Tuna is one of those crack ships that doesn't feel very crack and I hope in my lifetime it gets more popular. The lack of fics is so disheartening ngl.
What drew me to this pairing/concept
Beneath that posturing, that brilliance and sheer power, Tom Riddle is essentially lonely. Think about it. He probably had never had anyone like him without any agenda.
Luna will probably see him as one of her beautiful but untamed creatures that can be managed with love.
Rowling portrayed love as a sacrifice in the books. But love can also be a healing force. Comfort.
Luna is rather good at healing. She's the only person who gave Harry a fresh and more optimistic way of looking at life when he was devastated after Sirius's death. Honestly, if she didn't love creatures so much, she would have made a fine Mind Healer.
Tom is familiar with aggression. But he may underestimates tenacity.
Luna braved through losing her mother, a father whose mental health was not the best, a magazine which was ridiculed by all, school bullies, getting tortured at Malfoy Manor with equanimity. Unlike Harry and Ginny she's not fire. She's not ice like Tom either.
She's steel wrapped in velvet.
Sometimes a budding teenage edgelord Darklord needs to be distracted, befuddled, amused and enamoured enough so that he gradually gets worn down from his grand world domination plans.
A girl who's empathetic, optimistic and determined till the point of lunacy (lol) has a non zero chance to accomplish this Herculean task.
Well that, and she makes a mean dirigible plum pastry.
Sometimes, dirigible Plum pastry, empathy and a spine of steel is all that's needed to turn a would-be Dark Lord into a sort-of tax paying citizen with no murderous hobbies and a wife guy.
Sorry for my rants. Have a lot to say and gush on these pairings and I would also love to know your headcanons on them...
No I love the rants! I agree, it really doesn't feel like that much of a crackship to me even though they of course have no canon relationship (it's at almost the same level as a ship like Tomarry which does have substantially more canon basis but on its face is about as implausible).
I guess the lack of fics really doesn't feel like a bummer to me because there used to be even less! Over the past decade or so I've met or just observed several people who like to create for the pairing who weren't in that space before. So it feels like progress to me even though it's still a rare pair. A ship like this is never going to have the popularity of larger ships in the fandom and I personally don't even really want that. I like evangelizing the ship to people but I don't know if I'd enjoy it the same way if it were hugely popular.
These headcanons are pretty different from the way I write them, but they're lovely! I hope you keep writing and post some of your work if you haven't already.
turnnoffyourmind
blakekathryn
vaporwave
jacobvanloon
amandla
germansingergirl
gummygunk
yousharknotpass
