Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-1294345-20151127064546/@comment-8169351-20151128162347

DVMP wrote: Okay, a minimum 40-word background essay is something I'm fine with, and will support.

On the note of the whole "equal-screentime" bit, I write my fanons in a way to develop all of my characters as much as possible and try to give people as even an amount of screentime as possible (whether I actually succeed at that or not is another question). I'm completely fine with those who do otherwise, because that's probably a little bit more like the canon show, but I personally would hate to write a fanon where a character of mine is just bland and hidden from the audience (even if they would be slightly developed later in the fanon, I don't want to wait that long!). I don't come anywhere close to running out of material to write with "fully developed" characters, because they really can't be fully developed. Throughout the game, we could still learn more about the characters in how they react under certain situations, whether it be getting pummeled by a monsoon or being betrayed by a friend. Humans are complex and multi-dimensional, and if you try hard enough, no matter how hard you try to develop a character, there's still more material that can be had with them, and more aspects of that person that can be exposed. That's just my opinion, and like I said, I'm fine if you'd rather mirror your fanon to be more like the show, but having near-equal screentime where no character is invisible is in no way a flaw of a fanon, but rather a stylistic choice by the writer.

I do agree, you should NEVER run out of material for a character.