Subject: Very oldbie answer.
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Posted on: 2014-04-06 14:47:00 UTC
The difference is that people decided to complain about saying 'Lust Object', so they invented the term 'favourite' to replace it. Because heaven forfend their agents actually, you know, lust after someone like Jay and Acacia did. Can't be having with that.
hS
What is the minimum age for a PPC agent?
One of my planned agents uses miniature bags of holding to carry ammo, Is that possible?
How many weapons can an agent have?
Is it considered sueish to have an artificial persona-user that is a Wild card?
the other planned agent is one of these
can you link ODT.files to the board?
...you can copy-paste your stuff into a Google Doc and link it to the Board. That's how some of us post our missions.
About twelve in human years, yes, as many as they want, and I have no idea what an artificial persona-user is.
I think this and the links on the page will help with your last question; http://ppc.wikia.com/wiki/FAQ:ForNewbies
(To any oldbies reading this, I have one of my own; What's the difference between a Lust Object and a favorite?
The difference is that people decided to complain about saying 'Lust Object', so they invented the term 'favourite' to replace it. Because heaven forfend their agents actually, you know, lust after someone like Jay and Acacia did. Can't be having with that.
hS
First of all, as Outhra notes, the term appears alongside "Lust-object" in the PPC Agents infobox, which is usually what people are looking at when this question comes up. I put that space in the infobox myself, so I can tell you with certainty it's there to cover anyone (and anything) an agent might have strong protective feelings about in addition to the characters they lust after—if any. Not everyone HAS to lust. Why should they? However, everyone has favorite characters, or species, or languages, or places, etc. "Favorites" provides a space for that. It doesn't replace the space for the character(s) an agent actually does lust after.
Second, when were people complaining about saying "Lust Object"? I don't remember this. Admittedly, that doesn't mean much, but usually I notice if there's a widespread movement to change something about the PPC.
~Neshomeh
The reason Agent Dafydd has a registered Lust Object (Goldberry, since I don't think it's ever been mentioned) is that at that point, everyone did have to lust - or at least list an LO. The idea of 'favourites' - under one name or another - came about when people decided they didn't want to do that. We're probably talking '04 or '05 here - I don't know precisely, it's been ten years.
And let me just note - I wasn't complaining about it, per se (since my wife seems to think I was). The request was for an oldbie answer, so I put on my Oldbie hat, got out my walking stick, and answered in the most crochety way possible. ;)
hS
I didn't realize the crotchetiness was a deliberate affectation. I thought maybe you were still grouchy from being sick. Thanks for clearing that up. {= )
I think getting away from everyone having an LO is a good thing, really. Like Wolfychann is quoted as saying in the FAQ: For Other People: "Am I the last person in the world who thinks that publicly expressing physical lust for a complete stranger is... kinda creepy?" IMO, the quote applies more to how some fans behave toward Real World people, less to fictional characters having feelings for other fictional characters whom they actually get to meet in the course of their job, but still. Definitely good that it's not mandatory.
~Neshomeh
It is good for asexual agents to be able to list a favorite. Kelok is emphatically asexual, but also very, very protective of Sherlock Holmes--especially when Holmes is written into a lusty caricature of himself.
The wiki's Agent templates show both, one right under the other, and it's not hard to see where there might be confusion.
eatpraylove, I that the distinction is in the way they are viewed by the agents. A Lust Object would be someone who an individual agent finds extremely attractive, and depending on the agent, that lust could go to the extent that any mission involving that character could potentially be compromised. That's why one needs to register one's Lust Objects with the Department of Personnel, so that they can assign missions with a registered Lust Object in a primary role to someone else, assign them to you with a fair deal of warning, or assign them to you because there was a filing error or they/the Ironic Overpower thought it would be funny.
Favorites are more like characters that the agent in question particularly enjoys within canonical material. An agent would react more strongly if a favorite character was altered by a badfic and driven to uncharacteristic acts, because they have a stronger investment in that character. Maybe, in a badfic, someone who is usually very humorous would start spewing the worst jokes or angsting in a corner, or the wise swordfighting mentor would make rudimentary battle mistakes. Even if they're not someone's favorite, it would be a charge either way, but if they are, the agent might start an angry rant or begin banging their head against nearby objects, or with the worst cases/with the most rage-prone agents, need to restrain themselves from going up and indignantly decking the replacement right in the face, which would reveal the PPC's presence too early.
sexual vs romantic attraction. Lust Objects are clearly of a more sexual attraction sorta thing, whereas favourites have the potential to be simply the object of romantic/platonic attraction, which doesn't necessarily incorporate sexual attraction.
Therefore it's entirely likely that an asexual agent might have favourites, but not necessarily a lust object.