Character Editing Guidelines

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The following serves as general guidelines on how to format individual (or joint) Character pages correctly. We all want to be the best editors we can be and we all want this wiki to grow; so when you are editing, please make sure you're formatting pages correctly. These aren't necessarily rules that you must follow to the letter; they are more along the lines of guidelines to make sure things run smoothly and look uniform.

Below are some tips to help when editing.

Pro tip: There are always times when Pixelberry uses Look-Alike Face Models or brings a character just at the end of the chapter, leaving us to wonder if said character will be around long enough to warrant a page on the wiki. Other times, a character is placed in the miscellaneous character page but as the story progresses, the character grows and is given a bigger part in the story and needs an individual page.

As much as we appreciate people being proactive, we also need to make sure that pages aren't unnecessarily being created. So, if you think a character should be moved out of the miscellaneous character page or if you think you should make a page for a character but aren't sure, please contact one of the admins or one of the moderators for advice.

Creating A Character Page

When creating a page for a character, there are 7 to 9 things that need to be considered. They are:

• the infobox
• the introduction next to or underneath the infobox
• appearance
• personality
• Storyloom descriptions (only applicable to the main characters from Open Heart, The Royal Romance, and Bloodbound)
• background (optional)
• chapter appearances
• relationships
• powers and abilities (optional and ususally restricted to supernatural characters with few exceptions)
• weaknesses (optional and usually restricted to supernatural characters)
• gallery
• trivia
• memorable quotes
• references

The bolded articles are the bare minimum that is required. Some characters do not have other images pertaining to them (such as different clothes or personal items or "sneak peeks") and thus would not need a gallery. It would be rare but it is possible for some characters not to have trivia points. Lastly, references are only needed if editors add direct quotes or want to link to non-wiki pages (such as Pixelberry's writers).

Tip: When creating a new Character page, it is always wise to have another browser tab/window open with an established Character page. That way you can toggle between the two to compare and determine what you need and what is missing from the Character page you are creating.

General Advice for Filling a Character Page

The information here applies to multiple sections of a character page.

Your Character vs Main Character

When editing the page of a series protagonist, please note that on the wiki, we distinguish between Your Characters and Main Characters. Your Characters are the by default only playable character in the series (even if some rare scenes allow to play as other characters), while Main Characters are protagonists of series that by default continously switch points of view between the Main Character and other characters. A Your Character can be shortened to be called "you" while "you" cannot be applied to a Main Character because this would be confusing since "you" would technically refer to all characters you, the player, play as throughout the series.

Pronouns

If a character's gender is determined by the player but does not contain a non-binary pronoun option (such as Atlas Ernhardt or Avery Wilshere), please use the pronouns "he/she" and "him/her". Do not use the pronouns "they", "them", or "their" as these are reserved for non-binary characters (such as Cameron Levy and Wrenn) and for characters whose pronouns are yet unknown or unclear (Miranda). Although it may look awkward, you can always write out the names (such as "Atlas") or their titles (such as "Crown Shield") instead of using pronouns.

Some protagonists have choosable pronouns so while the introduction usually lists all available pronouns, you don't have to use them throughout the whole page. In the case of a Your Character, you can instead choose to use "Your Character" or simply "you", although for reading purposes, pay attention to not mix them in one section. For example, don't write "Nik Ryder is your bodyguard and one of your love interests. He has been hired to protect her/him." Both "you" and "her/him" refer to Your Character but because of the different pronouns in use, the sentences may get difficult to read back to back. So instead either write "Nik Ryder is your bodyguard and one of your love interests. He has been hired to protect you but doesn't know who hired him." or "Nik Ryder is Your Character's bodyguard and one of her/his love interests. He has been hired to protect her/him but doesn't know who hired him.

In the case of a Main Character, "you" can technically refer to multiple characters and should be avoided as to not cause confusion while reading; therefore "Main Character" and "she/he" are appropriate ways to refer to the protagonist.

Tenses

For events happening in chronological order, please pay attention to the tense you use for each of them. If all previously added events are described in present tense, then also use present tense for things happening afterwards. For example, it doesn't make sense to write "You first see Nik following you in Chapter 1, but when you want to go talk to him, you find he has already left. Then after the bloodwraith attacked you, Nik sprang into action, saving you after you fall into impending doom. He revealed he was hired to protect you by an unknown client who offered him six figures." These events happen in chronological order (you see him, then you want to talk to him but cannot, then he saves you, then he reveals why he saved you), so instead, write something like this:

You first see Nik following you in Chapter 1, but when you want to go talk to him, you find he has already left. Then after the bloodwraith attacks you, Nik springs into action, saving you after you fall into impending doom. He reveals he has been hired to protect you by an unknown client who offered him six figures.

Redundancy

Due to frequent overlapping between some of the different sections, please check if the information you want to add to one section is already present in one of the other sections of the page. If it's already present on the page, please check if it's necessary or of interest to add it again in a different section of the page. Knowing that a character is the only one in the book to survive regardless of choices is interesting to note; having it mentioned in three different sections of their page may make a reader stop reading.

Filling the Sections of a Character Page

Infobox

For character infoboxes, we use the "Template:Character" template.

The infobox is fairly easy to use, the only things you will need to edit are the values and the information next to the labels on the infobox. It is recommended for not-so-experienced users to edit in VisualEditor just to make their lives easier.

Picture(s)

The character's picture should be in neutral form, and should be the one the character is most often seen in (that is, the typical outfit). If the character's image can be chosen by the player (i.e. choosable gender and/or choosable appearance), leave the image value blank. Those various character images would then be placed under the Gallery header and not in the infobox. If the appearance changes across books (such as Mal Volari who received a new hairstyle and default outfit in Blades of Light and Shadow, Book 2), more than one image can be added. In case a character gets remodeled (such as James Ashton, the picture of the new look replaces the picture of the old appearance which is moved to the gallery.

Aliases

When adding an alias, make sure it is unique and relates to the character where you add it. For example, if several people are called "darling" by the same person, it belongs in the personality section of the person saying "darling" rather than the character who is called "darling."

If an alias does qualify, there are different ways to add them:

• If a person is called this way several times throughout the story by more than 3 different people, you only have to add the alias without any further information. For example, Luther Nevrakis is called the "Blood King" by various people; thus those people do not need to be listed.
• If a person is called this way several times throughout the story but by only one person, you can add the name of the person, but you don't have to add the chapters. For example, Diego Soto is called various names by Jake McKenzie through different chapters; thus his alias is listed as such:
  • Alias Short Stuff, Pop Culture Petey (By Jake)
• If an alias only happens once, please include information on both the person and the chapter. The name is followed by a comma, book # is shortened to BK#, followed by a comma, chapter # is shortened to Ch.#. For example:
  • Alias Day-go (By Taari, BK3, Ch.10)
• If the alias is determinant, the Ch.# is followed by a semicolon and the word Determinant (capitalized). For example:
  • Alias Lowlander Queen (By Sei, BK2, Ch.3; Determinant)
• Finally, if the character giving the nickname/alias appears in more than one series, the BK in BK# is replaced by the abbreviation of the respective series (such as TRR1 and TRH1 instead of BK1).

Age

A character's age is one of the aspects where it's important to make sure to differentiate between in-game canon and personal assumption.

In Nightbound, Nik Ryder's age is never stated in-game. He mentions that his adoptive father was killed seven years ago and Nik was seventeen years old. From that, most would assume that means Nik is 24 years old. However, the anniversary of his adoptive father's death was not celebrated nor was Nik's birthday in-game. Was "seven years ago" an estimation? In real life, some people argue that when it is over six and one-half years, they round up to "seven years". Was Nik almost eighteen? Was he seventeen years and 350 days old? Because of that, he could be between 23 and 25 years old.

This estimation also occurred with Marguerite Thorne where in Chapter 13 of Crimes of Passion, Book 1, she mentions she was 16 years old when they searched for Juliana Georgescu eight years ago. Most assumed that meant Marguerite was 24. However, in Chapter 16, her age is revealed as 23. Again, was Marguerite "almost 16 years old" or was she actually 16? And did Juliana disappear exactly 8 years ago, or is it rounding up 7 years and 8 months? If she was 16 and the search of Juliana happened actually 7 years and 345 days ago, then her age of 23 is correct.

This is different from Your Character (Crimes of Passion)'s age. In Chapter 3 of Crimes of Passion, Book 1, it is the fifteen year anniversary of the character's father's death. In a later chapter, the character reveals he/she/they were 13 years old at the time. With the concrete year given (the anniversary of his death), this makes the character 28 years old.

Ages given in-game remain constant. That is, the characters do not age in stories unless a birthday is celebrated or a time frame is given that has elapsed. Please do not add years to a character's age as the wiki gets older. For example, Your Character (High School Story: Class Act) is given the birthdate of January 12, 2005. In the year 2022, the character would be 17 years old. However, High School Story: Class Act takes place in the year 2019, making the character 14 years old.

Age ranges are usually not stated in the infobox, but instead are listed under Trivia. The exceptions tend to be the characters in series with high school settings. Please keep in mind that Pixelberry's staff are primarily native-English speakers who write in American English. Most hail from California and thus have a limited knowledge on schools in other countries, especially boarding schools or universities. The general age to drive in California is 16 years old (although that is for a restrictive license, which technically means Rory Silva should not have been able to drive others), although other states allow permits from 14 years old and older. The general age which is legal to smoke and to drink alcohol is 21 years old.

Age discrepancies should be listed under Trivia. That is, if the in-game age is stated as "XX", we add it to the infobox. However if also in-game, narration or the characters mention time frames and ages and it doesn't match the stated age of XX, editors should add that information to Trivia. For example, in the Perfect Match series, Damien Nazario is in his thirties. However, various points in the book mention his father's death, his age when his father died, his youngest sister's age, and more which do not add up to that age but would actually make him younger.

Status

Currently in use are the following statuses: "alive", "deceased", "undead" (such as for vampires), "unknown" (only temporarily and only in the case of a cliffhanger where it's unknown if a character is still alive at the end of a chapter - once the actual state is revealed, "unknown" gets replaced and only a trivia point refers to why the status was temporarily unknown), "alive (incarcerated)", and "online" (for Argo).

Unless a character is stated to have died in the series that they originate from, the character is considered alive. The problems editors encounter with this mainly deal with characters from The Crown & The Flame, The Royal Masquerade, and The Royal Romance series. Realistically, in The Royal Romance series, all characters from the previous two series are deceased. Logically, all characters from all historical series (e.g. A Courtesan of Rome, the Desire & Decorum series, and The Unexpected Heiress) are deceased. However, on the wiki, in their respective stories, most of the characters are alive. That is, we as readers are not reading ghost stories and/or we are not reading the stories as if they were told all in flashback-mode.

If the characters are alive at the end of their respective stories, they will be labeled as "alive" in their individual infoboxes even if centuries have passed and they would technically be deceased in real life.

Titles

Another example of canon vs assumption is Eirik Midsommar's title. Is he still king even though he is incarcerated? Since it isn't stated in-game that his title had been stripped (like Bradshaw & Isabella Achilles), then on the wiki, we do not remove his title. It makes sense that it would be, but in-game, it is only mentioned that his country was being run by a regent. We do not even know if the regent was arrested when the Via Imperii fell.

General Advice

Please capitalize as many words as possible to make it as formal as possible. This rule was established by WolfOfWinterfell a long time ago.

Tip: When editing an infobox, it is best to leave an area blank if you are not sure if something is correct or not. For example, if an editor thought that Sean Gayle is 6 feet tall but wasn't sure and didn't remember it being mentioned in any of the Endless Summer books nor had Pixelberry confirm it, then the editor should leave that area blank and ask one of the admins/moderators or another editors what they think they should do.

Introductory Paragraphs

Introductory paragraphs are also very important. They are the paragraphs you see at the top left of the infobox (desktop version) or right underneath it (mobile version). Those follow a very simple format and again, it is advised that the not-so-experienced users use VisualEditor. Below is the structure of how one should be put together for characters that are not Your Character/Main Character:

Name (in bold), a character in the (series name in italics) series, is (who they are or what they do). (He/she) is first seen in (Book #, Chapter # in italics).

An example of this is:

Jake McKenzie, a character in the Endless Summer series, is a pilot and one of Your Character's love interests. He makes his first appearance in Book 1, Chapter 1.

For standalone books, the formatting is slightly different:

Flynn O'Malley, a character in the Veil of Secrets book, is the older brother of Kate O'Malley and one of your love interests. He makes his first appearance in Chapter 1.

For Your Characters and Main Characters, the formatting is again slightly different, namely Your/Main Character (in bold) in (series name in bold) is the main protagonist of the (series name(s) in italics), followed by the information on whether there is a default name:

Your Character in Crimes of Passion is the main protagonist of the Crimes of Passion series.

Although her/his/their default name is "Cameron", the player can choose to name her/him/them as they wish.

Tips:

• 1. When writing the few sentences about who they are, remember that anything can be put there. If they are a student, then put that. If they are both a student and someone's brother, it is up to you to decide which one you put or if you put both. The usual consensus is to put the most important points/facts on how they pertain to your character and/or the story. Keep the introduction precise: short and sweet. Do not add everything known about the character to the introduction. That's what the other sections (like Relationships) are for.
• 2. Remember to link the series name to its corresponding category.

Appearance

This is where the fun begins and creative editing really starts to take off. The appearance just describes what the character looks like and what their general attire also looks like. When writing a description, it doesn't have to be long, just about two or three lines describing their complexion, eye and hair color. As well as their clothes. For example:

Kenna has mid-length, brown hair, olive skin and brown eyes. Her battle clothes consist of a distinctive cobalt blue top with long black sleeves over a silver breastplate and small shoulder guards.

Tip: When describing clothes, be as detailed as you want to be but not so much that the general description is lost. Also, if there are any accessories that the character is wearing, add them in the description as well.

Personality

The personality section is probably the trickiest section of the page. It explains who the character is, what they are like and how they treat other people. The best thing to do when going about writing this bit is to make sure you know 100% that what you are writing is based on the events of the book and that what you are writing is what is seen (not what you think). Obviously, there will always be some sort of bias but you can only do your best.

If you quote from what another character said, please indicate that you do. Name the person who used the term and optionally when they used it. If you directly quote a character, please use quotation marks to highlight the part that is directly quoted from the game in opposition of what you wrote yourself.

Tip: like with all other sections, be as detailed as you consider necessary to get the point across but not so much that the general description is lost. If you're unsure whether a piece of information you gathered from the dialogue of another character fits under personality, please ask one of the admins or moderators or regular editors.

StoryLoom Description

The section is only for official descriptions used by Pixelberry on their storyloom.squarespace and makers.storyloom pages. As mentioned above, this is only applicable to Open Heart, The Royal Romance, and Bloodbound characters whose character sprites could be used in the Storyloom Shared Worlds.

Background

The background section is optional and only relevant with certain characters. That is, not all Characters tell your character about their past. If they do, then you can add this section and explain their backstory. Basic tidbits (such as, the character never learned to ride a bike) could fall under the Trivia section. However, if the character talks more in-depth about their parents over the course of several chapters, you can combine all these facts to create their background. For example, Nik Ryder's Background was told to the player over the course of the story including various premium scenes.

Chapters

The chapters section is fairly easy. This section is the list of chapters the character "appears" in. In Choices, as you probably have noticed, there are visions, flashbacks, memories, texts, calls and various things otherwise not mentioned. For the sake of simplicity and to minimize all the different labels, below are three labels we use in certain cases:

• Determinant: This label is used if a character shows up in a scene because of a choice you made in the game.

• Off-Screen: This label is only used if a character shows up in a scene via text, phone call, letter or any time a character is not seen but only heard. This also includes if a character is mentioned in narration to be present but is not actually shown. This also includes cases in which a person dies in one chapter and the next chapter mentions that their body is still present, for example the person who dies at the end of Chapter 1 of Dirty Little Secrets.

• Mentioned: This label is only used if a character is mentioned by another character in a chapter. For example, if you are filling out the page for Teresa Martinez in Open Heart, Book 1 and another character says, "Chief Emery wants to question you individually about what happened to Mrs. Martinez.", this label should be used after the chapter title.

Note: There can be a few variations to these labels. For example, if a character is mentioned no matter what but only appears depending on the player's choices, it would get these two labels: (Mentioned; Physical Appearance Determinant).

Format

The formatting is as follows: (Using "The Royal Romance" as an example in Source Editor)

==Chapters==
===[[:Category:The Royal Romance|The Royal Romance]]===
====[[The Royal Romance, Book 2|Book 2]]====
* Chapter 2: Reunion
* Chapter 3: Return to Applewood
* Chapter 4: Flirting with Disaster
* Chapter 5: International Impressions
* Chapter 6: Italian Nights
* Chapter 7: Girl's Night Out
* Chapter 8: City of Lights
* Chapter 10: Tea Time in Paris
* Chapter 11: A Night at the Opera
* Chapter 12: Family Ties
* Chapter 13: The Art of Drinking Tea
* Chapter 15: Lost in Los Angeles
* Chapter 16: A Monumental Night <small>(Determinant)</small>
* Chapter 17: Cordonia Bound
* Chapter 18: Noble at Heart
* Chapter 19: Ascension

This is how it should look when finished and can also be used as a guide for editors using Visual Editor:

Chapters The Royal Romance Book 2 Chapter 2: Reunion Chapter 3: Return to Applewood Chapter 4: Flirting with Disaster Chapter 5: International Impressions Chapter 6: Italian Nights Chapter 7: Girl's Night Out Chapter 8: City of Lights Chapter 10: Tea Time in Paris Chapter 11: A Night at the Opera Chapter 12: Family Ties Chapter 13: The Art of Drinking Tea Chapter 15: Lost in Los Angeles Chapter 16: A Monumental Night (Determinant) Chapter 17: Cordonia Bound Chapter 18: Noble at Heart Chapter 19: Ascension

Tips:

• 1. If the character does not appear in the chapter, then do not add the chapter to the list.
• 2. All labels must be noted in small. Note that this can only be done in the SourceEditor and that if you want to make something small, this is how: <small>(Insert Text)</small>.

Relationships

The relationships section is another tough section to conquer. It explains the relationships between the characters in question. Because there are many different relationships (from acquaintances to love interests to family), the ones that should be listed are the ones that are important or pertinent to the plot as they will give the most information.

Tip: Remember to keep this section as "factual" as possible, with examples given throughout the book. For example, don't simply write "Ellie feels suppressed by her father". Write "Ellie feels restricted by her father because he does not want her to get her driver's license." Try not to be biased in your writing as that will sway readers' opinions from the true nature of the relationships.

Like with all other sections, be as detailed as you want but don't paraphrase each and every single line ever said between or about the two characters. At the same time, try to avoid only adding a single short sentence along the lines of "He is his father". If you directly quote word by word from a character, please indicate that you do by using quotation marks. The following example includes a direct quote from the game with the pronouns in brackets being adapted to fit the rest of the sentence:

In Chapter 9, when summoning The Fate, you all use vulnerability magic which includes sharing one of your deepest secrets. If you choose to say your secret is feeling like you hurt everyone you love, you will say that Nik wouldn't be "spilling [his] guts for some entity's amusement if [you] were gone", referring to him previously sharing what led to Elijah's death.

Also please pay attention that the information you add here is really about their relationship with each other and not about other things unrelated to their relationship. If a character says about the character whose page you are editing that "I consider this character friendly", then most likely this information may fit better under personality. As personality and relationships sometimes overlap (for example, a character can be described as generally friendly and another character can take advantage of it in their relationship), you can always ask another editor if the information you want to add is really about the relationship.

Powers and Abilities

This section can be added for characters who are part of books containing supernatural elements and who have abilities that are not on level of a regular human. Different powers and abilities are separated by bullet points. Each bullet point usually starts with naming the specific power or ability in bold, followed by a ":". If you want, you can provide a link to the specific page you consulted for the term used. A good source for finding out terms of specific superpowers is the Superpower Wiki. After the ":", a summary is given of what exactly the character can do or why it can be assumed the character has this power, even if the game didn't specifically mention the character having it. Here are two examples that are directly derived from Adrian Raines who is a vampire:

• Immortality: In Book 1, Chapter 2, Adrian confirms that he does not age. This, however, does not mean he cannot die, but only that he is not affected by the Hayflick limit.

In this example, Adrian himself states he has the power due to being a vampire. The example includes when he said to have it and its limitations. Because it is never mentioned that he is the only vampire to have this form of immortality, it can be assumed that every vampire in this series has it as well, for example Serafine Dupont:

• Immortality: In Book 1, Chapter 2, Adrian confirms that he does not age. Thus we can assume the same can be said for Serafine. She states that she has been a vampire for 700 years.

Weaknesses

The same things applied to powers and abilities also applies to this section.

Gallery

Galleries are the fun part of the page. They can brighten up the mood and can actually make a page popular. When creating or adding to galleries, there are a few things to note:

• Be aware that we do not add values like widths or other customization options to the gallery tag.

• Screenshots of outfits already part of the Character Customization group picture are not added individually under the Other Looks/Outfit Choices section again.
  • Watch out for outfits introduced in later chapters as they may be initial outfits introduced at the start of the book/series.

• All codes below only contain spaces to illustrate what the code should look like. In practice, the spaces need to be removed in order for the codes to work properly.

A basic gallery is used for characters who have a set appearance and a small number of associated images. This gallery consists of two sections. "Other Looks" contains all variations on the character's appearance, such as different outfits, hairstyles, or pictures of them at a young age. "Miscellaneous" contains all other images associated with the character, such pets or items they own. The code looks like this:

=== Other Looks ===
< gallery >

< / gallery >

=== Miscellaneous ===
< gallery >

< / gallery >

The first < angle brackets > open the gallery and the < / angle brackets with the slash > close it. All pictures need to be placed between the opening and closing gallery brackets in order to appear properly.

The code for each image consists of the filename with its extension (.jpg, .png, etc) and a caption giving a brief description of the image, with a vertical bar symbol separating the two. It looks like this:

< gallery >
Example Pic.png | Image Caption
< / gallery >

Once the spaces are removed from the code and the images are in place, a basic gallery should look like this:

Other Looks

Full View

Young Vera

Miscellaneous

Vera in NB Sneak Peek

A more complex gallery is sometimes necessary, and in that case it should be separated by tabs. This will occur for any character who has multiple versions, such as main characters and customizable love interests. Similar to a gallery, the tabber code opens and closes with angle brackets. Inside those tabber brackets are labels for each tab (which is written |-|Example Tab Label=) followed by normal gallery brackets. The basic code looks like this:

< tabber >
|-|Tab 1=
< gallery >
< / gallery >

|-|Tab 2=
< gallery >
< / gallery >
< / tabber >

So if a character has one version per gender, such as Mayor Dixon or Kamali Rourke, they only require two tabs under "Other Looks" - "Male" and "Female". The code looks like this:

< tabber >
|-|Male=
< gallery >
< / gallery >

|-|Female=
< gallery >
< / gallery >
< / tabber >

With spaces removed from the code and images added in, the gallery should look like this:

• Male
• Female

Casual

Casual

If a character has different versions but only one gender, such as Nik Ryder, the tabs will be called "Face 1", "Face 2" and so on. That code looks like this:

< tabber >
|-|Face 1=
< gallery >
< / gallery >

|-|Face 2=
< gallery >
< / gallery >

|-|Face 3=
< gallery >
< / gallery >
< / tabber >

With spaces removed from the code and images added in, the gallery should look like this:

• Face 1
• Face 2
• Face 3

Casual

Casual

Casual

If a character has multiple genders and multiple versions of each gender, there will need to be two main galleries instead of one. In this case, these two galleries will be called either "Male" and "Female", or "Body Type 1" and "Body Type 2", depending on the terminology used by that specific book. The code for the two galleries looks like this:

=== Female/Body Type 1 ===
< tabber >
|-|Face 1=
< gallery >
< / gallery >

|-|Face 2=
< gallery >
< / gallery >
< / tabber >

=== Male/Body Type 2 ===
< tabber >
|-|Face 1=
< gallery >
< / gallery >

|-|Face 2=
< gallery >
< / gallery >
< / tabber >

Once the spaces are removed from the code and the images are added in, the gallery should look like this:

Female/Body Type 1

• Face 1
• Face 2

'Knitted Up' Outfit

'Knitted Up' Outfit

Male/Body Type 2

• Face 1
• Face 2

'Summer Khaki' Outfit

'Summer Khaki' Outfit

The tabber code is also used for the "Miscellaneous" section if there are a large number and variety of images which need to be organized. This is usually divided into three or four tabs - "Promo", which includes any promotional images or book covers that feature the character; "In-Game", which includes any CGs or special in-game artwork of the character; "Items", which includes pictures of any item the character owns; and "Misc.", which includes any image that doesn't fit under one of the other headings. That code looks like this:

=== Miscellaneous ===
< tabber >
|-|Promo=
< gallery >
< / gallery >

|-|In-Game=
< gallery >
< / gallery >

|-|Items=
< gallery >
< / gallery >

|-|Misc.=
< gallery >
< / gallery >
< / tabber >

Once the spaces are removed from the code and the images are added in, the gallery should look like this:

Miscellaneous

• Promo
• In-Game
• Items
• Misc.

Sneak Peek Featuring Lancelot

Female Face 1, Ch.1

Male Face 1, Ch.1

Favorite Stew

2023 Valentine's Day Card (Female Face 1)

• Note that some older galleries are not organized this way because they predated these standards. It is allowable, but not necessary, to reorder those galleries to match these templates. Every new character-page gallery should use this standard going forward.
• Not all of these gallery sections will be necessary for every character. Many characters are never featured in any in-game artwork, for example. An empty gallery section may be deleted entirely, but only after the series has ended.

Trivia

The trivia section is for fun facts or things revealed in-game or by Pixelberry relating to the character.

Tips:

• 1. Remember that some things important to the plot maybe be applicable for the Trivia section.
• 2. If for example, a Pixelberry employee confirms or reveals something about a character and there is a link or photo available, add it to the gallery and add it as a reference to add credibility to the statement.

Memorable Quotes

While the quotation at the top of the page tries to encompass the character's personality (maybe even a "catchphrase" that is used often), "memorable quotes" are for stand-out dialogue spoken by the character and on occasion, a brief conversation bit between two characters. While "memorable" is subjective to the player, dialogue that is quoted in this section should be considered "memorable" to a general consensus. If you are unsure if something said is "memorable", ask a frequent editor or contact a mod or admin who can help guide you.

References

References are the very last section on any page. It (for the most part) provides us with evidence for trivia points. They are also used to cite book and chapter where quotes are taken.

The code needed to make links show up properly on the actual page is the following:

<references/>

Categories

Categories group pages and people together and are used to search and browse through the wiki with ease. In Character pages, the following categories should be added:

• 1. Characters
• 2. Gender
• 3. 'Series Name' Characters
• 4. Then whatever categories are relevant to the specific character.

For example, Vincent Foredale, a character in the Desire & Decorum series has these categories: Characters, Male, 'Desire & Decorum' Characters, Nobility, Parents, Deceased.

Importantly, always ask for admin or mod approval when it comes to the creation of new categories.

Other Rules

As always, practice netiquette.

• Avoid CAPS as that equals SHOUTING.
• Avoid excessive spacing for "dramatic effect".
• Character Pages always contain "Spoilers" so there is no need to warn about Spoilers.
• If you encounter a NSFW (not safe for work) official Choices image, such as Frank, please do not hesitate to use the {{NSFW}} template on the top of the page.
• If you are editing a popular page and want to avoid edit conflicts (that can happen when two or more users try to edit the same page at the same time), feel free to use the {{UnderCon}} template at the top of the page. This will show others that the page is currently being worked on and ask them to refrain from editing until you are finished.

Confused?

If you are confused about any of the things listed here or think that anything should be added, then contact Fearless Diva, Jadelady, MondlichtPanda or any of the daily editors.