Fanfic Trope Meme

redrikki asked: For the fanfic trope, how about daemon AUs?

 

• how likely I am to write it

Not likely at all.  I don’t dislike it, but it really doesn’t do anything for me, either.  I tend to go for canon divergence AUs.  Complete AUs–soulmate, daemon, a/b/o, coffee shop, high school/college AUs, and the like–are generally uninteresting to me.  I generally only read them if they were specifically recced and I’m in the mood for them, which doesn’t happen all that often; I habitually filter them out of AO3 searches.  Worldbuilding is one of the most important things for me, and while such types of AUs can be vehicles for great worldbuilding, my experience is that usually they … aren’t.

For daemon AUs in particular, when I read them, usually I sit here asking myself “what is gained by putting daemons in there?  What purpose does it serve?” and usually it really … doesn’t serve a purpose, it’s just pastede on yay because the author likes daemon AUs.  And there’s nothing wrong with that!  It’s just not going to be my thing.  And if there IS a purpose and worldbuilding, it’s usually from what I can tell taking them from the HDM books, which I’ve never read and am not particularly interested in.  So they substitute worldbuilding from a canon I’m interested in, for worldbuilding from a canon I’m not.  Again, that’s fine, they’re the author, it’s their story, I’m just not the audience for that story.

• what character(s) or pairing I’d most likely write it for

Now, that’s a tough one.  No clue.  Maybe character(s) who are really closed up and need to learn to express themselves better?  I wonder what the presence of daemons makes therapy like.