I looked at the fic's latest installment, and, uh...

I'll just list a few oddities from it so far:

• Joe is apparently called Lain now in the fic, and is a trans woman now. All well and good for that part, but they give her a very Stu-like build (the impossibly big muscles) which kinda gives me weird vibes. They're pretty respectful about her identity otherwise, which is wonderful.

-- Izzy's also referred to exclusively by her English dub name, and is also a trans woman with a very Stu-like build. (Isn't she the Crest of Knowledge? She really doesn't need big muscles like that, just let her be trans)

• The current villain of the story, I guess because of the Smash Bros reveal, is Sephiroth. So much so that he has the other villains of the story (Two OCs, Dargon and Automatica) scrambling because apparently this put a 'wrench in their plans'. Note that Automatica even namedrops the PPC, as Automatica has planned for the PPC if 'they were to come into our little canon'. (Character's words exactly)

-- Dargon is a space kangaroo, the son of a previous villain, and Automatica is consistently referred to as a 'fusion between Spottie Leonard from CRiTORA and Jareth the Goblin King'. Automatica also is referred to by they/them pronouns exclusively, which I congratulate the two authors on, actually. I just wish the character was written better and not described like... that.

• There's more then one Valo, not just the Luke Ski one. There's a Valo modelled after Snapscube/Penny Parker, and one modelled after... Ken Penders? Penny!Valo is consistently called "Girl Valo". Also, the Ken Penders one doesn't talk, and is described as a 'maniac' consistently in the fic. To hammer the point of that home, they often call him "Feral Valo".

• They slip in a Leeroy Jenkins joke... when Tai does a charge into battle, ultimately getting killed and... revived? Yeah, I don't know, either. He's now referred to as Animo, indicating a possible form change upon dying and reviving.

-- Same thing happens with Peyton from Chaotic, who they refer to as 'Antonia', indicating she's trans like Lain, too. Her name in the fic is currently Alitura. (The trans woman part's not a problem, I congratulate them on that too, but they really gotta kill her off and revive her a few paragraphs apart, huh?)

That's as much as I've gathered from the current installment of the story. The trans representation is great and wonderful, but a lot of the other elements? Not so much.

"So, how do we beat this thing?" Kaito asked.

"That's simple! We... uh..." Tanner screwed his face up in concentration. "uh... I've got nothing. Could you please try to think of something?"

"Well, I'll try." Kaito contemplated the Stu's various powers. Fire lasers, thunderbolts, radioactive sword summoning... He tried to think of a power that could counter every power the Stu had, but every power he could think of would just be countered by another power. He thought of the biggest, most powerful weapon he could, but it still wouldn't be enough.

Meanwhile, Tanner was poking at the knot in his brain. It wasn't a usual knot, the one he usually got when he got his panties in a twist. It felt artificial, like there was some antimemetic anomaly that was actively blocking his thought process.

"Well, we can't use a weapon, because his aura negates all PPC weapons." Kaito said.

The two agents spent the next few minutes in thought until Tanner realized why they were so unusually dry of ideas.

"Wait, Kaito, do you think cleverness might count as a weapon?"

Granted, agents have some unique tools and gadgets at their disposal, but their actual weapons are supposed to be canonical for whatever universe they're in, so what I get from that line is "oh, yes, [Character's] super-special godly aura can even nullify a pointed stick!" {X D

It's also amusing because he seems to be making a classic Evil Overlord error, assuming his opponents will come at him with sheer power because that's what he would do. But the PPC, having gotten its start in the LotR fandom, knows well that if the bad guy expects you to confront him with power, you have to do what he doesn't expect and beat him with cleverness instead. Never has there been a god-like Sue or Stu that couldn't be comedically hoisted on their own petard.

Personally, I'd go after this guy with a nice, ripe banana. No one ever bothers to learn self-defense against fresh fruit these days. {; P

On a less silly note, the presence of a single real person as a character in a fic doesn't automatically make it ineligible to spork. It sounds like this person is a public figure, and it also sounds like the character doesn't even resemble the real person for the entire fic. I'd have to see the thing to say for sure, but from what you describe, it doesn't seem to be on the same level of skeevyness as a story entirely devoted to the alleged love life of actors/musicians.

~Neshomeh

(Worship the Python, for it is very Monty.)