Submitting A Character


Before I can list your character on the site, I need to have the questions below answered and emailed to me at glitchbob@eudoramail.com, or you can use this form.

Let me make some things clear, here - I'm willing to edit and html these things, but if you've got a severe spelling problem, I'm going to just send it right back to you and tell you to clean up your act. You wouldn't hand in an essay spelled as badly as I've seen some submissions, so why should I have to take the ridiculous amount of time I could be spending editing and feedbacking on someone else's more carefully thought-out profile correcting your laziness?

English Grammar and how to use it correctly

Similarly, I have little respect for one-sentence answers to the questions listed below. The idea of a character profile is to offer information about a character that may not be gleaned from a single story, and helps to explain their motives, their personality, and so on. These are characters, not caricatures. If you're really not sure, or feel a bit intimidated, go and take a look at the current database and look at the characters listed there. Characters can also be added to over time as fics are written and the character progresses. Like people, they're ever-evolving, and the profiles are subject to being edited as well. If you have changes to add, please let me know.

If you're STILL not sure how to fill this profile out effectively, I've rustled up a 'how to' guide from various places on the Internet.

Creating a Character Profile


I'm also willing to archive the fic associated with the characters, same rules apply - I'll html, I'll edit to a point, but don't get lazy. I expect you to be at least competent enough to use a spellchecker. Finally - I'm _not_ under any kind of obligation to put your profile up here. I won't reject them without a good reason, though, and I'll say so. And thus... on with the profile worksheet.

Go to the form version


  • Character created by: (Your name)

  • Name:

  • Format: Guardian, Virus, Command.Com, Binome, Sprite etc.

  • Apparent chronological age: User terms

  • Gender:

  • Relatives: Are they living? Deleted? What are their names?

  • Physical appearance: Make description as to-the-point as possible. If you have a reasonably sized JPG of the character, you're invited to send that as well.

  • Origins/Background: What has happened to your character that makes them act the way they do? What was their childhood like? How did they get along with their parents?

  • When?: When in the ReBoot chronology does your character show up? Is it an alternate timeline, or during/after Seasons 1-4?

  • Personality: Is s/he stubborn? Introverted? Social? Do they get frustrated easily? How do they express themselves around others? What first impressions do they give? Is s/he outgoing, opinionated, or cold? Does s/he have an unusual sense of humour?

  • Skills:

  • Weaknesses/Bad Habits: Come on, everyone has them...

  • Likes:

  • Dislikes: These can range from a dislike of nulls to a dislike of a certain food or situation.

  • Catchphrases: Anything your character says on a regular basis (e.g. 'Stay frosty!')

  • Cast relationships - How does your character relate to Dot, Bob, Enzo, Frisket, AndrAIa, Mouse, Megabyte, Hex etc.?: One-sentence answers aren't going to cut it here, and if I get them, I'll just send it back.

  • Fics featuring this character: I can archive the fic here, or you can give me the URL to link to.

  • Is author willing to 'loan out' character to other writers?: (give email address if so)