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Monster-of-the-month vs. apocalypse-of-the-month. See, if you check out Year:2008, you will note that we had the Macrovirus Epidemic and the death of Makes-Things in March, followed shortly by the Sue Invasion in April, followed by the Big Brother/Key to Canon thing in June, followed by the Silver Gate thing in November. Somewhere in all that, we decided enough was enough.

Like Elcalion said, occasional, minor, agent-specific things where you have to call for backup is okay, because getting cameos is fun; it's just when everything becomes OMG TEH MULTIVERSE IS IN DANGER AND I MUST BE MORE AWESUM TAN EVAR TO SAVE US! that we have issues. Because if you give a writer a crisis, s/he wants to write a bigger crisis. If you give an agent more power, the agent will tend to get even more power. Etc., etc. It's a slippery slope toward becoming what we hate, and it's not what we're about.

See also Catastrophe Theory and Cycle Theory. We want these NOT to be true.

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True, but from what I read, James and Lily are still alive, Sirius was never accused of murdering all those people and thus sent to Azkaban, and therefore Harry and his twin weren't sent off to the Dursley's, so making him go into Slytherin when he's grown up in such a pro-Gryffindor environment just strikes me as odd.

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The other stuff doesn't, really.

It wouldn't take too much of a difference in Harry's history to make him not want quite so strongly to be put into Gryffindor. All you'd need to do is tweak his family history so that he has someone other than the Dursleys that he considers "family", so that his parents fade into his past rather than being preserved in his mind as the only people who really loved him. Having a twin might change things to the point that Harry would care more about his living brother than about his long-dead parents, and not care so much about being in the same House as his folks.

But... well, heart-shaped scars? Taking Harry's place? Sorry, but no. That's blatant Stu. If you wanna do a decent AU fic about Harry having a twin, you should be focusing on Harry, not wedging your OC into the story sideways.

'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-

--anamia

And I most certainly have fics to add.

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

--anamia

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.