Snowflake #3

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Challenge #3

In 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.

I've written a few canon AUs and a couple of fusion/crossovers, and I like reading them as well. Sometimes it's just therapeutic giving the finger to canon and running with a wild idea like hey, WHAT IF NOBODY NEEDLESSLY DIES THIS TIME. 🙌😉Or transplanting your favorite characters into modern circumstances just to see the same fun dynamic and clever little canon references surface, because they're still them and they'd spark off each other the same way in any universe! (I am big on Soulmates AUs, as you can probably tell.)

My absolute favorite AU author is scrubclub who has done Gendrya (Game of Thrones) AUs a bunch of inventively different ways and all of them are a delight! Her best (IMO) is the enemies to lovers HP AU which I have recced a billion times because the wonderful details drawn from both canons are what make it really special. The story breathes with such authenticity and unapologetic fun like beater bat puns. Her other stories are great for the same reason - the Superheroes AU oneshot gets their superpowers (and the banter) just right, and her Modern/Political Westeros AU also works in that Game of Thrones style House maneuvering and background while they deal with tabloids and evidence obtained via cell phone instead of "little birds." 

My current OTP is Beth/Benny from TQG and I'm actually writing a canon AU where Benny gambles his way to Moscow now! But for this challenge, here are some other B^2 brainstorm ideas:

1. Harry Potter AU where Beth Harmon, the new year 5 Ravenclaw prefect would just love to wipe that superior smirk off of Benny Watts’ face, the insufferable year 7 Slytherin prefect. She'll do anything to finally lead Ravenclaw to victory for the House Cup as well as crush him at wizard's chess, because they also have a long standing rivalry there ever since he decimated her only set when she was only a first year. Also, his perfect blond hair is just unfair. 

2. A Hunger Games AU where Benny is the cynical, alcoholic District 3 mentor and Beth the brand new tribute who is brilliant, stubborn and impulsive and absolutely determined to win to get back home to her mother Alma, a single parent. Benny struggles to groom her into a tribute sponsors will love instead of loathe, although he can't help but wish that she had a chance of winning instead of dying like all the others because she reminds him uncannily of himself. 

3. Nobody has written a shared scars Soulmates AU for them yet, so let me just PUT THAT ENERGY OUT INTO THE UNIVERSE TOO! 😁😁😁