Author-Requested Mission

An author-requested mission is a mission in which the author of the fic requests the PPC's attention, aids the PPC in their work, or otherwise becomes involved in the sporking of his or her own work.

Author-requested missions are not actually a very rare phenomenon. With news of the PPC spreading across the Internet and many serious fanfiction writers having grown out of their Mary Sue phases, there are more than a few people with the desire to teach others how not to write a Mary Sue.

Enter the PPC. Sometimes it's a Boarder or a friend of a Boarder who requests the mission; sometimes it's an author who agrees with constructive criticism. The fic, if judged to indeed be badfic, enters the system like any other and is assigned to agents&mdash;occasionally, to the same agent who wrote the fic.

The author of the fic may or may not help the PPC in their task.

Author-requested missions differ from trolls in that the fics in question are honest attempts made when one was (most likely) younger and (almost certainly) sillier. Trolls are simply deliberate badfic made to get attention through being outrageously bad or otherwise offensive.

Examples of Author-Requested Missions

 * "First Mission!" (Star Wars x Star Trek), Agents Lócë and Infinity (DMS)
 * "Swim" (Harry Potter), Agents July and Library (DF)
 * "The Smasher" (Super Smash Bros.), Agents Derik and Earwig (DMS)