If cruel prince was a slice of life book instead of an excruciating soul extracting political stupid fucking miscommunication romance I'd like to imagine it was about these cool band kids who are lowkey rivals (please don't ask why)
So on one side we have The Shadows
Jude: lead singer and background guitarist (sometimes she unplugs her guitar)
Vivienne: lead guitarist (WILL see Jude unplug her guitar and scold her for it)
The Ghost: background guitarist 2 (Keeps getting taken for granted until he stops playing and everyone wonders why the song sounds so bad)
The Bomb: DRUMMMEERRR (SHE WOULD KILL IT)
The Roach: Bass (Forgets to play because he's staring at the drummer)
Taryn: Keyboard (Absolute shit as solos but SLAYS the chord progressions)
And on the other side who are OBVIOUSLY THEIR RIVALS 😍 we have The Crowns
Cardan: background singer and lead guitarist (is always making fun of The Shadow's lead singer for unplugging her guitar but secretly finds it cute)
Nicassia: lead singer (OUR SIREN QUEEN)
Locke: background guitarist (Gets the hardest chords to play when he acts up during practice)
Valerian: Drummer (Likes to take out his frustration on the instrument)
Balekin: Bass (Was overlooked Is overlooked Will be overlooked for eternity)
Dain: Synth board (They didn't actually need him until he busted out the most amazing chords and almost got Balekin kicked out)
And then both bands' signature song is "Hard Times" and when they both have to play it for some sort of show they're forced to merge together and play it because the management said so, and they have the most SICK AMAZING PERFORMANCE and the crowd goes WILD and someone developed a crush on someone's vocals (sideye)
Sorry I needed to dump because I keep imagining Cardan staring at Jude and messing up his guitar 😭 I'm probably going to keep doing this