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Originally Posted by ZodWallop
Where else would you go for the inspiration?
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One fanfic subgenre is coffee shop fics. You put the original characters in an ordinary, everyday setting, like making them all employees and customers at a coffee shop instead of superheroes or whatever extraordinary they are in the original works, and play with how they'd act in that setting. Some of those fics are so different from the original works that it's pretty hard to spot the parts that are inspired by them. But someone who has read a lot of fanfic might recognise some coffee shop tropes.
In other fics, the inspiration is more obvious. Like the one where a poor artist finds a bottle with a genie who has been magically enslaved by an evil cult bent on world domination, and the artist and the genie defeat the cult together. Still pretty far from the original story of Captain America and Bucky Barnes, but enough left of the overarching story and the defining characteristics of the originals that it wouldn't be too hard to spot it even with the serial numbers filed off.