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I now want an icon with the words "Mary Sues make small children cry" on it.

(As a chemist, seeing '250mg sodium hypochlorite' on the bleeprin packet gave me chills. Chills.)

You did a really good job of translating the mission into comic format. I know you said you spliced an interlude and mission together, but it was a seamless merger. I think you did a good job of handling the objectionable nature of the badfic: as you said in the notes, shifting the focus to the agents really worked well.

Also: eeee Corolla, not only the best character but also has the best wings. ^_~

Now, as to 'first'... it's definitely the first translation of an existing mission into comic form, and the first comic mission into an actual badfic.

Whether it's the first overall PPC-mission-as-comic depends on whether you count Generic Surface: Breathing Space (in which Dafydd, Selene, Narto, and Lou kill Darth Kagai) and Jay and Acacia (a First Reader's picturebook, here seen read to a small child; it looks like I need to get the PDF back up). I think the latter definitely doesn't count, but the former... maybe. The production quality on yours is much higher, whichever way you look at it!

hS

Yes, you read that right. Today is exactly 15 years that I started the first story featuring my current characters. That's... a lot.

So I thought it was time for a celebratory post, also including a nice extra in the form of what might be the first full PPC mission in comic form! (Please correct me if I'm wrong.)

Yes, I took one of my old missions, and taking advantage of the thing I use for The World without Authors illustrations I remade it into a comic. I hope you'll enjoy it!

As usual for "extra" posts, the post itself comes in Wordpress and Tumblr flavour, so feel free to choose the platform that is more comfortable for you to read and comment.

Wowee wow, that fic was not what I was expecting. I only know Castlevania from Super Smash Bros., so I was expecting all kind of like, spooky places and cool monsters and whatnot. But this fic sure focused on an awful lot of talking and walking. Disappointing. (Not that that's the fault of your mission at all, Iximaz, just, wow. Wild.)

But that made your agents stand out even more! I love literally all the dialogue you wrote between Charlotte and Ix; they have such an easygoing, flirty familiarity to their banter, and it reminds me to never attempt any romance writing, because wow, that is beyond me, I think. They're super-cute together and the care they feel for each other is so plain in every exchange. Makes for an excellent reversal of whatever kind of relationship is supposed to be going on between Belmont and Your Name Here, Esquire in the fic, too. Two characters "having chemistry" isn't supposed to mean they're constantly fuming and blowing up . . . Anyway, what I liked the most was that Ix had been hiding Castlevania from Charlotte out of worry that the content would make her uncomfortable. That kind of quiet thoughtfulness for the partner reminds me of my mom and dad, actually.

Typos? (Language warning, if anyone other than Iximaz bothers to read my typo lists!??!?!)

This first is a consistency thing, although it depends on whether there's a difference between "arse" and "ass." I don't actually know myself, I always thought they were interchangeable. But anyway, at one point, Ix says, "'Real classy, slapping arses without consent.'" But later, Ix says, ". . . Trevor’s dragged her sorry ass outside . . ." Just wanted to point it out in case it wasn't intentional.

"'All she’s done is copy canon and pissed off Trevor.'"
"Pissed" should be "piss" there, to match the tense of "copy" earlier.

"'He really doesn’t seem too fond of her, does she?'"
Mr. Belmont swapping genders mid-dialogue, there!

—doctorlit had SSBU Castlevania remixes stuck in his head the whole time

I read it and I like it.

The part where Trevor turned into a literal manbaby made me snicker. I imagine it'd be super ridiculous if he looked like that the whole mission.

I liked this bit because of the double meaning:

“She is hot.”

“I think that’s just the fire magic.” Ix laughed when Charlotte turned an incredulous look on her. “But yeah, I agree. Hot.”

I also liked the part where Ix disguised herself as Dracula. It's my first time seeing an agent disguise themself as a canon character but that may be because I haven't read one of the older missions where someone actually did.

There were other things I liked, like the line about the Sue having purple eyes that could see through hands.

Anyway, nice mission!

--Ozzielot

but I was watching this recipe video and can't help but wonder: what do wolfberries taste like? Osmanthus flowers for that matter?

Just finished the mermaid mission (yay!) and I need a beta to check over grammar, spelling, and how the story flows since it was (basically) completed in two different sessions.

Easiest way to contact me is my discord, so message me if you'd like to beat my mission.

Edit: Spell check hates the word beta for reasons unknown. Caught the one in the paragraph I wrote about the mission, but not the title. Oops.

-kA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fg5jsKl3lbQ

Boromir looked sort of like the Roger Delgado Master, I thought.

...is how little she suits the tone of the show. She just seems like the kind of glitterbag you see in literally every canon, flouncing around and being the Best Wizard or Coolest Demigod, and then she plops herself into the grimness of Castlevania and starts going "hey guys! I'm cool and edgy too! Watch me brutally murder some people! Haha, I can swear!"

also did she turn sypha white? that's what I got out of her suddenly being blonde. so much confusion.

Heyo! Ooh, good to see more Danganronpa fans- I'm currently partway through the second game, but I loved the first.

Here, have a glass frog!

This definitely was good. casually sweeps my two WIP missions under the rug It helped me calm down after getting frustrated at the TI link program thingy for not recognizing my calculator for some reason.

Anywho, didn't recognize the canon but still loved the mission.

-kA, who's still frustrated at calculator stuff but less so.

Update: Finally figured it out. Installing the new OS now.

I'm not at all familiar with the canon, but I really loved Ix and Charlotte's banter.

Right away, I'm going to have to say Permission denied. Your agent bios look fine, but like the other commenters mentioned, your prompts are much too short and undetailed to really get a feel for how your characters would interact at length. I don't have a way to really compare the agents depicted in your prompts to the ones you tell me about in the bios.

Additionally, despite the short length, it took me far too long to get through the writing samples because of excessively long paragraphs; line breaks are your friends.

The tone also felt a bit... flat? Because of the shortness of the prompts, you had to resort to a lot of telling and not showing, so those paragraphs feel like a choppy laundry list of things happening rather than describing the scene.

The characters themselves look solid, and you have a good handle on SPaG, so just rewrite your prompts and I think you'll be okay.

The show's definitely not for everybody, but I'm glad Ix and Charlotte's interactions were able to keep your attention. And there will definitely be more of them in the future, not to worry!

Ix and Charlotte are probably my favorite PPC couple :). And while I don’t know the characters or how they should act, I can tell the Sue’s a real nasty piece of work. Overall I love it! Can’t wait to see more of Ix and Charlotte in the future!

Yeah, the main thing I wanted to get across for this fic was making sure people not familiar with it could understand what was so awful—hence Charlotte not being familiar with it either so I had an excuse to show why it was so bad. :P Glad that it was able to do that for someone not familiar with the canon!

Thanks for the review—I'm glad the mission got some laughs out of you. :)

• Ix being concerned about the vampire hunter thing is adorable
• Heck, Ix and Lotte's opening is great
• As is the joint pain remark
• And Charlotte liking the dresses
• The 'respect women juice' remark section gave me a sense of the problem even though I didn't know the canon
• Charlotte's light teasing around the January thing is a nice touch
• "maybe her purple eyes let her see through hands" :)
• @fic, that sure is some plagiarism, alright
• "maybe we should've packed anti-lustin" - yeah, that sounds right for someone who started as one of your self-inserts going into this fic
• Getting stuck in italics was a nice gag
• The grin that was more like teeth baring is a nice bit of description
• No, don't tempt the ironic overpower! (but at least Ix brought her knee brace)
• I laughed at the spawn camping line
• In general, these two make a very cute couple
• I'd like to congratulate the Sue on pasting herself into canon without much forethought
• Bird disguises are a good call, and I don't think I've seen it used much
• Marshmellows are a good call
• Ix disguising herself as Dracula was a good idea
• Good luck getting DoSAT to not be annoyed
• And seeing the canons resisting was cool
• I wonder what that very last bit at the end was about ...

Overall, this was a good mission. I got a sense of what the problems with the story were (even though I don't know the canon), there weren't walls of badfic, and there was lots of good interaction between Ix and Charlotte, both in terms of funny banter and cute couple stuff. I enjoyed reading this and look forward to more.

See, she's supposed to be the daughter of Shadowfax, right? So she's from Rohan. Would she actually be inclined toward Sindarin, or would she be more inclined toward Rohirric Westron? Should I be drawing on Old English for names given by her? {X D

Really, you could make a case for anything depending on how those nanites of hers work. So maybe the question is what Makes-Things would think of when programming them. If the idea was to fit her out as an agent, maybe, far from merely making her telepathic, he loaded her with all the major languages of Arda! She's a walking translator!

~Neshomeh, laughing.

Getting to write these two in their exasperatedly happily wedded agent life was a lot of fun. And man, this Sue... she was infuriating on a whole 'nother level for me. Just so smug and treated everyone like they were beneath her. Blegh.

I'm glad you liked the bit with the trio at the end! It was partially for my own catharsis, partially also wanting to include some proper banter between them after the Sue butchered their lines before.

Thanks for the review!

Seeing Ix and Charlotte in their outlandish form of domestic bliss is honestly quite nostalgic for me- it felt like sinking into a warm bath, almost. So much so that I may have stayed up a bit too late. I mean, after the Sue was introduced I just couldn't wait until morning to see her executed. Also, I enjoyed the Trio's banter, and their not entirely inaccurate unanimous consensus that she was a succubus. Mission, woo!