Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-1294345-20151127064546/@comment-26485526-20151127202057

Ian's not asking to write full profiles for castaways, nor castaway pages. He's simply saying that each castaway should have at the very least, a short summary written about them prior to the season starting. It would be up to the writer as to if they make castaway pages (such as in my season) or a subpage for an entire tribe tribe (for example Survivor: Sri Lanka). Another option for people who don't want to write 16-20 full profiles is a short paragraph about their castaways such as in Survivor: Yucatan (example: Jake Dowker). Also, I agree with Bryce when he says that this could promote user submitted seasons for authors that don't want to write full profiles as they would be able to just cut and paste the submitted summary.

The point of this is because many people (myself included) would like to get to know the cast a little bit before the season starts. Also, the canon series would NEVER start a season without releasing castaway profiles beforehand. Also, as the authors of our seasons, we have an idea as to who each castaway is when we create them and it is our job to translate our vision to our reader. Unfortunately, with many characters (especially the ones that get little airtime) we don't get to know really who they are through just reading the fanon. I apologize for my rant, but that's just my stance on the issue.

Rant over.