IMPORTANT: Should we require biographies?

[Jiyu Simul Stamus]

There is also the high chance that required personality doesn't work without enforced punishment for not keeping it updated or playing different than is written. Plus like some other's mentioned OOC focus can take away from a game like this one, for instance Jiyu's crush on Rosemary started out as a completely IC thing that I may not have explored otherwise, something amazing that could have been lost had I been strolling through plot threads for a romance for her instead of happening to find she IC found rose attractive and that rose was persistent enough to break through her barriers enough for Jiyu to fall in love.

Plus Jiyu is literally the only character I've ever had who legit had a developed personality I could write down when I started playing them. So this system would completely eliminate the player base who don't like to go through setting the character's persona in stone before playing them, which is a massive limit on creativity in my opinion. I wouldn't have made Masie if this was a thing when I made her.