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Saber_Girl_Jaina
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Date Posted:
12/6/05 1:27pm
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Extreme AU-ers **First Challenge Page 3**
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Healer_Leona
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I know I can't be the only one out there. There have to be other people who love AU, and particularly extreme AU- as extreme as the Infinities or more so.
So...
Anyone else?
Locking and redirecting.
Edit 2: I jumped the gun. The Index is unfinished and there is no discussion there.
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rhonderoo
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12/6/05 1:32pm
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RE: Extreme AU-ers
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Welcome!!! 
Here's AU Readers, a thread sharing and discussing AU that others might like to read, and here's What If...an AU story index.
Give those a try.
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SakuraTsukikage
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12/6/05 1:33pm
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RE: Extreme AU-ers
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I love AU, too--in fact, about three of the stories I'm thinking about are AU, as is the main one I'm working on right now. It's an interesting challenge to keep the characters realistic and in character even as events change.
So, are we going to be discussing the challenges and pitfalls of writing AU?
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Saber_Girl_Jaina
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12/6/05 1:54pm
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Thanks rhonderoo. And yeah, I do mean this to be more of a discussion thread, not just of specific storis but of, as Sakura said, the challenges involved in writting AU, something I myself am new at (I've only written humor and character studies before).
Also: what's "Tsukikage"? My translator is drawing a blank.
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DarthBreezy
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12/6/05 1:56pm
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Since I am UTTERLY unfamilar with most post Jedi EU, I tend to follow my own version of events...that means Luke isn't attached to Mara at all...
*ducks tomatos!!*
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NYCitygurl
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I like writing really AU stuff, mostly involving NJO characters in which the NJO doesn't happen . . .
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VaderLVR64
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12/6/05 2:07pm
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Oh, I'm a BIG AU fan!
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Saber_Girl_Jaina
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RE: Extreme AU-ers
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NYCitygurl posted:
I like writing really AU stuff, mostly involving NJO characters in which the NJO doesn't happen . .
Yeah, I know what you mean. I grew up reading the YJK books so I'm sort of attached to the younger characters.
Okay, this thread needs to get focused before it gets locked or moved or something, so here are a couple questions to start people thinking/talking.
What is the most "AU" thing you've ever written?
What do you consider "extreme" AU?
How far from the cannon is too far?
Also, I'd like this to be a thread where people can disscuss how to resolve any paradoxs that might come up while writting AU, and ask general questions related to writting it.
... Man do I sound arrogant. Oh well- in my experiance arrogance tends to result in good oral grades.
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DarthBreezy
Title: Retired Mos Everett Cantina Founder & JMPR
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12/6/05 2:15pm
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Saber_Girl_Jaina posted:
What is the most "AU" thing you've ever written?
What do you consider "extreme" AU?
How far from the cannon is too far?
Hmm, probably the last two fics, moreso the current one as even "Vega" could have been squeezed into canon - pre "Mara".
Anything that deviates from what is 'accepted' as canon... Characters living vs dying, darkside what not.
and finally -
Absolutley nothing... if that is where the road takes you. Who's to dictate what is the 'right' way to write a character?
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Saber_Girl_Jaina
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DarthBreezy posted:
Saber_Girl_Jaina posted:
What do you consider "extreme" AU?
Anything that deviates from what is 'accepted' as canon... Characters living vs dying, darkside what not.
Interesting response. I've always felt there were gradations of AU-ness. For me, how extreme an AU is sort of depends on where it starts, or at least where it is mainly set: Is this the cannon universe, but with a twist thrown in just before or at the begining of the story? Or does the story start long enough after the twist/change that the characters are playing completely different roles?
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NYCitygurl
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Saber_Girl_Jaina posted:
NYCitygurl posted:
I like writing really AU stuff, mostly involving NJO characters in which the NJO doesn't happen . .
Yeah, I know what you mean. I grew up reading the YJK books so I'm sort of attached to the younger characters.
Okay, this thread needs to get focused before it gets locked or moved or something, so here are a couple questions to start people thinking/talking.
What is the most "AU" thing you've ever written?
What do you consider "extreme" AU?
How far from the cannon is too far?
Also, I'd like this to be a thread where people can disscuss how to resolve any paradoxs that might come up while writting AU, and ask general questions related to writting it.
... Man do I sound arrogant. Oh well- in my experiance arrogance tends to result in good oral grades.
Yeah, though I prefer Jag, Danni, etc. to Zekk and TK.
The most AU? HARD . . . but probably my WIP where Jaina was capptured by a Sith, ended up getting married to Jag, they had a baby, he was killed, and know she's entering a relattionship with Zekk.
Extreme AU to me is when the story is really different from canon, as opposed to something like an alternate ending to the NJO.
As long as the characters are well written and don't stray too far from their canon personalities, then I figure it's fine.
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Mirax_Corran
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12/6/05 3:40pm
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Just picking one 'cause I'm lazy. 
In general, nothing is too far from canon for me. I've killed people before the New Republic took Coruscant from the Empire who live through the NJO in canon. Anything is believable, if you back in up right. I mean, there are things that I don't see - for instance, I don't ship Sabewan. But that's pretty rare. Canon is canon and that's cool, but it's great fun to play around with.
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NYCitygurl posted:
Yeah, though I prefer Jag, Danni, etc. to Zekk and TK.
I can go either way with Jacen's ships, but I agree with you on Jaina: Jag just makes for a much more interesting contrast. Not that I'm anti-Zekk: he's a great character, and his background gives him so much potential. Here's a a pairing I've been contemplating: Zekk/Malinza Thanas. I think it has a lot of potential. How about you guys?
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12/6/05 5:14pm
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What is the most "AU" thing you've ever written?
I've written everything from canon to AU where my readers argued with me that it wasn't AU all the way up to where I've had Obi-Wan be a Sith Lord or Qui-Gon be a Force-vampire.  My most AU thing would probably be where the Jedi were being laid off from the Order and no, it's not a comedy and yes, there's a valid reason for it.
What do you consider "extreme" AU?
Where the events are so distorted that you could almost translate them into any other fictional universe and they'd be comfortable there.
How far from the cannon is too far?
Canon for me isn't the events so much as the characters. They have to have the core personality traits or else it's too far - for me. Probably putting the Jedi on Earth would be too much - again for me (unless it's a comedy).
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12/6/05 5:21pm
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Heh. Tsukikage means "moonshadow" but you probably won't find it in any dictionaries, it's more of a name than a word.
Saber_Girl_Jaina posted:
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What is the most "AU" thing you've ever written?
What do you consider "extreme" AU?
How far from the cannon is too far?
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For me, the most AU thing I've ever written is my current main fic, A Resolution Between Shadows and Light, an AU of the end of RotS, in which Obi-Wan saves Anakin from the lava instead of leaving him there to burn. That was the only thing I changed, and I'm having fun with the different character development that it requires.
Extreme AU for me is when something really major is changed that changes the entire timeline or changes an entire character. Like: Obi-Wan was never a Jedi, or: the NJO never happened. I don't care for AU that takes place in an entirely different universe with the same characters, I think it makes the characters completely unrecognizable because their entire frame of reference is different, if that makes any sense. So that is too far away from canon. When a character is completely different and there is no reason they should resemble the original, and they have a completely different frame of reference, then it's too far. Anything short of that--I'm game.
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What is the most "AU" thing you've ever written?
I think having Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan be pirates. Black Jinn the Barbarian and his first mate Obi the Beautiful. It was rather fun to change them just a bit.
What do you consider "extreme" AU?
I'm not sure if I consider there to be 'extreme AU'. The whole idea is to be different then what we may be use to. Not just the events we're use to from the movies, but even in personalities, where the good become evil and vise versa.
How far from the cannon is too far?
Again, to me it's not a matter 'too far'. It comes down to how it's written. Even the most far out ideas can work when it's written decently. I don't think I've found one that didn't work unless it just didn't keep me in the story. But then I'm easy. 
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