Subject: Remakes?
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Posted on: 2015-08-15 17:42:00 UTC
What if a story that's been done in a mission is remade? Do you do that one if it's almost as bad as the original? And if a story already had been remade before any missions were done, do you do the original, the remake or both?
What is the largest number of badfics written by one author that were done on missions (like the Rose Potter hexology)? Are there any authors for which ALL of their badfics have been done?
I've had one rattling around my skull.
What would happen if the Ironic Overpower started shipping agents?
- Alleb
Agents walking in on each other at the wrong time, tripping and landing on top of each other, that kind of thing. Kind of like what happens with Valon and Kala, to be honest.
Likely you'd get a whole lot of situations where the agents suddenly found themselves in romantic situations...and started going 'what is this what is happening get off me'.
Could be interesting.
~DF
I appreciate that you've got lots of questions, but... could you maybe save them up and ask them all at once? You've got three threads on the front page right now, all of which consist solely of one question.
On a related note: could you maybe interact with threads other than your own? The PPC is a place for people to talk to each other; it gives rather a bad impression if you only comment on threads you started.
hS
Er, what kind of bad impression?
The kind of impression that you're only here for yourself. The PPC is a community first.
I'm afraid that, if I ask them all at once, I won't get all of them answered.
I'll try to be more sociable.
We're a very detail-oriented lot here. If one person can't answer all your questions, someone else will definitely pop up to fill in the blanks.
~Neshomeh
What if a story that's been done in a mission is remade? Do you do that one if it's almost as bad as the original? And if a story already had been remade before any missions were done, do you do the original, the remake or both?
Despite giving concrit for the original (and then missioning it, though that is likely unknown by the author and is better that way), the remake was... well, actually worse on a logic standpoint.
However, no more than a single chapter was ever written of it, so we didn't have enough material for a mission.
Fun fact: two of the Agents involved in the original would have been retired by the time the remake would have gotten missioned, so they would've been there unofficially, and another Agent who was recruited from that badfic would've ended up being dragged into the new fic (Poor Theia).
Whoops, forgot one:
4. How do human disguises work for the smallest and largest agents?
Of course, finding yourself in a much larger body might be very confusing for someone like Corolla, who is normally a few inches tall.
Generally speaking disguises are like a new body; you have to get used to them. Remember how Za'kiir had problems with a human disguise since he's a Khajiit and they have digitigrade feet?
Maybe I'm not understanding the question. What are you trying to get at?
~Neshomeh
Are the disguises holograms or solid? Because if it's the former, it'll be awkward for the smallest and largest agents if something appears to touch the disguise and goes right through!
The Disguise Generator doesn't just change the outward appearance but alters the agent's DNA so they really do become the species in question, as explained here.
Just a friendly reminder, we like it when people do the research before asking. Thanks.
Do all agents have to have a known home continuum?
Iximaz ninja'd me on the base issue, but it's slightly more complicated than that. Many agents, such as Jay and Acacia, are from "World One," a mildly fictionalized version of the Real World. Other agents come from unpublished works of fiction, such as Mittens and the Radioactive Moss Creature. Some agents even come from AU versions of the Real World, like Agent!Des. That said, you should probably have some idea of what the setting your character comes from is like, just to flesh out their backstory.
Unless you have some very specific reasons for asking your questions, I'd recommend spending more time going through the wiki and just reading whatever comes up that looks interesting. That's how I got into the PPC at first, and it's a good way to learn the details of the canon. If you're asking for a Permission prompt and want more detailed opinions, you can always email someone. I've made my username clickable if you want to contact me.
Unpublished works of fiction, you say? Hmm...
Lots of people use characters they've created for their own stories but ended up not using. It can be a good way to develop them. Personally, I think it'd be cool to see a character who comes from a series that only exists within another continuum, but it'd be hard to write, I think.
Is there any particular reason you're asking? I feel like all your questions are probably building to a certain point, and it might be easier for you to just say what you're thinking directly, instead of just asking a bunch of individual questions.
I want to join the PPC. I already have a couple of badfics I want to do missions on. I'm thinking of using a character from the universe of my own books which aren't complete yet.
I'll second Tira's advice to spend more time reading stuff on the wiki, and I'll add that you should allow it to lead you to missions and other PPC stories, too. That's really one of the main reasons it exists, and there's no better way to understand the PPC than by reading the actual stories people have written about it, old and new alike.
Out of curiosity, what spin-offs have you read so far?
~Neshomeh
Let's see... Imposter for PotC, The Fine Art of Copy-Pasting for PMMM, Of Monsters and Machines for FNaF and Godzilla and I'm in the middle of reading the Rose Potter missions.
You really need to read those, since after all that's the canon we're writing from. Aside from that, I mostly just read whichever ones look interesting from the fandoms I know. Neshomeh's spin-offs are really good, and I'd definitely recommend Trojie and Pads' missions if you want to get into Bad Slash.
I have read some of the Original Series. You asked what spin-offs I read, not what missions.
But you really ought to read all of it. If you want to get Permission to write your own PPC spin-off, you gotta know the canon we base ours off of, after all.
Otherwise you'd be doing the equivalent of writing Harry Potter fanfic after only watching a handful of the movies. ;)
http://plotprotectors.tripod.com/TOS/
Is this all of them?
What if a story that's been done in a mission is remade? Do you do that one if it's almost as bad as the original? And if a story already had been remade before any missions were done, do you do the original, the remake or both?
As it depends, for the most part, on just how different the remake is, compared to the original.
Also, I think that most people won't mission a story again. I do know, however, that the fic "Unpleasant Memories" is a mission about got a remake and Firemagic and Sergio Turbo were considering missioning the remake, but did not because it was abandoned.
In the future, it might be helpful if you say that up front, so that people can give you more direct answers. Sometimes your questions seem a bit random, so it can be hard to give useful information. ^^
Just by posting on the Board means you're already a member of the PPC. :)
What you mean by 'joining' is you want to get Permission.
My gmail address is roserpemail
Darn it, it didn't occur to me to type [disguise] first instead of [human] in the search bar.
I guess I could try:
1. How do you pick Continuum Identification Codes and why doesn't the list on the Wiki have ones for all the franchises done in missions so far?
2. What's the longest badfic (barring series) that's ever been missioned on?
3. Who around here are experts on the Teen Titans cartoon?
If you're asking about the 2003 Murakami series, I guess I know it kinda well.
Apart from series/connected works such as Rose Potter, That Series, and Marrissa Picard, it's considered poor form to deliberately pick on any given author's works more than once. I'm sure this has been expressed to you before, but the PPC is about critiquing bad writing, not bullying people.
We might make an exception for known trolls, I suppose, but I don't think that's been done. Trollfic often isn't worth PPCing in the first place.
~Neshomeh