BDE Date Announcement & AU WEEKEND!

[endsthegame]

Good morning, folks! We're here with two announcements - one minor, and one major.

First of all, we'd like to let you all know that this semester's BDE is set for December 18th through 21st. This means it will run a little into finals week - the Friday, to be precise. There's a specific plotty reason for the timing, we promise, and we'll let you know more about that sometime next week - we'd just like to get the warning out well ahead of time.

Second of all, it's time again for Fandom Island to go alternative! On December 5th and 6th (right over Saint Nicholas weekend, sob), your character may be transformed into a different version of themselves as a result of Fandom weirdness!

To borrow lovingly from multi_madrox, your choices for AU characters are:

• An alternate universe version of your character that occurred within the character's own canon: Xander -> Evil Vampire Xander


• A version of your character that was played by a different actor: Daniel Craig Bond -> Sean Connery Bond


• The counterpart of your character from a re-imagined version of the canon: Momoko (a Japanese teenager whose codename is Blossom) from Powerpuff Girls Z -> Blossom (an American kindergartener whose real name is Blossom) from the original Powerpuff Girls


• The counterpart of your character from a canon that's loosely based on yours, or vice versa: Romeo -> Tony from West Side Story


• The fh_wishverse version of your character (only for characters who had an AU version in the original plot): these should be played out of your character's regular journal, not their wishverse journal


• A different role that the actor (including voice actors for animated characters) who portrays your character/PB has taken: Jack Sparrow -> Edward Scissorhands


• A character (or inanimate object if you'd like a way to sideline your kid for the weekend) who shares part or all of your character's name:
  Bo Jones -> Bo Duke
  Annie Edison -> Edison Carter
  Dahlia Mancini -> an actual dahlia flower


• A ridiculous stereotype of your character frequently found in fanfic: Hermione -> Hermione Sue

If you're struggling to find a character to turn into, ping us and we'll try to help you out! You also always have the option of keeping your character normal so they can WTF at all of the crazy people.

Answers to previous FAQ:

• Yes! Your character will physically transform into the Alternate Universe Persona that you choose.



• Yes! Your character will remember what happened afterward. (Though you're welcome to make those memories as clear or fuzzy as you'd like.)



• Yes! This is open to alumni and expatriates!



• Yes! Those characters may come back to the island for the weekend, without it counting against their regular 5 days per month.



• No! They don't have to come back to the island to be affected; through Fandom's clingy, clingy love, they can go AU no matter where they're physically located.

Sign-ups will be going in another post and will be due by 11:59 PM Pacific on December 3rd!

Questions, comments, and pie can be left below!

Comments

[halfaclink.livejournal.com]

What kind of pie?

I'm not giving any because cake is better, of course, but still.

[trigons_child]

Out of curiosity, how about an Umbridge!verse character?

[saddeserthermit]

That is also a-okay with us!