ways_back_room | DE: Better late then never yes?

Only a canonical illusory-glimpse-of-a-future-gone-wrong to stop Dot from giving into despair, in which, Bob and Dot being nullified and Megabyte having taken over Mainframe, Enzo was a bullying street punk.

Canonically... as far as I can tell, the only AU version of Joshua is one where he never got out of the interdimensional space. (Second Christmas episode) So... yay?

I have an AU of Joshua where he's trans. I'm slowly working on the fic of that. It's kinda fun.

Helena doesn't have any canon AUs (theoretically, you could say she -is- an AU of the real world!) but pretty much her entire bar experience is going to be AU from the actual show canon. I can't in good conscience put her through that. I just can't.

Ahahahahaha

Hahahahaha

Short answer: No, and yeeeeeeeeess.

Golden Sun, FFIV, and MLP have no canonical AUs associated with them, unless there's something with those Dissidia things I've never particularly investigated. But for me specifically...

Felix, I think I'm up to five by now. Technically the Milliways version is irreconcilably AU, and then there's

dalzoon (suggested by

chanter_greenie), the Homestuck variant (now mostly abandoned, but he still says things from time to time), the AU that

savetheearth requires that produced

seriallylucky, and Evillix Prime, aka Apocalix.

Nothing in particular for Kain.

Fluttershy's mostly just got her HPAU self,

lepata, but a savetheearth version is also taking shape.

...I'd like to amend that, please? No details are yet available, but that "Equestria Girls" thing is apparently now a reality. And there is a character in the trailer who appears intended to be a version of Fluttershy.

(I, at present, have no intention of ever making Fluttershy look like her, for the record.)

I finds AUs fascinating and they seem like one of those variations where once you start writing them then you can spot them everywhere. Though I do have this habit of playing characters that are rather place specific, which makes them trickier for doing AUs of.

All the variations on Robin Hood canon could be considered AUs for Will, that's how I played with the differences between the version of his canon I use and the others. I discovered that he works incredibly well in Hogwarts with the HogwartsAU, I love that world.

AUs are part of Marvel canon with Elseworlds and the differences between all the various comic versions and the movies. In terms of how I write Charles, in the sandboxes, I've played with a number of ideas for him. My current one is him working at Warehouse 13 in the late 1950s. Then I started one where he and Will Graham from Hannibal talk and I wrote a fic where he meet The Joker from the Nolanverse Batman films. Oh and I have a story I started where Erik and Charles were captured by a government and had their memories wiped as much as possible and their mutations partially nulled in an attempt to brainwash/change their minds. So far the plot isn't as key, its much more about Charles and Erik connecting without the knowledge of their prior interactions and how much personality remains for both of them. He's one of those characters who can slip easily into a number of worlds where things are a little off, because his character is built around being subtle and under everyone's radar as they quietly change everything.

Sameth is a trickier one for AUs as the world of the Abhorsen Chronicles is quite specific and not easy to translate. The AU of him that I'm proudest of was when I put him into the Hunger Games in a fic called The Victor's Son. I tried him in the Hogwarts' AU but he didn't work as well as Will. Also somewhere I have a started work in progress with him and Kait in a more modern setting, sort of a college AU but a more historical one.

Moist is another place specific character though he's very adaptable. I also experimented with him in the Hogwarts' AU and he worked decently, but he hasn't clicked as well for AUs as some of my others. I don't believer there are any canonical AUs for him, though they do exist in Discworld, the Trousers of Time do bifurcate.

For William, there's only one AU idea that has stuck around. It was inspired by a meme of being prompted to create an AU and it was the idea of him and Thalia in a more Indiana Jones' setting. The only thing is once I started looking at the idea it grew on me. I created a school on the east coast where William got a scholarship that was an AU of Camp Half Blood since I wanted to look into class issues and poke at some of his thoughts on education. Then it got more complicated and the sad part of this is its still mainly in my head. I need to write it down.

The canon I use for Jane is technically a what-if, AU of the historical Jane Austen's life and one of many. I remember there was a historical mystery series that featured her as the heroine, good reads but I gave up on the series I think five or six books in. Most of the Austen derivative literature is playing on her texts but there are a few that are based around her life. Its not something I've done with her, because I worry enough about getting her right just in Milliways with its differences.

Demeter is a goddess and technically how I play her is a modern AU of what would a goddess would be like. Also there are numerous takes on the Greek gods throughout history which all can count as AUs.

I off the top of my head can't think of any AUs of Tumnus' story though I know they exist for Narnia as its a world that people like considering.

As The Pirates of Penzance is a play, I'd think any different stagings could be thought of as AUs. Its not something I've looked into for the Pirate King.

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I don't even know where to start.

Best answer is best.

Yesssssssss.

*eyes my huge comment* Yes, this.

No kiddin'.

There aren't any canonical AUs of my characters, but I have one in my head that I enjoy entertaining from time to time.

The AU Sunshine is Raven Blaise, raised by her father and his family, rather than by her mother. In this version of the world, the Blaise clan also doesn't disappear at the beginning of the Wars. Raven never changes her name (Rae Seddon), never cultivates her fondness and skill for something so mundane as cooking, never gets given the nickname Sunshine, and grows up knowing and accepting her heritage as a magic handler. She is proud, haughty, wealthy, and secure in her status and power. Raven isn't a vegetarian, and has no problem lying as needed. Her taste in fashion is likewise... altered. >_>

I could try an Old Kingdom AU where Yrael volunteered way back at the beginning, but that's... just too weird even to contemplate. *eyes him*

If you count the time Tommy started stealing his wife's antidepressants and became a happy-tune-whistling, rig-washing, fancy-coffee-drinking, chocolate-croissant-eating, Martha-Stewart-reading, poetry-writing, dancing-with-the-Probie super nice guy Tommy, then yes.

I have a couple AU versions of him. One involves him disentangling himself from his crazy family and ending up with the only woman on the show with whom he had a NORMAL relationship, like, NORMAL conversations and everything. Another involves him getting back together with his wife at a specific time when they both want it, and being able to get past all their bullshit and heartache.

And then there's the Milliways AU where he and Kate Barlow elope and buy a farmhouse in Connecticut where she can have horses and barn cats and he can have an outdoor hockey rink and a bunch of huge dogs.

What?

... is it bad that my first reaction is 'oh, god, not Connecticut, the taxes on that would be awful'. Damn you, budget debates. *siiiigh*

(As an explanation, I work in the CT legislature. I hear about taxes ALL DAY LONG.)

This AU Connecticut has low property taxes! Farmhouses for all!

Homestuck has a splintery timeline, so Aradia at least sort of has canonical AU material. The fandom in general seems to be particularly prolific in producing AUs for it, as well; I haven't personally done much in that area though.

In my Fallen-London-specific RP group, making up AUs is sort of a hobby of ours, so I've thought up a lot of AU versions of Thurlow. The most prominent ones are the Homestuck fusion AU, and the "stabdads AU" (we borrowed the term from Homestuck) where the Masters of the Bazaar are human-shaped gangsters and our characters are their adopted children. We have also contemplated adapting the whole group into Changeling: the Lost PCs for a game. Also we have enough of a Hogwarts AU to know which houses our characters would be in, and we've had one-off brainstorming sessions for Dangan Ronpa, Puella Magi Madoka Magica, and Vampire: the Masquerade AUs.

Also, the version of Thurlow I play in dedicated Fallen London RP is different from the Milliways version, because in the former they have a social circle of other player characters. So that's another kind of AU.

Short answer for Ben is yes. In fact I am using his account for an icon from an AU. (Now with a link to the page it is from.) My personal favorite AU of my own design is him as a ronin much like Kurosawa's Yojimbo. Someday I will write the Four Samurai dang it.

The Val I play in bar is an AU since in canon she was rewritten into Valeria Richards.

XMFC Hank doesn't have an AU yet though with the next movie it could be argued he will. As to my own AUs, I like the post-XM: Last Stand fics I've written where he becomes the home room teacher for the New Mutants as well as the thread we did where Hank and Raven reunite as he tries to give her powers back. I've also played with a darker XMFC world where Xavier and Erik were seemingly assassinated and mutants actively hunted. Then, there is also an AU where Hank joined with Magneto because Raven asked him.

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...how to begin talking about the AU where Kate Percy is a werewolf and she saves Harry at Shrewsbury by turning him?

Um. There are many. AUs = best best thing forever and ever amen.

ALL THE PERCY AUs!

*decrees*
\o/\o/\o/\o/

*esp. Coldspur, plz*

&zombies;! It's gonna happen, as soon as I can get through this actually gigantic project that's due in a week.

Go, write, win! You're awesomely awesome, so I do not worry. <333

...um that actually sounds kind of amazeballs?

Have the fic that started it and a metric ton of threads (some NSFW), with the addendum that "Lacunae" is supposed to go between "Bangor" and "Interregnum." :-D

There is a story arc where a villain gathers all the Invincibles that sided with Omni-Man, believed in the Viltrumite way of thinking, or were villains and threw them at Mark.

There's the ancient, insane Emperor of the World that Mark gets taken forward in time to fight, who he finds out is actually himself, driven mad by heartbreak and failure and who just wants to die.

So, yes. LOTS of canonical AUs.

(We won't talk about the Rule 63 Invincibles that seem to be half of the pictures of him on Deviantart. )

Henry: No and no.

Tavi: No and... hmm. Not exactly. The Alera timeline and plot-domino-ing is tight enough that I am terrified of messing with it; however, I do have an AU or two I'd like to play with. He doesn't change much, though.

Lois Lane.*

*inside-my-head count: Smallville (2 canon + 4 personal, at least some of which I am desperate to explore); comics (1); Reeve movie-ish/Superman Returns (1 canonish + 1 personal); likely upcoming Man of Steel; no I am not counting all Lois iterations, go away.

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Milliways Ray is a canonical AU. His source canon is the four-issue miniseries Ghostbusters: Legion, which is set in a world where the events of the original movie took place in 2003 or so instead of the 1980s, and in which the city does not appear to have sued the guys into oblivion. I have, as an act of Hee Hee I Can Totally Do This, sent him both to the universe the live-action movies take place in, and to the Real Ghostbusters cartoon- which is an AU by virtue of the fact that in the Animated Continuum (as Milli!Ray refers to it), the live-action movie is an adaptation of the guys' adventures. Ray developed something of a pounding headache when he attended the live-action movie's New York City premiere while in the animated continuum and saw his own face on the screen in completely the wrong time frame.

Unless Gabe Newell does something really weird come HL 3 time, no, there are no canonical AUs for Gordon or Adrian. Somewhere in the back of my head I keep an AU I refer to as the Internal Conversion universe (it's a radioactivity-related term; it was that or Orphan Source) in which Gordon walked away from the G-Man at the end of HL 1 and was rescued from certain death at the hands of Xen's angrier residents by one of the Vortigaunts he'd freed. He then spent an unspecified amount of time in Xen trying to both survive and get back to Earth, while the G-Man irritably activated his fallback plan and dropped Adrian Shephard in City 17 several years ahead of schedule. It is not a happy universe and I have never done very much with it, but it's out there.

No known AUs for Team Fortress 2. Dragon Age 2 has several possible endings, as did Dragon Age 1; I suppose you could consider the endings that are not considered canon by Bioware to be alternate universes. Same deal with Mass Effect. I have a private AU for ME 3 that involves Commander Shephard diverging sharply from the game script but I am not going to say more than that because spoilers.

Santo's canon is not particularly cohesive and I don't think even the people who made the movies consider them to be sequels to one another so theoretically one could say every single Santo movie is potentially an AU from all of the others. I know there are at least three or four different 'origin stories' for the Santo persona depending on which movie you watch.

No canon AUs for the Fallout universe unless you want to go with the theory that Weird Wasteland and the random encounters of Fallout 2 represent an alternate universe from the un-altered main games, in which case there's the universe in which Vault 13's water chip broke on its own and the universe in which it broke because the grandchild of the original Vault Dweller went back in time during Fallout 2 and broke it to make sure the events of both games happened. I have already done some AU elements for Ellen's end of things, because canonically the events of The Pitt require a very large idiot ball and your choices of how to handle things are extremely limited, not to mention the number of loose ends canon leaves floating around that you just can't do anything about in-game. I wil be AUing the stuffing out of Point Lookout.

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Cata and Sam are extremely difficult to AU.

There's a canon AU for Claudia - the Peteless!'verse from the second Christmas episode. At roughly the equivalent of S3 she's still in the psych ward; I suspect MacPherson had a hand in keeping her there.
Otherwise, the Warehouse 13 'verse ports over to a Hogwarts AU extremely well, and there's also the AU where Rebecca and Jack are Claud's foster parents (though that was as much 'the AU where Jack survives the Spine' as anything else). And, well, we're about to go AU from canon.

Apollo... not so much.

For Imp, I've played on and off with an AU where he ends up at Unseen University, based on the Disc canon that magic and music are so closely related you can't really do both. But then I get stuck as to who would end up inflicting music with rocks in it on the world (I know it would happen anyway, but).

Regulus pretty much lives in AU land when I work with him. I've actually written a story where he got Sorted into Ravenclaw (Sirius ended up in Slytherin on a technicality - the difference between 'I don't want to be in the same House as my family' and 'I don't want to turn out like my family'). Otherwise, I really rather disapprove of canon, so I tend to write things where he lives through it one way or another.
(Including the crossover where he ended up in London Below, and tied to the Big Giant Prophecy because of timing. And the fact that I always thought it awfully convenient that Dumbles applied it to only two people so quickly. The power the Dark Lord knows not: ROMANS.)

I... think an argument could be made for Storybrooke being the Modern AU of the Enchanted Forest? In S1, anyway. Otherwise, OUaT's another good one for Hogwarts AUs.

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Joshua does not like psychwardness.

... probably mostly because that means both Donovans are out of commission and that makes him sads.

Thanks to Turtles Forever every licensed incarnation is considered a canon AU.

Though, the only AU version of the the turtles that I have currently taking up space in my head, aside from the rp versions that are AU by virtue of my playing them, is the Harry Potter AU that's being sandboxed.

River: Not canonical ones, nope! I've done a few for RP purposes, yes, and talked out a few others. The most memorable is the Supernatural 'verse one where River was one of the Cold Oak kids whom Ava killed. I might've tossed her into some mixed_muses Sunnydale thread or something too; I forget.

Regan: Uh, in any AU of River's, there's an AU Regan running around too, but I haven't played out any of them, nor thought them out in great detail. Again, nothing canonical.

Trowa: There's not, like, a canonical AU where they're all florists or something, but there are some non-canonical manga prequels and sequels and stuff. Most hilariously, Frozen Teardrop, the sequel of WTF! According to Google, Trowa is calling himself Doktor T (mad scientist, I guess?) and he and Quatre train up Quatre's baby sister (I don't know how that one came about, since this is 20 years post-canon) and a nameless assassin-kid (later named Trowa also) and I don't even know what's going on here. *cracking up* Duo's a priest, Zechs has a nanobot clone -- just the summaries of this hurt my brain.

Clare: None canonical. None I've really played around with for longer than a late-night IM conversation I've forgotten, either.

Thor: ...AHAHAHAHA.

Uh, the Thor I play is a canonical alternate universe version from comics canon. And comics canon has a zillion AUs of itself; I cannot keep track of them at all. No alternate universes within the MCU yet, at least.

I don't know how that one came about

She's Quatre's clone! Yep (seriously, check wiki). WHY? I don't know. HOW IS SHE FEMALE?

... >.> Look, over there! SCIENCE! /smokebomb

(P.S. Though now I am imagining she is secretly bb X and dying of laughs.)

BECAUSE SCIENCE.

Um.

Somehow.

(hahahahahahahaha BEST. Or worst! OR BOTH.

X would make the worst Winner.)

Well, as I stated in the last DE, Evil Chicken has a canonical AU version, the Cheery Chicken. Same powers, but uses them for the purposes of surprise tea parties instead of surprise attacks. It is an AU were a cat has set himself up as unquestionable dictator of the world, so Cheery Chicken is still rebelling against the man, only with tea and cucumber sandwiches and pleasantness instead of random violence.

There is no canonical AU of Amascut. Not even in the mirror universe ruled by a cat. Maybe especially so. Headcanonwise there was the Eviller!Amascut undead AU I came up with in the last DE where somehow Amascut became the sole surviving god as a result of the Zarosian-Kharidian Wars and the God Wars that followed. There aren't many AU's I can imagine where Amascut ends up happy and sane. Those darn wars.

Well, hmmm... what if the Zarosian-Kharidian War never happened? How would that happen? Well, I suppose Zaros and Amascut could have gotten married as a way of uniting the two empires ... Amascut might have turned into a Hera-like goddess of marriage then, though Zaros wasn't very skyfathery. She would still be a goddess of death too, possibly a goddess of "little death" as well. Hmmm.

The wrestleman and cheese wedge shown in my icon have a literal slew of alternate universe counter parts, most notably Old-Timey Strong Bad and The Sneak, and Stinkoman and Cheatball.

Like all the other Marvel players have said, the short answer for Carol is yes. (OMG Marvel why do you hate me??) I guess the most prominent is the Ultimate Universe, where she has no powers but is the badass SHIELD Director. (I dunno details, I don't read Ultimates.)

And there's the Super Hero Squad universe where she's brainwashed or whatever into falling in love with M.O.D.O.K. We will never speak of this again.

The House of M alternate reality is actually significant to Carol's development in canon. She remembers the alternate reality—in which she was the most famous superhero on Earth—after it's gone, and that motivates her to try to do more with her powers. (It's pretty much the big thing driving all of Ms. Marvel vol. 2).

Out of curiosity, I looked at Ben's alternate realities off the same site...I can see into eternity.

Accurate icon is accurate.

Ahaha, linking that is a good call! Or a terrible one, but what's that they say about pain shared?

Which is to say: here's Thor!

I think my favorite might be "What if Thor got a haircut?"

Then he would... have shorter hair. Great AU, Marvel. Really stellar.

WE'RE ALL ON TENTERHOOKS TO FIND OUT WHAT HAPPENED. *giggling*

I like Thorgutan, too. It's Thor... but an orangutan! OKAY WHY NOT.

I think Throg is my favorite AltThor. In fact I have thought of apping him before. ; p

*chokes and dies* I missed that one on the list, somehow! WOW. Oh, Marvel.

It might not have been on the list as he's is separate but connected to Thor; sort of like Death and the Death of Mice from Discworld.

Olivia's the only one of mine with a canonical AU. In fact, that whole concept serves as the backbone of Fringe's mythology. :D

My various RP partners-in-crime and I have also concocted a CRAPTON of self-indulgent AUs over the years, ranging from getting on that "Gaeta was one of the Cold Oak kids (or would have been if his leg hadn't gotten blown off in Afghanistan, so his pyrokinesis manifested about two years too late)" action to "Gabriel successfully kills Lucifer and ends up getting very reluctantly promoted to Captain of the Host as a result." Fun times.

Heroes did a few AUs, but Elle wasn't in any of them. If I remember correctly, there was the Five Years Gone future, the Magic Virus future, and that one where Sylar had a kid that I don't really remember the context of. But I did once write a fic for Elle and the Haitian in a Heroes-Millennium AU. And I suppose there's all that stuff that actually aired on television. But I wouldn't know anything about that.

Asami doesn't have any canon AUs. Though someone wrote an AU that she should totally let me read, the premise of which I've imagined Asami in.

Leslie has no canon AUs - I've seen the Leslie-as-Daenerys stuff, though I think my personal favorite was a fanfic that was basically Parks and Rec characters in The Hunger Games. (Leslie was a previous Victor. Ron was the winning Tribute. Tom Haverford was a Stylist, Perd Hapley was an announcer. You get it.)

Marceline has two canon AUs - one being Marshall Lee the Vampire King, who is partially a product of her own imagination, based on the Ice King's "fan fiction" about Cake the Cat and Fionna the Human. The other is a Marceline who was not a vampire, and instead grew old guarding her friend Simon Petrikov's corpse.

For Manny, I don't have anything in particular, though I imagine if he had even fewer inclinations to be a remotely moral person, he probably would have been a better right-hand man to Hector Lamanz than Domino Hurley was. Though also one more likely to try to usurp him.

Hiccup... I've imagined him as a Targaryen? Even if he doesn't have the coloring for it.

I don't have something in mind for Katara. Whom I need to bring in. Soon!

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Er, I suppose all of Comics canon counts for Alfred.

Then there's the Batman TV shows, the Animated series' (yeah, plural), the Justice league animated show, and I'm sure plenty of others I couldn't name.

Oh yeah, the Burton/Schumacher Movies are also an AU (or maybe several, I don't even).

*looks at Marvel*

*dies laughing*

*see icon to illustrate*

The Ice King has the Ice Queen, his distaff counterpart in his fanfiction, as well as the Simon Petrikov who died trying to save the world from the Lich King. (He got better.)

Prior to being on Merlin, Colin Morgan was on an episode of Doctor Who, playing a futureGoth named Jethro; and there's a lovely gifset using caps from that episode, asking the Doctor if there's a way to save Arthur. You bet your bippy I want to use that in an OOM or an EP someday, or even just a fic. Oh, Future Merlin, I both long and dread to play you.

Aside from brief visions, Teen Wolf hasn't done much with AUs yet. The only AU I can see for Bilbo is the "he claims the Ring and rules Middle Earth" type.

Edited 2013-05-14 00:07 (UTC)

Pinkie's got a secondary form that's mostly fanon, but we do not speak of the Pinkamena phenomena :p

Other than Dix and Jules doing some undercover work, there aren't much in the ways of Dostoyevsky doubles in my pup's canons.

There aren't any canonical AU versions of Sariel, despite the assumption that a TNG mirror universe exists due to DS9 and TOS trips into same. Alas, we never saw the Next Generation variety. I wish we had.

As for daydreamed AU versions, sure. Taos!Sariel is a version I've imagined as having been part of the academyplot, specifically as a student who escaped to Keystone Rose with the other kids. I've played her in a couple sandbox eps, but I have to be in a very specific headspace to manage it. There are also a couple versions I've never played anywhere as yet, specifically an AU where she's a paramedic, and another where she's one of the Bolvangar children who escaped the institution a la His Dark Materials... though that one did appear in a fic once. I should play that version in a sandbox somewhere.

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