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fandomsecrets2008-05-22 05:32 pm
case) wrote in fandomsecrets2008-05-22 05:32 pm
[ SECRET POST #503 ]
⌈ Secret Post #503 ⌋
Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.
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Notes:
Secrets Left to Post: 04 pages, 83 secrets from Secret Submission Post #072.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 1 2 3 4 5 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 1 2 - too big ], [ 1 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.
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I do understand how you feel - I certainly don't go to fandom looking for OCs - but you can't reasonably say that there should be no OCs in fandom ever. What about plot-heavy stories where canon characters don't have the right histories/aren't in the right positions/don't have the right personalities/just generally can't perform a role that is called for by the story?
Just as an example, I'm plotting a Phoenix Wright casefic with some of my friends. The plot is designed to confront Phoenix with some issues we saw that the games never made him deal with, because we thought it would be really interesting to see and would further his character. The fic is absolutely full of OCs, because there is no way we could use existing canon characters to set up the situation. There just isn't, it wouldn't work. So we designed OCs.
Granted, some fandoms are more like that than others. PW is probably one of the most OC-friendly fandoms out there, there's plenty of fandoms where the canon characters really are all you need. But you can't just out-and-out dismiss all OCs. Some stories do need them an sometimes they really can bring something valuable to an idea.
(This is of course assuming that they are good OCs. Mary Sues need not apply.)