They wanted an incredibly fluffy AU for an incredibly dark canon and nothing else. They DNWed many things that were intrinsic to the canon -- and moreover, the things I loved about the canon. (Like, fudging details here, wanting a non-ghost AU for a canon that's about ghosts talking about how they died and DNWing any mentions of death or an afterlife.)

Like I guess they were entitled to wanting whatever they wanted, but it sort of felt like they were asking for a fix-it for a series I'd loved as-is. I wanted to write about what actually happened in canon, but they made it clear that if I made any mention of any event that actually happened in canon (because they all involved the DNW), I'd be ruining their Yuletide. It's the only time I've ever defaulted.