I like long, convoluted canons to begin with. CRAUs can turn any character into one.
After playing a character for a while in one place and having them grow and change, sometimes I don't want to jettison that characterization to start fresh somewhere else, either to avoid repetition or because they might come out completely different.
Sometimes I'll app with someone else to preserve and continue CR after a game closes.
Keeping years of game canon straight is as easy as a text doc with anything I think might be particularly relevant down the line. Sometimes I forget things! But that's true of canon, too. And real life, for that matter.
As for getting tagged more or less, I don't really notice a difference from my non-CRAU characters? As long as you're not weird about it, with your character constantly making a big deal about it (which, if it's not their first rodeo, they really shouldn't), at the end of the day, it's just having extra some canon to work with that almost nobody but you will be familiar with.
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After playing a character for a while in one place and having them grow and change, sometimes I don't want to jettison that characterization to start fresh somewhere else, either to avoid repetition or because they might come out completely different.
Sometimes I'll app with someone else to preserve and continue CR after a game closes.
Keeping years of game canon straight is as easy as a text doc with anything I think might be particularly relevant down the line. Sometimes I forget things! But that's true of canon, too. And real life, for that matter.
As for getting tagged more or less, I don't really notice a difference from my non-CRAU characters? As long as you're not weird about it, with your character constantly making a big deal about it (which, if it's not their first rodeo, they really shouldn't), at the end of the day, it's just having extra some canon to work with that almost nobody but you will be familiar with.