Subject: What concerns me more, though...
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Posted on: 2016-12-16 21:41:00 UTC
...is that I introduced so many new characters relatively QUICKLY. I don't know how long hS has been around or writing but I'm pretty sure he's been writing PPC stuff for YEARS, so he's had time to put forth new characters at a reasonable pace.
Contrast this poor bird right here, who, in the course of less than ONE year, started with just two agents, then recruited two more from my first mission, introduced two MORE agent teams (four more agents total) as supporting parties, recruited yet another agent and brought in another to round out my SIC team, and Arceus knows how many other characters I've dragged in whom I've barely visited given both my Real Life schedule and the fact that I now have FOUR different RCs clamoring for my attention.
The point of all this is that I've been handling the issue of "Loads and Loads of Characters" much more rashly than you, hS, or anyone else with more than two RCs under their belt. Whereas other writers take the time and effort to round out and develop one team at a time to make sure it's quality before moving on to the next one, I basically farted out all of mine almost all at once (well, between October of '14 and June of '15, but still), and now I have to struggle with making each of them stand out in their own right.
This is why I've had to pause work with basically every other team of mine now that Falchion and company are in the spotlight for the first time since like what, Spring of '15? Whereas all of my other RCs have received a lot of solid feedback and concrit, allowing me to consider possible new story arcs for all of them in the future, Falchion and Rashida have not had any proper development since I started working with basically everybody else. It's high time that I fix that, and as soon as I manage to find employment again, I can promise that they'll be getting a whole lot more attention from that point on!