I would love to see it if one does get done. (Favourite mission will always be the one which ended with the Stu being charged with "being a sandwich that walks like a man".) Just recalled one particularly stupid one I saw prior to ever joining the PPC which got taken down when the original Redwall Fanfiction Board collapsed. Pity, I'd love to have been able to prove its existence. I think the issue with it was the author was trying to do transformation fetish in a non-magical canon, and it doesn't work; even were they human and not respectively a squirrel and a stoat, a teenage boy would not be able to pass successfully long-term for the adult woman he spoke to for approximately two sentences before killing her, especially not to her husband, especially not while having sex with said husband. Then again, said husband was evidently a complete moron because he somehow managed to cut his tongue out by doing the dramatic sword lick. Wouldn't that at worst result in a surface cut unless you really dug around in your mouth? And I suspect back to the transformation fetish thing, a rock is not a serviceable fake tongue. Even at thirteen I thought the whole thing was stupid. Pity, because the adorkable punch-clock villain character was exactly my type and I loved him.
That was on the same board where someone thought "may contain some mature content" (a warning I hate at the best of times - you tell me, you're the writer!) was a sufficient warning for an extremely graphic torture scene involving Spoiler: EXTREME SQUICK rape, leg amputation, tongue-splitting, and forced coprophagia. I was twelve when I saw this and it instilled in me a distrust of fanfic warnings, an automatic wince whenever Kate Bush's "Lionheart" album plays as that was what I was listening to at the time I read it, and a deep gratefulness for the fact that pretty much all the stuff on the board including that was basically original furry fic because if it was canon characters I'd have had nightmares forever.
I remember a Pokémon fanfic (in French) where Lugia was a passenger airliner(?!?) who gets sent across time and space by Celebi (exclusively in 20th-century real world France, of course), and the fic ends with a cliffhanger as Lugia ends up in the middle of a battle, in Normandy, on June 6th... 1945. I also wasn't allowed to use the internet for a while after that because my mother caught a glimpse of the screen and apparently read "Führer" somewhere.
Wow. If anyone's familiar with the infamously triggery SCP-231, I theorised she's a counterpart of Laura of "legolas by" fame. The Foundation is using D-class in place of orcs to suppress the power that can distoy us all the good guys; note that after Laura gets tortured by orcs she doesn't use her mysterious power, and Legolas had the same thing happen and doesn't seem to have any powers.
...I don't know why I suddenly wondered this, but I am now pondering how AO3 tags would appear in the PPC. Would they come at you at the start like Author's Notes? Would not tagging things that should have been tagged (without using CNTUAW) like Ray did with that one fic be admissible as a charge? How 'bout mis-rating the fic?
I think all those things sound accurate, yeah, but it's been a while since I was on the board so they might have changed things. I just kinda stopped going when everyone I was good friends with and/or a big fan of over there disappeared. I miss Trojie and Pads :(
I feel like I'd appreciate it much more if I hadn't read only the first two six-book-arc-thingies, and in the French version.
Another thing I've noticed; the characters the ficcer claims to like most are always the most likely to be completely unrecognisable. Is there a Laws of Badfic list somewhere that might be on? Oh, for anyone who saw the Redwall sporkings, here is an extra helping of creepy for you; Mariel, the desperately OOC damsel in those, was canonically based on the author's real-life granddaughter, who was a child when the book was written. Nyeah.
My guess for why that happens is that the characters they like most are the ones they're most likely to put at the center of the narrative, and if they're at a stage where they jump straight to reproducing cliches and aren't good at making the plot be caused by the characters rather than the other way around, those characters can end up shanghaied into a bland cookie-cutter plot that doesn't fit their canon personality. Characters the author doesn't care as much about are less likely to be focused on and thus roped into the center of the cliche storm, and are more likely to retain their original characterization.
Also, the character that resonates most with someone is the one most likely to lose the details of their characterization in favor of "They're just like me!" in the hands of an inexperienced author.
Given that there are now at least two ficcers who felt the need to go through a long kids' book series and write bad porn for every book, I'm sorely tempted to do a parody along the lines of the Lord of the Rings All Slash All The Time version. Another reason I don't think I have the moral high ground anymore; I have written something about a character from said kids' books which heavily implied he committed necrophilia.
Oh, another fun badfic trope; total lack of reaction to things which should provoke reaction, and overreaction to things which shouldn't. See Homestuck High's characters responding to ridiculously OTT magic and demonic events with "oh okay", and Hogwarts Exposed's Hermione doing a Big Noooooo upon hearing of the deaths of people she didn't know. ("Fan" comic hogwarts-enraged on dA summarises it with "No! Not the people I've never met!") A more recent fic I found had a character who responded to almost being raped as if the guys in question had done nothing more interesting than walk past her, yet reacted with almost realistic-sounding shock and distress to the suicide of someone she'd only just heard about the existence of one sentence ago (who, BTW, her conversational partner had no reason to bring up at all).
