Brewdening Love Expanded Universe

Brian and Hugo OTP

Brewdening Love is an infamously bad Twilight fanfiction. Throughout the years, however, a group of snarkers from the Twilight Sucks forum has added bits of Fanon to it, making it grow larger and larger until it became a true Expanded Universe, if not an Expanded Multiverse. More recently, the guys at Twilight Sucks have switched from snarking chapters of the original fic to writing new fics based on this fanon.

When this page references the Twilight Sucks forum or thread, it means this thread. Don't hesitate to come by and leave a message or your own fic!

Tropes used in Brewdening Love Expanded Universe include:

• Ascended Extra: Hugo Smith, Joan's father, is usually more than just a "drunken bastard".
  • Also, Brian, who only appears around chapter 27 or so of the original fic, is usually given a lot more presence.
  • Father James Holden, weirdly, is usually more important as well, becoming The Fundamentalist and a Mentor Archetype for Joan.
• Ascended Meme: Hugo having many jobs is the usual explanation for Erin's constantly changing her mind about his occupation.
  • Is there one fic where Brian speaks without saying that he's the FBI ?
• Alternate Character Interpretation: Often centered around Joan, and it's rarely pretty.
• Badass Normal: Brian, always. Except when he's a Badass Abnormal, of course.
• Backstory: A lot is usually added to the canon material.
• Character Development: Of course.
• Fan Nickname: Joan's father is named Hugo, (almost) always.
  • A lot of the TS writers are naming Joan's mother (if she exists) Louisa.
• Filk Song: Aside from writing fics, the folks over at Twilight Sucks really like rewriting songs to be about Brewdening Love. So far, we've got:
  • Sex-ah Running (Kung Fu Fighting) — here
  • A Snarker's Life For Me (A Pirate's Life For Me)
  • Cullen Boy (Soulja Boy)
  • Three versions of Barbie Girl, two titled Mary Sue and the other Trolling Girl — Trolling Girl is here
  • Gonna Be Right Back In Love (Never Gonna Give You Up)
  • The Final Chapter (The Final Countdown)
  • A version of Don't Stop Believin'
  • A version of Bring Me To Life
  • She Writes, We Are One At Last, Brewdening Love, and Mary Sue Girls (Two Worlds, You'll Be In My Heart, Son Of Man, and Strangers Like Me) — all here
  • Bad Fanfic (Bad Romance)
  • She Writes Such Crap (He Drives Us Bats) — here
  • Her Fics Suck (I'm Still Here) — here
  • I Won't Say They're In Love (|I Won't Say I'm In Love) — here
  • A Troll (One of Us) — here
  • "Get Her Banned" and "Soon We Will Defeat the Sue" (Be a Man — Get Her banned is here, Soon We Will Defeat the Sue is here
  • Two filks of What is this Feeling? — First is here, second is here
  • A filk of Hellfire (including the reprise) and of Out There — Hellfire is here, Out There is here
  • A filk of Steady as the Beating Drum — here
  • A filk of Witch Doctor — here
  • A filk of I Know Where You Sleep — here
  • Here on TwilightSucks (America) — here
  • Brugo (Judas) — here
  • A filk of Martina McBride's Independence Day — here
  • A filk of Better than Revenge — here
  • A filk of Alligator Sky — here
  • It's Not My Fault (I Can Change) — here
  • A filk of the Joanna quartet — here
  • A filk of Listen With Your Heart — here
  • A filk of Gay Pirates by Cosmo Jarvis
  • A filk of Hank Green's song based on Looking for Alaska
  • "This is not Brewdening Love ", a filk of Hank Green's song "This is not Harry Potter ".
  • I'm the FBI (Bring Me To Life) — here
• Hatenon: Basically all of it. Things such as The Unit or the idea that Brian and Hugo were high school sweethearts often appear in multiple stories.
• Hatedom: Started as this to Brewdening Love.
• Hot Dad: Hugo is usually depicted as attractive and also happens to be Joan's father.
• Ho Yay: Brian and Hugo, or Brugo for short.
• I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: Most Brugo fics (especially Puzzle's) use this to explain Brian's prolonged absence during Brewdening Love.
• Jerkass: Joan
• Kaleidoscope Eyes: Due to Erin's Negative Continuity, Joan is described with both blue and green eyes within the original content. Some fics will keep that while others will stick to one color, namely:
  • Blue Eyes: Possibly Type 1.
    • Another way to explain the discontinuity would be the blue-green subtrope.
  • Green Eyes
• Many Of Us: Most of the authors are tropers or check out TV Tropes once in a while, so everyone has a tendency to play with, subvert, or hang lampshades on tropes.
• Official Couple: Brugo. Many fics introduce Brian earlier, or start with his introduction, just to spread the Brugo love.
• Older Than They Look: Brian usually is, to match his age to Hugo despite being able to pass for a teenager.
• Pyromaniac: Brian usually has hints of this, due to his Moment of Awesome in BL being burning down Joan's house.
• Slash Fic: Since the Official Couple is a gay couple, this is to be expected.
• Invisible to Gaydar: Brian and Hugo.
• The Fundamentalist: Joan and Father James Holden, at least, are depicted this way 99% of the time. Other characters like Jenny and Becca can be, too, Depending on the Writer.