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⌈ Secret Post #5954 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, they don't want their characters to do anything really bad (murder of bad people seems to be okay and alcohol in Prohibition AUs) but not other drugs or threatening/murder of regular people or running prostitution rings or standover tactics or all the other things organized crime does. Which is fine, just write a Leverage AU! But instead you get this dull not-really-a-criminal aesthetics version.

[(Anonymous)]

Anon above you

Yeah, I think the only one I've read where there are those kind of things happening have been in the fics where the character is already a villain or villainous (I've read far too many Dabi fics where he's doing/selling hard drugs, killing folks indiscriminately or for kicks, etc. But it's not the mafia au) , or there's a dark!MC. One of them was a Majima/OC fic -- but that's the setting already! (Yakuza the game).

The issue I think is that no one wants their fave to fall under the shade of something truly heinous. They want the retractable fangs, if you will. The hint of danger and bad boy without the implications. And that's fine! It's fantasy! And for that reason, and perhaps not being familiar with it, you don't see Leverage AU, because it's essentially former criminals doing heists and what not. If your fave is a good guy to begin with, then he doesn't "need to seek redemption", or prove he's good, etc. He needs to be in a circumstance where he's been forced or born into the organized crime he's involved with. He needs to not want to be doing what he's doing. Unless there's a dark! Tag, in which case, free for all. But that's just my opinion/observation.


That said, Leverage AUs I've never read, And if you know a good one, please let me know!