I may have set zdimensia on a wrong track with my beta reading in PoorCynics workshop and subsequent comments. Let me see if I get this right now:

When the Sues are slain, the Wraiths are exorcised, and the misplaced canon characters are sent back to their home continua, the badfic’s purpose does no longer exist and it is "destroyed" (it vanishes from the alternate multiverse where the PPC exists, we don’t actually burn books), and the word worlds which had been affected by the badfic resume their canonical shapes. OC’s who were assumed to live in these word worlds can just be left there and integrate.

But if the badfic’s purpose was snatching canon characters into the badfic’s version of "real life", and the badfic crumbles away because the canon characters were returned to their home continua, characters who are assumed to live in the badfic’s version of “real life” have no place where they can stay. If we do not want to recruit them, but also do not want to let them die when their home world vanishes, we have to despatch them to World One, the PPC’s version of "real life". Also, sending trans-dimensional hoppers back to their assumed home – the badfic’s version of "real life" – wouldn’t actually remove them; to "destroy" the badfic, the trans-dimensional hoppers must be despatched to World One.

I still don’t understand Legal’s role in this. Does Legal fake all the documents which are necessary to legalize a person’s existence in real life (intentional pun)?

Considering that Real Person Fic is creepy and we shouldn’t rewrite the real author’s life in our World One, this may intentionally be left mysterious, and this is the reason why you made Legal such a mysterious department? Should we assume that the agents shove self inserts and attached charge lists through a portal to Legal, but never go there themselves and don’t actually know any agents in Legal?

What happens if self inserts representing the same real life author exist in multiple stories? I assume that the author’s representation is abducted from World One into the next story and Despatch has to get them back (and Legal may need to fake a cover- up story, like travel tickets and holiday postcards, to explain their temporary absence in World One).

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In the case of snatchings, I would say that their "real" world exists enough for them to get sent back to it. With hoppers, it may vary. And for sending hoppers to World One, how many people can it tolerate being added from nowhere, or are there enough agents from there that never go back to balance?

It has been a while since I've watched "Last Action Hero" but the world that the kid is from is a flanderization of the real world, while the action movie is the same for action movie worlds. The kid's world isn't "real" but he goes back to it and lives.

I can't exactly write this part of story without talking to the author. But for Going Out West, I imagine that once the canon is returned to normal, Camren could choose to have her memories altered and become Kid Cooper's wife in a way that doesn't damage canonical events.

For Yiffing is Magic, the only real charge is that he caused a background pony to... I don't have the euphemisms to describe it. He would have died if the agents hadn't intervened. (Again I'm questioning if that one is missionable, even if the FIMfic community hates it. Not going to rewrite until I get someone who can look at it.) I'm thinking his "talking to" would involve asking him if he knows about the sites where original fiction of that type is actually welcomed.

I intend to do Razzy Plush someday. In that, the SI-snatcher has a family.

For my purposes, the DIC handles them if they are from a world where the media exists as a story. It doesn't matter if it's a real universe that actually inspired the show. It doesn't matter if they haven't actually seen the show.

My questions about the DIC... I suppose in that case, there would be something else about the fic to make it bad, and it would be another department that might call a DIC agent to help with the fiddly bits. I was wondering if the canon gets damaged just by crossing universes. (There is an official Mork and Mindy/ Happy Days crossover, so I guess not.)

I suppose having Robin Williams exist in Mork and Mindy might argue against real world people destabilizing things just because they intrude on fiction. Intel does have a story where the intruder from beyond the fourth wall might be allowed to stay.