Not just in terms of what stories I might spork, but also regarding character voice and how/what I write. I hadn't really written characters that were so out-and-out aggressive as Laura before; most were vaguely like pre-injury Danny, with his mellow snarkiness. Breaking up that original team and adding James (someone rich in combat experience, but poor in fictional lore) allows me to explore new themes and ideas.* Rachel was created out of a desire to write a more upbeat "fan"-ish character: one that could gush about a given topic without falling into sarcasm.

Gremlin is sort of an amalgam of Danny and Laura, but with the added benefit of allowing me as a writer to explore subjects I hadn't touched on before: superpowers, discrimination, LGBTQ themes, and so on. Xericka was meant to embody a more serious and analytical tone, as was Cornelius. Both Xericka and Cornelius also give me the opportunity to explore the nature of being and becoming human.

I must also admit that my second and third agent teams were created partially to explore aspects of the PPC I felt were being underused. Bad Slash was pretty much all but abandoned when I joined up. I always got a kick out of those missions (not to mention MSTs of slashfics on other sites), so I set out to make a agent group to carry that on. I feel like there is also a lot that can be done with alternate universes, which is why I set the stage for the DIAU crew.

*Provided I ever get enough time to write them down.

I did ponder with the idea of makign a second team - in fact, Nikki was originally supposed to do only one mission with Sergio and Corolla and then get partnered with another agent. but in the end I decided to keep those three together.

The reason was that my original duo was rather unbalanced, with Sergio doing all phisical stuff due to Corolla being fairy-sized 90% of the time. With Nikki splitting the load things turned out to be better, so that's my reason to go with a trio despite it not being standard practice for the PPC. Besides, I would've probably ended up putting my second team in Floaters anyways, so havign two teams was pretty redundant sporking-wise

After Blank Sprite I might make another team (it all depends on wheter I will do missions on my own or collaborations. Collaborations are tons of fun.), but with Sergio and Nikki retired and Corolla working mostly in DoSAT that would be pretty much the only way to write normal missions "solo".

I think I touched on this once before, but I believe all of what we call fiction to be true. Authors (myself included) don't "make things up" but catch little subconscious cues about other worlds. If the cues are strong enough, they're able to write a story about it.

So at the moment, I've got my two main agents, and my Cafeteria pair, because they're the ones I've seen most clearly. I'm starting to get stronger vibes from the Nursery lately, and am getting a picture of some of the kids there, so I'm going to work that into my spin-off soonish down the road. It just boils down to what I get a sense of happening over there.

The urge to spork bad slash is very low, but in the event I want to, I'll bring in Arinellya and Kalen. Mostly, though, I prefer going after Sues, hence the very heavy focus on Rina and Zeb.

And now there's fluffy, cuddly Gabrielle to combat the mind-melting What The fics, in tandem with the eccentric Doktor, which is loads of fun to write.

My earliest bios for Rashida and Falchion, back when they were referred to by their old names, had them in the DIC, but that restricted my choices of badfics for them to spork, so I put them in Floaters instead. However, I wanted to establish a DIC team even before I got Permission, and Sarah being ultimately assigned there instead of staying with Falchion seemed fitting because her homefic was a mega-crossover and she'd be impacted enough to specialize in crossovers themselves. It also gave me a reason to bring in Cupid and Lapis as her partners, because three was already a crowd in RC #227 even before Ripper moved in.

As for Rayner and E.V.L., it seemed fitting that I'd flesh out on the sole remaining agent from the team that Rashida had helped on, well, THAT mission (which will be discussed soon - not immediately, no, but SOON!), and also experiment with bringing one of my older OCs into the PPC as well (same with Lapis, but she isn't slated to be used in my own original fiction, yet, so she isn't as relevant here). I also wanted to experiment with an RC in which the agents were rivals and not allies, being forced to work together only because they had to. Speaking of which, I plan to get back to the two after my next two Floater's missions, which are already in progress.

So, tl;dr, my Floaters team served as a basis for the other teams, my DMS team was meant to test out some new things and flesh out some of my agents' backstories, and my DIC team was set up so some of my recruited agents would have a place to stay without overcrowding the RCs that I'd already set up at the time.

Oh, crap, guess I should warn you all beforehand... I may or may not be planning a FOURTH RC soon, but that one's going to be very minor compared to the previous three and I won't update it as often as I do with them. This is partly due to the fact that it's going to have a very niche role in the ecology of the PPC HQ - it's planned to be part of the DMS-VG (Video-Games) division.

Nume and Ilraen are pretty versatile, but their interests only overlap with mine to a certain extent. They're particularly good for a certain set of fandoms and certain sorts of problems—medical nonsense, for one—but if I want to PPC something based on a musical or a video game, they don't work so well.

Also, even though in the beginning I wasn't too sure about the whole Sue-slaying thing, I kept managing to find Sues that ticked me off enough to want to do something about it, hence Nume and Ilraen's first two missions. I didn't want to keep making up excuses to shunt standard Sues to them in the DIC, so clearly I needed a DMS team, too.

Also also, Gall fulfills my need to write a more modern, casual voice. Her home 'verse is full of anachronisms anyway, and since someone taught her how to use the Internet, she's the perfect vehicle for all the stupid Internet meme-based jokes I can't do with anyone else. {= )

~Neshomeh

Obviously, I'm not going to be able to write them all, but neither can I consolidate them into two characters. Plus, there are tons of characters that I'd love to see, and since no one else seems to know the worlds the ideas come from, it falls to me to try my damnedest to write them.

Hell, I'm designing an ESAS agent right now, and the concept I'm working with is "Silent Hill native who's become something other." I just have to get the kinks ironed out, and maybe then Helen Sparks can see the light of day.

tl;dr, I have far too many ideas.

The Notary is a monster and Wobbles is SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS, but Doktor Trollenfisch? He loves his job! He has fun! He listens to oompah music at teeth-rattling volumes! I just wanted to write for him and, thanks to Iximaz, I could.

(also originally Gabrielle was gonna be Obviously Evil but we canned that for her present role as hug magnet)