This kind of waiting to app a character isn't a new thing for Vatheon either, anon. It was true of the Alpha kids too! Vatheon waited several months after the Alpha kids had been introduced to allow them to be appable- I was the first to join the game with Dirk, and he only got brought in around July.

So we didn't have the problem with having to figure out what to do with Dirk and Roxy being from the future, because we already knew that by the time they could be brought into the game.