny. And shit, Willie’s fallen for him before he even has time to think about it.

He keeps thinking about how Alex doesn’t seem like he’d be physically capable of hurting someone on purpose so Austin would approve and every once in a while there’s that sarcasm that pops out which means he’d get along great with Delilah.

In general Alex is the kind of guy he would’ve loved to take home to meet the family. Them not included, he’s kind of... everything Willie’s missed about Hollywood in the form of one person.

Then they hang out more and Alex is still everything he’s missed but he’s also so much more than that and...

It almost feels like a part of Alex is still alive. And for the first time in years, a part of Willie feels alive, too.

They’ve known each other for like a week tops and Willie is already in love.

Not that he’s admitting that to anyone, because he’s learned the hard way that anyone you care about can be used against you.

Still... when Alex asks for help getting revenge on Bobby, he can’t bring himself to say no because he needs to keep Alex in his (after)life and the only way he knows how to do that (or to make people be nice to him in general) is to be as useful as possible.

That turns out to be a big mistake, because Caleb sees right through him in an instant, targets Alex to confirm it, then immediately starts the process to trick the boys into committing to eternity at the HGC.

Willie feels like an idiot for thinking he could actually get away with it. Doing something good for someone he cares about.

He hadn’t thought Caleb would be interested in them because he’d never actually heard them play. The assumption was that he’d make them do some small favor and then let them talk to their bandmate for 5 minutes. A clean deal where they never have to commit to anything. Willie forgot to take magic into account.

He almost manages to convince himself it was all a bad dream, but when he seeks out Alex and his friends to check on them, he can almost feel the jolts himself, and seeing Alexthem in pain feels terrible.

Willie knows that theoretically they could figure out their unfinished business and cross over, but that all depends on finding it and doing it fast enough and if they failed...

People you care about can be used against you. And Willie does not want to be used against Alex again. He doesn’t want to see Alex used against him.

So he keeps his distance, in hopes Caleb will think he lost interest. He’s pretty sure once the boys find out about the stamp they’ll hate him, anyway.

And plus, as he’s been taught by his friends at the HGC, you have to look out for yourself because no one else will do it for you. Maybe you hurt somebody by not standing up for them, but you can apologize later and hope they forgive you. You can’t apologize if you’re gone, and it’s not like it would make a difference anyway because Caleb is too powerful for anyone to beat.

The thought of how spending eternity with Alex might not be so bad even if it has to be at the HGC does come up, but ironically that’s what makes Willie decide to screw his courage to the sticking point and tell them.

Because he has seen what decades at the club has done to his friends.

They’re all great performers, and they perform happiness well even to each other, but Willie knows them enough to know how tired they all are. How they have been doing the same thing over and over again for decades and they are sick of it.

They’re young, talented tragedies lost to drug overdoses, or AIDS, or accidents, or suicide, and they should’ve gotten to rest after everything they went through in their lives. Instead, they got a curse disguised as a blessing. They got to stay on a stage, got to keep performing and soaking up applause, never got to stop.

Willie has been there a shorter time than most of them and he feels it. The exhaustion, because ghosts are supposed to haunt for a few years then figure out their unfinished business and move on. They’re not meant to be trapped for decades, used as party tricks.

A part of Alex still feels alive and being trapped in the Hollywood Ghost Club for years on end would kill that part of him.

Willie can’t let that happen, so as hard as it is...

He tells the boys what’s wrong with them. And by that hurt, betrayed look in Alex’s eyes, he’s honestly expecting him to never forgive him.

But then Alex does. And that almost hurts worse because whether he figures out his unfinished business or not, Willie doubts he’s ever going to see him again.

He honest to God almost cries when Alex hugs him because... shit, he hasn’t gotten a hug since he was breathing.

He goes back to the HGC and tries to go about his day, and keeps replaying how good it felt to have Alex’s arms around him, hoping that memory will get him through the next few decades on his own.

The ghosts at the club do actually gossip a fair amount and by this point all of them know about the 3 dead members of Sunset Curve.

So when Willie admits to Helen (what I’m calling one of the twins) that Alex hugging him was the first time he’d gotten a hug since he died, she hugs him tight for a good 20 seconds, telling him she’s sorry he has to lose him, and if Willie closes his eyes he can almost pretend it’s Delilah.

The next thing he knows, he’s locked in a closet.

Caleb comes to talk to (intimidate) him a few hours later, saying he knows what Willie did.

He’s magically locked in his room alone for a couple weeks after that and it’s essentially psychological torture.

Helen, Anna (what I decided to call the other twin), Dante, Fuego, Lyssa, and everyone else tell him not to test Caleb for the next couple years, but Willie has a heart full of love and a head full of fuck it, so he doesn’t listen.

He gives it exactly one day of being/acting scared and obedient, then goes out without permission again, fully intending to scream in a museum alone to let out all his feelings.

Remember: Willie didn’t see the Orpheum performance. He doesn’t know the boys didn’t cross over but by Caleb’s mood he has a feeling the outcome of that scenario was not in the magician’s favor.

He gets there and it’s literally this comic by the very talented @williessweatycherrysocks

He can’t stay long but he and Alex scream in each other’s faces, talk a bit, maybe sing a duet.

After that, they sneak to see each other when they can but don’t get to see much of each other for months.

It’s hard on both of them but they don’t give up on their relationship.

Through long and complicated events which I will outline later, Willie eventually gets free of the HGC, hugs his friends goodbye already making plans to take down Caleb for good to free them, too, and promptly declines an offer to stay in the Molinas’ garage.

As much as he wants to be close to Alex he’s done being confined to one place.

He still comes and visits like every day tho.

He knows a lot more about ghosting than the other boys do so he and Carlos get along amazingly like:

Carlos: So do you know who Jack the Ripper was?

Willie: No? How old do you think I am?

Carlos: I dunno but I thought it might be Caleb cause that would explain how he never got caught.

Willie, taking notes in his Things To Potentially Use To Take Caleb Down notebook: You’re a tiny genius.

No one was expecting it but everyone is in awe of how well he and Carrie get along. Between the two of them they know so much celebrity gossip. (and it’s definitely a good thing he’s on good terms with her cause she and Alex are close)

On the angsty side, Willie also bonds with Nick over how they both know how it feels to be manipulated and used by Caleb.

Also it takes a long time before he’s able to trust him, but he does get adopted into the Molina clan by Ray.

Ray reminds him a lot of his own dad, once Willie’s able to see that he’s nothing like Caleb.

Ray’s honestly just 100% happy to Dad™️ anyone who needs a dad so it works out great once Julie and the boys figure out how to make Willie visible.

But anyway back to important stuff.

Now that they don’t have to hide for any reason, Willie and Alex can both breathe a little easier. Or... they both feel better. Ghosts don’t really breathe.

Willie can finally let himself get used to feeling alive again.

The whole ghost gang goes (invisibly) to the Los Feliz Homecoming dance and maybe it should make him feel a little on-edge with the kind of club-like environment but...

He’s got Alex there, and they’re dancing to some corny pop love song from the 90s that Flynn probably put on because she knew the ghost boys would be there so how could he feel anything but safe?

For a minute it almost feels like actually being alive and there’s yellow and pink and blue lights coming from everywhere reflecting in Alex’s eyes and Willie is suddenly very aware of the fact that though they’ve been together for a long time now, they haven’t had their first kiss.

Then the Cha Cha Slide starts up and the atmosphere switches and Willie totally forgets about the whole romantic tension thing because it’s the Cha Cha Slide everybody has to dance along.

Dirty Candi performs towards the end of the night and the ghost boys cheer the loudest despite how Julie’s laughing at them. They don’t care that Carrie can’t even hear them, they’re being supportive!!!

Everybody screams even louder when Flynn runs up on stage and kisses Carrie and Willie feels a big burst of affection at how Alex shouts ABOUT TIME!

Then he gives Willie a quick hug and leaves cause he and the rest of Julie and the Phantoms have to go get set up for their performance.

Since Alex was able to flip Carrie’s hair in All Eyes on Me I’m saying that ghosts can touch lifers if they focus and believe it will happen hard enough, so the ghost gang has developed a system for alerting their non-Julie lifer friends to their presence.

So while they’re waiting in the crowd Willie taps Carrie on the shoulder like: • - - one short tap, two long taps, a Morse code ‘W’ and Carrie lets Flynn know that he’s there.

(Nick can see him too but Nick’s off somewhere with his date {one of his lacrosse teammates you know the one})

Anyway so Julie goes out and starts up the song and then the rest of the band poofs in but

Something’s unusual.

Cause it’s not Luke on the lower main vocals.

It’s

Alex

Singing while he plays the drums and fucking killing it.

Willie totally bluescreens for a second but then when he actually focuses on the lyrics...

It’s a new song about beating the odds and being with the person you love in spite of the challenges that come with them.

And yeah there are Julie elements in there, (and she’s definitely making heart eyes at Luke even as he sticks to backup vocals) because of course there are since she has to start the song up, but

But Willie might not have any formal music training, but he was at the HGC long enough to know his stuff about music and recognize different artists’ styles.

And there’s a time signature switch on the bridge that’s a little off from how Luke would write it. There’s a swing to the melody that’s a bit more ‘pop’ than the band’s usual songs. Julie’s harmony doesn’t go as high as it normally would, as if whoever wrote the song didn’t have as high of an upper range to work with as she does.

The song is so unmistakably Alex that no one else could have written it.

Flynn and Carrie are quietly making smug comments on what they bet his face looks like right now but Willie’s not listening to them.

On the last chorus, Alex fucking winks at him right before poofing out.

Willie has whiplash like how did they go from him having to psych Alex up to break into a museum even when there’s zero chance of getting caught to Alex openly flirting with him from the stage?

He poofs backstage right as the boys get back from dropping their instruments back in the Molinas’ garage and he honestly doesn’t know what he even wants to say to convey how amazing that performance was.

Then Alex just smiles at him.

Alex: So I take it you liked the song?

Willie: Can I kiss you right now?

They both kinda freeze after he blurts that out and Reggie goes wow really quietly before he and Luke poof out to give them some privacy and whoops now they’re both flustered but

Alex: Wow, didn’t expect that. That’s... um, wow. But yeah.

They kiss and it’s a total romcom moment.

And the story’s far from over, but to Willie this definitely feels like happily ever after.

#julie and the phantoms #julie and the himbos #jatp #willie jatp #willex #alex mercer #hollywood ghost club #caleb covington #fuego jatp #julie molina #carlos molina #luke patterson #reggie peters #ray molina #carrie wilson #flynn jatp #death tw #car accident tw #emotional manipulation tw #violet’s writing #violet’s headcanons

[adumbshitbutler]

guys. you guys holy shit. the guys alex dances with are dante and fuego. dante. and fuego. fuego means fire. dante’s inferno. you gUYS I LOVE THIS SHOW

#fUCK #HOW DID I NEVER PICK UP ON THIS BEFORE #WHAT FUCK #jatp #julie and the phantoms #luke patterson #alex mercer #reggie peters #willie jatp #willex #alex jatp #jatp alex #hollywood ghost club #caleb covington #dante jatp #fuego jatp #sunset curve

[fiddlepickdouglas]

Caleb refers to Dante and Fuego as Rosecranz and Guildenstern because he hasn't bothered to figure out who is who

#julie and the phantoms #jatp #netflixwewantjatp2 #caleb covington #dante jatp #fuego jatp

[comeonpeters]

in honor of willex week, ive decided that this week im gonna start planning a willex longfic!

so it’s willie day! here’s the deets on willie!

Willie Worth 

23 years old 

has eighteen tattoos (and a lot of piercings, we’ll see)

runs a tattoo parlor with his best friend, Dante, and Dante’s boyfriend Fuego runs the front desk

Dante is also their main piercer 

used to be a pretty famous competitive skateboarder, but stopped competing when he turned 18 for reasons he doesn’t talk about much 

started drawing at a young age because there was always extra paper around - it was a cheap way to let it all out, you know? 

never planned to be a tattoo artist, but Fuego convinced him it was a good idea when everything kinda went to shit otherwise

learned to skateboard from a really nice guy in his complex when he was eight - he was a few years older than Willie and really patient about it, and Willie likes to think he picked it up pretty fast

always kinda knew he was into guys, but realized he wasn’t into girls because a friend asked him out. it was not fun. he still cringes every time he thinks about it 

grew up poor and in foster care, but was adopted into money when he was eleven or so. his adoptive parent encouraged his skateboarding once he started getting into competitions, especially once Willie was getting into the papers and eventually on television

Willie still skates, but only to get from his apartment to the parlor really

Fuego keeps a chart in the front of the parlor that says “It has been [x] days since Willie last hit someone boarding here” and keeps it up no matter how many times he has to explain it

The highest it has ever been is 23 days 

#willie #willie jatp #willex week #jatp #julie and the phantoms #fuego jatp #dante jatp #dante #fuego #i couldnt get it together to write an entire fic but i was brainstorming and then this longfic started coming to me #so yeehaw! #mine #willex tattoo parlor au #indelible worth

[williexmercer]

Touch of Magic

Lalex ex’s with Willex and Juke endgame

For @troped-fanfic-challenge Troped: JATP round two!

Summary: When everything stands in Luke and Alex’s way of getting to be with the people they love, they have to repeat the day over and over until they can get the happily ever after that they want.

Link in reblogs

#julie and the phantoms #alex mercer #willex #willie jatp #luke patterson #julie molina #lalex #juke #Alex and Luke are best friends #just needed a couple to be together #caleb covington #fuego jatp #writing with grace #jatp troped

[aghostlybao]

willie: do you think caleb will take me to disneyland if i asked him super duper nicely?

dante: not after you swung on a chandelier while belting out the lyrics and defended your actions with “i was only fulfilling sia’s dream!”

fuego: sweetie, you’re a ghost-

dante: don’t remind him!

fuego: trust me, i know what i’m doing-you can literally go to the park for free.

the park got shut down for maintenance repairs due to mysterious circumstances. a floating mickey mouse mascot head was seen rapidly moving all over the park. but thanks to fuego, they managed to set up the club for the night without a willie shaped accident. disney really made their dreams come true

#willie goes to Disneyland to skate and eat cotton candy and ice cream #dante and fuego first met willie and had to supervise him as their punishment for messing up the choreography #it didn’t take long for the three to befriend the other #idk what im saying #julie and the phantoms #jatp #willie jatp #dante jatp #fuego jatp #the hollywood ghost club #jjsmuddledideas