Snowflake Challenge
Jan. 6th, 2022 12:35 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tellshannon815In your own space, put some favorite characters into an AU, fuse some favorite canons together, talk about your favorite AU/fusion tropes, or tell us why AU/fusions aren’t your cup of tea.
The kind of AU that I really like to write is more like alternate timelines, along the lines of "What if Jin made it off the freighter in Lost and became one of the Oceanic Seven?", trying to fix things from the original canon (seriously, never get me started on that particular storyline, although that rant is maybe not one for this post), or alternate endings, such as The Flash one where Eobard manipulates Nora into giving Barry the metahuman cure. At least that way, working within the original canon, that makes it easier for me to stay true to the characters, whereas I don't think I'd even know where to start with something like, say, making Sam Winchester a Samantha, and I don't find things like high school AUs easy.
As for fusions...crossovers used to be something I never thought I could do, possibly because when I started out in fandom I was mainly writing for one (Lost) and didn't have a lot of experience in others. Now I do write in others, I've enjoyed some combinations such as Lost and Fringe (those are two I feel go well together, although one of those crossovers I wrote ages ago is one I kind of wish I could go back and improve on. That was a pinch hit written at the eleventh hour for an exchange, where Miles is revealed to have been part of the Cortexiphan trials, and with more time, there's more I would have done with that.) One idea I had ages ago and still want to expand on is Supernatural and Legends of Tomorrow (seriously, Dean Winchester and Mick Rory would totally get along really well), and I have been wanting to pair Rumple from Once Upon a Time with Rowena from Supernatural for years.
The kind of AU that I really like to write is more like alternate timelines, along the lines of "What if Jin made it off the freighter in Lost and became one of the Oceanic Seven?", trying to fix things from the original canon (seriously, never get me started on that particular storyline, although that rant is maybe not one for this post), or alternate endings, such as The Flash one where Eobard manipulates Nora into giving Barry the metahuman cure. At least that way, working within the original canon, that makes it easier for me to stay true to the characters, whereas I don't think I'd even know where to start with something like, say, making Sam Winchester a Samantha, and I don't find things like high school AUs easy.
As for fusions...crossovers used to be something I never thought I could do, possibly because when I started out in fandom I was mainly writing for one (Lost) and didn't have a lot of experience in others. Now I do write in others, I've enjoyed some combinations such as Lost and Fringe (those are two I feel go well together, although one of those crossovers I wrote ages ago is one I kind of wish I could go back and improve on. That was a pinch hit written at the eleventh hour for an exchange, where Miles is revealed to have been part of the Cortexiphan trials, and with more time, there's more I would have done with that.) One idea I had ages ago and still want to expand on is Supernatural and Legends of Tomorrow (seriously, Dean Winchester and Mick Rory would totally get along really well), and I have been wanting to pair Rumple from Once Upon a Time with Rowena from Supernatural for years.