Donuts (Behind The Scenes)

The Three Man Creator Squad

### Aliases

Donuts Editorial Explained, Behind The Scenes, An In-Depth Explanation of Donuts & It's Friends

## Members

### Leaders

NeoFantasy
Morpheus
Tony

### Memebers

Stebe
Pepper
De
Tay
Cody
Aoba
Scott
Sprkz

## Origin & Status

### Status

Active

 Something we've never had before. **Cohesion.** Something greater.
—Morpheus to NeoFantasy & Tony.
**The Donuts Franchise** is a multi-fandom, sprawling epic that is lore-heavy and easy to get into. This article will serve as a behind-the-scenes of the inner workings of **Donuts** and the family of roleplays connected to Donuts. It will serve as a definitive history of Donuts and related things, starting from its inception to where it is currently, along with other series that are either a direct result of Donuts or are inspired by it.

## **The Franchise**

### **The Donuts Family**

To begin, we have to start with Donuts and the mentioned above surrounding roleplays. One important thing to note is that while singular roleplays with someone privately (also known as 1-on-1's) will always happen, it is up to the writers if they are using Donuts or related characters if they make it canon. Regardless, everybody treats whatever they do with said characters as canon, including headcanons. With that aside, think of Donuts as a parent company that houses several smaller companies within it (I.e., Disney with 20th Century Fox & Marvel). Donuts is the spawning point for most of the "Creator-Owned Works" that have begun to show up since Donuts was created in April of 2023; however, the creation date is up for debate (more on this later).

Majorly, Donuts has two siblings (we will be using the family metaphor to help explain this easily). Donuts has a brother roleplay known as **Europa**, which is a great concept but a work in progress. Fellow member De created Europa after he fell in love with creating characters. Whereas Donuts focuses on Marvel, Europa is DC. As stated, it is a work in progress due to varying factors both in real life and creatively as it is hard to do Donuts again for DC as they have several reboots, relaunches, and focus very little on fleshing out characters that aren't related to Batman, Superman, or Wonder Woman. However, it is being worked on and is in its rougher opening stages, but it has interesting concepts thus far.

The second sibling is Donuts' sister roleplay known as **Lover's Stadium**, described as "and the rest." The description isn't out of malice but out of love, as Lover's Stadium handles every other franchise unrelated to superhero media. These include 80s-00s cartoons, live-action TV shows, movie franchises, and more. Created by Morpheus and NeoFantasy under a different name (more on this later), it has since become a functioning roleplay and is up and running.

Outside of the two significant siblings, Donuts does have a few oddities that spawned either around the same time or during the inception of Donuts (think of these as cousins). These include a Watchmen-esque roleplay that is another work in progress called **Vagabonds**, which houses a creation called Occult Studies, and the superhero side, similarly tilted Vagabonds. Another was created around the same time as Donuts called **Laika Come Home**, from which many concepts were folded into Donuts. If anything, Laika Come Home is more influential in creating Donuts and Lover's Stadium than anything (more on this later). Finally, a distant relative of Donuts is something known as Xvengers, which predates Donuts but has massive significance in creating the predecessors to Donuts, such as Nevadaverse, Earth-47, and more.

To simplify:

### **Roleplayer's Guide to The Omniverse**

How they all co-exist and complement each other is fascinating. As **the Multiverse article** explains, Donuts does not exist within the Marvel Multiverse. This, by extension, also means that Europa does not exist within the DC Multiverse and Lover's Stadium, and Vagabonds also exist in their separate multiverses. However, they all exist within the Omniverse (or Omniversal Void), which houses all these universes separated by dimensional, vibrational, chronological, and cosmic energies. This is why on several pages in Donuts, they have this note:

"*Character Name, and by extension, Donuts, exist outside of mainstream Marvel Universe continuity. Their stories and other characters are unrelated and inapplicable to the Marvel Multiverse and exist solely within The Donuts Multiverse.*"

This note further distances us from the mainstream Marvel continuity and DC continuity on the Europa Wiki. Donuts and Europa utilize "Earths" to organize the different continuities, as that is how it works in these multiverses. For example, in Donuts, the prime reality is known as Earth-30, and due to changes that occurred on other Earths, the multiverse was born. For instance, on Earth-36, Shay didn't get eaten by the spider; instead, his girlfriend of that reality, Alexis May, did and became Tarantula while Shay died. Or on Earth-4, where Shay died fighting a villain and a young man named Donny Pichelli became the new Tarantula.

It is similar in Europa as well but with different numbering. The prime reality of Europa is "Earth-1," more commonly known as "Pre-Crisis Earth" or simply "Pre-Crisis." Following this, there is a "Post-Crisis Earth," beyond that, there are several different Earths, but only a few have been found, such as Earth-2 and Earth-3, each with unique differences.

However, Lover's Stadium utilizes timelines to explain other realities, a vast departure from Donuts and Europa. It has been dubbed "Subspace," which is a concept that allows for there to be different realities without having the complete totality of the multiverse. There is a base timeline, which is ours, where everything up until the writing of this occurred, and at specific points in our base timeline, something was changed that created alternative timelines. This is how Lover's Stadium has the Integrated Timeline, the Apocalypse Timeline, and more.

An easy way to remember this is as such:

* Donuts & Europa = Multiverse
* Lover's Stadium = Time Travel/"Subspace"

### **Crossovers**

With the Omniverse and science stuff explained, the fun begins. The idea of crossing these universes over isn't original, as there have been numerous stories where it happened, such as The New Teen Titans/Uncanny X-Men, Marvel vs. DC, and more. However, what makes this more interesting is the stakes and the setup done to pull off a successful crossover.

The only universes to know of the Omniversal void are Donuts and Lover's Stadium. Now, this wouldn't be a behind-the-scenes article without actual behind-the-scenes information. There are plans to crossover Donuts and Lover's Stadium but not through the conventional route of having them appear in Donuts or vice versa. Donuts and Lover's Stadium crossing over is planned to be a series, inspired by **Marvel vs. Capcom**, similarly titled "Donuts vs. Lover's Stadium." The series would be kicked off with the story, "**Hooligans**: Children of The Atom," and that would lead into "Hooligans vs. **Necro Crew**" and eventually fully dove-tail into the significant event, "Donuts vs. Lover's Stadium."

Sadly, at this point, there are no plans to crossover Donuts and Europa, but the idea does exist, but the problem is the execution of it.

### **Overwhelmed? Intimidated?**

Now, if you are feeling overwhelmed, that is perfectly okay. It is good if you are feeling overwhelmed by this information because that gives you the peace of mind to make a singular choice. That's the great thing about The Donuts Franchise: all of these locations, except for Vagabonds (very early in development), allow your creations to be valued. These places promote the idea that every creator-owned work is essential and that no matter what you do, even if it is a tiny contribution, it serves an overall story that goes somewhere and does not aimlessly drift with no future or direction.

Even if it doesn't end in a crossover with the more extensive Donuts series, it still matters because it was in service to that specific universe. So, all left is choosing what universe you want to help. But whatever that will be, we creators will be there for you—every step of the way:

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