Then I would recommend not missioning it, just to be safe.

A question about Crossover Minis by Meta007 on 2020-07-02 14:26:27 UTC Reply

Okay, so I'm currently working on a crossover mission in which the daughter of Lily Potter and WWE Wrestler Shawn Michaels attends Hogwarts. Over the course of the mission there is in fact a mini Shawn Micheals, and in my mind as it's mostly set in Hogwarts it would be a Mini-Aragog, but wanted to double check if there was some rule that had been set elsewhere saying that it would be a WWE Universe mini.

RE: missionability by Aeon on 2020-07-03 03:15:19 UTC Reply

Disclaimer: I do not know WWE very well.

I would personally say no, because you yourself mentioned the fic can't decide if it's using the TV personas or not - and it's the "or not" which really leans into RPF territory. Which we don't mission.
As far as I know... by Damian Thorne on 2020-07-02 17:17:55 UTC Reply

...misspelling the name of anything from a particular continuum in a fic generates the mini of that continuum, regardless of whichever continuum the fic is set in or how the continua are crossed over. So, if I were to misspell "Harry Potter" as "Harry Pooter," it would create a mini-Aragog even if the fic I'm writing is set in Star Trek and Harry is only mentioned in passing.

The real question is, is it a violation of our no-real-people-fic rule to mission a fic that features pro wrestling characters, given that the characters they portray do not accurately reflect them in real life?

It's a close call by Meta007 on 2020-07-02 18:56:46 UTC Reply

The plot itself can't seem to decide if it's in kayfabe or not, and 95% of the wrestlers involved use rgeir character names not their real names, with only one exception.

Then I would recommend not missioning it, just to be safe. by Damian Thorne on 2020-07-02 20:18:50 UTC Reply

Experienced Boarders, of course, can provide a better opinion than I ever could.