Subject: Dangerous Agents
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Posted on: 2010-03-28 06:44:00 UTC

I am, unfortunately, unable to point you towards those interesting agents, but I do think that I can answer the question about your possible recruit. The way I understand it, the main reasoning against super-powered agents is that it is not any fun to read about someone going into a story, making a list of charges, and killing the Sue/exorcising the author if the agent does so with ease and without suffering. As long as the average fic poses a challenge to the agent, I believe that the agent is not considered too strong. Using this reasoning, if you were worried about how strong an agent is getting, you might be able to rein him in by throwing really bad stories at him. Of course, that assumes that you can withstand a barrage of really-badfics, but you might be able to ease off if you can make your agent get more fragile. It seems like it might be a good idea to plan for this ahead of time, and give your agent some disability when he first arrives. I am going to be using this technique when I start writing--I will have a werewolf character who could probably beat most Sues easily, but who's mind and morals are threatened by his condition. It's going to be fun when I get him to snap.

By the way, I apologize for the length and the somewhat rambling nature of this post. I do that when I start getting tired.

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