Piercings — Tag Meaning
A tag for pierced characters and the aesthetic register they signal — punk AU styling, rebellion arcs, and the charged moment of noticing new metal. It often travels with tattoos in alternative-style AU packages.
What to Expect From "Piercings" Fics
Expect punk-flavored character design, piercing appointments as plot beats, and attraction sparked by hardware.
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Tattoos
Ink as story: memorial pieces, matching sets, soulmate marks, and the trust exercise of letting someone read your skin. Tattoo artist AUs aside, the plain tag covers characters whose ink carries history the plot will eventually explain.
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Alternate Universe - Rock Band
The louder, leather-jacketed sibling of the band AU, specifically rock and its subgenres: stadium tours, backstage excess, fame's corrosion, and the particular codependency of people who've shared a stage for a decade. Authors often map canon power dynamics onto frontman-versus-guitarist friction.
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Alternate Universe - Band
Forms the characters into a musical act — garage hopefuls, touring veterans, or something in between — and mines the inherent intimacy of making music together. Tour buses, songwriting as confession, creative differences as relationship friction: the genre comes with built-in metaphors that writers use shamelessly and well.
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