User blog comment:Smash The Echidna/A guide to Fan Characters and Roleplaying/@comment-32712012-20180123071054

Hi Smash! This is an amazing guideline, and I try to not break the rules of it...

...except that I just realized that I used The Villain that Killed My Father for Bopha. Would it be highly advisable to completely change around Bopha's backstory so that this never occurred? I ask because I started writing a story that heavily requires Bopha's parents having been killed by the villain, and it won't work at all if that didn't happen. On the other hand, if violating this rule turns my character into an unbearable, unreadable eyesore, I can scrap that backstory and try to figure out a different backstory for him.

Also, I had a question: I know that having characters be related to the canon characters can be problematic, but is it problematic to have characters be related to versions of the characters in alternate timelines made up by fanon users?
 * Example: I make up a timeline, call it AltTime01, and then I made up a character, call him Orange, who is related to AltTime01's Shadow. Is Orange going to have problems because he's related to Shadow, even though this is just the AltTime01 Shadow and not the canon one?

I ask this question not because I have any current plans to do anything in this category, but because I might sometime in the future, and I want to know what your opinion on this is before possibly making up such a thing in the future.

Thanks in advance if you get through this whole post and respond, and thanks for writing such a great post in the first place!