Not really. ...?....
Because we are playing with fictional characters and actual real people. We know Nok and Nai. We are watching their story unfold. We know their personalities quite well and we know that they are compatible with each other. For sure we know this. The reason why I said I don’t know if I’ll write taew and James is simply because I don’t know the things listed above about taew and James. I don’t know if they are compatible with one another. I also need to ship them, in real life, to a certain extent for me to be able to write about them. I need to know why they would work together as a well. Writing au can completely fictional and made up however because you’re not creating your own characters, but instead are using real people in order to tell your stories, you, to certain extent, have to include the traits that those people have. I can’t write James as extremely quiet and shy when he’s very playful and touchy in real life ... ya know? I can put them in a thousand and one alternate universes and their personalities will highly be based on the environment/situation they are in. But despite it all, there will always certain things about them that will be same always. Who knows tho, it literally takes almost nothing for me to ship most pairs so eyyyyy I’m probably out here whipping out 20k fic by tomorrow like it’s nobody business... lmao jk....not really.... who knows...
I’m sorry that this is unnecessary long lol but I do care about these things a lot when I write so I hope that this makes sense like the way it does in my head lol