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Most of the characters there are likely to be adults. If she comes along, she can bring Moses - he'll be two or three (he was born in September - Molly doesn't know her birthday so they celebrate the day she was rescued, which was the day before Moses was born) but likely won't be talking much yet, I intend to have him start speaking quite late.

Your reply was pushed off before I saw it. Thanks for telling me I didn't make a muck up.

...I am allowed to do that, am I not?

1) Yeah, it is what it is, I don't know if you're allowed to get a mini-thestral just because you think it's cool. Sorry.

eventhough the two lightningbolts could be good as well.

The SGverse has problems in every military aspect you can think of - starting with mentioned insubordination (most pronounced in SG-1) continuing through trigger discipline (don't get me started on that - eventhough there was a good story about Joe Flannigan(Sheppard) annoying the hell out of producers by wasting expensive ammo ;-)) and ending in the teams' absolute incompetence in taking cover (not even mentioning the jaffa tactics of "rolling over the hill and letting ourselves get killed by thousands").

However I didn't think only about the SG, that was just an example. I was thinking more along the lines "what if I know something is wrong, but the original author wrote it that way" (eg. being from Czech Republic, I know some authors would put my inland country to the seaside or make other geographical aberations).

I like the idea of the English flag or some other subtle way to solve it ;-)

I'm more familiar with SGA than with SG-1, having only seen the odd episode of the latter. Haven't noticed much insubordination, but that's probably because the military presence in SGA is less strong: in the first three seasons only one main character was military. He usually ended up having arguments with people who were not subordinate to him in the first place, and therefor could not be insubordinate.

Sues that claimed to have a military background (along with their scientific background, as do the characters from SG, but not the characters from SGA) were charged with insubordinace when they were. For instance, when showing up late for a meeting because of a bet or when a captain argued with Shepard that he gave her a small gun when giving everyone else a P90. Other military characters (or scientists for that matter) wouldn't have gotten away with that kind of behaviour, and thus neither should the Sue.

That's what we do: point out that the Sue is getting away with behaviour that the characters would not let others get away with.

As for fixing things that are wrong on the show: it has annoyed me to no end that Carson Beckett had a Scottish flag on his sleeve, while all the other personnel from the UK had the union flag on their sleeve. When my agents first did a mission in SGA I drew attention to that point by giving one of my agents the flag of England on her sleeve and have her argue against that.

If it ends up being a rubin vase, though, I think it should be an odd-shaped one--maybe with a unicorn horn, or something. If possible.

~Neshomeh + $0.02

1)You are probably right but I was not thinking about leaving the arachnophobia unexploited...I just really wanted a mini and a mini-thestral would be cool ;-) plus, my reasoning was, that if the continuum tries to protect the agents, it might be possible for it to change the appearance of a mini in order for it to be taken away by the agents...Plus most other minis are just a miniaturized version of a canonical creature which doesn't have a real life counterpart. Whereas the mini-Aragog is just an big-ass spider...so in a way it yould be fair for the continuum to have a more "unique" mini. Anyway, I'll make the most of it however it plays out ;-)

2)OK, thanks for clarification.

3)I thought about that only because I have found one particular example of badfic - Gary Stu infested Potterverse into which couple of characters from another (quarantined) universe have been pulled to play bits. I would really like to do that as a mission, I just wasn't sure how.

Derik can be either dark and broody or affable and pleasant, though reserved. If the former, he's unlikely to talk much, but rather sit with his arms folded and just glower at everyone. He might be convinced to mutter something about how Sues are a parasite and need to be flamed out of the skies, and he might scoff at people who are queasy about killing. In better headspace, he still feels the same way about Sues, but he'll admit to being worried by those dark fits, and he would apologize for anything mean he might have said in previous meetings. He suspects that having been based on the Phantom of the Opera is responsible, and he might joke about needing to be packed off to FicPsych, pronto, if he ever starts talking in the third person.

Whether Ilraen is actually nominated to lead a meeting or not, he'll naturally fall to keeping order if necessary. He's generally friendly and will try to get along with everyone. He might inquire after Sedri to Iza, assuming he knows that they were partners--Sedri helped out on one of his and Nume's missions. His biggest concern these days is self-confidence. He's been doing his job long enough to feel like he ought to know what he's doing, but his latest big mistake has shaken him. He also worries about his partner, who still seems strange and unreachable even three years on, and is hitting the Bleepka more heavily than usual lately. Despite having been reassured that Nume is just like that, he is afraid that it's something about himself keeping Nume from confiding in him.

~Neshomeh

...I've posted my introduction couple weeks ago so it has fallen from the first page before the Spambot crisis. After that I have been a little too busy to be around. Hopefully I will rectify that now ;-)

Reduced to three:
-- A rubin vase
-- Twin lighting bolts striking the same spot
-- A mirror (presumably an image of a mirror and not an actual mirror)

...frankly, if the badfic was covering a quarantined continuum, then it probably should not be there at all. If you wanted to list "unauthorized use of a quarantined continuum" as a charge and then untangle the two botched-up stories, then that is one way to do it, but you may need to put up a big ol' disclaimer stating that you meant no harm to the writer or their story. Or, as Callista stated, you could just say it's a heavily plagiarized alternate continuity.

Additionally, are you new? I don't think I've seen any posts from you before this.

1. Your agent is an arachnophobe, and you're even thinking of not taking advantage of the possible hilarity?! No! Don't change the mini! Of course, your agent doesn't have to adopt one, nor do you have to describe the mini anywhere past "a Mini-Aragog", nor do you even have to state that a mini has been generated... but this is potentially a cool thing. Your agent has to face her fears--does she turn into a little quivering ball, does she get violent and take it out on the badfic, does she hide behind her partner, does she eventually figure out that, "Yeah, I hate the creepy little things, but there are worse things in the world"? You have an opportunity for character development here. Don't waste it! (Also don't magically cure the phobia the first time she sees a mini-Aragog. That's just cheap.)
   
   2. Each continuum has its own rules. If insubordination is relatively normal in that continuum, it's not a charge. Similarly, having unusually colored hair in many anime continua wouldn't be a Sue trait, because so many characters do. But if it's over-the-top for the Sue's position or the situation, it can still be a charge.
   
   3. I hadn't thought of that. The way we have it now with quarantined continua, the characters from the quarantined continuum could only be character replacements, because the author can't access the true version of the quarantined continuum; so in this case it's not really an Implausible Crossovers fic at all. The idea of quarantine is there because we need an "excuse" not to PPC stories set in banned worlds (i.e., the author has banned all fanfic, so his continuum doesn't need protection). I would say that, to preserve that reasoning, the best way to resolve it would probably be, "When a fanfic author attempts to access a quarantined continuum for any reason, he is blocked and must create his own continuum. All characters within this continuum are essentially original characters, though heavily plagiarized."

1) A mini- question: In Potterverse the established mini- is mini-acromantula. Since I am arachnofobic and plan to make my agent even more so, I was wondering, could I possibly change the mini-creature in my missions and have mini-thestrals instead? On the whole I think they would be much cuter than a spider...

2) Continuum question: If there is something wrong in the original continuum (like non-military military in SG), should we stick to that standard or should the agents "fix" even that while in the continuum (eg. if a Sue is insubordinate, which is quite a normal trait in SG characters, should it go to the charge list)?

3) Implausible Crossovers question: If there is a crossover between a continuum where fanfic is allowed by the original author and one where it isn't (and that crossover is a badfic) should we leave it alone or can we send agents to untangle it, provided we leave the "non-fanfic continuum" more or less alone?

Maybe there are answers to those questions somewhere, but I didn't find them, so I would appreciate any and all help you can give me ;-)

Chill, dude. I responded to your post way down there-- I got them, am looking at them. No need for a new page-kicking topic.

Though hey, while we're here, anybody else need a syntax/spelling/grammar beta? I can't guarantee all canons, but as far as the English Language goes, I'd be happy to help anybody out.

I'm always game for PokéSue murder.

There are two ways you could go depending on the tone you want.

First and most basic is her antisocial behavior. She's cold and withdrawn for most of the time and has a very difficult time opening up to people.

The second route is more related to her origins as a Organization XIII member (from Kingdom Hearts). The Org has a certain... reputation for proclivity within the fan community. Let's just say there's a reason the fanbrats refer to it as 'Orgy XIII.' While most PPC agents don't believe it, there have been enough giggled comments and rumors to bother the normally stoic Nobody.

Did you get my files? No hurry if you did but I'd like to check I sent them correctly.