Subject: Re: the mini-Balrogs
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Posted on: 2012-03-06 18:28:00 UTC
You are correct in identifying those with owners, and have discovered three new minis that weren't known before! Your Agents are welcome to adopt all four that you requested - Middle Earth, Dwarrodelf, Thrandullion, and Morodr - as long as they take adequate fireproofing precautions. :P
Mission is here. Hope I got rid of all the formatting issues. http://rc170.wordpress.com/2012/03/06/through-anothers-eyes-aka-enter-the-newbies/
Additional Author Noting: Having two agents who want to kill each other is rather funny, but not very practical. They will have to learn to get along *grins evily* whether they want to or not.
Also, Saxo is not just being a jerk for the sake of having a jerk in the story. He has ... issues, that I might get into.
And I seem to have written one of those PPC-agent-close-to-death-stories, that are all the rage. Although in my defense, I wrote this as I was reading through all the old Sue-missions so my idea about what was the current trend, was aa bit hazy.
Mini-Balrogs rescued: Buckleberry (belongs to Kitty)
Middle Earth (it seems to be in the adotion agency, but my agents would like to adopt it)
Imaldris (belongs to FC)
Dwarrodelf
Thrandullion
Morodr
Theodan (belongs to Kristen).
The minis with known keepers have been sent to postal to be sent back. If you know of other keepers, please let me know. The agents would like to adopt the rest.
"Mittens met his gaze evenly. “Yes,” he answered, “they do. Fortunately, you and I are not partners.”"
Nuff said.
http://www.amazon.com/Dont-Hurt-Laurie-Aladdin-Fiction/dp/0689712065
Laurie and her crowd are from this book. Unless you can establish they were replacements, the agents have just destroyed a continuum.
I know the book exist, it was mentioned in the Author's Note. I haven't read it, but I googled it thoroughly and for one thing, in the book Laurie is ten or eleven, while in the fic, she is eight.
Laurie in the fic hardly ever shows any signs of being a little girl, but is able to do the same things at the adults. Her reactions are also wrong.
Also, the Sue had no personality except for abused-girl-mode. Unless the canon-Laurie was seriously badly written, Laurie should have some kind of personality traits carried over from her canon self.
And then there's the facts that the author never calls this a crossover, and that he/she ripped off Narnia. So I think a case can be made for character replacement.
As for the mother, in the book she apparently never abused Laurie in front of her stepsiblings and didn't think they knew about the abuse. Beating Laurie in front of Tim and locking him in a closet seems way off. And beating her with an iron fire-poker was not mentioned by any reviews or summaries so I doubt that it is from the book and it also seems like something she would not be able to claim that Laurie did to herself, so it also seems off. So I call character replacement there as well.
Tim and the puppy are no more than bits in what is not a crossover and Sue-Laurie never mentions either again, even though book-Laurie was very fond of both. There's hardly anything to tie them to the book.
So yes, I made a choice and I know it can be debated, but I did do a lot of research and based my interpretation on that.
... I say serious potential for comedy.
To-mah-to, to-lawnmower-to.
hS
I liked it, I guess. At least it distracted me from being furious at my colleagues. I did like the petulant CAD, and the 'left with the kids' vibe I got from Mittens after the RMC went off. Not too sure about some of the charges (Galadriel is creepy, just ask anyone in Gondor), and I'm dubious about the level of analytical thought you expected from an eight-year-old (but then again, she did decide to go with the Fellowship... I guess that's why they're 'Sues), but I did enjoy it. Especially the leather-bound copy of TOS.
hS, trying to remember how to read missions
Honestly? I'm not sure what level of analytical thought to expect from an eight-year-old, either. I don't really know any. But she had a lot of introspection and thoughts that I thought was way over her age.
So my agents complained a lot, but the actual charges for 'bad psychology' and 'inconsistencies' were deliberately vague.
I see your point about the other one as well, and it's not the kind of thing to build a charge list on, more a case of the agents being personally annoyed. Whatever happend to 'intimidating' or 'awe inspiring'? Eru knows that the girl had a large enough vocabulary.
Anyhow, glad this helped distract you!
You are correct in identifying those with owners, and have discovered three new minis that weren't known before! Your Agents are welcome to adopt all four that you requested - Middle Earth, Dwarrodelf, Thrandullion, and Morodr - as long as they take adequate fireproofing precautions. :P