Hey mods! I know this was brought up with the old mod team, but I seriously think that getting rid of the history/background section would be a beneficial move for the game. In my personal opinion, background sections don't show good writers of characters when they're merely plot summary. Non-personally, most games don't require a written history section/allow linked histories and haven't suffered in terms of quality for it. It's especially redundant when multiple characters apply from the same series to write (generally) the same background information.

In my experience, a history section is at best a slight deterrent from apping and at worst a deal breaker. Many times I have talked to friends about applying here, but they are discouraged by having to write out their character's histories. I know that the rules were modified a bit to only have history sections be about the character's personal relevance to the story, but in the case of main characters or canons with extremely dense plot lines, this can still be an extremely long thing to write for information that can already be found on wikis. As an example, Gau here is a side character in his story, and even skimming the bare bones of his appearances netted about 3 pages/1850 words of history due to the density of his canon. Lately, we have been getting less applicants than our drops, and I think we should eliminate deterrents in the application to attract as many people as possible to our game!

Thank you for your time! and unscreen this, please :vb