#input wanted!

So I’ve been considering restructuring the way I show the numerous secondary characters on the blog as well as posting basic summaries of the blog’s storyline. Currently the first arc, The Red Arena, is finished and characters have split off into two separate parallel stories. Part of the reason I created the story wasn’t just to give Team OLIV a plotline to work with, but also to give a backdrop context for people to interact with the team as well as insert their own characters into the story however they wanted. The idea was to give the team a personal story and backdrop as well as keep them separated from the events of the RWBY proper and not forcing them to simply react to something they’ll never realistically have any influence on. In addition, I do plan on some small timing retcons and pushing the blog’s events to always be at least a season behind the main show so I’m not stuck writing around new current events or shoving spoilers into the blog’s plot.

As a result, presenting this is mostly for the benefit of my followers and RP partners who want to get involved with the story or need a place to use as a base for interaction. My current system is a bit of a mess.  I realize that my old cutscenes were mildly inconsistent, missing information, and the writing changed over time. In addition, character profiles are a bit scattered and some don’t quite have places in supporting or antagonist directly and others are going to change anyway. Here are a few things I can do to fix this, but because this is for my RP partners, I want your input on it.

Here’s my options and ideas. I could implement some or all of them. 

The Storyline Currently I have a masterpost of cutscenes but these don’t tell the whole story and not all of them are well written. I have a few options for this. 

First, I could just update and rewrite cutscenes as I need to and put a link to the collection. This will take some time and put my current story on a mild pause on occasion. If I do this, I’ll definitely want to add scenes of stuff that wasn’t properly explained or left in threads to explore.

Write a summation of the plot in narrative form, giving either an abridged or bullet point version of the story, possibly linking the cutscenes when appropriate. (I may still do some edits if I go this route)

The Side Characters This blog boasts over two-dozen side characters of varying importance and relation to each other. Many are only “available” during certain arcs in canon and I do tend to kill them off every so often. So I’ve considered creating a masterpost giving a small summary of each plotline, then let people look at the full events and/or the character profiles for each arc. The main team will keep their own pages. I can either keep the profiles as they are or organize them by arc as I’ve been considering.