Subject: Are you sure?
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Posted on: 2010-04-25 14:29:00 UTC
Sometimes it's hard to tell who wrote which agent. Regardless, if they're not around, and no one's been given responsibility for them (I've got a few agents who were given over to me), make sure you've got their backstory-as-written firmly understood and then go for it, unless someone can give a reason why not.
hS
I'm thinking about Agents that I could use, but I'm not sure if some of these ideas would work. So:
1. Can one of my Agents have been recruited by another, already existing Agent that is no longer active in the PPC, and hasn't been for a while? (i.e, not one of mine.)
2. If an Agent is a giant cat, for want of a better term, is it okay if she doesn't wear a proper uniform? Cats don't wear clothes, see. I was thinking a black armband with a Flashpatch could substitute.
3. How long does it take for an agent to become trained and ready for missions after they have been recruited?
1/ That depends on the agent. If the person who wrote that agent is still around, it's polite to ask them first. It's also worth making sure there's nothing that would clash with the agent's existing backstory (for instance, if you claimed your agent was recruited by Acacia 'in her third year as an assassin', you'd run up against the fact that Acy was only an assassin for about a year and a half).
2/ Agent Mmrrowl would like to say hello. :P On a more relevant note, a lot of agents don't wear uniform anyway. The classic drawing of Jay and Acacia shows them in jeans. Since the uniform gets disguised like everything else on missions, and since no one not in the PPC should be in HQ, the only real requirement seems to be the flashpatch.
3/ Ahahahaha.
3 actual answer/ It varies. Some agents have described fairly comprehensive training, some are just handed several canon books (and a copy of the Manual) and sent off to a Response Centre. Go with whatever makes the most narrative sense; the PPC has never claimed consistancy in its proceedures.
hS
Sometimes it's hard to tell who wrote which agent. Regardless, if they're not around, and no one's been given responsibility for them (I've got a few agents who were given over to me), make sure you've got their backstory-as-written firmly understood and then go for it, unless someone can give a reason why not.
hS
...and Agent Ekwy (the agent I was planning to use) hasn't been active for a long time. Regardless, it was only going to be a brief cameo.
Your agent is from the Cats continuum, right? Is (s)he somewhat humanlike? If so, I still have the patterns for a uniform designed with animal comfort right over...here...no...there...somewhere, anyway. Randall loves it (more than his last uniform). I'm sure that the PPC seamstresses would be modify it to fit your agent, if you want. It's nice and loose, and easy to slip out of if it gets to be too restraining.
She is sort of like a human. About the same size, anyway, just furrier. So, yes, if you have a picture of something, that would be helpful, thanks.
Unfortunately, I have no pictures, and am horrible at drawing anything with any resemblance to a human. Imagine loose black casual clothes. No pockets. Flashpatch on at least the right shoulder. The rest can be up to you. In fact, I'll follow your design and say that yours is the original, if you are quick enough in writing it. It's going to take a while before I get to the point in my story where the new pattern comes in—don't look at any of my currently written stories for inspiration.
1 - Yes, many of our agents have been recruited by other agents, some of whom may or may not exist in canon.
2 - So long as the armband is black. That's the key thing.
3 - I'm pretty sure that agents receive *snicker* on-the-job training.
