[quote=@HylianRose]
[@The Savant][@Izurich]

I would go ahead and start drumming ideas for character ideas/connections that might be related to your characters. This could help other writers design characters around those ideas or say "hey, my character could probably do that with yours!"

As an example;

[b]Connections Wanted[/b] 
- Old Childhood friend who knew Character A back when they were in the institute, someone who knows about his past but likely doesn't know that they're actively trying to hide it. 
- A rival from their home town that used to bully them when they were younger.
- A Cousin/Sibling
- Someone that Character A is currently betrothed to via political marriage.

If that's a silly idea and you don't think it would be helpful, please feel free to ignore. That's optional but I think would help others know what you want for your character and the roles that they can potentially fill for them. 
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Izurich and I have already spoken a little about how our characters might have met before since Alpheus will only know what people look like, pretty much, before 14 and before. We got down that his family probably visited her family at least once. I bet a few times in all honesty because of how political-governmental-and social challenges and connections would go. 

So, Alpheus knows what Millie looks like from when they were younger. 

However, Alpheus was starting to be hidden by his parents when deterioration happened, so I don't know if Millie would have any idea that he went blind. He got shoved into the shadows of the family and the whole wealth realm because of it, so she probably assumes that he can see because he could when they were little. 

What do you think Izurich? If they knew each other when they were children (or were forced to be around each other during parent visiting each other) and then he just kinda disappeared and wasn't talked about much. Would Millie know that he went blind? Knowing Pran as his dad, he probably only told everyone that "Alpheus is extremely sick," and just left it at that because Alpheus is definitely the curse/embarrassment of the Hoel family.