#and chuck is one of those congregation fucks I just can't remember which one

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for you, something with a supernatural element (by that I mean the adjective, not the television show)

so since I read Discovery of Witches I've been like...."getting a lot of Dair vibes from this" which is how I consume lots of media these days but that's neither here nor there the thing is, I could see the shape of an au.

Dan Humphrey would be the heroine, Diana Bishop, a History of Science Professor who is just trying to finish a presentation for an upcoming conference, but whoops he's also actually the most specialest witch in the world.

Blair would be Matthew, the centuries old vampire who's gone to Oxford a dozen times and has the doctorates to prove it. She falls ass over head in love with this witch and everybody is just gonna have to DEAL.

I mean, the novel and the following novels dig into the nitty gritty of time travel and evolutionary biology so I don't think you could take the Gossip Girl AU that far....but the character dynamic between the two mains, the doffed way they look out for each other and the slow burn of their feeling and their protectiveness over the other's wellbeing and loving each other even with all their baggage....yeah...

like, there's a scene towards the middle of the book where the witch hosts the vampire for dinner, and they flirt over mythology and discussions of their academic specialties and that is SO dair-coded.

and there's this sequence in the latter half of the book where the creatures-enforcement-squad kidnaps the witch and tortures her because, you know, inter-supernatural species love is verboten because of course it is, and it serves all that delicious, character A's beloved is in danger and they lose their mind plus the hurt/comfort that follows....ahhhhhhh it would be so awesome.

and there's this thing in our dair circle where we talk about dan falling more under the traditional heroine archetype and blair being the prince charming archetype in their relationship, so plugging the spin they already have on a conventional romantic story with all the stuff going on between Diana and Matthew in Discovery of Witches would rock.

other character parallels I've considered for this AU: Lousia = Serena, Blair's vampire sister who dies mysteriously in the 17th century Ysabeau = Lily, Blair's glamorous, blonde and very well-put together vampire mom Blanca = Louis, Blair's first husband, who died before she turned. Marcus = Henry, Blair's vampire son Emily & Sarah = Jenny, Dan's lesbian witch sister Michele = Georgina, vampire and Blair's nemesis Miriam = Vanessa, vampire and Blair's colleague and longtime friend and sufferer of her nonsense Hamish = Nate, a daemon and Blair's gay best friend who is richer than god Baldwin = Carter, Blair's vamp brother who is Trouble but comes through in a crisis