Couldn't keep it contained any longer, here: have another AU of mine :))
So... does anyone remember that one Homestuck parody from a few years ago called Fandomstuck/Fandombound? It was basically this cool thing based around the idea of anthropomorphizing fandoms, and it was practically my bread and butter as a kid. (Hell, I have a whole seperate Tumblr for it that I haven't touched in years)
I don't really know if people still think about it these days, but the whole concept of it inspired me to make my own sort of interpretation/AU of it that's based more around personifying the actual stories than the fandoms themselves and giving all these personifications depression and identity issues as a result of the way I did it.
The entire AU doesn't really have an official name, so I've just been referring to it as my Story Personifications AU, and it's a bit meta in terms of its world-building?
Basically, our world, where we live, is called the Meta World. We cannot cross over to other realities, and other realities cannot cross over into ours. However, the meta world is where stories are born (whether it be from the minds of their creators or the histories of other worlds leaking over into ours and taking root here), and in a fashion similar to how fairies are born in the Tinkerbell series, stories born in the meta world become the seeds that give birth to story personifications in another world. The stories personifications are born from are the stories they'll be linked to for the rest of their lives, and once the Meta World has completely forgotten about those stories, those personifications cease to be, a true proper death for their kind.
Although personifications can never truly hate the stories that birthed them, a lot of them tend to develop a somewhat… strained relationship with them anyways due to being forced to inherit all sorts of "traits" that can make their own existence a struggle at best and a nightmare at worst.
There's honestly a lot I'd love to talk about regarding this AU, but I feel like it'd make this thread way too long, so I'll probably talk about them in some other post or something. In the meantime, here are some fun, lighthearted trivia facts about my story personifications AU:
All story personifications are inherently omnigender and, by default, use any/all pronouns. (However, some may have specific pronouns that they prefer over others.)
All personifications have nicknames usually derived from their full name, but some have also chosen human names for themselves because they were bored one day and thought it would be fun.
Story personifications have confusing familial relationship systems.
The Homestuck personification has a shop where they sell fetch moduses to personifications who are either sick of not having an inventory system or want to spice things up a little.
