Hello everyone. My name is Jack Sebastian Arnold, I am 24 years old (well at the time of writing anyway) and welcome to Heaven's Fall, the first instalment (well, certainly in writing order anyway) of the Jack Arnold Fanfic Universe. Before we begin, I'd like to explain some things to you.
When I was a young child, one thing that I'd always been interested in was crossovers. This was primarily sparked by when I first played Super Smash Bros Brawl on the Wii. At the time, I was blown away by the prospect of characters coming together from multiple different franchises and them being in a single piece of fiction. This intensified when I saw Pixels in the cinema. Since then, one thing I'd been interested in writing about was the idea of fictional characters from different pieces of media coming together. One thing about Pixels that also interested me was video game characters coming together to invade the Earth; I thought about writing my own spin on it, only including more modern video game franchises as well as more "retro" franchises. To wit, the Jack Arnold Fanfic Universe was born though it would not be properly conceptualised until I was in Year 11 at school, I think. In 2019, I began watching the anime The Rising of the Shield Hero and was also quite interested by its premise- four teenagers being summoned to a world to protect it as Legendary Heroes. I wanted to write a more deconstructive take on the concept too.
In order to determine the video game characters being either "retro" or modern, I use the following scale (of course, other people might disagree with my placement of games in a certain category, but this is the method I use). If a franchise debuted from the first (Magnavox Odyssey) to fifth (PlayStation, Saturn and Nintendo 64) video game generations, it is considered retro; if it debuted during the sixth (Dreamcast, PlayStation 2, GameCube and Xbox) generation it is considered retro if it debuted before New Year's Day 2000, otherwise it is considered modern; meanwhile all franchises from the seventh (PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and Wii) generation onwards are always considered modern.
Now, this is the most important part. This fanfic and all other stories in the JAFU (for short) contain the following: bullying, torture, child abuse, death, the horrors of war, blood diamonds, kidnapping, murder, suicide, FGM, graphic violence, kittens, video game levels, RPG mechanics, DK Mode, raw sewage, lootboxes, battle passes, flags, the Animus Project, heavy metal, debug builds, islands in the sky, floating continents, all the powers of Hell, true nightmares, spooky scary skeletons, fake tans, filters, SAS, men on the rocks, men against fire, virtual reality, children's card games, no more Gods, no more graves, speculative troping, narm, Cross Ride, different strokes, blue meth, console wars, personal emails, gay fish, the Donald, the mind of a different kind, another path I must now walk on, virtual mud wrestling, open zones, glitches, bugs, programming errors, visual novels, the Deep State, wayward sons, little drummer boys, nursery rhymes, twelve drummers drumming, eleven pipers piping, ten lords a-leaping, nine ladies dancing, eight maids a-milking, seven swans a-swimming, six geese a-laying, five golden rings, four calling birds, three French hens, two turtle doves and a partridge in a pear tree; viewer discretion is not advised. So if you're OK with that, you're down with that, then it's time to buckle the fuck up cause here we go!
Also feel free to post the fanfic on TV Tropes if you want.