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However, given the huge collection of portal devices, universes with time machines, and so on that we have access to, I would be inclined to say that you could land in World One at basically any time you wanted, like it was any other fic.

*hates the athletic Sue's like only an artsy, bookworm of a stick figure girl can.*

It would be easy to set a remote activator to a time just after the agent left. Depending on how time in HQ has treated them, there may or may not be noticeable age differences to worry about, but that's another issue, and it could probably be solved with the disguise generator or a world with a reverse time flow. The possibilities are endless, really.

~Neshomeh

This isn't really important in the grand scheme of things, but I think your Kip will make the fourth of that name in this organization, the first two being Kip the pirate, Kip the god, and Kip not-the-god. Not to mention Kippur the Boarder, who somewhat-ironically is responsible for an Agent Alec.

I could be wrong about the number of previous Kips, but there are at least two others for sure.

I'm not saying change it, but I am saying be aware. {= )

~Neshomeh

But the MS could stand for many bad things, I suppose. He's a real nice guy too, it's a shame.

I have a vampire agent too, for whenever I get my nerve up to asking Permission (mostly I've just been too tired to write a sample lately). She's from Nyeusigrube, and she'd probably go a bit psychotic (foaming at the month) at Twilight. Come to think about it, maybe I should just keep her away from those books. Far away.

...right. What I *meant* to say was, whenever I get around to asking and, hopefully, receiving Permission I'd have an agent to come on the joint-vampires mission.

Means I'm not the first one with an Agent of confusing origin.

He was a Sue's pet fox and a badfic glitch turned him humanoid.

You never know how much time will pass between worlds.

One kid back in seventh grade couldn't read my handwriting. He was correcting my paper and put "Jennipen" down as my name instead of "Jennifer". I was so mad at him...
I forgive, but I'll never forget.

Some guys on this volleyball team at my school started rejoicing before the game was done, and I tried not to tell them to beware the Ironic Overpower. Instead...I said to not jinx it.

They didn't listen, but the IO did. The team lost.

I remember seeing someone say that if, when you're in HQ, you stop and think "Hey, time should be passing," it does. Otherwise it tends to drift. Me, I was just clumsily trying to work out an actual timeline for my stuff on a couple occasions and I was more-or-less winging it, so don't take anything I did timewise as undiluted PPC-canon.

On a related note, I have to say I hope they have a way to slow it down, otherwise S&S and the M-kids would age at four times the rate of a human. Eh, there's probably some drug in some continuum which would slow the aging rate ...

...they could go for a vampire fic. As long as it is not Twilight, of course. Kip would take great offense at the notion of Sparkle!vampires and would attempt to remove such abominations from the Multiverse.

1) It's not canonically possible, however it could logically be a badfic glitch. Though I personally enjoy the idea of Yuki having been a normal Froslass at one point and, by means of a complex series of events that included a few plotholes and a gerbil, she wound up humanized with little recollection of how it happened.

2) Ah, Kip. He's been a character that has existed in my imagination for some time, so I'd have to say my own creation. I think he first came into being about a year and a half ago, but I'm aware that the characteristics are unusual. It's not because I laugh at the idea that a vampire who attacks a human with a high blood-alcohol content would become similarly drunk, honest.

3) Hm, well I wasn't actually planning on having them work together as normal, at least not all the time. I couldn't find anything against having my first two Agents in different areas, but if this is a problem, I could work it out somehow.

...I've assumed that time in HQ is kind of like the geography. By which I mean that it doesn't stay in place and sort of moves all over depending on the individual. So while time is generally in tune with World One, it might also depend on how much time an Agent thinks has elapsed.

HST is tuned to World One most of the time; New Caledonia is occupied /now/, the AD 2004 Oxford Gathering caused problems in HQ in 2004 HST, there's Laburnum's interlude, etc etc. But not all cases fit. Agent Vemi, for instance, returned home "only a few days after she'd originally left". In general, however, HQ is synched to World One. We hope.

hS

Right. So how does time spent in HQ compare to the time elapsed in an Agent's home continuum (in this case, World One)?

Is it like an OFU, where if the Agent returns they arrive at the exact second they left, or does an equal amount of time pass in their home world? (I know Laburnum used the latter theory in an interlude...)

1) I'm very curious as to how an anthropomorphic Froslass could come to exist. I'm not too familiar with Pokemon canon, so is this something canonically possible, a badfic glitch, or something else?

2) Is Kip a vampire from any particular continuum? He seems to have a rather strange set of characteristics, so is this a canon type of vampire, a world you're working on, an invention for the PPC, or what?

3) I see you have one Floater, one Assassin. Generally Agents have partners in their own Departments, except for single-mission transfer duty. This being HQ, "tossed together by fate/random whim of Upstairs/plothole" is fairly common, but it does deserve commenting on; if you were just planning on them working together as if it were normal, you might want to rethink that.

Obviously you know the answers to these, but they're my immediate concerns when it comes to Permission.

hS

I keep on thinking (but not actually saying so far) 'stop making Mini-mes' every time someone misspells my name. My surname is pretty rare and even the college library has managed to get it wrong (even though I write it down for them) and my given name has two common spellings and people tend to go for the shorter (by one whole letter) one. It's a good thing that Minis don't exist, or I'd have a whole pack of them.

There's a teacher at one middle school my friend went to who, when using random student names for examples, likes to use the name Mary Sue.

I also spot misspelling of random names everywhere and wonder what the minis would look like. :)

Seriously, they need to all get together sometime.... although that might not be such a good idea.... *ponderponderponder*

I was looking at my schedule and found the initials of my new Maths teacher. On the schedule they don't put full names, just the initials.

My new Maths teacher's initials were MS. Yeah, definently a PPC moment there...

Animes Collide

and

Princess Tutu: The Unofficial Secret Story

Both are set in PT, apparently, though the first appears to be a massive crossover in the works. The second has... questionable dance, to say the least.

I'm fairly certain they both qualify as badfic, but I wanted to run it by people. Because I'm cautious like that.

Also, I was thinking of claiming one of them. I did technically get smacked with the Permission stick, but... meh. I dunno. (Thoughts? :D) Plus the second one starts out third-person and switches to first-person.

(Oh hey that could be funny. :P)

Well, anyway, I feel horribly bothersome. Sorry. ^_^;; (You know it's been a long day when I'm not even sure what I'm apologizing for.)

So much.
I recently discovered the joy that is TWEWY, and as a good portion of my current courses involve the dreaded math, Minamimoto rapidly endeared himself to me. In a twisted sort of way.
"Don't get your integers all divided by zero, sensei."
It's priceless. Priceless I tell you!

Hmm... this may spawn a 'priceless' commercial. *goes away to ruminate on this*

...oh yeah, good luck with the Permission thing. :D Stuff looks good to me, but hey, not a PG. (Still not even sure why they smacked me with the stick, actually...)

Anyway. Right. Done. Really. Promise. :)

It is looking pretty nice to me! But are you writing two different Agents in two different Departments, or do the two sometimes get partnered together?

So I've been around since August 18 (the day the Ypur invasion began, no less), and I've FINALLY decided to ask for the permission to join. Without further ado, let us begin the great begging and groveling before the Permission Givers Permission Asking!

Agents:

Agent Yuki: An anthropomorphic Froslass, Yuki is calm, level-headed, and is rarely without a cool reply. Unless fire is involved, because fire is NO GOOD for ice-type Pokemon. We are not going to get into that, however. Yuki likes cold places, and in the absence of cold she uses her ice attacks to make things cold. She is protective of her home canon, but doesn't mind going out to freeze 'Sues in other continua.

Yuki is a floater, and focuses mainly on the Pokemon canon.

Yuki appears to be in her mid-twenties with white skin and hair, like a ghost. Her eyes are electric blue with yellow sclerae, a trait all Froslass exhibit. She likes wearing her hair in a bun and a red sash around her waist.

Agent Alexander "Kip" von Tepesblut: A vampire, albeit a bit less stable than most. Appearing about 18, he whines, sulks, and swears when things don't go his way, and he possesses a questionable sense of humor. He has no moral issues against killing, but such things are trivial. Humans alone might be in danger, but Homo Sapiens Agents need not fear when there are so many OCs just ripe for the picking.
Ideally Kip would only have to feed every month or so, but that scenario maintains that he not get seriously injured and avoids prolonged exposure to sunlight, two conditions that he has a distinct problem with following, and therefore requires food more often than most.
In the event that Kip is deprived of blood, instinct takes over and things die. He'll come out of this condition once he's full, with no recollection of what happened while driven by instinct.
Interestingly enough, Kip will be forced into this instinctive state if he is bitten by a zombie, although it doesn't last very long. No one really knows why this happens, but zombies are advised against biting him.
Otherwise, Kip tends to be rather human in his demeanor. He can generally pass as human, so long as he doesn't say anything incriminating or displays unnatural strength. This tends to be a problem.

Kip is in the Department of Mary Sues, since eradicating things is mildly entertaining to him. He should not, however, be allowed within a mile of a Twilight fanfiction. It won't end well.

Kip is tall, lanky, and pale, with messy black hair. He's got reddish eyes and does not sparkle in the sun.



Writing sample:
(from a fic I'm writing in the World Ends With You canon, born when I couldn't take the bad fics on the Pit any more)

“Minamimoto-kun, would you please pay attention?”
The tanned 18 year-old glanced up, pausing in his half-hearted chewing of his pencil. “Eh?”
“The problem on the board, if you would.”
Sho Minamimoto stretched with an exaggerated sigh. He knew this already, why did they expect him to recite it over and over? He eyed his classmates, all frantically scribbling on their papers or tapping on their calculators. Let them think they had the answer; Sho wasn’t going to even look at the board until all of the rest had gotten some erroneous answer.
“Minamimoto-kun!” The teacher glared. It was bad enough that Sho Minamimoto had the gall to lean back in his seat, feet resting on his desk. The boy’s arrogance, rudeness, and blatant disrespect for authority had gotten him in trouble numerous times; it was a wonder he was still in school. He would have been thrown out ages ago, had it not been for his genius in the area of mathematics.
“Alright, alright. Don’t get your integers all divided by zero, sensei.” Sho yawned. Several of his classmates had finished and were waiting for his answer. A second, fake yawn, and he finally looked at his challenge. His mind whirred, processing the mathematical conundrum. Pencil did not meet paper, for Sho did not need the tools his fellow classmates so heavily depended on. Ten seconds passed… fifteen… twenty… twenty-seven seconds, and he had his answer. A twisted smirk spread over his face.
“It’s unsolvable. If you do the math right, you’ll wind up with a zero in the denominator halfway through.” His classmates stirred with disbelief. “That can’t be right, I got four…” “What? I don’t see it!” “How did he do it that quickly?!” He grinned. “Well, sensei, what’s the solution? Don’t leave these radians hanging.”
The teacher fixed Sho with a gaze that would cause other students to recoil, before glancing at the answer in his hand. “The answer is… none. It is, as Minamimoto-kun said, unsolvable.”
Sho spread his arms. “Soh-cah-toa. I’d ask for another, but school’s nearly over, and my fellow students of math wouldn’t be able to obtain the desired solution in the time that’s left. They shouldn’t have to be stuck with a time limit they can’t hope to meet.” He knew his words would go over badly; several students growled under their breaths. Sho didn’t care. He didn’t need them. They were only a few extraneous variables in a mathematical world.

(end excerpt)

I'm a dork who researched Japanese school systems to get the addressing right.

I'm also the idiot who decided that murdering My Immortal would be fun, and enlisted SealRat in the cause.