Re: With several AUs -mostly in draft form - I can assure you, it *is* a lot of work! (r) -- La Femme Nikita Fan Fiction Message Board

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Date Posted: Friday, July 14, 01:15:47pm
Author: JayBee
Subject: Re: With several AUs -mostly in draft form - I can assure you, it *is* a lot of work! (r)
In reply to: Nell 's message, "With several AUs -mostly in draft form - I can assure you, it *is* a lot of work! (r)" on Friday, July 14, 07:43:49am

but has it become such an essential part of the canon character we know that you have to find a new environmental cause?

That's perhaps the most intriguing aspect of AU to me -- playing around with "environmental" aspects of characterization. It's fun to try to replicate them in different ways, but it's also fun to explore what the character could have been like *without* them.

One of my many probably-never-will-be-written AU plotbunnies is a "what if" scenario along the lines of: what if everything in the characters' early lives had been exactly the same *except* that Section One didn't exist, and so there was no recruitment to interrupt the course their lives were taking? Where would they all have wound up? (Dealing with Birkoff, who *grew up* in Section, might pose a challenge in this scenario, though, but I'm sure I could come up with something.) This scenario really ofces me to think about the effect of Section on each of them, for better or for worse, and it's a fun thought experiment for that reason.

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