Kaitlyn Jackson

Agent Kaitlyn is the Department of Character Protective Services caseworker for Meriadoc Brandybuck and Peregrin Took. She is also (and for her it's definitely an 'also') a member of the Department of Floaters, partnered with Selene Windflower. She was created by Kaitlyn, but is now written by Huinesoron.

Name
Kaitlyn's full name is Iolanthe Kaitlyn Jackson. She doesn't use it. At various times, she has been known as Lan, Jenny, and Lynnie, but has mostly stuck with Kaitlyn since she turned 13.

Appearance
Kaitlyn has long, curly black hair, which she used to pull back into a bun but has recently started to wear loose. She is somewhat shorter than average. She has brown eyes, and despite some evidence to the contrary does not usually wear glasses (though the waistcoat is a fixture). In her preferred hobbit disguise, she looks exactly the same, only shorter and with curly black foot hair.

Personality
Kaitlyn talks. A lot. She actually has a rather logical outlook on life – she recognises when her beliefs are unfounded, enjoys complex deductive reasoning, can come up with complex plans on the fly, and has taken the Wizard's Oath in every universe she's set foot in, on the off-chance that it works in one of them – but it can be hard to tell beneath her cheerful ramblings.

Her preferred disguise is a hobbit form, and in general she has a massive hobbit obsession. Put simply, she thinks they are adorable – and the fact that she can get high on mushrooms while in disguise as one certainly doesn't hurt. She also idolises Lord Vetinari to the point of ignoring being killed in favour of continuing to ramble about how luscious his hair is.

In some ways, though, Kaitlyn is quite shy. While in large groups, she will often try to avoid drawing attention to herself, and will downplay her own achievements to this end; however, when the situation demands it, she is willing to put this aside and take an active role in small group planning. In recent years, she has taken on some of her more socially fragile acquaintances as projects to try and help them integrate better into HQ life; they do not always appreciate this.

Childhood
Iolanthe Kaitlyn Jackson was born on October 25th, 1989. Her early life was a quiet one - her mother Lorraine wasn't overly attentive, so she was mostly left to her books (her first word was 'book'). Her only other relative was her Auntie Lee, but her mother cut off contact with her when Iolanthe was five.

When she was nearly seven, Iolanthe was visited by a trio of PPC Agents: Oriana Gardner, Althea Gold, and Isobel ("Izzy") Telmarin, who promptly nicknamed her Lan. It turned out that her mother had written to the Canon Nursery School to ask if they would take her daughter on as a boarder; at Izzy's urging, Lan agreed to go.

For the next few years, Lan had a good time at the school. She encountered her first Suvians, and hung out with a number of future PPC agents. But in 1999 HST, the crisis of the Reorganisation shook the PPC. The Canon Nursery School was shut down, the children were evacuated to HQ - and, to Lan's dismay, her friend Izzy left the PPC with the DIS.

Lan spent a few months living in the Nursery before being adopted by Oriana and (reluctantly) Althea. She went to live in their Response Centre, and decorated it with cross-stitches of pithy quotes. Then, just after her twelfth birthday, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring was released, and Lan found her new obsession.

Taking the name Jenny from one of her friends in HQ, Lan managed to get herself accepted into the first class at OFUM. She had a brief run-in with Lina Holling early in her stay, but otherwise seems to have kept her head down. On her return to HQ, she switched to calling herself Kaitlyn, and joined agent training classes with her best friend Jenn (after apologising for misusing her name).

Early Career
By April 2004, the 14-year-old Kaitlyn had signed up to the Department of Character Protective Services as caseworker for Peregrin Took, working alongside Chelsea Miller, Meriadoc Brandybuck's caseworker. In general, the two treat Merry and Pippin as their joint charges, since they are almost always affected together.

Kaitlyn also worked frequently with Agent Bast, caseworker for Frodo Baggins. When Bast became revered as the PPC Goddess GreyLadyBast, Kaitlyn was one of her first worshippers, and her first priestess. In a conversation with Constance Sims, she was dared to steal the Sacred Mushrooms, and so had the vision which led to Bast's worshippers being clad in grey robes.

Kaitlyn was friends with Ella Darcy of the Department of Author Correspondence, and picked up from her a habit of sending concrit to the authors of stories she visited. At some point, she also made the acquaintance of the Canon Librarian.

In 2005 HST, Kaitlyn signed up for the Official Fanfiction University of Discworld, but (as far as she was aware) nothing came of it. She continued to serve in the PPC, working through GreyLadyBast's departure and the abandonment of the Temple. Some years later, she contacted Dafydd Illian – former High Priest of Bast and custodian of the abandoned Temple – and had herself set up as a fertility goddess in Bast's place. Her Shrine formed the nucleus of the PPC HQ Temple of All Faiths, though there is no indication that she remains actively involved in it.

In 2006 HST, Kaitlyn was peripherally involved in the Crashing Down crisis. She witnessed the Ghost in the Machine's broadcasts of security footage of the invasion, and recognised Izzy Telmarin among the last surviving Black Cats. She ran through HQ to reach her, but arrived at the Cafeteria too late; all she could do was ensure her old friend was remembered.

The next few years were fairly quiet for Kaitlyn. She avoided being downsized from the DCPS, and waited out the Macrovirus Epidemic in New Caledonia. She even met her first girlfriend, Agent Aella of the DMS; they broke up amicably in 2011 after two years together.

OFUDisc
In 2013, the Official Fanfiction University of Discworld finally launched its first class. It did so by instituting a time-slip from 2005 to 2013, which constituted a five-year shift in the canon. It then brought in a class from the students who had applied in 2005 – but due to the way the OFU was created, overlaid those students with the personalities of their selves from eight years before.

During the week the OFU ran, Kaitlyn was part of a group of students who went hunting for her idol, Lord Vetinari. Kaitlyn was killed by traps in the palace (though not without believing she had touched Vetinari's coat); she was brought back the next day.

Kaitlyn was one of four current or former PPC agents in the OFUDisc class. The four of them speculated on the reasons for the various discrepancies between OFUDisc and other OFUs, ultimately drawing the correct conclusions.

During the attack by the vampire students, Kaitlyn fought bare-handed against Mercuria. After the closure of OFUDisc, she was returned to HQ with her mind restored to normal.

Solo Career
In 2014, Chelsea was admitted to FicPsych; the reason for this has been speculated as being Kaitlyn talking too much,, a lust-induced fugue state, or as something rather more sinister; whatever the case, Kaitlyn was held to be technically responsible. Kaitlyn continued to take missions, being given badfics in person by a friend in the Department of Intelligence. On every mission, she then called for backup from every department even tangentially related to the story, ensuring she would have at least one temporary partner.

After a few weeks of this, the larger departments stopped responding to her calls. Instead, she received assistance from departments such as the Department of Temporal Offenses, the Department of Geographical Aberrations, and even the Department of Out of Character Hobbits. She speculated that Personnel had not yet realised she was without a partner.

During this period she became friends with Agent Huinesoron of DOGA. Over the years that followed, she made something of a project out of pulling him out of his shell, but also training him out of his occasional bouts of Noldorin arrogance.

Department of Floaters
In late 2014, the Board of Flowers mandated Kaitlyn's assignment to the Department of Floaters, in addition to her position in the DCPS. She was partnered with the recently returned Selene Windflower. In the Floaters, she continued her habit of providing constructive criticism to the authors of badfics she dealt with, usually spending the few hours following each mission on writing this and her report. As a result of this habit, she was able to convince the Morning Glory to issue her a high-quality office chair from Stores, much to the amazement of her partner.

Among other adventures in Floaters, Kaitlyn has found herself temporarily hypnotised by Dracula while in wolf disguise, prevented Selene from vampirising random bit parts, and was accidentally neuralyzed by her partner.

Somewhat by accident, Kaitlyn and Selene created a massive population boom in the Courtyard: the previous herd led by Alice the meara now has to share the space with a wolf pack, an army of povs, and a clan of Nac Mac Feegles (although this last is not technically Kaitlyn's fault).

Kaitlyn has continued to expand her circle of friends who need help: she has adopted both Selene and Hypatia as projects, and will occasionally bug the likes of Dafydd Illian into making an appearance. In December 2021, she hosted a Hobbit Yuletide feast to which she invited (or dragged) a number of Middle-earth native agents.

Timeline
For the author's recommended reading order, see .


 * USA, World One
 * 25 October 1989
 * 'By Any Other Name', Scene 1 - Born to Lorraine Jackson and named Iolanthe Kaitlyn Jackson.


 * February 1991
 * 'By Any Other Name', Scene 2 - Says her first word at 16 months. It is 'book'.


 * April 1992
 * 'By Any Other Name', Scene 3 - Hangs out with her Auntie Lee.


 * December 1992
 * 'By Any Other Name', Scene 4 - Attempts to recite the Wizard's Oath for the first time.


 * February 1994
 * 'By Any Other Name', Scene 5 - Watches A Midsummer Night's Dream.


 * December 1992
 * 'By Any Other Name', Scene 6 - Is told she can't speak to her Auntie Lee again.


 * Canon Nursery School
 * August 1996
 * 'By Any Other Name', Scene 7 - Recruited to the Canon Nursery School by Izzy Telmarin, Althea Gold, and Oriana Gardner.


 * June 1997
 * 'By Any Other Name', Scene 8 - Reads the first Harry Potter book. Has opinions on the title.


 * December 1997
 * 'By Any Other Name', Scene 9 - Begins to help out at the Canon Nursery School.


 * June 1999
 * 'By Any Other Name', Scene 10 - Helps protect other kids from the school during the Reorganisation.


 * HQ Kid
 * November 1999
 * 'By Any Other Name', Scene 11 - Adopted by Oriana and Althea.


 * May 2001
 * 'By Any Other Name', Scene 12 - Gets very enthusiastic about the trailer for The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring.


 * October 2002
 * 'By Any Other Name', Scene 13 - Attends the first year of OFUM under the name Jenny.
 * 'The Official Fanfiction University of Middle-earth', Chapter 2 - Briefly encounters a certain Lina Holling.


 * May 2003
 * 'By Any Other Name', Scene 14 - Returns to HQ and begins using the name Kaitlyn.


 * December 2003
 * 'PPC: The Next Generation' - Attends agent training.


 * DCPS Caseworker
 * January 2004
 * 'By Any Other Name', Scene 15 - Joins the Department for Character Protective Services as caseworker for Merry and Pippin. Partnered (or co-caseworkered) with Chelsea Miller.


 * 2004
 * 'Agent Kaitlyn, DCPS' - Helps deal with the fanfic explosion.
 * Members of the Temple of GreyLadyBast - Becomes the first Priestess of the Temple of GreyLadyBast.
 * 'The Holy Book of GreyLadyBast', Chapter VII: The Vision of Kaitlyn - Contributes to the Holy Book of GreyLadyBast.


 * April 2005
 * 'By Any Other Name', Scene 16 - Is quite put out by the merger of the DCPS into the PPC proper.


 * June 2006
 * 'By Any Other Name', Scene 17 - Survives the Crashing Down crisis, and learns of the death of Izzy Telmarin.


 * November 2006
 * 'By Any Other Name', Scene 18 - Establishes herself as a goddess and replacement for Bast.
 * The Shrine of Kaitlyn - Opens her own shrine.


 * March 2008
 * 'By Any Other Name', Scene 19 - Survives the Macrovirus Epidemic by evacuating to New Caledonia.


 * August 2009
 * 'By Any Other Name', Scene 20 - Gets together with Agent Aella.


 * August 2010
 * 'By Any Other Name', Scene 21 - Has very little work, but a very nice girlfriend.


 * August 2011
 * 'By Any Other Name', Scene 22 - Breaks up with Aella.


 * July 2012
 * 'By Any Other Name', Scene 23 - Narrowly avoids being downsized from the DCPS.


 * March 2013
 * 'The Official Fanfiction University of Discworld' - Attends the first session of OFUDisc.
 * 'By Any Other Name', Scene 24 - Fangirls Lord Vetinari... 's hair.


 * October 2014
 * 'By Any Other Name', Scene 25 - Takes Agent Chelsea to FicPsych following her breakdown.


 * December 2014
 * 'Wanderer: Of Wolves and Fellowship' - Goes on a mission into Lord of the Rings with Agent Huinesoron of DOGA.
 * 'By Any Other Name', Scene 26 - Is Not Sold on The Hobbit movies.


 * Department of Floaters
 * January 2015
 * 'Driftwood: Prologue' - Transferred to the Department of Floaters and partnered with Selene Windflower.
 * 'Driftwood: Winterwood' - First mission with Selene, into an LotR crossover with… Frozen? Maybe?
 * 'By Any Other Name', Scene 27 - Has a drink with Agent Huinesoron.


 * February 2015
 * 'Driftwood: And So The Journey Begins' - Tackles another LotR mission in which Lust Objects and Favourites become critically relevant.
 * 'Driftwood: Kelly The Roman Warrior' - Takes on a bizarre Dracula/Twilight crossover/mini breeding ground..


 * March 2015
 * 'Driftwood: Opposite Reaction Same Result' - Helps Selene resolve moral quandaries in a mission to The Parent Trap.


 * 'Driftwood: Bella Black' - Goes on a Harry Potter mission to prove that Bellatrix Lestrange does not just need a hug.


 * April 2015
 * 'Clipboards' - Has a strange encounter in HQ.
 * 'Driftwood: Thorin's Little Princess' - Mission to The Hobbit movieverse which showcases the folly of listing powers at the expense of character.
 * 'Driftwood: InterMission' - Gets quite drunk.


 * June 2015
 * 'Headstrong: The Games of Gods' - Gets briefly stranded in Ankh-Morpork.


 * November 2015
 * 'What Has Been Seen', Huinesoron & Kaitlyn - Gives Huinesoron a present.


 * January 2016
 * PPC Hunger Games, Season 3 - Ranks startlingly high in the PPC Hunger Games.


 * March 2016
 * 'Driftwood: The King's Mercy' - Heads into Lord of the Rings and encounters Wormtongue slash.


 * March 2017
 * 'Driftwood: Three Hobbit Ladies and a Ring' - Takes on a Lord of the Rings mission and discovers the issues with Fangirl Feminism.


 * May 2017
 * 'Fight! Fight! Fight!' - Has a chance encounter (or three) in the PPC General Store.
 * 'Driftwood: Key Moment' - Discovers Selene is fine. Really.


 * June 2017
 * 'By Any Other Name', Scene 28 - Hangs out in the Courtyard.


 * September 2017
 * 'Driftwood: Mini-Console' - Something pays the agents a visit.


 * August 2018
 * 'Driftwood: Dead Love' - Takes a mission to a canon she's never heard of - Skulduggery Pleasant.


 * September 2018
 * 'By Any Other Name', Scene 29 - Crochets.
 * 'Talk Like 15 Pirates', Scene 3 - Talks like a pirate. Yarr!


 * January 2019
 * 'Inappropriate Salad' - Dispels Agent Huinesoron's illusions about time.
 * 'Oldest' - Drags several people into Rudi's to prove a point.
 * 'Dinosaurs' - Discusses dinosaurs, the reality of.


 * June 2019
 * 'By Any Other Name', Scene 30 - Discovers there is no such thing as Canon Rangers.


 * October 2019
 * 'Driftwood: There Is Another' - On a Lord of the Rings mission, encounters obsolete technology and a mini-Balrog's heir.
 * 'By Any Other Name', Scene 31 - Has a surprise birthday party.


 * 19 December 2021
 * New Calmas, Day 6 - Hosts a Hobbit Yuletide feast in New Caledonia.

Mission Log
For a chronological list of all appearances, see .

DCPS

 * 'Wanderer: Of Wolves and Fellowship' (Lord of the Rings)
 * Getting muddy with DOGA.

Floaters

 * 'Driftwood: Prologue'
 * An Unexpected Transfer
 * 'Driftwood: Winterwood' (Lord of the Rings/Frozen)
 * Lord of the Rings and... Frozen(?)
 * 'Driftwood: And So The Journey Begins' (Lord of the Rings)
 * In which Lust Objects and Favourites become critically relevant.
 * 'Driftwood: Kelly The Roman Warrior' (Dracula/Twilight)
 * Bizarre crossover or mini breeding ground? You decide.
 * 'Driftwood: Opposite Reaction Same Result' (The Parent Trap)
 * In which moral quandaries surrounding the treatment of eleven-year-old girls are resolved.
 * 'Driftwood: Bella Black' (Harry Potter)
 * Who knew Bellatrix Lestrange just needed a hug?
 * 'Driftwood: Thorin's Little Princess' (The Hobbit)
 * In which endless powers =/= character.
 * 'Driftwood: InterMission'
 * In which there is much alcohol.
 * 'What Has Been Seen', Huinesoron & Kaitlyn
 * If you give an elf a wand... he will be very confused.
 * 'Driftwood: The King's Mercy' (Lord of the Rings)
 * Wormtongue slash? Wormtongue slash.
 * 'Driftwood: Three Hobbit Ladies and a Ring' (Lord of the Rings)
 * In which feminism could do with better planning.
 * 'Driftwood: Mini-Console'
 * Something pays the agents a visit.
 * 'Driftwood: Key Moment'
 * In which Selene is fine. Really.
 * 'Driftwood: Dead Love' (Skulduggery Pleasant)
 * Because why not visit a canon you've never heard of?
 * 'Talk Like 15 Pirates', Scene 3
 * Yarr!
 * 'Inappropriate Salad'
 * Time is an illusion.
 * 'Dinosaurs'
 * Deep time is a deeper illusion.
 * 'Driftwood: There Is Another' (Lord of the Rings)
 * Obsolete technology and a mini-Balrog's heir.
 * 'By Any Other Name'
 * The History of Kaitlyn.