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Status:

January 6, 2022 Update: I'm not dead and I'm not abandoning my other stories. As those of you who are part of my Discord already know, the latter half of 2021 has been kicking my ass hard. I've had to deal with physical, emotional, and work issues. My personal care had become lacking. One of my friends passed away and a close family member was sent to the hospital due to COVID. My inspiration and motivation for writing waned in favor of other vices.

My Active Priority Stories:

TBD Chapter 13 Ben 10: Earth's Mightiest Heroes

TBD Chapter 18 Ben 10: Justice Incarnate

TBD Chapter 05 Danny Phantom: Ghostly Gamer

TBD Episode 25 Young Justice Watches Death Battle

Side Projects:

030% Chapter 02 Marvelous Blade

010% Chapter 03 Phantom Son

010% Chapter 02 Star Wars: Slayer

050% Chapter 03 Star Wars: Legends Never Die

020% Chapter 05 Shield to Support

020% Chapter 02 Fallout: Modern Warfare

010% Chapter 02 Stairway to Heaven

Test Pilot Stories:

015% Chapter 1 Infamous X-Men

010% Chapter 1 A Champion's Return

050% Chapter 1 Fairies and a Phantom

010% Chapter 1 Crimson Slayer

010% Chapter 1 Captain America: Last Light

020% Chapter 1 Hell Hath No Fury

050% Chapter 1 Atomic Renaissance

Hiatus:

020% Chapter 05 Shield to Support

000% Chapter 05 Shift of Focus

010% Chapter 03 Musically

010% Chapter 03 Remnant's Master of Shadows

005% Chapter 03 My Silver Beauty

005% Chapter 02 My Good Friend Buu

Story Ideas:

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My Pet Peeves:

1. Bad Ben 10 Crossovers:

I am sick and tired of the whole "I lost my family, so now I'm gonna kill myself" BS. It's been done to death. At least with Ben 10,000 Returns by Ashton Knight, Ben grows a pair and does something productive with his life. Ashton even offers a timeline and explanation since he or she made both series occur in the same universe. The only completed story that I can truly commend for the "I lost my family, so now I'm gonna kill myself" scenario is Ben 10: Unlimited by The Incredible Muffin. It was your story that made me love the idea of this particular crossover.

On a different note, there is so much plagiarism in the Ben 10 JL/YJ crossovers. Two stories had the same scenario with Wonder Girl, and one pretty much stole a kiss scene with Chesire from a DBZ/YJ crossover. For god sake people, if you are going to copy, at least cite the original work.

2. Black Holes:

For the record black holes do not lead to other worlds. Black holes are very large concentrations of matter with such a high gravity that light cannot escape it. It has an ever-increasing mass and can reach a near-zero volume. What authors should be referring to as a tear in space and time is a wormhole.

3. Bad Female Characters:

I hate it when authors make the nearby girls instantly fawn over the protagonist where they practically wet their panties. I mean really. That just ruins the characters of the girls.

4. Grammar and format

If English isn't your first language you get a pass. For those who do have English as a first language, read over your work. I highly recommend Grammarly.

5. Commas

There are so many times where there should obviously be a comma to separate clauses.

6. Dialogue

Separate dialogue between different characters with line breaks to help the reader know a change in speaker.

7. Crossover Characters Spill Their Life Story

People make the same mistake as many other crossovers. They have the protagonist, who just came to a new place tell his entire life story to the other characters. Why would they tell their life story in the first place? Who openly admits that they are from another universe/dimension. Secrets with slow reveal offer better drama and suspense to the reader.

8. RWBY Crossover Sins

Using the Forever forest, but for the love of God, be original about it. I don't want to see any cliche bullsh*t about someone walking in on initiation and then joining Beacon.

Bringing them to Beacon.

9. Danny Phantom Sins

Tragic/depressing beginnings

Overuse of the Ultimate Enemy in bad taste

Based on KTWizard

Thoughts on Crossovers:

I do prefer to write crossovers stories, mostly because I know they have the absolute most potential. I think this for two reasons.

1) There is no way anything you write in a crossover can possibly be construed as canon. People aren't going to say that "Master Chief never teamed up with Commander Shepard" because the whole point of a crossover is to combine two stories that are obviously their own tales but see how well the mend.

2) The opportunities are nigh endless. Yes, there are some stories that are just better than others, but you can combine almost anything with anything, kinda like shipping ponies!

I do have personal rules and pet peeves that I believe have to be followed for a good crossover story, however. While they are not set in stone, they aren't inscribed on sand either. They are guidelines that give you a lot of promise for your crossover, should you ever chose to write one. Or, just a general way to find the good ones, when you go searching. The rules are below.

Crossover Rules

1) The combination is fluid, not jagged

This may seem like a weird place to start, but just imagine if Louise from the "Familiar of Zero" summoned the Master Chief into Tristian. No matter the jokes you make, that wouldn't work. He's an already super-powered space faring marine that has guns, GUNS, and the skills to use them. At most, you'd get a few jokes about space travel and a bland story. A better combination that I've seen, Fate series aside, is with Assassin's Creed. The setting is very similar, bar the magic, but the differences are subtle enough that the characters still interact without focusing on every little difference. That's the key.

Any kind of crossover that you do has to be believable. This is easiest when you think of genres. Fantasy to Fantasy, Scifi to Scifi, those are clear. A bit of tweaking and you can get Star Wars and Mass Effect rolling. The same with Legend of Zelda and Lord of the Rings. The elements are all there, just a bit of combination questions and you'll be good!

2) Overpowered is Overdone

A very common trap writers fall into is having a single character come in and be overpowered in said universe. Sometimes this makes sense, other times it doesn't, but it never goes over well. You basically have a character in a universe with nothing to fear. I forget who said it, but the quote goes "Heaven is Boring, Hell is a Story." You need suspense to create a plot. Be it on the battlefield or speaking of politics, there has to be a sense that something could go wrong. Double the points if you write it as doing just that!

If characters are going to be overpowered, you have to justify them. Justify and THEN tone down. The solution? Either limit him or put him on the other side. You still have to be careful, as the sudden "they're evenly matched" doesn't make much sense if one character is described as being better than the other earlier.

3) Deviate, but don't Destroy

Quoting Zoom now, "Break the sound barrier and you get a sonic boom. Break the time barrier and you blow reality away." Basically, use the excuse of melded universes to change some things from canon. These changes keep readers from reading what can usually amount to fix fics, which only live for about a month after writing. Deviations are small changes, not extreme ones. Like, if you did an LoZ crossover, Link goes to the Zora domain first because it's close to him. Logical, different, and easy to follow. Destroying would be something along the lines of Zelda suddenly being evil and Ganondorf the good guy. That's a 'what if' fic by itself. Changing characters AND the story makes it hard to read fanfiction. Don't do it.