Mtothedestiel: Writing Realistic AUs

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Title: Mtothedestiel: Writing Realistic AUs
Interviewer: Sarabel
Interviewee: Mtothedestiel
Date(s): June 2017
Medium: online
Fandom(s): Yuri!!! on Ice
External Links: "Mtothedestiel: Writing Realistic AUs". Archived from the original on 2017-10-18.
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Mtothedestiel: Writing Realistic AUs is a 2017 interview with Mtothedestiel, a Yuri!!! on Ice fanfic writer.

She was interviewed by Sarabel from the Yuuri/Victor fanfic blog, viktuurificwriters.

Introduction

An Alternate Universe can be quite difficult to write because it usually requires a lot of research in order to make the story more realistic. Mtothedestiel, however, is a writer who seems to have no difficulty in doing that. She enjoys doing the research and it makes her AUs vivid and it effectively puts her characters in a different world without making them out of place.

Mtothedestiel ( @summersteve ) is the author of The Tsesarevich Lives!, Healthy Impropriety and Vkusno! She writes a lot of AUs that are inspired by books, movies, and other media like Pride and Prejudice and Anastasia. Keeping the flavor of a well-known story while making it fit for her characters is a challenge that she really likes.

Her Anastasia AU (The Tsesarevich Lives!) is one of my all-time favorite fics. It’s a story about Viktor being an orphan with no surname and with no memories of his past while Yuuri is a con artist who thinks Viktor might be the missing Nikiforov heir.

Excerpts

When asked if she tends to be more original or to deliver to readers what they want, she answers that balance is important.

“Honestly, I write what I love,” she adds. “I love Pride and Prejudice so I wrote Victor and Yuuri in that world. The same with Top Chef, Anastasia or Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. Sometimes that’s something a lot of people want to read and sometimes it’s weird and esoteric and I can never quite tell what people are going to like. I just hope for the best.”

But then, Mtothedestiel says that the only person who has to like a story you write is yourself. According to her, a common trap for aspiring writers is being too worried about what other people think.

And to the aspiring writers out there, she advises that they get excited about research. “I spent a crazy amount of time looking up silly 1920s details about Europe, just so I could add one line to my Anastasia AU that might give it that extra richness,” she says. “Little things are important, like the rhythm of your characters’ speech or the slang they use! It all adds up to an AU people can get lost in.”

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