(06-03-2015, 02:04 AM)Zelmanov Wrote: But what happens when you are someone turning over a new leaf? The reformed thief? The Soldier who can't erase the blood stained on his hands? Or in my case, the Dragoon questioning his faith. How long do you keep that SECRET? How many months do you let someone live their life before their past comes back to haunt them? And what do you do when it comes? Does it then become the realm's worst kept secret?
This is what kept me from working on a Wiki for Judge for the longest time. While his background is important for who he is and how he acts, it also is a massive spoiler that I don't want to just... give away. Revealing bits of his past strikes me as something that would be fun in and of itself, and I worry how much would be lost if the person I was playing with just looked and went "Oh. Huh." and their reaction ends up tarnished.
On the other hand, it's one of those things that... well, Judge is rather out there as a character anyway. I play him like a FFTA Judge, for one, and all that comes with that. I feel it necessary to have something so that the person I'm playing with has a chance to know what they might be getting into - and can decide if that's something they want to deal with. And yet, trying to write something that is both informative and vague at the same is... difficult.
My current thought on the matter is to have the spoilerish bits of background behind spoiler tags (since you can do those in the wiki) along with a warning of what it is. That way it is there if people want to know, but you actively have to pop it open to see it, leaving those who want to still be surprised able to read the rest of the page without seeing something spoiled.
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