a lot of the borderline cases that I, personally, would consider appable depend heavily on extrapolation like so
- character X has limited screentime, but enough to see basic interactions/demeanor but not much else - character X has known historical origins that we see in no detail for them personally, but that we see in the context of other characters in the same/similar circumstances - some thoughtful consideration of how those circumstances would have shaped a person into the tidbits that are seen on screen for X can put together a fairly thorough whole picture
but, crucially, until actually reading the fucking app that does that legwork, a mod doesn't necessarily know that McDoe "is appable or he isn't. period."
and if I got a second app for the same character that wasn't "bad" in the sense of obvious errors but didn't have any extrapolation, I'd still reject it for being a shallow/incomplete character even if I didn't use the exact phrase "not enough canon"
sorry but basic canon familiarity does not equal perfect information about how a player understands a character or how they'd play them and whether that understanding from canon reflects a whole/coherent person, and apps aren't perfect either but they're a lot better than just guessing
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a lot of the borderline cases that I, personally, would consider appable depend heavily on extrapolation like so
- character X has limited screentime, but enough to see basic interactions/demeanor but not much else
- character X has known historical origins that we see in no detail for them personally, but that we see in the context of other characters in the same/similar circumstances
- some thoughtful consideration of how those circumstances would have shaped a person into the tidbits that are seen on screen for X can put together a fairly thorough whole picture
but, crucially, until actually reading the fucking app that does that legwork, a mod doesn't necessarily know that McDoe "is appable or he isn't. period."
and if I got a second app for the same character that wasn't "bad" in the sense of obvious errors but didn't have any extrapolation, I'd still reject it for being a shallow/incomplete character even if I didn't use the exact phrase "not enough canon"
sorry but basic canon familiarity does not equal perfect information about how a player understands a character or how they'd play them and whether that understanding from canon reflects a whole/coherent person, and apps aren't perfect either but they're a lot better than just guessing