Board Thread:Administrative Requests/@comment-4010415-20180225013443/@comment-4010415-20180226051627

ToonRadio wrote: How about by volume based on on screen appearance, then by initial affiliation in that volume based on narrative importance. For example, Salem would be in Volumme 3 Vilians since that is her first on screen appearance. Plus, Raven would be under STRQ under Beacon. There may still be outliers, but this arrangement would fix most of the issues. That seems a little too overly complex, unless it's just the way you're describing it.

It also seems weird to list them by affiliation under the volume they made their first on-screen appearance in, especially since the characters they were affiliated with may have already been introduced in a previous volume.

For example, what would we do with Ironwood in Volume 2? We wouldn't be able to put him in an "Ozpin's group" affiliation because Ozpin and Glynda had been introduced in Volume 1 and Qrow didn't appear on screen until Volume 2. If we listed him as "Atlas military" for affiliation, he'd be literally the only character in that table.

Unless you mean that, in every Volume section, we list every single character who appeared in that Volume. However, we don't want to list the characters multiple times on the Characters page. We only want to list them once. It's supposed to be a directory of the characters, and listing them more than once muddies that and defeats the purpose.