Advice on a minor dilemma

Around the end of last year, I made a few posts on CDN as a hanar character named "Teilhard" (as well as another character I wound up scrapping). I decided he wasn't very fleshed out and I didn't know enough about his culture anyway, so after soliciting some advice on how to write a hanar, I decided to take a break and do some work on him before posting again. However, a mixture of real life business and burnout on Mass Effect in general made me lost interest in coming back for a while.

I have more time and less burnout now, so I've decided to give CDN another try with a new character who I'm still developing but should be easier for me to write. I do want to bring Teilhard back eventually, though, which brings me to my point: I can't decide whether I should just write him as an entirely new character (which would effectively be the case anyway), or treat his previous posts as "in-continuity" and just decide he didn't post anything for a while. He never did anything particularly significant or made any noticeable impact, so it won't really matter either way, but I still can't make up my mind. So I thought I'd post this and see if anyone here, especially if they've been in a similar situation, had any advice.

Hey man, visit the IRC, I'll help you!

There are literally dozens of people who will be willing to help!

Since you yourself have said that Telihard never did anything of any importance or had yet to make an impact on the forums. I would go with the latter. No one is going to be bothered in the least that the hanar that posted only a few times is acting differently than he was several months ago. :)

And characters generally evolve and change throughout the process anyway. Look up any long lasting character on CDN and you will be surprised at what would be considered out of character for them now.

I suppose I'll just go with that.

There's also the fact that if anything would make a person undergo some fundamental changes, personality wise, in a short timeframe it might well be an apocalyptic war against monstrous billion-year old machine-gods. Any changes in personality probably wouldn't raise much of an eyebrow in-universe, even if someone (player or character) did remember him. The destruction in the aftermath of the war, the upheaval in the Enkindler Doctrine (Javik and Shepard causing schisms and the likes)...it can change a jelly ;)