Sorry for the delay in replying - it's been a rough couple of days . . .
It does - which, honestly, describes most of my story ideas, and why half of them get abandoned.
Perfect for my SI, the way his luck runs, but yes.I do enjoy how ridiculously unlucky Lakshmibai is, now that I've seen it, but yeah, that seems a bit limited.
The fact that F/GO implies the Lostbelt increases her parameters, somehow, means she's also complicated to figure out in terms of depowering (though perhaps being a Pseudo-Servant could counter that?), and using her violates my in-head canon of the Works only summoning one Servant per class (and only six, lest they have another Grail War). They have a Saber already, after all . . . And as aggravating as trying to choose among all Classes might be if I violated it (in some ways it would solve so many problems), the rule makes sense, and so it stays.
And the lack of detail is annoying in multiple senses - especially since Irkalla (another name for Kur) is one of the rivers in the Sin-Eaters' Underworld!I'm not surprised they'd make her one, as an underworld deity, but that does seem to be hard to work with.
Not really, no - though ironically, I do have an issue of Dragon magazine (one of D&D's traditional supplements) that details the Mesopotamian pantheon for use in 3.5 Edition, so I could have Hanali and/or the Seldarine interact with a more "canon" version than the few who appear in Realmslore . . . The caveat, of course, is that Ereshkigal is flat-out evil (actually earning that F/GO alignment), and married. (Though Ishtar is more realistically portrayed as Chaotic Neutral, unlike F/GO.)I can imagine her doing something opportunistically if Ereshkigal isn't protected by her own domain/Authority, but otherwise there's really no mechanism for anything to happen there.
(And as an aside, though - seriously, Sumerian myth is weird. Even leaving aside my personal feelings about Ereshkigal falling madly in love with her rapist - i.e., Nergal - apparently the Bull of Heaven was her first husband? That's apparently why Ishtar went down there: to apologise for getting him killed . . . And it makes Ereshkigal's treatment of her make much more sense, in that light.)
Mostly RB's stuff, though I'm not opposed to trying . . .?Though I recall some interesting inter-setting deity interactions in some snippets in here. I think they were Konosuba-related?
Sort of. My process usually starts with asking "What do I want to have happen?" - whether it's the story's end-goal, the course of a chapter, or what have you. Then I ask what I have to work with to get there, and what I can work with; meaning what elements can be found, or made to appear, that aren't already present. In the latter case, they sometimes have to be justified, but so long as they can be, that's fine. The latter is a little easier here, with the Works' Door abilities and so on, but I'm sure you'd look a little askance if a stray shot from the Wolfen uncovered, say, the Ark containing the Autobot forces from the G1 Transformers series, which is shocked to life and suddenly provides our heroes with several dozen 40-ish foot robot freedom fighters with anachronistically future-tech weaponry to take on Ymir . . .It feels unnatural to try and solve for a specific goal like this. Usually, I'd want to pick from among possible futures based on what makes sense in the present story state, or introduce story elements based on "what would be interesting" in some abstract sense (though again, not a writer, so this is what I imagine the process is like, and "interesting" is doing a lot of heavy lifting in that sentence)
(Sorry, I've been on a Transformers kick, lately.)
Exactly. The best example I can think of for that is Trinity, and Galen's relationship with Takara and Hermione. Never mind the menage a trois, I wasn't really seeing him with either of them, ultimately - because even besides his emotional hang-ups, it was self-indulgence of the highest order. I let reader feedback guide my thinking, and otherwise let the three of them work it out (with more than a little magical brain surgery on Galen's part, but still).I imagine it doesn't help that it feels like a self-indulgent outcome, rather than one that's intrinsically interesting. Motivated reasoning taints the process, which raises the bar for how natural the explanation needs to be.
And I try to keep working that way: let the characters play things out. Occasionally, that means they write me into a corner (at least two blow-ups in Trinity, like the Yule Ball, were not planned), but it seems to work out well overall.
Precisely - but while simple, it's not easy . . .I can definitely see why that would make handwaving "Zelretch does something" incredibly unappealing. I'd think there should be a large set of possible crossovers or plots that could incidentally and naturally incorporate Eresh, but they would need to be picked for being interesting in their own right first.
True, but it's still an intriguing one. Curse my need to make things make logical sense . . . :P
Honestly, at this point, I'm half-tempted to nix the "Lancer" idea and just find a character whose name starts with "La" and is pronounced appropriately ("Laeticia" is an example, but short of her Works universe counterpart being brain-dead and shoving this version into that body's head, I'm at a loss to make it work, as she is a normal girl from a different timeline entirely . . .).
I believe a wish is the standard offer for those who defeat the Demon King . . . Hm.
It wouldn't be quite the same without Nobu, but I could certainly polish up that Shirou/Frid concept, no?