"Please hold -- all muses are busy right now, but your inspiration is important to us"

[larryhammer]

Yet another appeal to the lazywebs: What's the term for a fanfic in which one character is replaced by someone from another series? Are these ever written in compliment pairs, with the two characters exchanged, and if so, is there a separate term for that? "Crossover" is, as I understand it, too general.


(Surely if I know the True Name for this idea, I can exorcise Arufato!* + Yotsuba no Kaidashi Kikou** from my brain and so make room for better inspiration. That, or convince someone to make the doujinshi.

* Alpha&!: A laid-back translator, Koiwai, becomes the "owner" of a shy, awkward prototype android with green hair and a single ponytail, to socially acclimate her in a contemporary Japanese neighborhood.

** Yotsuba's Shopping Log: After the ecological collapse, a naive but energetic orphan with green hair and four pigtails is taken in by the proprietor of a lonely country café, whereupon she wrecks havoc among the neighbors.)

---L.

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[ronron1k.livejournal.com]

Those would be a couple of excellent doujinshi.

[larryhammer]

I hereby release the concepts into the world, in hopes that someone does them. So I don't have to.

---L.