Empiricist2
Let's play doctor!
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They can't even talk to other humans over the sound of them gasping to death.
With This Ring (Young Justice SI) (Thread Twelve)
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Silverias
Seeing is Believing
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It stands for "Random Omnipotent Being"
It's mostly used for SIs and CYOA things, tongue-in-cheek for "Guy who is bored and dumps you into new universe"
Coincidentally, I never, ever read CYOA
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But think of all the high quality reading material you're missing on...
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Like what?
Silverias
Seeing is Believing
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Name one.
I'm not joking. Give me a decent CYOA fic and I will give it a chance.
All I see are awful horrible Worm/MLP crossovers, Mary Sues, and other such terrors.
LUNG ISN'T A UNICORN!
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Eh guess I didn't make it sound sound sarcastic enough. The only one I ever found that was readable was Trolling the Multiverse (Worm CYOA / Multiverse SI) it not taking itself very seriously helps a great deal.
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Silverias
Seeing is Believing
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Oh, I knew you were being sarcastic, I was calling your bluff to see what came out of it. Someone PM'd me another one.
I do fear we're getting a little off topic, however.
How bout dat Ophidian?
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Something something slither, something something best girl, something something orange side.
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Pretty sure it's one Mr mxy since he comes from his own separate dimension and not the 3rd dimension which the multiverse is in.
A reality warping Bus! Haven't heard of that one before
*introducing Ms Frizzle to WTR*
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Ophidian>all other embodiments?
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you joke, but all other embodiments are essentially static, and the ophidian wants to be more than she is. Given time she may well end up something far more than she is now.
Silverias
Seeing is Believing
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CYOA is an SI story where you get to pick your powers before you go, on a bent and unbalanced "point" system.
They almost all start the same, "Oh no, I got an email for that weird CYOA and now I'm here! But I have all my powers I picked!"
Cue Mary Sue.
Misty Power
*Tries to tell joke* Nok.
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Yeah, but you don't want him to hear you say that, now do you? After all, who would want to shatter the fragile childhood dreams of a regenerating, pyrokinetic, rage dragon?
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It's like how there are almost no good SI fics because the basic premise is so easy to screw up, only worse because on top of that it's almost impossible to do well. Hell the only Si fic I actually liked has been this one, and those just have meta and maybe one cheat, CYOA have the same kinda weird meta as well as a built in aspect of mary su.
BlackLantern2814
Hello darkness my old friend.
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Negative.
PostwarGryphon
Traveller of Planes
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You are going to have to explain this for those who don't know.
Also, I might be recalling incorrectly, but I'm fairly certain Grayven helped Freeze and his wife out and then let them go.
For some reason.
Empiricist2
Let's play doctor!
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Well, the core concept of an SI, having yourself do stuff in a story, is pretty common. It's just that the author usually doesn't go all the way, and merely makes the protagonist either look a lot like themselves, or have a very similar personality. I've heard the Twilight series is the former, but haven't bothered confirming it; HPMOR is almost explicitly the latter, with a correction for age difference. The fanfic community is just a little more obvious about it and make the protagonist literally themselves, as well as telling everyone that it is them. That most SI fics are bad is mostly just because most fanfics are bad, in addition to the author being biased toward themselves
A CYOA is at its core a pretty bad idea. If you have the writing chops to make a premise you didn't come up with work, you almost certainly can make a better story by not limiting yourself to what someone else has come up with, even if they gave you a few options. It's kind of fun to think about how a CYOA would go, but actually writing one seems silly.
I don't think so. The only time I remember Gravy interacting with Freeze is when Freeze broke out of Belle Reve and Gravy was putting him back. I could be wrong though.
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Like I said, give her time. Necron too is static, the gap will shrink and eventually disappear. In time only the Life entity will be stronger, and even then only because it can add the Ophidians strength to its own.
Karuadin
Vago Mundo
Well, in the first place, there is no Nora (Fries).
No that was Rene!Snart.
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I suppose my sarcasm went unnoted. >.> I didn't know that's specifically what a CYOA fanfic was, but did know it wasn't what I was pretending it was.
Empiricist2
Let's play doctor!
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I'm getting my ice villains mixed up. In my defence, there are way too many of them, and they all have 'ice blast power' of one form or another.
BlackLantern2814
Hello darkness my old friend.
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Nonsense. Nekron is, was, and always will be the best entity.
(And what gap are you talking about anyway?)
Not since Skitter harvested his lower horn, at least.
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