The Multiverse is a vast place, and each universe is guarded by a being with a title known as Overseer, who is given the ability to maintain their universe, but not all of them are benevolent.
This story is about a group of people, from different universes, who stumbled upon each other and decided to unite to help the people all around the Multiverse.
Multiverse Tales
is a series of stories made out of drawings made by an artist named Christan Pearson on his Youtube channel known as Popcross Studio, who is well known of creating Crossover character designs.
This series contains the following tropes:
- The Alcatraz: Dimension S316, A.k.A The BackCells Prison, where other Overseers can send their uncontrollable creations into for a favor its Overseer, Dresden, can call upon.
- Experienced Protagonist: Alexa, Sterling, and Astra are this, as they had their own adventure in their own world.
- Eye-Dentity Giveaway: In Battle for the Beast World, what prompts former demon hunter Sterling Engeal to realize that the Overseer Astra who he and his friend Alexis Jones have been manipulated into fighting by the Beast World's Big Bad, Ulitus, isn't entirely evil is when he looks into her Supernatural Gold Eyes and realizes that they're the same color as the eyes of his thought-to-be-dead girlfriend, Diamos, the daughter of Lucifer himself, who apparently gave her life in a Heroic Sacrifice to kill her father and destroy his demonic army six years ago. By the end of the battle, when Ulitus is defeated, Astra reveals via her shapeshifting abilities that she is Diamos- or, more precisely, Diamos was an identity that Astra assumed in order to fight alongside Sterling and Alexis when she grew interested in them all those years ago.
- Gladiator Games: Eloise Ludum turns her dimension, Z009, into one for her fellow Overseers, kidnapping people and/or beasts, usually sharing the same theme (someone from Crapsack World, Blob Monster, etc), across the multiverse to make them compete or fight each other for their freedom.
- Gone Horribly Right: The Fazbian Kingdom's corrupt ruler created dangerous chimeric wyverns to amuse himself by terrorizing his own populace, and to see if one could infuse a soul into an artificial being. In the end, he terrorized his people straight away from the kingdom, and after his son stood against him, was then devoured by his earliest creation and became its soul.
- Great Big Library of Everything: The Akashic Records are one for the Multiverse, where every idea that ever exists resides there, and its content usually subtly enter people's mind as ideas, hence why there are cases of Expies between universes.
- Hair Substitute Feature: Fear Herself/Araava, one of the main villains of the Multiverse Tales, differs from other Overseers by having bubbling, shifting purple slime instead of hair on top of her head. This, combined with her unnaturally blackish-grey skin, Supernatural Gold Eyes, and Creepy Monotone, helps establish her as an unsettling Humanoid Abomination, perfectly fitting for a woman who created the hordes of demons that populate her world.
- Humongous-Headed Hammer:
- Vasilia Kuznet is a highly-skilled blacksmith, willing to forge suits of armour and weapons for anybody who asks it of her. She is depicted with a hammer with a long handle and a head comparable to a solid stone block, though, in contrast to most characters, she's depicted resting the hammer's head against the ground so she can lean on the handle and put one foot on the head. Vasilia is presumably strong enough to wield the hammer seeing as she's both a blacksmith and a Husky Russkie. In this video, she recalls having been contracted by the very personifications of the four elements, and when she forged armour for the embodiment of the earth... we'll let Vasilia explain in her own words.Vasilia: For a weapon, he wanted something big, and when I asked him, "How big?" he said, again, "Big!" So I designed him hammer with the same elements for his armour. And the mallet was nearly as large as his body! I could not even come close to lifting thing myself, but he swung it with one hand like it was child's plaything!
- Voslo, Vasilia's older brother, is even burlier than his sister, and he has a hammer head built by her to replace his missing right hand. The hammer's size is not that outlandish compared to his sister's, but in one episode, Vasilia mentions that when she gave her brother pieces of a magical armour equivalent to the Smash Ball, the hammer magically grew bigger, along with the arm and armour around it, and Voslo could even turn it into a Shapeshifter Weapon with enough willpower!
- "Astra and the Secret Knights": Unghu, The Big Guy of the titular Knights, is a Boisterous Bruiser who carries a hammer over his shoulders with a head that easily dwarfs his own head. Unghu can carry the hammer due to the fact that he's a Dragonborn, and therefore is strong enough to carry the hammer when normal humanoids can't.
- "Kate Kills Claus": The Hammer Twins are two supervillains who work for an evil version of Santa Claus. Frost (based on Frosty The Snowman) uses a hammer with a head that looks like two top hats put together, which enables him to create icicles and pillars of ice to fight with. Cindy Lou (based on Cindy Lou Who) uses a hammer called Nutcracker, which looks for the most part like a cartoonish wooden mallet with an even bigger head than Frost's. Cindy Lou can carry it effortlessly, partially due to the fact that the hammer shrinks to toy size when it leaves her hand, and only grows back to normal size when touched with a bare hand (hers or otherwise)- and Kate is pragmatic enough to use this to kill Claus by getting close enough to stuff the shrunken hammer inside his mouth with her gloved hand, then touching it with her bare hand to make it regrow with... explosive results.
- Vasilia Kuznet is a highly-skilled blacksmith, willing to forge suits of armour and weapons for anybody who asks it of her. She is depicted with a hammer with a long handle and a head comparable to a solid stone block, though, in contrast to most characters, she's depicted resting the hammer's head against the ground so she can lean on the handle and put one foot on the head. Vasilia is presumably strong enough to wield the hammer seeing as she's both a blacksmith and a Husky Russkie. In this video
- Now Allowed to Hug: "Unkillable" Kate Bleickur Hates Being Touched, stemming from years of growing up in a nightmarish prison dimension full of supervillains, which taught her to see everything around her as a direct danger to her life, including physical contact (except for hugging her young friend Ana Fenz). In a gender-switched dynamic of Brooding Boy, Gentle Girl, Sterling Engeal starts helping Kate adjust to life outside of prison and to teach her how to let go of such an unhealthy mindset. While the process is naturally slow-going, by the time of The Soul of the Enemy, she's progressed enough that she's the one who initiates her and Sterling's first hug, as a way of relieving her Anger Born of Worry due to him recently visiting Dresden Oakland, the warden of her former prison, without telling anyone about it beforehand. Sterling's reaction heavily contributes to the growing Ship Tease between the two. Further proof of Kate's emotional growth is in The Broken Hero, where, when Sterling is the one having a Heroic BSoD after a really cruel decision of Dresden's, Kate decides to repay the emotional help he's given to her before by intimately touching him above his heart, and then helping him begin to heal by having the two sleep platonically together with his arms wrapped around her for the night. All of which shows the positive influence Sterling's had on Kate.
- Sympathetic Villain, Despicable Villain: Two of the villains in the series are Dresden Oakland and Fear Herself, two Overseers (individuals with powers comparable to gods) who have antagonistic encounters with the Sharp Gang. Dresden, despite his Creepy Monotone, burnt, flaky skin and overall nightmarish appearance, is a surprisingly honourable man who always keeps his word, acts as the warden of a prison for dangerous supervillains, and has a noble goal of making the Multiverse a better place by getting rid of the Overseers that he sees as causing most of its problems (an opinion supported by the fact that his world's former Overseer, Tarsa, deliberately created dangerous monsters to overrun his world, then scarred him and left him behind so that the Reaper would have to kill every living thing in his world just to prevent such monsters spreading to other worlds). He also harbours secret guilt for imprisoning Unkillable Kate in Backcells Prison for 20 years to make her strong enough to be his Unwitting Pawn, especially since his plan was rendered pointless by his own partner, and ultimately decided to let her escape. Fear Herself, however, is a sociopath who, beneath her claims that she creates demons to encourage people to face their fears and make better lives for themselves, ultimately enjoys humans' suffering and is unapologetic about ruining Cosmara Noroi's life by giving her the curse that turns her into a Demon of Human Origin. Dresden is clearly a more sympathetic villain than Fear by these reasons alone.
- The Worsening Curse Mark: The curse given to Cosmara by Fear Herself
