I'm happy with that! Starting early gives us the time to build our characters, skills and interactions, rather than assuming things about the past.

I'd prefer starting after recruitment as opposed to going through recruitment, but this can certainly be early enough on that not all of the freelancers have been selected yet. I'd suggest somewhere in the middle of the process, as the first set or two of the 49 recruited are beginning their training, testing their skills, and sizing up the competition (or, for some of them, not yet aware that it [i]is[/i] a competition; Lizzy would fall into that category). The roleplay would follow them through training, early missions, the slow progression of the canon agents to the top of the leader board, and the eventual fall-out from the institution of the AI fragments experiments.

I'll be playing an OC and had no intention of focusing on the canon agents (since we see that in the series anyway). I figured they would be a way to gauge how time is passing, but would not be central to the story, since we'll be focusing on the other operations Project Freelancer is up to. If either of you-- or anyone reading this/joining in the future-- wanted to play a canon freelancer, just say the word and we can adjust it to have it make sense. I'm fine with making it somewhat of an AU where freelancer interactions are concerned if it serves the story.

If we want to stay canon as much as possible to what we know of the freelancers from the series, reminder that [Season 9/10 spoilers] Utah and Georgia are fated to die before the creation of the fragment AI units.

Are you two interested in making OCs or would you prefer to take over one of the known Freelancers?