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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Thomas Shey" data-source="post: 8996104" data-attributes="member: 7026617">Well, just to devil's advocate--what if they did?  Unless you've got a character with a very short history, you're not going to fill every moment or even every year of that backstory.  Unless there's some reason it seems unlikely for other reasons (established traits that make it very unlikely you'd connect with that character), you just add it in and move on; after all, you can still fill in the parts of it to explain why and how it happened in part, so it need not disrupt your through-line meaningfully.Just because I think so much in terms of superheroes, it may matter a lot to my conception of Bruce Wayne that he's had a relationship with Talia al Ghul and Selena Kyle, but does it change anything that he also had a relationship with Vicki Vale or even Jezebel Jett?  I'd say not really, and you can just encompass that and move on.The question ends up being whether other things can be inserted in your character's back story without being disruptive of what they're about.  I'm sure that for some people anything that comes outside their own conceptualization is a problem, but that isn't intrinsic to the general idea of being focused on character; the latter at most is concerned about not inserting things that simply don't seem to fit.</blockquote>