[ SECRET POST #2805 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2805 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Comments

Re: IA

[silverr]

Not AYRT, but ...

Perhaps "necesary evil" wasn't the best choice of words for the AYRT to use, but to me there's a difference between an OC that is needed to move the plot along (e.g., the person that welcomes the MC to the city/school/spaceship and gives them a guided tour that functions as expostion for the reader) and an OC that is paired with a canon character in the relationships tag.

I've used the former myself, but seeing the latter is a fic-killer for me.

Re: IA

[jaybie_jarrett]

Ahh

okay that I can see.

(although I personally believe that an OC being paired with a minor canon character can be okay and not bad. My all time favorite fic had the main characters sister get an OC boyfriend and it didn't mess up the story at all. It was done to establish the sister having her own life. But eh, not everyone likes to read it.)

Re: IA

[(Anonymous)]

I agree. I do think some of it depends on who the canon character is - using the Harry Potter example, are we talking about Charlie Weasley with an OC or Harry (let's say the fic is pre-HBP) with an OC? Because you have two different things. With Harry and an OC, fine, but nothing can ever supersede the trio, which makes a relationship tricky - as we've seen in canon. (TBH I think that's why Harry "had" to be with Ginny, but that's another subject.) Charlie, however, is a character we know next to nothing about - so it makes sense to me that he would date an OC.

Re: IA

[jaybie_jarrett]

EXACTLY

OMG, that's like what I've been trying to say this whole time. I don't get people who are like "ew a minor character with an OC". I respect it but...I don't get it. Like the world is much bigger than the main cast/named characters.

I too sorta think pairing an OC with the main character is questionable at best and tacky at worst. Major characters....eh depends.

Honestly I do respect people's right to not read something they don't like, and that's why I tag my fics. Because I don't WANT them to read something they hate.