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Exhibit A: Lust by Loli Melancholy
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5493383/1/Lust
(Rated M, obviously)

After a chapter of OOCness and typos, Knuckles becomes a rapist. Enjoy!

I'll find a good idea eventually

There's no wiki article because we haven't needed one. The rule runs thus: if it's extra or sparkly or amazing or in some way beyond the abilities of your average bog standard human, then it's not an idea to run with. There's leeway if the agent in question isn't human, but even then, the aim is to make agents as normal and non super powered as possible.

Consider it this way: if you need an agent with amazing sparkly powers to beat the Sue, then you're validating that Sue's existence. We take them down with logic, sanity, laws of physics, and hard graft. Any Sue can be taken down with such. A Sue that needs magical powers to be dealt with? It's like you're admitting her powers are special and sparkly and beyond human.

The thing is that it's actually hard for the Sues to be unnaturally beautiful, since everyone else is.

I may go berserk and start smashing the nearest sock factory to bits with a chainaxe when my, ah, "favorite" characters are involved in squicky OOC slash.

You really should read The Original Series. The PPC has a rather unique feel to it, just because a power isn't grossly overpowered doesn't mean that it'll fit well. There have been rather powerful Agents who fit in, and I could fairly easily write one who would be a perfectly normal person... and yet be completely and utterly the opposite of what the PPC is trying to do. (Huinesoron already did, actually...)

So, read TOS. It's a very good read, and ultimately, if you haven't read the original material, writing fanfic is rather hard...

I'm not sure I want to get into another series, even if it is a version of Star Trek. Either way, do let me know how it turns out, mmmkay?

The essence of the PPC is that we're never going to finish our job; that's why the sadistic Flowers have so many Rules in the first place. What you suggest would be efficient, effective, and absolutely no fun. Who wants to read a story like that? It's effectively the Mary-Sue version of a war game.

That said, if you scaled it down immensely and put in a lot of problems that cause your agent's minor advantage to often malfunction, backfire, or otherwise be a source of humour without breaking the general PPC agent mold... that has potential. You'd have to run it by the Board first, though.

It's more a common-sense thing.

Can I be a jarate master then? Jarate is supposedly "jar based karate" but it really boils down to making enemies weak by throwing jars of urine at them.

Will probably be working then and have no idea what else I'll have to fit in, but I'll do my utmost to make sure I can come.

Maybe by then I'll have had time to make a Raketooth the Amazing Three-Armed Fox coat ... my sewing skills suck, but I'd still like to try that.

is there a wiki article on what's commonly acceptable? My other idea probably wont fly either

That if you go for permission with that idea still in mind, it'll be a reason for denial.

I wasnt actually applying for anything. sorry

Besides, considering Dann is a Permission Giver, if you apply for Permission with that it'll likely be a reason for you to be denied, anyway. So it likely won't go through.

Conveniently located here for your convenience.

The point of the PPC isn't to be mythic heroes ridding the world of badfic, or even knight-in-shining-armor types cleaning one 'verse at a time - The point is that the agents are borderline-nutcases doing an impossibly large job one teaspoon-full at a time, with half-broken equipment that never was enough for the job, and working in the most messed up corporate environment that has ever existed. And humor, ostensibly.

This is why I'm so strongly against superpowered Agents - we aren't here to change the world, it's the very fact that the world is unchangeable in anything resembling reasonable time that makes the PPC what it is.

What music are you listening to?
Don't you know there's people going hungry in Japan? Just eat it! Just eat it!

I figured that as long as I balanced how easily the minions died and how much firepower i could have at one time I could get away with it (Especially in universes like one piece where the main characters can fight entire armies and win)

And isnt one of the agents some kind of supernatural being in human form who chooses to limit her power? That's sort of where i got the idea.

Overpowered.

*shrugs*

Check the wiki. If anything, the sues would have that whole materialization power thing. Agents are relatively normal for their races, in general.

Whats OP stand for?

And how can I make it less roleplaying-y?

*posessed by Michael Jackson. The talented, non-creepy one*
Beat iiiit, beat iiiit! No one wants to be defeated!