Maybe, but...

Two new missions: glitch - A-Team TV; Sue - A-Team Movie by IndeMaat on 2010-09-05 11:37:00 UTC Reply

Two new missions.

Cleaning This Gun A-Team series. Tasmin and Allison prevent Face from walking into a possible ambush, and from behaving totally OOC. Non-Sue killing mission. I wasn't planning on participating in the challenge set by Cassie, but then I came across this fic and decided that the OOC in it needed to be fixed.

A Team 2 A-Team Movie. Allison is confronted with a Sue in a new fandom and the absence of her long time partner.

Nice missions by Miah on 2010-09-06 06:59:00 UTC Reply

I have been wondering whatever happened to Trent. His rescue mission is one of the only A-Team missions I have read. It is cool that he is now going to get some screen time.

It definitely seems like Allison and Tasmin needed a break from each other. I loved their last one, but they were heading for a big fight, I think. I had never thought about disguising as a canon character. That was a good idea.

I meant to say, I think I added this up right. by Miah on 2010-09-06 07:01:00 UTC Reply

This makes 70 missions you have written when counting all the various combinations of your agents. That is totally cool. Congratulations!

70? I hadn't realised by IndeMaat on 2010-09-06 09:47:00 UTC Reply

I had counted 60 for Tasmin, but not my own total.

Thanks for noticing.

Good! by The 9th Blue Mage on 2010-09-05 22:29:00 UTC Reply

Good job getting rid of that sue: I thought that the agents had to fight that mary sue.
By the way, what time does that second fic take place in?
Oh my. by Makari on 2010-09-05 21:43:00 UTC Reply

Those were some, er, interesting fics. Especially the second one. Nice job.
I have to ask about Tasmin. Is there an interlude-type thing somewhere I'm missing, or is that yet to come?

Yeah, interlude by IndeMaat on 2010-09-06 09:45:00 UTC Reply

It was a few years ago when I thought A-Team badfic was drying up. So I moved Tasmin too Torchwood fic. Then I discovered another source of A-Team badfic and had to think of a reason Tasmin could be in two places at once. A freak time traveling accident. I never wrote that story as it would come at the end of any missions in A-Team series.

From the looks of it, I will now just be dealing with three agent pairs who have backstories that lie in my writing future.

Nice work by jakraziel on 2010-09-05 20:30:00 UTC Reply

Ok you broke PPC rules but hey who doen't get into trouble now and again. As for the Sue, she was one of the most blatent I've seen.

Thanks by IndeMaat on 2010-09-05 21:08:00 UTC Reply

Though, I don't think I broke a rule. Allison quite clearly pointed out that Face was not going to believe them if they appeared to him as two people he had never met. If there was a rule about disguises, it was required to be broken here. (Although the agents could have gone in disguised as generic MPs, chased away Face and have the mission finished in under 100 words. But that wouldn't have been much of a story.)

Cool. by Neshomeh on 2010-09-05 18:08:00 UTC Reply

I was wondering when you'd end up doing missions to filmverse A-Team. What an odd Sue that was, though. I don't think I've ever seen one that blatantly going the superhero route, either. O.o

I like Trent. He seems a much more upbeat sort of person than Allison, which is good for contrast. I'm not entirely clear on why he talked like that when he tackled the Sue, though. I figure it's Suefluence of some sort, but why?

I also like the previous one, but don't get too set on disguising as canon characters. From TOS #14:
"Let's be Ents... or, or, or... or Maiar. Or Melkor! I can be Melkor, and you can be mini-Melkor. Or you can be Melkor and I can be Sauron. Or Ungoliant and Shelob!"

"I don't think we can be specific, named characters, Jay."

"Phoo." Jay slumped.

So, that's probably why it hasn't been explored more. Like most rules set by HQ, though, breaking it just once for fun isn't a lynching offense (especially since you carried it off well). Of course, the agents might hear about it later on... {= )

~Neshomeh

Thanks for reading and commenting by IndeMaat on 2010-09-05 20:13:00 UTC Reply

A-Team movie fic is for a large part slash, which isn't my thing. But there are a few Suefics around too.

Can't quite explain why Trent started talking differently. He's very susceptible to the way other people talk. When Allison and Tasmin first encountered him the boy barely spoke English. Half an hour in the company of Tasmin and most grammatical errors were ironed out of his speech pattern. But no one in the fic spoke like that. Perhaps it was a reflex: his brain was battling Suefluence by fighting the symptoms cause by a previous Sue's influence.

From your quote I don't necessarily derive that it is against the rules to disguise as a canon character. It could also be that the disguise generator can't handle requests that are that specific. Many years of technological development later...

Still, disguising as canon characters is only fun once in a while. Most of the time it would just draw attention to the agents because the Sue would see the canon character and the disguised agent. Even Sues with half a brain would find that suspicious.

Maybe, but... by Neshomeh on 2010-09-06 19:05:00 UTC Reply

As a counterpoint to the technological development explanation, it's only been eight years since Jay and Acacia quit, only six of which have contained Makes-Things, who, in my head-canon, would've been too busy keeping the current technology working to improve on systems that already worked just fine.

Either way, though, to me it's one of those "just because you can doesn't mean you should" scenarios. Like you said, it would get old pretty quickly if everybody started doing it, and most of the time it wouldn't serve the agents well anyhow. It's safest to assume that the agents can't be specific, named characters because it's usually a bad idea, whether they are capable of doing it or not.

But, like I said, the occasional exception is no big deal if it's done well. {= )

From you description, it sounds like Trent is allergic to Suefluence, but instead of breaking out in a rash, his speech patterns change. That would be interesting to watch. Maybe he can act like a canary in a mineshaft, warning his fellow agents when the atmosphere becomes too glittery for safety. ^_^

~Neshomeh

Hihi, mind's crackling with ideas. (nm) by IndeMaat on 2010-09-06 21:49:00 UTC Reply