User blog comment:Silver-Haired Seireitou/Bleach Wiki's Trash Talk/@comment-4509522-20160627013739

Seeing this did make me think more of why I decided to take a hiatus from this wiki, and, while I do think that Xil's comments were both in poor tastes and pretentious, it made me think of what I perceive as a major problem here on BFF.

Seireitou Kawahiru's article is immense, staggering, easily one of the most detailed and thought-out articles I've ever seen pertaining to a single character. When I first joined BFF, his article was the first one I ever laid my eyes on and I became fixated on making my own character whose article would be just as big if not bigger than Seireitou's. That thought process slowly died out as time went on, and I wanted to focus more on actually telling stories than making a strong-as-fuck character. With the advent of my main character, Asumu Godai, the will to create an article as grand as Seireitou's began... and from there I believe my problems started to develop.

I can't make an article as big as Seireitou's. It's literally impossible. I possess not the intelligence nor the patience to even attempt to work out such great detail on a single entity, but even with these in mind I continued to try and make Asumu one of the most powerful beings here. For a time, it seemed that I had achieved that goal, as many users held Asumu in high regard and considered him the strongest Quincy here (some of you still do surprisingly), but even when it seemed that I had done what I had set out to do, I was dissatisfied with what had turned out. Even though I had worked out every power to the last detail, I didn't fully understand what these powers could really do; I had only set out to make abilities that were strong and sounded intriquite, rather than make powers that I wanted Asumu to have.

Power was the only thing on my mind, and because of that, my drive to write slowly began to slip.

It was when I first roleplayed with Njalm that I realized what my problem was. My memory is a little spotty, but Njalm's character had placed Asumu in a particular Gintou spell that threatened to crush him. Although there were many ways for Asumu to get out of this predicament, based on numerous things I had put in his article, I couldn't think of any way for him to do so; despite all of the things I had put in his article, in my mind there was no other way to save him than to go the Kubo route and use the almighty power of asspull. I had Asumu use an ability that wasn't listed on his article, which would have gotten him out of the spot for sure, but the action was dishonorable in and of itself because it was not a power that Asumu truly possessed based on his article.

I like to think that here is where my dip started. I truly had no idea where to go or what to do after what had happened, and eventually, despite my continued efforts, I gave up entirely. Since my blog I've taken the time to see that power is not what makes a character, and while I won't give out any names, I've noticed that many users here, new and old, seem to be making the same mistake I did. Don't set out with a character intending for them to topple Seireitou's throne; make them for the sake of making a great and memorable character.