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Gus can just switch up the order of words he's remembered, so he can still mimic people fairly well; he just needs to hear more of them. Actually, that's a point. Is it retroactive? If not, he could just watch Encanto again on a laptop by completely legal means and then be able to perfectly mimic most of the main cast, with expansions on vocabulary added as and when.

I based the title off of Rescue Bots Academy, though (which then begs the question: what would the OFU of RBA be called? Would it be a division of RBAF? Would it be The Secondary Academy for Fanfiction? I guess it would be up to whoever decides to write an RBA OFU, which probably wouldn't be me).

Still fiddling with the sign up form, but I should have it done soon (am currently doing Stats homework, but that doesn't take too long).

-kA who also needs to read an English book for Lit. Circles on Friday (if there is in-person learning, of course) as well

Name: Martha (usually goes by Marty and gets irritated when told that's pretty atypical yes she knows that stop telling her)

Student age: 14

Student appearance & gender: Short and stocky, with close-cropped and wildly curly brown hair that frizzes in the heat. She keeps it tied back with a bandana and usually dresses very tomboyishly. Caucasian skin, brown eyes. Marty's nonbinary but hasn't figured it out yet, so she/her pronouns.

Student personality: Loud, opinionated, and when she latches onto an idea it takes a lot to persuade her otherwise.

Miracle: (Wow that would've been good to remember I needed) Marty can conjure a light at the tip of her finger. Its best use is as a reading light under the covers.

Anything Else: Marty likes to say she's got a massive crush on Camilo but secretly wishes she had his miracle. She doesn't want to think too much on why. She wrote a self-insert Mary Sue who turned up at Casita with the same powers and had a terribly written romance that threw the poor canon wildly OOC with his soppy declarations of love. While her grasp on grammar is solid, her storytelling abilities... leave a lot to be desired.

She speaks enough Spanish to follow the gist of a conversation but is nowhere near fluent; funnily enough the Spanish in her fanfic was one of the few redeeming points of it because she got a friend who is fluent to make sure she had it correct.

A simple look at the Lunar New Year red envelope haul at HQ this year:

From the top down:

• Liu Siyuan is pretty old-school, so he gives leftover Chanukah gelt in a pretty standard red envelope.
• Zing’s DMS archivist Zimra gives out those strawberry candies (the ones frequently spotted in close proximity to grannies) in a festively punny red envelope
• Someone from the Department of Finance is red-green colourblind and also has a cruel sense of humour. FlowerBucks are not legal tender. (I liked the Monopoly money idea, Hidaney, but I reckoned some agents might actually get paid in that, so I had to make something even more useless.)
• Agents Doc and Vania quickly realised that DnD dice are also kinda expensive…
• Zing’s DOI agent Adrian enjoys this terrible pun. It’s based on 年年有余 (may you have plenty each year). The last word, plenty (yǘ), is homophonic with fish (yǘ). Hence, may you have (Swedish) fish each year.

Thanks to people who suggested red envelope content ideas!

I mean, OFUM and HFA ran at the same time; you can't get better precedent than that!

More importantly, signing up for an OFU takes... what, ten minutes? Fifteen? People aren't going to shy away just because there's a second one in town. Is that Transformers: Rescue Bots? The kids used to watch that for a bit, so I would totally craft a student to send into it.

hS

No, I meant a completely different canon. I was gonna do my RBAF (Rescue Bots Academy for Fanfiction), not an Encanto OFU. Sorry for the confusion on my end.

I didn't want two OFUs running at the same time because... for some reason, I don't exactly recall now. I think it was because of the signups.

Again, sorry for the confusion!

-kA

(Edit: Spelling)

Is Japanese slang for "huge sadist". Can also be called just S (sadist). The opposite is M (masochist) or do-M (huge masochist). Both carry fetishistic undertones.

Gus can speak freely in his own voice. He just can't freely imitate others, only parrot back what he's heard them say.

—doctorlit doctorlit

For being based on such a simple, straightforward romance fic, you're certainly constructing an intriguing mission here!

I love that your narrator got even more snarky towards the agents when the script format arrived, like it felt emboldened by being on a more equal level with the characters! I also really enjoyed Ishitani's speech about what unhealthy sorts of things people can be conditioned to tolerate when consuming romance in fiction. What is the "do-S" he mentions, though? I can't find anything through searching but a One-Punch Man character.

There's one sentence with an awkward structure:
"This man she barely knew and she was nowhere near fond of, but . . ."
You've got the "object" (the man) before the "subject" (Momoka) that's acting on it. It would work better as:
"She barely knew this man, and she was nowhere near fond of him, but . . ."

—doctorlit suspects something about Ishitani's identity, but doesn't want to say anything for fear of ruining the surprise for other readers

Who's only capable of repeating what someone else has said.

If you're interested in collaborating I'm open to that...? I only actually have a solid idea of the first two chapters, plus a few lesson ideas thereafter. I can email you the link to my working document if you're interested (it's mostly bios right now; I've only written about a third of a chapter).

Or, I'd be perfectly happy for there to be two OFUEncantos, though preferably under different names. They could even cross over - I'm not sure whether it would be funnier for them to be parallel universes (with two sets of the canon characters meeting up), or just... hey, turns out they've been running a second school on the other side of Casita, you just never noticed before.

(Or or, we could theoretically have one OFU with two fics, focussing on different students. They wouldn't have to cover the same lessons and events, but equally could do so. I put this one in brackets because I suspect for you it would be the worst of all worlds, though I think it would be pretty cool.)

hS

I know we turned off the permanent invite a while back because of some trolls, but ... how are we planning to invite the newbies into the chat?

However, some of the pages are stubs. Regardless, there probably are a few missions for those badfics that aren't documented on the wiki. Even if the missions don't exist, then the MSTs should still be listed on the wiki.

                                                                                                         Paradox

That page is more for fanfictions that are notorious in real world fandom spaces, rather than information that's known in-universe by PPC characters. Whether all of them ever get missions written is just dependent on whether any Boarders figure out ways to make them funny and entertaining.

—doctorlit wishes more of the Marrissa Picard missions had survived to the modern day . . .

Student name: Gus. The Spanish would be Augusto, but I'm sure Gus would love if it just got pronounced under typical Spanish phonetics as "Goose."

Student age: 16

Student appearance & gender: Short brown hair, Caucasian skin, five feet tall, green eyes. Preppy collared shirts only, glasses for nearsightedness. He/him.

Student personality: Studious, serious, analytical.

Miracle: The ability to "play back" from his mouth spoken dialogue he's heard, including an exact impression of the speaker's voice. (But only repeating things he's heard; can't make up new dialogue in someone else's voice.)

Anything else: Gus is a film reviewer on YouTube, but his videos are always dry and serious academic analyses; they're not very fun to watch. He admires Luisa for her strong work ethic . . . he may not quite grasp the real meaning behind "Surface Pressure" . . . He's probably taking some Spanish classes in high school, but isn't fully fluent.

—doctorlit wears himself some preppy collared shirts, loves him them preppy collared shirts

Student Name: Alexandra (Alejandra) ffinch. That's not a typo. The double f is in place of a capital and is common in English surnames, particularly those of posh twerps whose ears are sensitive to the upper case.

Student Age: 19

Student Appearance and Gender: 6'1", long, thick, dark blonde hair that's mostly tangles, brown eyes, very heavy pear-shaped figure. She wears slip-on shoes and bulky, shapeless clothes. She/they pronouns.

Student Personality: Dejected, haughty, disdainful of the Casa and its magic powers. The kind of person whose response to being sung a song about friendship by Mister Blue Bird Of Happiness would be to lace some breadcrumbs with cyanide. Does she have depression? Yes! Is she medicated? No! This may go some way to explaining why she's Like This.

Miracle: Can levitate herself about six inches off the ground for a few seconds no it's not jumping it's different.

Anything Else: Alexandra doesn't really care for the film at all, and wrote a deliberately bad fanfic to mock the premise. This fic became hugely popular, spawning a small hatedom community and bountiful memes. She therefore tried to earnestly write a fic that critiqued the film from an in-universe perspective... and that fic turned out even worse, because even though she was really trying hard, it became a really dull essay instead of a fic. She thinks she was dragged into the UOF for the first fic mentioned, but it's actually for the second; I get the impression that the UOF ignores trolls but sensed something else in Alexandra with the second one. She doesn't speak a word of Spanish, LatAm or otherwise; she can do French and a little bit of GCSE Latin, but that's about it.

So, I was looking at the Legendary Badfics page on the wiki, and found that a lot of the example entries had no missions listed. Could someone take a look?

What if the out of place name was actually intended? for example, in dialog, a character accidentally pronounces a name and corrects itself (or doesn't), or in a first-person story, the narrator accidentally says a name. Also, what would happen in a first-person story if the author accidentally puts a given name in the narrator's dialog? Finally, why waffles? Is there any particular reason?

                                                                                          Paradox

Student name: Amber Grey. Ámbar looks to be the Spanish version of the name.

Student age: 16

Student appearance & gender: White skin and light blue eyes with long red hair. Has freckles across her nose, spilling onto the tops of her cheeks. She/he/they (she's genderfluid) but she is usally what she uses.

Student personality: Energetic, naïve about certain things, kind (not likely to provoke someone into a fight nor say anything super mean), but gets lost in her own thoughts easily and is shy.

Miracle: Able to run into any (and every) door and not get super injured.

Anything Else: A writer of fluff, but doesn't understand character dynamics. Probably her greatest sin is her error-ridden story that she promptly took down once people at school found out. Clueless about Latin American culture, and the only Spanish words she knows are "hola," "si," and "no."

You see, I was thinking about starting an OFU of my own, but now I would feel bad of two OFUs ran at the same time.

-kA

I was running out of ideas a little and there's a lot of song left, so might just leave it there unless there's something else that needs to be told in song form? I am all for adding verses if there is more exposition!

Oh, and I've got a student for ya!

Student name: Sophie. Could easily be made into Sofía, but definitely best not to let Sophie name herself! She knows nothing about Spanish.
Student age: 20
Student appearance & gender: She/her. 5’7, red hair with the complexion that matches that so flushes easily, from exertion, embarrassment, excitement or just heat. The Colombian jungle will not be kind to her. She dresses for comfort but loves the clothing in Encanto, even if she has no idea what anything is called.
Student personality: Very, very excited to be here. It’s all so colourful and pretty, and musical interludes are so great!
Miracle: Can fall asleep anywhere.
Anything Else: Does she know anything about Latin American culture? No! Does she speak Spanish? Absolutely not! Does she do even the tiniest bit of research? No! She is a creature powered by enthusiasm and her stories make it very clear that she has no idea that things can be different in other places. She learned that arepas existed by watching the movie, but she doesn’t know what they actually are. (Is it like a bread or a fruit? Eh, it's not super important to the story so she's not even googling that.) She's from the UK, so writing that Crunchie bars are Antonio's favourite makes perfect sense!
Oh, and her favourite character is Dolores. She writes a lot of Dolores/Mariano and would like very much to see them kiss.

Student Name: Xochitl Bowman

Student age: 16

Student appearance and gender: Xochitl is 5 feet 4 inches tall and kind of skinny. She almost always wears jeans, sneakers and a t-shirt, and tends to grumble when forced to wear dresses or skirts. She is mixed up about the whole business of gender, and uses they/them pronouns.

Personality: She is generally nice and friendly, but she gets very cranky when she is hungry.

Miracle: She can see in the dark, but becomes very nearsighted when she does it.

She can speak a decent amount of Spanish because of taking lots of classes and practicing at home with her mom. She mostly writes poemfics and sometimes original poetry.