Subject: The beauty of these games
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Posted on: 2013-04-08 18:15:00 UTC
is that there is no "proper" way to do it. You just go with it, express your creativity whatever way is fun and all that rot. Scenes, backstories, character bios, iambic pentameter, everything's free game.
Oh, thanks.
...How would your Agents be different if they originated in a different fandom?
This was the result of me doodling Agent Christianne regenerating, and I thought that if she had been a Time Lady instead of a human, she'd probably have even worse issues with outliving her partners (although if she was a Time Lady, she'd probably be able to stick around as long as Eledhwen, which is pretty fortunate for the two of them).
Also if she ran around in a TARDIS instead of an RC, I imagine Eledhwen would go into conniptions trying to keep track of everything (not to mention the 'bigger on the inside' issue). And it'd make for some interesting seasickness scenarios, too, given Eledhwen's sensitivity to time distortions (I imagine they'd have to come up with medication for TARDIS-sickness).
So then, what would happen if your Agents originated from different fandoms/were different species?
(This is not me plotting another PPC AU, oh nope)
Previously in Fandom Protection Fleet: Far Far Away...
Dafid Il-yaen, Jedi Knight and Operative of the FPF, finally reached the end of his ongoing quest. The Force-using cultures of the galaxy have yielded up their shards of the Tor-Kannen Crystal, and on the windswept plains of Dantooine, Dafid brought them together to repair the fabic of canon.
But what's this! Millennia ago, the Sith Lord Mari-Suu poured her essence into the Tor-Kannen Crystal, corrupting it from its purpose and twisting it to evil. Even as Dafid brings the last pieces into contact, a malevolent force sinks into his mind, turning him to the Dark Side.
Only his constant companion, Arikae Sems, is there to witness his fall. Only she can pull him back. But she has no equipment - no weapons - no plan.
Only her love.
...of TCDA. In a really roundabout way, of course :)
Honestly, I think if I came in with him now, there's no way I'd get Permission. Of course, a lot of the stuff he built up (magic ring, magic harp... er, being Maglor, being an elf...) wasn't even in the original conception, so that's not really true...
I kind of want to do something with the FPF now... Sith!Dafydd might be fun to play with.
... no. Bad hS. Too much going on already.
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What was the original conception, then? 'Cause in the beginning of the first DOGA mission (I think), he was already reading over Unfinished Tales with a red pen. Oh, yeah, calling himself the "ruler by default of all Endor" in Two Worlds United was a bit much, come to think about it... I mean, Hollin, Lorien and Rivendell, I could see him inheriting those, but the rest?
Also, Dafydd kind of went back and forth between being sort of like your self-insert in "Pancakes!" and being Maglor. Honestly, it's like you and Maglor had a kid or something BAD MENTAL IMAGE! Have some Bleep'n'ms. Lots of them. Here.
Acronyms are not my strong point, and when I put it into Google, it just spat out a bunch of businesses. Oh, Google, you aren't very helpful in cases that don't involve specific keywords.
It's like the modern version of that tired old "But how can you look something up in the dictionary if you can't spell it?" joke.
Any agent's going to seem Sueish when he's got years and years of Sue-loot serving as his weapons. Being Maglor is stretching it, but only a bit, since it's not like he's the only former character replacement in the PPC.
Writing Dafydd's family members as "the only good agents left in the whole PPC circa 2038" poses a bit of a problem, but it doesn't really get out of hand until the point where those family members write him as one of a group of godlike figures in the far future. Since I don't know if the Myths of the PPC story was canon to anything else, that last point might not be valid.
Now I'm interested in the Fandom Protection Fleet. I mean, I'd been interested before, but then I just thought it was a throwaway gag. Now that it's apparently a possible inter-dimensional organization, I'm getting brain-cogs going.
I'm seeing them as sort of a science-fiction-and-fastasy-heavy version of the pre-Lofty Skies Protectors, but with different ideas for what warrants anomaly destruction. All of the consoles would be aspects of an HQ-wide AI, to encourage efficiency and to cut down on destruction of Fleet property.
They'd probably have an absolutely insanely complex (and effective) Medical Department, too, what with owning or scavenging technology from Star Wars, Star Trek, Starfishers, Stargate, and basically every other continuum with "Star" in the title.
Ugh, no, stop, me. I don't even have Permission yet, and I'm going on like this. Last time this happened, I was reprimanded for it. (slaps self) I'll keep the rest to myself now.
AKA, PPC: Magical Girl style! Where Headquarters is the Protector's Garden, the Agents are annoyed by their cute vaguely-animal-like plushie-esque CADs, and they are bossed about by the Flower Princesses.
http://disc.yourwebapps.com/discussion.cgi?disc=199610;article=225184;title=PPC%20Posting%20Board
It's the Transfictional Canonical Defense Authority (or something like that) and it's basically Steampunk-PPC.
I'm pretty sure the TCDA stories are chock full of disclaimers pointing out that Pieguy came up with the idea...
hS
Well, they're not done yet, but...
Kyle was the crazy-prepared ordinary guy, who obsessed over his equipment. Pretty standard, but a bit formal in speech.
Now, let's make him into a cheesy action-novel character. He'll still be crazy-prepared, so he gets a callsign of Batman. Formal speech turns into using military terminology constantly. He'd be the team explosives expert, or the tech specialist/hacker.
My other Agent isn't ready yet.
Well, I suppose I could drag out the space marines. Vid and Nemedra might fit in pretty damn well in Firefly, or maybe somewhere quiet in the Star Wars EU. I'd probably know more about how they'd be changed if they weren't from a roleplaying game or if I'd actually written anything about them besides two bad attempts at a permissions piece.
I don't actually know another fandom besides Dinotopia that would accommodate a velociraptor... maybe "The Lost World?"
Agent Tanya Verde is a self-insert, so I have the whole multiverse to pick from. Let's go with Trekverse. I like playing in Trekverse.
Her home fic begins with her and her BFF, Mary Sue, taking their Starfleet Academy entrance exams. Sue gets in easily, while Tanya doesn't make it at all. The PPC agents comment to each other that it took Picard two tries to get in. Sue expresses her sympathies, then promptly shoves Tanya into a plothole as she time skips to graduating the academy (top of the class, of course) and getting immediately assigned to the flagship of the fleet, the Enterprise-D. (It's only now we figure out that the fic is TNG-verse - the summary said so, but nothing in the fic up until this point has indicated anything.) She is obviously the best, and gets to work with all the senior officers on a regular basis, especially Lt. Commander Data. Only…could she possibly be developing a crush on the android? Oh, why did she fall for a man with no emotions, her senior officer to boot! He could never love her! They manage to become friends, but that's just not enough! Meanwhile, the Enterprise has just been assigned to carry a group of scientists to a planet for some purpose (the particular scientific discipline or purpose is irrelevant), and Tanya is one of them. They reconnect, and Sue thinks that's great until Data starts working with the scientists (discipline still unspecified) - and Tanya confides that she's starting to have a crush on him too! To make matters worse, Data's spending less time with Sue and more time with the scientists. Sue breaks down and cries, because she'll never get him, even though she's so gorgeous and smart and perfect! (the wangst goes on much longer). Finally, she resolves to admit her feelings to Data. She bursts into the science lab and proclaims her love for Data in front of Tanya and a group of Generic Scientists. Data spontaneously develops emotions, and starts crying, saying that he loves her. She asks him why he was spending so much time with the (still unspecified) scientists, and he says it was purely work, and that he missed her. Tanya looks griefstricken, and Data and Sue move as if to close the distance between them…except that the PPC steps in and reads off the charge list, culminating in the charge currently paralyzing Data - making an android emotional. Sue is killed, canon reverts to normal but for Tanya still standing in the middle of a science lab. The agents ask her if she wants to join the PPC, she asks what they do, and when they respond "kill people like her" and gesture to Sue's body, Tanya responds "Oh hell yes!", and joins.
I don't know where her sister fits into this, though. So if she was recruited this way agent Joani wouldn't exist, unless perhaps Joani appeared in a Voyager era fic by the same author as the BFF of that Sue. They were recruited seperately, and due to timeline confusion on the part of the Suethor are three years apart in age.
That was fun.
I love all the little details in this one, especially the "nothing up to this point indicated the fic was in TNG" bit.
When those Generics assimilated into the canon, assuming alt-Tanya's rescuers didn't kill them in a burst of frustration, they'd make excellent Starfleet Science Officers. Nobody ever asks a Science Officer what his scientific discipline is. He's the Science Officer. He is in charge of all science!
(I was going to write some ridiculous dialogue here showing one of the Generic Science Officers dealing with a Star Trek Problem-of-the-Week, but it turned out stupid and I decided to scrap it.)
Well, let's see, the RC 8888 duo in the Nanoha-verse.
Narav: Probably comes from a family very much focused on going into the TSAB. However, he's got a good eye for magical physics, so he heads into spell and Device development. Eventually he gets assigned to tech-support for a front-lines unit of some kind, an Enforcers unit on a violent world perhaps. So even though he's technically not front-line personnel he still has to deal with the criminals roving around, so he gets pretty good at combat, and learns how to use basic Belkan style magic. Eventually, he gets sent to another unit when the area is mostly pacified, and in-between assignments he meets a PPC recruiter.
Lana: Grew up in a small family on an Unadministered World where the custom is for mages to serve the local warlord. Lana had a talent for support magic - specifically binds, teleports, and illusions, so she got trained to be a spy and bodyguard for the Device Meister manufacturing some of the weapons. Obviously, she didn't like it, and when an experimental Dimensional Transport machine broke she got thrown into the PPC Headquarters.
Let's say I took Caleb the Twilight vampire...
...And made him a Rainbow Drinker instead. So Caleb Cooper the vampire would be... Cayleb Cooper the Alternian troll, I guess. I'm pretty sure that's possible, if male jadebloods are a thing. I'm not completely sure. Anyway, he'd glow in the dark, which is infinitely preferable to sparkling in the sun, and he'd spend his days tending to the Mother Grub. Pretty boring existence, all in all, but it may very well be the safest on Alternia, all things considered. Of course, if I don't take his vampirism into account, he would probably be a blueblood instead, and I'm pretty sure he's capable enough to survive in a violent environment like Alternia.
I think if Jack were transplanted with him he'd end up being his spazzy green-or-brownblood moirail.
But let me do something different with Jack. Let's put him in... Adventure Time. Without Caleb to keep him from attacking people, he'd probably end up being a quirky recurring minor villain that Finn and Jake have to beat back every now and then. I don't think he's evil enough for Finn to actually kill.
Now for Kestrel. I think I'll have to stick her on Alternia, too. And... Kestra would probably be higher on the spectrum, maybe somewhere around cerulean, I don't really see her as a seadweller. She'd be right at home on Alternia, frankly. She's always right at home in violent environments. Now, the real challenge would be sticking her in Equestria. She'd probably be a pegasus pony, either a trick flier or a member of the Royal Guard. If she were the former, she'd be too reckless to cut it as a Wonderbolt, and if the latter is the case, she'd probably get written up a lot for insubordination. Either way, she would never quite fit in.
Let's put Adder in Doctor Who. She'd probably be stubborn and competent enough to make it as a passing, temporary companion, one of those once-an-episode minor characters that gets involved in the Doctor's shenanigans. She's definitely an Action Survivor, so she'd actually have a decent chance of making it out alive.
I'll end this by sticking Deuce in Fairy Tail. Fire wizard, all the way. Depending on how similar his backstory would be to his "canon" one, he'd probably start off as a villain, actually, maybe a member of a dark guild. Of course, Deuce has this thing where he subconsciously keeps a death-grip on his goodness, and since defeat often leads to friendship in Fairy Tail, his villain status wouldn't last very long.
I dunno, it kind of feels weird separating Adder and Deuce.
I just wrote out an AU scene, and everyone else is giving their alt-characters all these involved backstories. I may need to go reply with some alt-backstories of my own in the future.
Oh, and there are male jadebloods, but they aren't very common. The caste is still predominately female. Just to clear that up.
is that there is no "proper" way to do it. You just go with it, express your creativity whatever way is fun and all that rot. Scenes, backstories, character bios, iambic pentameter, everything's free game.
Oh, thanks.
...in the Nanoha-verse.
All right, let's see here. Male, currently 19, has magical potential. Likes order and being a part of a larger group, so he enlists in the Time-Space Administration Bureau as soon as he is eligible to do so. University-educated, creative thinker. He's always been thinner and weaker than most, so he's not combat material. He's not a very impressive mage either: overall rank of "D" with a specialization in support spells. Ground Forces don't want him, not powerful enough to join the Dimensional Navy, so he's assigned to the Rescue Corps.
Dutiful worker, obsessive-compulsive need for orders. Above average leadership skills, but not the most inspirational boss ever: natural cowardice meshes poorly with the risks that need to be taken for SAR ops. Re-relocated to the Wildlife Preservation Corps after a while.
Stuck in the middle of nowhere as a magic gamekeeper agrees with his more passive and quieter side, but he still dreams of becoming a soldier or maybe even a full-blown Enforcer.
When he encounters an off-duty PPC agent visiting Mid-Childa, he gladly signs up to fix the multiverse in search of glory and recognition.
In conclusion, we'd have a more restless, inquisitive man than the one currently sipping his tea in RC 22 right now. He'd be a lot more proactive, questioning orders, and finding new ways to do things. AU!Gasaprd would also be slightly, wanting certain things to be done by his partners/squadmates or by use of magic.
Well, that is an interesting idea. The Wildlife Preservation Corps need more love in Nanoha - they stop poachers with dragons. Also considering some of the monster the Wolks use for mana you'd probably end up dealing with things on the monster-y end of the scale at some point...
This makes four! Cadamr, Gasaprd, Accadia, and Acacia Bird.
I was going to call it a "collection", but Cadamr gave me the stink eye and a meaningful gesture with her cleaver-swinging hand, so now it's a troupe. She wanted it to be a "gang". We compromised.
Because I have three mini-Acacias now: Accacia, Acacia Bird, and Accadia. I might want to give them a mini partner to socialize with before they team up and start wrecking my metapartment.
The other new arrival, Daffyd, is not helping matters. Actually, he's just sitting on the back of the couch chuckling as the three mini-Acacias shoot arrows into my ceiling. Gasaprd is hiding in the bathroom, and I've not seen Cadamr for an hour.
Oh, there she is. And she brought bacon! That'll at least keep the mini-Acacia's quiet for a while.
Hopefully long enough for someone to report a mini-Jay...
What would my agents be like if they were from another continuum? Well, poor Marvin would have never heard of MLP:FiM, thus completely changing his motivation for being in the devision he is in. Great, now I am imagining Marvin as a wizard from the Discworld. I wonder...
While all his peers were busy reading star formations, summoning Death, and shoving their heads in mercury clouds, Marvin dared to wonder about a diferent kind of magic: the magic of friendship. Unfortunately, the Archmage was not Celestia, but a man who thought Marvin's fascination with human emotion was bolth absurd and complete hogwash. Marvin was alone in his observations of mortal resilience and strength in tight numbers, and while he was able to stalk watch others forge friendships through fire (and loose other freinds in the same blaze) he could not bring himself to make any friends himself. That is, untill his experiment with quicksilver, sunflower seeds, and a pony heart somehow managed to rip a hole in the fabric of reality.
While on almost any other world this would be cause for considerable alarm, dimensional tears on the Disc were a fairly common occurrence, especially in the Unseen University. This hole was different from the usual kind, which lead to a vast, barren land full of freezing cold sand and unimaginable horrors that were all too easy to imagine. No, this one seemed to lead into a genericaly grey hallway, with light fixtures hanging on the ceiling. Marvin would have taken more time to ponder the architecture, if he did not find himself sucked into the portal, and on the other side. Now all he could think about is, "Oh bugger. Now what?"
Meanwhile, in the laboratory Marvin was very rudely taken from, a tall dark figure stood, leaning against his scythe and watching the hole the wizard was pulled into shrink and disapear with a small 'Pop.' The figure sighed and shook his head, as he pulled out a small hourglass, which had suddenly desided to stop. I HATE PLOTHOLES.
...Thanks Lily, now I have Marvin the Wizard stuck in my head. Fantastic.
Well, Marvin the Wizard would be much less shy, but much more socially awkward. He would see the world as one massive opportunity to study friendship, and upon introduction to MLP:FiM, would use the friendship reports as scientific reports on how frendship works, and attempt to use them as guidelines to live by. Unfortunately, it will translate to everyone else as being very creepy. You see, he would have studied friendship from afar, and while he would know how it should work, it would be very hard for him to put it into practice.
As a wizard from the Disc, while being more open and considerate to non-wizards then most of his peers, he would still be a bit of an elitist, and feel that magic users were ever so slightly better then everyone else. He would be a unicorn evry time he enters a new badfic. If he has to go to Cloudsdale, he casts the cloud-walking spell on himself.
And now, a random moment in Marvin the Wizard's non-adventures.
Printworthy stared at his partner in shock. "Have you lost your mind!? That's suicidal, there is no way it could work!"
Marvin laughed, preparing to charge headlong into almost absolute death for anypony else. "There is something you should know about Disc wizards, Printworthy. We have to be claimed by Death himself when we die, and last I checked, Death isn't in Equestria! I can't die!"
ARE YOU SHURE ABOUT THAT?
Marvin froze, his pupils as small as pinheads, and his mane stuck upright. He slowly turned, dreading what he would see. Standing before him was a tall, bone white pony, with a platinum blonde mane. The pony wore a black cloak over his head, his eyes shining out from underneeth. That is, if you could call them eyes. Rather, where the pony's eyes should have been were two dark sockets, with two bright blue sparks for the actual eyes. Marvin glanced towards the pony's flank and saw a black hourglass cutiemark, the sand all emptied to the bottom, and a scythe lieing across the front.Were it not for the eyes and cutie mark, Marvin would have sworn he was looking at Death's dreaded mount, Blinky. But this pony was not Blinky. It was... It was...
I AM DEATH OF PONIES.
Marvin fainted on the spot.
WE ARE FRIENDS FOREVER.
WHY ARE WE SPEAKING IN DEATH'S VOICE?
DEATH USUALLY SPEAKS IN SMALLER CAPITAL LETTERS THAN THIS, BUT THERE'S NO FONT SIZE CONTROL ON THE BOARD, SO WE'RE GOING TO HAVE TO DEAL WITH THE STANDARD SIZE. WE CAN JUST BE DEATH'S SOUL MUSIC-ERA VOICE. THAT'S AN APPROPRIATE EXPLANATION.
ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS TYPE:
YOUR TEXT HERE
BUT DELETE THE AMPERSANDS IN EACH BIT.
IT SHOULD LOOK LIKE THIS IF I DIDN'T BUNGLE ANYTHING. THIS IS FONT SIZE 2.
...THE LESS FLAGRANTLY OBVIOUS IT IS THAT YOU'RE STILL NEW.
Thanks! I'll give up on the all-caps for now, though. It's more of a situational thing, really.
Good Omens/MLP crossover - at least, that's the way it feel to me, since I haven't read Discworld. And it is just - omigods DEATH PONY. No words.
Well, seeing as Good Omens is written by Terry Pratchett as well, it makes sense the continuum would be similar. Death is my absolute favorite Discworld character, so creating Death of Ponies was great fun for me. Actually, Death of Ponies was not there to collect wizard!Marvin just yet, but rather sompony else nearby, but since he overheard the wizard being cocky, he felt like messing with the agent a little. Prinworthy would be unable to see Death of Ponies, like most humans cannot see Death, so to him, Marvin passed out for absolutely no reason. Hilarity ensues.
...Great, now Death of Ponies is going to appear in one of the missions, somehow. I don't know how at the moment, but I'll figure it out. And I'm going to have to write out wizard!Marvin a bit more because of this. As a side note, all of my characters are free-use, as I don't hold much value to 'intellectual property,' so feel free to use any of the characters if you so wish without fear of me hunting you down demanding permission before use. All I ask is a little credit and that the piece is not crap.
I haven't gotten permission yet, so technically I don't have any agents yet.....hmm, interesting thought, though.
Do you want us to just... pick one? Or is there one continuum specifically that you want us to pick and try to work with?
Since you said Doctor Who, I imagined both of my agents-to-be as Time Lords. I immediately envisioned a scene where a Dalek got into their TARDIS while they were charging it. One agent had been busy messing with the central computer, and turned around just in time to see his partner run around behind the intruder and jump on its rear side.
The following dialogue ensued.
C: "Get down off of there!"
L: "No way! This is kick-ass!"
C: "It's going to... to hurt you!"
L: "It can't! Its gun and little plunger thing are on the other side!"
D: "EX-TER-MIN-ATE!!!" (Dalek spins around, blasting from its gunstick wildly)
L: "Stop spinning around! Go forward! Out the door! I'm the Dalek Rider, I say where we go!"
C: "Did you just quote the Eragon movie? Of all the things to say in a crisis..."
L: "Nick, I say some things because I'm joking about them. I say other things because I didn't have the time to think of anything better. This... (Dalek smacks into the wall in an effort to dislodge its passenger) Oof. This is both cases."
(Dalek spins faster)
D: "EXTERMINATE! EXTERMINATE! EXTERMINATE!" (fires wildly at TARDIS ceiling)
L: "So this is what it feels like to be nauseous. Can't say I recommend it."
C: Oh, for cog's sake!
(Copernicus knocks the Dalek over)
"Ex-Ter-Min...ate." (Dalek shifts back and forth, trying and failing to right itself)
C: "Look at him. He's like a turtle that's been tipped onto its back. I almost feel sorry for him. I probably would, if he hadn't broken in, smacked into the walls, and scratched the new paint.
L: (stands up, brushing dirt off his coat) "Plus, I think it was trying to kill us."
C: "Really? I'm going to need to buy a new lock for the ship."
L: "Let's sonic the top open before it gets itself back up. I want to see what button the squid-blob pilot pushes to make the gun work."
These two are going to be fun to write.
Also, that is possibly the multiverse's most easily toppled Dalek, but that's neither here nor there.
Technically I don't have agents, since I don't have Permission. I've got them in my head, at least...?
...to flesh out their Agents for when they do get Permission?
You can answer the question, if you want to play with the idea.
Even if I don't have permission?
I've got a couple of Agents coming together in my head, so I'll just try this....but Disclaimer: Don't have permission yet, and it will probably be a while before I even ask.
P.S: Still refining the characters. If you see anything that looks weird in here, it's probably going to get changed at some point.
Solstice or "Sol": Alright, let's say she was from the Charmed verse. A witch. Hmm.......
I'd imagine she'd be more outgoing and touch-happy. Sol now is really drawn inward, guarded and quiet. I'm giving her premonition as a Charmed power, so her power would be focused through her hands. So to gain information, she'd likely be just a bit more 'out there'. Especially since she'd be in a family where it made sense, rather than with a family that Sol was vastly different from. Maybe she'd be more positive, to. Solstice is really quite the downer.
And then, I think, she'd be a bit less hard. Sol usually has quite a bit of quiet emotional strength. I don't think that the other Sol would have less, but since I doubt she'd be allowed to fight demons until she was older.....maybe?
Cass: Hello, sweet, sarcastic little friend. Let's place you in Sol's home universe.
Hmm......I actually don't think Cass would end up that different. That's partially my fault, I guess. I placed her into similar circumstances.
The biggest difference would be her eyes. Cass relies a lot on what she sees- she hates being blinded. She can see like a hawk and any little moving tic on a body language. She notices everything (Well, not everything, she isn't perfect...ahem, you get my point). But if she were in Sol's home universe (Missing-verse) then she would have to rely less on what she sees and trust more in things she doesn't see to do her job.
And I suppose that she wouldn't be so protective. She's like the parent of a wounded chimp sometimes. With only her being transferred, she'd be more out for herself, I guess.
Wow, that was a good exercise for them. Really made me think. Interesting....very interesting....
Your agents sound fun.
Sure, why not.
Hmm. Karen-the-Agent and Lanyon from other continua.
Well, Lanyon's from an original story of mine, and Karen-the-Agent went through your IAHF and seems to have been later incorporated into a friend's story...so...
Lanyon. Let's say he's from a sci-fi continuum, instead of a steampunk one. He'd certainly be a lot better with technology of the PPC variety, since as he is now, anything that doesn't run on steam confuses him. He'd also be a lot more open-minded and accepting of others. Possibly he'd have more patience with Karen-the-Agent.
And Karen-the-Agent...well. As my self-insert character, it's hard to imagine her otherwise, but...for the sake of the question...let's say she was born as a troll on Alternia. Yeah. She'd have been an indigo-blood (what I keep getting on tests) that was never very good at being a blueblood, and always felt like something was wrong with her because of that. Karen-the-Troll (Karren? Let's go with Karren) and Karen-the-Agent are both equally violent, which is more than most humans have but less than an indigoblood. Karren's internalized the caste system and looks down on below her caste, but can relate better to them than her fellow bluebloods, and all-around tends to have trouble making friends. Karren would be a Maid of Void if she ever played Homestuck.
Crap, now I think that when I get my Permission I'll have to do a Homestuck mission so I can turn Karen and Lanyon into trolls.
I could have them both be from the Girl Genius 'verse. It's a steampunk webcomic of amazingness, and I think it'd be very well suited to my agents because...
Lanyon would be a Spark, which is basically a mad genius. He's quite good with steam-powered tech already, and would be perfect as a Spark. His specialty would be clanks, large ones with lots of weaponry. As a Spark, he'd also be from a high-class family, which perfectly suits his aristocratic nature. He'd have a megalomaniacal drive to conquer the world, which would make him much more confrontational and violent, instead of a seething mass of pent-up frustration.
Karen in Girl Genius would be a Jaegermonster, with claws, huge sharp teeth, an aversion to bathing, and a love for fighting. Her impulse control would be the same (read: nonexistent), but markedly more violent, and she'd be stronger to boot. Her hair and skin would also be some odd color, as a result of the change, likely clashing. She'd also have a strong sense of loyalty to the Heterodyne family, and would only work for the PPC if they allowed it. Alternatively, she fell through a plothole while looking for a Heterodyne and decided to stay on at the PPC so she could search for a Heterodyne in the word worlds, speculating that a lost heir might have fallen through a plothole at some point in the past. Hmm, I like the second one better. Oh, and she'd have a phonetic accent, "Like dis, und it might be because ov zee beeg teeth, or chust a Slavic aksent, seence Mechanicsburg ees located in Transylvania."
As a team, Spark!Lanyon and Jaeger!Karen would be quite at odds. Lanyon would see himself as the leader of the team, and take insubordination very badly, while Karen feels only beholden to the Heterodynes and will not serve another master. Expect bickering, casual maiming (fortunately Jaegers are durable, and as a Spark Lanyon can fix himself up), and lots of explosions.
It'll most likely be a while before I get Permission, but I've been messing around with possible agents, so here goes with my favorite two.
First, Luya de Rousseau. Luya's from an original short story of mine set in future Earth; she headed up a genetic research department for a secret society. She's legally insane, domineering, incredibly annoying, and a complete savant. She's also a serious perfectionist and appears to have a form of schizophrenia.
Let's say she's from....Ankh-Morpork. Hmm. I actually don't think that would change her very much due to the nature of the city. She'd probably work for the City Watch, since she's good with forensics. Not only would she enjoy her work, she'd make her way up through the ranks fast, either by impressing her superiors or stabbing other people in the back. She'd be a human, and everyone else would be under the impression that there was something severely wrong with her. As a child, she wouldn't have understood that, but as a teenager and adult, it made her cold and distant.
Her partner, Samkim Upton, is from an old Game of Thrones fic of mine set about twenty or twenty-five years into the future of Westeros. He was Arya Stark's son. I think. Yes, I know it's rather ridiculous. In his revised form, he's severely paranoid, has OCD, and has a phobia of Furbies. He's also quite good with technology and has an apparently eidetic memory. He's proud and resents anyone insulting his intelligence.
Let's put him in the Pern-verse, shall we? Well. He'd most likely specialize in one of the crafthalls, since he's good with technology. He'd also be more open-minded to supernatural happenings, since Pern has the dragons and fire-lizards and all, and he'd have grown up with them. Most likely, he'd be less sarcastic and biting, and be quieter and more patient due to all his work. He'd definitely be less proud as he'd have a sense that he was a less important member of the community.
Hmm. This really made me think about these two... now I really want to get Permission so I can start writing their missions. Their respective disorders should make for a very interesting relationship.
Sam too, but Luya's caught my attention.
It's not that hard to find Homestuck badfic, but finding it in word form rather than in fan-adventure form is the trick.
Maybe we could round up some fellow Homestuck fans to spork "Tarvos and Fairie a Love Story" or "DAVE STIDER POKEMON TRANER" once everyone involved gets a few missions under their legging restraint straps. I've been planning on tackling the Legendary Badness of the latter, and I'm definitely going to need backup.
And gods help us if anyone tells the Flowers about "Hart Shaped Love". Gods help us all.
I'd love a few Homestuck badfics!
And I like the idea of teaming up. A group sporking would be fun to work.
Then again, that's the exact same mind-defense I used against the Voyager badfic Hermione of Vulcan posted a while ago, and that turned out to be wrong, so I'm not making any assumptions.
My original first one was a Homestuck/Green Lantern crossover, but the author disavowed it and vowed to never finish it, which I've read somewhere means it's not in our jurisdiction, so I replaced it on the list.
THE LONGENING by WeDrinkRitalin
Stop with the Mind Honey! by Bunnylish
Humans: Claim Prize by Zoey(Sollux)
Enjoy, if that term can be used to describe spelunking into the muck-soaked caves of badfic.
Oh...oh my...Radagast on a bunny sled... o.o
Dear gog, my brain hurts after reading #2