Imagine, if you will: an AU where Dani and Sarah's places are switched. Like maybe Dani was kidnapped at a younger age and has been at the cabin long enough to no longer make a fuss. And then Sarah could still be Jack's daughter but she ran away or got somehow separated from him and has been trying to outrun him ever since, but inevitably gets taken back home. (Maybe she's not a Christian anymore either.)
How would the characters act in these situations, and what would it have taken for them to act that way? I'm trying to think about it and maybe I have some thoughts but I want to hear if this interests you at all first
Damn, this is hard to think about! Just for the fact that I have thought of these two characters as so deeply created by their circumstances, that these circumstances would radically change who they are as characters.
I feel like Dani might still be similar, as in being a little spitfire. She’d give Jack a run for his money growing up! But she’d end up a lot more subdued than she is now.
Sarah would essentially have ended up as [REDACTED] did. Angry and confused and deeply hurt by her upbringing. Deconstruction would definitely be on her radar!
And, this whole ask reminded me of @scratchandplaster’s Tales of Arcadia series! I’m linking it here in case anyone is interested!