Unfinished threads and your character's development

[Wolf]

If a thread you're a part of is unfinished and dies, due to a lack of activity of one or more members etc., do you forget it ever happened?

For example when you're developing your Force abilities, or lightsaber expertise, do you count unfinished threads as real things that happened and still enhanced your character's abilities? Or, as they are unfinished, they never happened?

I understand there's most likely no right answer, just wondering how people RP these things.

 

[Jamie Pyne]

[member="Wolf"]

If a thread you're a part of is unfinished and dies, due to a lack of activity of one or more members etc., do you forget it ever happened?

No. I carry on with the assumption that whatever was happening came to a likely conclusion. Depends on the situation though. It's subjective, and only counts if you want it to count really. For instance if you bowed out of a thread because you didn't like what was happening you can say it never happened. But if this was for something like training an ability and my partner quit, I would either carry on alone if possible, or just use what I had as completed.

 

[Connor Harrison]

I just, as [member="Jamie Pyne"] said, assume events die down and people parted and it came to a natural conclucsion, like those ones we don't always see on screen but hear about in conversation later.

Sort of make up the ending in your head and choose what happened to your character during it, and then move on.

 

[Kuzo]

For me it also depends on how far the thread got to begin with. If my posting partner abandons the thread before anything starts to happen (i.e. only a couple posts in) then I tend to scrub it, shrug and move on. But if a thread has gotten to the meat of things, and stuff is happening when it gets abandoned? Then like above, I mentally decide how the rest of it went down (in a way that doesn't require the other person's character to have been maimed/killed/etc) and add it to my file of "stuff my character did".

 

[Rusty]

Depends on the thread, honestly. I never start with the assumption that a thread will be finished; I'm too used to people vanishing halfway through or just losing interest. If what happens in the thread might be relevant later on, I count them towards the character's backstory. If they don't, it quietly vanishes, no harm done.