would it be weird if I took an idea that I initially used for fanfiction and instead used it for original content? Like I have this idea I really like of having two sapphic woman traveling cross-country because their respective lives suck and one’s family may be homophobic and they decided they want to spend their lives free of all that shit while also being together. Also one’s a painter and the other one a potter.
Like this has nothing to do really with the canon of Trollhunters, which is what I write fanfic for, and I only used it for 2 shippy scenes between two characters, but it’s an au since none of that actually happened in the show. Hell, the two characters barely even talk in the show.
So, in theory, I could just remove them from the equation, create two new characters and use those. Like the only thing that’s actually TH canon that I utilize here are Barb’s interest in painting and Nomura’s affiliation with pottery, which I think I can still use because those two characters aren’t the only characters who can exist liking those things?
So, I could have:
-2 girlfriends who meet in college.
-One is in a more intense career path (I’m gonna go with lawyer now) to please her family (who are homophobic jerkfaces), except she really just wants to be a painter.
-The other is into ceramics (and maybe has a troubled past? I need to think on that more).
-Ceramics girl convinces painter girl to run away with her and they travel cross country in a van they bought and try to sell their artwork. Various adventures ensue (brainstorming those/how this all functions).
-I’d need names, physical descriptions, and character traits that are far removed from Barb and Nomura for the characters, but that shouldn’t be all that hard to accomplish.
-since none of this actually happens in the show or is in any part of either Barb and Nomura’s backstories, it’s already fairly removed from them. I just inserted them into a situation I created during a writing exercise, so I can just remove them, switch some things around, and get something unrelated to fanfic, I think?
-I could easily write their adventures in snippets, which would solve both my lack of original content issue and need for sapphic material.
