What is your AU divergence point?

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Wolfsbane706

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For those of you fond of doing fandom RPs, at what point in the universe's history do you decide to "diverge" from the storyline and create your AU?
 
You mean I have to choose? O: Some worlds have so many possibilities that there's a plethora of different points in time and ways you can do different AUs! You could do AUs forever!

Generally, though, I tend to do a full alternate reality where the canon story hasn't happened yet, and players will be filling those roles with OCs. But I also really like to do "done right" AUs where I rewrite things that I didn't like in canon. Or even just plain old "what if this happened instead of this" just... anywhere that sounds fun. 8D
 
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I tend to do so immediately. For me sticking to canon is a headache so there's at least one thing "off" about my AU version in the beginning, and it grows from there. I made an AU Doctor Who RP blog after I had a dream about the events of Doomsday. My dream was about the Doctor, only his TARDIS was a different color. I decided to expand on it and over time made my own Doctor Who universe where things are similar but not quite the same. I did it for about 2 and a half years before burning out. It was fun while it lasted though. :3

I'm low key working on another AU verse, but I'm going to test run it with a writer I trust to see if I can even handle that amount of work again. lol
 
Change is immediate. I tend not to enjoy replaying something I have visually seen created in movies or writing. If it happens at all it's within the first few paragraphs and will definitely take a left turn otherwise it gets boring.
 
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Depends on the character I am playing. If it's a character like Petra from AOT then I play as if she was not dead but appeared dead. If it's another character like Annie from AOT, I just skip to when she is out of the crystal like way way sooner. I don't play a lot of main characters, but it is usually a side character that I am interested in going after.
 
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