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Read any of our wonderful missions and spin-offs?

I say that like I'm about to advertise my own don't I? Shame I've never got past a Prelude...

Have a free bendy pencil and a waterproof notepad!

Have you read any missions or spin-offs yet? Any favourites if so?

Here's a rack of anti-tank missiles and a launcher to go with em. Have fun!
So, what brings you here?

Hello! This is my first time posting on The Board

Yes, Kuro is from World One, so I am going to reconsider those physical abilities. He is not physically fit enough to be a ninja (but he is fit enough to be a PPC agent).

There are times when Kuro overdoes it with the dramatization, and there are times when he gets it just right.

Also, why would a wazikashi be better than a katana for non-direct combat? I will take your advice, but I'm just curious.

I love banality in the bizarre. A western-obsessed conspiracy-style lizardman definitely drags that out.

Gonna be honest, it doesn't really feel like Edward has enough characterization. His favorite thing to do is merely teasing his sister? Then again, perhaps there's a ton of characterization hiding behind his secretiveness...

However, the biggest problem I have is with the Powers section. The "His favorite method of killing is Avada Kedavra" bit really rubs me the wrong way- mostly because it reeks of trivialization. The Killing Curse is one of the three Unforgivable Curses- it's not something to be wielded like a gun or a sword. Heck, the wiki itself says that just throwing out Unforgivable Curses like nothing without Serious Consequences coming your way is a serious charge, and when it's something that can be pinned as a serious charge against a Sue, you do not want your agents doing it. (Not to mention, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children is not part of the Potterverse, and thus, Edward shouldn't be able to use Potterverse spells without a Muggle-use Wand, which don't tend to come pre-loaded with Unforgivable Curses.)

Well, either way, here’s my first agent:

Name: Edward Stone (formerly Edward Eagle, but he changed it because he was being teased)

Age: 20 (ish)

Species: Peculiar male

Department: DoMS, Harry Potter division

Edward is tall with dark hair and his favourite thing to do is wind his sister up. He can control water, but very rarely does because there’s not much water in HQ and it doesn’t work when he’s disguised. He lives on chocolate and coffee and is completely anti-social. In fact, with the exception of Kat, he hates people and likes to be as secretive as possible.

History: Along with his sister, he started life as an OC in an (imaginary) Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children badfic, in which his sole purpose was to turn evil because the Sue ditched him for her LO. Since being rescued by the PPC he’s been working with his sister Kat in the DoMS.

Powers: As mentioned, water control. His favourite method of killing is Avada Kedavra.

The better for cranial air conditioning in summer. But humans, of course, are not for fluffing, especially those of us with very short hair.

—doctorlit at a goodbye dinner party for another zookeeper

Is Kuro from World One? If he is, you might want to reconsider those physicals.

I don't think someone can be cool from over-dramatization, since "over" implies that it is too much.

Also, I think a wakizashi would be a better weapon for a PPC agent, since it's smaller, and thus easier to carry around, and PPC agents don't often head into direct combat, while traditionally a katana implies that the user does so.

I hope this helps. Thoughts?

FIMFiction.net needs representation, too. It's basically "Fanfiction.net except exclusively for the My Little Pony fandom", right down to the "F__fiction.net" name for the site.

Pit of Moles, perhaps? It's one letter away from Pit of Voles, just like FIMFiction.net is two letters away from Fanfiction.net...

Take the log out of your own eye, sir, before criticising the plank in the eye of a beautiful naked mole rat friend!

I don't have Permission, so I decided I'd shoot my two ideas for agents over- the first of which should be *fairly* familiar for those who were around when I was Anonymouse, although (especially in the History bit) he also takes inspiration from another character of mine, that was... also a Porygon-Z.

Technician/Agent Zeta

Full Name: Porygon-Z
--Full Nickname: PGZProject-423-Zeta
Species: Porygon-Z
Age: Indeterminate
--Mental age: Mid-20s
Gender: None
--Mental Gender: Male
Home Continuum: Pokémon, circa early Generation 7
Affiliation: PPC, DOSAT, Department of Floaters (he tends to shuttle between the two departments quite regularly)

Appearance: Zeta is a Porygon-Z, a Pokemon made entirely out of computer code, made manifest in the physical world as a collection of simple 3D shapes that combine together to form a sort of floating... duck... robot... thing. In addition, Zeta himself has been heavily modified by DOSAT, denoted by the flash patch emblazoned on his back, which can easily show any emblem- although it's most likely to show either the DOSAT smoking swivel chair, or the Floaters waterlily.
--Human disguise: Zeta manifests as a short, redheaded American man with pale skin and a pair of glasses framing a set of amber eyes. In a modern setting, his clothing typically ends up being a set of blue jeans, a blue shirt, and a red bomber jacket, typically worn unzipped.

Abilities: Zeta comes pre-loaded with the moves Conversion, Lock-On, Shadow Ball, and Ice Beam, and he also typically keeps the TMs for Ice Beam, Shadow Ball, and Thunderbolt in his personal bag of holding- that way, he can easily swap one of his two attacking moves for Thunderbolt when he needs to. As a Porygon-Z, he has the quite interesting ability to slip into and out of technology, allowing him to do everything from troubleshoot consoles from the inside, to mail himself by ICEP instead of dealing with the labyrinthine corridors of HQ. In addition, the built-in flash patch wasn't the only modification DOSAT made- he has multiple PPC gadgets built-in as subroutines he can call up, including the Universal Translator (which serves as a sort of backup- he typically communicates via text-to-speech), an RA, the D.O.R.K.S., and most worryingly, a C-CAD- along with *all* of those gadgets' drawbacks. Needless to say, he rarely uses the actual subroutines if he can help it- after all, one ends up quite a bit more protective of their C-CAD when they *are* their C-CAD.

Personality: Zeta is a take-charge, no-nonsense kind of guy, and is surprisingly quick to irritate- one of his pet peeves being the abuse and/or neglect of any technology, especially fellow AIs. He's short and to the point, rarely wanting to do anything beyond the Duty itself in a Word-World. That being said, he has a soft spot for bits victimized by the Suethor- and anything sufficiently high-tech enough can quickly become something akin to a lust object for the digital duck.

History: Zeta was born from a months-long RP based around the Pokemon universe, featuring such joys as wildly-out-of-character canons, events, locales, and people that simply ceased to exist or popped out of the ether, and Pokemon abuse and neglect, topped off with GladioN slash. (Yes, the N is capitalized for a reason. Yes, it's THAT reason.) The Porygon-Z himself was given the backstory of being one of the first Porygon-Zs in existence, created (or, well, evolved) by Team Galactic itself, and tasked with heading into various alternate dimensions- Zeta had ended up somewhere in the Distortion World for a time, and had popped out years later. Fortunately, the RP eventually detonated and fell apart in a hail of drama, and while his Word-World fell apart around him, Zeta fell into the plothole that an entirely new radio station in Virbank had risen from- and landed in the middle of the Department of Sufficiently-Advanced Technology.

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Agent Smith

Full Name: John Smith
Species: Human
Age: Generic teenager...?
--Mental Age: 21
Gender: Male
Home Continuum: Wizard101
Affiliation: PPC, Department of Floaters

Appearance: John is a medium-height young man with unkempt brown hair and green eyes. His standard outfit usually ends up being comfortable robes in black and yellow, although he also quite often ends up wearing a white-and-purple suit with a jaunty purple top hat. In magic continua, he tends to prefer staves to wands when casting magic- even going as far as to obtain a wand-cane (think 'sword-cane but with a wand') variation of the Muggle-Use Wand for use in the Potterverse. His justification for such is something along the lines of 'Lucius Malfoy had a wand-cane, so it's not like the concept is incompatible with canon- and I'm fairly certain that I can't simply use my Spell Deck to cast things like Obliviate.'

In addition, John is typically followed around by his Pet (yes, that's the actual terminology used by Wizard101, most likely because the target audience might not understand the term 'Familiar'), an Epic-level Sister Cheesiwitz (a humanoid mouse that comes up to knee height, typically bespectacled, clothed in a simple white-and-lavender dress, and equipped with a nondescript green tome) named Lady Phoebe- or simply 'Phoebe', for short.

Abilities: John is a Storm wizard- he's typically armed with a Spell Deck containing spells able to summon anything from the simple Thunder Snake to the powerful and terrifying Storm Lord, which produce powerful... if inaccurate... electricity-and-water-based magical attacks- although his ability to actally use these sort of attacks outside of his home continuum is probably nonexistent, save for perhaps the spell Tempest, which merely summons a storm- and either way, it's probably best he stay away from using abilities that aren't canon to the continuum he's in. (He does, however, have a tendency towards magical or energetic attacks, and weaponry of an electrical or aquatic nature.) Phoebe, meanwhile, is more of a healer, using "may-cast" spells like Unicorn and Healing Current- and when she's outside of her home continuum, she's frighteningly effective with a first-aid kit. (Also, she wears their Bag of Holding like a backpack.)

Personality: John is easygoing, laid-back, and quite optimistic- although he's not naive, and he *knows* about things like Murphy's Law and the Ironic Overpower. He knows things *can* go wrong- he just tends to hold out hope that they won't. He's also quite fond of both sarcasm and wordplay, especially the art of the pun- after all, when you can't simply wash things away with an actual thunderstorm, a punderstorm tends to be the next best thing. (After all, which would you rather think about- the Sue and her litany of crimes against canon, or the Lords-awful puns either made by the agent next to you, or coming out of your own mouth?) Phoebe, meanwhile, is a mouse of few words- or, rather, she's completely mute. She instead gets across her meaning through body language and expression- and when that fails her, she's not above breaking out the charades or (as a last resort) writing notes on the back of a charge list. She tends to strike a middle ground between Zeta and John, and her caring nature means she ends up being a sort of 'team mom' for the duo. While she's not technically an agent in her own right (heck, even in the canon, Pets are mechanically nothing more than mere inventory items that can be bred, trained, and whatnot, despite often being miniatures of everything from often-hostile beasts, to other sapient races, to mythological creatures like the Forest Lord itself), she downright insists on coming along to every mission, where she jots down charge lists, helps to chase down Minis, and breaks out the first-aid kit when necessary.

History: John and Phoebe started out as his author's player character (and... well, an inventory item owned by said player character) from the Wizard101 MMORPG, a Level 50-or-so Storm Wizard who hadn't yet defeated Malistaire. Unfortunately, while preparing to face off against him, he took a wrong turn at the World Gate and ended up in the middle of the PPC. Most of John himself seems to be an author-insert, but he doesn't seem to be complaining about that...

Voles also show the ability to empathize with each other- they'll spend more time grooming a vole who's been treated badly.

Name: Kuro (real name unknown)
Age: 31
Species: Human male
Appearance: He is a medium-height white man who wears jeans and a simple gray sweater. He has a tangled, spiky mess of jet-black hair that he can never straighten out completely. He has green eyes. He usually wears a belt sporting a katana in case he needs to threaten any agent who disagrees with him on something he feels strongly about.
Personality: Kuro is a Stereotype Flip of weeaboos. On one hand, he likes anime, manga, and anything that comes out of Japan or is based on material from there. He is a social loser and a high school dropout who is hilariously bad at flirting and has multiple waifus. He has quite an ego and talks about how he is "the master of the blade" and whines about how "girls simply have no taste anymore." On the other hand, he genuinely works hard and tries to improve constantly, he tries his hardest to be polite and not creepy (to no avail), is a really nice person when you get to know him, and is physically fit enough to complete missions. He can also be quite cool when he over-dramatizes the killing of a Sue. Kuro likes to come up with new methods of exorcism, including the Exorcism Jutsu.
History: Kuro did try hard in school. He really did. It's just that getting held back once in eighth grade, twice in ninth grade, and a whopping four times in tenth grade, even when you're trying your hardest to understand the material, just breaks you after a while. He eventually gave up and set his sights on a job that got him enough money and time to live and pursue his burgeoning passion for anime. Eventually, he fell into a plothole and discovered the PPC.
He started his career at the DMS. After a sufficiently long period of time, his partner retired, and he was partnered with a newbie who called himself "the Phoenix" or just "Phoenix". The first fic they took on was Kuro's own self-insert Naruto fic, which they disposed of in the most dramatic way possible. After "Phoenix" became completely incapable of functioning after just two missions and was placed in an asylum, Kuro was partnered with... well, I haven't though about that part yet.
Powers: Kuro has enough physical abilities to pass off as a Narutoverse ninja, until you ask him to use jutsu. He is very skilled in wielding "Weeb weapons" (shurikens and katanas), but can adapt to a wide variety of weapons. Just don't hand him a gun or other ranged weapon. His weapon is a katana harvested from his self-insert Stu that also allows him to use canonical jutsu.
Department: DMS

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