https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDpvbX9eCK4

Probably one of the best things to hear that the Jade Court Vamps (Jamps?) feed on breath! I had a player for the RPG who'd wanted to try homebrewing one but I'd only been able to find an old fan post the proposed they fed on intestines.

I was wondering if the concept of sharing characters with other authors if it is a particularly good idea or other people's thoughts on it.

For me, I've got a character in my story (secondary character) that is kind of like an alter universe version of one of my fellow writer's/friend's that was granted with permission. Or for him he said he was planning of having alternate universe versions of my two main characters for my primary story appear as short cameos on the battlefield in one of his books and for his first book he's writing he borrowed a character of mine I actually liked a fair bit called Madam Butterfly (still granted with permission). Likewise, my sister for her story has a short appearance of two of my "villains" in the past world of her characters as well as the concept of the two Empires from my story running under the explanation that ties the two stories as "In the realm of the Universe there are different worlds with different stories and people. For a split moment of existence these two world's stories crossed."

The problem I find is sometimes having to find ways of dealing with said crossover character like when I write a situation as well as the responses for the character Ody based on what I have read of my friend's work and what he tells me and he gets really haughty at me saying something along the lines of "NO! That's not him at all!". When I'm left responding (quite skeptically) with asking him what he thinks the character would do instead only to give me something that fits the realm of his story (like Ody is somehow a master of weapon dances, several fighting styles, half breeds and his swords are ALIVE) and me having to remind him in the universe of my story magic and demons and all that have a different way of running while trying to find compromises to make it "satisfy" him but keep it within to realm of reality. Likewise, when my sister borrows my universe even for a sort portion of the story it's very hard to work out since she has different views on how my Empires should be and how her characters fit into it all as well as mine. It's not as bad as with my friend but there are certain clashing views when she wants a character of hers to go over to the more "evil" of the two Empires to try and convert people when in the scenario worked out with my characters (that are supposed to be on the opposite side based on what she wants) but then she realizes there's a problem since my characters are on the "lesser evil" side. Which of course leads to arguments on how it works to fit into the scenarios planned but fit the history of that one point in the two worlds.

So, do people think it's too much of a hassle of using other author's characters? Good idea, bad idea, why it is, just what do people think of it?