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HandsomeRob Leader of the Holey Brotherhood from The land of broken records Since: Jan, 2015
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#1: Apr 2nd 2019 at 10:21:25 AM

This was an odd thought that came to me while (for mostly silly reasons) trying to think up a fight between Athena Asamiya vs Hinata Hyuga and I kept thinking a lot about how the latter's Gentle Fist would interact with the formers Psycho Power.

Would Hinata be able to seal off Athena's Powers via hitting her Tenketsu? Would Athena be able to counter this by healing herself of her injuries (maybe purging Hinata's chakra out of her body)? Are Psycho Power and Chakra even similar enough for the Gentle Fist to work. Could Athena just cloak herself in a a Psychic Barrier to nullify the Gentle Fist completely? Can Hinata do anything since her style is entirely Chakra based with mostly light blows (I think)?

And that's what I'm talking about? When you combine two different universes and have their character fight each other, how do you decide how their abilities clash against each other? I've considered a few fic crossovers (and I've even wanted to see the above fight on DEATH BATTLE!) and this has sometimes stumped me.

Edited by HandsomeRob on Apr 2nd 2019 at 11:21:47 AM

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HandsomeRob Leader of the Holey Brotherhood from The land of broken records Since: Jan, 2015
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#2: Apr 3rd 2019 at 1:47:30 PM

Well, it hasn't fallen off the page yet, but I'm bumping it anyway.

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#3: Apr 3rd 2019 at 7:12:20 PM

I feel like figuring out the logistics of Wrong Context Magic is part of the fun of writing crossovers between two vastly different speculative fiction works. I don't write fanfic, let alone crossover fic, so my first instinct would be to approach the issue in terms of what would best serve the plot or produce the most interesting results, but I know fanfic isn't always plotted out that way.

That being said, if this is really giving you trouble, you could always ask in a fan forum dedicated to either of those two franchises. Probably one for King of Fighters/Psycho Soldier, given that it seems to be the lesser-known of the two works.

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HandsomeRob Leader of the Holey Brotherhood from The land of broken records Since: Jan, 2015
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#4: Apr 3rd 2019 at 8:20:39 PM

Well, I know quite a bit about Athena and her moves through searching wikis and looking up vids on Youtube, and been brushing up on Hinata's feats as well.

Since the former has been in a few games (Psycho Soldier, The King of Fighters, and even Athena: Awakening from the Ordinary Life (which is an RPG with a bit of horror to it I think) she's going to have varying feats across the three canons, even though her abilities are more or less the same.

But yeah, the idea of Wrong Context Magic in crossovers is fascinating to me.

Like how Brotherhood Edward Elric would deal with the existence of the dragon balls.

The lone exception is probably Saitama. His whole point is you beats you in one punch, and if he doesn't you break yourself against him anyway as all your attacks fail to do any damage.

Edited by HandsomeRob on Apr 3rd 2019 at 9:20:56 AM

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HandsomeRob Leader of the Holey Brotherhood from The land of broken records Since: Jan, 2015
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#6: Jun 30th 2019 at 9:21:18 PM

It kinda depend of the nature of the power, saitima work well in crossovers because is power is physical, but let said one power use aether while the other is inside can come as veri weird.

Asl you can take the fact that whatever the hell make crossuniverse can also cross the diferent system of power, which can allow for very hilarious and intersing things....

Like for example, chararter of diferent universe cross their powers.

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