Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-25555436-20150618003008/@comment-25405817-20151029164207

I agree with Phantom in here. Crossovers are a difficult genre.

Cyrania is going after the "Combination School of Crossovers" (as I like to call it), where you break down the universes that you're crossing-over and combine them in their own story. Let's take for example my own story (read above): It combines the characters and locations from RWBY with several elements from the later, released installments of the Persona Series.

However, to do so I had to basically nerf down all the elements coming from RWBY's "Canon-verse" so that the elements on this "Persona-verse" didn't clash with stuff like "Aura" and "Grimm." In other words, I turned Remnant into something similar to our Real World. Just like the world from the Persona series (barring the supernatural phenomena from those games).

Now, with the Fanfic idea Cyrania is proposing. It sounds like an interesting crossover, setting the characters and elements from RWBY into a Star Wars styled story. Although I can't tell if he means to make a completely original story, make it a parallel to any pre-existing Star Wars lore, simply have Team RWBY transported to "A long time ago, in a Galaxy far away..." or retell any of the Star Wars Epidoes only with the RWBY Cast (I highly recommend to avoid using the latter two examples).

However, if they're going for a combination crossover, they have to take into consideration that both Aura and the Force are similar yet different concepts concepts:

Both Aura and the Force can warn a person attuned to it from nearby danger. But the aura is a source of energy that comes from the soul of its user and can chanel it to protect their bodies, power their weapons and heal themselves. Not to mention that Aura can manifest itself as Semblance, an ability unique to each individual *cough*glyphs*cough*

The Force is the energy that surrounds all living things, allows its users a greater form of precognition involving other living beings and, most iconic, the ability to push and lift objects and people with the power of their will.

Both are, in their own universes, abilities exclusive to the trained few, but they're not the same in any way. If in a story, you treat the Force as a power that comes from the soul and allows for special abilities, it is no longer the Force, it is Aura. You can't pretend they're one and the same, because it'd become either one or the other or become something completely different.