"YOWCH! MY BUTT!" cried Beast Boy.
The camera opens up panning over the wrecked, smoking, shattered streets of Jump City, ravaged by what seems to be a brutal battle still in proccess, from what we hear coming off-camera. The already mentioned cries of anal pain from Beast Boy, plus blasts of cosmic and magical energy, random battle screams, explosions, and the always reliable sounds of bone cracking. When the camera finally pulls into the scene of the fight itself, it already has finished, and Robin and Cyborg are tying Slade to a lamppost as the other three Teen Titans stand behind, Beast Boy rubbing his own butt with a deep frown.
"Boy, that had to be the battle of the century!" Cyborg gushed. "I'm not saying this because I was in it, but it was awesome! I hope someone was recording it, because I'll always feel sorry for anyone who didn't see it!"
"Enough self-congratulating for now, Cyborg," Robin said, taking hold of Slade's mask. "It's time to finally solve this conundrum. Who are you, Slade?"
He pulled the mask, just to see... a Batman mask underneath it.
The other Titans gasped aloud.
"OMG, Fanon was right!" Beast Boy shrilled.
"Wait," an unfazed Robin pulled Batman's mask off. There was a Darkseid mask under it. But Robin didn't stop, and kept on pulling mask after mask. Jim Carrey, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Sarah Palin, Larry the Cable Guy, Mad Mod, Spider-Man, Alfred E. Neuman, Terra, Elvis Presley, Lady Gaga, Wolverine...
Robin stopped a moment to catch his breath.
"Dude," Beast Boy asked Slade. "Don't you ever chafe?"
"All the time," Slade deadpanned.
Robin kept on pulling masks. Jinx, Brother Blood, Young Justice Robin, Superboy, Emiya Shirou, Saber, Doctor Octopus, Fidel Castro, Sailor Moon, an old guy with white hair and an eyepatch...
"Hey, ow, stop it! That's no mask!" the old guy with white hair and an eyepatch shouted.
Robin tugged on the face a few more times.
"I told you—!"
"I know," Robin smiled. "I'm just doing it because I want to, now."
Beast Boy's jaw fell. "An old guy without an eye? You mean we've been bested for like years by a grandpa with impaired vision! Man, it can't be! Everyone will be mocking us until we're Justice Society-old ourselves!"
"The right terminology is 'senior citizen', I think, Beast Boy," Starfire piped in.
Slade replied seriously. "Think whatever you want of my age, foolish youngster. It still didn't stop Terra from liking me."
"... dude, you aren't going there..." Cyborg said.
Slade laughed dryly. "Her kisses are very good, did you know that? No, of course you wouldn't..."
With gigantic wet eyes, Beast Boy turned around and ran away bawling.
"That," Raven deadpanned, "is the worst and cruelest thing I've ever heard from someone."
"I kissed your father too, you know," Slade said. "Or rather, I was kissed by him," he shuddered. "Very rough."
"Yes, he is," Raven said, to bewildered looks from Cyborg and Robin. Starfire was completely unfazed, though. "Don't ask," Raven requested.
"Actually, I just erased it from my data banks," Cyborg said.
Slade lifted his head in remembrance. "I took the battle name 'Slade' after my birth name branded my life into darkness and villainy forever..."
"What is your real name?" asked Robin.
"Deathstroke D. Terminator."
"Your mother actually named you 'Deathstroke'?-!" Cyborg gasped.
Slade thought of happier times, with his eye-patched and white haired mother looking after him as the white haired toddler played with a rattle, until he poked his own eye with the toy accidentally.
"Oh, son, I had hoped you'd avoid the family curse..." she sighed.
A single tear came to Slade's eye. "Yes."
"And your family is actually named 'the Terminators'?" Raven asked incredulously.
Robin was flipping through his Bat-Yellow Pages Book. "Actually, yeah, there are seven Terminator families in Jump City's directory. Five of them from Austria."
"Figures..."
"And I'd have gotten away with my master plan, too!" Slade muttered.
Silence reigned.
"Finish it!" Starfire asked.
"... no. I'm not falling THAT low."
"Oh, come ooooon!" Starfire whined, pulling Beast Boy back into frame as he sighed and became a green Great Dane.
Slade sighed as well. "... if not for you meddling Titans and your sometimes-dog! Happy now?"
"Quite!" Starfire flashed a beautiful smile.
Raven began floating away. "Next time, I'm checking the script before signing for the episode..."
"That's another pathetic cliche finisher!" Slade protested.
edited 3rd Sep '13 2:53:12 PM by NapoleonDeCheese
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Excellent work, yeeeeeeeeeeeees....
AAAAAAAAND it's up!
1994. Kamen Riders are real. Super Sentai are real. No one has seen an Ultraman since the 80's, but they're real too. That Zordon guy is creating Powerful Rangers… er, Power Rangers in the US. Lord Zedd is still single. The Kakurangers are fighting the Youkai Army Corps. It's time for the 4th Grail War. Energized by strange forces, calling strange Servants. Who will win? HENSHIN!
As promised, SOMEONE DIES! Can you guess all the Servants?
"It's so good, to finally have someone who understands," Raven stoically said. "Others might call this my weakness, but you, a fellow true warrior, of course would understand this is, indeed, one of my strenghts. With you, I don't need to fear being mocked, taunted or seen as a deviant, monster or freak of nature over this. And I want you to know, for that, I am thankful indeed. And I will always be, because I think I might be—"
Robin sighed as he sat next to her, trying to keep watching Pretty Pretty Pegasus in peace. "Raven, it's fine, I like the show a lot too, but... at the end of the day, it's still just a cartoon, okay?"
—-
In the next room, Beast Boy wiggled his eyebrows while making that call. "Oh, Terra? Yeah, it's me, BB. I know it's been a long long time, but I was wondering... Geez, Terra, that isn't a very nice thing to say at all...!"
Starfire sat next to him with a blatantly stupified expression. "But... But I don't get it! It's such a childish show...!"
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Guys, I'd like some advice. Which do you think is a better path for fanfics set in a particular work's setting: Crossing over pre-existing characters from other works to serve as supporting cast (be it protagonist-aligned, antagonist-aligned, or neutral), or using Captain Ersatzes of them? The former option minimizes the work that I would have to do for their names, backstories, abilities, etc., but on the other hand it may come with its own risks.
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I prefer crossovers, but only if it'll fit with the world.
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While I suspect that's for your Negima / One Piece thing, I'll ask for more clarification anyway, because it depends.
If the two settings mesh together without much effort, or at least aren't mutually exclusive - like Ranma One Half and Inu Yasha, for instance - then it's fine to go ahead and do a crossover as long as you know what you're doing.
But if the settings don't mesh very well - like Fate Stay Night with Code Geass or Mobile Fighter G Gundam - then you either have to do a lot more work on worldbuilding to make things fit. Or you can make expies/ersatzes and use them. I haven't read it, but I hear Infinity did something like that. I know that Susano-o is pretty much an expy/ersatz of Kamina.
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More like I'm writing a story set in the world of Overlord (well, technically an ersatz of it), where the Evil Overlord Villain Protagonist's choice of mistresses and/or political allies would include a number of often-popular female characters that cover a diverse variety of "niches" — like Ayane of the Mugentenshin clan (deadly and sexy super-ninja), Countess Isabella Valentine (dominatrix-themed Whip Sword-wielding noblewoman), the three versions of Arturia Pendragon (normal, Alter, and Lily) plus Saber Extra (female knight-kings, King Arthur mythological theme), and more than a few famous fairtyle heroines (Rapunzel, Sleeping Beauty, Snow White, etc).
And there's also the aforementioned Overlord recruiting the services of some badasses like Kenpachi Zaraki.
edited 14th Sep '13 9:40:08 AM by MarqFJA
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Mispelled Genesis there, bub.
Marq: In that case, yeah, you're probably better off just using Ersatzes. Unless there's some really convenient 'grab-people-from-other-worlds-for-purposes-of-crossover' plot device available.
Blarrgh!
Of course, Ammy isn't quite as psychotic as Tsukkuyommi.
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I dunno... The setting is technically a much more seriously Darker and Edgier version of the Overlord one (but still rather rich in parody),i.e. no danger of looking out of place due to omnipresent Black Humour parody), and the plot of the Soul Series, for example, can be made to fit into the setting with some modifications (and name changes for the characters' home countries, obviously).
Or did you forget the concept of Fusion Fic?
edited 14th Sep '13 11:47:55 AM by MarqFJA
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If there's a large amount of those characters, you're better off maming it stated versions of actually existing characters. Too many Erzatses make it look like you're writing Original Fiction instead of fanfiction.
To Love Ru surprise crossover.
Rito eyed the container dial Lala had been working on warily. "Oi, Lala. What's this?"
"Hmmm?" Lala hummed while going through her notes. "Ah, that's an alternate costume-maker I'm working on. It's actually finished, but lacking some tests!"
"Don't you already have Peke for that?" asked her fiance.
"Yeah, of course, but I'd never use a Peke for war purposes! That bio-suit is actually meant for usage by Dad's armed forces!"
"Bio... Y-You mean this thing is actually alive?-!" Rito yelped, stepping further back from the container and the black oozing form that moved within it.
"Ah-hah!" Lala brightly said. "I based it on fossils from some ancient life forms found in an old planet near our empire's outer limits! But rest assured, it's not anything like the Xenomorph eggs from last week..."
Rito was gulping and about to make a question on the wisdom of such a research when, with a loud cry of "Da-da!", Celine tackled him from behind and sent him crashing against the container.
Rito rose from the broken object covered by slimy, thick black goop, his eyes becoming huge and stark white, his mouth growing freakishly wide and armed with several rows of sharp teeth and a long drooling tongue. "BRAAAINSSSS! WE WANT BRAAAAIIINSSSS!"
Lala, without missing a beat, hummed, pulled a big chocolate bar out of a pocket, and tossed it into Rito's open mouth. As he devoured it eagerly, she said, "There! That should supply you with the Seratonin the symbiote suit needs and you only would find in humanoid brains otherwise."
After licking his lips clean, Rito asked, "So you're planning to equip your troops wearing these things with chocolate? How much would they need for a campaign?"
"Don't be silly, Rito. Too much chocolate is bad for the soldiers' health, and chocolate only can be found in Earth anyway!"
Rito followed that remark with a long, extremely uncomfortable silence.
Lala smiled innocently at him.
"Take this damn thing off me," he finally said. "I can hear it singing praises to evil in my head..."
edited 14th Sep '13 1:19:53 PM by NapoleonDeCheese
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But if the settings don't mesh very well - like Fate/stay night with Code Geass or Mobile Fighter G Gundam - then you either have to do a lot more work on worldbuilding to make things fit.
The settings of Code Geass and G Gundam, however, are kinda mutually exclusive. The easiest thing to do, if one really wanted to cross them over, would be to take the SRW route and completely abandon the Gundam Fight in order to instead focus entirely on the Dark Gundam plot and find a way to weave it into the Code Geass plot.
With my NGE/MGLN crossover, I recalled that Nanoha canonically has space between dimensions, thus implying a multiverse. Combined with the alternate continuities, it's not unreasonable to assume that MGLN cosmology allows for parallel universes that allow for crossovers, as long as there's a means for one side to a) find and b) access the other.
edited 14th Sep '13 2:01:28 PM by EvaUnit01
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I in turn refer you to how Napoleon handled his own crossovers in URAE.
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A fic which I have not beyond chapter 14/15-ish, and even that was at least two, possibly three years ago.
edited 14th Sep '13 2:59:08 PM by EvaUnit01
The way they use it in MGLN, 'dimensions' is just a way of saying 'warp space', with planets being IN said warp space. 'Dimension' once didnt always mean multiverse. Remember Macross/Robotech?
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Sadly, my exposure to Macross is limited to the first episode of Macross Frontier.
Oh well, it looks like I simply made the TSAB that much more awesome, now that they can contact and police other universes as well as their own.
You have a very incorrect definition of 'awesome'.
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Whatever. Already posted, and it's too late to try and work out different mechanics to allow for the crossover.
Besides, looking at the Nanoha WMG page, there's at least a few other people who interpreted "dimensions" like I did.
Canon shows they're wrong. Admittedly, it's the same canon tht lets Force exist...
A short snippet from a Tomoyo and Syaoran farce fic I'm working on:
"You had something to discus with me, Lee-kun?" Tomoyo said as she balanced her teacup on her fingertips. "I gathered from your tone it was quite urgent."
Syaoran nodded. "I feel it is. Daidouji, I find you physically attractive and arousing. For the sake of our friendship, I believe we need to discuss this."
Tomoyo nodded soberly. "I agree, Lee-kun." She took a sip. "As you have been most gracious in confiding in me, I feel I must return the favor and admit you have recently been the topic of certain nocturnal visions that would normally have starred my cousin and resulted in a form of nocturnal ejaculation. Naturally, I wish this turn of events to cease. It would certainly not do for me to be lustful of my best friend's boyfriend."
Syaoran blinked. "I thought you didn't swing that way?"
Tomoyo waved a dismissive hand. "No, I'm straight. I just happen to be a Sakura-sexual."
"Ah," Syaoran said, nodding sagely. "Makes sense."
edited 16th Sep '13 2:14:28 AM by SCMof2814
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Tales Calculated to Drive you Batty.
John Blake watched on as the gigantic cloud of the explosion grew over the ocean in the distance, with the breath knocked out of him.
"He did it. He... He has saved us all..." he finally could whisper, genuinely shaken.
One of the children asked, from the window of the school bus, "Isn't that still close enough to give us all radiation poisoning that will kill us slowly and horribly instead?"
John Blake blinked a few times.
"Just saying!" the boy added.
"Damn realistic movie universe. In the comics, we all would be getting superpowers!" another boy yelled.
Leader of the Holey Brotherhood
An idea I've had in my head for a long time now:
Zet Man Alphas.
Basically, Kouga either dies, or is badly crippled in the Jirou incident (even worse than losing an arm), while Jin loses most of his Zet genes just like in canon, but the gum is never created to help facilitate the transformation, and he never receives the Ring of awakening for some reason.
With a suit that has no user, and a superhuman with Nerfed powers, a desperate plan is formed: Jin is given the Alphas suit to compensate for his lost powers.
He still has his increased strength, so he can use it to a greater extent than Kouga could, and he still can't be sensed by players, but the battles are much harder now that he isn't Zet any more.
The story will definitely go in a completely different direction.
Not sure how this one would work, but maybe one day, I'll try to hammer something out.
One Strip! One Strip!
What I'm wondering is what Nanami meant by her last line.
edited 2nd Sep '13 12:56:21 PM by MarqFJA
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