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⌈ Secret Post #4043 ⌋

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Comments

DA

[(Anonymous)]

I think there's a big difference between 1) exploring what characters might have been like when they were younger, how they got to be the way they are today, and whether there could be any surprises in their past

I wouldn't call that a College AU, though. If all you're doing is exploring what legitimately could have happened in the character's pasts, in accordance with canon, that's a backstory fic. It's only an AU if you change the circumstances somehow - such as having the characters meet in College rather than years later like they do in canon.

Once a fic is an AU, I agree with AYRT, it really doesn't make much difference whether there's one AU axis (the characters meet in college), two AU axes (the characters meet in college in 2018), or even more.

Re: DA

[(Anonymous)]

It's all AU, but the only way it doesn't make a difference is if you don't read anything that's AU. If you do read them... well, most people have preferences. If someone wants to read an AU set in medieval times and all they can find are medieval fics where the characters are also psychic were-dragons, it's a bit precious to tell them that there's no difference because it's all AU.

Re: DA

[(Anonymous)]

but the only way it doesn't make a difference is if you don't read anything that's AU.

That's your opinion, sure.

I read a metric fuckton of AU, and IMO it really doesn't matter whether your College AU is set in 1990 or 2018. Either way, it requires the exact same acceptance that, "Yo, this is not meant to be canon compliant."

Now if you want to add in, say, Vampires, then that requires an addition level of acceptance that, "Hey, so there's shit in this universe that doesn't exist in the real world." Or, if you want to set your fic in the 19th century, then sure, that adds in the additional level of acceptance that "this fic is going to be set in the past and things are gonna get historical up in here."