Been thinking a lot about my scarian casino au and I was surprised that anyone seemed interested in it, so here is the slightly cleaned up version of the premise I rambled to my gf:
This au takes place during the 80s, The clockers own a casino in Las Vegas called The Clock Tower, it’s a London themed casino. Cleo built it in the 60s, but Scar has since taken over as owner. Cleo’s now a famous workout instructor on TV, with a popular line of fitness drinks(why she gave the casino business to Scar). (Cleo is Scar/bdubs mother, Etho's their absent divorced father)
The bad boys are card sharks that frequent the casino, they take small winnings so they can stay under the radar of getting caught. Grian, Jimmy, and Joel are cousins in this. Their family owes a loan shark a lot of money and that’s why they started stealing from the casinos, but when they aren't doing they help run their family's bakery that’s going under(because of the loan shark situation).
Joel gets greedy one day at the casino and Grian takes the fall for him. After getting caught security brings Grian to Scar, Scar offers him a deal to work as a card dealer to work off the money he stole and in exchange Scar wouldn’t press charges, so Grian begrudgingly agrees. Grian’s forced to live at the hotel so Scar can keep an eye on him and make sure he doesn't skip out of town before working off his debt. It's a slow burn from there, enemies, to friends, to lovers. Eventually Scar finds out about Grians loan shark problem and is like omg the lone shark after you is my deadbeat father, I can clear that up for you:)
There’s a lot more little things I’ve come up with for this au that I didn’t include here, but this is the gist of it. If people are interested I might share more! Feel free to ask me here or dm me any questions you might have about this au!