hi i'm back to elaborate on the playwright/anderperry au :D this is going to be very scattered so maybe one day i will write it out nicely
anyways so i was thinking that after welton, neil & todd ended up at the same college. why? bc they need each other ofc!!! anyways so neil & todd both end up studying english. neil has a concentration in writing, and todd has a focus in education. (yes english teacher todd is perfect & i will never change it!!!) neil also studies theater & does many many plays that he's amazing in and todd is there for every single one with a bouquet of flowers on every single night bc they're cute
so i'm thinking after that, they move to nyc. well, right outside of nyc. they don't exactly have the means to move into the city y'all its expensive :'( so anyway todd gets a job teaching english at a local school & he's very happy with his career. neil goes on audition after audition, and he books very very small things, but he never really gets anywhere. so one night he's so fed up that he goes into an old journal of his & finds this script
*cue hallelujah music or smth*
and this script is great. neil, with all of his bad outcomes from auditions, has come out of them with some connections. and so his play gets staged off broadway. then closer to broadway. then ON broadway.
i feel like this is rly conflicting for neil bc he originally wrote it for himself to play but the producers were like "eh let's audition other people"
no he auditioned to play his character than didn't get it
and ofc he's very thankful for what he has but he's also kind of sad that he doesn't get to act
and then it's always "what is he going to write next? when will you write again?"
but it's never "hey i heard you were an actor! do you still want to act?"
but he is still happy dw yall he has his todd so he's good :)
also they still live right outside of nyc bc todd loves his job & doesn't want to leave & neil is ok with that :)
okay they can live right outside the city but not in new jersey. and also i don’t like long island let’s not condemn them there. they can live in a different borough than manhattan if they want but the good ones are Brooklyn and mostly just brooklyn really so yeah they can live in brooklyn or a little upstate ny if they want and by this i mean like the bronx or smth