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I read the For Your Eyes Only mission by Laburnum, I believe? And then the Forbidden Fruit mission by PitViperOfDoom. I need to read the original series, I can't decide what to read first.

Welcome to the PPC, we're glad to have you here!

As your newbie gift from me, have two cents, so you can put them in during discussions.

Out of curiosity, what mission did you read first (if you remember) and what spin-offs have you started going through?

- Tomash

Thank you very much!

I appreciate the dice! I've been meaning to get into tabletop, thank you~

I know my handle is the Triumvirate, but the namey-name I use is Calliope (often shortened to Cal). So don't worry about calling me some shortened version of that long probably-Latin word!

For your Newbie Gift from me, have a full set of roleplaying dice! We have a massive group of tabletop gamers here (so many, you seriously have no idea, it's insane), so with these, maybe you can join in! Feel free to decide the pattern and texture and whatnot on your own.

While I do feel bad for Bram, we've already mentioned that the Boarders are not therapists. Given that Bram apparently wants to rejoin because of the issues in their personal life, I feel that Bram wants to use us that way, and I don't think that will end well.

Have an object of indeterminate size and color.

I'll do my best to stick around! :D

And you're welcome! Glad to help!

I hope you stick around, because we need more PMD fans here!

And thanks for the tip! I'll give the show another attempt tonight and I'll try to watch a few after your suggestion, just to be sure.

Mostly the games. Used to love the anime when I was younger, not as much, and I intend to read the manga one day. Sun and Moon is definitely my favorite game thus far, though I have a soft spot for the Mystery Dungeon spinoffs. And that's cool!

I'd say it starts getting good and serious around Mewnipendence Day, where it starts exploring the relationship between Mewnans and Monsters. In my opinion, it really gets good around Season 2 when character development kicks in for Star's mom Moon and Ludo. It does have the drawback SU has in that if you miss one plot-critical episode, you might be lost later in the series, though.

It's very nice to have newbies show up. Normally I just lurk on the Board, so you probably won't see me here often. As for a gift, take this wand of magic missile!

I do hope you choose to stay for a while!

When you say Pokémon, do you mean the games, anime, manga, or a combination of them? I have a Luxray agent from a Nuzlocke run I did, so I'm definitely a games fan.

Also, I love Steven Universe! Tried getting into Star because I heard the two were similar, but it just seemed too... weird. I dunno. About where would you say the show gets really good? (Because it took my college roommate showing me later episodes of SU before I decided to give it a second chance, I thought I'd do the same for Star.)

Why thank you!

Ahh, okay! Thank you for clarifying that!

I have a lot of them, I tend to hop around whenever I find something particularly interesting, but the ones I'd consider to be main ones are Yokai Watch, Pokemon, Mystery Science Theater 3000, Star vs the Forces of Evil, Steven Universe, and Gravity FAlls.

Have a pile of multi-coloured pens.

Hey there, and welcome aBoard! Take this plate of SPaGhetti—it's made fresh just for you.

As to your question: Everyone has a different way of deciding things! My first agents were self-inserts of myself and my then-writing partner. Later agents were badfic recruits, or simply fell through plotholes from various continua where they had just existed quietly in the background before. Original characters are totally okay—just so long as they don't glitter. ;)

I have a question for you in return! What are some of your fandoms?

Hi! I go by Feenie/Feeni3, pronouns are she/her/hers, I'm 20 years old, and I write fanfiction. Very slowly. I hope I'm doing this right, I've never used a forum system like this before.

I found PPC while browsing the internet, looking for more stuff like Mystery Science Theater 3000 either in terms of riffing bad material or, and I stumbled upon a mission and enjoyed it thoroughly. I am going to go and read the original series once I have the time and energy, of course.

The only question I have off the top of my head, while I'm typing this out, is how do you decide what your agent/agents' canon is? Like do they need to be from badfics you wrote when you were younger, or something else? I am interested in making two of my long-time characters into agents, but I'm also hesitant because they're near and dear to my heart and am...afraid of exposing them to badfic.

Also, feel free to ask me for clarification on anything I say if I come off as unclear. I fully realize sometimes I just...mangle the english language when speaking.

"A Mary Sue has lots of techniques and powers essentially for bragging rights - you'll see a million Sues get bestowed heaps of abilities and powers which will get used once to show off and be forgotten, which aren't shown at all, or which are used but don't even affect the plot or anything."

*ahem* WinX Club.

-Twistey

The fact that there's a crossover may change some people's opinions.

-Twistey

A good way to balance out power is to think like an RPG game: there's only so much XP to be gained per level (in this case, levels are years of training), and you can spend it all on one skill or you can spend a little on each skill you've got, or any other combo. But you can't be a master of every skill you have if you're only at, say, level 2. So if you make your characters older (more levels), you can make them more powerful (more spent XP).

However, a word of caution. Since your fic is focused around battle and is a crossover between two worlds that have significant differences in what's considered normal for combat abilities, you must take extreme care with regards to this stuff, or otherwise your fic might just be doomed from the beginning. I thought about this overnight and at first I thought it was going to be doomed one hundred percent, but then I remembered that you seem to know what you're doing.

This is the only other advice that I'm really capable of giving; otherwise I'm out of ideas. It is good, however, that you started that other thread to ask for others' opinions.

-Twistey

I'm just going to be blatant here.

Being away from the PPC was supposed to give time to self-improve. What I see here is Bram throwing in the towel.

Having one's husband torn away from them is horrible. It seems like Bram is asking for support. But I have to say no, albeit a soft one.

I do believe that if anyone wants to contact Bram, do it.

I am not going to deny that we do have problems with racism, and that right-wing politicians and parties have surged; however, as far as I'm aware, this increase in their popularity has been relatively minor compared to other western countries, such as the US, Great Britain, or Austria.

that Bram disagrees with the conclusions you've drawn about her being toxic, manipulative, and so on.

(On a personal note, even though it's rather pointless to argue about these sorts of things, I think that the hypothesis that Bram is really that confused about social stuff on account of autism or some similar thing has a good amount of evidence behind it.)

- Tomash

I can't quite make all my reasons for that vote coherent, but I'll give some of them.

I've been talking with Bram for a while now. During those discussions, I was asked to make a post requesting her return. I explained to her why making a post like that (such as this one) wouldn't work and would be a bad idea in general (among other things, it makes her earlier departure look insincere).

Yet, despite that advice, which (I've been reassured) made sense and was understood, this thread is up on the Board. This means that, at this time, post-return mentorship might not actually work very well.

This, plus a general feeling that the self-improvement that Bram left to go do hasn't progressed as much as we'd like, leads me to suggest that we re-open this discussion in a few months at the earliest.

- Tomash

I only asked if you would consider redundant abilites bad even if it is plot relevant. So I will take that as a no. Don't get me wrong, I don't judge a character until I read the story; in fact, I am perfectly fine with having a lot of abilities, so long as it is consistent with canon and the character. We are actually in agreement here.