Do you ship Cassandra and Kynan? If you do, do you have any hcs for them in a modern setting?
I have a lot of thoughts actually. Personally, I hc Cassandra as asexual, but I'm undecided on her romantic orientation. In most of the fics I write, Cassandra and Kynan are more like best friends, but I think their relationship has potential to be super interesting so here's some hcs as requested!
Kynan and Cassandra meet at a News Years party hosted by Percy and Vex. Kynan finds refuge in the bedroom that's doubling as the coatroom and finds Cassandra already there.
They two of them sit together for a while in silence, Kynan smoking out the window (for the vibes not because I think smoking is cool, don't smoke kids). They honestly don't even realize that the new year has come until they hear cheering from the other room.
After that, they seem to bump into each other a lot (is it because Percy and Vax are teaming up to get them to be friends? perhaps)
In modern au, Cassandra's trauma is pretty much public knowledge, trials and tabloids and one of the most famous murders are all part of her past so she goes into everything assuming everyone knows everything about her.
And Kynan does, but he doesn't ask her anything about it, doesn't make a single comment about it. But on the anniversary of her family's death, he shows up at her apartment with coffee and a bottle of whiskey and the entire Twilight box set for them to make fun of together.
She's always known there's something more to him, there's a reason that Vax is looking after him the way he is. And then one day, Kynan shows up at her apartment already drunk and just so upset. She takes him in and once he's sobered up in the morning, he tells her about his dad.
Knowing that the two of them are mutually traumatized and fucked up honestly brings them closer together, they don't have to pretend to be normal around each other.
