Subject: Alternate answers
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Posted on: 2010-03-16 23:01:00 UTC

  1. Part of the reason is that the Flowers -- or rather, their non-sentient ancestors -- came from World One. This implies that their homeworld of Origin is/was in the same universe as World One. Another is that... well, I'll move onto the second question.

    2. Another response to question 1 is that Agents tend to fall through plotholes from World One a lot more often than from elsewhere. Agents from, say, Middle-earth tend to have been recruited directly. I don't know why that is.

    As to plotholes changing people -- I suppose they could. In my conception of the Way Of Things, there's a whole bunch of different types of plotholes -- a geographical-abberation plothole would bring you to HQ, say, while a genderbending plothole would turn you into a girl/boy, depending. Since Mary-Sues create and to an extent use plotholes, having a plothole which does both would need you to identify a source -- a canon where there's a lot of fics involving simultaneous relocation and transportation. Lots of Sues are dragged from one world to another. Lots of Sues force canons to physically change. Not many do both at once, so they can't be too common.

    (And, since I'm here...)

    3. No-one in the entire history of recorded missions has been forced into the PPC. Some have been given pretty leading choices -- "We have to kill you unless you join" is basically what Jay and Acacia said to Ranger -- but never actually forced.

    4. Ah, but are they?

    Seriously. Fanfics are made up of words, or at least heavily shaped by them -- the DTE tends to run into showers of punctuation and entities like Lady Contrivance, and we know Agents can actually read the Words from inside the world. But has anyone ever tried in uncorrupted canon? It may well be that the Words are an alien intrusion which bends a preexisting world to match someone else's shape. Since the PPC doesn't destroy original fiction (ie, since even really bad canon characters don't create dangerous plotholes, which is the reason Sues are killed, at least in my version), that would mean that each original work of fiction is essentially a channelling by a World One author of an alternate, real world in another dimension.

    Not that only World One authors can create universes. The Musee de Universes Perdu in New Caledonia contains, as I recall, fiction from Gallifrey before its fall. The reason we don't see mission reports on those is that we wouldn't know what was going on.

    (Hey, anyone want to write a PPC mission set in The Grasshopper Lies Heavy?)

    hS

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