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Re: Creativity Coal Poll

[(Anonymous)]

I don't know that fandom or I'd check. Canon-compliant creative takes are great, it's just the AUs that are pretty far off that don't interest me much.My prompts are usually pretty in-line with canon, but divergent in shippy ways more than anything.

Re: Creativity Coal Poll

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cyrt

an explication for why B acts the way they that is unexpected (eg B was actually a street hustler in their youth)

To me at least, the above (and probably the mail order bride backstory) would be really easy canon compliant creative ideas. To use my L&O example, one of the reasons Stabler is so off the wall when it comes to abuse of kids/has no sympathy to hookers (go with me here, I can’t remember him being any instances of being really caring hookers but scrap it if he is) is because there was a rough patch in highschool where he turned ticks and that is how he paid to get into the academy. You could write a pre-canon fic that deals with it up until (insert whatever season he showed up in) or have a non-liner narrative that reveals it. Neither would be any kind of divergence and they would help you understand the character, give you room to have a ship, and so on.

This wouldn’t be possible for Good Omens fandom where we know where they “came from”, but you could have a hustler interlude during their 6k years of existing without throwing off canon. Inception could give Eames/Arthur a mail order bride backstory or a hustler one, etc.

It all depends on how detailed the canon is for people’s lives/timelines and at what point you want to inject the creativity (and what kind), but creative and completely canon compliant aren’t mutually exclusive, to me/my fandoms at least.