So I saw that twilight au from @nighttime-patron-of-the-arts on insta, and these thoughts crossed my mind...
I imagine Aro living by the memories and thoughts of the people around him. In his free time, he would repeat some of his favorite thoughts or memories in his head and daydream about them, definitively, finding them fascinating as things and people change over the decades.
I mean, It's only a supposition, but I imagine Aro learning a lot about the changes in the human world, like technology or the new fads of the Era, when he touch his victims. And for that reason, I suppose he likes people who are visionaries around him more and prefers to transform them most of the times. And, this is also one of the reasons why he is considered one of the Nighttime Patrons of the Arts. I mean, that type of people are interesting to be around and have a lot of weirdo thoughts, right?
So I came to the conclusion that when Aro saw all of Edward's memories, the three times, he began to be intrigued and fascinated by his tortured thoughts and the dynamics of his family. I'm not saying that he agrees with all that dramatic vampire stuff that the Ed boy does all the time - but we can't say much, because S. Meyer made them mentally frozen and all of those stuffs that you all already know about - But, I really believe that Aro would like to watch it, the memories, as if it were a TV show, maybe eventually, just to see where this was going, you know?
I don't remember exactly, but I guess it was mentioned in New Moon or Eclipse, that the Volturi lose track of time and that's why Bella could live a normal life being human, because when they realized that it would be too late. And that kinda makes sense, I believe. '-'
And, just to add a extra sparkle in this endless bullshit...
I can certainly visualize Aro pretending he doesn't understand the technology of the new era and running to the new girl who-wants-to-be when no one is around and secretly demanding that she teach him something he saw in someone's memories.
And, now he runs a secret blog account - remember, we are still in 2008-2010, and we'll probably still be stuck in the past, If S. Meyer ever decides to launch the infamous renessaince story ç_ç - with a undercover name, and that he writes about some memories and life stories that got stuck in his mind in all his vampire centuries . Of course, totally saying that they are just fictional stories. When the New Moon plot happens, Aro starts writing a new story on his blog based on Ed boy thoughts, about a sad boy who struggles with every single thing in his life until he finds his only love, and now, he struggles with everything in his life, because he found his only love. His story about the 'Sad boy and The One' gets popular on the internet.