For example one of my agents got caught in a freak blizzard, which isn't much of a stretch for an Iowan environment.

...Though now that a think about it a Tornado would also be a fun idea.

Though my personal headcanon is that the Dives' parents said Rina went to study abroad and Alex got accepted into college early. After Rina ran away and everyone thought she was dead, there was a funeral for her back home.

I've been wanting to do a thing with Alex and his family sometime in the future, though, so maybe I'll have to get rid of that rug...

Remember The Message? I interpreted it as a copy of the person falls into HQ whenever that person falls through a plothole on World One. Anyhow, with the message, I thought that it addressed that you are not that person, as you have essentially been cut off from the world, that life goes on as normal, with what the agents see as "another them". Either that, or the plothole warps reality so that they never exist.It would make a rather interesting plot point, If I ever get around to writing missions.

I think it'd honestly depend on the person! Some people would of course just not be suited to the PPC- plotholes come, plotholes go, and it's just as easy to go back as it is to wander in in the first place- if not moreso, if someone notices.

As for their disappearance in the real world?

Again, that depends.

Like you said, missing person reports happen. And plenty of people in fact do just go... missing one day. We know the real world causes, of course: They get kidnapped, they ran away, an accident happened and they got seriously injured or died in the process, and so forth. But there are still mysteries in this day and age that we have no explanation for, no clues.

Maybe your agent character from World One (because from our perspective, at least, our world is the real world, and the world intended to be the real world is World One) is one of those people.

Or maybe they go back.

Agents are not held in HQ against their will. There's nothing preventing them from just giving up the job and going home or to any number of canons. A certain someone from TOS retired into ancient Rome, after all. I can't remember where Dafydd and Constance retired to (but hS will no doubt come around to correct me) but I rather supect it was not World One, nor was it Middle-Earth.

And a thing with hieing off is that, not everyone thinks about the potential consequences of running off for an adventure- especially teenagers! They might get scared, but they have the option to leave if they want to, or sometimes don't think they do. This goes for the real world, as well. I'm on an adventure right now, and one I didn't exactly think out all the possibiities and consequences of out before I left for it.

As for what you're saying about agents going home occasionally or disappearing someplace likely, both are very possible! In fact, people have used both before this.

To use my own example, Agent July, when she ran off from HQ after snapping, she eventually ended up back in World One- timed right after she had left, despite a few months in the PPC. She also spilled the beans- both things that pretty much eliminate the worry of becoming a missing person.

That said, you don't really need to explain this sort of thing. You can in fact skip it if you don't want to go into this sort of detail. How a person ends up in the PPC doesn't tend to play into whatever story arc or plot you're doing with your spinoff, generally, though it can also be fun to write if you want.

This is most definitely an excellent thing to bring up, though!

-July

The Un-Sueing of Vemi

But all that had changed yesterday, when Vemi had gone home to the Real World for a long-awaited vacation. Since time passes differently in the metaverse than in the Earth of normal human experience, she'd re-appeared only a few days after the day she'd originally left to join the PPC. Since her Real World persona had school classes to attend, she'd gone to class, both to stave off suspicion and for the simple novelty value of interacting with people who weren't a) fictional or b) concussed from walking into walls.

I think several agents have claimed the PPC as them going to university, too. And above a certain age, they can just claim to have moved cross-country (unless they're from Sealand or something). Some go with the explicit knowledge of their parents (Constance Sims, for example).

Or, you can just ignore it. How does the Doctor keep making off with young women without anyone launching massive man-hunts? Sure, these days he lets them phone home, but up until Nine...

hS