Fictional Fans

There are so many I don't think I can go down to one, so top five! I considered mocking up AO3 headers, but throwing five of those into one comment seemed a little unwieldy. As did trying to come up with all of them. XD

- The White Collar fic that really just boils down to "let me tell you all my feelings about Peter Burke at length". There's not an actual summary for it because it's more a long, long character study that goes from teen years to... sometime before the start of the show; the highlights reel that's still in the back of my head is young teen Peter dealing with religious issues and discovering but not really accepting his bisexuality, college-age Peter discovering his competency kink, and lots of emphasis on the sheer amount of trust and love between Peter and El.

- The trans Rory Doctor Who fic that jumped into my head sometime mid-season 6 when I realized I wanted a lot more consequences than canon was giving me, and also, queer stuff. Another one of those long, rambling, character study fics, actually; I like coming up with those and am so bad at actually writing them. Heavily focused on Rory and Amy both having a really hard time dealing with the way their personal timelines have been fucked up after all that happened in S5.

- October Daye: the Hunger Games AU. Where Toby is a messed up Victor and mentor, May is a very-slightly-less messed up Victor, Dianda and Patrick are the Capitol's favorite Victor love story, and Quentin is this year's tribute. I could technically still write this, but I'm three books behind and also would need to figure out the plot, because it probably shouldn't just be several thousand words of tension, complicated relationships, and PTSD.
(Special mention goes to the October Daye BDSM-verse AU which suffers from similar problems, with less PTSD and more fae politics.)

And I could probably make a top ten list just for MCU, but the top two have to be both the roleswap AUs:

- Jane Foster is Captain America, recently unfrozen and trying to come to terms with modern life. Steve Rogers is an astrophysicist nobody believes in, who's recently met an alien. Avengers happens, people hit it off, eventually there is Bucky/Jane/Steve/Thor foursomes.

- Peggy/Steve/Bucky, in which Bucky becomes Captain America, Peggy becomes the Winter Soldier, Steve becomes the founder of SHIELD. Erksine isn't at the fair to overhear Steve; instead, Bucky finds himself having a talk with Peggy at a bar later that night, who's intrigued enough by what he's saying to offer him a spot in Erksine's. Eventually, she meets Steve, and recognizes enough potential in him to give him a different offer working for the SSR and training with her. They find out about each other when Peggy goes missing with the 107. It mostly hews along the plot of the Cap movies with a few small deviations on the hows, except Steve and Howard work out a version of the serum for him so I can have my happy threesome ending after all the pain.
(Of all of these, this is the one I'm still the most tempted to write, but I've fallen out of the MCU so hard I'm not sure I want to do the necessary rewatching and focusing on it to be able to write it.)