NATIONAL TREASURE

suddenly, pacing distractedly about the room, he began to rattle off facts.                      FACTS ABOUT ME.

❝ … you have suffered a serious injury at the claws of a beast, are fully recovered physically, but worry your nerve might have gone ;[…]  YOU ARE ADDICTED,  most of all to gambling, but also to sexual encounters, spirits, the murder of animals and the fawning of a duped public ; most of the time, you blunder through life like a bull, snatching and punching to get your own way, but in moments of extreme danger you are possessed by a strange serenity which has enabled you to survive situations that would have killed another man ; in fact, YOUR TRUE ADDICTION IS TO DANGER, to fear – only near death do you feel alive … ❞

                            ❝ — TELL ME SOMETHING I DON’T KNOW. ❞

A PLAYLIST FOR AIDAN x CHO. @lvncher — throwing around AU ideas > actually writing them. 

1. just what i needed - the cars university au.  campus_alerts posted: breaking news! your favorite campus store duo @lvncher and @independentcho are officially dating!  lavlav commented: waiiit i thought they were already together? @padma.patil @parvatea gregoyle_420 commented: bro i swear theyve been a thing for the last 2 yrs, their always doing couple shit whenever im there luna.at.the.quibbler commented: Oh lovely! Is this an old announcement? x fortescues commented: wtf i’ve been giving them couples discounts this whole time

2. everlasting light - the black keys apartment neighbors au.  the silence stretches on— awkwardly, painfully— and cho blinks, desperately trying to get her brain to formulate a single sentence. just one. any one. she swallows— or tries to, anyway. “aidan lynch?” if the floor could open up and swallow her whole right now, she thinks she’d be perfectly okay with that. “you… don’t have red hair?” the not redheaded guy— absolutely ripped and wearing nothing but a pair of dark green shamrock-print boxers— squints sleepily at her, his forehead scrunching up like an accordion. “uh, no? last time i checked?” he yawns into his fist, and oh god, even the muscles in his neck are defined. “is there a reason you’re knocking at 2am?”

3. dancing in the rain - taylor bennett ft. donnie trumpet, shay lewis, & brandon fox single parent + kindergarten teacher peewee quidditch coach au. ThrowawayQuidditchCrushAccount posted: i (28f) am a divorced mom who recently moved to ireland with my kids (both under 10) and enrolled them into a peewee quidditch program so that they could meet other kids their age. since starting the program, my kids love it and constantly talk about how fun quidditch is, how friendly the other kids are, and how great their new coach (33m) is. to make a long story short— how do i get my kids to stop trying to set me up with their coach?

4. best friend - rex orange county the one that got away au.  yeah, it’s been four years since he moved halfway around the world, and it’s been three years since they last spoke, but she’d been one of his closest friends at some time in his life. (his favorite, he’d told her before he left, and she’d gotten all sappy and teary-eyed about it and somehow changed her nickname in his phone to be exactly that.) the main point is, they’d drifted apart after a while— time, or distance, or whatever. but now that he’s being offered a chance to go back and play for his hometown team, his childhood dream, aidan wonders about whether or not he should get in touch with her when he gets back. wonders about the likelihood of people ever drifting back together. 

// you mean [checks notes] [an entire scroll unfurls and bounces out of sight] sunshiniest boi and swan girl and their 390187526019+ alternate universes?

i wasn’t sure if this was an ask for the playlist meme thing but: oops my hand slipped. and i believe i have capslock-screamed at you extensively about aidan and cho, but since they really do something for me in the form of serotonin, here are some more thoughts i am having about them:

aidan’s whole personality is based around love and that is just. so powerful??? especially for someone like cho who is, personally, one of the characters who does not get very much of it, in canon and in fandom (fandom reception has gotten a lot better in recent years tho so hooray for that).

but then we get to her meeting aidan lynch (pick an au, any au), and it’s just like— wow, here is someone who is very good at giving and receiving and personifying love, and cho becomes drawn to that because what must that kind of power be like? how does he do it? how does he have the capacity to just love love love? he even reminds her of cedric a little bit, with all the commonalities of being kind and hardworking and enjoying quidditch and having been in hufflepuff (just the surface basics, but it’s still enough to make her head turn on sight).

in almost all of the aid/cho alternate universes and scenarios we’ve bounced off of each other, i am highkey obsessed with how well they work when paired with each other. i could pit a fun-loving and cheery and capable of going toe-to-toe on the field!cho (think PoA) with aidan and it would be a fun time all around, with lots of banter and very strong friends to lovers energy and only the ~occasional~ miscommunications. i could pit a non-confrontational and awkward with feelings/relationships in general!cho (think HBP) with aidan and it would be A LOT of miscommunications and will they-won’t they and her overthinking the time he made her stand with him under his umbrella as they were waiting for the bus because she’d been stubborn enough not to bring hers! i could pit a weepy and grief-stricken and mourning!cho (think OotP) with aidan and it would be a tender, comforting dynamic because aid likely knows how to walk with her through it and show her what healthy communication during emotional outbursts look like. (like... i am sure he has had his fair share of grieving and being angry and being emotionally exhausted. i am looking right at you, @ the aftermath of august 1994!)