Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25266931-20151115205337/@comment-4010415-20151118233758

24.104.77.242 wrote: Adam, Roman, Hei Xiong, the Malachites, and Velvet were all originally filler characters. Team CFVY are not filler characters? Why not? Because RT wouldn't create a team of filler characters just to make Velvet a larger role character. I'll remind you, CFVY was a team before Velvet was shoehorned into it.

My point is that one never knows what fate will befall characters who have actually been seen onscreen. If fan reaction is powerful enough, seemingly filler characters like Roman and Velvet can end up getting a shot at the big time. Wait, what? I'm pretty sure Adam was not originally meant to be a filler character. Where did you hear that? Just because he was in one of the four original trailers doesn't mean he was just a filler character.

Also, fan reaction was not what made them keep Roman around. In the Volume 1 Director's Commentary, they explicitly stated that the reason they decided to keep Roman around is because they liked him. They loved writing for him, they loved his personality. They felt it would be a shame to just get rid of him like they had originally planned to, so they kept him around. The decision for Roman to have a larger role in the plot came before we even saw the first episode.