Board Thread:Suggestion Box/@comment-4199666-20140603105429

Hey peoples and other English-literate life forms and robots with internet access.

As you may or may not be aware, most of the character pages on this wiki are written in first person (I, me, my for those of you who don't know but probably should if you're calling yourself an English-literate life form) with a few exceptions which were written in third person.

Both of these are absolutely fine, but I'm basically making this post to say that if you write out the history of your character on a character form in third person (he, she, they), it's totally okay to copy that third person history over onto the character page if your character wouldn't openly talk about their history. It's also a thing I've noticed when describing personalities. People's personalities are easier to describe when we aren't thinking about how they would describe themselves.

However, I feel like we have lived long enough with the "That's none of your business." "I don't need to tell you my history." histories. It might not be any of my character's business, but do you know how helpful it is for me as a portrayer? Extremely. It lets me find links between the characters that someone could mention. It helps me work out what type of character yours is and where our characters might have met before. Basically, just stop deleting history because your character wouldn't say it. If they definitely wouldn't say it, right it from a third person perspective.

Thank you for your time. 