User blog comment:Maslab/On the subject of Noble Six/@comment-33741372-20130713161003/@comment-1210220-20130713223247

This isn't 'administrative tyranny', DC, this is simply about adhering to canon. Just because a character dies doesn't mean that any expansion articles are suddenly pointless. In fact, a good writer can simply use the death as a cutoff point for an article, and fill in Six's largely mysterious past as they see fit. I mean, the whole point of a canon expansion is generally to include this character in fanon events while adhering to what they were doing in canon.

While this seem like an odd example, I'd like to use here. He's encountered as a mutilated corpse in the novelization of Halo:CE, yet evidence suggests that he was badass enough to fight through most of the flood-infested library alone before dying. That's all we know about this guy. I've been planning on a canon expansion article of the guy for a while now, actually, and his past (Of which we get very little info on, just like Six) can be whatever I want to make it, provided it ends up with him dying there. He is in no way useless as a character just because he doesn't die when I choose to have him die.

That said, just because Noble Six is killed on Reach doesn't make the character a writeoff and unusable in fanon, it just gives the writer a point where the character's biography must end. So what if he/she doesn't survive Reach somehow and live to a hundred? I'll admit that Six was quite a bland character in Reach, but if that's the case, then a fanon article would colour in the blank slate given and give him/her a personality through past events.

Just my thoughts on the matter.