Paper Beats Rock, Solar Princess Beats God-Emperor · 12:30am Apr 26th, 2016
I have, as I suppose most people have, certain requirements for fiction (and consequently for fan-fiction) in order to find it a good and satisfying story from my personal perspective.
It is trickier, of course, to have those for crossover fan-fiction, mostly because of the number of combinations, but it turns out that I do have some pretty specific requirements there, too. Both general and specific. Such as those I have, say, for the inevitable My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic and Warhammer 40K crossover fics.
Namely, that they should be only a few pages long at most, and should always end with "And then Princess Celestia hit the invading fleet in the face with the sun, reducing it instantly to a whiff of plasma, and harmony reigned once again in the magical land of Equestria."
For a couple of reasons, one of which is that there are certain realism issues involved in picking fights with Kardashev Type II civilizations that become even more relevant when picking fights with Kardashev Type II individuals , but mostly because watching the fascist hate-cult avatar of grimdarky grimdarkitude being vaporized without breaking a sweat by the Sugar Bowl warms the spiritual cockles of my heart.
Those fluffy, fluffy cockles.
And now I suddenly have this mental image of Princess Luna and Asdrubael Vect engaging in the mother of all staring contests - both absolutely certain that the instant they blink, pretty much everything will change. That, or some big Space Marine muckety-muck (Dante, say) staring at the flaming wreck of a Land Raider, saying "what do you mean that little unicorn is armed with a rapid-fire brightlance?"
And this is even without considering the possible implications if, say, Twilight or Cadance just hit the entire incoming fleet with a mental whammy that turned them into the most ardent defenders of Equestria possible.
This, of course, makes both no sense and entirely too much, all at once, as crack-crossovers so often do.