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I'm another person who's kinda here to improve their writing ability, and I like making characters, too.

Aside from that, not much for me to say.

Fair winds!

I'm a fanfiction writer named Elemarth. I like making original characters and avoiding canon characters because it's hard to keep to canon, especially in Star Wars, where I don't really know much EU canon (and think 3/4 of it is ridiculous). I read Star Wars, Young Wizards, and Lord of the Rings fanfics and have written at least one story for each and one crossover with all three and Harry Potter. It's not terrible, either, though you would protest at its lack of canon (especially for HP). Romance is not a major thing in my stories, either, so I escape typical badfic that way.

I am a history student in college. I intend to be a high school teacher and an author (though I'm not taking creative writing classes). I've been writing seriously since I was twelve and wrote my first fanfiction (the crossover) when I was fourteen, though I had been making up (usually Mary Sue) original characters since I was... maybe five. Definitely six, when I watched The Lion King. I love creating characters and worlds but am not very good at forming plots yet. I loathe bad grammar speling,

paragraph breaks, and so forth......

I also like to write long posts. ^_^

I am interested in Star Wars Improbable AU with maybe some Young Wizards on the side (the stories there are generally brief and not really worth PPCing). Lord of the Rings has enough agents already. Of course, I have to get time to write fanfiction again, so it might be two or three months before I do anything (I'm desperately trying to finish an original fiction series). I do have agent ideas, though.

Questions:
Who has read the Star Wars OFU? It's been taken down. I'm curious what was in it and who the mini-Rancors were. I want to claim a mini-Rancor called Anikin because that's the only SW mispelling I distinctly remember having done myself... multiple times.

Also, Improbable AUs don't have to include original characters, do they? Because I'm pretty sure most in the SW fandom don't, but they still need PPCing.

I'm not 100% sure about this, but maybe it would work for you to pick up the A/V Division where Adam and Frenchie left off. Since A/V is the home of the Cryptomusic Archives, and their directive is to collect audio and video footage from throughout the PPC-surveyed multiverse, the songfic thing might fit in there. That would eliminate the need for the fic in question to be killable, just as long as it's strange and interesting.

Thoughts?

~Neshomeh

An alignment is simply a label you can put onto a character after you have created him and evaluated him. It does not determine his behavior; his personality determines his behavior. It can change as the character changes. And its only purpose, other than being shorthand for describing a character's code of ethics (or lack thereof), is to determine how spells affect him, which afterlife he goes to, and whether or not he shows up on the Detect Alignment radar.

This has been a public service message from the Committee for the Prevention of D&D Cliches. Thank you for your time.

:P

Since the stated goals of the PPC as an organization are to preserve the status quo in a specific way by fairly specific means, that makes it Lawful Neutral.

Individual agents, on the other hand, are driven by their own unique motives. My Agent Supernumerary may be one of the few whose alignment is the same as the organization, since I'd hardly call him Evil, Good, or Chaotic. He's basically Doing What Needs Doing because It Needs To Be Done and Someone Has To Do It. His partner Ilraen, on the other hand, is definitely Good, since he wants to help people as much as possible. I don't think he's quite settled on the Law-Chaos scale yet, though. As he becomes a more independent person, we'll see.

Agent Derik is firmly Lawful Good. He truly believes he is eradicating a deadly parasite from the multiverse, protecting the lives of countless people. Agent Earwig is a kender, which makes him Chaotic by definition. Since he's basically along because he likes Derik and wants to be helpful (in addition to racking up the Frequent Flier Miles), I guess that makes him Chaotic Good.

Nurse Jenni tries very hard to be True Neutral, preserving the balance in any way necessary, but she has very strong Good tendencies. For instance, she has and will never kill anyone, even a Sue (though she doesn't mind letting it happen), and prefers to avoid negative physical contact of any kind at all.

Evil comes from acting without regard for others, so anyone who's in it just because they like killing things is probably Evil. Whether they're Lawful or Neutral (I agree that the dangerous Chaotic ones probably get kicked out pretty quickly) depends on whether they're doing it because they think they're serving a purpose or just themselves. To me, Evil is always selfish. That's why it's so easy for Good and Neutral to slip if they forget whose interests they're supposed to be serving.

~Neshomeh

I love Danny and Laura. They're so much fun together. And it was nice to see Laura's gentler side for once.

People who don't do research make me mad. Google is a lovely tool and more people should learn how to use it. -sigh-

--anamia

Laura and Danny take a trip into the Left 4 Dead universe to stop a Survivor!Stu with no clue of how the real military works. Contains violence and bad language.

http://vgdivision.livejournal.com/1244.html

I actually had the same issue about two months back, when I was thinking about the idea. I put the question up to the Board, and Neshomeh told me that since a department of songfics would police a specific type of badfic, it could probably stand on its own. However, the Kryptonian hails from Floaters...I was thinking he could be the expert on multiple continuums, while Grace is the music whiz.

Yeah, he's run into that...it's why he doesn't tear doors of their hinges on a more regular basis. He gets in trouble a lot for taking off his disguise during missions, but so far he's been discreet enough only to to so when the Sue won't notice.

Already in the name link, but...

cronosonic2000@yahoo.com.au

I know, really old username. But eh.

Great! I'll just need your email address so I can send you the rough.

It also helps that I very much am a fan of Left 4 Dead. Both games. This'll be entertaining.

My second Danny/Laura mission is finished. I just need a second pair of eyes to give it a look-through. Knowledge of the Left 4 Dead universe would be extremely helpful.

Just from what I've seen so far, I'd qualify the PPC organization as more Lawful Neutral than anything else. While the agents themselves may do a lot of chaotic things from time to time, they are doing it in order to preserve literary order. Whether a Sue is good or evil doesn't matter into it; they are disturbing the stability of reality and so must be removed.

Individual agents are probably all over the spectrum, except maybe for Chaotic Evil. Maybe.

Welcome to the Board. Please deposit your sanity in the provided receptacle. *indicates bucket marked "Warg Fodder"* You shan't need it here. Also, here's a bag of giant peanuts.
What are your favorite anime?

Buffy Summers, Vampire Slayer.

Xena, Warrior Princess.

Samus, bounty hunter.

Susan Pevensie, formerly Queen of Narnia.

The PPC Agents on here.

I'd list more, but I've been typing some other stuff up. I really don't wanna get carpal tunnel syndrome.

It depends who - the more bloodthirsty Agents would be different to the peaceful ones, for example.

Maybe. I can certainly see it. The argument would have to be one of basic practicality - how do you pick what badfics go to the Songfic Department rather than somewhere else, and how do you ensure the agents working there can handle everything thrown their way? If the fics in question were 80% song and 20% prose, that would make sense, but then it might be hard to charge them for anything other than "lack of plot".

Calista has a point. A subdivision of Floaters would make the most sense.

Probably closer to Good than Evil, but we're hardly saints and no one's going to pretend otherwise.

Volunteering... probably not, considering that perfectly well-tested jetpacks exist in various continua and can just be swiped. In general - I don't think there's much in the way of 'volunteering' done, but if a particular agent is interested in developing gadgets, maybe. Why do you ask?

If you're going to send people into songfics, then it'd best be generalists who can handle many continua, because songfics get written for just about anything; and that means Floaters. But there are only so many agents who can handle the constant Chinese water torture of songfics, so it makes sense to gather them. That's my take, anyhow.

BTW, your Kryptonian is going to be disappointed to realize that HQ doesn't have a yellow sun, as it's entirely indoors. So he'll only be able to recharge his powers when he's in an appropriate continuum, on a planet with a yellow sun, undisguised.

Laburnum and Foxglove, for example, I'd peg as Chaotic Neutral and smart enough to realise it, so they joined an organisation which could direct their less Good urges to a useful cause.

I'd guess Skyfire started out in VQ as Lawful Neutral, then switched to Lawful Good after she discovered exactly how far Longclaws was willing to go on the Evil spectrum. Now she's the Morality Chain for the rest of my gang.

Stormsong ... hard to say, but I'd peg him as True Neutral. He didn't really seem to object to what the Nighthunt were doing until they started doing it to HIM, and now he's mostly a decent guy but was willing to Cruciate a Sue (who admittedly had just made him spend two days transformed into a woman).

Molly is probably too young to tell the difference between Evil and Neutral, but she's undeniably Chaotic.

The PPC (as a collective) is not very big on starting new departments. There must be really something special that can't be covered in any of the other departments (and note that there is a department of floaters which can pretty much carry the label miscellaneous). I do think, however, that songfic may be special enough to have its own department.

If the new department gets a pass (from permission givers and/or the PPC board) I know an author in A-Team fandom that writes mainly inapproriate songfics (2007 songs in a fic that is set in 1983, for instance). Knowledge of A-Team fandom not required; the author doesn't seem to know it either.

Here is my writing sample. If I get in, this will be a prologue to any other missions containing these characters. Beware, my formatting is utterly pink.

I'm trying for a new Department here. It is not named, because the next installment will feature a naming argument, but here are the full stats:

Department of Irrelevant Background Music (DIBM)
Department Head: The Larkspur
Flash Patch: Stylized whole note on a white background
Concentration: Songfics
Agents: Tendency toward music geeks, social ineptness is preferred.

Character Profiles:

Name: Ken Collins
Species: Kryptonian
Appearance: Tall and comparatively lean for his species. Brown hair and acidic green eyes.
Lust Object: Supergirl, though he sometimes mistakes other blondes for her. This has led to some rather interesting misunderstandings with Agent Luxury.
Abilities: Most of what you'd expect from a Kryptonian, played for laughs...super strength, super speed, super lung control, super hearing, flying. No X-ray or heat vision, though; he was legally blind on Krypton.
Weapons: Bare hands. He broke too many swords and guns to have anything else.
Personality: Extrovert, but a socially awkward one. Apparently, five partners in a row just couldn't stand his constant angsting over a certain Kara, his knack for playing the Sue's Advocate during missions, or his maddening tendency to sing the most irritating Ear Worms of this planet over and over again at the top of his Kryptonian lungs. Once one gets past all that, however, he's a fairly nice guy...well, as nice as a guy who wrings necks for a living can be.

Name: Grace "Gracie" Cook
Species: Human, World One
Appearance: Tall and muscular. Dark, curly blonde hair and blue eyes, generally wears glasses. Pretty, but not overly so.
Lust Objects: Peter Pevensie, Batman, and Frodo. She's rather eclectic.
Abilities: Has had classical training in music since she was ten. Very good swimming skills.
Weapons: Bow and arrow, generally. Has some knowledge of tae kwon do, but remembers only enough to make sure her thumb is tucked under her fingers when she punches someone. Some training with a staff.
Personality: Introvert...she doesn't speak unless she knows someone very well or unless it is absolutely necessary. Beyond that, she has a tendency to nitpick excessively when it comes to badfic. Also likes to plunder fancy dresses from Sues whenever possible, and likes pink and horses to an obsessive extent. Hates pop music...which sucks, 'cause her new partner sings Spears and Backstreet Boys in the shower.

So...is it good?