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I think it can be difficult to do it, but usually more as a result of not knowing where to focus. When you know all about a canon and it is all important within the context of the canon, it can be hard to step back and see what is simply important for someone to understand the character (and know that you understand it too).

What I find helps me with shortening an app is to think "How would I describe this character to a friend?" When you want to tell someone about your character one-on-one, you probably aren't going to drop several hundred words on them out of the blue. You simplify! Often heavily, and with a reliance on the fact that really, no matter how much of a unique special snowflake your character is, they are still just a conglomeration of character aspects everyone has seen somewhere else.

As complex as characters and canons get, there is generally a very simple parallel that can explain the situation quickly and easily, leaving you with more room to talk about more specific character traits. And talking about the very typical but very deep and important character aspect of "My character responded to the murder of his parents with X but hides it with Y and the result is Z" is really more important to showing character understanding than "My character's died because of this complicated plot full of these canon specific elements".

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