#<- underrated heavyweight champion of hp rarepairs!! what if tomione was actually good!!!!

[foursaints]

would you…perchance…uhhh…elaborate? on tomluna don’t get me wrong it sounds very interesting but i do have certain…reservations. i am willing to suspend my disbelief but…

what if the two strangest, loneliest children you know both sought to find acceptance and instead found each other...

tomluna is compelling to me because it is close to being one of those generic good x evil pairings (tom is "the dark lord" and luna is a dreamy silver-haired beacon of trust & strength & kindness) but it is tilted slightly slantways. it's different because they first find themselves on the mutual ground of being Outsiders. they're united in the grief of their lost mothers. they're united in the experience of spending most of their lives utterly alone...

i like that they're the two Misfits of canon. there is a very specific sort of understanding that comes from being labelled an outcast and finding someone just as strange as you. i think tom riddle could only be capable of genuinely loving someone that the rest of the world calls "loony".

luna has a tendency to see the beauty & frailty in terrifying creatures, she knows what it is like to be misunderstood— tom is like another thestral to her. he is ghostly & handsome & fascinating. he makes her learn that there is more to her (and what she is capable of) than she ever realized.

tom, a halfblood raised in a muggle orphanage who both idolizes & resents the idea of being "different", thinks this strange neglected fairytale pureblood girl-child is the closest thing he has ever seen to pure magic. he sees himself in her, when absolutely nobody else does. tom @ luna is: "how little i loved, before i loved you".

basically I think about them lots