The Black Parade was the tour everyone remembers. This is the story nobody saw. Charlie Snows has spent the last three years chasing bands around the world with a camera in one hand and a coffee in the other. At twenty-one, she's already become one of the most sought-after tour photographers in the scene, known for capturing the moments fans never get to see-the laughter after the encore, the sleepless bus rides, the friendships that form somewhere between soundcheck and sunrise. Fresh off Warped Tour with her best friends in All Time Low, Charlie is offered the opportunity of a lifetime: document My Chemical Romance's year-long Black Parade World Tour and create the official behind-the-scenes photo book. She already knows the band. They already know her. Especially Frank Iero. The two of them are a disaster waiting to happen. They're forever stealing each other's hoodies, eyeliner and cigarettes. Sneaking beers when they definitely shouldn't. Daring each other to do stupid things. Charlie's constantly climbing barricades, speakers and lighting rigs for the perfect photograph, collecting bruises and cuts like souvenirs, while Frank stands at the bottom yelling, "Don't die!" before asking to see the picture. They're always covered in Sharpie and somehow always getting yelled at by security. To everyone else, they're inseparable. To Charlie and Frank, they're just... Charlie and Frank. A year of sold-out arenas. Endless highways. Late-night diners. Disposable cameras. Found family. Inside jokes that stop being funny to everyone else. The kind of friendships that only exist when you're twenty-something, living out of a tour bus and chasing the next city before the sun comes up. Because sometimes the best stories aren't the ones under the stage lights. They're the ones happening just outside the frame.

"To everyone, you're such a sweet church girl But I know your secret..." Mae is the academic star of Belleville's crumbling catholic school- a 4.0 average, head of the debate team, and a college scholarship to boot. Her peers think that she is the straight-laced bookworm that she had always planned to portray- but she has dark secrets. Mae wanted to take those secrets to her grave, until a notorious punk proposed a single list of things to do that would change the course of the facade that she believed was a perfect life. Bad Catholics© + #1 in #mychemicalromance 12.27.2020 + #2 in #MCR 5.5.2021 + #1 in #frankiero 1.18.2022 |FUTURE TRIGGER WARNINGS| Language, substance abuse, depression/talk of suicide, violence

Olivia is asked to photograph for My Chemical Romance. - This book is set in the mid 2000's! - This is my first story, so I apologize if it's not very good lol. - I also upload this to AO3 if that is your preferred fic site! #1 in Frank Iero 19/11/25 #1 in My Chemical Romance 27/11/25

❝ my chemical romance, panic! at the disco, fall out boy and twentyonepilots imagines. ❞ ___________________________________________ ┏ 𝐀𝐋𝐋 𝐖𝐑𝐈𝐓𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐈𝐒 𝐌𝐘 𝐎𝐖𝐍, 𝐔𝐍𝐋𝐄𝐒𝐒 𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐓𝐄𝐃 𝐎𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐑𝐖𝐈𝐒𝐄. 𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐄𝐃: 𝐌𝐀𝐘 𝟏𝟕, 𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟕 𝐄𝐍𝐃𝐄𝐃: 𝐃𝐄𝐂𝐄𝐌𝐁𝐄𝐑 𝟎𝟏, 𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟖 ┛ 𝐑𝐀𝐍𝐊𝐄𝐃: •#1 in fall out boy. •#2 in mcr. •#3 in patd. •#3 in tøp. 𝐀𝐖𝐀𝐑𝐃𝐒: •3rd place in the oneshots category of the rpf awards 2017. 𝐂𝐎𝐕𝐄𝐑 𝐁𝐘: @softskarssgard 𝐒𝐈𝐆𝐍𝐀𝐓𝐔𝐑𝐄 𝐁𝐘: @softskarssgard © 𝐎𝐇𝐅𝐑𝐗𝐍𝐊𝐈𝐄

The Black Parade was never just a performance. A spectator enters the Parade. The ritual notices her. And the story begins to structured in Acts and Scenes, The Cracks in the Black Parade is a descent behind the stage, into the machinery of performance, control, and the moment a narrative stops obeying itself. This is not a retelling. It's what happens when the ritual breaks.