Subject: Speaking of the Troll Division....
Author:
Posted on: 2012-01-26 03:54:00 UTC
...When you decide to start PPCing, I think this author's fics could use the agents' attention.
(Then the poor Department of Technical Errors agents would sleep better. Ouch.)
~Araeph
So, um, these are my agents thus far. COuld I have some criticism, please? They will be working in the Department of Bad Parody, Troll Division.
Holly Lewis- An extracted embryo from a Narnian bad slash fic, Holly grew up in the Nursery, and is recently out of training, having worked for a short period in the DMS. She’s unusually prissy, very logical, and organised. Holly also has a touch of obsessive cleaning disorder, and hates any kind of dirt in the RC. She has coffee-coloured skin and frizzy brown hair that is always tangled, despite her many attempts to tame it. Holly has a phobia of heights.
Duke- Formerly Bubbles, a Potterverse Sue’s Cute Animal Friend, Duke is a talking golden retriever. In contrast to Holly, Duke is incredibly laid back about missions, sometimes skipping charges in the charge list, and even forgetting to read it at all. This has gotten him into very serious trouble with the Flowers, and resulted in his partnership with Holly, who refuses to leave the continuum unless the charge list has been read.
Aisling* O’Dwyer- A World One recruit who stumbled across the New Caledonia entrance whist on holiday there, and opted to join. Aisling is one of those infuriating people who can eat as much as they want and never put on weight. However, she isn’t very physically fit. Hence, she prefers to pick off her enemies from a distance. Aisling is very much in her own little world. Sometimes she’ll break off in the middle of a sentence to think about something entirely unrelated, and sometimes she’ll say things that make little sense to anyone else. She’s generally very calm, but Aisling does have a serious temper on her, it just takes a lot for her to lose it.
*Sorry for the slight Cat-on-keyboardness. It's pronounced ash-ling, and it's actually a reasonably popular Irish name.
...When you decide to start PPCing, I think this author's fics could use the agents' attention.
(Then the poor Department of Technical Errors agents would sleep better. Ouch.)
~Araeph
I'd advise you to be careful with a World One recruit's background: they just can't simply vanish off the surface of planet Earth just like that. They're bound to have friends and family that are going to notice their absence. Perhaps it could be a plot point for an interlude or something of the genre.
The talking golden retriever agent sounds familiar, though. Lemme see... *searches wiki* Yup, there it is: Agent Nytbloomer and guide dog Judy. Not that "it's been done" really means anything; just something to be aware of.
Of course, the usual criticism I have is not actually a criticism, but a question: Why? A character is more than a collection of traits, so why these traits? Where do they come from? What effect on the character's life do they have? How will they aid you in telling a story? What is their purpose? If they don't come into play at all, they might as well not exist, so it's always good to think about these things.
~Neshomeh
Aisling's a pretty (or, for those of you who think that's too petty and superficial, it's "aesthetically pleasing") name.
I'm interested in their assassination modus operandi and their reasons for joining-Aisling's in particular. Why does she join? How did she get into the HQ? Did she see the outside of it?
What is an "extracted embryo"? I'm curious. Oy, the PPC makes slang faster than I can keep up.
Missions:
Since I'm pretty much resurrecting the Troll Divison, and
have very little material to work with, I was thinking it would operate like this:
Holly would deal with killing 'Sues/Character Replacements and neuralyzing canons, while Aisling would cover such things as excorcising 'Sue Wraiths, pulling character out of plotholes and in the case of Character Replacements, finding the canons.
Meanwhile, Duke would use his superior sense of smell to track down the actual troll (which are invisible, according to my source) and contact the others as soon as he found it via walkie talkies.
Then, Holly and Aisling would join Duke to charge and take down the troll.
Reasons for joining:
Holly was pretty much raised to hate 'Sues, and has wanted to be an agent her entire life, so it's unsurprising that she joined.
Duke was seriously neglected by the 'Sue in his fic, it got to the point where he hated her beyond all reason and was quite glad to see her killed. When he found out abot the PPC, this spread to all 'Sues, and he was all too happy to join up.
According to the Wiki, the New Caledonia door to HQ is in the mountains. I imagine that Aisling was on a mountaineering holiday, got bored and wandered off, then stumbled across the door and decided to see what was inside. As for her reason for joining, Aisling is incredibly obsessive about the canons she likes, and can't stand badfic. She was an enthusiastic reviewer of fanfiction and merely saw the PPC as the next step. Also, when Aisling first joined, I think she might have thought she was dreaming.
...I (like I said) have no power here, but I think that the dog thing would be interesting IF you have a viable way to make those walkie-talkies work.
Oh! In MPregs and fanfictions that involve canon characters or Sues getting pregnant, we obviously don't want to kill the babies if we can avoid it. So the Medical Department has this technology that can teleport/extract an embryo from a Sue.
Yep, that obviates certain moral difficulties quite cleanly.