Subject: Re: How are 'dangerous' fandoms dealt with?
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Posted on: 2012-06-13 18:19:00 UTC
I don't think there ARE fanfics--since it's an online thingie, most people who know about it will probably be writing the stories for the website, so there's no need for fanfics.
Ohgod, what if someone without a huge knowledge of the site and poor decision-making skills found themselves in a position to save poor 231-7?
A few days ago I was reading through some of the awesome stories and entries they have over at the SCP website, and I wondered, just how are universes that could be dangerous to the PPC handled? Such as the SCP and other Creepypasta? Are they avoided or is there ways the PPC deals with it?
Was just curious. Nothing would be worse than having SCP-173 escape into HQ. Except maybe Slenderman. XD
We call in Danger Mouse .
She can't forget anything, so yeah. Poor dear. I even put it on the Things-I-must-not-do list! Plus, in Dresden Files you have the Outsiders, and the Skinwalker, and Shagnasty...
Actually, now I want to find a DF badfic so I can work around that little thing with Ivy.
Yeah, Ivy's smart enough to be leave the PPCers alone, or even offer some kind of subtle assistance if she can.
And now I'm gonna go looking through the Pit archives for DF badfic, just to write that mission.
Oh, and if you need a beta for that mission (when you get to that stage), I'd be happy to help.
Bear in mind that anything a canon entity learned about the PPC wouldn't be canon, so unless there's a really compelling reason otherwise (such as the character being a god or it just being extremely funny), then any non-canon knowledge ought to be wiped out once the badfic is killed and canon snaps back. Canon trumps everything in the end.
~Neshomeh
She, or rather the Archive (which is her... it's complicated) is supposed to be the living repository of all human knowledge. She can remember all the lives of all the previous Archives, so yeah.
But, perhaps the agents who are in the mission aren't sure, and it would be funny besides, I think.
Aslan, from the Chronicles of Narnia, has displayed full awareness of the PPC (Being omniscient, etc). It can be completely in-canon for the canon character to have knowledge about the PPC, so long as they don't do anything about it. Aslan has knowledge of the PPC, but he is also aware of their purpose, and supports it. He's even taken down a few Sues himself (See the Robecca incident).
Others have covered doing missions in dangerous universes already, but in the case where the Sue herself is extra dangerous (an overpowered God mode Sue) the general approach is to get backup: either bring in Agents that are trained to deal with dangerous opponents (like the DMS Special Operations division or ESAS) or else swarm the Sue with so many Agents she can't resist (e.g the all-agents exorcism of Alumia by DoGA).
Elcalion
Let's not forget the merits of trickery. I love it when agents take down massively overpowered Sues by outsmarting them, especially if it involves turning their own bad writing or ridiculous powers against them. *g*
~Neshomeh
The moments where a Sue outsmarts itself, and falls to its own doom completely on its own, without help from the agents whatsoever. Makari has an excellent example of that in one of her missions.
I think Spec Ops is actually part of the Department of Floaters, unless DMS has its own one too. But that would seem a little redundant.
My current Agents are in it. Judging by what they have to deal with now, it's a dangerous job.
The Canon itself is on the PPCers' side. Thus how Agents can derp about in Isengard or a Borg Cube without trouble - they're out of the attention, if not straight-up invisible, to Canon characters who are not in full-on Character Rupture. They also can read the Words, at least until they confront the 'Sue, so they can see huge world-breaking events coming and portal away.
I totally forgot about that XD Guess when you're away for a while you forget things. Thanks.
That makes sense, though I was looking at it more from an in-universe point of view. Not so much us writing the stories, but as if it was a true existing organisation. Wanted to see peoples different opinions on how they'd think the PPC would deal with it. :p
Is to avoid the dangerous stuff as much as possible. I mean even in SPC-verse the scientist guys still go around testing stuff. It isn't really dangerous unless you're a D-class personnel.
Also, SCP-173 is nothing. I'd like to see what would happen if SCP-682 got loose. All the weapons in all the worlds couldn't kill that thing.
I don't know, I think that SCP 682 would be worse. Speaking of SCPs, I don't think I've seen very many fanfics for that continuum. Maybe I just haven't been looking in the right place?
I don't think there ARE fanfics--since it's an online thingie, most people who know about it will probably be writing the stories for the website, so there's no need for fanfics.
Ohgod, what if someone without a huge knowledge of the site and poor decision-making skills found themselves in a position to save poor 231-7?
The ground rule for the PPC is that none of the stories are canon, only the SCP numbers themselves. So all of the stories on the site are considered fanfics.
Also, ohgod. That would be nine levels of terrible. However, can we not reference the rapey one on the Board? People who don't know it off the top of their head might decide to go look it up, and some of them might have triggers related to the content therein. Especially the age.
So what's a guy to do but add stuff to the list?
Mass Effect: What about the Reapers? You know, massive eldritch abominations that can dwarf entire fleets of ships and mow down everything in its path with barely a scratch to show for it. The fact that they exterminate all organic life every 50,000 years doesn't help. Oh yeah, and they can also bend your will so that you become their slaves, and you won't even know you're under their thrall until they've already hijacked your mind and you're left to bang on a mental wall while your body does things that you don't want it to do. Oh, yeah, and then there are the husks. Yeah, if one of those things found out about the PPC, it would likely result in an emergency.
The Demented Cartoon Movie: Say the wrong word and you (and possibly everyone around you) are dead.
1984: If you're captured by the Thought Police, it's your life or your soul.
Star Wars: The Yuuzhan Vong.
World One and any 'verse derived therefrom is quite dangerous.
I now know how EVERYONE feels when me and Himosheep start Hetaliaing (can that be a verb?) at everyone.
And... hrm. If we're going with Dangerous Canon Entities, I raise you Ramuthra or Nouda from the Bartimeus-verse. They literally warp reality itself with their presence, they're big, nasty, and want to eat everyone, and the only way to get rid of them is to send them back to the world from whence they came.
Since we have a Canon Kitchen Sink, it's either already happened or going to happen.
Or maybe happening right now, who knows?
(Because quantum! I think.)