[ SECRET POST #3996 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3996 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Or they like AUs.

[(Anonymous)]

No, I’m saying that if you completely change someone’s background, upbringing and species, you’re going to fundamentally change that person, especially Dean and Cas, whose personalities are intrinsically tied into what they are and what has happened to them. You want an AU where depowered Cas and retired Hunter Dean open a coffee shop? That won’t change their personalities beyond whatever OOC hoops you’re jumping through to get them there because the things that made them who they are still happened. You take that away for your “normal human” au, though and...no. They wouldn’t be the same person. That’s not how people work.

Re: Or they like AUs.

[(Anonymous)]

DA

Yeah, this is an issue to think about when writing an AU fic for any fandom, but I think it's especially important in Supernatural, where it's such a huge part of the story that the main characters have pretty much had their lives and personalities destroyed (or at least irreparably altered) by the lives they've been forced to lead.

I suppose a creative pin on a coffee shop AU (like AYRT's ex-cultist/bounty hunter example) might work better but there would still be dramatic differences. And most coffee shop fics just aren't that creative, because as a general rule that's not what people are looking for when they read a coffee shop AU.

Re: Or they like AUs.

[(Anonymous)]

ayrt

They won't be the exact same person, but that doesn't mean they can't be in-character. If they have the same personality traits and similar behaviors to a point in canon, that's in-character. The Dean at the start of Supernatural is not the same person as the Dean now, but he is the same character. Background and experience do inform the person that someone becomes, but not all of a person's personality comes from those things. And traits that do come from background and experience can also come from different backgrounds and experiences. Fiction characters are constructed people and I believe that a writer can use a different construction to get them to the same place emotionally, behaviorally, and personality-wise. But if you don't believe that, then alright, those type of AUs won't be anything you're interested in.