Off-Topic += Meme and Q on Story Meta Etiquette

[blue_bells]

Borrowed from every snowflake and their friend this week:

THREE SENTENCE AU MEME
Give me pairings (or characters). Give me an AU setting. I will write you a three-sentence fic.

I will also finally be responding to comments and getting down to work on the draft of xmenbigbang this morning. I have a week (and a clear outline, thankfully). Stranger miracles have happened. ;P

The story will follow the Brotherhood after the end of X-Men: First Class with background Charles/Erik, Erik/Raven, Azazel/Riptide, and Alex/Hank/Sean, but they're incidental to the story.

What are people's opinions on listing background character relationships when the movement is primarily gen?


Three Sentence AU Meme Round-Up To-Date:
For zekkass: SPN, (Dean/)Castiel/Gabriel [PG]; MIB!AU, they’re the Men in Black (at Immigration Intake)
For morganoconner: SPN, Dean/Gabriel [PG]; College!AU, Gabriel is a professor and Dean is both his friend and student
For synnerxx: SPN, Gabriel/Michael/Lucifer/Raphael [PG]; Gabriel owns a candy shop
For roachstar: Castle; Ryan/Esposito, Castle/Beckett [PG]; High School!AU, Rick Castle is the new kid on the block and he's paying attention
For nights_fang: SPN, Lucifer/Adam/Michael [NC-17]; College!AU, Michael has a grudge against Dean, but he also has a plan
For cashay: SPN, Michael/Adam/Sam/Lucifer [PG]; Prison!AU, Maybe being in jail doesn't suck all that much
For ladyknightanka: SPN, Michael/Adam [PG]; High School!AU & Detective!AU, Adam wants to ask his brother's partner to the prom
For nights_fang: SPN, Lucifer/Adam [PG]; Teacher/Student!AU; Adam is not the model student they said he'd be
For nights_fang: SPN; Adam, Zachariah [PG]; Mafia!AU, "They started on you when you were ten."
For zekkass: SPN; younger-vessel!Zachariah/Dean [PG]; Office!AU, the first time they met
For zekkass: SPN; Gabriel, Raphael [PG]; CandyShop!AU (cont.), They try to teach Raphael not to terrify the customers

Comments

Re: (Dean/)Castiel/Gabriel; MIB!AU, they’re the Men in Black (at Immigration Intake)

[ladyknightanka.livejournal.com]

Alien!Dean! And he has antennae, oh my!

I never get tired of reading about Gabriel, since he's always such an insouciant, lovable bastard, every universe he's in. ♥

Re: (Dean/)Castiel/Gabriel; MIB!AU, they’re the Men in Black (at Immigration Intake)

[http://users.livejournal.com/_bluebells/]

Thanks, darling! I think alien!Dean and Gabriel would get along (maybe too) well and half the fun would be learning that some aliens weren't so different from them as humans. And Cas getting caught in the middle, as though that wouldn't be funny? :D

You hit the nail on the head: as long as Gabriel still has those qualities, he'll work in any 'verse -- unless the purpose was a mirror!verse, of course, then maybe he'd be something more like Gabriel in Constantine or The Prophecy.