Subject: No hat, but,
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Posted on: 2022-06-02 22:44:58 UTC

I like the dynamic Mina and Carlisle have! I was definitely picturing Carlisle as younger in the WWS RP, though, because he was acting so unhinged, so his real age did throw me for a loop there. I would be hesitant to call any agents psychotic, though -- background radiation insanity is kind of a given in this setting, but psychosis has some more serious implications. I think as you continue to write Mina and Carlisle, you might realise there's other reasons why they are what they are -- I originally conceptualised Agent Eledhwen as ataxophobic (aka having a phobia of mess), but after a couple years of writing her I realised her real issue is the culture clash between her Elvish cleanliness sensibilities and Christianne's tendency to be a slob. TL;DC, agents that seem insane at first may not be completely insane after time spent with them.

Activity-wise, you're probably like about 85% responsible for making the Board active again, which I also appreciate. A couple toe-treads here and there, but nothing too serious. I would suggest you hold your horses on making agents in all of the departments you're interested in until you have a better handle on Mina and Carlisle, but I see that the Troll Division is your special focus, and personally wouldn't mind seeing your take on it eventually. I will note, though, that trollfic is deliberately created, thus authorial intent matters in its level of awfulness, and it'd be very tricky to spork something bad on purpose while avoiding bashing the author.

And in terms of badfic sample, I don't know exactly how kosher it is to spork something that only seems to exist on a wiki page for something else. As I don't have a hat, I'll defer to Nesh's judgement there.

So, no hat, but if I did have one, I'd lean towards granting the keys with the caveat of looking over your first mission to see how you handle something trollishly bad.

ETA: I realised this might come across a bit like sniping Nesh’s decision, to which I can only say that that is not my intention and please don’t take this as any sort of endorsement — just wanted to offer some feedback!

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