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Yeah, those long recaps need more cutting than the average client of Black Jack.
Edited by MichaelKatsuro
Yeah, most of those are way too long. All the lead sections should do is give a brief history of the character, enough so to provide some context for the following tropes. Venom II (Angelo) is a good standard I think; one paragraph summarising the character's personality, origin, and current status quo.
they/them || "Forgive me, regent of queer amphibians" - Lt.BGob
Sweet, I'll trim them down.
Angelo is a very short-lived character so it's a lot easier for him, but some of the others are very storied characters. I think 2-4 paragraphs — and normal-sized ones at that — are enough for most characters so I'll aim for about that for the most part.
Venom Hosts is filled with walls of text.
Each character folder has what amounts to a complete recap of the character's history which I don't think is the norm? Like, summarising a lot more is what's usually done, right? But the character pages for Venom are just filled with text, but the hosts especially have this going. Seemingly every single thing they've done is in the lead sections and it reads more like the script for a history video than anything else.
Should this be changed? Beyond just better paragraphing and getting rid of the insane amounts of detail, I think there's too much text in each lead section and it could be trimmed down a lot.
Edited by FuzzyBarbarian