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[bjornwilde]

What are some of your favorite AU's for your canon?

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[inlovewithwords]

Eriond: An AU where Garion is rather more aware and perceptive and rebellious and teaches himself to read without telling Polgara, and where Ce'Nedra isn't written as the horrifyingly toxic manic pixie dream girl she is in canon. Very little changes in certain aspects of the events, but basically "Let's take the base ideas and then try to trip out all of the Eddings' awfulness."

Lois: I mean, honestly, given comics etc, one could argue this teenage YA Lois is the AU version of Lois I like best.

Evelyn: All the Inquisitors from other people's playthroughs. ^_^

R2 and Anakin: the AU where the prequels are written competently. So more like Alternate Reality than Alternate Universe... I have read amazing AUs where someone travels back in time and tries to fix things, several of which are awesome. Oh, and there's an AU I've read where Vader survives Endor and basically has 25 years of Voyager-style adventures before making it back home to his own galaxy, at which point it is in the EU and it is just lovely. There's also the "Double Agent Vader" AU which I have some fundamental disagreements with but is stellar writing.

Tavi: ahahahahahaha uuuuh probably either the AU where his aunt Alia and grandmother survive (and as a result also his younger cousins survive) and in general There Are More Great Women Who Do Not Get Fridged; the modern-day Earth AU which is somewhere between spy shenanigans, Terminator-like shenanigans with AIs, and Giant Robot shenanigans; or the Star Wars AU. Don't ask me to choose, plz.

[bjornwilde]

Sam Wilson: I still love my continuation of the Avengers as Lost Boys from Avengers: Fairy Tales. This fan art of him as an airbender has given me ideas as well.

Sabine: I love Hera & Kanan mun's idea of a Star Trek AU, which I decided Sabine was from some planet near the Neutral Zone and Klingon space. She was an Astrophysicist and painter.

I also like my AU where she's force sensitive and is Ahsoka's apprentice.

Then there's the samurai AU this fan art inspires.

Hank McCoy: From comics, but I love the idea of Hank as the sorcerer supreme and also the dark sorcerous Beast (page down). (Honestly, I think I love comics Hank more than film Hank.)

[sunbaked_baker]

There aren't any canonical AUs of my characters. I have really enjoyed both of the AU versions of Sunshine I've brought to Milliways during AU Weeks, however. In-universe AU!Raven Blaise having been raised as a magic-handler, complete with proper apprenticeship, by her father's family (who didn't disappear under mysterious circumstances). And Final Fantasy XV-universe AU!Sunshine, a hunter trying to keep the people of Lucis safe while the kingdom crumbles.

[for_everyone]

We have our Star Trek AU, where Hera is a First Officer, Kanan is a part-Betazoid Security Chief, and Thrawn is their Captain on the USS Cerberus (which was kind of our compromise between Ghost and Chimaera). And we're thinking about doing a Mirrorverse version of that for AU week so... AU inside an AU!

We also sometimes play around with in-universe AUs, like a few 'what-if' type of scenarios, and various plays on a sequel-era AU where Thrawn captured by the New Republic near the end of the war and Hera, now drawn into the Resistance, has to try to get him to help them against the First Order. And a Thrawn as a Rebel AU. ... it's granted a lot of Hera-Thrawn stuff because we don't need to go AU for Hera-Kanan interaction. Though we are planning to deviate from canon on a few things in the future.

[configuration_birdwatcher]

Occasionally I daydream about modding Bastion into Don't Starve Together, but I don't really know anything about making mods for that game so it remains an idle flight of fancy. (It would be incredibly unbalanced, because Don't Starve is not built to handle characters with built-in firearms and at-will health regeneration, but it's cute to think about.)

I also like thinking about role-swap AUs, although other Overwatch characters are generally more prominent in those. (Switching Gabe with Jack Morrison, for instance.) I could switch Bastion with Orisa, and have them be the one who was rebuilt and upgraded by an 11-year-old engineering prodigy in Numbani and her as a derelict German OR-14 left behind in Eichenwalde. The latter might look like this, but I'm not sure what a next-generation Bastion unit would look like.

[iprotectyou]

It's not my canon, but the Les Mis succulent AU was genius.