Quote: T5 said: How about a "Restart-Character Profile" thread? In this we post the character we want to use, name, characteristics, abilities and a short summary of the character´s backgound. That way all the writers in this new story will have a easy way of checking any info they need when writing each other´s characters.
That's tradition of our storytelling, to have a "secret files" thread. So, I am in favour of your proposal, T5. But I think it's important to state what's it's really important for any of the character re-introduced IN the story. Obviously that could and should be done creatively, but I think must be in the story, and should be just what everyone NEEDS to know.
Example with my character:
in the story, I will say that Edulcore Cicciotto was once an Italian Olympic track star (that means he is a well known figure in the world), that after was revealed to be a metahuman had to give back the medals and fell into despair (that means he has resentment toward the world at large), and along other metas started a revolution that int eh long run brought the metas to be accepted in the world (and that means he is proud of what him, with the others, has accomplished). I will also say that he has a son that he keeps hiding somewhere (that means that he is a fatherly figure, with his sense of duty broken between his role as an hero and a father/ but also that the son is not part of general continuity within the stories-i.e he will not be around, unless once- and for now I don't plan it- he could be the subject around which a story revolves).
I will also say that he is nicknamed "the Thunderbird", has natural wings on his back and has a mace of mithological origin that can brings lighitings and thunders.
That is what everyone should know to write Euro accordingly to my vision.
In the Character Profile thread I can put more information (that his son is really a clone of himself, that he is what brought him in the first place to come to America and start the Revolutionaries, how he developed his powers, how the wings regrew after were stripped away years ago...) but that should not be foundamental for the collective stories. Every character should be grasped and understood with just a few lines of description and the past should be recognized mostly just for what had a great influence on the shaping of the character.
Talking about Crasher, if you permit me, T5, I think what it is really important is to know that she was raped twice during her missions, and the second time by his half brother, and how that reshaped her behaviour. And that should be in the story post, along with her basic powers and current whereabouts. The relation with Ameristar and the relation with his father Mirrdyn, instead, I would describe in the Character Profile thread, as both of them, IMO, should appears in the story only if brought in as story devices, once. And to be freely disposed by anyone in the story.
I think the Morrison JLA should be a good example: the heroes seen in their iconic role, and interacting only between themselves, with their personal life/continuity left in their solo titles.
