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⌈ Secret Post #5030 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

Some more thoughts on this because y’all left some fascinating comments...

I think there are characters and ships that more easily lend themselves to different settings. I used to read a lot of non-canon AUs for, say, Bagginshield, not only because canon was heartbreaking but also because The Hobbit is already the story them meeting and developing their relationship. Their history is being built before our eyes. You can take that preset and place it in a lot of other situations and have it work out reasonably well. Just preserve the dynamics that made people ship it in the first place.

In contrast, take another Tolkien OTP of mine, Fingon/Maedhros. I totally get that some people don’t want to deal with the fact that they’re related, but if they’re not at least old friends with feuding fathers, what’s the point?? We already know barely anything about these dudes because of the way The Silmarillion was written. Once the ship got a bit popular I started seeing more AU fics for it and a lot of them read like a buffet of fanon tropes with no connection to the actual characters.

Re: OP

[(Anonymous)]

But surely, like, to use your example, you can have "old friends with feuding fathers" in a lot of different settings and AUs

Re: OP

[(Anonymous)]

Sure, you could. A lot of people don’t bother, though. Even that one element of canon introduces extra effort and can get in the way of some set-ups.