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Oct. 17th, 2013
question about popslash
Oct. 17th, 2013 10:28 pmCan anyone think of a popslash AU in which NSync existed but one person of the slashed couple was not in it (but the other one still was)? (As distinct from total AUs where they were all college students or whatever.) Or, say, XMFC stories where one of Charles and Erik still has their canonical powers, but the other is not/has never been a mutant?
(Backstory: I've been reading a lot of hockey RPF and I've realized that I don't care for stories in which one dude is still a world-class NHL celebrity and the other is, like, a sales clerk. No offense to any particular story! I get that the idea is supposed to be that even though one of their lives took a totally different turn they were still meant to find each other, just, something about the inequality of it, where one of them still gets to have their superpowers (effectively) but the other one doesn't, bothers me. Mundane AUs where the powers don't exist to be had, where we see what the interactions of everyone in a given character-set would be like ported into a different context, feel very different to me than these half-AUs. But now I'm trying to think if there's ever been a half-AU I did like. I know SGA produced some stories where one of John and Rodney wasn't involved in the Stargate program but the other still was, and I didn't much like those either...)
(Backstory: I've been reading a lot of hockey RPF and I've realized that I don't care for stories in which one dude is still a world-class NHL celebrity and the other is, like, a sales clerk. No offense to any particular story! I get that the idea is supposed to be that even though one of their lives took a totally different turn they were still meant to find each other, just, something about the inequality of it, where one of them still gets to have their superpowers (effectively) but the other one doesn't, bothers me. Mundane AUs where the powers don't exist to be had, where we see what the interactions of everyone in a given character-set would be like ported into a different context, feel very different to me than these half-AUs. But now I'm trying to think if there's ever been a half-AU I did like. I know SGA produced some stories where one of John and Rodney wasn't involved in the Stargate program but the other still was, and I didn't much like those either...)