Question about the Dummy - PPC Posting Board

Subject: Question about the Dummy
Author: Sergio Turbo
Posted on: 2010-09-19 10:20:00 UTC

Here's a question popped out during the betaing of my mission.

If a first-person fic has as the POV a canon character, is a Inflatable Dummy needed, and how it will work?

I thought that the Dummy would only mimic the canon character, and is needed only to avoid agents doing so. So, my Agents originally tied and hid the Dummy to keep it from interfering with their work. (And forgot it there. It will be one of the reason that will make the Floating Hyacinct quite upset, but will have no conseguences on canon since the badfic was deleted) However, Makari said that maybe instead the canon would pop out of the dummy and another disappears at every POV change (Yes, there is also POV shift.)

What's your opinion?

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Question about the Dummy by Sergio Turbo on 2010-09-19 10:20:00 UTC

Well... by Sedri on 2010-09-19 11:21:00 UTC Reply

In one of my missions a (minor) canon character was narrating, and we used a crash dummy just like for any other mission. We exorcised it, and it turned back into a rubber cube. Pretty straightforward.

As for mimicry, I'd say that're more or less the case - in a first person fic, there is no physical manifestation of the character in question because it's supposed to be the reader, so the dummy gives it that physical anchor instead of letting the agents be forced into it. I'm not sure what would happen with a POV change, but it could probably be as simple as the dummy's plastic skin turning into proper flesh for a minute, and then flipping back.

...Was that any help? I feel like I've missed your actual question and explained what you already know.

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Yeah, you missed the point. by Sergio Turbo on 2010-09-19 12:17:00 UTC Reply

The main problem is that the story is narrated always by a canon character (mainly by Sakura, but near the end it switches to Yukito's POV. However, the POV change is not important since the fic is killed before this happens.)

So... In this situation, what would the Dummy do?

Thank you both. (nm) by Sergio Turbo on 2010-09-21 19:35:00 UTC Reply
Aaaaah. That's what yoy meant. by Sedri on 2010-09-20 01:12:00 UTC Reply

I thought it switched from first to third person. Ooops. Serves me right for working that late at night.

In that case, I'd guess that the dummy's features would just change into the new character along with the POV shift.

*smacks Toey* That's what YOU meant. (nm) by Sedri on 2010-09-20 07:08:00 UTC Reply

Just a few days ago I added an example of how... by Miah on 2010-09-19 15:20:00 UTC Reply

the dummy has behaved in a multiple first person fic in the past. See the bottom link to the Tasmin and Emma mission.

http://ppc.wikia.com/wiki/Crash_dummy