While taking a break from writing, I decided to do some spring cleaning. As I was going through my fanfic notes, I came across some ideas for fics that I'm no longer motivated to write. Even though there are a few of these I want to drop for recent cc behavior reasons, most are honestly being dropped because I don't have time, didn't have enough direction on where to go, or I just don't feel like I need to write it anymore. If anyone wants to play with any of these, feel free (just let me know because I'd love to seeee~)!
Abolish Regrets ("To Preserve a Bond")
this was going to be a "canon divergent" AU of To Sever a Bond - it was going to explore an alternate ending to Abolish's POV where Abolish stops the Doc from moving forward with his death - both by physically showing up (Abolish goes bat), and also utilizing the sire/fledgling bond to try to manipulate Legs into giving a shit (which is hard because Abolish is the king of repression, not the king of feelings)
of all the things on this list, this is the one that has the greatest shot of leaving the scrapped bin - that said, I would absolutely love to hear anyone else's take on it
this was just going to be a spin off of a fic I'm already extremely proud of, so I am okay with leaving it
Combining The Break-Up and The Divorce
I used to have some issues with the cohesion of Owen's final episode, and while some of those minor gripes are still there, I feel like I understand Owen better than when I did when I came up with this idea
the concept was to combine the conversations that happened in The Final Divorce with The Break-Up in episode 6 - Owen would attempt to turn Legs, but would ultimately fail bc Legs ate garlic (similar to canon, but with a much more violent turning attempt like in the finale)
this would more or less be the end of bloodletting (rip, you were a real one) in this AU - I was going to have Owen bond with Pyro a bit more in the final episode instead (still every chance his actions would have been the same, but it would have been interesting to explore)
was likely going to lead into Cleo turning the Doc (which I may still write, we'll see) sometime following Owen's attempt to turn him
this was supposed to be a fic exploring Apo if she had stayed with the town instead of trying to be a double agent - this may have led into the events of the next idea (Kill the Sire)
I think this would be too big of an undertaking and I'd never finish it
honestly, may just work better as a stream of consciousness bulleted "what if?" post for tumblr... I may do that
this idea didn't have many notes for it yet beyond, "I wish Apo hadn't tried to be a double agent sweetie no come back"
this was going to be Pyro and Apo teaming up in the finale to take down Scott - what I suspect would have happened had cc!Scott not mentioned that he didn't want to die in the series (so Pyro and Apo felt compelled to back off and change their arcs)
I was going to try to keep this one contained to snapshots so it wouldn't get so long
this was not going to be a bloodless victory - Scott is an elder vampire (honestly, it was probably going to land on Apo gets out, but Pyro dies - sorry my dude, Apo's gotta get home)
I love a sad fic and it would be fun and evil to doom the doommates further
I had the thought that it would be very fun to play with Scott drinking from Legs before Owen does, and therefore finding out about Legs' history before Owen
I love the dynamic between these two and thought it would be a blast to dig into
I think you could have played with a lot of subtle manipulation - the Doc recognizes that Scott knows more than he should, but he hasn't figured out why, and Scott using that info, rather as leverage over the Doc (which could also be fun), but takes that knowledge and uses it against him much more subtly
Lumberjack (Sire Edition)
this was going to be the next long fic
Owen ends up getting Pyro alone (instead, Scott goes with Shelby and does turn her) - Owen has a fledgling and Scott has a fledgling (could have turned into a competition for who is the better sire, which would have been extremely funny bc lumberjack is a disaster)
Louis' line suddenly becomes a lot bigger because Pyro can't stop biting
this was also going to play with sire/fledgling bond fuckery - if Pyro didn't have Scott in his head, how would that have changed his experience with vampirism? If Owen felt like he had connection to someone else (someone who couldn't even be a Louis replacement - someone entirely removed from that), how would his experience in Oakhurst changed? How would the coven dynamic have changed? Would Scott have viewed Owen as more of a threat?
this was likely going to play around with yet more "not platonic, not romantic, but a secret third thing" lumberjack dynamics bc those are way more fun (for me, and for most of the bloodletting community for sure)
I did not scrap this one because of Pyro's "boundaries" (or out of fear of hate comments - I can manage that, I've played competitive video games with a feminine voice) - this was scrapped because I personally feel Pyro's content is no longer worth my time and energy. (for the record, he is not the only one I feel this way about - I am only making this note for him specifically because this was going to be my next longform fic after StV)
