#Psych AU

[ditzybat]

Everything is the same AU except - Tim is a ‘psychic’, but in actuality he’s just been amazing at picking up patterns from a young age, it was a useful tool for the few times his parents brought him to their archeology digs and one of the few things Jack and Janet acknowledged and praised him for. Imagine Tim realizing that Jason isn’t actually dead - how you may ask? He visits his grave just to talk sometimes and notices disturbances in the soil and takes initiative to dig up Jason’s grave - he runs to Bruce who thinks Tim is a little unnerved stalker freak for digging up his sons grave… but, Tim claims to be psychic to get out of seeming like a creep desecrating a dead child’s grave for no reason. And in the midst of Bruce’s grief the man never fact checks Tim on this lie, so everything happens the same as in canon except Tim has to bullshit his way through investigations and major life events.

[dragonpyre]

Batfam Psych au

Duke actually has "psychic" powers but would never reveal that to the world at large. And Jason is a drama queen

Commission info / ko-fi

[erinwantstowrite]

this is how i really want peter and clark to meet in the psych au (but it MIGHT happen another way cause I haven't actually written it yet)

[thatonedudeinthecorner]

Psych (2006) au where it has nothing to do with the plot of the show but in college Shawn played in a dnd group and he bought weighted dice and he just lies about it to all of his friends and the players and they believe him because god dammit he’s just so good at lying.

Shawn didn’t even go to college but he snuck into the campus dnd group because Gus was the DM and Gus is the only one who knows that he’s cheating, but his character is really well written and because of his rolls the campaign is really productive so he just lets it happen.

But at the beginning of every session he goes “Shawn you need to stop using weighted die, it’s not ethical dnd playing and you’re going to get caught and everyone’s going to be really mad at you” and Shawn goes “okay but it’s really funny though, isn’t it?” And Gus just sighs and then they make out or something.

[justanother-fan]

Peter and the AUs just hanging out <3

(All these AU concepts are from erinwantstowrite)

(I have now also finished the animation project that this was a part of)

[kitteneddiediaz]

WIP Wednesday

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Here's a small little thing from my Psych fic!

“No, Chimney, we don’t start. Period. You guys want another crime scene? You want another dead body? Go ahead, engage. But if this guy just wants me to solve his stupid puzzles I’d rather not play.” Buck says. “Oh Buck, I wish I had the luxury not to follow a lead in a murder investigation.” Athena responds. Buck can honestly say it’s been a few years since he heard Athena use that tone with him. He can’t help but curl into himself.

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[lensinski]

i'm only on season 2 of psych and i know they won't go with it, but i would have LOVED it if shawn's backstory was just that he was a criminal.  

his dad busted him as a teen, sure. but he ran away from home after that and all the jobs he claimed to have had were either part of a con he was pulling or invented to cover up the fact that the spent time in jail ("i spent a season with a dance group in buffalo" > "i spent half a year in jail in buffalo but my cellmate was good at doing the moonwalk"). that's the reason his dad doesn't talk to him anymore. he also blames himself for training shawn for being good at running from cops. 

we can see all the making in shawn's flashbacks - he could have easily gone down that road! he could have counted cards at poker and pull casino cons or use his perception to run from police and con people into trusting him. not to speak of gus' parents thinking he's a bad influence. he's way too good at blending in at any job spontaneously, almost as if he has experience doing that. also he has no qualms or guilt about it. he walks around breaking into houses and messing with the police because he's not scared of ending up in jail, he's been there a lot, he's very good at getting by and at this point he's simply used to it.  

his only downfall was his financial mismanagement and lack of organization. he was good at executing plans and impulsive ideas, but not good at planning or accounting for all the fallout. which means he fell out with partners a lot and had to skip town often when he got into trouble again. (spending all his money, messing with bosses, being disrespectful... basically being shawn) 

shawn comes back in town after freshly getting out of jail, done with always being on the run. when the police check his file in the pilot, they realize he's a serial con man with A LONG criminal record, so of course they are suspicious (in this version it was lassiter's partner working the case so that he doesn't immediately know about shawn's past. only the chief does, who keeps shawn's record buried from them so that he keeps working for the police without their suspicions).  

shawn realizes he can finally settle down and have a job that still satisfies his need for play and action while helping people and using his skills. his dad needs time to start trusting him again. he's so loose and fearless around cops and breaking their rules because as much as he loves this pi thing, he thinks he's still on buried time before he needs to go on the run again one way or another. so his development is starting actually settle down and let people back into his life. the secret he's hiding is not only that he's not psychic, but more importantly that he's a former criminal. and he knows if o'hara or lassiter knew it, they would never trust him again.

[iloveolivegarden]

This may seem like a hot take but Shawn and Gus are Sirius and Peter variants

[scottishaccentsareawesome]

(this may or may not be influenced by the fact that I’ve been binging “Psych” recently)

Top Gun “Psych” AU

Pete Mitchell has always been extremely intuitive, thanks to observational skills his dad helped him hone ever since he was a kid.

…However, being intuitive and intelligent doesn’t always save you when your other biggest personality traits include immaturity and goofiness (aka, an underrated sense of humour, if he does say so himself).

…Which is how Pete gets in trouble with the police one day. All he’d been trying to do was be a Good Samaritan and let them know who committed their latest unsolved robbery - but apparently, his observations were a bit too spot-on to make it seem like he wasn’t involved.

Detective Tom Kazansky (smart and gorgeous) and Detective Ron Kerner (stubborn and grumpy) don’t believe that he’s really just that smart , and neither does the Chief of Police, Mike Metcalfe.

So…Pete decides to have a little fun with it.

…He tells them he’s psychic.

They of course don’t believe that, at first. But Pete can tell just about anything about anybody thanks to his keen observational skills, so pretty soon, he has them, and the rest of the police department, believing it.

…They take him on as a psychic consultant for the police department, which absolutely delights him…especially when he convinces his lifelong best friend Nick “Goose” Bradshaw to partner up with him.

”This is a terrible idea, Pete!”

“Goose, don’t be a gooey chocolate chip cookie…!”

[wise-lizard-wizard]

Oh my god, I just realised from this post

That Shawn traveling for over ten years means that an AU where Shawn meets Pierre Despereaux pre-canon is more than possible. (Not that canon has ever stopped me but I love when puzzle pieces come together).

Shawn could become a detective (sherlock holmes style), that tracks down Despereaux after every heist but remains just one step behind. The special Homo-erotic relationship that exists between every detective and criminal they can never catch would apply.

That or they could become art thief partners (well, if Shawn's moral code changes ig). Hell, in the art thief au, it ould even be Shassie bc Lassiter is hunting down a pair of art thiefs that have been evading him for years.

So much potential!

[dragonpyre]

Psych au where Shawn Spencer comes clean at the end of the pilot like “haha that was fun. But seriously guys I’m just good at spotting things. I’m not actually psychic” but no one believes him.

[erinwantstowrite]

screencaps from a tiktok i just posted because peter looked adorable here

this is for the Psych AU!! not close to being written but i thought about their dynamic and couldn't not draw it. (this is from that hilarious scene in that one suicide squad movie where Harley saves herself and gets out and the other guys are like "we were here to get you...")

[cupric-solution]

Shassie AU

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Tease Tidbit Tuesday

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Here is a short snippet from my Psych au that is coming along quite nicely!

“Buck, can you think of anything that would indicate where Eddie is?” Athena asks. Buck shakes his head, fighting back tears. “I can’t. There’s no way to save them both.” A single tear slips out of his eye, “we know where my sister is. We save her.” He looks around the room, seeing his teams’, his familys’ hearts breaking. “Okay,” Athena says, taking a deep breath.  There’s movement then, commotion as everyone hurries out to find Maddie. Buck feels numb, barely registering Hen’s face until it’s right in front of his own, unshed tears gathered in her eyes.  “Buck…”  “Don’t,” Buck whispers, a fresh round of tears sliding down his cheeks to pool in the corners of his mouth. “Please, don’t.”

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[theshadowrealmitself]

In that au where Shawn is psychic but he doesn’t realize he himself is actually psychic, he just thinks he’s faking it, I think Lassiter should be the one who figured it out first

Because Shawn is so good at putting stuff together and he’s been doing it for years, that no one else questions it, and then everyone else thinks he’s an actual psychic

Except for Lassiter, who’s always so skeptic, who tries so hard to follow Shawn’s line of reasoning and trying to follow a trail to figure out how he came to those conclusions, who knows that Shawn knows he’s faking it

And then one day he starts to realize that Shawn’s jumping around more than usual, there’s even less of a trail to follow, it’s hard to admit it, but after awhile it’s obvious that Shawn’s coming to conclusions (correct conclusions) that he’d only be able to do so supernaturally

Then he looks at Shawn’s face and realizes Shawn himself still thinks he’s faking it

[burtonbabygirlguster]

psych aus where shawn actually is a psychic but the powers never kicked in until he really got into detective work (like at least four+ years in) and his ‘visions’ gradually turned into actual visions but not necessarily helpful visions and he’s Freaked Out TM i love you and kiss you on the mouth