[ SECRET POST #4214 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4214 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

Modern AUs are kind of a bad example because they are rarely written well, but I think the appeal is taking a character you know and putting them in a very different situation from their canon and seeing how they react. Also, I like when authors are creative in an AU. For instance, if there's an evil creature, how would you reimagine that in a modern AU? Or how can you map the conflicts in a fantasy canon into everyday conflicts?

Like I said, you rarely get the depth for this but I think that's the appeal. I personally love the canon universes so I don't write modern AU but if there's one that really does nail the characterization and plays with the intersection of two radically different types of canon, I think that's interesting.

[(Anonymous)]

...but I think the appeal is taking a character you know and putting them in a very different situation from their canon and seeing how they react.

This is exactly why I write AUs. My favorite characters have very strong personality traits that can carry over to an AU while still keeping their "core", as it were, when you have a halfway decent writer doing it. I've seen how they react to their native environment in canon, so I like to extrapolate with "well, what if..?". They are going to react differently when in a dystopian AU versus an arranged marriage one. It's what helps keep my love of the characters going strong.

[(Anonymous)]

I agree, but I have no interest in mundane AUs of any kind, not even when my canon did it. Would I be interested in my canon but in space? Sure! In a coffee shop only with no powers? Hell no.