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The only question I really have is: Have you taken a look at the Constitution?

Hope you like it here!

Well, I've been reading and skulking around the wiki for years, so after reading an awful lot of fanfic that inspired gag-reflexes in me recently, I figured I'd take the time to jump in here and introduce myself.

I seem to be going by Thoth around the 'net of late, so I may as well take the name here, too. Let me know if it's taken or otherwise an issue, I'll change it. Don't let me know that it's overly pretentious. I'm aware.

While I've spitballed ideas for agents with some friends, I'm not a terribly accomplished fanfic author, so that's probably not happening anytime soon.

Fandoms: mainly 40k. I am a fan of many things (I can't count the number of series I can see from here), but that's that's the only community I'm active in ATM.

I'm rather verbose (noticed yet?), technically inclined, and a sucker for moral ambiguity in fiction. I've also run out of things to say. Any questions?

*Twistey also hopes that OpinionedAngel will see your post and accept the lamp.

-Twistey

I don’t even read thirty-six chapters of fanfic if it hasn’t been recommended as "really good" by somebody I trust, and from what I’ve seen in the first chapter (that’s how far I read) it may not be bad enough to inspire a good assassination. But then, not every mission has to end in cathartic violence.

I’ve put it on the list of Unclaimed Badfic, so that there is a chance it might catch one of our LotR expert’s attention even when this thread has dropped off the front page.

HG

... it appears that the Seventh GoM Player is equal to LOTR's Tenth Walker.

In many countries, sports tournaments are divided by biological sexes. There are NBA and WNBA. In Japan, the players are mostly male and females are placed as managers. I do not know if there are women basketball arena in Japan, but let's assume there is.

A pattern I see when I browse through Wattpad for KnB fanfics is that a girl is placed as the Seventh GoM and plays alongside Seirin's main team, alongside the dueterogonists. This is already breaking KnB's lore, as all the matches we see in Interhigh and Winter Cups are men's basketball.

We do see one female basketball player in canon. She is a top athlete in WNBA but retires due to injuries. She found some kids and finds a purpose in life by training the two kids she found. Their relationship to each other is like a shonen version of Scathath-Cu Chulainn-Ferdiad. No Gae Bolg and murders though, thank God.

All the other women we see in KnB are either coaches or managers. They are strong and useful in their own right. But they don't play. That is not their duty.

My point is, if you want to insert a female character into KnB AS AN ATHLETE, insert almost a hundred good female players amongst many schools. You can create your own GoMs amongst the females. Make the males your love interest(s) if you wish, but your main point is to fight for the game. Win or lose, your choice. But fight. You don't have to make three seasons worth of basketball plays, but make them play.

You can insert a female character as a manager's assistant, if you really must have her join the sport alongside the males. It won't hurt the plot a lot, the manager really does need a lot of help. And don't get too close to Kise Ryouta, he has a dimension that I think will not be healthy for a longterm relationship.

Thank you for reading my rant. I will not be sporking, I have many problems with my own fics.

Please take this Conveniently Shaped Lamp I was hiding behind my back, to match that determination of yours. Use in case of skeletons.

As for my fandoms, niche interests and the like, I tend to like a variety of series and genres, mostly sci-fi, fantasy, cyberpunk (and all those other kinds of -punk settings), urban fantasy, anime... that kind of thing.

I want to be a writer, but procrastination is a major issue for me. It's something I'm working towards...

Name: Arvinaz Perricos

Age: 14

Description: A super-awesome (and tall and muscular) Lasat force-user, but not smelly like Zeb, with a bo-rifle that has a lightsaber mode along with the blaster and quarterstaff modes. He has purple skin and green eyes, like most Lasats, but bright blue hair also. It looks boss. Arvinaz is scarred (not physically, mentally and emotionally) from the Empire's genocide of Lasan. He survived it, obviously, and is a heroic lone rebel and protector of the people (kinda like Robin Hood, except better, because Star Wars).

Lust Object: Han Solo. Totally. I mean, who doesn't have a crush on him? Also, prequel!Obi-Wan is really hot.

Light Side/Dark Side: Light Side! Though Arvinaz sometimes uses the Dark Side against the Empire because it's more powerful, but he doesn't like to do it.

In real life, Arvinaz is a very insecure teen named Julian Michaelson who writes OCs to deal with those insecurities. Julian is also a much too enthusiastic slash shipper, regardless of what Canon says about any of his ships. Prides self on knowing all the lore and nerdy bits of fandoms, but doesn't really care about actually using his information in fanfiction.

I guess I'll make a badficcer out of my friend at that age; although she does write questionablequalityfic currently, she'd probably agree that her fics back then weren't as good.

How would the in-universe application be presented? More of "yourself" or more of "yourself as a Star Wars character"? Because if it's a "yourself" thing, she probably would be honest about herself (the only questionable detail being considering herself a follower of the dark side), but if it were a "yourself as a Star Wars character", she'd basically do as you said and insert the descriptions of Teyori into her application. As the race, it would be human in both cases, albeit altered by the dark side in the latter case. So what do you think is closer to how the application would actually work?

Anyway, here's my friend as a badficcer:
Name: Avice (that is neither her name nor her Internet pseudonym, because I'm nice.)

Age: Around 11

Chosen Race: Human

Description: Avice is really really really into high fantasy, and as such, writes Star Wars like it's Dungeons and Dragons. She is guilty of coming up with suspiciously cleric-esque Jedi and new Force abilities that really don't fit the genre of sci-fi. And prophecies, musical numbers with original songs, and Mary Sues. She even invented an entirely new order of Force users! Anyway, this kid is a bit more like typical badficcers than Twizzy is.

Lust Object (if applicable): Unknown, but probably has one.

Light Side/Dark Side: Light side, duh!

Notes: The banter between Twizzy and Avice is not fanfiction-oriented like the banter between present-day Avice and I, but rather more similar to two friends who have different favorite sports teams and have banter about who's the better team. Occasionally they will engage in mock duels.

How Avice Would Create a Sona (just in case we want to combine Teyori with Twizzy):

Name: Shaiata Siraelian

Age: 20

Description: Shaiata is a Jedi Knight of great skill, perhaps surpassing Anakin in her abilities and definitely being one to discover new things the Force can do. Yoda mentored her even though he is deceased at this time, through appearing to her in her dreams (something she later learned to harness and use for communication with other Force users via meditation.) She often receives prophecies in this manner, and is destined to do half a dozen great things that bring balance to the Force yada yada. At one point in time, she had a Padawan named Teyori, who she greatly misses and wishes to guide back to the light side. She has flowing, golden blonde hair, deep blue eyes, and fair skin, and wears the traditional Jedi robe ensemble. Her lightsaber is sapphire blue. This is similar to how Teyori would have looked pre-Sithhood if Avice had had her way with writing her, but Twizzy insisted on giving Teyori a less idealized appearance by basing that appearance on herself.

Lust Object: Secretly, another Jedi.

Notes: Somehow, despite being on opposite sides of the Force, Teyori and Shaiata (like their authors) are still friends. This will probably be how it is for the rest of eternity, as both are too stubborn to listen to the other's attempts to bring them to their side.

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Let me know if there's anything else you'd want to know!

-Twistey

Jedi slug men from the outer reaches. =]

"I can regrow hair or heal injuries, if anyone's interested," they offered, "though it's my first time using magic, so... I'm just not sure how good I'll be at it." They had miraculously escaped unscathed from the rain of molten glass, and was quite grateful for that fact. It did not look pleasant.

And, because this idea literally just came to me, how would you like an AU tweeny!fanboy!Nume to play with? He's that obnoxious spotty thirteen-year-old who can quote every obscure piece of lore to ruin everyone's day (including the canon characters, especially the reboot ones where they contradict the EU he's used to) and has absolutely zero social skills.

Goes by the name of Cuthaan Starkiller and probably fancies himself a Jedi, even though he is the worst. Don't give him any weapons if you value your life or your property wait who am I kidding this is an OFU go for it!

His fanfiction probably consists of long-winded expository whinges that completely ignore the Iceberg Principle and have little to no plot, but really just exist to show how smart he is and how much he knows about everything ever.

No admitted Lust Objects; he's too busy nitpicking everything, and also everyone has cooties. The dulcet tones of all those well-spoken British actors might make him a little bit weak in the knees, though. And, well, Han Solo. You're not human if you don't have a bit of a crush on Han Solo at some point, amirite?

I'm not too familiar with the alien races myself, but if you know of one that would enhance the image, then go for it. {= )

~Neshomeh

Name: Nicholas Buchanan

Age: 49

Race: Will stick with human.

Description: African-American, curly black hair just beginning to turn grey. About six feet. Tends to wear dark suits. Brown eyes.

Lust Object: Far too old to be thinking about that any more.

Notes: So, I'm trying something a little different here. Nicholas is a PPC agent, DIC-Sci Fi/Steampunk Division, unpartnered. I'll be needing him in a future, planned story-line, but don't really know what he's up to at the moment. His motivation for enrolling in this OFU is that: even though he watched the classic trilogy in his youth on World One, and eventually saw the prequels, his mission schedule of frequently being sent with other agent pairs into the field has prevented him from seeing the newer movies, watching through the Clone Wars materials, playing any games, or reading the various comics and novels. Finding that it's beginning to affect his work, and chafing at the fact that he needs to rely on younger colleagues for info on a canon that was part of his own childhood, he finally decided to take advantage of OFU time shenanigans to get fully caught up on Star Wars. The only thing I ask is that you don't get him romantically involved with anyone. Otherwise, I leave him to you!

Unless you don't want to deal with my weirdness, of course. Feel free to disregard this submission if you're not into the idea. :)

—doctorlit, OFUing for the first time

The Musician clapped a hand to her cheek where a burning chip of glass had torn a bloody gouge. Staring at the Wolf she raised her hand as though she was going to say something, but only blinked and blinked again before turning it into a helpless shrug.

She was, to put it politely, a mess. She had not dressed with the expectation of encountering fire, molten glass, or punch - her hair was still smoking slightly, her dress was saturated with fruit-smelling punch, and glass had burned a good dozen holes through it. Adding insult to injury, the punch had been strawberry. The Musician was allergic to strawberry.

"Just." She said. "Stop? Please? This was supposed to be a party..."

Reckoning-Mass Effect

Choices:

1. John Shepard. Eldest child of Captain Hannah Shepard. Hero of Elysium.

2. Jane Shepard. Mindoir Survivor. Butcher of Torfan.

3. Shepard. Earth Kid. [REDACTED}

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New Beginnings-Pokemon

1. Hilda. Kid from Nuvema Town, Unova. Starts with Oshawott. Story would start with Unova region and expand.

2. Drake. Originally from Blackthorn City, Johto. Starts with Dratini. Story starts with Johto/Kanto.

3. Marcus. Unknown where oriignally from. Spends a great deal of time on Iron Island. Starts with Lucario. Story starts in Sinnoh.

She also failed to respond to her own fiery issue. (That being her mask.) Finally deeming the door at least acceptable, she passed through it without issue.

Said door was no longer dark; it was made of some light wood or another. You wouldn't be able to tell which one without coming closer.

Well technically more like three ideas. I haven't been writing and a while and it was irritating me. So I think I'm going to start writing again, and I always like to start with fanfiction to get the creative juices flowing again. So I have three works I'm working on. But I want a bit of a twist.

I'm calling for a bit of audience participation. The three stories I'm working on are all based on video games. Namely Pokemon, Mass Effect, and Dragon Age. So here's the idea, periodically I would like to poll the audience to basically create a prompt for me to work with. You can feel free to add your own prompts, but I may not use that in the story.

For purposes of this experiment, the stories I write will be following the main plot of the games. Without further ado, the first prompt:

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|Who are you? |
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Title: The Fifth Blight-Dragon Age Origins
Choices:

1. Elissa Cousland. Eldest Daughter and second child of Teryn Bryce Cousland. Essentially uses Human Noble Origin, with a few twists thrown in.

2. Kallian Tabris. Daughter of Cyrion and Adaia Tabris. Female City Elf Origin

3. Theron Mahariel. Dalsih Elf Origin

4. Daylen Amell. Mage Origin.

5. Duran Aeducan. Dwarf Noble Background.

Or the three origins I outlined:

1. Dame Jeanne de Bayard. Third Child of a minor Orlesian Noble, she was given to the Chantry as a child and became a member of the Templar Order. She was transferred to the Ferelden Circle approximately a year before the events of Dragon Age Origins.

2. Eddard Hawthorne. Renegade Apostate Mage. Captured at 16. Escaped the Circle of Starkhaven. Ventured across the Waking Sea. Has recently taken up residence in a back alley of Denerim.

3. Celestina Titus. Unwelcomed "Representative" of the Imperium. In-spite of her considerable wealth and prestige she determined to sneak into Ferelden. Altus or not, she had heard interesting goings on, and she wanted to be part of it.

There was a gust of wind as they circled the room repeatedly, moving quickly enough that they managed to dodge the punch. Thankfully, both the wind and the material managed to put their dress out very quickly, and they stopped approximately where they had been, glaring at the Wolf. When they heard what he said, they sighed, deflating. "It's alright. I'm okay, at least. You, Musician?"

Wolf flash stepped over to the punch. He grabbed the whole bowl, and flash stepped back, dumping it over everyone. "Sorry sorry sorry...was just trying to blunt the sharp edges." He was trying very hard to ignore the fact that he'd been pelted just as much, and that his mask was amplifying every bit of the sensation. "Also...oww."

Hello there and welcome to the PPC! I'm Twistey, an uberchaotic neutral lightly-used-bie, and I am currently learning Spanish, so I might ask you a couple things about the language. I am in a ton of fandoms, mainly because I get dragged into fandoms so easily (the most recent example of that being my being dragged into the Camp Camp fandom by my IRL friend), but I tend to focus most on fandoms that have good world-building, given how much I love creating fan content and OCs, as well as fandoms that can be taken lightly.

I don't know if there are PPC things in languages other than English, but I'll see if the oldbies would be okay with starting translated Wikis.

Do you have any characters who you want to make into agents? I'd love to read about them and give any critiques I have! Nice to meet you, Diana!

-Twistey

It also sticks to things and can potentially light them on fire.

What did the Ghast ever do to you, Wolf? Their nice outfit is burning. And it's all your fault. You monster, they're going to be roasted alive, with all the glass that hit them!

The Musician is also on fire. Except it's her hair instead of her clothes. Geez, this is not a good night for this group, is it?

Here's what Zingenmir replied:

http://disc.yourwebapps.com/discussion.cgi?disc=199610;article=309524;title=PPC%20Posting%20Board;pagemark=75

-Twistey

Nice to meet you, I'm Twistey, an uberchaotic neutral lightly-used-bie. That's great that you came back, you seem like an interesting person. Here, as a returnbie gift, have a pen with feathers on the end that will act like a bird (but will let you write with it if you're good to it.) Nice to meet you! I'd love to see what you end up creating!

-Twistey

Guess I'll go for two characters then, volunteer and classic badficcer.

Name: Gerald Richards

Age: 23

Description: Human with brown curly hair, blue eyes, rather tall and slightly skinny. Is also a bit short-sighted, but he doesn't know if glasses exist in Star Wars, so... Generally stays quiet, except if buttons are pushed or excited. Don't exactly draws attention to him. Still has a somehow snarky sense of humor.

Lust Object (if applicable): Not really. Visiting an enjoying this 'verse is a much better way to go.

Light Side/Dark Side: Light Side here, although he want to go for 'greyer' things (consider Jedi should learn to live with emotions, not suppress them, and like the idea of writing pragmatic Siths who could have control over their emotions. Like the eye of a storm.)

Notes: Applied volunteerly after hearing about OFUs from former students. Didn't write a SW fic yet. Is a pretty big fan of Legends continuity, especially the Old Republic time, be it the MMO, Revan or Meetra Surik, and Thrawn. Disdainful about the second animated series of Clone Wars, consider Maul's return after Phantom Menace as 'cheap' and Savage Oppress as a 'yellow clone of Maul created to boost audimat'. Still likes Rebels, and saw all the movies and the first Clone Wars series. Like the idea of learning about lightsabers, with a little weak spot for dual wielding. Did some fencing and canne de combat.



Name: Darth Destructus (Lewis Jenkin).

Age: 15

Description: The most awesome pureblood Sith ever, with black hair and golden eyes, a kickass prothesis replacing his left arm, a total destructive juggernaut of the dark side. (Scrawny brat a little too much enthusiastic with black hair and brown eyes. Acne is still here, ready to come back if stress rises.)

Lust Object (if applicable): Rey and Assajj Ventress are badass. Period.

Light Side/Dark Side: Dark side. clearly the more powerful guys. Except whiny Kylo Ren.

Notes: Did like to write fics with a lot of over-the-top power fantasies as a way to take out frustrations from his life. Did see all the movies, but is far from being at the top of the game about them, and like Clone Wars, the second series. Also an avid player from the MMO the Old Republic. Is pretty much on the side of 'evil is cool and badass'. Generally loud andd obnoxious as a way to exist.