...I'm trying to figure out if this means it's entirely an au, or if it means an au version shows up from their world to kidnap the canon one, and both entertain me quite a bit.

honestly it could be any

Save them from canon...

could be from an almost identical au or could be from some wildly differenf au for shiggles

The thought of Orn being a pirate or something and semi-accidentally kidnapping the crown prince by punching him in the face besting him in a fight while trying to raid the castle and whoops, said prince apparently feels it necessary to follow because he was smitten impressed.

It amuses me.

oh my god this sounds wonderful

i was originally thinking someone from au coming to other universe to kidnap the other half and bring them back to the au for Reasons but this is a whole new au and i love it even mote

more*

Or Gwyndio being an actual dragon and in a twist nobody was expecting, decides to fly off with the captain of the guard instead of any of the princesses. Nobody is entirely sure what to do about this since who are you supposed to send to slay the dragon when your dragonslayer is the one who was carried off?

👀👀👀👀👀👀i am keeping these aus just fyi

I'm particularly fond of thing with fairytale setting where everyone is at least a bit genre savvy and then along comes someone who decides to either break convention or skillfully manipulate things for their own purposes.

An AU Snake kidnaps Jeb...?