Claim an AU Prompt!
We've now entered the second phase of The What If? AU Prompt-a-Thon.
Below is a list of all the suggested prompts. Look through them and choose at least one to write (you may choose more than one if you think you can handle it, but the limit is three). Once I've said you can have it, start writing.
Stories are due on March 26. You may post any time before then. Just leave me a comment and let me know where it is.
And no, you may not use a previously written story for this. It must be a brand new story.
Now, go forth and choose wisely!
Genderbend
DCU
1) Characters: I'm fond of both Roy/Tim and Roy/Dick, but again, whatever strikes the mood.
Type: Probably not gen, but whatever strikes the mood.
Prompt: Roy Harper is changed into a girl. I think he'd handled this slightly better than Guy Gardner when he got turned into Gal Gardner, but that isn't saying much. Wackiness, of course, doth ensue. Hopefully also sex, but whatever anyone wants to write. This could be set during the Teen Titans, The Titans, or The Outsiders.
2) Type: Het
Pairing: "Tim"/Kon
Prompt: What if Tim Drake had always been a girl? Would Kon have treated her any differently? Or would Robin be the same freakishly smart and competent fighter?
Heroes
3) Type: Any
Prompt: Female Peter Petrelli (Hell, why not? Petra? LOL) -- dragonsinger
4) Type: Any
Prompt: Niki's twin was male: Jessie not Jessica
5) Type: Slash, Het
Prompt: Matt's cheating spouse is male: Jan not Janice (possibly even cheating with a woman)
Smallville
6) Type: Het (though femslash themes welcome)
Pairing: girl!Clark/Oliver Queen
Prompt: what if girl!Clark had been the one to go to Oliver in "Arrow" to make up for Lois' little flub? -- lunarknightz
Torchwood
7) Type: ... this is Torchwood, gen, het, slash, take your pick, writer's choice. ;)
Pairing: see above ;)
Prompt: What if Gwen had been a man? -- claimed by azarsuerte
The West Wing
8) Type: Gen or Het or Slash
Pairing: Sam/?
Prompt: What if Samuel Norman Seaborn had been born Samantha Norma Seaborn? What would she be like? How would her relationships with Josh and Toby and CJ be different? What would her political career be like? Could be gen or romantic. -- claimed by helsinkibaby
Canon Change
Andromeda
9) Characters: Any and all
Type: Gen
Prompt: Mirror Universe , the present crew of the Andromeda meets up with an AU evil version of themselves, and any and all possible ramifications of that.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
10) Type (Gen, Het, Slash): whatever
Pairing: Riley/Buffy? whatever suits the situation (though Riley/Willow will make me glee)
Prompt: What if the Initiative didn't fall?
11) Type: whatever
Prompt: What if Willow had been the Slayer?
Charmed
12) Type (Gen, Het, Slash): Het
Pairing: Prue/Cole
Prompt: Phoebe dies instead of Prue -- kajivar
13) Type (Gen, Het, Slash): Gen
Pairing: none
Prompt: Wyatt is the one who comes back to save evil Chris...
Dark Angel
14) Characters: Alec/Asha
Type: Het
Prompt: The series doesn't end with the flag raising in "Freak Nation", but begins anew telling the story of the Transgenics' fight to live free. Asha is still around, but instead of fighting for Logan's affections, she's moved on to a growing romance with Alec. Her problem, once again, is Max. With apparently no ability to cure the virus she harbors, Max's relationship with Logan seems doomed. Now she seems to be moving in on Asha's all too requited relationship with Alec. I don't care what ensues. I just want Asha to come out as the winner in this love triangle.
DCU
15) Pairing: Whatever, but I'm fond of Steph/Cass, Tim/Steph, Cass/Roy and I'd love to see a Steph/Cass/Jason threesome.
Type: Gen or whatever.
Prompt: Jason Todd Doesn't Die. What happens to Tim Drake? Does he become Robin? Does Jason become a member of Young Justice? Regardless, Stephanie Brown is still out being Spoiler, and Cass still ends up in No Man's Land and becomes Batgirl. Do they join the Teen Titans? Also, Steph doesn't die.
16) Pairing: Tim/Kon/Steph
Type: Slash
Prompt: A rewrite of the Secret/Spoiler smackdown arc, with it being Superboy against Spoiler. I’m equally divided on who should win, but they should decide to share and be a threesome. It would be funny (but not necessary) to have an Oracle cameo spying on the fight, and laughing with Black Canary over them, and Batman should *definitely* make a grim, brooding appearance.
17) Pairing: Tim/Kon
Type: Slash
Prompt: A post YJ: Sins Of Youth fic, with Kon not getting his powers back, and Robin convincing Batman that he should mentor Kon by using the ‘well, you could keep an eye on him this way’ card. There would, of course, be lots of Superboy/Robin team-ups and homoerotic sparring, and Batgirl would teach him how to fight, and Spoiler would finally just shove Robin in Kon’s general direction with a ‘you are so gay for each other; I’m going to go flirt with Cass.’I would like a happy ending where Kon gets his powers back (duh) and also because I am weird, I would have it be because of one of Impulse’s tries to give Kon his powers back.
The Dead Zone
18) Type: Slash
Pairing: Johnny/Walt
Prompt: In canon, Walt and Sarah reconcile at the end of "No Questions Asked", and Walt moves back into the house. What if they never made up? Instead Johnny and Walt grow closer while doing "Dad" things together with JJ, and find themselves attracted to each other. How would Johnny and Walt react?
Doctor Who
19) Type: Gen
Prompt: Mickey does come with Rose and the Doctor after "World War Three". What happens?
Heroes
20) Type: Any
Prompt: Peter survives the fall and only partially heals because Claire is stopped from coming back to him by her dad - Peter ends up in a wheelchair -- lunarknightz
21) Type: Any
Prompt: Micah needs a special school because he's mentally handicapped not a genius
22) Type: Any
Prompt: Mohinder's sister lived, followed in her father's footsteps and brings Mohinder to NYC after their father's death to join her quest
23) Type: Any
Prompt: Gabriel is a twin and his twin becomes Sylar not him (You choose if the twin if male or female)
24) Type: Any
Prompt: Nathan is running for President -- claimed by kuroi_atropos
25) Type: Any
Prompt: Heidi is horribly bitter about the accident and blames Nathan openly
26) Type: Any
Prompt: Nathan's kids can fly too -- claimed by kuroi_atropos
27) Type: Any
Prompt: Claire is either a goth, stoner, brainiac or special ed kid, not a cheerleader -- claimed by runningondreams
28) Type: Any
Prompt: Mrs. Bennet is working for the other side but her husband doesn't know it
29) Type: Any
Prompt: Claire's brother Lyle has powers too (bonus, make him evil and have him side with Sylar)
30) Type: Any
Prompt: Hiro gets locked in an institution for claiming to teleport -- claimed by karrenia_rune
31) Type: Het
Prompt: Isaac gives up heroin and painting for a normal job to please Simone and the visions come to him a different way -- claimed by marcal_92
32) Type: Any
Prompt: Eden tries to use her powers in politics, world affairs, on the world's richest men -- claimed by medie
33) Type: Any
Prompt: DL fails to fully phase through a wall and loses an arm when escaping from prison
Highlander
34) Character: Richie Ryan
Type: Gen
Prompt: What if Richie had been taken in by Connor MacLeod instead of Duncan at the very beginning? Would things have turned out differently?
35) Character: Richie Ryan
Type: Gen
Prompt: Richie kills Duncan instead. How does he go on? What happens in his head after he kills his mentor? What does the Quickening do to him? How do the other characters (Joe, Methos, Amanda, etc.) deal with the outcome?
36) Type: Het
Pairing: Duncan/Tessa
Prompt: What if Tessa had been Immortal instead of Richie?
Joan of Arcadia
37) Type (Gen, Het, Slash): Gen, Het
Pairing: Grace/Luke
Prompt: Grace is the one who talks to God, but she's still Grace (i.e. - imagine her having to try out for cheerleading because God gives her a mission! Hee)
The Sentinel
38) Type: het
Pairing: Jim/Megan
Prompt: What if Megan Conner, rather than Alex Barnes, were the first female Sentinel we'd been introduced to? (Please keep her a good guy. *g*)
Stargate SG-1
39) Type (Gen, Het, Slash): Het
Pairing: Cameron Mitchell/OC.
Prompt: Cameron came to the SGC with a civilian wife. Life with her not knowing. -- claimed by 6beforelunch
40) Type (Gen, Het, Slash): Slash
Pairing: Sam/OFC
Prompt: what if Sam was bisexual or lesbian? how would it affect her life at the SGC?
41) Type: Het
Pairing: John Sheppard/Vala Mal Doran
Prompt: Maybe not a canon change per se, but what if Sheppard spent some days on Earth after the events of Sunday, and he meets Vala again. Remember their looks during the meeting in PP? (Smut would be very welcome! :)
Supernatural
42) Characters: Dean/Bloody Mary Worthington
Type: Het
Prompt: Sam and Dean stumble on the Bloody Mary myth come to life, just as they did in the original episode, only to find out that Bloody Mary isn't a vengeful spirit. She is simply a possessed young woman and the being inside her is bent on metering out it's own twisted justice. In the process, Mary has a fling with Dean. It can be the real girl or the being that "falls" for him. Either way, I just want to see some Dean/Bloody Mary interaction.
43) Type (Gen, Het, Slash): Gen or Slash
Pairing: Gen or Sam/Dean
Prompt: Dean doesn't survive in In My Time of Dying -- claimed by amanofmydreams
44) Type (Gen, Het, Slash): Gen
Pairing: none
Prompt: The Winchesters if they had a normal life... -- claimed by unperfectwolf
45) Type: Gen
Prompt: Dean is the one who left for college. -- claimed by koshkaphoenix
46) Type: Het
Pairing: Sam/Ava
Prompt: At the end of "Hunted", Sam and Dean find Ava curled up in the bedroom, traumatized, with no memory of what happened to her fiance. They end up taking her with them.
47) Type: Gen
Prompt: Sam's not the only one with psychic powers. What if Dean is telepathic? -- storydivagirl
Setting Change
Andromeda
48) Characters: All
Type: Gen
Prompt: Send any and all of the crew back in time, how they get there is entirely at the discretion of the author. It can be set around the time of the American Revolutionary War, given that Harper gives an impromptu speech during Ourboros or Bunker Hill episode from Season 2; otherwise, go with any Earth era that you would like.
DCU
49) Pairing: Blue/Gold
Type: Slash
Prompt: The JLI One Million was never officially made canon, however, doctorv and lakidaa made up a background for them here. It is the most wonderfully cracktastic thing to come from Doc in, oh, the week she wrote it. :) Suffice to say, I am fond, and there should be more fic about the giant blue bug and his friend the living metal man.
Heroes
50) Type: Any
Prompt: Heroes set in the Middle Ages. Characters, pairings, and plot are up to the writer.
Supernatural
51) Characters: Dean/adapted Layla and OFCs as previous or present flings, Sam/adapted Sarah Blake
Type: Het, Gen
Prompt: Sam and Dean are in the age of pirates. Instead of hunting ghosts and stuff, they are simply looking for their father who has gone missing after a voyage to the Caribbean. They could still maintain their respective "smart younger brother" and "womanizing older brother" characters but fit them to the time. -- claimed by koshkaphoenix
52) Type (Gen, Het, Slash): Gen or Slash
Pairing: can be either gen or Sam/Dean
Prompt: Sam and Dean in a post-apocalyptic world -- claimed by dejla
53) Type (Gen, Het, Slash): Gen
Pairing: none
Prompt: Dean is a spy and Sam finds out
54) Type: Gen
Prompt: Sam and Dean run a paranormal detective agency during either the 20's or the '40's. -- claimed by descrime
Below is a list of all the suggested prompts. Look through them and choose at least one to write (you may choose more than one if you think you can handle it, but the limit is three). Once I've said you can have it, start writing.
Stories are due on March 26. You may post any time before then. Just leave me a comment and let me know where it is.
And no, you may not use a previously written story for this. It must be a brand new story.
Now, go forth and choose wisely!
Genderbend
DCU
1) Characters: I'm fond of both Roy/Tim and Roy/Dick, but again, whatever strikes the mood.
Type: Probably not gen, but whatever strikes the mood.
Prompt: Roy Harper is changed into a girl. I think he'd handled this slightly better than Guy Gardner when he got turned into Gal Gardner, but that isn't saying much. Wackiness, of course, doth ensue. Hopefully also sex, but whatever anyone wants to write. This could be set during the Teen Titans, The Titans, or The Outsiders.
2) Type: Het
Pairing: "Tim"/Kon
Prompt: What if Tim Drake had always been a girl? Would Kon have treated her any differently? Or would Robin be the same freakishly smart and competent fighter?
Heroes
3) Type: Any
Prompt: Female Peter Petrelli (Hell, why not? Petra? LOL) -- dragonsinger
4) Type: Any
Prompt: Niki's twin was male: Jessie not Jessica
5) Type: Slash, Het
Prompt: Matt's cheating spouse is male: Jan not Janice (possibly even cheating with a woman)
Smallville
6) Type: Het (though femslash themes welcome)
Pairing: girl!Clark/Oliver Queen
Prompt: what if girl!Clark had been the one to go to Oliver in "Arrow" to make up for Lois' little flub? -- lunarknightz
Torchwood
7) Type: ... this is Torchwood, gen, het, slash, take your pick, writer's choice. ;)
Pairing: see above ;)
Prompt: What if Gwen had been a man? -- claimed by azarsuerte
The West Wing
8) Type: Gen or Het or Slash
Pairing: Sam/?
Prompt: What if Samuel Norman Seaborn had been born Samantha Norma Seaborn? What would she be like? How would her relationships with Josh and Toby and CJ be different? What would her political career be like? Could be gen or romantic. -- claimed by helsinkibaby
Canon Change
Andromeda
9) Characters: Any and all
Type: Gen
Prompt: Mirror Universe , the present crew of the Andromeda meets up with an AU evil version of themselves, and any and all possible ramifications of that.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
10) Type (Gen, Het, Slash): whatever
Pairing: Riley/Buffy? whatever suits the situation (though Riley/Willow will make me glee)
Prompt: What if the Initiative didn't fall?
11) Type: whatever
Prompt: What if Willow had been the Slayer?
Charmed
12) Type (Gen, Het, Slash): Het
Pairing: Prue/Cole
Prompt: Phoebe dies instead of Prue -- kajivar
13) Type (Gen, Het, Slash): Gen
Pairing: none
Prompt: Wyatt is the one who comes back to save evil Chris...
Dark Angel
14) Characters: Alec/Asha
Type: Het
Prompt: The series doesn't end with the flag raising in "Freak Nation", but begins anew telling the story of the Transgenics' fight to live free. Asha is still around, but instead of fighting for Logan's affections, she's moved on to a growing romance with Alec. Her problem, once again, is Max. With apparently no ability to cure the virus she harbors, Max's relationship with Logan seems doomed. Now she seems to be moving in on Asha's all too requited relationship with Alec. I don't care what ensues. I just want Asha to come out as the winner in this love triangle.
DCU
15) Pairing: Whatever, but I'm fond of Steph/Cass, Tim/Steph, Cass/Roy and I'd love to see a Steph/Cass/Jason threesome.
Type: Gen or whatever.
Prompt: Jason Todd Doesn't Die. What happens to Tim Drake? Does he become Robin? Does Jason become a member of Young Justice? Regardless, Stephanie Brown is still out being Spoiler, and Cass still ends up in No Man's Land and becomes Batgirl. Do they join the Teen Titans? Also, Steph doesn't die.
16) Pairing: Tim/Kon/Steph
Type: Slash
Prompt: A rewrite of the Secret/Spoiler smackdown arc, with it being Superboy against Spoiler. I’m equally divided on who should win, but they should decide to share and be a threesome. It would be funny (but not necessary) to have an Oracle cameo spying on the fight, and laughing with Black Canary over them, and Batman should *definitely* make a grim, brooding appearance.
17) Pairing: Tim/Kon
Type: Slash
Prompt: A post YJ: Sins Of Youth fic, with Kon not getting his powers back, and Robin convincing Batman that he should mentor Kon by using the ‘well, you could keep an eye on him this way’ card. There would, of course, be lots of Superboy/Robin team-ups and homoerotic sparring, and Batgirl would teach him how to fight, and Spoiler would finally just shove Robin in Kon’s general direction with a ‘you are so gay for each other; I’m going to go flirt with Cass.’I would like a happy ending where Kon gets his powers back (duh) and also because I am weird, I would have it be because of one of Impulse’s tries to give Kon his powers back.
The Dead Zone
18) Type: Slash
Pairing: Johnny/Walt
Prompt: In canon, Walt and Sarah reconcile at the end of "No Questions Asked", and Walt moves back into the house. What if they never made up? Instead Johnny and Walt grow closer while doing "Dad" things together with JJ, and find themselves attracted to each other. How would Johnny and Walt react?
Doctor Who
19) Type: Gen
Prompt: Mickey does come with Rose and the Doctor after "World War Three". What happens?
Heroes
20) Type: Any
Prompt: Peter survives the fall and only partially heals because Claire is stopped from coming back to him by her dad - Peter ends up in a wheelchair -- lunarknightz
21) Type: Any
Prompt: Micah needs a special school because he's mentally handicapped not a genius
22) Type: Any
Prompt: Mohinder's sister lived, followed in her father's footsteps and brings Mohinder to NYC after their father's death to join her quest
23) Type: Any
Prompt: Gabriel is a twin and his twin becomes Sylar not him (You choose if the twin if male or female)
24) Type: Any
Prompt: Nathan is running for President -- claimed by kuroi_atropos
25) Type: Any
Prompt: Heidi is horribly bitter about the accident and blames Nathan openly
26) Type: Any
Prompt: Nathan's kids can fly too -- claimed by kuroi_atropos
27) Type: Any
Prompt: Claire is either a goth, stoner, brainiac or special ed kid, not a cheerleader -- claimed by runningondreams
28) Type: Any
Prompt: Mrs. Bennet is working for the other side but her husband doesn't know it
29) Type: Any
Prompt: Claire's brother Lyle has powers too (bonus, make him evil and have him side with Sylar)
30) Type: Any
Prompt: Hiro gets locked in an institution for claiming to teleport -- claimed by karrenia_rune
31) Type: Het
Prompt: Isaac gives up heroin and painting for a normal job to please Simone and the visions come to him a different way -- claimed by marcal_92
32) Type: Any
Prompt: Eden tries to use her powers in politics, world affairs, on the world's richest men -- claimed by medie
33) Type: Any
Prompt: DL fails to fully phase through a wall and loses an arm when escaping from prison
Highlander
34) Character: Richie Ryan
Type: Gen
Prompt: What if Richie had been taken in by Connor MacLeod instead of Duncan at the very beginning? Would things have turned out differently?
35) Character: Richie Ryan
Type: Gen
Prompt: Richie kills Duncan instead. How does he go on? What happens in his head after he kills his mentor? What does the Quickening do to him? How do the other characters (Joe, Methos, Amanda, etc.) deal with the outcome?
36) Type: Het
Pairing: Duncan/Tessa
Prompt: What if Tessa had been Immortal instead of Richie?
Joan of Arcadia
37) Type (Gen, Het, Slash): Gen, Het
Pairing: Grace/Luke
Prompt: Grace is the one who talks to God, but she's still Grace (i.e. - imagine her having to try out for cheerleading because God gives her a mission! Hee)
The Sentinel
38) Type: het
Pairing: Jim/Megan
Prompt: What if Megan Conner, rather than Alex Barnes, were the first female Sentinel we'd been introduced to? (Please keep her a good guy. *g*)
Stargate SG-1
39) Type (Gen, Het, Slash): Het
Pairing: Cameron Mitchell/OC.
Prompt: Cameron came to the SGC with a civilian wife. Life with her not knowing. -- claimed by 6beforelunch
40) Type (Gen, Het, Slash): Slash
Pairing: Sam/OFC
Prompt: what if Sam was bisexual or lesbian? how would it affect her life at the SGC?
41) Type: Het
Pairing: John Sheppard/Vala Mal Doran
Prompt: Maybe not a canon change per se, but what if Sheppard spent some days on Earth after the events of Sunday, and he meets Vala again. Remember their looks during the meeting in PP? (Smut would be very welcome! :)
Supernatural
42) Characters: Dean/Bloody Mary Worthington
Type: Het
Prompt: Sam and Dean stumble on the Bloody Mary myth come to life, just as they did in the original episode, only to find out that Bloody Mary isn't a vengeful spirit. She is simply a possessed young woman and the being inside her is bent on metering out it's own twisted justice. In the process, Mary has a fling with Dean. It can be the real girl or the being that "falls" for him. Either way, I just want to see some Dean/Bloody Mary interaction.
43) Type (Gen, Het, Slash): Gen or Slash
Pairing: Gen or Sam/Dean
Prompt: Dean doesn't survive in In My Time of Dying -- claimed by amanofmydreams
44) Type (Gen, Het, Slash): Gen
Pairing: none
Prompt: The Winchesters if they had a normal life... -- claimed by unperfectwolf
45) Type: Gen
Prompt: Dean is the one who left for college. -- claimed by koshkaphoenix
46) Type: Het
Pairing: Sam/Ava
Prompt: At the end of "Hunted", Sam and Dean find Ava curled up in the bedroom, traumatized, with no memory of what happened to her fiance. They end up taking her with them.
47) Type: Gen
Prompt: Sam's not the only one with psychic powers. What if Dean is telepathic? -- storydivagirl
Setting Change
Andromeda
48) Characters: All
Type: Gen
Prompt: Send any and all of the crew back in time, how they get there is entirely at the discretion of the author. It can be set around the time of the American Revolutionary War, given that Harper gives an impromptu speech during Ourboros or Bunker Hill episode from Season 2; otherwise, go with any Earth era that you would like.
DCU
49) Pairing: Blue/Gold
Type: Slash
Prompt: The JLI One Million was never officially made canon, however, doctorv and lakidaa made up a background for them here. It is the most wonderfully cracktastic thing to come from Doc in, oh, the week she wrote it. :) Suffice to say, I am fond, and there should be more fic about the giant blue bug and his friend the living metal man.
Heroes
50) Type: Any
Prompt: Heroes set in the Middle Ages. Characters, pairings, and plot are up to the writer.
Supernatural
51) Characters: Dean/adapted Layla and OFCs as previous or present flings, Sam/adapted Sarah Blake
Type: Het, Gen
Prompt: Sam and Dean are in the age of pirates. Instead of hunting ghosts and stuff, they are simply looking for their father who has gone missing after a voyage to the Caribbean. They could still maintain their respective "smart younger brother" and "womanizing older brother" characters but fit them to the time. -- claimed by koshkaphoenix
52) Type (Gen, Het, Slash): Gen or Slash
Pairing: can be either gen or Sam/Dean
Prompt: Sam and Dean in a post-apocalyptic world -- claimed by dejla
53) Type (Gen, Het, Slash): Gen
Pairing: none
Prompt: Dean is a spy and Sam finds out
54) Type: Gen
Prompt: Sam and Dean run a paranormal detective agency during either the 20's or the '40's. -- claimed by descrime