Coming Eventually: The War Machine. Also, my policy on inter-story Displaced crossovers · 1:31pm Jul 8th, 2017
Greetings Gotham, Joker here! As I'm sure some of you have seen, The Coming Firestorm has disappeared. The reasoning behind this is really quite simple. I've lost interest in it, and I'm more than a little disappointed with the lukewarm reception it got, compared with how well my creations usually do. Now, with that being said, I have other plans for Rex and Kilroy... those plans are pretty much summed up like this:
That's right boys and girls, I'm planning a War Machine Displaced story, with Rex as the guy inside the armor, and Kilroy (who is NOT a displacer this time around) as the JARVIS-esque AI. Also, before anyone asks, I'm as much a Marvel fan as I am a DC Comics fan, and before I took up my Joker mantra, I used to be called "The Goblin." As in, Green Goblin.
Now, why War Machine and not Iron Man? Because A: Iron Man Displaced stories have been done to death, and I've yet to see ANY War Machine stories. And B: I personally find the War Machine armor to be 20% cooler, as Rainbow Dash, who I'm so shipping War Machine with, would say. Plan so far is to have him fight for Equestria in the Sombraverse/Crystal Wars timeline, because I personally feel that's the best place to see War Machine's full potential and power. That, and I've really done the Assassinverse to death as well. Also, I plan on taking some inspiration from other gun-totting comic book characters as well, such as DC's Deadshot. How do I plan on doing this? Well, you'll see...
Now, with the announcement out of the way, I'd like to talk about my personal policy on doing crossovers with my Displaced characters. While I'm not entirely against the idea of crossing my Displaced over with someone else's, I really feel that putting the crossover within the story I'm trying to tell and having it shift gears like that really takes away from the overall experience of the story I'm trying to tell. Therefore, if anyone is interested in crossing their Displaced over with mine, I ask that they be willing to have said crossover take place in a seperate story, with it's own unique storyline, so as not to take away from the experience.
That's all for now. Stay perky.
Add in the stipulation of "and without them acquiring any bullshit powerups or new equipment that would make reading it mandatory in order to understand what's going on when they get back to their respective storylines." and you're set. Because regardless of my personal preference for leveling and getting all the abilities and items whenever I play video games, there are two reasons why that doesn't usually work in a fanfic format -Though I'll admit that it both can and has been done in a satisfying way before-. The first is that getting stronger in that manner is called "grinding" for a reason, and without putting in the time and effort to acquire them it just feels cheap. Yet having a twenty-thousand word training montage is just... no.
And yes, I'm speaking from experience on that.
The second is that it makes it mandatory to read the side story, which is one of the main issues with the usual Displaced collab chapters. People want a singular, cohesive storyline. They can intersect with others at certain points, but making them dependent on one another to make sense is a legitimately stupid move, for multiple reasons which I'm not going to get into right now.