Ohhh I see; yeah, I wouldn't...really be into the plot-napping, really, unless they were maybe doing something actually interesting with it. And now that you mention it, re: those kinds of genre--the dragon AUs, or the spies AUs, etc., I DO see those a lot. But since I'm not interested in those genres in fiction generally writ, I'm not really into them in fic, either. Because I too am very character-centered, and character-interested.