Javicia Leslie as Raquelle-AND-
Garcia as Terence
When her fiance leaves her at the altar, Raquelle takes that as her sign she was mapping out her life the wrong way. Least that's the conclusion she comes to while drunk on her wedding night and first night as a single woman in years -- that and all she needs to make a family of her own is herself and she starts making her sloppy plan to either adopt or go to a bank. But the clearest and most important sign, and possibly most important moment of her life, comes at 2 in the morning when she runs into a young man who needs somebody to be there for them as much as she does. And her first decision as a sober, single woman later that morning is fuck plans and Terence is her chosen family for life. Which is why they decide they both need a change and she needs closure. When they finally cross the country together and end their road trip in New England and she sees Zion again, she comes to the unexpected realization of how clean the break was and she might've been over him before he even left. That doesn't stop her from caring about him and wanting to help him grow though. And that's how her and Terence end up at some ridiculous cafe witnessing these two grown men making puppy eyes at her while trying to find the daughter they both care about.
SOME EXTRA : Warning there might be spoilers somewhere in here but credit goes to gaystcr on Tumblr for the GIF up top, TheFamilyBusinessBET on Tenor for the Javicia GIF and charllehunnam on Tumblr for the Garcia GIF
Lol so I consolidated a whole buncha lotta ships in here in addition to Zion/Joe, there's Raquelle/Georgia and Terence/Ginny -- also I didn't know how to fit it in there but feel free to slip my fav new crackship in Padma and Scott -- honestly just a lot of real and wholesome found family vibes kinda like The Old Guard and w three wildly different relationships made up of six baddies
From the little we got Zion and Raquelle were kinda giving me Britney and Andre from P-Valley vibes so while I'm headcanoning Britney as a doctor not only for that but so she's got the resources to last in Wellesbury and enroll Terence in school there and everything for as long as you want the story to stay there ofc you can change Raquelle's profession though
You can go AU with these OCs from S1 or they both can help you make your own S2 long as Zion and Joe still get a meet-cute even if Raquelle, Terence, Zion, Austin and Ginny all meet in Boston anyways feel free to make it as messy as you want bc all the characters might have to put in work to help resolve Ginny's whole possibly-murdered-my-stepfather problem
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ActionCan I even do this if I've never written a story in my life Side Note -- I just need to reiterate or iterate what I reiterate later -- my titles are shit they're ridiculous y3ni like if you actually like a concept in here, you don't even need to ask...