... how many of those instances are from people with a connection to the country in question? I think Lady Margolotta shows up in Unseen Academicals - does she name her home country? Prior to that, Carpe Jugulum and Fifth Elephant should be pretty good sources... maybe even Thud.

And on a completely unrelated appendage: would misspelling a canon work create a mini? Diskworld is a separate issue, but what about, say, Sorcery, or Going Posal? And would they be mini-Luggages or something else?

hS

[Please bear in mind that most of this message was written a week or two ago, and therefore pieces of it may be contradicted by conversations which took place in the meantime. With that said...]

Quite true, quite true. Looks like it won't just be the minis adopted by my agents...they could easily recruit.

Well, in terms of a leader...and in terms of non-mute ones...we have mini-Nick Furys.

...do I really need to say more?

And considering that I'm one of two co-writers for the upcoming Avengers OFU *insert advertising here*...

Well, if you point me to those Churchill minis, I'd be happy to take on the mission. I think. Mini-Reapers would be useful...and, well, Churchill.

Casper the Friendly Ghost...Suefic? Kill it. Kill it dead. Like you said, who does that?

The mini takeover. It's happening. >XD

I've got a theory...that whenever a mini-tribble is repeated, it just gives birth to a double. In fact, that theory just popped into my head now, but it seems vaguely logical...thoughts? Alternatively, they give birth to mini-tribbles with nonsense gibberish for names, or with names that are anagrams of the original mini-tribbles' names...


Agen_t is...an agent. Alright, alright, real answer: Agent technically is human--ze's just not a particularly ordinary one. That is, ze has yet to choose a gender.

Agent is a badfic recruit. Zer author wanted three S.H.I.E.L.D. agents to accompany her Sue as bodyguards of some sort. She thought of two names, and forgot about the third: she meant to write 'Agent _' and then fill in the blank later, but the blank ended up in the middle of the word, and she posted the chapter without filling in a name. Agen_t had an extremely minimal part in the badfic, and was never given a gender or any description at all, beyond being included in general descriptions of S.H.I.E.L.D. agents. Ze was given several surprisingly logical lines (questions quickly shot down by the Sue), and then was forgotten about, and subsequently fell into a plothole. The PPC agents assigned to the fic pulled zer out and recruited zer. As zer bit character personality consisted of logic/common sense and stubbornness, ze refused to choose a name before settling on a gender, and refused to settle on a gender without knowing more about zerself and what genders even meant. Ze spends time in FicPsych now (and was given the general S.H.I.E.L.D. agent memory implants by them), mostly talking through problems to figure out what ze does and doesn't like. Agent has chosen a hair color, but zer height fluctuates and ze wears contacts to cover up the fact that zer eyes are currently an undefined color.

So basically: Agent is human, of an undefined gender, and Agent is zer name because ze refuses to choose a name arbitrarily. Ze originated as a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent in the 2012 Avengersverse.

Re: gender-neutral pronouns: Are you conjugating correctly? I haven't the foggiest idea. I've just been using ze and zer, although there was originally an x in there instead of a z...I don't actually know what I'm doing. I just settled on ze and zer, although zir might make more sense, to be consistent.

But thanks for noticing Agent :) Ze's gained a surprising amount of backstory, really, considering that I, uh, made zir up because I kept writing 'Agent' instead of 'Agent _' for Edgar's unidentified partner...And did that enough times that I ended up starting a paragraph with, 'Uh. Is the mysterious agent’s name Agen__t, by some chance? Because that keeps coming out…' Ze was nearly an MI6 agent, but I quickly settled on Avengers as zir home continuum rather than James Bond (you can tell what I'd been watching).

So, yeah. Sorry the reply's late, hope the fact that it's long makes up for that :)

~DawnFire

With all of the unsupervised minis from the Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings continua alone...

Mini-Balrogs are not, of course, unsupervised. If they're not adopted, they should be shipped off to OFUM. I think we actually even have a mini-Balrog adoption centre somewhere - someone (Cassie? Only I think I pin everything on Cassie in my head...) got permission from Miss Cam to run it.

Mini-Aragogs, however - and a whole host of other minis - are (I believe) pretty much hanging in the wind.

Also I think this idea is very silly and could definitely make a story if someone, er, made it a story.

hS