Twilight AU where Forks High is literally a Magical School and 90% of the students there are supernaturals and Bella just didn’t notice because of her laser focus on Edward.
Angela actually IS a witch and Bella sits next to her in a class about forest magic but it doesn’t even register to Bella and it’s just like “ugh time for that weird forestry elective.”
Bella is fascinating and interesting to all the kids BECAUSE she’s just a normal human.
One day Mike shows up to school having literally been transformed (temporarily, some sort of homework-gone-wrong) into a golden retriever and Bella just … doesn’t notice.
And suddenly the Cullen kids putting zero effort into blending in or looking human at school makes a lot more sense! They don’t have to; everyone clocked them as vampires on the first day. They’ve seen them before.
“Yeah they’re all together together but they’re only related by vampiric adoption or venom or whatever so it’s fine,” but all Bella hears is “that hot red-headed guy is SINGLE!”
Carlisle gets to have all sorts of fun at the hospital treating normal human stuff and weird magical ailments and doesn’t have to pretend because everyone knows about the supernatural stuff in town and can just like, sniff a blood sample and diagnose the problem and everyone’s like “well, he would know.”
For some reason this concept popped back into my head this morning.
WRITE IT WRITE IT WRITE IT
Also, I’m delighted to inform you that I plan on combining Twilight and Gilmore Girls in an AU universe where Rory doesn’t dream of going to Harvard, it’s a magical university, and Bella moves to town and is instantly attracted to the redheaded hottie with the stunning family and she obviously becomes friends with Jess so they can annotate books and share them and talk about growing up with an immature mom and a dad you don't know and moving to this weird ass town that is a combination of New England and Forks vibes because uh duh you can't have Gilmore Girls without Connecticut and you can't have Twilight without the Pacific Northwest, and this is my magical universe, I'll make it do what I want.
and idk yet maybe Stars Hollow is just Gravity Falls with extra teen drama and slightly-more-mature silliness like the Cullen family (esp Emmett) carrying Bella around like a football, unironically playing the American past time known as baseball (in vintage uniforms, no less) while blasting Muse, and Edward giggling about Bella fainting at the sight of blood in a SUPERNATURAL TOWN WITH VAMPIRES especially because she hasn’t figured it out yet (maybe the rule/magical binding is you can’t verbally tell anyone or you die, but like, if they figure it out, don’t worry about; just bite them, eat them, or keep them quiet).
also!!! since Billy Burke is already in Gilmore Girls, maybe Charlie and Lorelai date at some point… I mean he canonically takes her fishing... the ship writes itself.... Not sure if that means I'm replacing the endgame of Luke/Lorelai with Charlie/Lorelai... I haven't written it yet, don't ask me questions I don't know, Travis!
and let's not forget the dynamic duo Rory and Lane, the bookish, analyzing-every-album-under-the-sun, buys-their-mom-a-record-from-a-record-store kind of nerds who become best friends who should totally dream of running a bookshop and music shop together while they both pursue their own dreams of being a journalist and a rock star—like come on, that's magic!!!!
Maybe Mrs. Kim is like anti-magic? Rather than religious? Or both? And that’s why she doesn’t like/trust Lorelai, because she supports her witchy daughter, which is also a big reason why Lorelai ran away with baby Rory, because she showed signs of magic and she was terrified Emily and Richard would treat her horribly because SHE was treated horribly and high society treats magical people as lowbrow, but when Rory gets into Chilton and she asks them for money, they’re secretly thrilled, and it becomes more and more obvious how proud they are to have a witch in the family, and the family actually fucking heals.
