[OOC][RFC] Need to get something cleared up RE: multiple instances of characters

[Black Aeronaut]

I think the big thing that needs doing is to decide which Chibiusa is in the Metacontinuity. As per this post, we have a mix of manga and '90s anime characters.

I was trying to figure out what was rubbing me wrong about the whole mixing of the anime and manga characters like this, and I suddenly remembered...

https://theresnothingbetter.miraheze.org...displacees?

Doesn't that break with this?  Because if we're going to be having both anime and manga characters like that, then this matters even more because otherwise it's gonna confuse the hell out of a lot of people.

Don't get me wrong, I like it for the story telling potential.  And as Bob said, it's a very logical course to take.  But there is also another issue besides simply confusing the readers.

This is a Pandora's Box in that once you start letting the demons out, you can't simply stuff them back into their box.  Example: because of the whole Manga-Naru thing, we are now obligated to have Anime-Naru show up because otherwise Usagi is going to be very, *very* sad.

Unless you want to keep Usagi that way?  (Which also has interesting story telling potential.)  But that's not the implication I got.

And because you already have Manga-Naru, that also obligates us to have the rest of the SM Manga characters as well.

And if we do this with Sailor Moon, then that leaves the Box open for others to come out as well.  Which can mean that we could have as many as three versions of Motoko Kusanagi running around (Original, SAC, and Scar-Jo Film).

And yeah, rule of cool and all.  I'm not about to argue that it isn't....

...But that's a lot of characters to have to write about.  And we already have quite a lot as is.  We're gonna have our hands full just writing what we have now.  Unless we find more people who want in on the fun, this is gonna get very unmanageable, very fast.

But if everyone else wants to do it, then I'm not going to stand in the way of it.  Just keep in mind that it may be more headache than its worth.

Thoughts?  Bric-a-brac?  Kvetching?