My "agents' introduction" piece sort of collided with my Blackout interlude, and the latter swallowed the former and incorporated all of its story ideas. Don't worry, though; I'll keep my mission-making strictly to collecting sporkable badfics until I'm officially allowed or I'm working on a co-write.

You mean the story where the Foxglove leads a horde of former Floaters and causes the Sundering after the Twisted Skein's DF outstrips their DMS? Or were you referring to something a little more subtle?
(I've not read all of your stories yet, and regardless, I might have forgotten specific disparaging comments from the characters.)

I know I can't really speak for anybody else here, but the reason I picked Floaters for my agents is not a matter of the missions I'm doing right now, but a question of the missions I have planned in the future.

What you seem to see as the issue -the flexibility, if I'm reading right- is exactly why I use it. I want to be able to have my agents go on missions in bad slash, Sue elimination, crossovers, and actually have these missions planned out in advance. They're just a matter of finding the right fic to do the missions with. The reason why I tend to do Sues is... well, mostly because Suefics that fit the tone I want to write with are much easier to find then, say, a slash mission that fits what I want to write.

Huge reversal of...I want to say casuality but that's completely wrong. Fault, I guess, would be the closest to what I'm getting at.

It seems like you just said.

"There are people who pick the wrong missions when they are Floaters, so Floaters are bad."
That kind of switch has some obvious problems, but considering the fact that I thought the Floaters were a sort of "Take it easy on what you pick while you're new to the PPC"
department, then it just gets silly.

My Agents are DMS, but they like working with agents from different Departments (as long as it's not Rosalie - shut up, Eledhwen muse).

It's mostly because I get some Suefics with bad slash, or Suefics with bad crossover tossed in, so getting help from specialists would be fantastic. Although for the Suefic with bad slash I think my Agents just winged it by themselves, since by the time they agreed to exorcise Sherlock and John they had already been busy killing the Sue. Or something.

This next mission of mine, for example, is a co-op between my Agents and my newly adopted Time Lord Agents for the DIC, so I basically can have my Suvian cake and eat the Bad Crossover one, too.

That's why I'm collecting badfic from a large amount of fandoms, just to make sure that I don't get in a rut mission-wise.
Now that you mention it, I might just find out which of my two selected badfic types I'm better at writing after a few missions, and then transfer my agent pair to that Department permanently once it's discovered and I find enough missionable badfics in the category I chose. Heck, the way my agents' personalities are, they'd see it as a promotion.

I've been working on more characters for other Departments, but the majority of those seem to be more recurring side characters than anything at this point. I plan to have only a few main characters, at least at first, to help with independent characterization, and I didn't want to write two or three agent pairs for different Departments and then run the risk of abandoning one later once I find what direction my writing style works best in.