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ways_back_room2007-12-23 01:53 pm
gone_byebye) wrote in ways_back_room2007-12-23 01:53 pm
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Just a clarification:
We've recently had three or four different people ask us about pups of multiple continuities and pups that are different creators' versions of the same character, so it seemed like a good idea to repeat how the Milliways policy stands on such things.
If your pup stems from a single source, even if that source has issued many, many continuities, then only one person is allowed to have that character in Bar. An example of this not currently present in the Bar would be Sergeant Preston of the Yukon. His radio show, his television show, and his comic book all represented different continuities (because if they didn't, the only way to account for every single event in all of them would be if the winter of the Yukon gold rush were roughly five years long). Someone who played Sergeant Preston as represented in the radio series would have the only Sergeant Preston allowable in the Bar. They would be free to implement information from the TV show or the comic book, or ignore it, as they chose. They would also be permitted to bring in Sergeant Preston as he was on TV, or as he was in the comic book. And they would be the only ones permitted to do so.
If your pup stems from multiple sources, such as ancient myths, then someone else is allowed to app a version of that character so long as they use a different source. A multi-source ancient myth character example would be Ares; we could have Straight-Up Homeric Ares, Attractive But Intensely Annoying Xena-Ares, and Great Googly Moogly You're A Real Jerk Aren't You DC Comics Ares in the bar all at the same time, played by different people.
Situations where a series is continued by a different author working from that author's notes/outlines due to the original author's untimely death, such as the Wheel of Time books, the Dune universe, or the Silmarillion of J. R. R. Tolkien are still considered single-source.
Questions? Please let us know. Thank you!
If your pup stems from a single source, even if that source has issued many, many continuities, then only one person is allowed to have that character in Bar. An example of this not currently present in the Bar would be Sergeant Preston of the Yukon. His radio show, his television show, and his comic book all represented different continuities (because if they didn't, the only way to account for every single event in all of them would be if the winter of the Yukon gold rush were roughly five years long). Someone who played Sergeant Preston as represented in the radio series would have the only Sergeant Preston allowable in the Bar. They would be free to implement information from the TV show or the comic book, or ignore it, as they chose. They would also be permitted to bring in Sergeant Preston as he was on TV, or as he was in the comic book. And they would be the only ones permitted to do so.
If your pup stems from multiple sources, such as ancient myths, then someone else is allowed to app a version of that character so long as they use a different source. A multi-source ancient myth character example would be Ares; we could have Straight-Up Homeric Ares, Attractive But Intensely Annoying Xena-Ares, and Great Googly Moogly You're A Real Jerk Aren't You DC Comics Ares in the bar all at the same time, played by different people.
Situations where a series is continued by a different author working from that author's notes/outlines due to the original author's untimely death, such as the Wheel of Time books, the Dune universe, or the Silmarillion of J. R. R. Tolkien are still considered single-source.
Questions? Please let us know. Thank you!