This definitely has precedent!

New mission part 2! Unto Pixie Hollow we fly! by Kі nо Shirayuki on 2022-05-25 11:39:37 UTC Writing Reply

Urato and Inasuke's mission seems like it's about to end quickly and cleanly when surprise after surprise hit them, and they encounter two people…

re: mission part 2 (spoilers) by doctorlit on 2022-06-01 12:25:15 UTC Edited Reply

Oh, interesting! We don't see missions combine very often. I'm instantly suspicious of this Helena; it's not exactly common for background OCs to break out of Suefluence. I winder, if the two stories badfics described a similar character, would they both become the same character? That would make Helena more aware of the fourth wall, and explain the two fics linking with each other.

Hope no one forgets about the original Suvian still being tied up!

(edited to add this, because I forgot:)
For this one sentence: "She was instantly replied by three loud startled screams." "Replied" can't really be used this way in English. A common way to rephrase this would be, "She was instantly met with three loud startled screams." If you don't like the sound of that, you can try rephrasing the sentence a bit, something like, "As reply, she instantly received three loud, startled screams."

—doctorlit, second star to the right and straight on 'til work shift
[spoilers] While we're at it, by Kі nо Shirayuki on 2022-05-25 23:40:57 UTC Edited Reply

I shall introduce my theory for what happens to multiple badfics taking place in the same event: instance theory. For those familiar with MMORPGs, many games have what are called "instanced" maps, in which there are multiple copies of the map and each player visiting that map is on a copy, thus will not see other players also there. I'd like to imagine that each badfic takes place in an instance of the original canon, and if left untreated will start to "merge" with the canon instance. In many cases the badfic instances end up "merging" together, leading to what happens in the mission up there; whether one badfic can "see" another badfic depends on this "merging".

This definitely has precedent! by Lily Winterwood on 2022-05-26 00:50:27 UTC Reply

As mentioned in Ls's post, ficverse fusions have occurred before. I'd argue an advanced case of instance theory happened in Andy and Saphie's Suedom where an unsustainable amount of Mary Sues were created by the Bridge, causing multiple Mary Sues to show up in the same locations trying to target the same characters.

There's also an unpublished-but-still-being-written cowrite between me, Zing, and hS where two separate missions end up merging because so many of the details of the Sues were the same. Two purportedly-different Sues recycled the same names for themselves and Random Elves in their vicinity, used the same Cute Animal Friend (a Cold-drake named Shadow), and bam.
I like that idea. (nm) by TheBefuddledBookworm on 2022-05-26 00:01:04 UTC Reply
I believe there is a wiki article on the subject. by Linstar on 2022-05-25 23:56:53 UTC Reply

It can be found here.

Interesting. by Linstar on 2022-05-25 13:47:37 UTC Reply

(Warning: Spoilers!)

This is a good twist. I like that the Word Worlds collided. But maybe you could’ve shown a bit more of the badfics? I was a tad confused for a bit.

The description “stranger fairy Helena” just seems really awkward to me. Maybe “the stranger, a fairy called Helena” would be better?

I thought that the paragraph where the prose explained what happened could have perhaps shown a little more.

Anyway, I liked, exited to see the next part.

—Ls