Subject: re: mission
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Posted on: 2022-03-08 05:29:34 UTC

Considering how well known the Disney adaptation of The Little Mermaid is, it's kind of amazing that we're only seeing the first mission to it here, in 2022, and in a Transformers crossover, to boot! I think you did a great job of using the aquatic setting to screw over your agents in as many ways is possible. It's not just funny, it's also an appropriate demonstration of the difficulties of having characters switching between such dramatically different ecosystems! I'm super confused why the royal witch is a mermaid rather than an Ursula's species ("octopans," apparently), since that seems to be what witches are in this continuum, but I guess that's what happens when you send a "wich" to do a witch's job?

I admit, I do find it unrealistic that Medic continues going along with the agents without any confusion or questioning. On the one hand, I guess if every mission that recruited a bit character had that same conversation, it might get repetitive. But on the other, Medic seems rather aware of her surroundings for someone with their occupation for their name, reacting to the word world warping and such, so it feels off to me that she just follows along with the agents unquestioningly.

Some little typos?
"'Gosh qnza it to urry!'"
I initially thought this was a joke, that O'Ryan wasn't swearing properly even under rot13, but later, he does use the proper "uryy."

"'At the end of season 1, the Bots try a time traveling device the Doc Greene found and screw up the timeline . . .'"
While I don't doubt Dr. Greene is an important fellow, I'm not sure he requires a "the!"

"And then they all woke up besides the Sue's bed . . ."
It's so sad that the bed . . . never awoke (dramatic musical sting here)

"' . . . anyways, by bashing her run her hands over lots of glass shards . . .'"
I suspect you wanted a different verb there?

—doctorlit, up late because he kept diving into Disney!Mermaid lore. Turns out they can breathe air, even in merperson form!

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