Subject: I would be fairly uncomfortable with that.
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Posted on: 2014-04-27 20:57:00 UTC
That smacks of Drama For Drama's Sake to me. It's not something that would naturally happen in the PPC universe, and if it's left up to the PPC agents rather than the Imaginations Collide protagonists to deal with it, it's obviously not critical in the IC storyline, so I don't see the point except to engineer something big and special for your agents to do.
~Neshomeh
I simply have to ask this.
I have learned a lot here on the Posting Board, and one of the things I have learned is that stories cannot be used more than once for a mission. I can understand why. The Mary Sue had been eliminated, and all.
But it got me thinking. I am currently making plans for my own commentary series Imaginations Collide, for those who do not yet know. In order to make it expansive, I want to make it correlate with preexisting series, such as the Fanfiction Critic and the PPC.
My question is this; if I want my PPC agents to do a mission for a story that has already been done, will it be okay, as long as I explain it in the context of Imaginations Collide?
I don't think that what I have in mind has ever been done before, so I expect the answer to be anything. What are your thoughts, friends?
If you're asking would it be okay for your PPC agents to go on a mission to a fic that's already been PPC'd before (with some explanation from your other series), the answer would be no, for the reasons you're already aware of. It would be redundant out-of-universe and pointless if not impossible in-universe. Plus, you don't want to be the guy who thinks he's so much better than those who came before him that he can get away with retreading their work.
If you're asking would it be okay for your PPC agents to go on a mission that's been addressed in your non-PPC series or another fanfic critique...? Maybe, if you think there's a point to it. There's nothing wrong with multiple critiques of the same work, as long as each critique brings something new to the table. Otherwise, again, it's just redundant.
~Neshomeh
Okay, so, if I wasn't clear, sorry. My bad. Here is what I was talking about.
In Imaginations Collide, there will be an overall villain, and that villain is going to be intricately woven into the very fabric of the Internet. Since it is power hungry, it wants power the same way Users, or Authors, as they are called in Fanfiction.net. The best way for it to do that would be for it to take over certain stories that people talk about a lot, like legendary badfics (or some good fics, but mostly bad ones).
What I want to know is if it would be acceptable if my PPC agents are investigating an anomaly that is bringing back badfics that have been done in the PPC missions before. For example, Agony in Pink. I think someone did that already. The anomaly, which is linked with the Imaginations Collide villain, is resuscitating it and bringing the terminated characters back to life.
If I explain it in that context, would that be allowed? I know it is redundant, and I will have to make that a talking point among my Agents, but it is meant to tie in with Imaginations Collide and such, the members of which will definitely be doing fics that have already been done.
That smacks of Drama For Drama's Sake to me. It's not something that would naturally happen in the PPC universe, and if it's left up to the PPC agents rather than the Imaginations Collide protagonists to deal with it, it's obviously not critical in the IC storyline, so I don't see the point except to engineer something big and special for your agents to do.
~Neshomeh
The PPC agents wouldn't be the only ones dealing with it, though. The IC crew would have their hands full with De facto missions of their own. I just can't provide many more details without giving any spoilers.
However, what the IC crew would be doing is trying to find out why strange things keep happening whenever they try to do a commentary on a story. For example, the IC version of your truly, Dark Brother 16, would be struggling to track down the characters from his stories that were either kidnapped by characters from the badfic or decided to go in there just to cause the IC version of yours truly, one of the hosts, grief. They develop wills of their own and decide to defect.
Meanwhile, while all that is going on, the Flowers notice that slain badfics are being resurrected somehow, and put a team together to stop the spread of revival while the other active agents try to continue with their work.
If it makes it any better, I will try to keep the number of resurrected badfics to a minimum without sacrificing the continuity with IC, if I can. I have a few planned that I want to tie in.
But as for the Drama for Drama's Sake, I can see where you are coming from with that. But I can still fit lots of humor in there.