THEY ARE!!! It's why the Divorce AU feels so tragic. I think you'll love it even if it's depressing because it reinforces just how special CyLynn are to eachother

She finds it very funny. She teases him about it

More than I can count! Let me try to remember as much of them as possible and list them.

Sadoswap AU: While their D/s dynamic is the same as canon, Cy's a masochist and Lynn's a sadist. They make it work.

Teacher AU: Cy is 17 years older than Lynn and also her high school Math teacher. Grooming ensues.

College AU: Lynn is 17 years older than Cy and also his college History professor. Horny disaster ensues.

Baby AU: Cy somehow gets Lynn pregnant and makes her keep the baby, a little girl they name Olivia. Cy's a surprisingly good dad while Lynn struggles with paranoia due to fearing for her daughter's safety at the hands of her own father.

Divorce AU: Cy doesn't make enough concessions for Lynn so she ends up divorcing him. They manage to remain friends but Cy will never get over Lynn. She eventually finding a new Dom in Alec, a terrible, terrible man but great fuck, while Cy goes through a bunch of girlfriends who all suspiciously look a lot like Lynn.

Yaoi AU: "Lynn" is a bi guy named Eden who's been in a civil union with his best friend Cy for years and isn't allowed to tell anyone because Cy would rather die than publicly admit he's dating a man. It takes even longer for Cy to realize he's in love.

Kate Wife AU: Cy doesn't meet Lynn in college, doesn't develop any kinks, and instead goes on to marry Kate Anderson, one of his former students. Much more removed and less social, he meets and befriends Lynn after transferring to a new school.

Poly AU: Cy never fucks up his relationship with Kate and gets to keep her in her life, resulting later in a polycule with Lynn, Kate and Isabelle, with him at the center. They're all very happy.

Traumaswap AU: Cy is the one who goes through Lynn's "canon event" at age 19 while she remains blissfully untraumatized. It dramatically impacts both of their personalities and their relationship. Stone traumatized top VS silly fucked up puppy.

Hannibal AU: A CyLynn take on the show "Hannibal", where Cy plays Will Graham, Lynn plays Hannibal Lecter, and Isabelle plays Abigail Hobbes. Cy struggles with the half-unfounded bad reputation he has due to his dating his students at the FBI academy while Dr. Wu, his therapist and friend, seems to be pushing him towards indulging increasingly darker instincts....

Twins AU: Lynn and Eden are twins who are both into Cy and competing for his attention. Improper things happen in every direction of that triangle.

Furry AU: Everyone is an anthropomorphized animal. Lynn's a borzoi, Cy's a panda, Kate is a raccoon and Isabelle is a Silken Windhound. It's all very fluffy. Lynnzoi wears the cone of shame a few times.

BONUS ROUND: AUs that were created by fans!

Therapist!Lynn AU: Lynn's Cy's therapist. She secretly gets off to the crimes he confesses to during his sessions with her.

Roleswap AU: Cy's a traumatized rape survivor PhD student trying to rebuild his confidence by pursuing a mostly asexual BDSM relationship with his Physics professor Evelynn Wu, who tries to contain her callous sadism for him.

He's absolutely fucking unhinged about it, it ticks so many boxes in his fetish list.

Depends. Canonically? She'd want to stab the fucker. In the Divorce AU, where she doesn't know Isabelle exists? She's fucking him :)

Sometimes. She's frustrated by it, but it's also weirdly affirming for her as a sub, given she has an extremely hard time finding a dom that's up to her standards. It's a reminder of who she really is.

It made ME cry, that shit hits way harder than you'd expect. Don't worry, they'll be fine long term, though.

The fact they were a big factor in the divorce + him quitting his job at Trinity to go teach in a college because being around Lynn all day long is excruciating

She doesn't report him, and he stops going for teens after the divorce anyway.

The difference is history and circumstances. For the Kate AU, you have to keep in mind Cy never met Lynn in college, didn't become as socially developed, and key point here, never was introduced to kink. Even if Cy has a pretty strong libido across most universes, the reason he starts cheating on Lynn is because they were doing chastity kink play and he got frustrated at the fact denying her meant denying himself too, in a way. This version of Cy isn't kinky, doesn't see cheating as a "game" between Kate and him, so when she asks him to quit sleeping around if he wants to go steady with her, it's not a very big demand— they're not in a D/s relationship! As for the Divorce AU, it's less that Lynn threatened to leave, and more that she just up and decided to leave one day because Cy wasn't taking her emotional needs seriously, the cheating was just one part of it.

While Mac and I have played with the idea of her also getting with Cy because it would be very funny, ultimately for dramatic purposes she doesn't fit in that AU. She'd probably be off somewhere getting therapy, somewhat reconnecting with her mother and probably getting herself an OK Dom after looking for a while.

She removes it and gives it back to Cy, as a keepsake. He definitely doesn't feel extremely emotional about it.