Subject: Oh, nice choice.
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Posted on: 2013-12-06 16:58:00 UTC

I haven't even seen anyone try to mention the DoA in recent years, and it's good to see someone who wants to resuscitate the obscurer Departments. Plus, the Aloe Vera is still pretty much a blank slate personality-wise, which should open up a lot of creative opportunities to develop her. Good luck!

There really aren't any prerequisites for entering any Department. People usually choose Floaters when they want to deal with multiple types of fic that don't overlap. It doesn't always work out that way, and there are some Floaters RCs that often end up more suited for the All-Purpose Department or the Department of Mary Sues, but that's the intended purpose of the department.

If you're talking about the prerequisites in-universe, I don't think there are really any there, either. I've always seen Floaters as the home of more of the inexperienced or unspecialized Agents, personally, which is an opinion largely bolstered by the fact that if people write Floaters RCs for long enough, a lot of them tend to transfer out to another department or at least plan to transfer, as well as a large proportion of Floaters bios indicating that the Agent is relatively new to the job.

That's not always the case, though. For example, Herr Wozzeck's Floaters RC has two out of three Agents as knowledgeable and experienced right from the first mission, and one even transferred to Floaters from the DMS. Majority does not equal unanimity.

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