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wouldnt that just be an oc game though, rather than an au game that's oc only

im not saying theres anything wrong with oc-only games, btw, just that oc-only and au seems mutually exclusive?

i guess it would be. i had another discussion somewhere about au chars basically being ocs and i think that's sort of made me feel like au games should just be for ocs which would, yeah, make it an oc game. i guess it's just perspective since to me, i feel like a lot of au versions of chars are essentially canon based ocs, but people still seem to like it and that's fine and not a problem at all. play what you want, right?

i think it depends on the approach to auing. a lot of people who like AUs like them because they get to use a favorite OU as a pb for an OC and have people stroke them for it, no lie. but on the other hand there are people who just like to take on the challenge of adapting a character without losing their core.

i see it both ways because im a comics fan so i remember stuff like elseworlds or whatever where superman grows up in russia or the justice league are in the wild west. and some of those stories were great - genuine explorations of the characters we love but in a different context that makes us think about how much of that character is their nature and how much came from who raised them and in what context. but then some of them were crap and basically just like totally unrelated characters wearing similar clothes.

me, i like aus in theory as long as they stick to the first formula, but its impossible to avoid the second formula when you actually join such a game and that discourages me from them.

but thats another story i guess

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