It hasn't been told to me whether or not it's required but I believe it's optional. Don't worry about the characters, trust your fellow players to stick to what we have set up.

I mean if you look at it in terms of like the show, no one knows anything about the characters at the start. Even to this day, characters good and evil, we absolutely love, and yet we know nothing about where they came from and where they're going.

I believe that giving as much freedom as players can get when making their characters, will make this rp a great one. But, that still remains to be seen.

Let's address problems as they arise instead of trying tochange things in an attempt to avoid them. We'll learn as we go along.