Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-76.24.70.43-20161124214458/@comment-25266931-20161201034157

I disagree. Spin-offs open the door to subtle retcon-ing. A person writing a spin off might want to give more epicness to the spin-off so they end up writing big events happening to this spun-off character just to make their story entertaining. Now you've got a character who faded from the main story but somehow save a whole city and no one heard about it in the main story even though they took place at the same time? BULLSHIT.

Let's take Fox for example. What if I wrote Fox went back to Vale and for the whole rest of the series helped Glynda depend and rebuild the city. They bond they work they make progress. Oh wait, this will be a snore if nothing big happens in this spin-off. BAM! Let's have an unknown Grimm sent by Salem awaken the Dragon frozen in Beacon. And Ruby it's not there, so surprise, Fox was a silver-eye warrior all along and he stops the dragon for good and he and Glynda confess their love for each other.

Sounds stupid right? I've seen shit hit the fan like that. Spin-off will get out of control and end up becoming some crazy AU completely devoid from the main series. Unless you plan to do great things with a character don't put them in a story at all. Or kill them off. Don't fade them into the background never to be seen and all but forgotten and don't spin-them-off unless the original writers are going to keep the spin-off connected to the main title.