[ SECRET POST #3507 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3507 ⌋

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

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02.
[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]


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03.
[Star Trek: The Next Generation]


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04.
[Shameless (US Version)]


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05.
[Breaking Bad]


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06.
[Movie: Mr. Right]


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07.
[Sherlock Holmes]


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08.
[Jacob Frye/Maxwell Roth, Assassin's Creed Syndicate]


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09.
[Gravity Rush]











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Comments

[tweedisgood]

That's not what they say, though - and it isn't even a fair definition. "Prominent" character means a main or important character, not automatically a love interest. A client, a First Person POV observer character, allies, a villainess, all could be prominent OFCs. Mary Sutherland, to give a canon example.

OP here.

[(Anonymous)]

The ayrt was correct, though. I didn't state it well in the secret, sorry. I have no problem with any OCs that are there for non-shipping purposes and that includes clients (so many of the ACD canon clients are female, after all!), minor characters, villains, whatever. What I don't like is when an author creates an OFC whose main purpose is to be a Watson replacement and/or Holmes' lover.

Re: OP here.

[tweedisgood]

Ah, gotcha. I agree, in that case - my chief beef in fact with the Mary Russell series as mentioned above, and one reason I avoid it in fic like the plague myself (reading and writing both).

Re: OP here.

[(Anonymous)]

Yes, I took a look at that series and it sounded like precisely the kind of thing I didn't want in a fic. :(

Re: OP here.

[(Anonymous)]

It sounds like the issue isn't even OFCs as such; it's that you don't want to read Holmesiana that has romance as a major component, and that OFCs almost always coincide with romance.

Is that a fair way to characterize it?

Re: OP here.

[(Anonymous)]

That's fair, though like I said, I don't object to OFCs who are clients, supporting characters, things like that. I'm all for more Violet Hunters, Mrs. Hudson, Mary Morstans and Irene Adlers. But what I don't like are fics where Holmes runs into a mysterious young women who captures his heart, blah blah blah...

Re: OP here.

[crossy_woad]

I've been thinking about buying some more of Michael Mallory's second Mrs. Watson series. I recall them being pretty good, but not focused on Holmes as much.