Administrative Notice

[jerusalem-s.livejournal.com]

Several weeks ago, the admin had a conversation with a player who had changed their characters canonical background. Everything was resolved to mutual satisfaction and all was sunny and bright. Many kudos to the player for being a good sport and understanding why it was done. However, it has come to the admin attention that there will need to be an addition to the rules to establish and explain this standing.

This is a reminder to all players that you are supposed to be playing the character you applied for. You have an established canonical background of your character, plus or minus fiddling with the laws of time and space to allow for age/timeline variances. You are not allowed to change your canonical background. When you applied for your characters, we approved them as they were. Changes to their background outside canon, after the fact, changes your character into something which was not approved by the admin.

Example: Angelus, Spike, Dru, Buffy, Willow, Xander, Faith and Oz all come from the same base canon. The have, however, chosen to pull their individual characters from different times and places within that canon and this has resulted in some reshuffling as things which are true for some characters don't apply to others. However, all base canon has remained the same.

Changes in your character resulting from things that occur in the game are allowed, encouraged and occasionally arbitrarily inflicted. All of these are good. Change and growth and insane relationships are what we are all about. However, unless you're in a plot with the Doctor that involves going back and changing your character's past significantly, you may not alter your character's base canon. Once you do this, you are no longer running the character as it was submitted for enrollment and your character is no longer the one approved by the admin.

This game was set up for fan characters to attend school and watch them interact like crazy. Literally. Enrollment was in place to allow the admin to review and approve characters. If, after registration, you made a major change to your character's established canon, your character will be asked to have their canon revert to standard.

Thank you.

Comments

[ten-and-chips.livejournal.com]

[is vaguely terrified to be mentioned in one of Spider-mun's announcements]
[runs in terror]

[chasingangela]

[I'm not even mentioned, and announcements like this *still* terrify me.]

[sogothcally.livejournal.com]

[This makes me go "my character having no real back story to speak of, and just going off basic character traits" makes me soooo happy right now. I don't really have anything I could screw up!]

[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

Hey, I'm a paranoid freak, so anytime I see an announcement like this, I automatically think they might be talking about me.

[leeadama.livejournal.com]

[You naughty time traveling boy, you!]

[jerusalem-s.livejournal.com]

Nobody looooooves meeeeee.

[ten-and-chips.livejournal.com]

[pets]

[maias-notebook.livejournal.com]

*bounce bounce to spider* Its ok, I still like you. *smiles*

[can_be_more]

*hugs*

[bugofjustice.livejournal.com]

"Spider-mun, Spider-mun
Does whatever a Spider can."

Sure, it doesn't exactly rhyme, but that doesn't stop it from repeating over and over in my head.

[jerusalem-s.livejournal.com]

*rolls about, laughing hysterically*

Damn you, I'm going to have that running in MY head for the rest of the day.

[msgilmoredanes.livejournal.com]

Okay - so are you saying that the fact that the Gilmore Girls characters agreed to basically go AU from where the series started is not acceptable?

[lane-drums.livejournal.com]

*has no real basis for saying this*

But you actually applied as 'Ms. Gilmore-Danes' so I think you were approved as-is.

[jerusalem-s.livejournal.com]

No. As long as you agreed on the main canon - which you did. You pulled your characters from their storyline at the very beginning... they still started there. So you diverged after that...? No problem.

If you'd decided that Rory was actually a secret amazonian princess with a magic glowing sort that she could draw from the heart of her true love and had just been suffering from amnesia for all these years - or made her some sort of super hero with a secret identity who could leap tall buildings with a single bound - or made her the long lost love child of Spider Jerusalem and Sarah Connor - or had her win the lottery so she had a hundred million dollars...

... then we'd talk. These are extreme examples, but I think you see what I mean.

[jerusalem-s.livejournal.com]

^ magic glowing sword. I can spell. Honest.

[http://users.livejournal.com/___lily_evans_/]

That Rory would be pretty sweet, though. :)

[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

Dude. I wish Rory was that cool.

[msgilmoredanes.livejournal.com]

So divergence from canonical timelines is okay as long as its in character... that makes sense.

I'm new to this, so I want to make sure I'm not stepping on toes.

[notstakedyet.livejournal.com]

OMG! How dare you give away my sooper sekrit "Angelus is really an amazonian princess" backstory!

I'll never trust you again!

[nightsmoonchild.livejournal.com]

I've read through the comments to this point, and I'm pretty sure it's going to be acceptable, just thought I'd double check sice the issue has come up.

Duce is helping Oz get control of the wolf, so he'll be able to fight the change during a full moon, and potentially change at will or in extreme emotional situations...Since it is canon that he gets a handle on it...'sokay for Duce to help him, rather than the monks in Tibet?

[jerusalem-s.livejournal.com]

Sure is. You pulled Oz from his canon before he got it under control... you arrived with it out of control... what happens after that is entirely up to you. (Within believable limits, as if Oz produces a magical girl wand and declares himself Sailor Moon and thus in control of his lycanthropy, I'm outta here.)

[valentine-tart.livejournal.com]

*sighs and quakes in terror*

Beka's base canon is that at this age she is a very gray character with a rap sheet, working salvage ops and scams with a friend. She lived on her Dad's ship, but because she and Bobby did stuff on their own, I've assumed she had one.

I've made one departure from the canon, which is that Future-Beka is a character existing outside the time and space of the episodes in which she was seen. Future-Beka is as far as Beka knows, the driving force behind her presence at the school, and has meddled in her life, allowing her flashes of things that she did not and would not have known until later in the series. It's a fairly major point in her relationships at this juncture that she knows she's supposed to end up being the mother of the Nietzschean race, and I did that because it's already happened in real time, time travel is confusing.

She's gotten Ghost wheel from Dierdre in weird things, but I've been trying to slide out of that anyhow because it's not fun.

I'll be awaiting the letter. *headdesk*

[valentine-tart.livejournal.com]

I meant to say that both Future-Beka and the ship were part of her original registration canon.

Ghost-wheel is new and can happily go away.

[marieann-d.livejournal.com]

Er, just to clarify, because I'm paranoid like whoa (it's not paranoia if they are really out to get you...) we would be emailed/contacted in some way if our character(s) were in violation of canon to this degree, correct?

[jerusalem-s.livejournal.com]

Yes. The admin are not out to get anybody, and we are trying very hard to make sure no one has any justifiable reasons for their paranoia.