User blog comment:Gnostic/Fanon vs. Alternate Universe/@comment-1596833-20110330003628/@comment-1596833-20110331034926

No, no, no. You've been missled. I'm saying established shouldn't and may not be altered, which you understood, what you didn't understand is my concept of canon limitations.

You can't be limited by canon unless you have no more imagination. Shepard, in anyones universe, can be black, hispanic, cocation, gay or straight. Shep can have a hidden head for all we care, as it's never mentioned.

Two shepards is fine, in a somewhat alternate universe, but it's alternate, and would require a template.

Fanon is not Fan-Fiction, which allows complete anhilation of canon, while Fanon, as it was originally made, was to ADD to the Universe, not to rewrite it.

These were simple rules, and fanfiction requires a template, unless using it as a nameplate for fanon, or vice-versa.

This, is an unwritten rule, as both words in a dictionary are one-in-the same, but over the internet were supposed to be used differently.

Once again, sorry for mistakes in spelling.

Now, as Elite said, he wants HIS characters in HIS story. He can, there is no set number on who Shep recruited or brings along, or what he said, which is why RPG's are much more free.