#incredible how I become 400% more powerful when bran is involved. she is my queen and my wife and I love her and she should be a romcom lead

[cityandking]

mafia/crime au vesper i need it + romcom lead au bran please and thank u

thx babe xo // send me an au

vesper + mafia/crime au

finally an excuse to talk more about my dragon age crime au

the Trevelyan family is large and expansive and has ties to a number of Marcher cities, never quite running anything but always around and connected to the people in charge. funny how many businesses and enterprises seem to tie back to the Trevelyans sooner or later

Vesper's a lawyer. mostly she does contract work, some corporate law, a lot of pro-bono stuff in the housing space, but every now and then the family needs a little extra help and it's nice to have an accredited professional in the back pocket. all things considered she's practically operating outside the family business, except on the occasions they need her—in which case she's in the very heart of it

in this AU, where she isn't sent away, she and eldest brother Kit are thick as thieves. you know those tragically co-dependent mob siblings in pretty much all mafia media out there? that's them. even when Kit gets married, even when he has kids, Auntie Vesper is always over

she's not as close with her parents or the twins, but between the appearances to be kept up and her utility as a resource, the keep things civil. her lawyer's schedule means she misses plenty of family events, but she makes a point to show up when she can.

this backfires in her late 20s when someone puts a hit out on the Trevelyan leadership, and the night at the gala with her parents and one of the twins ends with Vesper being the sole survivor to stumble out, gown bloodied. she's held on charges briefly before they let her go again.

(everyone warns her away from Captain Rutherford — and DA Cassandra is always telling Cullen to steer clear — but they just seem to keep running into each other and the tension... it lingers...)

branwen + romcom lead au

Branwen is custom built to be the hot plaid-wearing small-town free-spirited love interest to some businesswoman from the city who gets stuck out in the boondocks and hates being there on account of it reminds her of her tragic backstory (*cough*sabine*cough*)

variation where she's the talk of her small seaside town and the Other Lead is displeased with being stuck in some tourist dump (especially if it's the off season) but Bran woos them with romantic sunsets on her sailboat and homemade seafood dinners and there are quiet conversations about lingering traumas(TM) over beers out on the porch at night

there's a version of this where she's the hip single mom to an eager and meddling Gawain who is pulling all sort of hijinks to get Bran and the other lead together. Bran is, I think, aware of the hijinks but content to let them carry on until they go a little too far, at which point she sits Gawain down and explains that you can't just Make people like each other. Other Lead obviously overhears and this is what makes them decide to take the plunge.

I really especially feel she's fit for a Hallmark Christmas romcom. There should be snow there should be trees she should get an ax there should be spiked hot chocolate. Let her give someone a scarf. Are you seeing my vision? Are you picking up what I'm putting down?

scene where the Other Lead goes back to the city and Bran—who is, of course, in love(TM) but has always been a free spirited love 'em and leave 'em type—shows up dressed in city attire (just as hot but 100% less flannel) to be like "I wasn't just going through the motions what we had was real" and then she kisses the Other Lead right in the middle of the corporate lobby and the weird city partner (in my head this is either a guy or Aubrey Plaza, sorry Aubrey) walks into a glass wall but Bran + Other Lead don't notice because they mackin' it