i really love this question!! i find that i work best creatively when given a set of boundaries to play in. it can be so overwhelming to me otherwise (i get decision paralysis buying groceries) that i prefer to have some kind of direction to go in. for me, that tends to be canon compliance, because i can work with what they give us and what we can interpret. and what they do give us is so rich and complex and fun that i feel like there's so much that can be done there, and i love to explore headcanons and expand on the things we see. minsung especially keep feeding us such good stuff it takes up a lot of my brain space haha

BUT i actually would like to write an au! i did start a boxing au for a big bang event that i dropped out of, but didn't feel very strongly about it. i'm about to attempt one for real, but it would still be quite grounded and slice-of-life because i do enjoy that personally. and hopefully that'll be an easy way for me to start exploring other things.

thank you for asking!!