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Just needs a little more work put in to differentiate him a little more from Brendan, the canon character. That's really the only problem I personally have with the concept.

I DID base him on when I played Sapphire on an emulator that no longer works thanks to a system update. I must have misremembered the default male name.

Anyway, unless someone can convince me otherwise, guess I'm scrapping Brandon. Oh well.

First off, that... just seems like a near-carbon-copy of Brendan, who... is a canon character. I know that that's the intention, but... I'm not particularly certain if "Brandon" differentiated himself from Brendan enough to be a separate character from him.

Second... you said that "Brandon" was borne from a copy of Alpha Sapphire where someone didn't bother to customize the character or change the name, right? ...Well, ORAS never had character customization, that was something that stayed in Kalos up until it showed up in Alola, and...

I also think we *might* have a mini-Missingno named "Brandon" we need to catch...

Name: Rasputin Gibbs

Species: Draconian

Age: 24

Sex: Male

Home Continuum: World 1.963, the world that exists in certain conspiracy theories.

Personality: On some deep level, Gibbs wants to be in a Sergio Leone movie. He doesn’t speak much, he wears a stetson, and he seems terminally calm. His interest in cookery according to the Galenic theory is just a bonus. He uses Draconian expressions in his speech, such as the greeting “Bast Chauble” and the philosophical concept of going “even more unto Yark.”

Appearance: Gibbs is a seven foot tall reptilian humanoid with a hunched posture, dark green scales, and a nice set of fangs. He is rarely seen without his stetson, and his eyes hold a look of steely determination that took him years to perfect.

History: Gibbs spent many years working as a security guard in Dulce base, a joint human-draconian military base located under Archuleta Mesa. He held himself to a very high standard, and soon became known as one of the most capable officers on the security team. With this good mixture of skill and expendability, Gibbs was an ideal candidate to send on a test jaunt through the base’s new portal. He came unstuck in space and time, and learned of Sues, or, as he called them, reality-warping entities. When we meet him, he has several unlicensed Sue killings under his belt, and has consequently attracted the attention of the PPC.

Name: Colonel Caleb Bradbury

Species: Human

Age: 56

Sex: Male

Home Continuum: An unpublished fanfic based on Daniel Pinkwater's "Borgle."

Personality: Bradbury is what is known as a “character”. He has a strange ability to procure just about anything just about anywhere, and a related ability to establish himself as an authority figure even in situations totally unfamiliar to him.

Appearance: The colonel is a gaunt man, just shy of two meters tall. His head is very round, a feature accentuated by his rather severe buzz-cut. He has a short beard, skin on the brown side, and a generally weathered look. He is a good bit more athletic than one would expect from a man his age, thanks to the medical and cybernetic science of the 2050s.

History: In his many years he has been not just an officer in the Argentine army, but also a grave digger, stamp forger, purveyor of shoddy knockoff products, piano tuner, ticket scalper, blackjack dealer, and many other things. He spent an elliptical number of years (time is elliptical in his home continuum) traveling through space, time, and the other by means of a television-detector van equipped with a Hydramatic drive, partly in search of adventure, partly to escape the repercussions of some ill-thought-out business ventures.

...but I can't edit the page. I can only view the source. Why is that? My account's SkaterTheDJWolf on the wiki, by the way.

https://ppc.wikia.com/wiki/UnclaimedBadfic#Animeand_Manga

Agent Brandon:
NAME: Brandon
AGE: 10
SPECIES: Human male
HOME CONTINUUM: Pokémon (specifically Alpha Sapphire)
APPEARANCE: Brandon looks like the default male Trainer for Pokémon Alpha Sapphire
PERSONALITY: Brandon is sort of like Ash. He's an All-Loving Hero who's always raring to press on with his "adventure," whether it be a Pokémon journey or a mission. He wonders about everything and likes to try new things, like scanning fanart with a CAD or different methods of exorcism. He loves learning about the world around him and enjoys knowing things. He strongly believes that anyone can become stronger and better if they try, and is usually the one to advocate for recruiting non-disruptive Sues. He can often be found in a state of awe at something he just witnessed, like a kid going "That. Was. AWESOME!" He is quite naïve and prior to joining the PPC did not know that most of the things in badfic were even possible. Please forgive him if he bluescreens for a moment in a particularly bad badfic. He possesses a journal, an artifact from his home continuum.
His partner Pokémon, Swampert, is pretty casual and coolheaded. He is arguably the brains of the duo, capable of coming up with intricate plans to take down Sues.
HISTORY: Brandon was the protagonist of an Alpha Sapphire cartridge belonging to someone who did not bother with character naming or customization. Or maybe he did and Brandon just reverted to the default after entering the PPC. He really doesn't know. His cartridge was thrown away and crushed in a dumpster, and the ensuing data corruption created a plothole that allowed him to escape with the six Pokémon he had and his journal to the PPC.
Soon after he reached the PPC, he and his Pokémon were carted off to Medical for an emergency operation to treat the corruption. Only he and his starter Pokémon, a male Swampert, survived. The others were glitchy messes that eventually resolved into piles of gore. Brandon was heartbroken at his loss, but with the help of Marshtomp, he was able to emotionally recover, and they vowed to live well to make his survival count. After being trained, he and Swampert transferred to the DMS and were partnered with an agent referring to himself as the Phoenix. After two missions, the Phoenix became completely mentally insane, and was sent to an insane asylum for his health. Brandon was paired with Kuro instead.
POWERS AND ABILITIES: Swampert can Mega Evolve, but this has been a painful experience for him ever since he entered the PPC< and Brandon and Swampert prefer to use it as a last resort.

Since we have multiple newbies joining in rapid succession, I figured I'd start this thread. This thread is for those without Permission to share their ideas for agents. This thread is also for critiquing agents and fixing Sueishness.

It was derived from calling AdultFanfiction.net the Über Pit of Voles, as I was unaware that another writing site was called the Circle of Lemmings.

My vote's on Naked Mole-Rattpad.

One thing's for sure, though: We need to decide on a nickname before we can make a page for it, so that nickname can be the title of the page like with the Pit.

It deserves the snark, though. Thanks to Sturgeon's Law, it houses a lot of badfic, including lots of missionable fanfic and non-fanfic (I wouldn't call it original by any means) alike. As I said, it's like the Pit with more stuff that isn't fanfiction. I'm just trying to evenly split the snark.

And yes, I did search voles after posting this. Awwwwww.

. . . the degu, aka, the #bestrodent

(They're wild gerbils.)

—doctorlit, the #worstrodent

I don't know, but I'd say that one.

Not only are they wrinkly and have their teeth outside their mouth, but they have creepy mind-controlly family dynamics like eusocial insects do. And they build their own homes in tunnel form—their pad if you will. So . . .

. . . How about Naked Mole-Rattpad?

—doctorlit, promptly with dumb ideas every other day

...as FFN itself, which I always assumed was the reason why it became the Uber Pit of Voles. It's also the same format, and a bunch of authors posted on both sites, as far as I recall.

~Z with the trivia!

Because it's too easy.

I mean, we've already got Uber Pit of Voles for Adult Fan Fiction, which makes sense because it also has fan fiction in the name.

And then there's the Circle of Lemmings, a.k.a. Quotev.

Seems to me Wattpad should be another squeaky thing. Marmots, perhaps? Gerbils? Jirds? I just learned "jird" is a word. I vote for that one because it sounds funny. ^_^

~Neshomeh

I don't read smutfic at all and never plan to (I'm just not interested in it in the slightest haha), so I'll take your word for it. I'm sorry it's all so trashy.

As the users. No, not you, don't worry. The badfic writers. No, still probably not you.

AO3 is the most popular pure-fanfic repository that allows for sexually explicit content. As a result, it is the first port of call for a lot of smut writers. As in, according to the tagging system, just over 1 in 10 fics on AO3 contains sexual content. This wouldn't be a problem if not for the fact that the vast majority of that stuff is awful.


And combine this with the commonness of bad slash my documented hatred of Yaoi tropes, and burning-with-the-force-of-a-thousand-sons hatred of ABO (less common but pretty much everything I hate in one convenient package)... yeah.

I feel as though I may regret asking this, but what's your beef with AO3?

Real talk I'm probably going to end up bringing in agents soon. I have no shortage of old OCs who could be brought in from their old worlds to viciously tear into others', haha.

And as it happens, I am an animation major in my senior year of college. Schoolwork will always come first, but animation is in fact a thing that I know how to do! (Mostly 2D right now but I'm planning on going into more 3D stuff this coming year.)

It's so wonderful to see so many new faces here! New faces, new ideas, even some returning faces! Ahh! Anyway, I'm Twistey. I've been on this Board for 1 year now, and I come up with a lot of ideas. I'm good at judging short things like bios and general overviews, so if you have any agent ideas, I'd love to see them!

So, what do you intend to do here? What type of badfic do you want to spork, and using what methods? Again, any agent ideas? I'm also especially looking for people who would be willing to create animated missions with which to spork badfics in video format, fangames with which to spork badfics in fangame format, and/or mods with which to spork badfics in mod format, so if you do programming or animation, let me know.

Anyway, as for your newbie gift, here's that talking bass fish that you can put on your wall, as well as a kit to hack it with anything you wish. If you wish to give this virtual gift to your agents, they could hook it up to the console (resulting in a beeping fish), or if you want it, you could put Amazon Alexa in it. Just humor.

Anyway, it's nice to meet you! Hope you have a great time on the Board, and welcome to the PPC!

-Twistey