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Oh, well. You listed some other great titles (even if they're pretty mainstream) so I'll assume you have good taste. If you're into action and complex characters, I'd recomend X/1999 but you've already said you're not a fan.

Trust me.

Off to record now! :D

However, unless Tawaki declares otherwise, we will assume that it never revealed its "gender". Thereby sidestepping the problem of male/female vocal actors. The Flowers have not really been assigned on basis of genders, as we have so few male vocalists. For example, Captain Dandy, whom we know is male, is being voiced by Oozaru Angel.

Hope that helps.

I'm stoopidly late, but hey!

I'm also pretty paranoid of any of my OCs being 'Sues. I've put some of them through the litmus test about three times, just to make sure. Stupid thing was, they WERE 'Sues, but I totally didn't lie on the test! >
Erm, yeah. Welcome!

The Pipe-weed. Is it 'male' or 'female'?

Should be recording mine today.

I think I have a character I can offer.

My Agents' second mission led them to rescue two uncanonical daughters of Aragorn and Arwen called Galae and Rana, who were crowbarred in to make the 'Sue look good and were barely mentioned again. On being brought back to HQ, the girls were renamed Galeya and Rina. Galeya is five and Rina is twelve.

They were placed in the HQ daycare centre to be rehabilitated into HQ life. Rina is nearly old enough to be an Agent in training, and probably will have already begun lessons on being an Agent. She's quite a gentle girl, though, so she'd probably be training for Infrastructure rather than Action Departments- possibly Finance or Personnel. Galeya is very close to her older sister, but also idolises the other Agents and will probably end up in an Action Department.

I offer that Rina be the Agent who is killed. It would probably upset a lot of people, as she isn't even old enough to be able to fight back and would evidently have been picked as an easy target. Not only that, but she'll have made a lot of friends in the daycare who will all be wanting her avenged... Marsha, for one, and you don't upset a hormonal teenaged Triceratops unless you really want to see a rampage. Rina's not a full-blown Agent or even much of a character at all, so her death wouldn't damage canon, but it'd hopefully rile people. At least three or four I can think of.

However...there are very few characters that aren't cared about, and many of those on the Deceased List were. Makes-Things, for example, was a beloved part of the PPC and the first ever non-Flower Agent. And as for someone destroying them from the inside out... have you read the Reorganisation? The Mysterious Somebody and the DIS were trying to bring down the PPC. Not physically, but certainly morally. I'm curious to see how this would work, but perhaps holding off till a few more of the older Boarders have had their say.

However, our definition of Assassin seemed to make her twitch, and I'm not sure if she finished reading it.

*to Trojie* Not that I mind in the slightest. I just love the chance to ramble about it.

*to Lily* We (or rather I, as I seem to do most of the liaising with the Board) have been posting about the Movie since June 3rd and have posted several times about it since then. I'm sure I've seen your name around those posts before, but my memory isn't always the best.

As Trojie said, you are very welcome to join in. Artistic and animatory talents would be especially appreciated, as we have a very small number of either.

Shakespeare 'Sues appear to show up most frequently in Romeo and Juliet 'fic, but the Goddess Diana may need to be dissuaded from redeeming/saving MacBeth at some point.

Thanks!

I may need to pull in a friend as an outside consultant on the next one as he has a longbow and there are three of them, but we'll see how things go with the rest of the solos. I don't get to make up nearly as much silly dialog, I found.

Yes. >_> Probably because of that great film version.

The author was old enough to do proper research too, which annoys me. Messing with Shakespeare and Ireland in one go, what else could I do.

Nice stanza... I should try to come up with a poetic death (or at least a poetic epigram) for the next one(s), but I just needed that one to go away quickly.

Parody can be of any quality (the term Mary Sue, itself, comes from a parody) and personally, I'd like to think that I made a (failed) parody of the generic Mary Sue type as opposed to something that really is a genuine character of the mold. She only -appears- to be a Mary Sue through virtue of being a (physically) attractive character with extensive sorcery powers that latches onto the main cast, but the universe and its characters already hate her, she's portrayed as being incredibly abrasive and irritating (to the point where she's actually the unaware villain), and she -loses- at every single major thing she attempts. I mean... come on. What can really be done here? "We're here to give you a mercy killing. Your crimes include attempted canon rape that failed due to the story already starting out that way, being a villain, and for just simply existing." It wouldn't make for a good PPC story in the standard mold. But what if one instead comes to the conclusion that a "wrongfully accused" character, carefully constructed by a self-aware author out of mix-and-match pieces (with a little something extra made of pure evil... or something equally cliche) would instead produce a self-aware, genre savvy character that gives the organization a run for its money due to all the standard operating procedure being largely useless on it? That has a lot more potential.

Anyway, when I say "C-list fodder", I'm really referring to characters that aren't cared about (any more). I guess the term is a bit obtuse (it actually refers to how in comics, "C-list" characters that publishers create and then largely abandon have a tendency to be brought back for dramatic deaths without seriously impacting the canon as a whole). I wouldn't say nobody would volunteer their characters for something like this (somebody had to volunteer the 19 characters in the Deceased Agents section). People often change over time and grow distant from their old characters (or, perhaps, the website itself). They might just want to give their character a fairly dramatic exit (or they just decide that they hate the character after all). Also, the deaths (and other twisted things) wouldn't violate the PPC standard operating procedure (if anything, the deaths would inspire the full wrath and fury of the organization, something that would be the whole driving point of the story). Certainly, the agents aren't all invincible, unerring, and completely in the right at all times. That would just by hypocritical of the whole premise ("We send Mary Sue to kill Mary Sue!"), although that would actually make pretty good material ("You strive to kill every Mary Sue there is, but fail to look within your own numbers?"). I ask for characters because I'd really like to be part of the community and for the story to actually feel like a part of it instead of just creating six or so Red Shirts.

Also, I really view the character as being somebody who would get more pleasure out of ironic punishments than just maniacally killing everybody, so it's not even like everybody that volunteers for the project would end up dead, either. For example, perhaps a character that is really, really, REALLY outspoken about their hatred of Mary Sues would end up getting brain-jacked, given a whole makeover, and forced to retain their consciousness as their bodies make them act like classical Mary Sues as the PPC unwittingly sends one of their own to kill them off (which could lead to whoever gets sent either rescuing them after they sense something wrong or finding out later that they killed one of their own agents and having to live with the consequences).

Regardless, as mentioned, I'd like this to be a joint effort if possible. After browsing the PPC Emergencies, there seems to be a gap this type of story could fill (not to mention that it would fit perfectly into the Catastrophe Theory). They've dealt with straightforward base invasions, fighting off the Borg, and major world infections... but somebody destroying them from the inside out? It would require quite a bit more in terms of planning, resources, and all-around adaptability that would test the organization and offer quite a bit of "character development", if you will.

By the way, I know specifically who added the stories in the first place and it certainly wasn't for anything involving the content (let's just say that the Final Fantasy XI endgame community as a whole is not very friendly and leave it at that). If somebody else (as in... somebody not doing it out of petty spite) deems them actually worthy of being on the list, I won't oppose it (although I'll most likely claim them myself just because I like the idea I've come up with).

Argh, no more lolcat for me, I think. Welcome to the PPC!

On a completely unrelated note, you have possibly the best name for Scrabble I've ever seen. 13 points!

Not going to say much besides that they annoy me to no end and that I'm really paranoid about any of my OC's being Sues, to the point where I actually slammed them through the Litmus Test just to make sure.

I'm so glad I'm not the only one. Better safe than sorry, I suppose...

*handshake*

Yes, I'm familiar with CLAMP, though I can't say I'm a fan of their work. It's alright, just not my thing. I just prefer things that have action or really complex plots and characters.

We differ in that I'm actually terribly fond of slash (to the extent that Bad Slash fills me with uncontrolable rage)but other than that we seem to be okay. *shakes your hand* Nice to meet you. I know you didn't list any of their titles in your list of fandoms but have you ever heard of the group CLAMP?

*third hat get*

Thanks! *loves hats* *is now wearing THREE hats*

My all-time record is 22

Yes, killing the worst in the name of Duty IS fun, isn't it?