Subject: Yeah, what Cassie said.
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Posted on: 2015-01-03 23:46:00 UTC
Also, who are you? Just in case you're a newbie, have some extra-buttery popcorn!
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Agent Exploitation of Suefics? by
on 2015-01-03 09:56:00 UTC
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There has been a question that has been on my mind for the last... ten minutes. And now I wonder if it's kind of stupid because there may be some kind of critical safeguard against it either in the organization or in the PPC canon that I am overlooking.
Have any Agents ever attempted to exploit a Sue/Stufic for their own (usually questionable) motives? Like, have any power-hungry, envious, and/or insecure Agents ever attempted to go rogue and usurp a Sue/Stu to gain their powers and/or position in life? Or maybe Agents who use questionable means to amass Sue byproducts en masse for whatever reasons?
I have heard of ruthless Agents like Agent X, but she seems more like an anti-Sue extremist than someone with an agenda. -
Could be an interesting story. by
on 2015-01-05 15:56:00 UTC
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I mean, we write all these violent psychopaths, but they all spend their time focussed on their jobs. We know that there's a Department of Internal Affairs, and we know they've been expanding recently - but we don't have much information as to why. There must be agents being locked up to necessitate the existence of a jail, right?
So what could you do, with access to all the multiverse's Stuff(TM)? Political power in your home universe? If you could get a Sue to serve you and use their reality-warping powers on important people, you could pull it off (think of whichever Thursday Next book it was that happened in). Selling addictive drugs? I'm sure something in a Sue's body must qualify.
And if you go outside the realm of strictly Sue exploitation, you've got Morgan's little breakdown, or even something as simple as mass-producing invisible yarn. So maybe it's best to stay focussed on your original question...
As Cassie said, exploiting the stuff we're here to oppose would get you punished - if you were caught. So the trick is not to get caught...
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I had an idea of that kind. by
on 2015-01-05 19:46:00 UTC
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Due to my Agents' personalities, they could reach the point where they would choose the safety/happiness of canon characters over ensuring that canon happenings... well, happen. Think about Huinesoron's Ispace, only that we have only three Agents focusing on a single continuum (Puella Magi Madoka Magica. The Rebellion movie left a bitter taste in my mouth for months).
I dropped the idea because, despite the fact that there were some interesting concepts to be applied to it, it would risk ending up as a messy battle royale between Team Turbo, PPC, Akuma Homura, Incubators and whatever way to counter Akuma Homura the hotheaded Ally of Justice! Sayaka can come up with.
I can elaborate on the concept if someone is succumbing to morbid curiosity, though. -
Actually the subject of some WIP stories of mine! (nm) by
on 2015-01-05 17:37:00 UTC
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Yeah, what Cassie said. by
on 2015-01-03 23:46:00 UTC
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Also, who are you? Just in case you're a newbie, have some extra-buttery popcorn!
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Re: Yeah, what Cassie said. by
on 2015-01-04 19:05:00 UTC
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Actually, I lurk around here once in a blue moon. I originally joined like a year ago.
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Spoiler alert for PPC stuffs. by
on 2015-01-03 12:38:00 UTC
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At one point the entire PPC was doing that, under the leadership of the Mysterious Somebody. Materials harvested from Suefics were being sold to canon worlds to create revenue for the PPC. Given what else was going on and linked to it (see: The Reorganisation), it shouldn't come as a surprise that all such things were eventually clamped down on with extreme prejudice. Anyone caught doing such things now would likely be severely punished.