My favorite thing about fanfic authors is they can identify any gap in a canon timeline where characters are offscreen and exploit the ever living fuck out of it
They see a time skip of any length and go
me when i got addicted to the “sex during the energy pool scene in tron 1982” genre of fanfiction (all 5 of it) and realized that all of them were AUs even though they don’t have to be
(there is literally a couple seconds when it cuts away from them at the pool to show the tanks that were hunting for them, and then cuts back to them still at the pool, and there is absolutely nothing to indicate how much time passed in between. could have been hours of them all sucking disc)
