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...it can become canon, but only if reposted somewhere else?

The interlude I co-wrote with Hidaney is actually a slightly edited version of an RP we did in the Discord. I thought it was good enough to be canon, so I asked them if they minded if I wanted to declare it canon, edit it a bit, and put it up on my AO3 account. They agreed.

...the idea of having canon material locked up there seems rather unappealing.

—Ls’ two cents.

I've definitely used chat RP to play with ideas and get a feel for characters, same as one might use RP threes on the Board. I've generally operated under the assumption that things in RPs (both chat or Board) aren't canon unless someone actively makes it so (for example, by saying it's canon for their spinoff or, more loosely, by referencing the events of the RP in something they publish)

(And for an example of where the lack of canonicity helps - Farah used to have a lot more to angst about until I decided it was all a bit much and turned it down to one dead mentor-y aunt)

Mostly playing with agent ideas (I did it with Val before fully integrating her with CPP) or concepts. I never really considered it canon and wouldn't like to consider them canonical, if that makes sense.

A lot of my RP there is jagged and really early forms of characters. If we were making the RPs canon, I think we should have a choice on which RPs (if any) are canon and copy them over. I don't like the idea of the RPs being locked away from public as well.

-kA

Do you (= you, collectively, the Discord-users) consider Discord RPs canonical? Or do you see them more as places to play with ideas and see whether they're worth using in stories? I have no idea how you operate, but I know a lot of "informal RP" settings treat it as a kind of extra-canonical space.

If you (= as above) would hold them up as canon, then... well, I'm still not comfortable with chunks of PPC canon being locked away in the Discord, but I would bite my tongue and add this to the Atlas. It would be helpful if someone could put together a more detailed profile on it first - if I'm doing it, I'd rather do it right.

(Re: mirroring - I... don't mind? As long as you don't break or overload the site? I won't be offended if you rehost things that I've archived, if that's what you're asking. I also can't exactly help with it, if that's what you're asking.)

hS

No one's written in the setting outside of RPs (yet (though now I'm contemplating what would make sense)) and the getting of the logs would need to be done the annoying way - finding them, copy pasting, cleaning up the OOC tags, and poking folks to ensure they don't mind their old RPs being a smidge more searchable.

(And on a highly tangential note, what are your thoughts about mirroring some core PPC stuff, like TOS, onto plotprotectors.org ? It'd be a Small Configuration Update (tm) or less to add a /stories directory or something and stick arbitrary HTML under it)

And they really are "Jay and Acacia" now, not Harpwire. They're off FFn, they're on Oddlots, they're just as grumpy as ever, and they're...

... having a barbeque? Sure, why not?

Protectors of the Plot Continuum: The Maiden by Jay and Acacia

A lot of missions would be kind of non-events after a huge opening like the BBQ, but... this is the mission that gives us "It's GREEK, okay? You shouldn't make fun of my name!". And also the #1 best bear name in the history of writing. :D

hS

Does there happen to be a non-Discord log of it? I'm wary of declaring something canon based on a chat transcript that isn't publically accessible, and doubly wary of trying to write an entry when, uh, I've never seen it. ^_^

(I'm assuming it's 'everyone is dragons' rather than eg 'everyone is Pernese dragons'; it'd be a lot easier for me to write a Fandemonium entry for Greystone, but it sounds like this is a full separate multiverse.)

hS

In recent* years, I've come to think of them as my guide animal. According to various pages on the Internet, they signify adaptability, positivity, and seeing through deceptions. IIRC creativity was on a list somewhere, too. Plus, they're gorgeous and they eat mosquitos. ^_^

I have nothing but respect for Agent (er, "Ribalder"?) Dragonfly.

~Neshomeh

* Knowing me, this could be anything from five to fifteen. Shh. >.>

Back in late 2019 (the search bar puts the peak of that sort of thing at August-October) #rudis in Discord featured a bunch of going-on related to Greystone Mountain - the PPC AU where just about everyone is dragons. Falling into the prime/dragon HQ from the other side happened in both directions.

The main culprit appears to have been Delta, but a bunch of lolks had some dragon!agents (I am definitely seeing Moons and myself pop up a lot in what logs I can easily jump to)

After a few weeks, I am finally done with it! My Permission request! It can be found here. Hooray!

I eagerly await the Permission Givers’ response.

—Ls

I had to draw Maelor and Constantia because I had them for every other multiverse, but that's as far as I'm taking them. The CPP is still yours, and if anyone decides to publish something using it I think you'd be well within your rights to ask them to take it down until you've at least got a proper story up for them.

I'm probably pushing things by changing the characters' names every time, but... it's fun. ^_^ And avoids me having to just label each picture as Dafydd and Constance again. If I hadn't written the names on the pictures, I might well have left them mostly with those names, but since they're in there, I had a bit of a play.

(The thing I most entertain myself with is that Dafydd is a Midsummer Night's Dream fairy twice, in the TCDA and APSW. His name used to be Butterfly in the former, and is still Dragonfly in the latter; he deserves everything he gets.)

hS

Oh, interesting! We don't see missions combine very often. I'm instantly suspicious of this Helena; it's not exactly common for background OCs to break out of Suefluence. I winder, if the two stories badfics described a similar character, would they both become the same character? That would make Helena more aware of the fourth wall, and explain the two fics linking with each other.

Hope no one forgets about the original Suvian still being tied up!

(edited to add this, because I forgot:)
For this one sentence: "She was instantly replied by three loud startled screams." "Replied" can't really be used this way in English. A common way to rephrase this would be, "She was instantly met with three loud startled screams." If you don't like the sound of that, you can try rephrasing the sentence a bit, something like, "As reply, she instantly received three loud, startled screams."

—doctorlit, second star to the right and straight on 'til work shift

Particularly since hS dropped his new Multiversal Atlas, which had some mentions of the 2012 invasion of the Prime Multiverse's International Academy of Hetalia Fanfiction by its Mirror Multiverse counterpart. Part Three covers Christianne and Eledhwen's actions during IAHF2, when this was all developing, and Part Four covers, very quickly, how IAHF2 should've ended had I not gotten distracted by other fandoms. :P

Adding to continuity (at least, my corner of it):

• Collapsing Word Worlds return to a null-space, void-like state of being. This was also seen in Rosie and Nenya's mission "The Dark of the Moon", and briefly alluded to by Jay in "Lady of the Fellowship" when she mentioned getting stuck in a "timeless abyss" if they get lost between dimensions.
• The Division of Applied-and-theoretical Multiversal Physics in HST 2012 was in a storage closet in the DMSE&R labs.
• There is a very old couch in the DMSE&R labs that Christianne thinks could've been around since the late seventies, but since that predates even Makes-Things arriving in HQ (and is, in fact, probably during the Civil War on Origin), she's probably exaggerating.
• Dr Horatio Graves is one of the first members of DAMP. I picture him looking a bit like the dad from Jordan Peele's Us, which makes him getting stuffed into a tiny storage closet (Winston Duke is 6'5") even funnier.
• Confirmation that Christianne and Eledhwen have, in fact, been getting therapy! With Jenni Robinson and Mirrad, respectively! Thanks, Nesh, for looking over their lines and helping me work out those scenes.
• There's a variant of Witness Protection offered, presumably, to people like OFU Course Coordinators on the run. Its acronyms are, funnily enough, CPP. They have absolutely no relation to the other CPP. I think.
• Agents Baklava, Jam, and Meringue from IAHF2 have names! Baklava is Melody Hearth, cousin of Nurse Carleton Hearth, Jam is James Abadie, and Meringue is Hannah Rothberg.
• ...And Part 4 talks very briefly about how that Merge between the IAHFs was averted. Turns out in 2012 I was aware of the parodies and stuff of IAHF and was planning to use them in the Grand Finale! Yeah.

So that's pretty much what Eledhwen and Christianne were up to before they started specialising in BBC Sherlock and defeating meatloaf monsters. I'm going to continue going through unfinished missions and finishing them up, too, so I guess this isn't the last time you'll hear from E and C.

Extremely misleading title, not a hobbit to be seen! Plus, my brain wants to read it in a Gollum voice, and the first part sounds a little weird to hear like that.

Well, uh. That sure is an ending! It must have been some prom, considering they never posted any more mission reports. But that's understandable; Brad and Corey seem like a dependable pair. Good communicators, and they even plan ahead! They seem like such nice young men. I just hope they were able to keep up with the ladies!

—doctorlit is now discontinuing this post

... but I never got around to. Which is weird, since that universe's version of my main trio (plus maybe bonus Ami? Can't see her dying in that multiverse) would've been perfect.

Sergio Turbo Sara Leone*, the odd tactical Magical girl whose magical weapons are pretty much magical guns. Nikki Cherryflower, the Sakura clone who as a result has half of HQ as her fanclub since Cardcaptor Sakura is likely even more of a big thing than it is here. Corolla, the genius Nanohaverse Unison Device and Best Character (hS' words) regardless of multiverse. Possibly Ami Tanegashima, also full of invitations to join other teams because oh gods look at her she's so small and cute and we need her in our team!

Things for them are just as weird as they are for the Prime Multiverse versions.

*In the MG multiverse "Sara"'s family was likely less disfunctional, so she never ran off or had to give herself a different name.

I've got the draft for my first Mission squared away now, so I can post it and Interlude 1 immediately after getting Permission. I'd like a beta reader who is an adult and preferably has knowledge of the Naruto canon to help look at this mission, it's a bit rough around the edges and I need to know what is and isn't landing. I'll respond fastest if contacted on the Discord.

"People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but actually from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint, it's more like a big ball of wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey stuff."

... Okay, no, That's not really what's going in the Unraveled universe. Not gonna spoiler what really went on, But I can say what the Doctor himself would say if he got himself in the unraveled world.

"It's wrong! It's all wrong! Time has become a single wiggly stream, which is not supposed to be - and a stream that only started five minutes ago!"

Or maybe he's actually there and said it, who knows. I can say I'd have Eleventh in, though. Eleventh Doc Best Doc.

I forgot to turn my VPN off intially, oops.

-kA

And maybe if I get around to doing something more with my PCLEA, they can be added. :)

Since we moved the RP twice and the doc has the up-to-date (ish) information about this timeline.

-kA, who is honestly working on four works at once, three of them CPP and the other semi-CPP

Those do need updating. And it is kinda annoying to not get up-to-date missions on the wiki.

I did notice that my joining wasn’t on there. Guess I’ll add it.

—Ls

As noted in the Map, the World Without Authors is a big problem for timeline modelling, because even purely PPC-internal it's a merger of two distinct Timelines. Current theory has absolutely no way to deal with that, let alone the various alternate pasts that Sergio et al have run into.

... so they just ignore them, because while proper scientists use all the evidence, real scientists just dismiss inconvenient data as outliers or measurement errors. :D

hS