... beware, there aren't actually any rules!

But yes, it has some guidelines on the subject of exorcisms.

When you say 'and at number/severity of charges is a good place to cut it off?', er, what exactly do you mean? If you mean what I think you mean, i.e. how long should the exorcism be? then the answer is 'stop juuust before it gets repetitive and boring' :)

'What method for dealing with charge lists have you found most effective? Listing stylistic things as they come up, and then describing characterization issues with the neuralized canons seems the most common, but you've also talked about using excerpts of charge lists during the exorcism as well.'

It's an interesting question, this one. The charge list, in Bad Slash missions, if we're honest, is mostly a way of keeping the reader informed about why the sporker thinks the fic deserves to be sporked. In-story, the Agents just list whatever crimes (both stylistic and characterisation-based) come up as they come up. And as for incorporating things in exorcisms, well, that's entirely up to you as to how you do it and what you include - we tend to include charges that are easily 'banished', or basically whatever sounds good.

'Do you have any recommended sources about the more... physics and biology side of things? Even real life men sometimes find out even basic stuff like that moisturizing soap isn't really moisturizing enough the unpleasant way, but some of the kinkier stuff I'd be cautious about trying to Google up answers.'

*cough* Uh, actually ... I should probably find some. The physics and biology side of things relies on my and Pads's particular interest and knowledge of those subjects, so ... we tend to just remark upon things that we know are wrong.

I'll keep an eye out for good resources, though, and of course you're always welcome to ask me specific questions :)

For me, a big indicator is the name. If a character no longer goes by their real name, there's a good chance it's a replacement. In fact, that's why I killed Nadia/Hermione but not Ginny in the HP/DroP mission. (Also I didn't let it get to the parts where Ginny was in the spotlight and thus more Sue-ified.)

Of course, there are plenty of instances in which the character retains the name and that is literally the only thing they have in common with the canon character, especially if their defining characteristics are gone, such as you mentioned with Cregga Rose Eyes.

A character that's just behaving very strangely is probably possessed--they're still themselves to some degree, but being forced to act weird due to outside influence. But if the story takes away the things that define them, that's a replacement. It is a judgement call up to the person writing the mission, but that's how I look at it.

~Neshomeh