Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-25405817-20160511154306/@comment-7622429-20160820153828

Hidden Scorpius XI wrote: If you check the thread's backlog, you'll see that this story-writing aproach is very frowned upon with Crossovers. I'm sorry.

A story where Neo tries to get revenge on Ruby for what happened to Roman IS a good premise, but trying to make it identical to the frame of another story is not only a bad idea, but also lazy. Identical is bad, but creating a crossover story that uses elements of known plot arcs from certain IPs can work well if you do it right, like, say, weaving the elements of one source to intersect with others from another source.

I do it all the time in my own series, using certain storylines and connecting them to others whilst adding a bit of my own twist to them.