I like AUs where the core of the characters is still intact. Like the mafia soup kitchen fic. Dean was still so Dean, and Cas was so believably Cas (and other and inscrutable), that the different surroundings didn't pull me out of it.
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Amy - Jan 15, 2012 1:10:38 pm PST #23613 of 30002
Because books.
§ ita § - Jan 15, 2012 1:33:22 pm PST #23614 of 30002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Yeah, that's the ticket.
Damn, I miss that fic. God, I loved it.
When people go AU so they can unimpeded tell the storybook romance of a Hunter and his Angel then all my moorings are lost.
Translating the Winchesters into a Mafia family was very entertainingly done, and Sam was amazing.
I have gotten a strange attraction to pornstar AUs, which very rarely have any grounding in anything, but at least you can get the foreplay and conversation out of the way quickly.
Still, if Dean loves his brother deeply (but, ah, not that deeply), I can apparently swallow a lot.
(I just finished reading this straightshooter.com one for the second time. I am actually ashamed.)
Amy - Jan 15, 2012 1:39:00 pm PST #23615 of 30002
Because books.
Link?
I prefer hustler!Dean, but usually younger, and therefore there's no Castiel, and it's usually all angst, no porn.
Which seems horrible, written out like that.
§ ita § - Jan 15, 2012 1:44:25 pm PST #23616 of 30002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Dean Winchester, Straight Shooter. It brought happiness. And...something.
I've seen teen hustler Dean both with canon Cas timetravelling, and therefore not really within AU, and some older businessman/younger Dean, but I'd be damned if I could track it down now.
And I do remember a pretty angsty one where Cas is in a crime family and Dean is one of their hookers. But I'm so out of the habit of bookmarking these days.
Amy - Jan 15, 2012 1:49:10 pm PST #23617 of 30002
Because books.
And something, huh? I can imagine.
The hustler!Dean that broke me was the one with John, where they didn't know who they were to each other -- Dean had been given up to the system after Mary and Sam, too, died in the fire .
Absolutely perfect and heartbreaking and of course squirmy because they have no idea. Not a fic for everyone, obviously. What I loved was John introducing Dean to the life of a hunter, and taking care of him in his own way.
§ ita § - Jan 15, 2012 1:53:16 pm PST #23618 of 30002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I skimmed that one, because I wanted to know, but I didn't want to feel.
Amy - Jan 15, 2012 1:56:32 pm PST #23619 of 30002
Because books.
I sobbed at the end, so.
I should not be reading this fic right now. And yet.
§ ita § - Jan 15, 2012 2:09:16 pm PST #23620 of 30002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
It's kind of...distracting.
Beverly - Jan 15, 2012 2:28:25 pm PST #23621 of 30002
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Amy, I read the hustler fic as a WIP--do you have a link for the finished fic?
Amy - Jan 15, 2012 2:34:16 pm PST #23622 of 30002
Because books.
A WIP? I remember it being really short. But I don't think I have the bookmark anymore. Plei might.