A Fan Fiction Shared Universe?

I've had an idea brewing in my head lately, driven partly by nostalgia for tie-in novels for movies and TV shows and by nostalgia in general.

I want to write a series that's essentially a Massive Multiplayer Crossover but it's all in a single Shared Universe that follows a basic framework built around a vaguely modern setting based on the 1990's and early 2000's.

Expect a fair bit of Fusion Fic and Alternate Universe for certain characters and fandoms so they can be reimagined to fit this shared setting.

The setting itself is ostensibly the United States in the year 199X and as such, several of the anime characters involved will be based on their old dubbed versions such as the DIC and Cloverway dub of Sailor Moon or the Cardcaptors dub.

However, I want to draw from multiple franchises and multiple genres.

As much as I personally dislike the MCU (just not my cup of tea) I do like the idea of the series being broken up into several phases setting up which characters and stories will be put in and when and where it will happen.

Is there potential in this idea and would anyone be willing to collaborate on this?

Edited by NinjaGoth on Jun 17th 2020 at 3:51:03 PM

Maybe! What kind of franchises do you have in mind?

*starts reading the thread*

Well, this certainly sounds interes-

...Never mind, I'm out.

Good luck for this project, regardless.

*leaves*

Don't get me wrong, those dubs were awful but there is a campy nostalgic charm to how bad they were

Some of the really egregious stuff (like Sailor Uranus and Sailor Neptune being "cousins") will be cut out and instead be more faithful to canon

I actually have an entire list of potential fandoms to include.

I know for sure I want to include some AU Kingdom Hearts and Final Fantasy characters (namely from VII and XV, and maybe VIII too) in there as well.

Edited by NinjaGoth on Jun 17th 2020 at 5:47:05 AM

I can't promise anything just because of limited reference pools and being hilariously inefficient at my own Massive Multiplayer Crossover, but we shall watch your career with great interest.

True, and I'll admit it is kinda difficult when you have so many ideas you want to include but you have to streamline your ideas.

Kingdom Hearts is definitely one of the things I'm into.

Excellent

Are you cool with AU's?

Specifically, horror AU's or Dark Fic AU's?

I might be narrowing things down, but I promise to keep the Kingdom Hearts characters in there as I think the series lends itself well to multiverse and crossovers.

I don't have a lot of experience with dark stuff, but depending on other details, I might be able to go with it.

Well, the more I think on it, the more I want to include horror tropes and supernatural stuff like vampires, werewolves, ghosts, witches, demons, and so on.

Some of the crossovers would be with horror movies and games, as well as certain non-horror works that can still fit.

The main protagonists are Sora, Riku, and Kairi but other characters from KH and Final Fantasy will be in there too.

Edited by NinjaGoth on Jun 17th 2020 at 10:19:54 AM

The subject of the post and the title were two totally different things in my mind. This topic is not at all what I thought it was. lol

I originally thought of having multiple authors writing their own fanfics, but cameoing other author's characters in their own stories as a way of building a larger world across fanfics in a single fandom.

I'd be up for that thing, also.

Honestly, that'd actually be a really good idea

I'd love to have some co-authors so we could work on different inter-connected fics in the same general AU setting

I had an internet friend that basically pieced together a shared multiverse. We were in an insular fanfic community and shared several OCs and situations among each other. I've seen this kind of thing being pulled off, and it can work. It even seems like fun.

If you are doing this, I call dibs on Cardcaptors...

Edited by Kaitroper on Jun 24th 2020 at 6:47:11 AM

Awesome

I might end up making an outline of the fics and fandoms involved in this Shared Universe.

Should we do the "Phase" system the MCU popularized?

That was the general idea and we did toss around ideas like a collaboration fic at the end of everyone's individual fics where the primary protagonists would team up for an even greater threat for the shared universe of fics, kinda like the Avengers.