I stared at the World Selector for a second and actually thought about it.
There were a lot of options. I could go Avatar, which I knew pretty well. I thought about Supernatural for a second too, mostly because I'd watched the whole thing twice and knew every major plot point by heart. But both of those had elements that were hard to mess with without the whole thing falling apart. Tight lore, specific timelines, stuff that required you to be careful.
I needed something with room to breathe.
My Hero Academia.
I typed it in.
Crisis pulled it up almost immediately. She took a couple seconds reading through whatever was on her end, then looked back at me.
"Good choice," she said, and she meant it. "My Hero Academia takes place in a world where about 80% of the population has superpowers. They're called Quirks. The abilities range pretty widely, anything from super strength to controlling fire to things that are a lot stranger than either of those. Not everyone uses them for good either, so there's a whole hero system built around containing the ones who don't."
She kept going.
"The story centers on a boy named Izuku Midoriya, goes by Deku. He was born without a Quirk, which in a world like that basically means he was born already behind. But he wants to be a hero more than anything, specifically like the number one hero, a man called All Might. That drive is the whole engine of the original story."
I nodded. I already knew all of it but hearing her summarize it made me think about the margins. The places where the original story didn't spend much time. That was where I had room.
"Good choice," Crisis said again, quieter this time, more like she was thinking out loud. "The world has enough structure to hold a story together but it's flexible. You can make changes without the whole thing collapsing on itself."
"That's exactly what I was thinking."
She smiled a little. Then I remembered something she had said earlier.
"Hey," I said. "Back when I asked if you were real, you said, 'In every way but a body,' but I could change it. Give you a body. What did you mean by that exactly?"
"Exactly what it sounds like," she said. "The same way you can put yourself into a world as a character, you can put me in one too. I'd function as a side character in the story, someone the main character knows, someone who exists in the world like anyone else. But I'd still be your assistant underneath all of it. Whatever you need from me, I can still do it. I'd just also be living there at the same time."
"So you'd be in the story and still be you."
"Essentially. Think of it as a second layer. The people in the world would see a character. You'd know it's me."
I thought about that for a second. Having Crisis physically in the world, someone I could point at things and use, someone who could move around and interact and feed me information from inside the story instead of just from the outside. That was genuinely useful.
"Okay but you'd have to be balanced," I said. "You can't just be overpowered or keep steering the main character around. The people watching would clock it."
"I know," she said. "That's the point. If I'm just pushing the story from inside, it stops feeling real. The audience will feel it even if they can't explain why. I'd have to exist in the world like I actually belong there." She paused. "Balance."
"Balance," I agreed.
She let me sit with that for a second, then she shifted back into assistant mode.
"One more thing before you start building. Your character is going to be the main character as far as the audience is concerned. Not Midoriya. So when you write this, write it like nobody knows anything. No one in the story knows what's coming. No one knows the secrets, the reveals, none of it. Not even your character." She looked at me directly. "Especially not your character. The moment they feel like they know too much, the story loses tension and the audience loses interest."
"Got it," I said. "Blank slate. My character goes in not knowing anything they wouldn't actually know."
"Exactly."
I looked at the Character Creation tab.
"Alright," I said, and clicked it open.