SPN Canon AUs....

[hells_half_acre]

I got caught up with Mark Watches tonight - he just finished S5 and has started S6.

It got me thinking about what Canon AUs are out there that have a divergent point at the end of 5x22. It was such a big break for the show, such an end point/beginning point, where they really could have gone anywhere from there in terms of plot and characters...

And it got me curious about what storylines other people came up with.... like, for instance, stories like ratherastory's Fusion'verse - where Sam claws his way out of hell and is left with psychological problems and it's essentially a hurt/comfort curtain fic from there....

But there's gotta be other ones, right? There has to be more people who wrote their own versions of what happened after 5x22....

Of course, the problem is that I don't ship things in SPN, so.. yeah, maybe there aren't any stories out there for me - since I don't want Dean/Cas or Sam/Dean....

Blah, I always forget that bit about how hard it is for me to find good fic in the SPN fandom. Especially good fic post S4, when all the Dean/Cas shipping starts. Sigh.

Anyway, if anyone has any recommendations anyway, let me know...

Comments

[hells-half-acre.livejournal.com]

Haha, no worries. If you ever stumble across it, you know where to come to rec it to me. ;)

It's odd that more people didn't chose 5x22 as their divergent point. But midway through S6 could work too... the only AU I've ever written had a jumping off point of somewhere in the first half of S6.

[claudiapriscus.livejournal.com]

The status at the beginning of six was interesting because it offered a lot of possibilities, depending on where you wanted to go. The end of 5x22...I mean, there's Sam, but it's less...IDK. It's just harder to expand a story from that. I wrote a one-shot that was kind of like a giant AU in my head right before season 6 started, but one of the things that kept me from pulling the trigger, so to speak, on the larger AU was that there were enough rumors swirling around about season 6 that it seemed like they might go somewhere interesting.

I *wish* I could find/remember the fic I was thinking of. I don't quite think it fits your interests, but it was stunningly beautiful. With such strong imagery that I'm not sure if it had any art attached to it, because I keep thinking "maybe" and then remembering that what's in my head was actually a text description. I think- I think it was about Dean going into hell to save Sam. And it was all very 9 circles of hell. And the devil at the bottom, in a frozen lake. Compass. Compass something? Maybe it was a summer gen. Maybe it had art with a compass on it.

[hells-half-acre.livejournal.com]

I suppose you have a point. Splitting off at 5x22 gives too many possibilities, whereas splitting off mid-S6 is sort of more like being given a prompt - and people tend to work better off prompts.

Hmm... that does sound interesting. Maybe if I go looking for fic, I'll see if I can find it based on that description. But you never know, I ask for recs, and then I remember how goddamn picky I am when it comes to spn fic. :P

[claudiapriscus.livejournal.com]

It's going to drive me crazy. The imagery in my head is SO clear but the story isn't. (Dean finds a bird's skull in the mud after a field of corpses. There's a road lined with trees. Pandemonium is empty. Dean has a guide, I think. Maybe. The guide is...someone. It's revealed.

ETA:Since everyone else is self-recc'ing, here's my post 5x22 fic http://claudiapriscus.livejournal.com/31957.html that's secretly a giant AU in my head.