Anonymous Coward · 14d
Not to be another rando rambling in here (exactly what I’m going to do) but I always find the “what if Cy was trans” or “what if cylynn were vanilla” and the like questions odd because those all very fundamental parts of the characters. Like “what if Batman was poor and had two living parents” then he wouldn’t be Batman babe I don’t know what else to tell you!
I strongly believe the "What if we swapped out the fundamental building blocks of this character for something completely different" brand of AU appreciation comes from Coffee Shop AU culture, the Undertale fandom, and the general proliferation of AI in fandom spaces. Like what people want is a specific setting/concept, the characters really are an afterthought
