AU where Scott is the only starting vampire. Owen remains human, though everything in his backstory remains *mostly* the same(it just takes place the next town over & ofc the typical butterfly effect of Owen not having been turned). Louis still gets buried on a pyre, Owen still massacre’s the town(though he had to get a lot more creative this go round…) and he still perceives ALL humans(including himself) as irredeemable blights upon the world. His core motivations and goals remain the same as canon, he still plans to kill everyone in Oakhurst, vampirism or not.
For some reason, the recency of his massacre perhaps, despite being mortal the beacons still sort of register him as a dark force. It’s not entirely the same as a vampire, though. He doesn’t interrupt a beacon(for either sides!), and he can still assist humans on consecrating, but the moment he tries to turn a beacon on his own? It corrupts. Owen is functionally a neutral-evil force that requires all beacons to be one side to escape the barrier. This effect also leads to an unusual misunderstanding; everyone, including the vampires themselves, believe Owen to be a vampire. They simply refuse to believe he’s a mortal, and his attitude towards humans certainly don’t help… but he can’t become a vampire, either. Only Louis would be allowed to do that, he refuses to even consider the possibility of another.
I wonder how things might have gone differently?
