𝙞 𝙬𝙖𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙙 𝙩𝙤 𝙗𝙚 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙖𝙡𝙤𝙣𝙚
𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙖𝙡𝙠 𝙖𝙗𝙤𝙪𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙬𝙚𝙖𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧

JACE KNOXVILLE.

A sixteen year old kid who had big dreams of becoming a rockstar — he fit the image perfectly it's just, he couldn't sing, couldn't play any instruments, and he had terrible stage fright. There were plenty of instruments he had in his room, a bass guitar, an electric guitar, even a keyboard. But he only picked them up once — maybe twice — and never picked them up again. He knew he would always get scolded for never trying to play them but the motivation he had was just never there. So, he decided to go to the only person he knew would help, his best friend Dwayne Hoover.

Now, Dwayne wasn't that big on music — he only listened to a select few bands here and there — but he tried to help his friend out as best as he could. So the two talked about band names, song names, lyrics, good basslines, guitar solos, and motivation to even pick up the instruments again. Jace decided to spend the night and the morning after, that's when Dwayne took his vow of silence for his own motivation — and so he didn't have to speak to his family — for when he finally got into flight school. Jace knew how big being able to finally fly jets was for Dwayne — so he decided to stay over at the Hoover household as many times as he could to be Dwayne's talker — Dwayne wrote something down, Jace spoke it out loud for his friends family, unless Olive, Dwayne's little sister, was in the room most of the time.

Who knew he would end up going on a road trip with them.
          And who knew Jace was going to fall for his best friend.

𝙝𝙚𝙖𝙙 𝙤𝙫𝙚𝙧 𝙝𝙚𝙚𝙡𝙨
𝙞𝙨 𝙗𝙚𝙨𝙩 𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙙 𝙞𝙣
𝙙𝙖𝙧𝙠 𝙢𝙤𝙙𝙚,
𝙨𝙢𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙚𝙨𝙩 𝙩𝙚𝙭𝙩, &
𝙩𝙞𝙢𝙚𝙨 𝙣𝙚𝙬 𝙧𝙤𝙢𝙖𝙣.

rory culkin as JACE KNOXVILLE
{ sixteen. bisexual. he/him. }

paul dano as DWAYNE HOOVER
{ fifteen. closeted bisexual. he/him. }

steve carell as UNCLE FRANK GINSBURG
{ forty-two. homosexual. he/him. }

toni collette as SHERYL HOOVER
{ thirty-two. heterosexual. she/her. }

greg kinnear as RICHARD HOOVER
{ forty-two. heterosexual. he/him. }

alan arkin as GRANDPA EDWIN HOOVER
{ seventy-two. heterosexual. he/him. }

abigail breslin as OLIVE HOOVER
{ seven. undecided. she/her. }

DISCLAIMERS: spoilers for little miss sunshine, sexual innuendos, homophobic slurs (used around two or three times), slight homophobia, cursing, death, abuse, drug use, overdosing, violence (kind of), talks of sexuality, family problems, and more — reader discretion is advised.

CREDITS/COPYRIGHT: I don't own the movie little miss sunshine, its plot, characters, and lines that will be used in this fic. What I do own is Jace, his backstory, his family, lines that he speaks as well as other lines that I put in the story as well as scenes. ©-followtheleader/sal 2022

TAGS/DEDICATIONS: nigelswhore  , hothskies , myangerissues  , my-beautiful-makkari , lazylangdon — i think you guys would like dwayne as well as this story lol

𝙗𝙪𝙩 𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙙𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 𝙞 𝙘𝙖𝙣 𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙘𝙚 𝙖𝙜𝙖𝙞𝙣𝙨𝙩
𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙘𝙝𝙞𝙡𝙙 𝙞𝙣 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙛𝙖𝙘𝙚 𝙬𝙤𝙣'𝙩 𝙚𝙨𝙘𝙖𝙥𝙚 𝙢𝙮 𝙖𝙩𝙩𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣

side a —

head over heels...tears for fears
malmo...mook
speed trials...elliott smith
dai the flu...deftones
high to death...car seat headrest
point me at the sky...pink floyd
seasons in the sun...terry jacks
kyoto song...the cure

side b —

happy...N.E.R.D
the hanging garden...the cure
nervous young inhumans...car seat headrest
new dawn fades...joy division
sugar hiccup...cocteau twins
at night...the cure
just...radiohead
incinerate...sonic youth

𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙠𝙚𝙚𝙥 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙙𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙚
𝙫𝙞𝙖 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙨𝙮𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙢 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙤𝙪𝙘𝙝 𝙖𝙣𝙙
𝙜𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙡𝙚 𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙨𝙪𝙖𝙨𝙞𝙤𝙣

NOTES FROM SAL: your honor, I love him and I want to be him — I rewatched little miss sunshine yesterday and it made me realize how much more I relate to both Dwayne and Frank soooooo here's a Dwayne Hoover fic. A Frank fic might come out later on but I wanna publish my riddler and batman fic first lmao — OR AN ELI SUNDAY ONE SHHHH.