Thread:Matthew Labordo/@comment-27480112-20191101132050/@comment-26574738-20191101220742

Well because I'm me and I'm not supposed to be here, I won't adhere to your demands.

Its pretty obvious that your issues with the wiki stem from your own plans for Charavernus, especially this whole mega-crossover thing that seems to pop up everywhere.

So here's my take on all this with a little metaphor, or whatever its called.

Take a hot piece of metal. This ball is IaLR, and its slowly cooling and hardening. The ball is shaped to do what the shapers, the first role-players in IaLR, want it to do. This shaping process can be interpreted as the rules and fundamentals of IaLR. You, on the other hand, want to shape the metal to your own wishes long after it has cooled and set in place, and definitely most likely against the will of the others. Doing that wouldn't benefit the majority of us here, it would only just benefit you.

And besides, Mega-crossovers aren't the point of IaLR. When I first joined, I didn't plan to use the franchises here to my advantage because originally Athena, Aurora were part of their own separate universe. My only real change was Ibis' introduction, as the character as a whole was taken from American Gods by Neil Gaiman, one of my inspirations for In the Shadow of an Aurora's original story. And then there's Vortigon. I could've easily declined Rustbolt's offer to take Vortigon into my hands, but I saw an opportunity to work with, and yes, he's definitely strayed far from his source material, but I think it was necessary to make him a believable part of the franchise and for In the Shadow of an Aurora.

My philosophy with crossover stuff is to take something and change it fundamentally, but make it still recognizable as what it once was. My depiction of Scrap Baby will definitely be different from what's been seen in the FNaF franchise, as evidence by the little plot leak I've shown, but by doing that, I have an entire new window of opportunity to play around with her as a character. Perhaps the same will go with my first major Inkling character, Kalia, who'll be a hopefully unique take on an Inkling and change up things a bit.

And there's your third bullet point, which irks me at a deep level. How can you just assume that people aren't drawn to the development of characters across several spanning stories, making them feel like real fleshed out characters? It clearly does work, considering the success of story franchises such as Percy Jackson, Harry Potter and the Hunger Games, notable franchises which display the evolution of characters across the series. I can guarantee that Kyoji at the start of his introduction was must different from the Kyoji that was chosen by Elementia at the end of Dark Reign Again. And besides, what makes you assume that a mega-crossover series, with very likely poorly fleshed out and uninteresting versions of the characters you're using, will get people's attention? It almost sounds egotistical assuming that people are instantly drawn to such a thing. Now of course, I could be very wrong, and Charavernus could do better than anyone here expected, but until that does happen, I can bet you by yourself will struggle with the 500+ franchises you claim to eventually use. And besides, not everything works. There's very likely no way I could make Superman part of IaLR and have it not feel forced.

My point? You make a lot of assumptions on what the internet would perceive as interesting and well-developed, and simply assuming you're in the right because quantity equals quality, a statement I hardly can find myself to believe in, is a fairly egotistical mind set that'll only damage your weakening relations to this wiki. Claiming that character development is boring and mega-crossovers spark excitement in people doesn't actually prove a point, it just shows you're a bad at assuming what people enjoy about a story.

Oh, and regarding all your emotion-related issues. I'm probably the worst when it comes to being empathetic, so all I'll say is we can't change your thoughts on IaLR, only you can do that do that.

And with that, the dragon shall depart.