remembering the tlw x tbp AU I vaguely outlined way back when the second movie was coming out </3 I kind of cooked too….. here’s a rough and vague pile of what I’d come up with bc I Know I’ll never actually write it bc it’s been moths and o still haven’t bothered ⛹️ book canon when it comes to ages.. for the most part… curley is still like 14 and the others are 15-17, ray/pete/stebbins are 16-18
adam “curley” white (in place of griffin) the young runaway who got picked up during a 4th of july parade || art baker (in place of bruce/robin) the good samaritan who was late home after staying back to tutor Some Totally Random Kid in the library || gary barkovitch-rank sanders-collie parker (in place of vance) the troubled youths who remained in a reluctant cluster after starting a fight in a convenience store as a threefer on #his birthday || richard harkness (in place of billy) the kid-journalist who was the first and earliest before a 10 year gap between killings || billy stebbins (in place of gwen/max) the seer who was taken in by our killer when he was a child until he ran away across the country when his first dream came to him at 13 || peter mcvries (also in place of gwen) the secret might-be-lover who searches all on his own for the latest missing boy until stebbins spills about a dream he had || and finally ray garraty (in place of finney) who was tutored by art baker and feels guilty for keeping him out late enough to get ‘napped but has also always had a sort of obsession with the cases since his mother taught at the school when harkness when missing, taken while on his way to meet pete and their buddies for a round of ball at the park…… gavribbins lwk endgame…..
this is where I fall off a little when it comes to the major and the grabber but I was thinking that maybe instead of the magician lure he was actually one of those marine recruiters like the that come around schools to get people to sign up after graduation but he’s just roaming bc who’s gonna think #That of a random vet y’know…
and a tl of events as a treat 🥸
major - born sept 10 1918
harkness - grabbed feb 10 1966 by 46 y/o major
curley - grabbed jul 4 1976 by 57 y/o major
gary/rank/collie - grabbed sept 10 1977
art - grabbed mar 8 1978
ray - grabbed oct 14 1978 by 60 y/o major
btw feel free to ignore this if you want 😭 I know it’s Very lengthy and pretty much a bunch of nothing buttttttt I needed to let loose and you just so happened to be the first tbp and/or tlw blog I’ve seen today so…. 🌀🌀🌀
ANON IM GOING CRAZY FOR THIS HOOOOOLLLY SHIT???? please please please write this i'll be so fucking sat for it
genuinely i have no notes everything is perfect, the major being like one of those army recruiters is so fucking smart !!!!
we HAVE to discuss this further pls hit me up omg im going to be thinking about this all week... my top 2 fav films ever combined... you also directly struck me in the SOUL by having gary/collie/rank standing in for vance, My absolute favs standing in for my absolute fav... omfg pls hit me up anon

















