Developing a backstory for Lilia helped me flesh out her character a lot, something that would be valuable even if I never showed it to anyone. I made much of it public on her wiki page in the interest of serving as a reference for things people's characters would know about her but that their players wouldn't necessarily.Â
So I think that's part of the benefit of it. It's funny because I was actually just looking at your wiki page and I am going to ask your permission to have my character take notice of something in your backstory. This, I think, is the proper use of making your backstory well known.
As for me, I restrict the details of Lilia's biography to things that aren't a secret, because I think part of the fun of RP is learning things about the other character through the course of interacting with them. Obviously for some characters (such as yours) it's highly unlikely that any of these secrets will ever come out. For me, I enjoy dropping little hints here or there that might make people wonder, regardless of whether Lilia is ever going to open up about it.
For a character who's unlikely to ever open up about their past, you might consider "spilling the beans" about those details in the form of a biography just for the sake of other people's enjoyment. I think RPers are generally pretty good at resisting the urge to metagame when it comes to character histories, but that may just be my limited experience.
So in short: Making a biography is a great way to nail down aspects of your own character, and it can be useful to show to others if you are open to having other people share certain aspects of your history. But the really juicy details of backstory are something I would probably omit from a public biography.
So I think that's part of the benefit of it. It's funny because I was actually just looking at your wiki page and I am going to ask your permission to have my character take notice of something in your backstory. This, I think, is the proper use of making your backstory well known.
As for me, I restrict the details of Lilia's biography to things that aren't a secret, because I think part of the fun of RP is learning things about the other character through the course of interacting with them. Obviously for some characters (such as yours) it's highly unlikely that any of these secrets will ever come out. For me, I enjoy dropping little hints here or there that might make people wonder, regardless of whether Lilia is ever going to open up about it.
For a character who's unlikely to ever open up about their past, you might consider "spilling the beans" about those details in the form of a biography just for the sake of other people's enjoyment. I think RPers are generally pretty good at resisting the urge to metagame when it comes to character histories, but that may just be my limited experience.
So in short: Making a biography is a great way to nail down aspects of your own character, and it can be useful to show to others if you are open to having other people share certain aspects of your history. But the really juicy details of backstory are something I would probably omit from a public biography.
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