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Main Round 1
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centrumluminaCh-Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes (Turn and face the stranger...)
And finally, the theme for SRS Round 1 is revealed: species swap!
For this round, we would like to see your chosen pairing, threesome, or, indeed, foursome, in a canon-based AU in which all two, three or four of them happen to be a different species. For instance, if one of your characters is human, we would like to see how things would change if they were, say, an angel. If they are an angel, what would they be like as a demon? Alternatively, what if they were all monsters? How does this affect their moral perspective? How does it challenge the dynamic between your pairing? Whether your happy, harmonious human/human pairing has metamorphosed into forbidden lust between a pagan god and a wendigo, or whether your emotionally fraught angelcest has been transformed into a lackadaisical, kill-happy demonic romp through the graveyards of Wisconsin, something is bound to have altered.
Remember, even if your chosen characters are of the same species in canon, they do not have to be from the same species in your AU. For example, if you were a member of the (non-existent) Team Anna/Gabriel , you could easily make Anna a crossroads demon, and Gabriel a werewolf, and proceed to document the vicissitudes of their gore-spattered love. Alternatively, they could both be vengeful spirits, caught between their feelings for each other, and the uncontrollable urge to drop a tonne of bricks on their killers’ skulls. In short? Go nuts!
Note that we want to see an AU in which these characters have always [edit: or at least, for a significant time period] belonged to a different species, not a story in the canon universe where the characters have been suddenly transformed.
[ Edit: You are welcome to include species not featured in the Supernatural canon, or a different take on species which have been. However, your fic should be understandable with no other reference than the TV series, so any species from other sources should be briefly explained where neccessary.]
If you wish to include characters other than those in your ship, it is your decision as to whether they will be species-swapped or not. However, we would like to see all of the characters within your ship species-swapped.
This prompt is open to your interpretation, but if you don’t have any ideas, you might want to consider the following:
- How do your characters’ respective upbringings now differ? How does this impact their personalities and outlook?
- Who are their family? Is it different from before? How much do they care about them?
- What are their new motivations and goals?
- How does this affect your ship? Do they find it easier or more difficult to understand one another? Are there any parallels between the characters that only become apparent in this setting?
- Are your characters now enemies, or has the species swap made them allies?
Entries can be produced by any team member or collaboratively between team members. Remember that Main Round entries can be in any media or combination of two media, but some media have length restrictions:
- Written entries must be of length 1000-4000 words.
- Graphical entries must be no longer than 10 images or panels.
- Combination written and graphical entries must have 1000-4000 words and no more than 4 images or panels.
The submission deadline for this round is midday GMT, December 15 2012. Information on how to submit entries is now available here.
Important: Any work you produce for this prompt, whether or not it is chosen as your team’s entry, must be kept anonymous until the voting for this round has ended. An anonymous AO3 collection for this round will be created closer to the deadline.