I have a horrible idea
So we have all these Aus and stuff right?
So what if whenever you wrote an au, there was this little side character/world master/dimension jumper... and its their job to put the pieces together so the au works.
And then they mess up. Lets call her Nyra, after someone i love.
So lets say im writing a starwars resteraunt au. And Nyra goes about her usual duities of copying a version of each character in a way that fit the au. She does this every day for all 30 of her assigned writers and daydreamers, to the point where she has some headcannons prepped and ready to go. So she pulls out her paperwork and preps her copies, and since he chose a popular version of Thrawn she nabs him from a different au that was half forgotten.
Except she also grabs the original. Or should I say originals of the most popular characters, and replacing them with versions modified to work in a resteraunt.
So now she has a resteraunt to run and rather than her usual "make sure the love intrests end up on the same shift on valintines" to "keep maul from poisoning peoples to go orders" and "teach a bunch of idiots how to drive earth cars"
Since she uses Thrawn a lot, her favorite version and the original ended up sharing memories, so he ends up as her second in command dispite his expertise being admitidly useless, and since The Grand Inquisitor is long dead in cannon, Nyra has him as her head chef and he is the ONLY one who is competent at what he does.
Eli is one of the managers, and he tipicaly does the payroll and ordering so he works on slower nights
Hera is also a manager and does buiser nights, and does the best job of keeping everyone in line.
Krenic is a waiter and hating every minute of it, but is terrified of being assigned to dish.
Ezra is also a a waiter, but he is an adorable kid who rutinely gets 30% tips.
Kallus and Zeb are either bartenders or kitchen staff
And Maul gets put on Togo cuz she has no idea where to put him and she feels that he could do the least damage there. (And he keeps asking Ezra to train with him so he can "take a day off".
Im uncertain of who else goes where, but imagine the antics. The driving lessons, the constant fighting between factions and individuals (except Eli, they know if you mess with Eli then you are both screwing your pay and angering Nyra's favorite Thrawn.)
Any add ons?
Also you are welcome to use any part or all of the idea. I want to read it.