The most well-known badfic character is Mary Sue. Often, however, she is not satisfied with just messing with the lives of the canon characters. She feels she has to create a backstory for herself that involves innocent bystanders. Examples of these are (foster) parents, siblings, teachers, and random rapists.

It happens quite often that PPC agents stumble on original characters in a badfic that are only victims of their circumstances. In such cases there are no or not enough charges against said character to prosecute them as a Mary Sue. These characters are then recruited for the PPC.

There are, however, agents that think it is more humane to put these characters out of their misery all together.

“Agent Zan Holbar, occasionally called Zan, is a Hork-Bajir Seer in the Department of Floaters...

Zan Holbar

Tenth Walker

“The Designated Bastard is a very common character type found in badfic. While there are many...

Designated Bastard

Dafydd Illian

“The Designated Sycophant is a very common character type found in badfic, and the victim of...

Designated Sycophant

Ilraen-Aroline-Fothergill

Drake

Cinderella