somebody tell me about the Check Please AU where they’re all artists and Lardo is an athlete but still their manager

petals42:

Okay, you ready for some headcanons from someone who knows NOTHING ABOUT ART?? Cause here it comes:

The thing is, Lardo doesn’t set out to be some sort of “patron of the arts.” But she goes to the Olympics at 16 as a Gymnast and wins 4 Gold Medals and then she goes again at 20 to win 5 and, sure, she only wins 2 when she is 24 but the end result is this: She is rich. She has sponsors on sponsors and is famous even aside from the two weeks every four years that people really care about her sport and–

She has too much money, is the point. She has too much and so she decides that she might as well go support some of the arts. she can’t draw a stick figure but she likes art. More specifically, she likes artists. They are very different from the people in the gymnast world. They are chill. Sure, they get stressed but that is like only right before a deadline. The rest of the time they are totally awesome. At least, the ones she’s collected are. You have:

Jack Zimmermann, son of world famous artists, Bad Bob Zimmermann and model, Alicia Zimmermann. Bad Bob is known for his paintings but try as he might, Jack could never quite manage to paint particularly well. For a while he put away all artistic pursuits and figured he would just go into like… accounting. Something boring. Then he discovers photography. And he loves photography and suddenly everything that his parents had tried to teach him makes sense. Angles, lighting, coloring, it all clicks. He is known for taking stunning photographs of historical sites, but also loves nature photography (and once he meets a certain someone, will realize the beauty of love and volunteer his time to do wedding photography…)

Shitty is classically trained. Like, he was put in an art school at age 4 because his parents are those parents (aka they wanted him to be artistic but didn’t want to deal with him making noise as he learned an instrument) and to his personal disappointment, he was very good. He was privately tutored throughout grade school and then sent to an Art Academy for High School and it wasn’t until college that he finally found an art form he truly likes: Web Comics. Shitty put away his paint brushes and pencils and classical training and now writes the webcomic “Fucking Shit, bro.”

Ransom didn’t set out to be an artist but his anxiety constantly had him swiping his pencil back and forth in his notebook and then it also made him realize that the smudges looked terrible on his notes and so it made sense to make them look nice and then suddenly that became a calming mechanism to get everything just so and long story short: Ransom does incredibly realistic pencil drawings. Each drawing takes hours and hours but he doesn’t mind. He calms down when he’s drawing.

Under a cut cause, goodness, this got long!

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