Surrounded By Darkness: Endless Suspicion - Tumblr Posts

so i have a reblog and put in the tags game for y'all

you know how when you have a modern/mundane AU for a work of fiction that is set in a more heightened universe

--a fantasy world, or a scifi setting, etc; a world which is definitely not our own,

there's this process, in fic, of translating characters' personality, backstory, major themes, character arc, and relationship dynamics so that they fit and are recognizable in this setting that looks basically like our own?

you get a guy whom you could hypothetically pass on the streets outside, and yet if you read their story in a fic you'd still see how her being a CEO stands in for being an evil queen, or how his dom/sub kink and his unresolved shame over it exists because of how badly he handled his conflicting knight's loyalties in the original work, or how their shitty retail job is basically equivalent to life as a cyborg rented out by callous capitalists, or how escaping from a mundanely abusive family translates from his rebellion against his assassin family.

alright, let's do that for ourselves, but backwards.

imagine that you're the modern/mundane AU version of a character from a cooler universe. reblog and put in the tags: what genre of universe is it and what kind of character is your og self?