Also, in reference to Earth-2860 fics, been thinkin' 'bout. "Before Their Rings" kinds of stories again- not just how a Lantern got their ring for instance, but little scenes or summarized individual periods of their life- and remembering I REALLY need to at least finish the outlines I have sitting around (only Bro'Dee, Salaak, and Thaal rn)
Which makes me think. If I may toot my own horn just a bit. One of my favorite larger backstory changes/additions I've come up with for this AU is Bro'Dee's been through;
The death of both his parents, wife, first child, and presumably second child;
Total destruction of his home planet and its entire solar system;
Being abducted among many others from said planet;
Being imprisoned by intergalactic slavers for an amount of time he's still not quite sure of;
Leading his people (who he assumed were probably the last of their kind) in an escape off the slavers' ship;
Being recruited by two weird little blue. People? to be some kind of messiah (non-negotiable), forcing him to leave the relatively small group he'd just help rescue behind;
Later experiencing existential whiplash in finding more of his people were also abducted and are surviving scattered around the universe- yet feeling so alienated by not only the otherworldly things he's experienced but also the literal Entire Planet of guilt he holds on to that he can't bare to face any of his own kind;
...All while only being the equivalent of a human in their early/mid 20's qvq