In the category of "nerdy pieces of fanfiction that I will never write": The Canterbury Tales, Community Edition. Medieval AUs make everything better.
Everything. Fucking love ‘em. And the Canterbury Tales is the perfect material for a fusion! It’s a bunch of ill-matched people who all have a common destination but not much else, held together by the promise of food and a prize. Caveat being: I’ve taken a few courses in Medieval literature, including the Canterbury Tales, but it’s far from extensive, and I’m sure that I’ve made some errors in giving people’s backstories.
The Greendale Seven are, of course, the pilgrims. I put in parentheses the characters in the General Prologue to whom I thought they corresponded most closely.
( so much fun writing this, i can't even tell you )Oh! And Troy somehow acquires a small but persistent band of followers who, following his dramatic and entirely accidental exorcism of a local priest, have declared him to be a prophet of the Lord.
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