how’s Lewyn x MC AU dynamic like 👀
Ahh, thank you for this! I'm obsessed with these two.
Callie (my ID MC) is 10+ years older than she was when she first came to Crimson Beech. So Lewyn can't pull off his patronizing I Know Better Than You shtick anymore. Sure, she's a few hundred years younger than him, but she's an adult who can take care of herself, and he knows it. So right off the bat, we have him trying to regain a balance that's irrevocably lost simply because their respective roles are not the same anymore.
She's a journalist in this AU, on assignment to discover the truth behind another bout of "animal attacks", so Lewyn's hackles are automatically raised. Because, well, she was already a nuisance when she was a high schooler, how much worse will she be now that being nosy is her job? And how much trouble can she bring to the covens now that she's not scared to death of them anymore?
Callie despises Lewyn. She hates that almost nobody sees how manipulative and cold-blooded he is, but she sure can. She's not really a snarky person as a general rule, but she will make it a point to be The Snarkiest Ever with him. The man was willing to sacrifice his own coven, okay, he deserves it.
Except! The easiest way for them to get what they each want (solving the case, throwing authorities off the covens' scent) might be to team up. So now we have two people who can't stand each other -and don't bother to hide it- spending time together. A lot of time. There's bickering. All the bickering.
Only, they're both distractingly good looking. And sure, it's not like it's news, but Lewyn isn't interested in kids, so he never gave Callie a second look when he first met her. And Callie, well, Lewyn was in his forties when he was turned. Maybe he had nice features? She guessed? But even if he had not been threatening her life, even if she had not been in love with Cas at the time, he was An Old.
But Callie is no longer a kid. Lewyn can see that. And she certainly doesn't think he's old anymore.
(Okay, he absolutely is, he's ancient, but he doesn't look old to her eyes anymore.)
Basically, their relationship in a nutshell at this point: