Department of Character Protective Services

The Department of Character Protective Services was created as something of an offshoot of the PPC, with shared technology but limited interaction. It has since evolved into two divisions, one notable for its field service and the other loyal to the original, office-format counseling focus.

It is headed by the Asphodel and made up of both full-time case workers as well as moonlighting agents from other departments, all of whom work to help and protect a specific character or characters. Its flash patch is a golden shield.

Description
The DCPS contains office space for its Counseling Division. It is also known to have a first-aid room containing goodfic as an antidote to the pain caused by gross and unbearable character abuse.

History
The DCPS was originally considered an offshoot of the PPC that shared the same technology, but little else. Its agents dealt with badfic by removing the canon from the story's influence, not the other way around. The DCPS merged with the PPC c. 2005 due to one or two things: 1) The invention of the Simulation Generator, and/or 2) The Flowers getting fed up with case workers abusing their power and removing their favorite characters from any situation that so much as inconvenienced them.

Field Division
The Field Division is the more standard division of the DCPS. Its agents are tasked with protecting specific characters, going into the field and dispatching badfic much like the other departments. Agents in the Field Division are often also employed by other departments, working for the DCPS in a secondary function.

The Department for Elf Protection was merged with the DCPS Field Division.

Counseling Division
The Counseling Division of the DCPS is located in a series of large rooms full of cubicles. Unlike the Field Division and other departments, the DCPS CD does not interact directly with badfic or provide agents with RCs or other standard equipment. Instead, each agent is assigned to a cubicle which quickly becomes highly personalized, the content and appearance (i.e. beanbag chairs) focused on putting visiting characters at ease. Typically one senior agent oversees the activity of the room at large, accepting reports and informing the other agents when their work is needed. In larger continua, such as Lord of the Rings, an entire room or section of cubicles is dedicated to the service of that particular fandom, but those of lesser need are likewise clustered with others of similar situation, or even assigned multiple per agent, dependent on need.

Known Agents
This list of agents in the department is mainly taken from the PPC Information Directory and therefore may be neither complete nor up-to-date.

Anime

 * Agent Teena
 * Agent Takashi

Creepy Bloodstained Victorians
This society wasn't officially a division of the DCPS, but it certainly falls under its purview.


 * Agent Car'rok
 * Agent Tia Giltine

Dragonriders of Pern

 * Agent Erik

Freelance

 * Special Agent Ringil - Smiter of Abusive Gits

Lord of the Rings

 * Agent Tweed - Denethor
 * Agent Pythia - Legolas
 * Agents Alex and SilentStep - Boromir
 * Agent Eohric - Peredhil Section - Elrond, El Twins, Celebrían
 * Agent Millie - Thranduil
 * Agents Jiri and Feathers - Faramir
 * Agents Kaitlyn and Chelsea - Pippin/Merry
 * Agent Erin - Peredhil Section - El Twins
 * Agent Kara - Gimli
 * Agent BriRi - Éowyn and Éomer
 * Agents Katie and Wallace - Aragorn
 * Agent Alia - Haldir
 * Agents Swampy and Katrina - Celeborn
 * Agent Amandalyn - Arwen
 * Agent Jon - Gollum and Ents
 * Agent Thalia - Samwise Gamgee
 * Agent R. Eaves - Gandalf
 * Agent Quen - Glorfindel
 * Agent Mica - The Nine Nazgûl
 * Agent Hawkelf - Peredhil Section - Elros
 * Agent Spick - Sauron
 * Agent Monday - Silm Section Coordinator
 * Agent Jo - Silm Section
 * Agent Nin Brandt - Silm Section
 * Agents Elanor and Megan - Elf Protection
 * Special Agent Lambda - Elf Foster Home
 * Special Agent Ringil - Smiter of Abusive Gits

Real Person Fic

 * Agents Veridian Green and Stevius - Actors from the Narnia films

Department Records
Missions from this department are listed on the Complete List of PPC Fiction, Department of Character Protective Services.

Unfortunately, dcps_lotr, the LiveJournal community that hosted the original DCPS LotR offices, is now deleted and purged.