Well, my initial plan was to have Fubuki drop/get eliminated from the story early and duel... Almost never, in fact. She was meant to be a character that wasn't going to duel unless it was absolutely necessary (aka life/death or super important info) and I gave her the deck because I thought it fit the idea well. If she's not going to be dueling much at all, then giving her a decently strong deck to use especially if she was out of the tournament from the get-go should've been fine.

As for Joseph... I made him with Diamond in mind, so it's kind of weird to alter it at this point. I didn't have any specific theme, just that he had influence from OCG which led to Star Seraph Satellas.

Thinking about this a bit more, I think that the tag portion was what really slowed the RP to a near-grinding halt. Since our time zones are almost all out of sync, it becomes incredibly difficult to get 4 people in the same duel, then to work everything out as a group. This was the main reason as to why I believed a (pseudo) reset necessary- my characters and their decks aside, getting 4 people to collaborate under such conditions is incredibly difficult.