Yes, because I specialise in alterniverse, and it IS a specific kind of story - the kind where you drop a stone and plot the results logically, not just stick everyone into a new setup because you feel like it. I severely dislike fics labelled as "AU" just because they disregard one aspect of canon with no explanation as to WHY.

And yesyesYES. This is why I write AUs. This is why the AU of DOOM has eaten my soul. I _love_ coming up with all the little tiny details of change, and I love plotting it all back to one moment. The AU of Doom comes down to one tiny change, really, and it's not Hisoka's belated death so much as the first major consequence of his not dying when he was meant to...