...that I was already doing missions, and would therefore had characters that would be available to be used.

Of course, with the humongous amount of characters to choose from, mine probably wouldn't be interesting enough to be chosen... *plays worlds smallest violin*

Hm... well, looks like the Permission Givers have given you advice, but feel free to use my agents. Your visual novel idea sounds intriguing.

I would really love to see a PPC-themed visual novel. Do you have any idea who would be the point-of-view character, though?

PS: I don't have any agents.

I really do like this idea. If I get my Permission, you may use my characters in this novel of yours. Though, I would advise you get Permission for this idea of yours before you do anything with other peoples' characters.

I've always been a big fan of storytelling through images as well as text. I'd be very curious to see if a PPC-themed visual novel would work. A sample of your intended work would probably be advisable.

Oh, and you're welcome to use my agents if you like.

... I'm going to say the following:

A lot of people do PPC-themed writing samples, and (shockingly, I know) we don't tend to descend on them in fury. However, as I'm sure you know, a writing sample is intended as a sample of your writing, not your drawing skills.

However, as a sample of visual-novel-ing, a visual novel is ideal. Depending on what you mean by the term, it may also count as a writing sample (depends how it's done). So my opinion is this:

Go ahead and do it, with any cameos anyone offers (it's always best to ask rather than assume - people can be surprisingly touchy about who uses their agents. I'd say you can use mine, but they're all several years out of date). For permission-giving purposes, we'll consider it a sample of your narrative skills. Depending on what it looks like, we might then ask you to render a scene in prose form (2-300 words or so) just to be sure - but not a full-length writing sample.

hS

Get Permission first, and then when you make this I will be thrilled about this.

I would be totally OK with you using any stuff I make up, with citation to wiki.

Just gonna say though, this had better be epic. :)

After all, samples are needed to get an idea of the grammar and overall writing capability of the candidate, so a visual novel gives less informations.

But sure is a nice and original idea. While I can't speak for the more expert oldbyes, I want to read it.

Maybe all that's needed is a little written text to showcase your writing (a prologue?), and for characterization etcetera you can use the visual novel. Feel free to use my Agents for it.

Even when they aren't missions.

Their descriptions are on their Wiki pages.