omgericzimmermann:

So the sense8 notfinale got me feeling some kind of way so behold my Check, Please!Sense8 AU verse wherein the Cluster is as follows:

– Jack Zimmermann, Stanley Cup winning center forward for the Providence Falconers, one of the two first out hockey players, alongside his longtime boyfriend/fiancé Kent Parson. When they were young and wanted to come out, PR insisted that if they were going to do it, the easiest way was by spinning an epic love story that eschewed most of the stereotypes about queer men. Kent is fine with their PR arranged marriage plans. Jack, not so much.

– Larissa “Lardo” Duan, an artist and hacktivist living in San Francisco with her somewhat codependent best friend and fellow hacker Justin “Ransom” Oluransi. They definitely got Greencard Married at some point, and have mostly forgotten about this.

– Adam Holster (née Birkholtz), an up and coming Hollywood type, recently joined into a superhero franchise and excited to be making the jump from the Starz/HBO/ShoTime series he’d been on for a few seasons to the silver screen. He was heavily encouraged by Hollywood Politics to assume a stage name, largely against his own will, and he spends a lot of time complaining about this to his lawyer, B. Knight, who insists on going by Shitty. Adam is perpetually annoyed about hiding large portions of his identity during interviews because he gets to tamp down both the Jewishness and the flagrant bisexuality and he’s so fucking Done.

– Rounding out their famous folk, they also have Derek Nurse, New York Times best selling author, who decided to become a famous recluse and moved to somewhere warm, sunny, and deserted. He’s happy there, though, which is what matters. At least until other people start showing up in his head and he has to acknowledge the fact he’s going crazy. Or at least, has to acknowledge it until real people start showing up at his house and trying to kill him.

– Fortunately for Derek, one of the people in his head is a Boston cop named Will Poindexter, who is damn good at fighting his way out of dangerous situations and saves Derek’s life once or twice on their first few meetings. Derek gets to return the favor ten-fold when Will’s family tries to have him committed. The only physically present person who believes Will – at least somewhat – is his work partner, Connor Whisk.

– There’s also Caitlin Farmer, the world’s most unlikely perpetrator of embezzlement, who is currently being forced to take the fall for her family’s crimes, but fortunately she has the help of local detective, Chris Chow, who is going to do whatever he can to help her, including helping her figure out who these voices are in her head.

– And there’s Ford – known only as such – who started her career as a driver in the Grand Prix, then became a stunt driver for the BBC, and now spends most of her time in an underground drag racing ring (the car version, not the makeup version) and is absolutely not to be trifled with. She gets along best with the last member of their cluster.

– who is Eric “The Baker” Bittle, one of the youngest members of the Tangredi Family, all of whom prove that the Mob didn’t go out of style in the fifties, it just moved to Georgia and married into some nice, upright American families like the Phelpses and the Bittles. The Baker is known for being unreadable, and for offing people by poisoning his baked goods. The problem there is, obviously, no one can tell if he’s mad at them, so you never know when you eat one of his pies if it’s going to be your last meal. His cousin Anthony is the Baker’s only weak spot, since he does everything he can to shield Tony from the family business. And then, later, to shield him from BPO and the fact Eric is falling in love with the hockey player in his head.