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Headcanon developed in the #omgchatplease IRC channel:

Zimms/Parse fandom was at its full flower in 2009, blooming and beautiful. Then Jack overdosed and completely dropped off media radar. Fans didn’t know what to do! There was a brief “IT’S OUR FAULT, HE COULDN’T TAKE THE MEDIA PRESSURE” wankstorm and most fans dropped out and faded away, or followed Parse into NHL RPF.

But oh, the holdouts.

Jack only got into the media once in his year away, when he attended a charity fundraiser his parents were very involved in and stood next to Justin Trudeau for five minutes. A photographer from the social page in Macleans came by and they smiled and posed for a picture, which was of course published.

The fandom holdouts went: OMG THEY BOTH UNDERSTAND WHAT IT IS TO BE THE SONS OF GREAT MEN!!! SOULMATES FOREVER!!!

AUs the fandom has known:

• The arranged political marriage AU
• The drunken hookup in a Montreal gay bar AU that ends up with curtainy babyfic
• The 400k Very Srs Epic where Jack becomes Canada’s leading political spouse and you can tell the author, although not Canadian, did a LOT of research. When Trudeau is actually elected she comes back to fandom for the first time since her baby was born just to flail and cry over everyone.
• The Arthurianesque fantasy inspired-by-Merlin AU where Justin is the kingdom of Ottawa’s crown prince and Jack is his magical advisor and one true love
• The dystopian AU where the USA has invaded Canada and Justin is the leader of the Resistance and Jack is his brilliant military strategist who goes out and dares much and is desperately in love with his leader who has to stay behind and pray Jack comes back safely, but also there’s this heartbreaking part where Jack has engineered a sabotage where his guys pretend to get captured and smuggle super secret bombs into the American stronghold, but the American base commander proposes an exchange of hostages Jack willingly agrees to to get his guys back before they blow the place and it’s happy because you thought it was gonna be a suicide mission, except at the exchange they realize the American base commander is KENT PARSON and Jack can’t, he just can’t, even if it means his country is forever doomed, but he HAS TO and he DOES and Bitty started reading it as a joke but he can’t put his phone down and it’s 3am and he’s crying so hard and he will never tell Jack about this, never.

I DON’T KNOW IF I LOVE YOU OR HATE YOU, OP!!

;P When it comes to this post, I don’t know if I love or hate myself either.

Some of y’all need this post in your lives even if you don’t give two farts about Check Please.

Oh holy night. I need to read all these fics, but mostly that last one. I would read that SO HARD.

I feel the need to point out the comic series We Stand on Guard, and the TV series Okkupert, which seems to be a similar conceit, only with Norway and Russia instead of Canada and America.