User blog comment:1NF3RNO/LET OUR STORIES PROCREATE INTO MOAR STORIES!!/@comment-4072803-20150117054712

I guess why I love collaborations is that I just enjoy seeing characters who would never interact in their own stories meet up, and see how such meetings would play out. But then again, that's the draw of ALL collabs, isn't it? Not even in fanfiction, but in fiction in general. It's why stories like Cross Epoch and One Piece X Toriko X Dragon Ball Z really pump me up, because I enjoy seeing characters interact with ones that they wouldn't normally meet, if they would meet them at all.

I guess another thing I like about collabs is the community-esque feeling of it all. Normally when I'm writing down and writing up Grand Voyage, I'm always worried that I forgot some important detail from a previous chapter, or that I didn't communicate the ideas or images that I wanted to convey properly. With collabs, it's a bit easier, and a bit more fun, since you have other people to work with and double-check everything, plus I actually enjoy talking through storylines and planning things out (usually, there are some exceptions, such as if it's a story that I'm tired of or I dislike where it's going). And, when I'm collaberating with a writer who's style differs from mine, I enjoy trying out their writing style and seeing how I can write with it, as well as the pros and cons of using it. Though I generally find it easier to write in a novel-style, I love trying out ways to write fanfics that I haven't really done before.

The idea of short and silly ones also intrigues me, if only because (Zeon's Random Thought: The comment box is jerking rapidly while I'm typing this, I hope I can type legibly) it allows those involved to just relax and have fun with writing it, and if the plotting of a larger story gets dull, than you can just pull something random to freshen up the whole silly plot again. Don't get me wrong, I love the more long and complex collabs as well... Actually, come to think of it, I enjoy collabs in general. Even for ones that might not get written I love the planning and imaging characters interacting.

Oddly, it's times like this when I realize that I don't have many 'side characters', or, rather, characters who aren't tied into the plot of GV, and therefore, are free for collabs. There are some characters that are free simply because they don't appear that often (the G-7 hooligans come to mind), or they have yet to appear and it allows me to test out how I'll write them. Of course, there's also Power's idea (probably more than just him, he's just the one who created the first one I'd seen, so sorry if I'm not crediting someone who truly came up with the idea) of non-canon collabs, which I enjoy as well, as it combines the enjoyment of having characters interact without me actually having to worry about tying it into the plot of GV or deciding when this would take place in any particular. Heck, I just realized that I could try out upcoming movie characters like Sauron or Mithra back when they were operating Bounty Hunters, and before the events proceeding the movie took place. Heck 2, I could even dig into the adventures of the bumbling Cazutto Pirates, since they haven't appeared in GV recently-

All of Zeon's Characters: GET ON WITH IT!

Okay, okay, okay. Anyway, the point is, I'd love doing some collabs, time permitting. Idea Zeon approved (the approval that, even if everyone else takes it with a grain of salt, I don't).

~Admiral Zeon, Newly Registered Citizen of Cawstwolm, Currently Trying to Keep This From Turning Into a Rant, Honorary Member of the 7th and 13th Divisions