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I would really love that! But a friend just brought a card to this interpretation.
Kir.
If the opponent choses one of my teammates characters to block, could I say that it is not mine, and than use kirs ability to search my deck for someone?

Thinking about it, I think that if an opponent forces a character to block, it is also forcing the player who's territory the character was taken from, based on the wording of the cards. Ehud, chose an opponent's male evil character to block, implying that there is one opponent, and that is the opponent who blocks.
Please correct me if I am wrong.

Hey,

The way I understand Fortresses being shared it's as if both teammates have a copy of the fortress in their territory.  The effect won't double because of this (i.e. a shared crown of thorns will not reduce evil characters by 0/6 - I know crown of thorns isn't a fortress) but other than that each player basically has the Fortress for themselves.  So if either teammate satisfies the Cananite condition on Tower the Negating of abilities on Heroes would be in effect.

Tschow,

Tim "Sir Nobody" Maly

I remember asking this at Nationals in a relevant team game and the answer was no it doesn't lock in who can block.  I don't know where or if there is an official record of the ruling. 

I think it makes sense to rule that way.

1.  You can choose your own character to block and obviously that has nothing to do with what person is blocking.

2.  In multiplayer, you can choose to make a rescue attempt against person B and choose an evil character for them to block with from person C. 

I think the line is clear that who the rescue attempt is against and what character(s) block are entirely different decisions. 

In teams you are always making a rescue attempt against the opposing team (both players) and I think the official rule is that the person to your left gets to decide first if they will actually block you and if not then the teammate gets to decide whether to block or leave you unblocked. 

The only difference here is that if you choose the blocker then 1 of them must decide to be the blocking person since you can't be unblocked at that point.  I don't think this is written anywhere but I think it would make sense that if both teammates pass the option to block then it will default to the opponent on your left since that is the initial default.  In practice this never came up since usually teammates work together and decide together who will block. 

For cards like Ehud, both members of the opposing team are always your opponent.  For Kir someone needs to list the actual wording of the card.

Just to clarify on this point, that in normal MP, you cannot use a CTB that says "opponent's" to choose player C's EC for player B to block with.  Only player B is your opponent at that point, as opposed to Teams where both are considered meeting that condition.  There is a distinction between the categories.

Agree.  My post was getting long so I didn't clarify that.  I was referring to a CTB without conditions like (I think) Provisions.  However, a card like Ehud works differently in the two categories because of who meets the condition of being your opponent.