17hols | Round 2 2023: AUs

Round 2 2023: AUs

Status: Closed

This round is currently has closed for prompting but fills and comments are forever welcome..

✧ Seventeen Holidays ✧

Round 2: Alternate Universes

About

Is there a piece of media that has gripped your heart and lives in your head rent free? Do you like the dynamics of 007/Q or a Sentinel/Guide AU? Maybe its the aesthetics of Song of Achilles or Secret Histories — or maybe its your other fandoms (F1 and Anime girlies looking at you). Get our your media roundups and put our favourite boys into a new world.

We've seen it all here: Raven Cycle, In The Mood For Love, Hamlet, Filipino mythology, and (squints at writing on hand) dilf? Yes we confirm there was a dilf AU. Now lets see what 2023 brings.

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Prompting

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❮ ROUND 2: ALTERNATE UNIVERSES ❯

2021

2022

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Ship/Member: Any, pref gen
Major Tags: N/A
Additional Tags: N/A
Do Not Wants: None

Prompt: Little Men / Little Women AU! i’m adding Little Women here because more people are familiar with it, so you can run with that if you want, but Little Men is about Jo, several years later, running an informal school with her husband. they take in twelve orphan boys alongside their own two sons (yes, i know, the math is slightly off. just add samuel idk) in order to care for them and educate them and bring them up well despite their tendency towards misadventures

Ship/Member: Any
Major Tags: N/A
Additional Tags: N/A
Do Not Wants: None

Prompt: Disco Elysium AU! In this game, a detective wakes up hung-over with no memory of who he is and how he got to be where he woke up (a hostel room). He finds out by meeting another detective, sent to partner up with him, that the two of them are supposed to solve the mystery behind a dead body in the parking lot of the hostel in question

Ship/Member: Wonwoo + any
Major Tags: major character death (w/ reincarnation?)
Additional Tags: fantasy, dramatic irony, angst
Do Not Wants: None, NONE.

Prompt: Omniscient reader's viewpoint is a story where a novel becomes reality, and the reader realises that he is the only person that knows how the story ends, yet will do everything in his power to prevent that ending. Doesn't have to be fantasy/RPG/game AU but please consider:
- protagonist x reader who knows how the protag dies
- reincarnation at the cost of memory
- metafiction wackery
- Atonement themes (writing the happy ending)

Ship/Member: Junhui + any
Major Tags: N/A
Additional Tags: science fiction, v(irtual) (you)tubing, catfishing(?), ethics of deep fake vs imitation as a love language
Do Not Wants: Mature rating and under

Prompt: AU where you can wear the skin of idols, and junhui is a professional body double in the metaverse

Ship/Member: Any, but consider DK/Any
Major Tags: potential MCD
Additional Tags: time loop, a groundhog day-style entrapment where you live out the worst day of your life over and over
Do Not Wants: None

Prompt: The CW's The Flash/DC's The Flash is a television show that centers Barry Allen, a forensic scientist who gains superspeed as powers after a storm caused by an explosion. It's a whole thing.

One of Barry's fatal flaws is that he continuously goes back to "fix" a timeline, which often makes things worse for himself. In one story arc, he is unable to save the love of his life because he is not fast enough, and watches her die in front of him.

Ship/Member: Minghao + Jun + Joshua
Major Tags: N/A
Additional Tags: comedy, crack, delirium
Do Not Wants: None

Prompt:

Edited (increase picture size) 2023-01-22 14:17 (UTC)

Ship/Member: jeonghan x anyone OR jun or minghao x anyone
Major Tags: police procedural, noir/neo-noir, detective/suspect relationship, murder
Additional Tags: infidelity maybe..? doesn't have to be included if you aren't interested in that
Do Not Wants: None

Prompt: AU based on the film Decision to Leave directed by Park Chanwook. The film is about a detective who falls in love with the wife of a murder victim. He suspects that she killed him, but begins to fall in love with her as he investigates her.

Another element of the film is the tension between the detective (Haejun) and suspect (Seorae) surrounding language and communication. Seorae is Chinese and mixes speaking Korean directly + using the voice translation on her phone to communicate with Haejun. I requested a jeonghan ship for my own amusement, but if you'd like to explore this aspect of the film with junhui or minghao pls be my guest!!

You can watch the film here!

Ship/Member: Any
Major Tags:
Additional Tags: N/A
Do Not Wants: None

Prompt:

Tomorrow [kdrama] AU. Below is the wikipedia synopsis of the general premise:

Choi Jun-woong (Rowoon) is a young job seeker who is unable to secure a job. Through an accident, he meets the grim reapers Koo Ryeon (Kim Hee-sun) and Lim Ryung Gu (Yoon Ji-on) who have the task of preventing suicide, and works with them as the youngest contract worker in the crisis management team of death angels.

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[SLIGHT SPOILERS BELOW]

personally i think it’d be highly interesting to see an exploration of Koo Ryeon and Jung-gil’s past life, or their present life, now that Jung-gil has relearned the past. Or, the friendship between Jun-woong and Ryung-gu would be fun and cute too. just ideas tho; go wild!

Ship/Member: Any (Joshua, Jeonghan, or Mingyu?)
Major Tags: N/A
Additional Tags: drama comedy, who are we when the cameras aren't around?, love vs money, fighting the algorithm
Do Not Wants: None

Prompt: Are You the One is an MTV reality dating show where 16 single strangers are locked in a beach house together and tasked with the impossible: finding their Perfect Match as decided by a matchmaking algorithm. Will they succeed and win a hefty cash prize? Or will they crack under the pressure of televised romance?

Here are the first five minutes of the only season that matters (the LGBTQ+ season). This show is the epitome of trashy reality TV, but there's something compelling about the concept. What if you fall in love with someone who isn't your Perfect Match? What if multiple people think you're their Perfect Match - how do you navigate that? Do you construct a persona for television or stay true to yourself? Is it possible to make an authentic connection when you know the world is watching?

Ship/Member: Seungcheol (preferably woncheol), but if you're moved by any other svts or pairings, go for it!
Major Tags: N/A
Additional Tags: I like my boys beautiful and beat up, blood, hurt/comfort, maybe the glory we were striving for was really the love we found along the way
Do Not Wants: unhappy ending, non/dubcon

Prompt: Seungcheol said something about taking up boxing and now I need to see it. Include elements from the movie Rocky (or, really, any of the Rocky movies) if you really want to get me, but honestly any flavor of boxer!Scoups is going to be [chef's kiss]

Ship/Member: Any
Major Tags: N/A
Additional Tags: touring AU; forced proximity; what you want vs what you leave behind
Do Not Wants: None

Prompt: hot and miserable and totally back in love.

pulling inspiration from fall out boy here, but could be idolverse, could be actors on a press tour, could be a van days/warped au.

Edited 2023-01-24 13:31 (UTC)

Ship/Member: any, but consider: booseoksoon
Major Tags: N/A
Additional Tags: children's programming AU
Do Not Wants: None

Prompt: I have a vision of this as a nightmare sequence/dream sharing thing, but BSS as children's television hosts played straight would be a lot of fun!

Ship/Member: Any
Major Tags: N/A
Additional Tags: N/A
Do Not Wants: None

Prompt:

Person A is cursed—their kiss will kill. Person B really wants to kiss them anyway.

//feel free to take this literally anywhere

Ship/Member: Any (although i’m leaning strongly toward jihancheol for SaB)
Major Tags: N/A
Additional Tags: N/A
Do Not Wants: None

Prompt: Shadow and Bone/Six of Crows au!! specifically: a darkling/alina/mal dynamic with jihancheol. (credit to mishi for this idea a while ago on twitter! <3) or darkling/alina, hypothetically. what if that attraction had been real, or what if it held something more to it?

alternatively: can the darkling’s desire for alina’s power coexist with a desire for her? how would it play out?

Six of Crows:
Kaz/Inej would be extremely interesting and painful. or maybe wylan and jesper, and maybe considerations of family and what it must have taken for Wylan to betray his father. general Crows antics would be so fun too.

there’s so much that can be done here, so do as you please! i’m only making suggestions.

Edited 2023-01-25 23:40 (UTC)

Ship/Member: Any
Major Tags: risk of character death?
Additional Tags: idolverse, magical realism, having your love language of touch forcefully taken away now that there is risk of killing the other, and how to deal with that
Do Not Wants: None

Prompt:
Shatter Me au, but only in the sense that i’m borrowing a key plot point, which is MC’s ability to kill someone with a single touch.

i think this would be extremely good in idolverse, where magic is commonplace but not powers this extreme. how do you manage it/hide it, how do you mitigate unintended consequences. what about the burdens of this knowledge all members must carry now, the inevitable wariness? how do you restore trust in a relationship when you don’t even trust yourself?

Ship/Member: Any (But please consider Seokmin as Yurim and Seungkwan as Heedo)
Major Tags: N/A
Additional Tags: 2521 (kdrama), fencing, rivals to lovers, fan to rival to lover
Do Not Wants: None

Prompt: Twenty Five Twenty One AU (spoilers ahead)
More specifically, the Yurim/Heedo AU we deserve.

Please consider character A and B, both fencers (or any other sport of your choice). Character A is an international medalist, beloved star of the country. Character B used to be gifted as a kid but now is in a perpetual slump, never getting anywhere in competitions but not giving up because they idolise and worship character A from afar and their dream is to become their rival. Not to win a gold medal, not to go to the Olympics. Just to become their rival. When they finally reach the same level, they realise Character A hates them.

Also consider: they play their lives' most important matches against each other and are there for e/o's retirement.

Optional: they do not know they are close confidants on an anonymous online platform.

TLDR: rivals to friends to lovers, fencing au, mistaken identity. (You could also contemplate how the metaphor of idol worship extends from idolverse to this or vice-versa...)

Ship/Member: soonwoo
Major Tags: N/A
Additional Tags: movie set au, strangers to coworkers to friends to lovers; insp by my love of action movies, especially HK-style movies emphasizing martial arts + creative stunts
Do Not Wants: None

Prompt: SY is a fight choreographer/stuntman who likes to watch dramas in his spare time. WW is an up-and-coming actor who got his start in dramas but is now doing his first action role in a movie where SY + Perf U are (part of) the stunt/fight team. Their relationship develops as SY teaches/trains WW in the months before the shoot + keeps him safe during filming (in ref to all the times irl WW’s said he finds it attractive when someone can take care of him). Other SVTs may appear as part of the cast and/or crew, e.g. SC director, WZ screenplay writer, DN stuntman but also a background extra anytime they need one (aka picheolin).

You don’t have to cover the entire arc of the snwu relationship in the fill (unless you want to, but I feel like it would get very long). Just one or two moments or scenes from within the story is fine! Also, though this prompt uses the language of “stuntman” and “actor”, feel free to genderbend any and as many characters as you want (e.g. fem!hoshi fight choreographer would also be hot).

Ship/Member: soonwoo
Major Tags: N/A
Additional Tags: ...law au, i guess? Could be a phoenix wright au, but doesn't have to be
Do Not Wants: None

Prompt: title says it all. WW is on trial in a court of law (for something, idk, you decide what he’s being tried for) and SY is his lawyer. Yes, this is inspired by when they were playing mafia in the soop and SY acted as WW’s “attorney” by arguing on his behalf when he was being accused. Also, i feel like i’ve seen WW get written as a lawyer a bunch of times, and i think it would be funny/interesting to play against type.

Regarding tone, you could make this more comedic or more serious. Like, would SY actually be a competent lawyer? And what’s WW there for anyways? Maybe murder, maybe a parking ticket; maybe it’s some otherworldly court where SY’s literally playing the Devil’s Advocate. Who knows! This AU is your oyster – serve it up however you want.

Ship/Member: Any
Major Tags: N/A
Additional Tags: fake dating/marriage, fluff and/or dark comedy
Do Not Wants: None

Prompt: AU inspired by this tumblr post by user @/chatonnoir. In case the link breaks, the post's text is below:

There's this local family owned restaurant near me that makes the best fucking chicken tenders I’ve had in my life and I desperately need to know the recipe in case I move away but its a secret family recipe and I’m this close to asking if they have a single adult son so I can marry in to the family just for these fucking chicken tenders. Anyway there’s a possible fake marriage fanfic plot for you.

Feel free to change the chicken tenders to some other food item of your choice. Have fun!

Ship/Member: Jeonghan/Seokmin
Major Tags: N/A
Additional Tags: N/A
Do Not Wants: None

Prompt: The handmaiden AU - Jeonghan as lady hideko (doll-like, strikingly beautiful, """inocent""") and Seokmin as Sook-hee (silly, clumsy, caring & kind despite trying to scam jeonghan, never had the upper hand). could be rule 63 or not!

Ship/Member: Wonhao
Major Tags: N/A
Additional Tags: reunion, a little angst
Do Not Wants: None

Prompt: Eternals (Marvel) AU. Wonwoo as Druig and Minghao as Makkari.

Set in the forest where Wonwoo led (brainwashed) a small civilization and the rest of Eternals found him and confronted him. Minghao is caught between believing his long-lost lover or his team.

Ship/Member: Any
Major Tags: N/A
Additional Tags: N/A
Do Not Wants: None

Prompt: joseon era.

Ship/Member: Any
Major Tags: N/A
Additional Tags: house hunting au, bad carpentry/house puns, "love needs a strong foundation", "what did the carpenter do when he wasn't satisfied with his one night stand? he built another one" (the crowd boos)
Do Not Wants: non/dubcon, unhappy ending

Prompt: [Insert members] star in an HGTV-type show, one is a realtor and one is a contractor, they team up to buy houses and fix them up. Take this genuinely any direction you want! Do they hate each other off screen, fake friendship (and maybe a little flirting) on screen and slowly fall in love over the course of a season? Are they married in real life and pretend they're not for the cameras? Are the houses haunted?? Go wild! Include any and all members as background characters and just have fun with it.

(Personally I think meanie would be great for this but there's so much potential for any pairing, threesome, or moresome)

Ship/Member: seokgyu
Major Tags: Stranger's to lovers. Miscommunication.
Additional Tags: angst with a happy ending. Explicit/Smut. Jealousy/Envy.
Do Not Wants: mcd, ambiguous/open ending, sad/bad ending. If going down the smut route, no bottom!dk thanks.

Prompt: Cameraman/Video Jockey Mingyu, Idol Seokmin (he can be a solo idol, BSS being its own group, vocal unit as their own group, or just SVT minus Mingyu).

Ship/Member: Soonyoung / Jihoon
Major Tags: N/A
Additional Tags: military-grade tension, tender loving sex, porn with feelings, gym sex, explicit sexual content, love at first sex, how many more times should i tag sex
Do Not Wants: None

Prompt: Korea’s Top Star Soonyoung meets his new gym trainer and their hands are too pretty for his liking.

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love is a flower that grows in any soil

you're still alive

omnicient reader viewpoint(ish)

simulacrum

fastest man alive

BSS vs 8JJ

endlessly i go, lonely in the mist

tomorrow/yesterday

Are You the One?

boxing au

sending my love from the other side

do a little song and dance

The Raven Cycle AU (redux)

darkness, sunshine, and what’s in between

touch me/kill me

sport is the purest form of admiration...and foreplay

snwu action movie set au (featuring picheolin)

ww on trial with sy as his lawyer

dating someone for the fucking chicken tenders

jeonghan 🤝 lady hideko 🤝 be gay do crimes

no subject

who is the king

HGTV show

Parasocial

Midnights