The AU Meme

[soundofwings]

what if something was different in the way events played out?

The List

The Butterfly Effect: It has been said that something as small as the flutter of a butterfly's wing can ultimately cause a typhoon halfway around the world. ~ Chaos Theory

1. A personal divergence - Something different from canon happened to them or their friends and family and acquaintances, etc. Usually, the rest of this AU world is mostly the same as canon - but not always.

2. A societal divergence - Something a bit bigger happened, something big enough to effect society as a whole.

3. The divergence point was way back - Many things happened differently, and so this world is quite different from the canon one.

4. Genderbending - Their gender/sex has been flipped in this AU world.

And for something entirely different: A totally new AU, in which canon elements have been replaced.

5. Historical AU - welcome to life in a different time period entirely. The stone ages? The Victorian era?

6. The obligatory High School AU - Exactly what it says on the tin.

7. The sci-fi/fantasy world - Was there a door at the back of the closet into Narnia? Is it the 51^st century? Perhaps they're dragon riders.

And anything else you happen to come up with.

Note : Please post a comment with your character, fandom and preferences.

First found here, though there have been modifications. Edited to fix numbering. Whoops.

Comments

Amy Pond :: Doctor Who :: any and all

[waitedforyears]

1

[rude_not_ginger]

He really did wish he knew what happened. The last thing he remembered, he was on the ship with the Daleks, and then they shot him. He crawled, still regenerating, over to Jack's corpse and took the manipulator. It wasn't until he first landed, now freshly regenerated, in the back yard of some young Scottish girl that he became very aware of how badly this regeneration was going to go.

He tried to counter the expelling autron energy, but without the TARDIS, everything was very difficult. It mussed up the vortex manipulator, and off he popped into the future. He just hoped the little girl was all right.

"Amelia!" he called, sluggishly pounding at the door to her house. "Are you all right?"

Tessa Gray :: The Infernal Devices :: all AUs (het only in case of shippy things)

[likeboudica]

James "Rhodey" Rhodes :: Iron Man (movie 'verse) :: any and all

[warmachine]

Jim Moriarty | BBC Sherlock

[moriarty_hi]

Christine Chapel | Star Trek XI | any

[hypospraying]

Leonard McCoy | Star Trek XI | any

[medicating]

Britta Perry | Community

[britta_ftw]

Michael | Supernatural

[selfrighteous]

Baby Doll | Sucker Punch

[coping]

Amy Pond | Doctor Who

[waitedlongenough]

Eleventh Doctor | Doctor Who

[aintno_grave]

Ariadne | Inception

[neckerchiefed]

River Tam | Firefly

[meddledwith]

I don't even know---let me know if this works

[the_new_sexy]

[It was her brother that asked Sherlock to investigate. Missing, no letters that weren't in code, everything seemed wrong. Sherlock had acquired some level of fame in the Core due to his flatmate's video stream about their investigations on the outland worlds, but that was neither here nor there. John would be watching security now, and Sherlock, disguised as a doctor, would do some poking around.

It wasn't difficult to find where River Tam was kept. It also wasn't difficult to see what they were doing here. No school for gifted youngsters, this was clearly some sort of government facility. In fact, it had Mycroft written all over it. Sherlock sneered, then procured his passcard out of his pocket and swiped it to enter the young girl's room]

DALE COOPER ☞ twin peaks

[tapes]

2 feel free to ignore this if this annoys you

[nothitchhiking]

[Stories of the Black Lodge surfaced across America, along with the strings of grisly deaths. The public's reaction went from terror to an almost folksy fascination. Of course, the entertainment industry wanted to cash in on this.

In the spirit of corporate redundancy, one studio sent a child-friendly mascot to the the town where the Black Lodge legend was born: Twin Peaks. Ren Hoek, a chihuahua dressed in a sharp suit and carrying a suitcase of his personal effects, did not look forward to this 'business venture' one bit. How the hell was he gonna convince a town to shoot for a children's show?

Well, best place to start would be the diner, he supposes. He shuffles in, climbing up to the counter and glowering impatiently for someone to take his damn order.]

percy weasley | harry potter

[aperfectthird]

1; Gideon and Fabian weren't the only members of the family to die in the first war.

[wizarding_indy]

[Bill comes through the door staggering a bit, kicking the door shut. He looks tired, his hair coming out of its ponytail, and he's kind of dusty and a bit singed. Looks like the aurors didn't have a terribly good day today.

[Honestly, it was worse a year ago, before Perce got out of Hogwarts. Worse when he had to provide, alone, for three younger brothers and a sister. (No parents. No Dad, no Mum, no Charlie, no George.)]

Perce?

lady frances (frankie) derwent | why didn't they ask evans?

[dicingwithdeath]

Agatha Heterodyne | Girl Genius

[heterodyning]

N | Pokémon Black/White

[nharmonic]

Mytho | Princess Tutu

[prinzundrabe]

Rory Williams || Doctor Who

[theroman]

Brandon "York" Clarke || The Order (oc)

[fortifying]

Arthur Pendragon || Merlin

[camelots]

Eames || Inception

[blends]

Marina "Riga" Plava | The Order (oc)

[autonomise]

Sherlock Holmes | Sherlock

[the_new_sexy]

((OOC: Though I doubt there is an AU that could ever exist where Sherlock is not a complete and utter dick. Apologies.))

ooc note, noted and loved. Rolled a six.

[blogging_mystery]

[ John is pulling his biology book out of his locker and looking for the note book for his next class. ]