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'Cause if it did, we could just take suggestions and stick them on a poll, have people vote, and use the favorite name.

Maybe there's some way to do that anyhow; I don't know. Maybe other people know.

As far as I can tell, the emergencies annoyed everybody because they basically sucked all the agents into them, forcing everybody to write serious or relatively-serious stuff instead of sporking badfic or writing funny fluff pieces. Not everybody likes that. But the people who were actually around for it will know more about why it ended up being annoying.

I've read fics where people brought in more agents to help with particularly bad sues--stuff like having to exorcise all of Arda and giving cameos to a bunch of agents along the way; or bringing in a dozen agents to take out dino!Sues; or portaling invisible wildlife into the cafeteria and watching the hilarity. I think it'd get kinda annoying if it was nothing but stalk-charge-kill/exorcise over and over; doesn't there have to be some variety? Besides, I like a good combat scene, especially if it involves creative strategy.

IMO, there's a difference between some good old chaos where you have to call in the backup, and having the Mirror Multiverse or the Factory Sues try to take over again. It's like monster-of-the-day versus apocalypse-of-the-month, and so long as it stays monster-of-the-day, it feels like it would fit right in, or at least to me it does.

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Since in my last mission I purposely accidentally unleashed a Stu!Grizzly bear on HQ, which required several agents to take down.

I admit being biased on the matter, but I'd think that as long as there's no "OMG TEH ANGST THE END OF THE PPC AS WE KNOW IT" it should be ok? No?

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but I guess it's possible that whoever put the story on the unclaimed list had not read the whole thing. At least, I usually decide something is a Suefic based on the first chapter. And occasionally change my mind later on (although more often I decide not to do a mission because the brain breakage it hurts).

Not actually having read this fic I won't give an opinion on that. Just my opinion on Suefic in general. It is not the characteristics of a character or a plot that makes it a Suefic. Being the twin of Harry and the Boy-Who-Lived doesn't make Connor a Stu. It all depends on how the author handles it. Is Harry still in character (mind that having a twin who shared his abuse at the Dursley family could have changed him)? Are all the other characters still in character? If that's the case, this is not a Suefic and I think it can be taken of the list.

If I remember the first book correctly -- it's about ten years since I read it, so memory can be shaky on it -- the Sorting Hat originally wanted to sort Harry into Slytherin. It thought he would be great there. Harry had to beg it to be sorted into Gryffindor.

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Are minor emergencies-with-a-small-e which only affect a few agents still okay, though? Things where HQ as a whole isn't threatened, but a group of agents could be captured or wiped out?

Val, the nurse who briefly appeared in TS and helped to birth Moses. I wanted to develop her a bit as a character, so she can be a mentor to the "pets" we're picking up from the sporking of For Your Eyes Only - they wouldn't make good field agents, but we were thinking of finding them work in the Nursery.

Given that Connor is immediately recognizable (or at least, to me) as a Marty Stu, I think it should stay. Even though the Author gives an okayish reason behind it- saying it's AU and all- the whole having a scar shaped like a heart (And I immediately got this picture of it being shaped like the actual organ, and not the simplistic pictogram we all recognize as being a heart), as well as taking Harry's place as the Boy-Who-Lived-and-Will-Eventually-Defeat-the-Dark-Lord, reeks to me of Marty Stu-ness.

Also, I have a problem with Harry being Sorted into Slytherin. Given that both his parents were in Gryffindor, I would think that he'd want to follow in his parents' footsteps, and that the Sorting Hat would recognize that. Oh, and the fact that Draco and Harry can "feel" one another's magic? *cringes*

So I was looking for badfic on the List of Unclaimed Badfic the other day, and I came across this: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2580283/1/bSavingbbConnor_b. It's an AU story involving Harry's twin being the Boy Who Lived, and Harry being sorted into Slytherin. It starts out a little iffy, but, in my opinion, gets much better very quickly.

So, I was thinking about taking it off the list completely, but thought I should ask other people's opinions first. If you think it should stay, then I'll leave it alone and consider reconsidering my taste. -grins-

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I too like Glaurunging Badfic, though I don't actually use the word myself. Another potential name might be Bleepfic, or maybe Painful Badfics.

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Does that refer to "incidents that require multiple agents to handle", or "incidents that require multiple writers to handle"?

I'm asking because I'm wondering whether it's off-limits to write things that involve crises that don't stay within the fic you're trying to ppc at the time--like a Sue (or a flamethrower-crazy agent) loose in HQ, or a particularly bad fic that requires more than just one team to resolve.

I could see why a lot of people working on one story might be annoying; but would there be anything wrong with a single writer, or maybe a team of two writers, calling in other people's agents as backup when things got difficult to handle? Not that it'd happen constantly; but eventually, you're going to end up with dino-sues or crossovers with characters from five different continua, and it's reasonable you'd need help.

Naturally this presumes that you'd have the agents' owners' permission, or were using your own agents, or were using publicly-owned agents when you called in backup.

But I admit, "Glaurunging Badfic" caught my eye, just because it's so PPCish... and "AUGHfic", for the pure fun of it. Hm, must think... :D

I really like the idea of having a new, slightly shy, Head (Vet?) I'd be happy to try to write one, but I don't know much about medical procedures, and I don't want to become overworked this early. If anyone is interested in writing this character (assuming the position is created), submit your application; don't worry about my tentative claim. Otherwise, I'll see what I can do. Anyway, I like the idea of splitting Medical into wards. It would allow the doctors greater specialization, but without the (almost) complete separation that Divisions would create. Personally, if I were a non-human agent, I'd feel better about being treated by someone with experience in something other than the human body.

I could definitely attest to the rarity of rechecking read posts, and anything that was added after I had gone through the first time would be completely missed. I would like to say, however, that I always check every new post (almost—I miss anything that is posted and drops off the end of page one before I get back on). I just can't stand the bright links. ;)

It's too bad... Godawful Badfic rolls off the tongue so nicely. But even if it's not stealing, it could cause confusion, so... *brainstorms*

- Incredibly!Badfic

- Glaurunging Badfic

- Ewfic (not to be confused with Eufic)

- AUGHfic

- ODEfic (for Oh Dear Eru)

- HorriFic (complete with odd capital F)

-- Maybe just Horrorfic

- Abominable Badfic

... I like that last one. I'm done now.

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I think this is a great idea; after all, there're some Agents that're were-creatures or other kinds of shapeshifters that don't always fall under the category of "human" 24/7, not to mention the anthros from Redwall and various other continua. This is good timing; one of my Agents that I'll be writing (hopefully, anyways) is a tri-morphic shapeshifter (humananthro lionessfull lioness), and tends to stay in anthro form unless she has to go into a Word World.

After all, the PPC isn't exactly known for having the most efficient and logical management, is it?

Just speaking personally, I think I'd like it if the non-human (or non-humanoid) patients could have a little division of their own, even if in practical reality it just gets caught up in general Medical anyway. And the idea of a non-human Head would be appropriate, too, either flora of fauna. (Do we have any anthro/animal Heads yet? I don't think so; unsure.)

Whoever it is, they should certainly be a doctor who already works in that area. EdW has a good point about the potential hillarity of a promoted Flower, though.