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I have to ask this, so I can concentrate on the paper I'm supposed to be writing, rather than sitting here mulling over this or (worse) researching it.
O ye writers of fanfic:
Have you ever written a gender-swap AU? This includes fics where one, a few, or all characters are just naturally genderswapped (e.g., a universe in which Squall and Seifer are female and Quistis and Rinoa are male), or Something Happened to cause one or more of the characters to spontaneously swap genders (e.g., Hermione slipped polyjuice potion in Ron's pumpkin juice to make sure he NEVER laughed at her cramps again).
First, what made you decide to write an AU? ("the lulz" is a sufficient answer, but if you've got more, I'd love to hear it)
What kind of AU was it? (one character or many, external or internal change)
Did the characters respond differently in their new genders? (More or less emotional, communicative, friendly, talkative, considerate?) Were you surprised by the changes/lack of changes?
Did you deliberately consider how being/becoming a different gender would affect their relationships with other characters?
Any other comments?
Feel free (oh please please please) to pimp this out to your friends, relations, acquaintances, random people on the street, whoever.
O ye writers of fanfic:
Have you ever written a gender-swap AU? This includes fics where one, a few, or all characters are just naturally genderswapped (e.g., a universe in which Squall and Seifer are female and Quistis and Rinoa are male), or Something Happened to cause one or more of the characters to spontaneously swap genders (e.g., Hermione slipped polyjuice potion in Ron's pumpkin juice to make sure he NEVER laughed at her cramps again).
First, what made you decide to write an AU? ("the lulz" is a sufficient answer, but if you've got more, I'd love to hear it)
What kind of AU was it? (one character or many, external or internal change)
Did the characters respond differently in their new genders? (More or less emotional, communicative, friendly, talkative, considerate?) Were you surprised by the changes/lack of changes?
Did you deliberately consider how being/becoming a different gender would affect their relationships with other characters?
Any other comments?
Feel free (oh please please please) to pimp this out to your friends, relations, acquaintances, random people on the street, whoever.
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Date: 2010-04-01 04:07 pm (UTC)From:Teddy Lupin
I decided to play with the idea of Teddy Lupin (Tonks and Remus' kid, a metamorphmagus) jokingly making himself look like a girl one day... and then liking it. I don't know why - possibly I'd read a fic, possibly I was just curious. And while I didn't write out a full fic, I had scribbles and ideas in my head - how he'd start learning how to change the insides with copious studies of biology books, how Teddy would perfect the externals of the girl!body with Victoire's (his girlfriend's) help, "just for fun" of course, and how she figured it out, how their relationship changed, how his relationship with his favourite cousin changed, how came out, so to speak, to his family and friends. Teddy didn't change significantly at ALL in becoming a girl, and the way he interacted with some people didn't change either. But then you This isn't TECHNICALLY genderswap so much as it is a very special transgendered transition story, but I thought I'd mention it.
Second!
Mark Cohen
I played an already-AU version of Mark Cohen from RENT in an AU pan-fandom RP who, having been with his amazing demi-god boyfriend for a while, decided he wanted a kid. Or, well, THEY decided they wanted to have a kid. And because they were in a magical place where magical people existed, they figured that if one of them could get turned into a girl for a year or so, they could have a BIOLOGICALLY THEIRS kid.
This was really important to them. So they tracked down some magical person who could do it, and Mark got turned into a girl.
He was not prepared for the hormones, and did get a lot more emotional. Considering it was a conscious decision and he would be going back once the pregnancy (which took quickly - I think it was the deity!sperm. That stuff seems to be potent) was over, most of his relationships didn't change much. There was a bit of a shift with his boyfriend, just because of the added intimacy there, but in the end, he was still Mark (if a little more prone to tears and chocolate and wanting to garrotte his biffle Roger with a guitar string), and his relationships and personality didn't change at all. Since it was an RP, I didn't have to think too much about how his relationships would change, because it pretty much would become apparent in the RPing of it.
And, finally, my favourite and most classic!Genderswappy...
Judas Iscariot
The "Jesus Christ Superstar" version, based on a) the portrayal of the character by Drew Sarich, and b) the staging/costuming/etc. of the Broadway revival that was recorded in 2000. I blame Aubrey for this one - I had recorded myself singing "Heaven on Their Minds", and after she listened to it, she said all she could think of was that it WAS Judas... just a girl. And that it had spawned a girl!Judas in her head. Which the idea of spawned a girl!Judas in MY head, on top of the boy!Judas I already had faintly.
Girl!Judas was always a girl, though given the very... special setting of JCS, that hasn't changed much about her. She's a little bit more prone to snapping at people (*coughSimonZealotescough*) and then apologising reluctantly. She's more likely to laugh (only by the tiniest bit), and she doesn't try to say that she loves Jesus like a brother or something. She doesn't admit she's IN love with him, but she doesn't feel like she has to rationalise her love like boy!Judas does.
She's somewhat more personally hostile towards Mary Magdalane, and she's strangely fond of Simon Zealotes, but other than that, as far as I can tell without having gotten a chance to play her off people, her relationships are mostly unchanged. There was a BIT of patronisation when she first started following Jesus, but he put a stop to that pretty quickly, and now she's "one of the twelve", so nobody who follows Jesus is likely to treat her badly for her gender.
...and there you have it.