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Wednesday, June 28th, 2023 08:19 am
Dear AU Exchange writer,

I'm [archiveofourown.org profile] tielan and thank you so much for writing for me!

I love AUs of all types and kinds, both the 'different ending' and the 'fusion' type of AU, and I love seeing them applied to my favourite characters to create new and different stories.

If I have forgotten/missed the AU that we matched on, I absolutely still want it, and apologise for not including it in the notes below.

things I like
Fusion AUs (characters from one canon written in another canon as though they've always been there)

Women at the centre of the story and female friendships and dynamics. Women who have agency and determination and make their own decisions (and the men who respect those decisions).

In most fandoms, one thing that I really enjoy is the mingling of professional and personal: a lot of these fandoms have people who work together, but they don't exactly compartmentalise and go home to their own family at the end of the day. Their work relationships are also the big personal relationships in their lives.

I've put a list of pairings I enjoy next to the fandoms. If you want to include any of them, that would be mighty fine! If you don't, then just friendships and interaction is great.

A note about soulmates/soulmarks AUs: I'm okay with the soulmates thing not being sexual, just people who are matched - kind of like the 'found family' trope, only with capital-D Destiny. I also like when the soulmates trope is inverted or subverted - where the sexual pairing isn't the soulmates one: the idea that love is not destiny.

do not wants:
- rape/non-con
- character deaths
- PWP (I don't mind a scene of smut in a longer story, but I don't want the entire story to be about sex)
- cheating partners
- pairings I haven't requested
- humiliation as humour

I've picked my usual fandoms, looking for new takes on old favourites.

There are a couple of 'AU options' that I picked for all fandoms. (Or if I didn't, then just imagine I did.)

ALL: Black Jewels AU: I really enjoy taking characters from other universes and putting them into courts of Queens, or writing stories about them as though they're Blood. Go for your life with any of the characters we matched on. Doesn't have to be about Queens and courts, even just the characters dealing with each other in a Black Jewels type universe would be great!
ALL: Buffy the Vampire Slayer AU: I love the idea of one character being a slayer and all the other characters from the universe gathering around her. Please note: in this AU you don't have to have the love interest be an Angel/Angelus character - in fact, I'd quite prefer not to.

Pacific Rim
Solo: Mako Mori (Pacific Rim)
Raleigh Becket/Mako Mori (Pacific Rim)
Mako Mori & Tamsin Sevier (Pacific Rim)
Yancy Becket & Mako Mori (Pacific Rim)
Mako Mori & Stacker Pentecost (Pacific Rim)


ALL: Black Jewels AU
Pacific Rim: Angela Hansen survives the kaiju attack
Pacific Rim: Tamsin Sevier doesn't die before the movie
Pacific Rim: Mako survives in Pacific Rim Uprising
All: Soulbond - Pacific Rim's Drift as a form of soulbond
All: Soulmarks: mark appears when a soulmate touches you
ALL: Soulmates exist but are rare
ALL: Buffy the Vampire Slayer AU


The specific prompts with Angela Hansen and Tamsin Sevier and Mako are AUs that I'd love to see. How are things changed for the Hansen men now that Angela is still alive? Where do the Hansens now get involved in the Jaeger program? Is Angela Hansen a pilot herself, or has she become a Marshal? How does Stacker behave when his former co-pilot stands beside him in Hong Kong to face the Kaiju together? What about the dynamics between the women and the men of the movie?

Tamsin Sevier is one of the secondary characters in the Pacific Rim: Year Zero comic - Pentecost's co-pilot who died of cancer a little while before the movie. I love the backstory for her - that she was a friend of Stacker from before the war, that she and his sister were besties (maybe lovers), that she was a sister-aunt-friend to tiny Mako Mori when Mako was adopted by Stacker. I'd love to see an elaboration on the character - her survival, how it changes the closing of the Breach.

Finally, what if Mako had lived in Pacific Rim Uprising? Or if the story of Pacific Rim continues focused on the pilot-characters who survived the closing of the Breach: Mako, Raleigh, Herc?

The 'fusion AUs', I just want Mako to be at the centre of things: the Chosen One, the Queen gathering a Blood Court around her.

For this one, I'm all about the relationships between the characters - friendships, mentorships, siblings, found family - and, of course, Mako and Raleigh: Drift Compatible. The people who become our own in dire situations and who stay ours even after the situation has passed.

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Angel
Faith Lehane/Wesley Wyndam-Pryce (A:tS TV)
Angel/Faith Lehane/Buffy Summers/Wesley Wyndam-Pryce (A:tS TV)
Angel & Faith Lehane & Wesley Wyndam-Pryce (A:tS TV)
Angel & Faith Lehane (A:tS TV)


ATS: Faith joins Angel Investigations
AtS: Faith gets parole and works with the Fang Gang
AtS: The Fang Gang takes on Wolfram And Hart
All: Sedoretu


I kind of stopped watching Angel at the end of S4; just couldn't quite get into S5. As a result, S5 doesn't really exist for me. So make up your own Season Five that doesn't go along with canon.

Or maybe Faith comes back to LA and works with the Fang Gang (or gets out earlier and works with them from the Hyperion), or never goes into prison at all. Angel gets his Shanshu, or even just have them resolve to fight W&H to the bitter end.

Alternatively, how do the characters all fit into a Black Jewels AU? Is Cordy a Queen? Or are the Slayers Queens and the courts form around them?

Pairings I like: Faith/Wes, Angel/Buffy, Fred/Gunn.

One note: I don't like Illyria and what happened to Fred. Please ignore that bit of canon entirely.

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SPECIFIC MARVEL NOTENo, I'm not watching any of the Disney+ shows, but I am aware of broad spoilers up to and including Secret Invasion. Please just ignore what happens in it; if you're willing to write happy endings for my favourite characters, I'd appreciate that.

I've asked for no pairings to be included that I haven't requested. These are ones that I don't mind in reference: Maria Hill/Steve Rogers, Tony Stark/Pepper Potts, Thor/Jane Foster, Bucky Barnes/Natasha Romanoff, Bucky Barnes/Shuri, Bucky Barnes/Maria Hill, Natasha Romanoff/Clint Barton, Clint Barton/Laura Barton, Bucky Barnes/Sam Wilson, Bruce Banner/Betty Ross.


MCU
Maria Hill & Pepper Potts (MCinU)
Maria Hill & Pietro Maximoff & Wanda Maximoff (MCinU)
Maria Hill & Tony Stark (MCinU)
Maria Hill & Peter Parker (MCinU)
Jane Foster & Maria Hill (MCinU)
Helen Cho & Jane Foster & Maria Hill & Pepper Potts (MCinU)


ALL: Modern Urban Fantasy AU
ALL: Fantasy AU
ALL: Modern Fantasy AU
ALL: High Fantasy AU
All: Female characters don't get put in the fridge
ALL: The female characters are the main characters
MCU: Maria Hill lifts Mjolnir
MCU: Maria Hill survives the Snap
MCU: Pepper Potts and Maria Hill are active and involved in Captain America Civil War
MCU: Maria Hill is adopted by the Starks as a little girl
MCU: Pepper keeps and controls Extremis
MCU: Wanda goes to Kamar-Taj after AoU or CW to learn better control of her powers
ALL: Buffy the Vampire Slayer AU
ALL: Pacific Rim AU
ALL: Black Jewels AU


(See the Specific Marvel Note at the top of the Marvel options, please.)

This is pretty much the "make mine Maria Hill in Marvel". Recognise that Maria is amazing and awesome and criminally underused and underappreciated in the canon, and basically give her the kind of spotlight that she would have been given if she was Mark Hill, Fury's trusted right hand man.

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MCU
Maria Hill/Pepper Potts/Steve Rogers/Tony Stark (MCinU)
Jane Foster/Maria Hill/Steve Rogers/Thor (MCinU)


All: Sedoretu
MCU: Pepper keeps and controls Extremis
MCU: Pepper Potts and Maria Hill are active and involved in Captain America Civil War
MCU: Maria Hill lifts Mjolnir
MCU: Maria Hill survives the Snap


Unusual sedoretu options for MCU.

Avengers: Civil War with sedoretu. Pepper and Maria involved in CACW with Tony and Steve still at loggerheads with each other, and the four of them having formed a sedoretu marriage on the quiet sometime between CA:TWS and CA:CW and then having to deal with the fallout

Alternatively: Jane/Maria/Steve/Thor - everyone else in the marriage can lift Mjolnir...why not Maria? How does she lift it? How does it change things?

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Captain America Movies
Maria Hill/Steve Rogers (CA Movies)
James "Bucky" Barnes/Maria Hill/Steve Rogers/Natasha Romanov (CA Movies)


All: Sedoretu
MCU: Maria Hill survives the Snap
MCU: Pepper Potts and Maria Hill are active and involved in Captain America Civil War
CA: Winter Soldier Bucky recognised Nat instead of Steve
MCU: Wanda removes Bucky's Winter Soldier programming
ALL: Winter Soldier AU
ALL: Buffy the Vampire Slayer AU
ALL: Pacific Rim AU
ALL: Pern AU
ALL: Black Jewels AU


(See the Specific Marvel Note at the top of the Marvel options, please.)

From this set of prompts, I'm hoping for a focus on the romantic relationships in the context of the AU, whether it's a fusion AU (Maria Hill as a Jewelled Queen of the Blood) or Maria comes up with the idea of getting Wanda to deprogram Bucky.

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Captain America Movies
James "Bucky" Barnes/Sam Wilson & Maria Hill (CA Movies)
Maria Hill & Sam Wilson (CA Movies)
James "Bucky" Barnes & Maria Hill (CA Movies)


CA: Winter Soldier Bucky recognised Nat instead of Steve
MCU: Pepper Potts and Maria Hill are active and involved in Captain America Civil War
ALL: Winter Soldier AU
ALL: Winter Soldier storyline
MCU: Bucky is not completely deprogrammed from being the Winter Soldier
MCU: Wanda removes Bucky's Winter Soldier programming
ALL: Wintering Over at an Antarctic Research Station AU


(See the Specific Marvel Note at the top of the Marvel options, please.)

This set of prompts are what I think of as The Winter Soldier variants. Bucky, Sam, and Maria interacting across a range of scenarios surrounding Bucky's programming as the Winter Soldier. You can add in Steve, Natasha, and/or Wanda if you like, but I'd definitely like the characters we matched on.

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Merlin (BBC)
Gwen/Arthur Pendragon (Merlin)
Gwen/Merlin/Morgana/Arthur Pendragon (Merlin)

All: Sedoretu
Merlin: Arthur learns about Merlin's magic much earlier than in canon
Merlin: Gwen knows about Merlin's magic
Merlin: Arthur actually creates Albion
ALL: Black Jewels AU


I watched to Season 3 of Merlin and then didn't end up watching the last two seasons. Which I'm okay with - I read a few spoilers and didn't much like the direction the series ended up taking.

This is 'the quartet as the force for good that they could have been' instead of the splintered people that they became in the show. Give me ALL THE HAPPY ENDINGS for Albion, Arthur/Gwen, Arthur & Merlin, and Morgana.

If you go the Black Jewels route, then of course Gwen, Merlin, Morgana, and Arthur are Queen, Black Widow (male), Black Widow, and Warlord Prince. Jewel them accordingly and have at it!

Oh, and I first learned about sedoretus from that famous/popular Merlin fic. I'm always up for a new story about the royal sedoretu of Albion!

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Bridgerton TV
Anthony Bridgerton/Kate Sharma (Bridgerton TV)
Simon Basset/Daphne Bridgerton (Bridgerton TV)


All: Sedoretu
ALL: BDSM AU - Sub Pretending to Be Dom or Neutral
ALL: BDSM AU


I would really like to see a Bridgerton sedoretu here. One of the things that Le Guin said about the sedoretu matching was that it would work for a couple of siblings trying to keep a property in the bloodline. A brother and a sister who are one moiety matching up with a woman and a man of the opposite moiety. How does the world of Bridgerton work with sedoretu marriages?

BDSM AUs - okay, this fandom you can just go smutty with it. Although I'd love to see how polite society of Regency England deal with BDSM out in the open. Are there ways to loop your ribbons or tie your neckcloths that signal if you're a dom or a sub or a switch? What about the unspoken ettiquettes and the different signals between classes? This could get really fascinating with some exploration!

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Harry Potter - Rowling
Harry Potter/Luna Lovegood (HP - JKR)
Hermione Granger & Harry Potter & Ron Weasley (HP - JKR)
Hermione Granger/Draco Malfoy (HP - JKR)
Sirius Black & Harry Potter (HP - JKR)

HP: Harry decides not to be an auror
HP: James & Lily survive
HP: Sirius Black Survives OOTP
HP: Harry Potter raises Teddy Lupin instead of Andromeda
HP: Alternate Hogwarts House Sorting AU


I don't have any specific wants for this list, I'd just like to see what you run with. I've listed some of my favoured interactions (I also like Hermione/Ron), so go wild and show me whatever your authorial id desires!

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Finally, these are all just ideas that I'm putting out there for you to be inspired by. If they don't speak to you, that's okay - just write what we matched on.

Thank you again!

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