Subject: Re: Pseudorandom Agents Question
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Posted on: 2010-07-24 01:33:00 UTC
Have you a reasonably worked out backstory for these agents? Is their transition from your unpublished fic to the PPC coherent and workable? If the answer to these questions is yes, then it's thunderbirds are go.
Is it acceptable/done to have Agents whose home continua are in our own unpublished origional fictions. I feel like this is a stupid question and/or one I've read the answer to, but I can't remember, so here I go asking it.
Basically, I ask because the ideas I have for Agents both are the above. One is from the fantasy setting for my NaNoWriMo novel for this year (yes, I already havr a plot outline for it. Forgibe me if therr are spelling errors now, as my phone has just decided it'd be grand to glitch. I can't see what I'm typing anymore. Anyway:
Regards,
Lleu Llaw Gyffes
Have you a reasonably worked out backstory for these agents? Is their transition from your unpublished fic to the PPC coherent and workable? If the answer to these questions is yes, then it's thunderbirds are go.
...that the answer to those questions is "yes". More information when I feel like I have enough of a presence to actually ask permission.
Regards,
Lleu Llaw Gyffes
We don't necessarily need to hear that information, even. So long as you've got it, and you can see how it all works and fits in, and so long as it *does* all work and fit in... then you needn't worry, and you needn't seek permission to bring them in in such a way. So long as it works so far as you can see, and that comes across when you write them, we're all good.
Agent Miah Arthur is a character originally from a fic that I deleted about 13 years ago. When I deleted the fic, I rescued the character to use as an online avatar, and eventually she ended up here. She was a bit Sue-ish in the original story, which I realized, although I didn't know what the term for that was at the time. Anyway, she put her time in de-Sueifying while she was nothing but an avatar, and is now very glad to have a world to inhabit again. :D
Agent Unger is a D&D 3.5 half-elf Barbarian (went for a bit of the ridiculous there) that is based in the world of the game that we last played here.
Agent Logan is lifted more-or-less wholesale from an original fiction/ alternate-history fic/series I've had kicking around for ten years or so. Actually, I'd take that as a "yes", given the number of agents that have similar backgrounds.
One of my Agents, Amelia Keaton, is from an unpublished original fiction of mine. Well, at least her home background/ setting is. Much like yourself, I'll be fleshing everything out for NaNo this year, but she's going to be one of the main characters. It's going to be either a preternatural-based crime novel or a preternatural-based spy novel-- one of the two, since I'm going to go with the whole "ex-private detective" bit of her history like I did here.
I didn't think there would be any problem, but I wanted to be sure. The character in question's backstory was so perfect that I couldn't pass it up: he's a minor wizard (I have a list of D&D 3.5 spells roughly equivalent to what he knows, and it's only eighteen things, none above 3rd-level, and only two 3rd-level) who over the course of the novel gets pulled out of his home continuum by a rift created by some crazy magical experiments. He therefore opposes badfic not because he's familiar with the continua and horrified at how people are ruining them, but because he's opposed to continuum-warping in general. His partner is a young werewolf who is familiar with the continua.
Also, wow, I'm embarrassed by how many errors there are in my original post. Thrice-cursed phone.
Thanks and regards,
Lleu Llaw Gyffes
One of my agents is a recicled main character from a remake of one old fic of mine, that I never wrote. The funny thing is that another remake of the same thing is in the works, and so another very similar character, with even the same name, is around.
I have a couple of Agents from continua of mine that I've either written stuff for but never published, or made up around the character to explain them.
One of my own agents, Deuce, is from my unpublished original canon. I haven't gotten any flack for it so far.
There are agents from unpublished fics already--the "semi-fic blips" who are generally Sues or OCs from unpublished stories. So it's not at all a stretch to think that a character from unpublished original fiction might join the PPC.