Didn't make plans for the breach (as usual) so I will probably use this time to catch up where I fell behind this past week.

I love this game and its premise, but I'm way better at character fuckery than setting fuckery, I guess.

I usually read breaches as opportunities to do more serious character fuckery? but yeah, AUing on the fly can take work

but if you do want to plot something, I haven't anything much plotted out for Andred?

I think my brain just doesn't go that way--I never read fic AUs either, I don't really get it

I shouldn't say "never," but... yeah. I think maybe I'm also lazy

But, hmm. I will think!

I don't think it's laziness? like, if you aren't familiar with the idea/just aren't used to thinking in what-ifs than it makes sense that it wouldn't be easy to just go "let's do xyz!"

as for getting it... for me the appeal with AU fic is taking characters I know/care about and exploring what would happen if things had gone differently!

sometimes that's something as obvious as "character x didn't die" and sometimes it's more seeing what the small little changes can do!

Oh that I"m into.

I mean full-on AUs. Coffeeshops, mining colonies, etc.

Mmm, as I see it that’s the same thing but more?

Like. Take Kirk for instance. If you go and plunk him into, say, the age of sail, what does that look like

How does how he got to where he is differ and how is it the same?

Also for me, the fact that I know the characters and how they interact means I can focus in more on the worldbuilding sometimes and that’s a draw for me, personally

Yeah I think that's just not my strength.

That’s fair! And if you want brainstorming help for future breaches I can probably swing ideas for Luke, at least

I’m not familiar enough with Buffy to be as good with Spike - I need a decent idea of the source canon to be able to riff on it with any accuracy

I appreciate that, thank you!

Bodhi is a rebel in this setting. Some kind of interaction or relationship might help getting some CR rolling for them if you wanted to throw something together? Or just be a topic of conversation

good idea