So this is a question, tied to how I've seen it done in a few places, but for folks who end up having characters last a long time through multiple story arcs(same thread or not), like a "main" do you end up taking time between needing to reply to work on little side stuff, like character responses to say, an ask box?

Asking because where I came from, some of us put together these collections containing loads of little character trivia that we wrote as we developed our characters over years and years. That and in the place I came from, we had an ongoing narrative, one world backdrop, with folks going wherever they wanted, while occasionally world altering plots popped up. We also had other connected writing groups, and would go between them for story adventures(in other words, we went to different G+ comms for different tales, like going to an Eggman based community to battle the bad guys on their home turf, or visiting an ally comm and accidentally sparking an intermultiversal war that lasted all of a month before the guys who barged in got their asses handed to em multiple times).

Just wondering if anyone else has done this, I've not seen any setups here for something like that, but it never hurts to ask, y'know? I might just be missing things. I just found it was a nice way to record the organic development of a character, and also let me goof off and do some fun in character stuff that while not full on canon, does shed light on a characters current mindset. Currently trying to get all that data I wrote over the past three four years safely downloaded, so I can bring some of it here.

Hope this is fine to post, wasn't sure what the best title was, and well, as you can see, I sorta rambled, lol. What can I say? I love building stories, and going on all sorts of whacky adventures. While I may never get to use my "main" from elsewhere here readily(not unless a GM sees the sheet I have planned to post soon that's a very slimmed down version and wants to have the character at least make a brief cameo), beyond say, my own stuff, I still well, want to share my work, and see if anyone else has done something quite like this.

Always fun to experiment with ideas and stuff, I suppose-