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It would be really hard for her to pull that off. Since I can't think of a reason why OFUM would be so awful for her (though it would be funny if she found her partner's elvishness disturbing), I'll give up on that.

But I did think of this: she could have written a SW-YW crossover. It's stated in one of the YW books that SW was real, but I don't think the author tried to think of how that would work. It wouldn't without messing with both canons. That would be a way to get her to the SW OFU with it being something I would definitely do (I've thought about this in detail before), and still make it more interesting than usual without making her speshul. It would also connect her better to YW.

I have to know which OFU she went to because she has to have a mini.

I wrote an entire book once because I saw the movie version of Howl's Moving Castle and didn't want it to be over. (Not a very good book...) And yes, this was before I read much fanfiction.

Although our agents might end up in a tug-of-war over the Sue.

Can I ask who was your favorite character?

That must be fun to work with. Think we should try that Sue Support Group idea sometime?

I loved that book. If there is badfic... -growl- maybe our Agents could cooperate?

You don't want to get too creative. It was just an off-the-cuff idea I had since I didn't want to dash your creativity entirely. I doubt she'd ever have a sensible conversation with any canon character at an OFU unless it involved a lot of repetitions of "ow!" and "yes, I understand; no, I won't do it again".

Also, bear in mind that some people start writing agents with little to no backstory at all, and it develops as you go. You don't have to have all this detail - you don't even have to specify which OFU she went to. Just keep it plausible and avoid speshulness at all costs.

Being dead in a badfic is the reason why he can't be found in real life.

I'm with Neshomeh, if you don't want to deal with it, then don't. Usually there's enough charges in a fic to not have to deal with every tiny or major detail.

I skipped a chapter (and not mentioned it at all in the mission) a while ago because I was not in the mood to find out how FBI and NCIS interview minors. Can FBI tell they will be tried as an adult, or is that up to prosecution to decide? Can the minor legally weaver a lawyer or child advocate present during questioning? Or will the absence of both of these people get the case thrown out of court so fast the interviewers' heads will spin?

I didn't feel like doing the research, or even know where to start (my hunch that the US has a decent enough legal system that protects minors from their own stupidity is only a hunch, and not good enough to form the basis of a charge). In the next chapter, happening simultaneously with the interview, the Sue kicked some ass and I thought that was a good time to just step into the fic and charge her.

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I just remember a fic where the Sue claimed that she was given the order to assassinate someone in a motorcade. She quickly assumed it was Saddam. Agent Tasmin argued that was not possible, because two days before the fic was set the trial against Saddam had started. He therefore couldn't be at the place where the Sue said he would be. (Plus assassinating him while he's standing trial is terribly bad PR for the British military.)

I wanted to add it to the page, but couldn't track it down before I got too tired to do anything about it - we'd been working on the trimming all night. Calista must've found the thing after I turned in.

Agents Kelok and Unger's second mission Turtles?
In which Kelok and Unger must save Moriarty and Holmes from comedy gone wrong.
Beta'd by doctorlit--Thank you very much.

And their third mission Rainbow What!? NSFW, NSFB (NC-17 rated badfic)
In which Kelok and Unger learn what makes the sound "giggle, giggle, scuttle." (Now get your mind out of the gutter, and click the link.)
Beta'd by Goldenrod111--Thank you for the excellent help

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The one I'm working with at the moment keeps switching focus onto different secondary characters. They're all heavily OOC, and some of them should be dead; and the high number of OCs has to do with the story being set in a totally implausible three-years-hence future of the canon, in a different setting.

Where you'd be likely to find it is probably a fic with a lot of original characters, period--bits, Sues, doesn't matter, just so the author makes you dizzy with the sheer number of names you're trying to remember.The your agents can go on a killing spree (it'll be cathartic, right?).

...in the Sue Support Group.

If both of you are going to be writing reformed Sues who are terrified of reverting to actual Sues, you could easily co-write an interlude with a meeting of the aforementioned support group. It could be really funny. :)

As I said, I also don't like having her do something with the fandoms I'm positive I wouldn't do. I mean, my Star Wars OC is a bit powerful, but I really don't think I'd get sent to the OFU for her. I could imagine doing Young Wizards badfic, though, and LotR badfic would be easy.

Of course I'd rather it not be truly implausible. We know what that would make her.

That would save her from having to have a good theory. She could also do something to really annoy the fangirls and get chased out by them. What could that be? She does have a lust object - Glorfindel - so it couldn't just be not lusting. She's not a trickster, either, so it can't be that.

She could have a sensible conversation with Legolas about something, which would make half the other students madly jealous. Better if she (accidentally, of course) managed to make it Legolas and Aragorn. And Elrond. But I'm not sure how that would happen. They wouldn't politely listen to some theories she has about canon or ten walkers. The idea of her trying to convince Legolas she's not a luster and actually wants to talk to him about something is even better than her trying to talk to Elrond, but I'd need a logical topic.

You know, I really should have her be truly traumatized there so, more than just being embarrassed about what happened, she can actually be afraid of Lord of the Rings. And that would make her relationship with her half-elf partner (already strained because she's a former Sue) even more difficult. She was pretty unhappy at the Star Wars OFU, but if I could make the OFUM even worse... *evil grin* I will sleep on this and try to come up with some psychologically terrible or incredibly embarrassing things that could happen to her.

P.S. How do you get italics here?

I should have read that, then. I'll go back and check. Ah, I did not because it was buried in a thread. Well, your agent deals with it differently from mine, who just panics whenever she thinks she's becoming Mary Sueish, angsts a bit about being a former Mary Sue, then realizes that angsting...

Even though just "she wrote Star Wars badfic" is boring, it's also normal - and the last thing we want to do is have our agents become speshul by having implausibly unusual backstories. If you want her to have an interesting background, why not think of some funny and (for her) embarrassing things that could have happened to her at the OFU? Trying desperately to stop Elrond long enough to just explain her Tenth Walker theory is one that jumps to mind.

Fanfic authors can still request that no one host their stories on the web without their say-so. I don't personally see the difference.

I apologize for assuming. I came up with her when I first joined the Board, which was at least a couple of months ago, but I didn't ask for permission until the 24th of June. So I didn't just come up with her, technically, but I did just unleash her upon the world.

They don't specialize in a particular canon, but I've laid claim to several bad Kingdom Hearts fics, one Ender's Game story, that Final Fantasy XIII trainwreck, and I want to get some other book missions in at some point. Oh, and if anyone finds badfic for The Book Thief , there will be keyboardsmashing, capslock of rage, and a very violent mission.

You don't like people discussing the media you create on media-related sites, yet you write PPC stories, which are technically fanfic. Writing fanfic goes well beyond simply mentioning or discussing things. So... it just seems a little, well, hypocritical, although I understand the wish for control.

I really hope so. Because I don't remember knowing you, and it would be very, very odd to be connected to someone I've never even met online. Did you post on my welcome thread? Did I post on yours? Did you ask for permission recently? When did you actually come up with the idea? I started creating my agents right away, so a month ago. Of course, it seems like a logical thing for a reformed Sue to do, so I think we can assume it was entirely independently.

So what fandom are you doing? If we never meet up otherwise, we could have some party together where they can commiserate.

But I just created an agent with a terror of regressing to Suedom. I'm probably being really silly about this, but it made me twitch enough to want to make sure that it's only a case of accidental telepathy and you thought of that independently. Right?

I figured it out already. The responses appear in reverse order of a logical flow.

It'd have to be a really bad one, like the TOS with the female parallel-Fellowship. (Not genderswitch, a whole 'nother basically-the-Fellowship. ARGH mental image... Bleeprin, please?)

Although a lot of my original fics come from AU fanfic ideas. Eventually I decide, "Screw it, this is too weird. Original!" Sometimes it's even a not-so-implausible fanfiction idea, and I wind up with something I have to tweak heavily to avoid uncomfortable association with canon. (Or at least, a really common fanfiction idea. There's this one fandom I've written for in which a ghost character is consistently resurrected. I did that, but wound up using an OC, so I switched his history around and made it original. I'm rambling now; I think I'll stop.)