Subject: Er... it does?
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Posted on: 2015-06-01 09:55:00 UTC
I mean, not to reference myself again, but can I reference myself again? The only one that doesn't drop straight back to canon once something is dead or exorcised is 'And So The Journey Begins', in which it takes a little while (because Boromir and Angst). Is everyone else really doing so badly at this that it's overshadowing the times it does happen?
hS
That I would like to see more of. ^^
1. Unfortunate Typos - oldie, but a goodie in my opinion. "The Bride of Khazad-Dum" anyone? (Hoping that's not a mini, there.)
2. [Genderless Continuum], along with that entire C-CAD notification from that STABTSAB DOWNFALL Mission. How does an entire continuum get replaced? How does it come back? O.o
3. And branching off of the minis mention in #1: whenever an adopted common mini is kidnapped into a different fic, and then it has to be rescued and returned.
4. The many methods of recording/pressing charges. There's been dictaphones, good ol' pencil and paper, Morse Code... (I really liked that one!)
No doubt there's some especially obvious-yet-hilarious one I'm missing. XP
What are your favorite one-offs?
Is it just me, or have MSTs faded out of existence? I don't think there have been any since 2012, and MSTs were what introduced me to the PPC.
I'd try to write one myself, but I doubt that one of my agent teams would make for good riffing on their own, and I don't know if I could keep canonical guests in-character.
I remember a couple months ago, AdmiralSakai posted an MST of My Immortal on their blog and put a link on the Board. This is the link:
http://dessicatedlogic.wordpress.com/?p=122&preview=true
...I think the idea of a Sue-wraith being purified and turned into a more plausible character would be a fascinating idea. As far as I know, my own Cupid Carmine is the ONLY case of this happening on an official mission. (No, E.V.L. doesn't count. She was an OC I had in the works for YEARS before joining the Board.)
Like I said earlier, I'd like to see how other Boarders would handle the same concept. An agent who was once a Sue-wraith would be similar to an ex-Sue, sure, but I think there's a difference in that the Sue-wraith: 1) had no physical form at all prior to being exorcised and purified, and 2) directly possessed a canon rather than just Suefluencing him or her. Those two aspects were things I think I covered pretty well in the aftermath of Cupid's creation - not just with him being ticklish and the like but also the more obvious prospect of having a physical body i.e. he probably went "OMG HOW DO I LEGS" after not having any for over thirty years in the context of his homefic, and had to start over practicing everything from walking to manipulating objects to wearing clothes and stuff.
So yeah. I would really like to see a purified Sue-wraith happen in someone else's work. They'd probably handle it very differently from what I did, but that would probably for the better. Variety is the spice of life, as they say.
I don't actually know if they have ever shown up outside of that one Florestan and Eusabius mission with the Saw/MLP FiM crossover.
Pulling out one-off things is exactly what I enjoy doing in other fandoms - notably LotR - and it's exactly what I'd love to see more of in the PPC.
Some ideas:
1/ The PPC clan of Nac Mac Feegle. What're these guys up to? Are they employed, or just resident? Do they, by any chance, go on missions?
2/ Intelligence reports. Architeuthis did them. I tried to revive them, with so little success that SeaTurtle later claimed no-one had ever done anything with the DoI. But there's no reason people can't write these when they post a badfic. For that matter, there's no reason missions can't reference bits of (created on the spot) reports.
3/ The Message. It's weird, it's meta, it's been used... maybe once?
4/ Can I be cheeky and say 'divisions'? I don't think there's any agents around these days who go exclusively into one canon. I'm pretty sure it happened originally because J&A were posting to FF.n in the LotR category - but still, it's something that we don't see a lot of these days.
Like SMF, I'm sure there's heaps, heaps more.
hS
It could be fun to write about, and sort of make the narrator a character too.
1) Wait, we have Nac Mac Feegle? I didn't know. Now I'll definitely have those guys show up - it's too good an opportunity to pass up.
2) I'm not really into that.
3) I've actually dropped a few references to Des and Anebrin getting the Message (though most of them are in unpublished material, I think) and I plan on continuing to do so - it's an interesting subject - but I don't think I can write any story solely about it. It'd get too philosophical.
4) Assuming they won't end up in ESAS, Navare and Amris will probably go to APD, Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha Division, so that's one pair? There's also Marvin and Printworthy.
There are some things in old spin-offs I've wanted to reference eventually. I probably won't get to all of them, and probably can't think of all of them off the top of my head. But anyway:
Aramel's spin-off is, uh. Quite different. But one thing I do like about it is the Angel's Trumpet. I like the idea of the Flowers having their own "announcer." I know it's been contradicted a dozen times since with human announcers, but I'm just immensely amused by this guy. Maybe he was used before the consoles got an upgrade for ICEP? (Also, Trojie and Pads used another Angel's Trumpet (Warning for drug references!) in one of their stories. I listed them as separate characters on the Wiki, due to their differing personalities, but it's ultimately a question of headcanon, I guess.)
The green man named Greenman! I think he wins the prize for least memorable Original Series character. Yeah, Jay and Acacia wrote him; be honest, and admit you had no idea he existed until just now. (Unless you are Neshomeh or July, because I know you two have read the Original Series multiple dozens of times.) Anyway, the Greenman also appears here, and is involved in weapons training—Wait.
Wait.
"Questions to be filed in the box!" the instructor snapped, waving a frond.
"I wasn't asking anything," Acacia muttered.
"Comments filed in the box!" the Greenman said, his jolly face twitching.
The. Greenman has a. Frond. I. Never noticed before. He's not a. Green. Man. He's. A Flower? is there such a thing as a—Ooooooooh. How much do you want to bet this myth has a Czech variant Jay knew about?
Well. My worldview is shattered. I think it's time for bed now. I might add some more little-known old stuff tomorrow.
In most of their missions, no matter how terribad the Sue was, killing her was enough to restore canon to normal. Could that show up again in missions with fewer major charges?
I remember one (probably rather old) mission where the agents outright admitted that they didn’t know whether it would be necessary to neuralyze the canons after slaying the Sue, and just did it to be rather safe than sorry. In this case it may have been justified by them being Floaters and used to neuralyzing everybody after an exorcism. But it happens far too often, and at least agents in the DMS should know better.
HG
I seem to remember that Jay and Acacia only neuralysed canons when they were doing crossovers - they never neuralysed for Suefics, and I don't think they did it for slash either. That's just something that annoys me about a lot of the spinoffs. Then again, I'm probably just an old stick-in-the-mud.
The closest I found is "Torment" (Aragorn/legolas), an Emergency mission by Jay and Dead, and there they did neuralyze Legolas after taking him to Medical (but they didn't neuralyze anybody else).
I guess being able to tell the canons who they are and what they should be doing is just too tempting.
HG
I mean, not to reference myself again, but can I reference myself again? The only one that doesn't drop straight back to canon once something is dead or exorcised is 'And So The Journey Begins', in which it takes a little while (because Boromir and Angst). Is everyone else really doing so badly at this that it's overshadowing the times it does happen?
hS
Because extending missions past that moment leads to the temptation of interacting with canons, which shouldn't happen often.
The Green Man is a pretty common notion over here (my parents have a Green Man face in their garden, for example), and we know that Jay was a big Anglophile. Not sure why he'd need to be Czech, except that Little Otik is (even though he's now a plank because 'Robtheanimegod4ever' has strange views of reading comprehension made it so).
We had a discussion about this last year, actually, with Outhra making some... very strange suggestions about what the Green Man must look like. Oh! But that's also the thread where I connected him to the singing Green Knight from a Heather Dale song. And then planned to team him up with the (a) Greenwitch to become a pair of Wild Magic shapeshifter agents. Hmmm...
hS
I went looking for an image to replace the plank of wood, and hold crud. O.o
To be fair, the only actual description Otik gets in his original appearance is a "seven-foot" "piece of wood" with "wooden tentacles," so I could forgive Rod/Chliever for imagining a two-by-four instead of a really disturbing stump-monster from an obscure bit of folklore.
Except, of course, that Jay spells out where she got the idea in an author's note. So yeah.
Enjoy your nightmares.
~Neshomeh
I was so used to seeing the Wiki image, I didn't even catch that it explicitly says "log" in the Kippur appearance. We should get that fixed. :(
And I'm not even looking up the plot of Little Otik, as it is very clearly creepypasta caliber.
You're here? Are you here? Please be here, please please please... the mental echoes sounded adolescent.
So, he's like if Little Otik grew up, I guess? And hopefully learned to control his appetite? Or, failing that, we've re-discovered a convenient Sue-disposal method...
~Neshomeh
(So I don't clog up the board. ^^; )
>behindthename.com> is scarily accurate. O.o Any site that directly associates my name with singing is generally doing things right.