Talk:The Shells Timeline/@comment-3507136-20160311154358/@comment-4080028-20160311205515

Eh, I feel it's hard to be fair to everyone when this has a clearly unfair advantage to begin with, since no one else is allowed to interfere with canon except for Lv here. Quite honestly, I believe he should be the one in charge of who's what in his timeline since Shells is his story. Meaning if we were to try to be fair somehow, then he gets the final say as to who's Admiral, who's in the Shichibukai, who's in a Cipher Pol or the World Government at large, who's one of the Yonkou and so on.

Essentially, instead of requiring an admin's permission, Lv is more or less an admin unto himself as far as Shells is concerned. I recall when he first invited me to include descendants of The Jolly Pirates to his story, possibly due to liking the crew or something, I was told what Devil Fruit powers he intended to use and which ones weren't in use. While he was willing to be lenient about some, such as the Gomu Gomu no Mi, others like the Ope Ope no Mi were clearly off limits.

From what I can discern from all that, it's clear that no one else can make Admirals and Yonkou all willy-nilly; that's something only Lv can do because his story exists outside our shared fanon and canon setting; and if anyone did want to input something into Shells, they'd need to run it past him first or else it'd most likely derail him by surprise and/or bother him, in much the same way we would prefer if someone talked out ideas they had for New Horizon, Obsidian Voyage, One Dream and so on. I don't want people dumping their stuff into my story without my permission and supervision, so why would Lv be cool with it?

Pretty much what I'm getting at is that it's hard to be fair and unfair at the same time; or as Naruto once put it, "it's like trying to look left and right at the same time." It's just not something that can be easily done without causing some kind of issue or trouble. Not to mention that as I've already stated, why should others give permission to Lv for something he's been given complete freedom to in the first place? The only way other users could heavily interfere with canon is if we decided everyone can ignore it completely, and Lv has full right to accept or decline whatever he likes from other users in terms of what will fit his story and what won't. Therefore, I find it difficult to see how anyone else could abuse this loophole you've mentioned. In short, Lv is the only one who can get away with this, and no matter how many times people may ask or beg, no one is allowed to write anything that breaks canon as well. Lv is our one and only.