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What fork-in-the-road type canon AUs would you like to read?

What is fork-in-the-road type canon AUs? Is that another term for canon divergence.

OP is probably using it in the sense of "a major turning point/moment when characters/actions might have gone another way."

So yes? That is what canon divergence is. Where a writer writes about what would this show be like is ______ did this instead of whatever he did in canon.

Yah but I think OP probably mean specifically in the sense of a watershed moment in canon.

Like, idk, fork in the road where Harry Potter is sorted into Slytherin.

I've proposed this before, but consider Harry Potter canon a thousand years back. Gryffindor and Slytherin were good friends once, but Slytherin became obsessed with "blood purity" and left a legacy of hatred, and now Slytherin is seen as the house where evil and manipulative people wind up. Suppose Gryffindor had been the one to fall instead? A thousand years later, Slytherin is the golden-boy house and Gryffindor is regarded as a house for self-righteous meatheads who're into blood purity. Who winds up in which houses, and how does the story change?

Sadly, I don't have ideas for a plot to go along with the premise. I have ideas of who winds up in which houses, but I don't know what the overarching story would be or where it would end.

I...don't really see how the differences would be anything more than superficial. Everyone in Gryffindor would be in Slytherin except Neville (Hufflepuff) and *maybe* Hermione (maybe Ravenclaw). People would hate Gryffs instead.

Well, okay. Maybe if they were racist jock meatheads instead of racist little shitheads the world would be a little more violent. Basically go a little more medieval with the warding world and you're there.

I think Harry and Ron would still go Gryffindor, actually. The Weasleys as a family would value the positive qualities of the house (bravery, loyalty, etc.) while repudiating the founder's racism, but Ron himself would feel decidedly mixed about it. Harry could go either way, but I see him as still a Gryffindor, making him even more worried about the connection between him and the villain. (Assuming the villain is a Gryffindor--I really can't see Gryffindor Voldemort, and I wouldn't want to make Dumbledore the villain like a gazillion other fics. Maybe it would be Umbridge?) Draco would still be a Slytherin, but Crabbe and Goyle would fit in perfectly with violent meathead Gryffindors, so Draco would wind up in a different social circle (potentially very different if Lucius was a Gryffindor.) There's a decent chance Draco of all people could wind up as the hero in this setting!

The real question is where Snape winds up. I guess that depends a lot on who the villain is.

Edited 2016-08-31 02:14 (UTC)

I want to read a fanfic where Castiel took a female vessel. I mean, I am absolutely not against the Dean/Castiel ship where both of them are males. However, I think that if Castiel was female in the show, she'd either be dead (most likely) or fucking Dean. I personally would like to see the "fucking Dean" part.

She'd fuck Dean and then get fridged for manpain reasons.

Well, not exactly. Anna, the sort-of-not-quite-Cas, fucked Dean and was fridged for no reason at all. No reason!!

I have read a fic like that, the body in question was the one Ruby took in season 4 canon (which left Ruby having to find another body). I don't actually recall the details, it's been a few years since I read it, but I know the author was someone who liked to write gen brother fics.

I love that type of AU. One of my favorite things in fics. Though I like it in some universes more than others. It seems to work really well in the Harry Potter universe. And I've read some great Buffy ones.

While Tolkien is my biggest fandom right now, most of that AU seems to boil down to "X doesn't die" or "X and Y get together," and that isn't what I'm interested in reading. But there have been a few good ideas that I've enjoyed.

I also like that type of AU sometimes in Doctor Who, though, again, not when it is just all about "X and Y get together." But since history is changed all the time in Who, it is the perfect place for this sort of AU to work when done right.

Wesley Crusher did not go off and be a traveler. He either dealt with issues and stayed in Starfleet, becoming a junior officer on some other ship that isn't the Enterprise, or he quit the academy and hooked up with a crew of eccentrics, traveling the galaxy, scavenging bits and pieces from here and there and building new and interesting shit out of it. I think a civilian space crew could be interesting.

A Phineas and Ferb fic where It's About Time ended differently. Especially the B plot of that episode.
The show has a delicate balance to keep the formula running, to the point where removing one small piece could send it all crashing down.

So if Perry didn't take Doof back, Doof would be thwarted by someone else, probably too early or too late (or not at all), resulting in injury/death/busting in the A plot from the changed timing of inator firing (either immediately or as the result of dozens of small changes piling up).
The consequences of that would then snowball, most likely resulting in a dystopia (like in Phineas and Ferb's Quantum Boogaloo) or something.

This sort of fic is my favourite. My pet-favourite LotR fic, "The Raven's Blade" is exactly that - what if Kíli didn't die, became a wandering adventurer, and ended up aiding the Fellowship, saved Boromir's life and helped him defend Gondor? The second fic has time travel and becomes "What if the Company had another member who knows what is going to happen and tries to change it?" and the rest of the series follows the knock-on effects of Boromir's actions.

But I will read such fics in almost any fandom, because any fandom will have an event that could be changed to interesting effect.

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