[ SECRET POST #3959 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3959 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

One of my least-favourite types of crossover is urban fantasy with urban fantasy. Most urban fantasies have fairly well developed worlds, and they just don't have the space for another, usually distinctly different, system to be slotted in. Like, in a Buffy/Supernatural crossover, how come the Winchesters (who travel all over the US) have never even heard of a Hellmouth? How come the vampires are so different? Hell, forget the vampires, what about the demons?
It's all just really distracting to me.

Now, urban fantasy meets, say, crime drama? That I can do. Or just straight-up 'character is pulled into another universe entirely'. Just give me some chance at suspending my disbelief.

[(Anonymous)]

Yes to all this ^^^!!!

[(Anonymous)]

These kind of crossovers can still work with some minor adjustments to both the 'canon' worlds to make them mesh. But yes, trying to just shove them together outright and handwave away something like the boys not knowing about the Hellmouth when that would be something that John Winchester would have been all over is a little egregious.

Maybe something like "Oh yeah, California is kind of a monster shitshow. Good thing there's a lot of hunters out there. The Hellmouth has its own thing going on, doesn't lead to 'actual' hell." Show a memory of John Winchester having a special lesson on 'how to tell what kind of vampire it is, remember kids, beheading works on both'. Buffy gets told that there are other people know about the supernatural, but of course, she is still the only one who can stop the flow of evil from the Hellmouth and save the world. The Council probably has policies about keeping the Slayer away from Hunters, because they tend to 'give them ideas' about surviving and not having to answer to a club of old English dudes.