Olive’s Library

I haven't thought too much about Owen in this AU, but during some brainstorming with some others we did come up with the idea of a horrible toxic polycule by adding Bloodletting and Crossfangs to the disaster of the Bloodloathing divorce. And I think that's hilarious so I'm running with it.

So, Owen.

I think we go with the classic approach to role-reversal bloodletting. He's human, he's sick, he's shunned by his society. Keep the majority of his canon backstory, but change the setting and the timeline. Louis wasn't the mayor of Oakhurst, but a different town not too far away. Owen was 16 when he met him, and their story is the same, but Louis is killed before he can turn Owen. Maybe he offered Owen the gift, Owen accepted it but Louis - knowing what an enormous decision that was - told him to think on it overnight. And that was the night the villagers came for him. Owen doesn't have vampiric strength to slaughter an entire village. Maybe he tries, maybe he kills some of them, and then is driven out into the woods.

He wanders alone, sick, heartbroken, for ten years before he stumbles into Oakhurst. His pain doesn't need 200 years in a hole to sour into bitterness and a hatred for humanity.

So I think Legundo very much does still want to help him. He's very obviously sick, and hurt in many ways. And it would still be awful and haunting for Owen, because here is someone showing him kindness once more, and it's genuine and so like Louis and that's terrifying - because humans don't care, no human has ever cared about Owen, so why is this one? And then the inevitable reveal of Legundo's vampirism just solidifies that belief. Of course Legs is a vampire, only vampires can love like that.

But he refuses every offer of turning from Legs, because Louis was supposed to be his sire. If it can't be Louis, then it will be no one. Owen is glad he is dying, because he has that same belief as he has in canon, that vampires all go to hell, and he will go to hell too for the things he has done, so he will get to be with Louis there too.

from @uncannyfig

thank you, their weirdness is so important to me lol

Scott is DEFINITELY jealous. Like

Scott: wtf why are you talking to the boring lumberjack so much? like, sure, he's cute but like.... I'm right here???? You know, your husband???

Legs: EX husband

Scott: Fine! If you get to have a new boyfriend, so do I!

Legs: He's *not* my boyfriend- where are you going???

Scott, sauntering off: Oh Abolish~~~~

From @mytoomanybookstoread

Owen and Legs would defs get to divorce levels here too, they are just Like That (Cleo: how the fuck are you divorced Twice??? You didn’t even marry the second guy wtf????)

I do like Legs being tormented between wanting to offer a cure to Owen, and the fact that even he can see this is Scott all over again and he can’t do that but he also can’t just let Owen die when he could save him!!!