Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-12736261-20140717142131/@comment-10734109-20140907222744

My thing with the kudos is that we can't just think about which individuals we like. All of the characters will be included, and that's a given. However, when it comes to the all out decision of which characters will be chosen for the final version we need to think through which combinations will be optimal. Simply put, all the characters can't get along perfectly but even more so should NOT be fighting all the time. If all of the characters' have really uncompatible personalities, that won't be any fun. We need room for character development and understanding, and if that's too hard to come by and just doesn't work in general with the characters we've decided on there will really be no fun in writing the story. People get tired of constant conflict after awhile, and our characters will definitely need to have friends to rely on. Otherwise, they would never want to come back to the art school because they hate everyone there and wouldn't even give a crap if it shut down. Even if there's only one character whose focus is on making friends within the group we can still work with that. However, if everyone in each group is extremely independent and has trouble working well with others they'll all seem, well, monotonous. The group of boys that we've already decided on (primarily because they're the only boys) has great potential for both conflict and cooperation, and I could see them all eventually becoming friends after awhile. However, since we have so many female characters in the running we need to do a bit more thinking. It's absolutely necessary that we have either Kaitlin or/and Camilla (though I think it's already confirmed that at least one of them will be in the main group anyway), because since they're both EF personalities they would be able to try and work with the others. I think that Camilla and Jenna can be swapped pretty easily, and I could see how each would work within the storyline. However, I really think that it would be best if Jenna were a member of a different party so that the others could still congregate in secret. That's not necessarily saying that she can't still be a major character, of course. She can cause a lot of ruckus in other sub plots that will just cause the other four to try working together more. Plus, we could keep her motives more mysterious and hidden so that it isn't until later in the story when we figure out the cause of her actions (CUE THE TRAGIC BACKSTORY WHOOOOO). She would also have more of an audience to tell things to and a better way of covering up that she was the one who started the rumours from the people she's hating on. She can also be the main character in one of the chapters, and that's where we'd figure out all about her.

This, of course, is simply a suggestion. I'm not saying that we necessarily have to do this.

Plus, we should start thinking a bit on side characters and more teachers as well. Though it complicates things a bit further, it's obvious that if we're doing a story about a school we kind of need a lot of characters (even if they rarely speak).