Hi there *waves* CWRPS fics are the only ones that I read and I do prefer the AUs - I love gay romances, one of my favorite genres, so the AUs are like, I don't know, watching a movie with them playing those roles. I know that some people write original stories and just post a picture of the actor with the name of their original character to show how they imagine him/her - I know that there used to be this really long gen but slashy scifi series and the author imagined one of her characters as Martin Cummins, the other one as Keanu Reeves. RPS AUs are basically the same, they just keep the name of the actor...