- fake!dating arthur/cobb on a job whether irl or in a dream (where arthur may or may not have picked up the kissing in random hotel lobbies trick from cobb)
- arthur with a smoking vice.
- arthur/cobb trapped in limbo in various permutations, such as:
- arthur is shot during the first level of the fischer job and cobb goes after him. and cobb would come face to face with himself when he follows arthur down, because hi. duh. & arthur would be SO confused when he showed up. but eventually he'd take cobb's word for it, like he does for everything else, and cobb would have to marvel at that, at least a little. how easily arthur does for him the one thing mal couldn't. it's not even like cobb's earned it, the way things have been going lately, but. "when has anything about you made sense?" arthur says, mouth quirked wryly, and puts his finger on the trigger.
- they're both trapped there for years when mal messes up another one of their jobs.
- this. SO MUCH THIS. because--
The kid doesn't look like anything special. Dark, checkered sweater vest, messenger bag, too much hair product. He's talking to a classmate, animated, ready with a quick, bright laugh when he makes his point.
- post-movie arthur, as reliable as ever, quietly in love with dom, and dom finally beginning to figure it all out.
- cobb dreams up a bar and arthur fills it -- WITH MEN.
- a huge heist fic where they scam dom into fixing himself ala the fischer job. because yes.
- 500 days of summer crossover where cobb recruits tom/arthur a couple of years after summer dumps him.
- temporarily-blinded-in-a-dream!arthur fic where he starts creating this entire slightly offbeat universe bc that is how he sees the world. seriously, how much fun would that be. there would be nothing but angular buildings and sunshine and purple grass. :DDD
- post-inception fic where arthur goes to visit cobb and shenanigans with the kids ensue. KID!FIC. ♥
- A FILM NOIR-ESQUE ARTHUR/COBB BY ciudad.
- ANYTHING BY ciudad.
- MORE ANYTHING BY bloodbelieve.
also, in all abovementioned scenarios, pining!arthur is involved. except in the one where he is merely "quietly in love". ♥