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He thought he could slip by unnoticed. By the time he disappeared, the night had dissolved into a drunken whirlwind – Margo and Eliot marching into a fragile chaos that always threatened to teeter into despair. The whole summer has stretched on like this. In theory, the three of them were unwanted school kids left behind on an empty campus. But at times, it seemed that his friends orbited a different sun. They held themselves like rulers of their own private kingdom: Landon was merely a visitor. 

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BROOKE   +   NOAH   :   ok this is kind of an out there idea but here goes.  the setting is new york city.  brooke is attending fashion school like in your canon.   it’s summer.  audrey is also there over the summer subletting an apartment with noah.  audrey is doing a film intensive over the summer at nyu and noah is doing a fancy tech internship.  landon works at a comic book shop downtown,  which noah frequents.  they become obnoxious nerd friends.  in this universe, superheroes exist  -  but whether its because a generator explosion (etc) happens while they’re in the city or whether they’ve always existed and noah and landon are nerds/hero trackers for it, is up to you.  anyway the gang (or some of the gang, noah doesn’t have to develop powers, but brooke does) develops powers during this time.  the tension comes when some of them (mostly brooke) don’t want to act on the powers and want a normal life after all their trauma,  but some (mostly noah) see being heroes as a moral obligation.   OR  give me my scream / legacies au thanks. 

MARGO   :    i’ve already kind of discussed margo in legacies verse with steph but i’m curious to hear your takes.   but i also think he’s the kind of wounded margo would take under her wing.   this isn’t an idea i just love margo. 

ALEX JS   :    alex is a medical intern.  a boy comes in to the ICU and dies under her mentors care.  as it so happens,  alex is the only one in the room when the body bursts in to flames and comes back to life.  cue a frantic call to jody to figure out who or what this kid is.   OR   bb alex getting to have a real childhood and friends her age at the salvatore school.   they bond over trauma. 

GEORGE F   :   george swore he was dead.   she felt his soul leave his body.   but a couple days later,  he’s at the restaurant,  looking for a job.   or a while, she’s suspicious that he’s some sort of demon,  but when he overhears the gang talking about activity all over town,  he tries to play detective and dies again in the process.  except this time,  when he dies,  he comes back with important information from the other side.   anyway the medium and the phoenix, deadly friendship duo.  

ASTER F]   :   they’re both full ride scholarship kids in a writing program at a prestigious university.  they’re fast friends because they get each other,  and aren’t as awful as their peers.  except,  they quickly discover the events of  a murder mystery novel they are peer reviewing in a writing seminar are happening in real life,  and they’re the only two sharp enough to solve the case.  OR  magicians universe,  they were unlikely friends in their youth and meet again at brakebills. 

ANNA M :   the fallen angel meets secret demon offspring.  she uses his cloaking abilities to hide from angels and demons a like, but they become friends, almost family, in their own right.  OR  anna milton malivore monster who turns her back on malivore. 

RAFAEL :    hogwarts raf lan OR an au where the salvatore school doesn’t exist,  or never recruited them.  they run away from hector and maria after rafael first turns and try to learn as much as they can about the supernatural and how to help raf on the road. 

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FROST   :    landon is a wise ass, superhero obsessed kid that frost saves all on her own and accidentally gets “killed” right after, but it turns out he never needed saving in the first place because he regenerates.   OR   a human or werewolf verse where they knew each other as children for a bit and landon wasn’t a dick to her for her condition so that was nice. 

CLAIRE   :   claire is on a hunt and assumes a loner is a her target.   when she realizes she was wrong,  he helps her finish the hunt,  only for them to realize he may not be human after all.  OR  them being friends at the salvatore school. 

MAGDA  :   a kind of men of letters and triad adjacent au where magda and landon are actually captured and studied,  but become friends and break out together   OR   landon and magda bonding in art therapy at the salvatore school.

KRISSY  :   a legacies au where when krissy was freshly turned, she drained a boy completely because she wasn’t able to control her power.  years later, now reformed but out of place at the salvatore school,  she sees him again  OR  a croatoan verse where landon, being part pheonix but not knowing, is impervious to the virus.  krissy saves him one day,  and upon realizing this,  decides that he might be important to finding a cure  ––  or at least some way of fighting back against lucifer.  ( but really its her bravery and smarts all along, he’s just a sidekick.  )

PATIENCE  :  lesbian and mlm excellence in  every  universe please.   was she cassie’s cousin or best friend that landon hung out with when he was third wheeling with cassie and raf ?  maybe.  are they fast friends at salvatore school ?   are they best friend in a pre-salvatore / more spn based universe ?  perhaps. 

QUENTIN   :   SUIC/IDE MENTION TW .   landon swears he wasn’t trying to kill himself,  because he wasn’t sure he could actually ever die.   he lands in treatment anyway.   there he meets a young quentin coldwater  ––  another first timer.  they bond quickly and easily,  both nerdy,  helplessly alone,  and preoccupied with a world everyone else had grown out of.   quentin loses track of landon when they move on to outpatient care,  with landon switching from home to home.   years later,  quentin swears he spots him at the brakebills entrance exam. 

“  …  me?  ”  if  it  wasn’t  such  a  horrifying  thought,  maybe  he’d  be  laughing  right  now,  bitter  and  unfazed  and  all  too  over  whatever  it  was  that  pulled  him  into  these  scenarios  like  a  magnet.  wherever  he  went,  it  seemed,  trouble  always  followed.  and  of  course,  of  course,  some  shady  mud  monster  thing  would  be  waiting  for  him.  between  angels,  demons,  the  devil  himself,  god,  all  wanting  a  piece  of  him?  just  get  in  line!  “  well,  can  it  maybe…  wait  for  someone  else  instead?  ”

the guilt comes in a wave of realization. it beckons to him,  a light shining in the dark clouds of his mind  :  malivore.  landon unconsciously led them toward the pit because  malivore  wanted him to   ––   just like he’d steered landon to steal the artifacts.  once again,  he was part of a plan landon wanted no part in.   he digs his heels in to the muddy grass,  wills himself to stop before they can go ay further. 

“So now what? I’m a hostage?”

                                           “No.” Well, yes. Kind-of - “Not really. I mean – Okay, if you look at it this way then yeah, sure I can kinda see how you’d think you’re a hostage.” But it’s just answers that Graham wants – no, needs. “Things have gotten weird since you got here and I don’t think it’s just coincidence. And, look–” It’s been an awful few weeks. His dad was apparently this hellish being and is now dad. And now he’s been turning into the same figure his dad did against his will. “I think you want answers just as much as me. Especially after y’know…” Dying, not dying. All of…  “You are free to go. But I think we can help each other out.”

landon sits with his shoulders hunched,  knees tucked in to his chest.   he’s too quick with his temper,  brandishing a fresh mouth before he can think not to.   small spaces leave him cagey,   hair trigger temper pressed against the ball of his throat.   he scowls in the corner.