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Some musings on human AUs and writing.
I very, very rarely read human AUs. I like Spike and Angel (to focus just on those two for a minute) because of who and what they are, and the long and complex history that is the basis for that. Turning them into football players or High School students is selfdefeating, because I'm not interested in football players or students. Like, at all. And it's impossible to keep all the nuances of their characters when changing them so dramatically.
But... I *am* interested in Pernese dragonriders. It's a thing. Which is why I'm writing this fic I guess. Only in making my dear Spike and Angel adolescent dragonriders, I've lost huge, giant chunks of who they are. And, as the fic takes shape, I'm beginning to invent background stories and lots of other things, and they're rapidly spinning far, far away from their vampire origins. Only I rather like my new, almost OC, characters. They're fun and interesting and pretty and I like playing with them - and I really hope you'll like them too. *crosses fingers*
(Btw it's The Cherub's birthday tomorrow - she'll be two, how did that happen? - so it's doubtful if I'll be able to get online until Monday. If not, see you then!)
But... I *am* interested in Pernese dragonriders. It's a thing. Which is why I'm writing this fic I guess. Only in making my dear Spike and Angel adolescent dragonriders, I've lost huge, giant chunks of who they are. And, as the fic takes shape, I'm beginning to invent background stories and lots of other things, and they're rapidly spinning far, far away from their vampire origins. Only I rather like my new, almost OC, characters. They're fun and interesting and pretty and I like playing with them - and I really hope you'll like them too. *crosses fingers*
(Btw it's The Cherub's birthday tomorrow - she'll be two, how did that happen? - so it's doubtful if I'll be able to get online until Monday. If not, see you then!)
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mainly because the few I have read were . . . um . . . really bad.
Heh. I read one by Nautibitz ages ago, which was a great story (and hot too), but perfectly illustrated Brab's point above, because it might just as well have been written using original characters.
I just couldn't think of any way to get Xander and Angel together otherwise. There was just too much baggage between them.
Yes, I get that. And it's obviously not exactly the 'everyone is a football captain' scenario! ;)
I love the characters just as they are.
Same here. Which is why most of my fic is post-NFA.
Oops! My bad! I wrote a crack!fic with all the characters as human once, but it was supposed to be crack!fic, so. . . .
There are different rules for crack!fic! Everything goes!