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Originally Posted by Illusion

You desire to completely write your own characters rather then working with existing ones. You aren't good at writing for characters you didn't think of yourself or feel limited to because things are set in stone.

None of the characters were completely Suze-created-with-no-other-input. And none of the characters were created because Suze went "Hey, we need new characters because we don't have a character I can work with". The characters that were made, were made because they were /needed/ to fix holes in the plot. And obviously, when a writer makes a character, that character is going to be in the style of the creator. I'm just throwing that out there. (Also, if you ever somehow get me to create a middle-school pre-pubescent teenage boy character with anxiety problems, he'd be completely different than a character with the same guildlines that, say, Johnny would have come up with.)

You have a great cast of characters to work with, you can completely change their personalities, give them struggles, and bring about better characters by working with them. But always remember your writing is for us to interact with.

You /can't/ completely change a character's personality. /People/ don't change their personalities overnight. To tweak a character's core values, there'd have to be pages and pages of writing, building up to and explaining why this happened!

We can try as much as we can to get users to read and talk about the storyline, but it can't all be the job of the writers -- there has to be immersion and whatnot, and that's brought about in the form of games, items, and mini-events.