AUs are something ive been just recently learning how to explore and how i like AUs
for me, the most enjoyment I get from it is taking my character and recontextualizing how they would be within the canon of the universe i put them in
My friend (hi Sookie) asked me the other day how Vivian and Agnes would do in the amazing digital circus so I openly pondered and schemed and so I'll just retell the thought process for Agnes. I just think it's neat :)

Agnes TADC as a person would be closer to how she is in her college AU, and in her college AU she is an astrophysist currently working towards her doctorates
For Agnes, she would be building her whole life up until this point for what she wants to do in the future (nasa stuff) so if she got trapped inside TADC i think two things would happen

1. She would adjust almost instantly like Pomni, i think the idea she has to get used to a digital body would be an easy idea for her
2. If she were building her whole life if she got trapped inside, it would mean she lost what she has built and so she would spend a lot of time haunted by that fact

That's about as deeply as I thought into it, mostly because I'm not super interested in doing a full AU. she would totally look something like this if I were to design her though:

and she would hate it.

All of this set up to say, I'm also trying another AU approach where I'm totally getting into my heathers phase that passed by me (🙏 thank god I was trauma bonded to Hamilton not Heathers) and we're just being completely silly with it, assigning roles that feel goofy but feel right even if it isn't entirely in character and the ideas in my head have been very fun!! I'm not entirely sure how I'm going to draw it, or even if I will. But this type of AU playing completely feels like dolls rather than me playing Character.

do you guys have fun with aus?? genuinely i feel like a new path has opened up to me...