The GRANDEST PERFORMANCE of OUR LIVES

by Deadlybeautyblue, ThaneZain

Summary:

The Jack case is solved, the knives lay in abandoned storage rooms, and Grian and Mumbo are (mostly) retired from harrowing adventures.

But....what if it'd gone differently? What if a knife stayed too long in a hand? A sun stayed too long in a mind? What tragedy would befall those around them? And, more importantly, what would happen next?

Come to Mahogany Hall to see WHAT COULD HAVE BEEN: a THEORETICAL ENDING of THE JACK-OF-SMILES CASE

Notes:

I will hopefully be posting every other day as the fic is already done, but just like with TICOTBSSK that might fall off after a couple updates. Enjoy, and please heed the warnings!

an edit several months later: this fic is an alternate ending to another fic of mine, The INCREDIBLE CASE of the BODY-SWAPPING SERIAL KILLER, so you might want to read that first for context. however, feel free to read any/all fl!au stuff in whatever order you want! enjoy!

Chapter 1: Overture: THE CAST

Chapter by ThaneZain

THE CAST(in order of appearance)

Iskall as HIMSELF, TO HIS OWN DISMAY

Stephanie “Stress” Monroe as THE WEARY CONFIDANT

Diana as A CAT

Macha as ANOTHER CAT

Axel Quail “Grian” Anderson as THE TEMPORARILY LEASHED JACK-OF-SMILES

Levi “Mumbo” Valentin as THE SUN-DAZED SUPERVISOR

Xavier “Xisuma, the Tortoise Lord” B. Suma-Voight as THE BENEVOLENT CRIME-LORD

Benjamin “Biffa” Falkner as THE DEVOTED ASSASSIN

Horace “Hex” Ecks as THE IMPUDENT RELATION

False Simmons as THE STOIC BODYGUARD

Bernard “Cub” Cumberland and Scar Goodman as THE VEXING PURSUERS

...and Ed as HIMSELF, BRIEFLY

 

Mentioned:

A cruel, inaccurate facsimile of the Dawn Machine as THE SUN THE SUN THE S

and Wels Chiaross as A ZAILOR IN THE DAWN-TIDE

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This fic contains SPOILERS for the Jack-of-Smiles storyline in Fallen London. DO NOT READ THIS FIC if you want to avoid spoilers. However, if you're here from tICotBSSK(which I'm sure 99% of you are), then there won't be anything new spoilerwise.