In the end, while individual plot points, objects, and places are important for fans to recognize, the most successful approach seems to come about when the writer extrapolates the character’s underlying identity, exploring those aspects that remain the same in the new setting, and how they will manifest.
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Transformation, Adaptation, Derivation? Moffat’s Sherlock and the Art of AUs
Derivative By Any Other Name; or, A Cultural Approach to Fan Fiction Genre Theory
For the most part, fan fiction is like porn—we know it when we see it. And yet when asked to delineate its boundaries, the genre is surprisingly hard to categorize.
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