Subject: How do you feel about ROTBTD?
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Posted on: 2015-10-24 09:14:00 UTC
Or Rise of the Brave Tangled Dragons, which is a crossover between Rise of the Guardians, Brave, Tangled, and How to Train Your Dragon? I don't think this crossover is great since the fanfictions based on it are too nonsensical, mutilating almost everything in the movies it was based on. I don't know why other teenagers can't see the damage.
I can't see it working very well. It's tough enough with mixing two plot-lines, let alone four.
Skarmory was tackling a giant mess of a crossover he contributed a long time ago, and the results...
Well, just see the mission by yourself.
There were about 17 continua involved. Yeah, it was a mess, but it sure made for a fun mission.
Though I guess it didn't matter in the end, given how the fic went south towards the end of the third act. Sarah is still awesome, though.
Back on topic, I always thought ROBTD made some pretty neat fanart fuel, but as a fanfic? A LOT harder. Apart from the continua involved taking place in different time periods (Brave and HTTYD may be in the same era, maybe, but RoTG is set in the present day, so that by itself kinda puts a damper on the concept - and that's nothing to say of including even more fandoms like Frozen, Hotel Transylvania, or Big Hero 6), there's also what fans do with the characters themselves. I've seen a lot of Jack/Rapunzel on Tumblr, along with Merida/Hiccup or Hiccup/Rapunzel. The inherent problem is that two of the four have love interests in canon, and the others may be well on their way to having partners of their own if you take the supporting material into account.
I guess the only way to go about a fic like that would be an AU, but that's a whole other can of worms I'd rather not try my hand at again, at least not in writing. For now, I suppose the darn good art that sometimes comes out of this movement will do.Is it a bad thing that I still ship HiJack, btw?
And yeah, looks like I was off mark about the number of continua. I think I misremembered a piece of dialogue from your co-write with EPL, the one where Falchion is saying telling Chris and Ami about the fic. I thought it said seventeen, but it actually said eleven.
A megacrossover with several canon plotlines overlapping.
How it ended? Badly.
After all, that's where Agent!Sergio came from, right?
But the result after polishing was really awesome!
I think it was talked about a while back. I'm not very impressed by it because not many (If any) good fics have been written in it.
ROTBTD began its hideously mutated existence as a reaction to the prevalence of SuperWhoLock on fandom blogs that "claimed" (read: vomited all over) non-fandom stuff on Tumblr. Because Tumblr is one of those places where people believe they are always right about everything ever (I fitted in rather well), this led to stuff like ROTBTD attracting a serious fandom rather than the more tongue-in-cheek one it had had previously. See also: the obsessions with Paul Blart, Bee Movie, and Shrek. Me neither.