Talk:Holo Lawrence/@comment-4080028-20151118093506/@comment-4080028-20151119130020

Thanks for complying; as for loopholes, I know of one so far that I plan on using for my own fan story. In it, a character meets Franky in Water 7 and gets involved with the Franky Family loooong before the Straw Hats make it to Water 7. In order to make sure everything goes along smoothly, I intend to have Franky's influence on the story and its characters be incredibly minor; being relegated to small cameos and flashbacks. So long as I don't change his character at all (his appearance, his backstory, his abilities, etc.) then I should be able to keep him involved in One Dream without messing up the manga/anime.

In short, so long as a canon character isn't altered in any way from how they are so far in the story (including any fanon set in the future, since that may clash with the manga at some point,) then and only then can they be mentioned or used on a page or in a story on this wiki. Again though, this requires a lot of caution, since care must be taken to not change a single thing about the character's past, present or future. That's why I set up Timber's relationship with Franky the way it is, since it promises that nothing will change who Franky is and how he behaves.

In the end, vagueness is your friend here. If you can fill in the blank gaps in a character's history/backstory/etc. with something that doesn't change who they are or what they did, then there shouldn't be any problems with maintaining canon. My example is just one of many ways to loophole the rules on this wiki; it just takes some creative problem solving to figure out how to use a loophole.