Subject: I think it is fine.
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Posted on: 2013-10-23 23:27:00 UTC
I was going to do something similiar. I might have a Hunter of Artemis and a male Egyptian magician from the Kane Cronicles be my agents. Assuming that I can get someone to beta for me.
It's an interesting concept you've brought up.
Just a thought I've had whilst trying to create a second Agent. in various books (and movies, although it's a lot easier in them) there are generally characters that whilst referenced once are never seen from or heard of again, but unlike minor characters aren't even given names to identify them. (for example in 'The Last Olympian' Hermes says he has two daughters in LA however said daughters are never mentioned again, even (so far) in the Heroes of Olympus series.
What I'm ultimately wondering is, could characters like the above mentioned demi-gods be recruited into the PPC (somehow, I don't know exact details) in a similar fashion to how Bit Characters from badfics can?
Storme Hawk
I was going to do something similiar. I might have a Hunter of Artemis and a male Egyptian magician from the Kane Cronicles be my agents. Assuming that I can get someone to beta for me.
It's an interesting concept you've brought up.
If you extend the definition of bit character a bit to just mean "a person who lives in that continuum and never had a major role in the canon work" then we've got tonnes of agents like that, so in some cases I don't see why not. Thinking about it, my worry with that specific example is you're taking two minor canons who were never really given an identity by the author and forcing a fanon identity onto them, though.
Yeah, I couldn't find an exact name to define them by so I used what I thought was the closest but what you're describing is what I meant.
Those two were just an example I could remember off the top of my head, but I think I understand what you're getting at with them. Would it be better if, say I was going to make an agent a child of Hermes a random camper from Cabin 11 rather than someone who's been mentioned specifically?
though I suggest that you take my suggestions with a grain of salt, since I don't even have Permission:
I don't think that there's a problem with creating an agent with a backstory in established canon. If memory serves correctly, one agent already does something similar (Agent Suicide), and doing so should avoid the pitfall of forcing a fanon identity--much less a PPC identity--onto an established (albeit a bit) canon character.
...but I believe canons, in general, are not PPC-recruitable.
Usually, though, you're right in that we try not to directly meddle with canon characters, which includes recruiting them.