Subject: Thank you!
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Posted on: 2014-05-02 15:41:00 UTC
The WMD 'mission' is technically a training mission - 'Ice Ice Baby' is a, uh, 'canonical' song, so they couldn't kill it anyway. If it were, though, it would fall halfway between Plagiarism and Despatch - they have to find the stolen part and put it back. But yeah, it was basically an experiment by the Flowers that didn't pan out. The agents were pulled to go spend time in Floaters instead, and music gets to look after itself. ;)
The DCH's attitude is essentially the same as that of the original Slashers, Sean and Lux: if you spend your time doing something, then encountering it in a fic won't overwhelm you. At least, I assume that's what S&L are going for... no, actually, I don't. I know full well what their motivation was.
Part of what I was trying for with these concepts was 'believable as a PPC department'; WMD predates 'Ephemerals', but DRS and DUI were designed to be workable. So I'm glad you liked it! As to why the Wallflower was working there - that's for it to know, and anyone who wants to write it to find out. I've certainly got no idea. (Though I think there are hints of a few other Flower Agents... forget where, though)
Godplayers probably could have stayed, but either we bumped it off, or it got bumped off to make room for ESAS. Certainly most of its agents ended up in ESAS, and I suspect still get together in Rudi's for 'Godplayer Gatherings'.
Wilful is a valid spelling, and one I prefer (for no real reason). All their tech is free-to-use, so go wild; just be aware that they shut down because it didn't work, so there was no incentive for anyone to keep working on it.
My biggest regret in this story is that I wasn't able to work Kayleigh into either the DRS or the DCH; her timeline just didn't fit. It was very tempting, though.
hS