Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24573226-20160623204034/@comment-26452496-20160828183727

SomeoneYouUsedToKnow wrote: @Arrias: Deus Ex......it deals quite heavily with transhumanism. That's not an easy subject to tackle on. And if you sticked solely to augmentations without tackling the subject, then you just get a bunch of Ironwoods walking around.

The main difficulty with crossovers is....well, it depends on the kind of crossover:

1-Character from X ends up in Y fictional work.

2-X work with characters and elements of Y work added in.

Those are just 2 of the most common. With the 1st, there's the problem that different universes have different rules and power levels, which can make writing a story difficult. After all, if Goku from Dragonball, who can easily tear the moon in half with a single kamehameha without even going all out, ended up in Remnant, considering that holding back would be OOC for him, any attempt at a challenge is made null due to his power, or forced since it would be something only he could deal with.

With the 2nd, you need to be faithful to 2+ different works that may have conflicting themes and rules. If you focus too much on 1 work, it barely feels like a crossover. If you, hypothetically, make Deus Ex x RWBY, but the idea is literally just "RWBY with augmentations", then why bother making a crossover? Just make an AU with some Atlesian experiment involving training Cyborg Hunters, you get the exact same thing. Hmm... well I just started planning my concepts and ideas into my google docs and I have a few ideas, but I'm going to need some help if want to make this fic decent.

If you have any spare time, we could maybe collaborate together sometimes. Do you have a Google Account?