Subject: More vampire agents? *grins*
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Posted on: 2008-10-08 13:53:00 UTC
Seriously, they need to all get together sometime.... although that might not be such a good idea.... *ponderponderponder*
Subject: More vampire agents? *grins*
Author:
Posted on: 2008-10-08 13:53:00 UTC
Seriously, they need to all get together sometime.... although that might not be such a good idea.... *ponderponderponder*
So I've been around since August 18 (the day the Ypur invasion began, no less), and I've FINALLY decided to ask for the permission to join. Without further ado, let us begin the great begging and groveling before the Permission Givers Permission Asking!
Agents:
Agent Yuki: An anthropomorphic Froslass, Yuki is calm, level-headed, and is rarely without a cool reply. Unless fire is involved, because fire is NO GOOD for ice-type Pokemon. We are not going to get into that, however. Yuki likes cold places, and in the absence of cold she uses her ice attacks to make things cold. She is protective of her home canon, but doesn't mind going out to freeze 'Sues in other continua.
Yuki is a floater, and focuses mainly on the Pokemon canon.
Yuki appears to be in her mid-twenties with white skin and hair, like a ghost. Her eyes are electric blue with yellow sclerae, a trait all Froslass exhibit. She likes wearing her hair in a bun and a red sash around her waist.
Agent Alexander "Kip" von Tepesblut: A vampire, albeit a bit less stable than most. Appearing about 18, he whines, sulks, and swears when things don't go his way, and he possesses a questionable sense of humor. He has no moral issues against killing, but such things are trivial. Humans alone might be in danger, but Homo Sapiens Agents need not fear when there are so many OCs just ripe for the picking.
Ideally Kip would only have to feed every month or so, but that scenario maintains that he not get seriously injured and avoids prolonged exposure to sunlight, two conditions that he has a distinct problem with following, and therefore requires food more often than most.
In the event that Kip is deprived of blood, instinct takes over and things die. He'll come out of this condition once he's full, with no recollection of what happened while driven by instinct.
Interestingly enough, Kip will be forced into this instinctive state if he is bitten by a zombie, although it doesn't last very long. No one really knows why this happens, but zombies are advised against biting him.
Otherwise, Kip tends to be rather human in his demeanor. He can generally pass as human, so long as he doesn't say anything incriminating or displays unnatural strength. This tends to be a problem.
Kip is in the Department of Mary Sues, since eradicating things is mildly entertaining to him. He should not, however, be allowed within a mile of a Twilight fanfiction. It won't end well.
Kip is tall, lanky, and pale, with messy black hair. He's got reddish eyes and does not sparkle in the sun.
Writing sample:
(from a fic I'm writing in the World Ends With You canon, born when I couldn't take the bad fics on the Pit any more)
“Minamimoto-kun, would you please pay attention?”
The tanned 18 year-old glanced up, pausing in his half-hearted chewing of his pencil. “Eh?”
“The problem on the board, if you would.”
Sho Minamimoto stretched with an exaggerated sigh. He knew this already, why did they expect him to recite it over and over? He eyed his classmates, all frantically scribbling on their papers or tapping on their calculators. Let them think they had the answer; Sho wasn’t going to even look at the board until all of the rest had gotten some erroneous answer.
“Minamimoto-kun!” The teacher glared. It was bad enough that Sho Minamimoto had the gall to lean back in his seat, feet resting on his desk. The boy’s arrogance, rudeness, and blatant disrespect for authority had gotten him in trouble numerous times; it was a wonder he was still in school. He would have been thrown out ages ago, had it not been for his genius in the area of mathematics.
“Alright, alright. Don’t get your integers all divided by zero, sensei.” Sho yawned. Several of his classmates had finished and were waiting for his answer. A second, fake yawn, and he finally looked at his challenge. His mind whirred, processing the mathematical conundrum. Pencil did not meet paper, for Sho did not need the tools his fellow classmates so heavily depended on. Ten seconds passed… fifteen… twenty… twenty-seven seconds, and he had his answer. A twisted smirk spread over his face.
“It’s unsolvable. If you do the math right, you’ll wind up with a zero in the denominator halfway through.” His classmates stirred with disbelief. “That can’t be right, I got four…” “What? I don’t see it!” “How did he do it that quickly?!” He grinned. “Well, sensei, what’s the solution? Don’t leave these radians hanging.”
The teacher fixed Sho with a gaze that would cause other students to recoil, before glancing at the answer in his hand. “The answer is… none. It is, as Minamimoto-kun said, unsolvable.”
Sho spread his arms. “Soh-cah-toa. I’d ask for another, but school’s nearly over, and my fellow students of math wouldn’t be able to obtain the desired solution in the time that’s left. They shouldn’t have to be stuck with a time limit they can’t hope to meet.” He knew his words would go over badly; several students growled under their breaths. Sho didn’t care. He didn’t need them. They were only a few extraneous variables in a mathematical world.
(end excerpt)
I'm a dork who researched Japanese school systems to get the addressing right.
I'm also the idiot who decided that murdering My Immortal would be fun, and enlisted SealRat in the cause.
1) I'm very curious as to how an anthropomorphic Froslass could come to exist. I'm not too familiar with Pokemon canon, so is this something canonically possible, a badfic glitch, or something else?
2) Is Kip a vampire from any particular continuum? He seems to have a rather strange set of characteristics, so is this a canon type of vampire, a world you're working on, an invention for the PPC, or what?
3) I see you have one Floater, one Assassin. Generally Agents have partners in their own Departments, except for single-mission transfer duty. This being HQ, "tossed together by fate/random whim of Upstairs/plothole" is fairly common, but it does deserve commenting on; if you were just planning on them working together as if it were normal, you might want to rethink that.
Obviously you know the answers to these, but they're my immediate concerns when it comes to Permission.
hS
This isn't really important in the grand scheme of things, but I think your Kip will make the fourth of that name in this organization, the first two being Kip the pirate, Kip the god, and Kip not-the-god. Not to mention Kippur the Boarder, who somewhat-ironically is responsible for an Agent Alec.
I could be wrong about the number of previous Kips, but there are at least two others for sure.
I'm not saying change it, but I am saying be aware. {= )
~Neshomeh
... but the god and not-the-god were both Kit, not Kip.
hS
Well, I'm sure of the pirate, anyway. See?
~Neshomeh, who often confuses words that start with the same letter.
1) It's not canonically possible, however it could logically be a badfic glitch. Though I personally enjoy the idea of Yuki having been a normal Froslass at one point and, by means of a complex series of events that included a few plotholes and a gerbil, she wound up humanized with little recollection of how it happened.
2) Ah, Kip. He's been a character that has existed in my imagination for some time, so I'd have to say my own creation. I think he first came into being about a year and a half ago, but I'm aware that the characteristics are unusual. It's not because I laugh at the idea that a vampire who attacks a human with a high blood-alcohol content would become similarly drunk, honest.
3) Hm, well I wasn't actually planning on having them work together as normal, at least not all the time. I couldn't find anything against having my first two Agents in different areas, but if this is a problem, I could work it out somehow.
1) And there's nothing wrong with that; it's just something you need to sort out in your own mind (even if you never tell anyone about it in detail).
2) And that's fine. Given that there's at least a few Agent pairs consisting of an author and a character she's made, we can't say non-canon'd Agents aren't allowed, can we?
3) Well... my point here is that people usually (poss. read: exclusively?) start by writing one series of missions. Those of us who have several lines of Agents -- myself, I think Artemis did, Laburnum, a few others -- all started with one team and then introduced others. Given the general drop-off rate when it comes to missions (very few PPC authors have gotten past three stories posted), starting off with Agents who don't work together is a bit, well, dubious.
Not to say they can't be from different Departments and still work together. Gunny and Wayne started out separate, just off the top of my head.
Anyway. Waiting until you figure out how to handle this before granting permission.
hS
SealRat, whom I know, decided she wants to make Kip's partner-agent person, so I hope that's cleared up. As for Yuki, I intend to create her a partner at some point, though I'm not sure about what kind of partner just yet. I do not wish at all to be one of the three-stories drop authors, especially since there are so many badfics out there.
Is it all clear now? I feel like I can handle two Agents working in different areas. I like both characters, only they wouldn't work too well together...
[Drums fingers] ... all right. Permission Granted. Enjoy it. And don't let Kip anywhere near Agent Selene. Might want to keep him out of the Canon Library, too, the Librarian gets twitchy around whiny vampires. :P
hS
What would Selene do to Kip, should they meet? I am very interested, though from reading Selene's missions I have the distinct feeling that an encounter gone foul would result in Kip's fleeing with a newfound respect for his elders....
... how flammable he is.
hS
He was a Sue's pet fox and a badfic glitch turned him humanoid.
Seriously, they need to all get together sometime.... although that might not be such a good idea.... *ponderponderponder*
...they could go for a vampire fic. As long as it is not Twilight, of course. Kip would take great offense at the notion of Sparkle!vampires and would attempt to remove such abominations from the Multiverse.
I have a vampire agent too, for whenever I get my nerve up to asking Permission (mostly I've just been too tired to write a sample lately). She's from Nyeusigrube, and she'd probably go a bit psychotic (foaming at the month) at Twilight. Come to think about it, maybe I should just keep her away from those books. Far away.
...right. What I *meant* to say was, whenever I get around to asking and, hopefully, receiving Permission I'd have an agent to come on the joint-vampires mission.
A joint-vampire mission would be extremely epic. I vote yes!
Whee! Kip's not the only one who would wind up becoming angry at Twilight and possibly attacking the canons for being 'wrong'. Which would undoubtedly lead to his permanent banning from that canon.
So much.
I recently discovered the joy that is TWEWY, and as a good portion of my current courses involve the dreaded math, Minamimoto rapidly endeared himself to me. In a twisted sort of way.
"Don't get your integers all divided by zero, sensei."
It's priceless. Priceless I tell you!
Hmm... this may spawn a 'priceless' commercial. *goes away to ruminate on this*
...oh yeah, good luck with the Permission thing. :D Stuff looks good to me, but hey, not a PG. (Still not even sure why they smacked me with the stick, actually...)
Anyway. Right. Done. Really. Promise. :)
It is looking pretty nice to me! But are you writing two different Agents in two different Departments, or do the two sometimes get partnered together?