Crossroads Universe

Characteristics
The Crossroads Universe is characterized by its more logical and varied approach on things. It is still unrealistic at times, but it mostly pertains to a logical irrealism, which means it's fantasy but it's still rather justified, more or less eloquently - magic might be involved, but it will not take up the majority of the reality and will stay relatively confined to certain stories.

The reality also tends to have more variation in its tone, but the tones will be set to be realistic, and if not, to have a point, to be coherent at all times, some stories may be extremely dark and macabre, but some stories may be very humourous or optimistic as well, but not in an extreme or irrational way.

Participants
“I'm the creator of the Crossroads Universe, an administrator here, I'm present all over Wikia and busy with my personal projects, but outside of that, I hope to be able to share stories that are worth to be given a shot.”
 * FrenchTouch
 * Draft227
 * Bluehunter16

Residents

 * Crossroads Cast
 * Carlos Kinard
 * Dante Winsor
 * David Miranda
 * Drake Gibson
 * Eiji Watanabe
 * Ian Maya
 * Iosepp
 * Jack Aaij
 * Jacques Worther
 * Jasmine Rosejoy
 * Mandy Waller
 * Mario Barrios
 * Nick Rixon
 * Oliver Barnes
 * Rafael Belinda
 * Ronnie Allen
 * Simon Mason
 * Tadarius Terrence
 * Ted Sala
 * Wiliam Lawton
 * Yan Galán

Locations

 * Crossroads Setting
 * CRHQ, 125 Park Ave, New York, NY 10017, USA

Trivia

 * The Crossroads Universe is a revival of the Crossroads series and Earth-619 in a revamped, fully-original form.

Questions
Once I had emancipated from writing fanfiction, my most ambitious project, Crossroads&mdash;a comic series focused on character based on members of this site&mdash;was shut down and dead without really having been worked upon at all. It was not a wish but a consequence of my sudden departure, which also led to the death of other projects like Earth-19999 and its alternate counterpart that was supposed to be launched and be much larger as well, Earth-4552 and its expansive lore that needed collaboration to exist or Earth-619, which was basically my sole solo work here, for I had the desire to make it as large as the MARVEL Universe, and to do that all by yourself, you gotta wake up soon. But I wanted, and still want to bring these projects back in some form&mdash;In the case of Earth-619 it is the Crossroads Universe, which brings back Crossroads as well in a complete community collaboration, as 619 in its last years, and a training ground for the future of all the members of this site. The third question being the more interesting and the answer to the first one, I'll answer the second one: My work is very sparse and everything I do mostly happens underground, when it comes to actually putting everything to text, it gets complicated fast, so, to keep the reality living, working alone is not a good idea, and, as much as I like collaborating, I do not want the entire thing to fall down if one member doesn't have the time to do anything at the moment, hence the reason why it involves everyone and no one at the same time, the only real restraint there is would be the rules I apply to keep it all coherent, but other than that, I wanted everyone to be free to do whatever they want and come here whenever they feel like it. Working with everyone also allows for more idea processing, and more ideas, simply, so I'll always have something to write about, and if I don't, I'll stay one day here with everyone and I'll come back with a full head. It's also much more professional, while staying a hobbie more than anything. Well I will be focusing mostly on Crossroads, in fact I've made this page to get it out of the way so I can start working on it directly. As I already described it faintly, the Crossroads Universe is an idea repository, another reason for that, more relevant to this question, is that I have lots of desires. I'm very indecisive when it comes to what to work on, and sometimes I'll have surges where I frenetically edit over a week and makes considerable advances, sometimes I do little to no thing in months, and most of the time I tend to want to work on something completely new, but I don't want the burden of it being a reality, because that will give me supererogatory work that I don't want, nor need. Allegorically, it's like as a policeman, you can either do your arrestation but then have to fill a shitload of paperwork, or you can kill the culprit... And still fill a shitload of paperwork but if you don't get caught you fill less paperwork. That's the idea there. Except it's not illegal. I'm aware I'm walking a fine line between what the Comic Crossroads allow and what it doesn't, in terms of content, but I want to make sure all of my Crossroads work outside of comics will be tied in some way or another to what is shown in the comics, the only place where I might allow myself more freedom is when it comes to Crossroads, not the universe, the series, because you can hardly tie something more to Comic Crossroads than by having the entire cast of characters based on actual members. Yes, it is a concern for me, a concern that will fade the more I write, I think it may happen more than once that my work becomes too close to something else, but I also think that I will be told about that, which could allow me to grow better, after all it's quite easy to see I do value feedback, in fact, having some of it directly included onto my pages helps me understand my strong points, and my weaker spots as well.
 * Why does this exist?
 * Why a community-based work? Why not a classic collaboration or a solo project? How does it work?
 * Why making this universe a home for so many projects, why not focusing solely on Crossroads?
 * Don't you feel you're growing this reality out of Comic Crossroads, given the presence of other media?
 * Don't you think you might deviate from your statement and subconsciously take a little too much inspiration from other works?

Commentary
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