Displaced Stories: Ruining Crossovers Perhaps? · 6:36pm Feb 28th, 2016
Displaced Crossovers, the story of a person or persons whom crossover from our world due to an item of significance that they bought or gained and are transformed to the character that the item is from. They then proceed to screw with the Mlp world due to either knowing events before they happen, overpowering major characters, or having a dislike of the Mlp world from pre-conceived notions of the series as humans.
Is Displacement Good? Short answer is no. No they aren't at all, the reasons are simple, it takes the believability and character growth out of the story as the major character has knowledge of the world or they hate Mlp and proceed to go ape when they come too. They don't develop this hatred dye to events or the characters they interact with. They just start with it like a hatred of Hippies or something.
Authors who do Displaced Fics are lazy as the authors are using a pre-made idea to enter the world without putting any thought into how their character from the crossover would realistically enter the world. Plus when I see a character like say Grevious from Star Wars I want to see Grevious not some idiot wearing his skin and OOCing the shit out of the character. That's what the problem drops down too. These Displscement Fics are butchering beloved characters so that their ocs or even their self inverts are able to much around in the Mlp world withou coming up with an interesting development where characters from a beloved series are forced to come to terms with their demons or how their society differs from the world of Mlp.
To end this rant, I care for really good crossover Fics, there are several amazing ones I've read and fallen in love with. "Friendship is Scaleless", "The Bridge", "The Arrogance of Man", and "Iron Hearts" to name a few. These are true crossover Fics. Not that barely thought out mess that most Displacement Fics are.
I agree with most of this, that's why I with my book The Sacred Sword I decided to have it be more like two souls in one body, which in turn allows for "Cobalion" to have different intakes on different situations, as a displaced author this; "Authors who do Displaced Fics are lazy as the authors are using a pre-made idea to enter the world without putting any thought into how their character from the crossover would realistically enter the world." is very insulting, I actually spend large amounts of time thinking about an idea for a displaced story before I even start writing it, while I agree that a pretty large portion is like that.
So very true but not always, such as with Headless, not Heartless where it takes Dullahan from Golden Sun, sometimes these actually have the characters from their series which has no personality and so on actually have it.
Aye, I did that with The Sacred Sword but he did not know of the events or really anything about the MLP series, and with my book Heroes of Equinox, The Guards of Truth I already started with a messed up timeline, and I just want to ask, with "-the authors are using a pre-made idea to enter the world without putting any thought into how their character from the crossover would realistically enter the world." really? The whole thing is freaking about a human dressed up as a certain character being put into the MLP universe against their will, there is little room for variation and somehow people find ways to do so, and by saying; "-the authors are using a pre-made idea-" what you are doing right here is like with how when Terraria came out a huge majority of people said it was a rip-off of minecraft, or like how people call Starbound "Terraria in space", just because it looks like or uses a general base it doesn't make the creators lazy, in fact, it actually allows creativity, also by saying "-the authors are using a pre-made idea-" I just want to say, how dense are you? This entire fandom of MLP and any fandom in fact, usually uses the places, locations, characters, races, etc... as templates just like how the Displacement stories do so as well but with more to the template, you can make a book about how Nightmare Moon came into existence, or if Twilight Sparkle was Luna's daughter, or if Twilight was kidnapped when she was a child and then was raised by dragons her entire life, you are still using a pre-made character, world, race, etc. So that means that by saying that you're flipping the verbal middle finger at every fandom that exists, by defining it down by saying, "-the authors are using a pre-made idea to enter the world without putting any thought into how their character from the crossover would realistically enter the world." you are also saying something that is LITERALLY telling almost every Displaced author (excuse my language) to go fuck themselves.
While I agree in some areas you're going a bit overboard with this.
I've since altered my perspective of the whole series since reading at least one other Displaced.
3804225 That's good to know, btw if you want me to notice that there is a button that has a >> in it and if you press that it gives that person a notification so they know you replied.