Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-25405817-20160511154306/@comment-7622429-20160819154427

Huh.......... I have NEVER found this thread before. And to think that I've been tackling the subject matter of this one for YEARS. LITERAL YEARS. 2013, when I first started university (and failed, because douchey recent high school graduate). The folks over in chat know quite well what I talk of. Colossus By Design is my baby, and I put a lot of effort into it.

When I first started the series, it was simply sticking famous tokusatsu (suitmation giant monsters) like Godzilla, Gamera, etc., into an original setting to let them fight it out with other original and non-original giant monsters/robots, as is custom of most amateur fanfic X-over writers. But then I realized that I could go deeper. I decided that, after a little bit of planning and winging it, I would intertwine backstories and plot elements from several of these IPs to form a single cohesive narrative, one that wouldn't rely on outlandish shortcuts like portals or multiverses.

So, in short, my number one rule when creating crossover material, as I currently am doing, is to try and weave backstories and other relevant developments of the associated IPs into a single canonical universe, one where it's well established that those elements have always co-existed in some manner. In my own series' case, I do have to make up quite a few original concepts to intertwine these non-original properties together, but its worth it when you can have characters like Godzilla and the Flash exist in the same story without a convoluted cross-dimensional reason for it.

I pretty much said nothing original in overall intent here, since everything I've said has been covered already :P