I would echo what Killer Shrike said - that you should probably change the names of Mac Fleetwood, both because he's recognizable here, and also his name is a parody of a music group; Mr Lye (there are other ingredients in detergent!) because he's recognizable from here as well; and Westminster Necropolis Company because, oddly enough it's too close to the name of an ACTUAL company (the London Necropolis Company of Westminster). I kid you not on that last one.

Also isn't the Chain Knight too closely related to the Hellraiser franchise?

As for Liu Xi Xian here in the Parodyverse - I implied for quite a while in replies on the board that I half expected Vinnie De Soth to someday up and disappear in the middle of their relationship with no explanation, like he fell through a hole in the universe and vanished. Perhaps now's a good time for that - and whether the Hooded Hood is involved depends only on whether you want his name to not be used. He could be useful for making sure everyone forgets Vinnie's name, though there might be other reasons too.

For instance, I can think of a particularly dark story involving some bad guy managing to disappear Vinnie so well that even his name is gone, and before the good guys can retrieve Vinnie and his name, the bad guy is killed, making it impossible to retrieve both.

On a personal note, I'd be a little sad to see Vinnie go, but being that I'm one of the last few active readers here I can't in good conscience justify holding him here when he can be exposed to a larger audience (and his writer exposed to that also, as well as more money). I'm also a little envious that characters I've created, overall, have been seeing only declining success as the audience here shrinks and as my ability to move to a larger audience weakens.

Meanwhile, though, a question about the PVB for you and everyone:

I think, to continue, the PV might need a renewed cast at some point, sourced mostly from created characters rather than poster-characters. While it was founded on poster-characters, those posters simply aren't writing their characters anymore. And worse yet, quite a few of them are being retired and/or pulled because those posters don't want their namesakes continued without their presence. This is definitely a disadvantage of having real people's names rolled into fictional characters - often when the posters move on to places or careers where they don't want to get fired over a Google search, they'll try and disassociate their real names from the PVB. These possibilities currently hover over at least half of the Lair Legion.

So what do you think? Should we re-build the PV in a way that prevents embarrassing real people by transitioning to new entirely-fictional characters?

Then again, it's possible I'm thinking completely wrong. It's possible these poster-characters are leaving and shutting down their namesakes in the hopes it will cause the Parodyverse to discontinue in their absence; i.e. that they believe they are founding members and it should not continue without them. In a way, I can see that point too; if I create a universe, and decide to walk away someday, I might feel a little annoyed if other people are still writing it and using the characters long after I'm gone.

Do you think that may be a possibility? That me and those few of us still writing for the PV are going against the tide, against the wishes of its founders?