Question Whatever happened to Tensai?

Ya... Tensai wandered off. I have no idea if there was a particular reason, I was going through a pretty rough phase at work myself and wasn't around much when it happened... but ya, even if an author is canonized, the stories don't automatically assume canon status. Even the ones close to accurate continuity wise still have to be reworked until they ARE in line with canon. That can take a lot of time... just ask Sleethr or Morpheus. And it can be frustrating to go through that process, because the whole time you're doing it... you're working with stories that were 'already done' ... and that readers have already seen.

Tensai isn't the first (or last) newly canon author who left before completing that process.

Whisper was actually very close to canon originally. It helped that Sleethr actively communicated with both Maggie and I while he was writing it the first time, tapping her knowledge of the Sidhe in the WU, and my knowledge of GEO. Even still, there were some areas about the magick testing and how magick works that had to be redone. Some schedule issues were a factor too... because there are points where Fey is with Whisper at a time when, in a canon story, people would have just attended class with her at Whateley.

The 'really' hard part comes in that next phase though. After all, these characters are always developed with some long term plans as well. Who they'll hang out with at the school. Which people they'll get into fights with or befriend. And then they'll read the years of emails and forums posts and plans for future semesters and long range major events... and realize that most of those long range ideas probably aren't going to work. Hell, I included almost a years worth of planning / integration for Fling at WA and meeting with TK (as an opponent not as a friend) when I submitted the idea originally to join the team. And EVERYTHING past Revelations (and even a bit of that) has been different than my original plans. I'd still like to work a few of those plot events into things.... but some of the 'other' things that we've developed over the years for Fling are even better than my original submission.

Well, we DID have to put the second gen timeline clear up at Fall 2016 to ensure that we didn't have to worry about more than the occasional bit of fallout or spin off effect from the original storyline.

But really, I think some of the original characters had 'planned' futures for at least ten years. The whole, high school + college + into the real world and actually doing something more than just being a college grad... level of story planning. With bits and scenes from the future too.