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A day late, but the best PPC story ever continues as Mary Sue and Sue Mary enter Middle-earth.

Mary Sue, Sue Mary and the Broken Plot Continuum: Rivendell by Nath

All is not well in Imladris...

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Even If She's Different Summary: Officer Judy Hopps finds an injured girl human called Isabelle who is her age. Isabelle has bad memories in her past and three dangerous people in the present who are trying to take over Zootopia. Judy and Isabelle join forces to investigate the case and also their feelings for one another.....

So we've got a human named Isabelle randomly in Zootopia and Judy Hopps falling in love with her at first sight. The fic is 85% song lyrics, too. Also in subsequent instalments Nick Wilde is character assassinated. Very classic Sue story with the Zootopia setting meaning that your agents could finally live out their furry dreams (if they aren't, of course, already anthropomorphised animals) by taking this mission!

I just saw that re. Bill and Lori. Whoops!

But yeah, Derik meeting up with C (&E) would be good. And good for them to find him and Gadrik, since I think everyone else you listed must be gone. o.o

Not gonna do anything right now myself, though. Is bedtime. ^_^

~Neshomeh

Bill and Lori are trying to get to Digory Kirke since Liam is in school when this happened, but Christianne could run into Derik in the Nursery? Since I'm picturing her sort of running around like a chicken with her head cut off trying to find, in no particular order, Muriel, John, StWWX rescues?, Cai, Jacques, the Satos, and the Robinsons.

Eledhwen is following at a more measured pace trying to calm her down.

ETA: Reality Room -- if Derik is around because the Reality Room de-powered him, then John would be around, too, unless his Blood Glitter Levels get too high and the Poofening kicks in.

Honestly, it's not hard to assume a couple things and people slip through the cracks. For example, Lori escaped being poofed because she was a person in World One prior to getting sucked into her own fanfic, realising she was getting too Suvian, and deleting the Word World only to end up in the PPC. So she's a semi-fic blip with some Suvian influences, but not so much a Sue as a person who wore a Sue costume for a while (like the leads in Suedom). In a stricter definition of the Poofening she probably should have disappeared, but she didn't.

This whole thing intrigues me, and I'm tempted to join (though knowing me I'll flake out halfway through). It occurred to me that Derik might have escape being poofed since he went through a Reality Room post-recruitment and had all the unrealistic badfic-ness scrubbed off him. What do you think? If he's around, he could run into Bill and Lori in the Nursery, where he'll also be checking on his kid.

Jenni, on the other hand, is well poofed. {X D However, my concept of her is that she doesn't really have AU versions of herself, just different splinters of her one consciousness. Anything that's not canon, she experiences as something like a dream. This would be a rather unpleasant one for her. I think her physical form would be destroyed, and her disincorporated ethereal self would be locked out of this reality, unable to touch it anymore. Don't you hate those dreams where you're trying to get somewhere and you just can't? {= )

~Neshomeh

This thread is getting quickly buried, so chat might be the best place to work out plans. Everyone who's said they're coming so far should have an invite, though not necessarily from me. Apparently I hadn't added all of you as friends yet!

There will be more threads as the time gets closer, too.

~Neshomeh

"Who are they? Do they go to Digory Kirke? Our Liam's in sixth grade at Digory Kirke Elementary."

((Will probably try to line up with hidaney's thread once Bill and Lori get to New Cal...))

((gets wand, takes it back))

((Dang it, not charged. charges it up with a credit card, but it goes boom like a CAD SHPX YOU!))

((-kA))

((...and acting like their enthralled love interest or something, and then the Narrative Law of F*** Around and Find Out kicks in and poofs the pretend Sue away...))

((Haha, that's pretty clever. It would be pretty funny if someone went on an epic quest to find a Wishing Thing to wish away the Poofening, and when they do find the Wishing Thing, it doesn't work at all.))

“Yeah, I probably should. Made a promise to the ‘uman, besides for all I know, this could be one of my cousins messin’ around. Although I wasn’t aware they were strong enough to do this…”

((And the Wand of Wishing was a joke because it is one of the only things in NetHack (if I am correct) that you cannot wish for successfully. You will always get a Cancelled wand or a (precharged) Wand of Wishing with no charges. Wands of Wishing also don't take well to charging, either. You can only recharge it once before it destroys itself.))

((-kA, remembering information from a NetHack Wiki Walk they technically shouldn't do.))

((...is that other non-Sued people watching this process might still react realistically. Maybe the experiment subject has to convince the others to act enthralled as well? So then it might not even be necessary to overpower oneself, just make other people pretend the subject is the best thing since sliced bread.))

((You joke about a wand of wishing, but Liu Siyuan's home continuum has a pearl of wishing that functions exactly like this coin... though it has some serious monkey paw tendencies.))

((I was thinking of someone trying to Sue themselves via overpowering themselves. There are several canons that have upgrades to cause a character to overpower. NetHack comes to mind, with all the amulets with bonuses, ways of getting telepathy, even well, technical spoilers for NetHack but whatever or a second chance at life with the Amulet of Life-Saving! There are other canons with overpowered powers obtainable, too! Miitopia spoilers Combined that class with NetHack abilities... we should get an outright Sue sooner or later...))

((-kA, now wanting to look for NetHack badfic.))

((I think there should be at least one or two efforts to undo the wish at first -- stages of grief and all. I know Christianne is the stubborn sort who'd attempt it, and would probably drag folks like Lori and Bill along for the ride. After all, she fixed the 2013 Blackout, so why can't she fix this? But if nothing she does works, it'll really be interesting to see how she spirals from there.))

((I asked the question about undoing the wish because I wanted to see if anyone has ideas for how it could be attempted, but ultimately I agree that it would make for a more interesting story if the undoing attempts didn't work and the PPC has to live with the consequences of what they did -- sure, they killed all the Sues, but that came at the cost of losing actual people who used to be Sues or from badfics as well.))

((And of course, we gotta make sure things are funny, still :P I'm sure Lori and Bill could help someone try to Sue themselves for an experiment. Maybe there's some leftover Aura of Smooth, or a Vambiolaria virus sample in deep storage?))

"I'm sure we're not the only ones out and about."

"Son," reminded Lori with a wave of her phone. "Picking up."

Bill nodded, and the two scientists started to head down the hallway. Meg's next question, however, had them pausing and exchanging shared worried looks.

"As far as we're aware, yes," said Lori. "Plus badfic rescues. But apparently not semi-fic blips." She gestured to herself with a tight smile. "Anyway. Son, picking up. You coming?" she added, looking over at Meg.

((I plan on, eventually, after Some Time Has Passed (not five years, though), the Flowers/security/CPP/somebody realizing/finding out that David Null wished away Suvians.))

((Since I plan on this event having killed the Sues dead, it would be a multiversal crime of sorts. Sure, David Null and "other who could be connected" get dragged to the Flowers for questioning, but will the PPC as a whole get dragged into Multiversal Court?))

((I was actually thinking about making David's trial a formal interlude, not just an RP piece.))

((Since my characters haven't interacted enough in the RP to truly affect things, I could take a step back (figuratively) and work on the interlude while also keeping the doc up-to-date, allowing y'all to decide if a timeskip is required to keep the RP alive. I do have a few ideas, however.))

((I'd be interested in seeing things in the PPC start breaking down due to the lack of a workforce. Consoles start biting the dust, the locks stop working, the lights flicker... stuff like that. Maybe the Dead Author Generator is shot because a good chunk (or all!) badfic disappeared. I'd also be interested in seeing someone try to Sue themselves, but dissappearing afterwards because the wish is still in effect. Maybe some funny chaos ensues.))

((It's not just my AU, but I have also been acting like it is. It's mine, Linstar's, and Lily's. And a bit of Sier's, too. Maybe y'all can decide where it goes now?))

((-kA, who really is up to writing that interlude now, maybe fleshing out the future of this AU and is not really that interested in Restoring Things The Way They Were.))

((If Alberta wants to go to the Caf, probably best to pick up this thread under OrangeFox's. No pressure to, of course, but their agents are currently there.))

((If, say, we took a page from the MCU and time skipped to 5 years later, there could be significant changes to the PPC's department makeup because of the Wish/Poofening. Currently it seems like more people are in shock at losing loved ones and colleagues than celebrating the loss of all Suvians.))

((I think a lot of agents would be happy to have less work because of no more Sues.))

((... to stop reacting to the situation and start doing something about it: what do we think happened to the dusted Suvians? Did they get sent into some pocket universe? Or did they properly disintegrate?))

((And, more importantly: how do we get them back? Is it a simple (?) matter of tracking down another coin and un-wishing it? Where would one find such a coin, if so? Or... is the solution something more timey-wimey?))

((Of course, there's the philosophical question of: do we get them back? On the one hand, Suvians make up so much of the PPC's workload, but on the other hand ex-Suvians and badfic rescues make up so much of the PPC's people. But I'm sure a lot of these people currently in play believe that people come before workload, though I'd personally be fascinated to see someone care more about preserving the workload reduction.))

Interlude I: A New Recruit

Warning: terrorist group mention. And Bl 1 or 2.

No Spoilers, because I couldn’t get them to work. Sorry.

She MURDERS people for no reason and JOINS THE KKK!!!!!

Worst Sue ever.

I've got a mission and an interlude I've been sitting on for a few weeks, and I figured they were ready for betaing.

Mission: Fairly long (like, 18 pages long) in the Frozen continuum. Looking for pacing and legibility for the most part, so I don't think canon knowledge is too necessary?

Interlude: Two pages long, pretty much a single joke.

Feel free to email me or send a message on the Discord. (OrangeFox#2402 there)

Thanks!