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I'll work on these, but it'll take me a while. =) We'll keep in touch!

Either "kid" or "teen(ager)" should cover everyone except maybe the oldest three (Sophie, Elodia, and James). Sophie and James are she and he, and I reckon I can refactor to have Elodia as "Sophie's adult roomie" or somesuch.

(Though honestly I've creeped myself out a little by using 'man' to describe James early on. He may revert to 'guy' to draw less of a hard line, since I can't really use 'boy'.)

hS

You can post a link using "[Link text]" "(Actual link)" (ignore the quotes and put them right next to each other).

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[Kittyauthor's Beta Request]"(https://docs.google.com/document/d/17hhDuKTaJUmiqyNbI0N3-W9Cc3xAP8PmgE6zzqHis/edit?usp=drivesdk) (again, ignore the quotes) becomes Kittyauthor's Beta Request.

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-kA

She has that sort of kidish innocence, which I had when I was 15 (and somewhat when I was 16) and I called myself kid. But, for the others, I don't know.

-kA, who sometimes still calls themself kid, but it's getting less frequent.

((Following on directly from the previous, and finishing out the chapter.))

The group (students? Leonor thought back to her dream of the butterfly-man) trooped down the staircase and across the courtyard into a shady, tiled dining-room. A wooden table had been set out, long enough to accommodate all of them; and at the head Abuela sat with a welcoming smile.

"Welcome, children," the old woman said, "to La Casa Madrigal." She spread her hands, indicating the platters of bread rolls arrayed along the table. "Please, sit; you have had a busy morning already."

Leonor walked up to the table and glanced down at the nearest plate. It had a pattern of cherry blossoms, what seemed to be angular caterpillars, and a name at the bottom. "Alice?" she read out. "I don't remember an Alice in the movie."

"That's me," said a girl a couple of years younger than Leonor, whose skirt had a distinctly denim air about it. "I guess we have assigned seating?"

"That's like in the film!" said the freckled girl next to her. "You remember? Bruno painted his own-"

"We don't talk about Bruno!" The cry went up from at least five places in the crowd - not Leonor, though she did mouth along. At the head of the table, Abuela flinched slightly, but her smile held.

Leonor circled the table until she found her own plate. It was kind of a strange one - there were a few orange flowers, but mostly it was just her name, written repeatedly around the rim. She glanced at the places on either side of her, but they were just like Alice's: Ana's had black flowers and clouds, someone called Sophie had poppies and pillows, and both of them only had their name once.

"Oh, well that's depressing," Ana said, slipping into the chair beside her and tapping the plate. "Checks out, though; I would get the ominous tableware."

"Cheer up," Leonor told her roommate. "What's the worst that could happen?"

"Lead poisoning from the old-fashioned paint." Ana blinked. "Er, sorry, that just came out."

There was a scrape from the head of the table, and the girls looked up as Abuela got to her feet, a glass in her hand. "Once again," the old woman said, "I wish to welcome you to our home. You are all here because we have read your…" She frowned, produced a small square of card and peered at it. "Your 'fan-fiction' about my family. In each of you, we have seen something special: a gift that can be nurtured."

There was a buzz of excited whispering around the table. Leonor grinned at the thought of the Madrigals reading her Encanto fics - though, come to think of it, there were a few scenes she hoped they'd skipped over. Not that they were bad scenes, but if Dolores and Isabela had seen some of the racier parts, it might be embarrassing later on.

"The family Madrigal is dedicating our time and our talents to help you develop that gift," Abuela went on when the conversation died down. "It may be challenging for you, but I promise, you will not leave here until you are ready to write again." Leonor frowned at that - it had a bit of an edge to it that she didn't much care for - but Abuela didn't give her time to speak. She raised her glass, and the sunlight of the Encanto sparkled through it. "Welcome, students, to La Universidad Oficial de Fanfiction de Encanto. Salud!"

"Salud!" the students repeated with varying accuracy, and then, because it had been a long morning, there was a scramble for the snacks.

"So these are areppas?" the girl next to Leonor, Sophie, asked, holding one up. "I thought they were a kind of fruit."

"Obviously not," muttered a girl across the table; Leonor thought she remembered her from the town plaza. "This is basic Latin American culture, it's not hard."

A boy a few seats down grimaced. "And it's arepas," he said, "not areppas."

A scruffy girl next to Miss Latin American Culture rolled her eyes. "Was that meant to be scathing?" she asked. "Because you just repeated the same word twice."

The boy gave an exasperated sigh. "Arepa - areppa. The difference is obvi…" He stopped, frowning, and began to mutter to himself. "Areppa? Arepa?"

The dishevilled girl shook her head. "Some people," she said, grabbing an arepa and biting a chunk out of it. "Mmm, that's- eh, it's all right, I mean. I'm Alexandra."

"And I'm Dolores," said the girl at her side, and smirked. "Not that Dolores. Apparently I'm this one's," she hooked a thumb at Alexandra, "roomie."

"Leonor," Leonor introduced herself, then waited while Ana, Sophie, and Sophie's roommate Elodia gave their own names. "What I want to know is," she went on, "what was that thing Abuela said? The university of fiscal… something Encanto?"

"University Official de Fanfiction de Encanto," Alice supplied from further down the table. "It means University of Official Encanto Fanfiction."

"Oh, cool!" Sophie exclaimed. "We're going to be official writers!"

"It doesn't- that's not what it means," not-that-Dolores said, glaring down at Alice. "It's Official Fanfiction University of Encanto. The university's official, not us."

"Excuse you?" Alice folded her arms. "Which one of us is very nearly taking Latin?"

"You think they speak Latin here?" Dolores gaped at the younger girl. "Could you be any more wrong?"

"People can always be more wrong," Ana muttered, then flushed slightly. "I'm sorry, I didn't- I'm not sure what's up with me today."

"It's probably the wine," Alexandra said, lifting up her glass and taking a sip. She grimaced. "No, I take it back, this is fruit juice; it's probably the lack of wine."

"It won't be juice," Dolores said. "It's probably mezcal." She took her own cautious sip and frowned. "No, you're right; I guess they got the drinks wrong."

"Oh, sure; the film got it wrong," Alexandra muttered. "That's the only possible explanation."

Leonor shook her head and picked up her own glass, largely as an excuse to drop out of the conversation. She ate through three or four arepas with different fillings, and when the gathering broke up, she walked with Ana up the stairs.

"So," she said as they reached their door, "a Fanfiction University, run by the actual characters. It's going to be quite a ride."

"One way or another," Ana agreed. "I just can't shake the feeling there's more to it than they're telling us."

"I know what you mean," Leonor said, "but come on, look at this place. How bad could it be?"

"They could be planning to torture us as punishment for our stories." Ana scowled. "Okay, I honestly didn't mean to say that, what is happening?"

"Mirabel said we'd get our own miracles." Leonor leant over and tapped Ana's portrait on the door, with its downcast expression. "Maybe yours is always knowing exactly what the worst is that could happen."

"I really hope not," Ana mumbled, "I get enough of that as it is." She brightened slightly. "Still - like the little next door said, a gift means a room, right? That should be pretty cool. I mean, they might deliberately have given us tiny rooms like Mirabel's, but-" She bit down on her words and looked stubborn. "No. Pretty cool. I stand by it."

"Good for you." Leonor reached out and laid her hand on the doorknob. "You ready?"

"On three." Ana laid her own hand over Leonor's. "One… two…"

The pair pushed the door open. Their eyes took a moment to adjust to the light, and then they found themselves looking into…

… an exact copy of Mirabel's nursery from the movie, up to and including faded marks where the posters and drawings had been taken down from the walls.

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Cameos! Gifts! Names, for the love of Casita!

A question for... any of the six of you who've added they pronouns (though I don't think we have any 'pure' they/them characters). Once I get the names in place it won't be an issue, but at the moment there's a lot of "a girl with X characteristic" or "the girl next to her" going on. I feel like several of the students (Marty, Alexandra, and Xochitl) would be better described more neutrally, but don't want to derail the story into Leonor musing like Prof. Oak - "Are you a boy? Or are you a girl?". Is there a simple fix for, eg, Alexandra's introduction as "A scruffy girl/The dishevilled girl" above? "Person" sounds wrong.

(Inb4 Scapegrace suggests "oik" or something.)

(It won't be an issue for much longer - next chapter should allow Leonor to learn all the names, even if we're not introduced to everyone as the audience. But I want to start off right too.)

hS

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1w8O1wtJtkWRRqj_2Pv0GjvEbEUBDXOl-igX7pyr_hSE/edit

(ignore the bold italic part, I had to do it otherwise the _'s wouldn't go through)

Hey, I like Momoka's attitude! It's true, we should be able to do what we enjoy, rather than feel obligated to conform our behavior to arbitrary social norms. Also, I like the observation that video games can teach about characterization and story structure in ways that can later be applied to writing.

—doctorlit would game more if work allowed him the time

One agent's from an original world, the other is Lord of the Rings but overall not much fandom specific stuff necessary

...at least according to the wiki.

Under the Minecraft Entry in the PPC Wiki:

> Considering that this game has no story or plot whatsoever, it isn't surprising that the Real World people playing it, such as CaptainSparklez, SkyDoesMinecraft, AntVenom, Deadlox, the Yogscast, and Achievement Hunter (among numerous sundry others), are a greater driving force in the fandom than the actual characters and mobs are. Needless to say, pairings between YouTubers who commonly play together or are otherwise associated with each other are commonplace among fans, and fanfiction of these pairings turns up quite often, be it good or bad.

> Unfortunately, these fanfics are technically classified as Real Person Fic (despite the player avatars of the YouTubers being involved instead of themselves), and therefore cannot be sporked by PPC agents.

(Emphasis mine)

Since DSMP is IRL people playing Minecraft through avatars, they count as RPF. DSMP even is under RPF on AO3, I believe.

Apologies if this is blunt. I am not meaning to be mean.

-kA

. . . when I go into work tomorrow.

—doctorlit, excited!

Name: Dalton Darner
Species: human
Age: 13
Gender: he/him
appearance: ancestry half-Australian and half-Filipino
personality: overly excitable about seeing just about anything, talks like Steve Irwin (Wow! Look at this little beauty! Amazing!) That\s it. That's the baseline gag.
favorite character: You'll have to pick one, sorry.
Anything else is up to you.

—doctorlit, just trying to participate

So, the Dream SMP. For those that don't know, essentially, a bunch of streamers roleplay characters. But it's a bit different from typical TV, because the characters are very closely related to the streamers.

The fanbase is mostly comprised of 10-18 year olds, and bad writing is pretty rampant. But the thing is, the line between Real People and canon characters is pretty thin. They tend to go by the same name and have similar personalities, but canon characters have their own backstories and powers like a book or movie character

So yeah, I was just wondering. Would fics about the canon characters count as badfic and then ones about the Real People be still badfic but not in the PPC jurisdiction? What about ones where the character being canon or not isn't specified. Would they be sporkable?

(this isn't because I want to write a DSMP mission, this is because I have a large quantity of canon character badfic and I'm curious)

I was thinking about the popularity of Camilo. His limited screen time and lines combined with his shape-shifting ability make him easy to project onto, so that makes total sense to me.

Further, I got to thinking that I want to see Disney do a feature film starring a (human) boy who doesn't go on a warrior's journey. You know who's perfect for that? Camilo!

I want an Encanto sequel starring Camilo. I want to see this young man who can be anybody go on a journey to figure out who he wants to be. I want to see him try out everything possible and end up somewhere in the middle. I don't think Disney has the stones to have him decide to be a Camila in the end, but maybe, just maybe, we could end up with an openly enby character? Maybe he could at least kiss a(nother) boy even if he ends up with a girl (or nobody!) in the end? At the very least, he could become someone whose gift allows him to actually walk a mile in other people's shoes and develop the sort of deep empathy and compassion typically associated with women, or something like that, anyway. Just so long as he doesn't end up traditionally-masculine.

Maybe he helps break down the walls between the encanto and the outside world, maybe he just helps quarreling townsfolk who've been stuck with each other for fifty years to get along better, IDK.

Care would have to be taken to execute this story in a way that's respectful of the culture in which it takes place, but I think it could be done. The encanto is a matriarchy, anyway; there doesn't seem to be any stereotype machismo in the film, so that couldn't be a convenient straw "villain."

I said I want to see this in an Encanto sequel. It could also be the subject of a final exam fanfiction. Thought I'd put it out there. {= )

~Neshomeh

My spin-off has now been crossposted to a really neat Wix site. Putting together the page was a lot of work, but the site looks awesome in the end.

^_^

I'm currently thinking this will be around chapter 5; I don't want to drop the incest-bomb too early, and I'm figuring roughly one in two chapters will have songs, so yeah.

ALSO! Can I put in a request? It's getting way ahead of myself, but I've realised that the final song is the one sung by the students after they take their final exam - to write an Encanto fic using what they've learned - and realise that it's actually... good?

LEONOR: I just wrote something unexpected...

Any chance you can work something up (based on What Else Can I Do?) with them just... exclaiming about these new ideas they've used and how much they've come on? Feel free to attribute lines to specific people you really think should have them, but I'm also happy to do assignments on the fly to see what fits with the story.

(My only other lyric thought was that "bring it in" could easily be "read it out", quite possibly still from Mirabel.)

hS

Whoops.

Anyway, I really enjoyed this intro chapter. Leonor and Ana are gonna be really fun to be around, I can already tell. I'm excited to see where this goes! Even just looking through the signups, it'll be great fun to see where the other students go from their starting places.

I'm now extremely tempted to try and write songs from each character's perspective about what they think about the UOF and what they need to learn and so on. =]

But FYI, no presents, please. Having a Gathering is plenty of celebration for me!

~Neshomeh

So yep! Looking for beta for my Permission Request. Preferably decently knowledgeable about the PPC and good at helping writing flow, but I am really not picky and any look-over or help welcome!

Hello!

I'm looking for a beta for David's second mission, preferably someone who knows how the Flowers phrase things since they send a message to David. The canon is Harry Potter, but it doesn't play a huge role in the mission.

I think that's about it that needs to be mentioned. If ypu can, please DM me on Discord (Kittyauthor#9214) that you want to beta or that you have a question. Thank you!

-kA