Are There Any Heartstopper AU Animation Projects?

I adore how 'Heartstopper' inspires so much fan creativity! No official AU animations exist, but Tumblr and AO3 are full of storyboards and scripted AUs that could easily be animated. My favorite is a punk-rock AU where Nick drums in a band and Charlie writes lyrics—someone even animated a snippet of it with rough sketches synced to a DIY soundtrack. It's raw but captures the energy of the comics perfectly. The fandom's dedication makes me smile; they treat these characters with the same care Oseman does.

Heartstopper has this magical way of capturing queer joy in such an authentic, tender way that it's no surprise fans have created their own spin-offs and AUs. While there isn't an official AU animation project from Netflix or Alice Oseman yet, the fandom has been wildly creative on platforms like YouTube and TikTok. I've stumbled across animatics where characters are reimagined as fantasy knights or sci-fi explorers, all set to the same emotional beats that make the original so special. Some even splice dialogue from the live-action series into entirely new scenarios—like Nick and Charlie as rival bakers or time-traveling detectives. The beauty of it is how these projects preserve the core warmth of their relationship while playing with genre.

What's fascinating is how these fan works often pull from Oseman's own universe-building. In her books, minor characters from 'Solitaire' or 'Radio Silence' pop up in 'Heartstopper,' so fan AUs extend that further. There's one set in a 'Shadowhunters'-esque monster-hunting world that still manages to include Elle and Tao's art school dynamics. It makes me hope Netflix might consider anthology shorts someday—maybe a 'What If?' series for different AUs, given how rich the source material is. Until then, the fandom's passion keeps the story alive in so many unexpected ways, like a love letter to the original.