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ways_back_room2015-05-26 01:42 pm
yakalskovich) wrote in ways_back_room2015-05-26 01:42 pm
AU week plot
What if our lives had gone differently? If we lived in another time, or at another point of the sliding scales of magic and science? AUs (alternative universes) have long been a way of exploring that for our favourite characters in fandom.
Now I have thought of a way to bring AUs to Milliways, and the mods have approved my plans. So, here is what is going to happen.
In my old else!game, Morningstar Manor (originally on GreatestJournal, later on InsaneJournal after GJ's demise -- a few of you were there, at least for a bit), we had AU weeks when everybody got to be different; as we were working with original characters, that meant we puzzled out ways in which our charries' lives had gone differently. We posted the differences we had worked out by ourselves or with our closest co-writers in an OOC post that we linked to in our EPs, and then by agreement, that was (for that one week) the version that had always been there. It was enormous fun. I did one huge-ass plot all by myself, hinged on several consecutive AU weeks we did over a space of two years or so.
As we're writing canon charries, we can also use AUs that exist in other people's fic, AUs we make up ourselves, perhaps eve shared AUs for the entire canon. For example, I have read a lovely little biker AU fic which fits all the "Vikings" characters very nicely and which we plan to do collectively, and Write has written a college AU to end all college AUs from which she's going to bring that Javert and Valjean to Milliways for AU week.
Another thing people liked to do during AU week in Morningstar Manor was established friends being enemies for a change and vice versa, or established lovers meeting and falling for each other all over again. So it's not just the external circumstances but also the characters' relationships that can be changed and played with -- in MM, people used to go absolutely wild during the regularly recurring AU weeks!
The plot will last a week, and it will run near the end of July -- so lots of time to think about it and plan! But as quite a lot of thought and possibly coordination with canon-mates and co-writers can go into these AUs (to say nothing of AU iconnage, and the posts in which we set down the differences for reference), I'm announcing this early so you have time to prepare.
Of course, there needs to be a get-out clause. Not everybody will want to have their friends be somebody else and always have been those slightly different people -- nobody has to play, of course, but you'd have to agree to take the changes as something that always existed and that your charrie knows about. In other plots with drastic changes, like IMDb flu, people are still completely free in their own charrie's reactions. So, if you don't want to do that, you can decide your charries simply haven't met the AU versions before, and just meet them as complete strangers. However, in order to hit the ground running when threading with a changed version your charrie always knew like this, coordinating your interactions per IM or PM might be very helpful, in addition to the OOC establishing posts for each character participating.
Any questions? Suggestions? Ideas to already throw around?
Now I have thought of a way to bring AUs to Milliways, and the mods have approved my plans. So, here is what is going to happen.
In my old else!game, Morningstar Manor (originally on GreatestJournal, later on InsaneJournal after GJ's demise -- a few of you were there, at least for a bit), we had AU weeks when everybody got to be different; as we were working with original characters, that meant we puzzled out ways in which our charries' lives had gone differently. We posted the differences we had worked out by ourselves or with our closest co-writers in an OOC post that we linked to in our EPs, and then by agreement, that was (for that one week) the version that had always been there. It was enormous fun. I did one huge-ass plot all by myself, hinged on several consecutive AU weeks we did over a space of two years or so.
As we're writing canon charries, we can also use AUs that exist in other people's fic, AUs we make up ourselves, perhaps eve shared AUs for the entire canon. For example, I have read a lovely little biker AU fic which fits all the "Vikings" characters very nicely and which we plan to do collectively, and Write has written a college AU to end all college AUs from which she's going to bring that Javert and Valjean to Milliways for AU week.
Another thing people liked to do during AU week in Morningstar Manor was established friends being enemies for a change and vice versa, or established lovers meeting and falling for each other all over again. So it's not just the external circumstances but also the characters' relationships that can be changed and played with -- in MM, people used to go absolutely wild during the regularly recurring AU weeks!
The plot will last a week, and it will run near the end of July -- so lots of time to think about it and plan! But as quite a lot of thought and possibly coordination with canon-mates and co-writers can go into these AUs (to say nothing of AU iconnage, and the posts in which we set down the differences for reference), I'm announcing this early so you have time to prepare.
Of course, there needs to be a get-out clause. Not everybody will want to have their friends be somebody else and always have been those slightly different people -- nobody has to play, of course, but you'd have to agree to take the changes as something that always existed and that your charrie knows about. In other plots with drastic changes, like IMDb flu, people are still completely free in their own charrie's reactions. So, if you don't want to do that, you can decide your charries simply haven't met the AU versions before, and just meet them as complete strangers. However, in order to hit the ground running when threading with a changed version your charrie always knew like this, coordinating your interactions per IM or PM might be very helpful, in addition to the OOC establishing posts for each character participating.
Any questions? Suggestions? Ideas to already throw around?
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