Thread:PisceanWaterbender/@comment-31408668-20170906204635/@comment-30530552-20170906214643

Hi Raikou.

Let me start with the 3rd question, as that's the easiest to answer. I would prefer you discussing things with me on my wall or through a direct message on Discord, as this gives me actual notifications to when you add something. With comments on the page, it will take me awhile to see it, as I don't follow the actual page, and comments don't give notifications.

In regards to the first question, since team RWBY was accepted in as the same year as you, you are on the same timeline. They only spent a year at the academy before it was attacked during Battle of Beacon. As of this point, we are aware that Beacon is not open right now for students, as there's lots of damage there, and from what we can tell, it's still overrun with Grimm. Because of this, you can't have your OCs attending for 3 years, as that would interfere with the current timeline. The way to make this work, if you want them there for 3 years, is to have them be accepted into the school 2 years earlier than RWBY. Otherwise, you're stuck with 1 year, sorry.

Okay, one thing I will mention here. While we reviewers follow the same guidelines, some reviewers are less stringent than others. However; for me personally at least, backstory is one of the more important aspects. You have two possibilities here.

1. If there's major spoilers for what you're doing with your characters, then you don't necessarily have to outline them in full detail, just skim by the actual event and don't give more details than necessary. To take an example from one of the other users here when discussing the same thing to another person, he mentioned "a scientist experimented on [his character]," which doesn't give details as to what exactly happened with said character or her relationship to the scientist, allows for some leeway with story, and gives the users who read the profile when deciding whether to include them in a roleplay or whether to participate know what to expect in general.

2. The other way you can do this, if you're so inclined, is to elaborate more on events that you have already outlined, not necessarily future stuff, just go into a little more depth. Perhaps another paragraph, or a few sentences added to the current ones, where applicable.