[ SECRET POST #5392 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5392 ⌋

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Comments

Re: OCs in fanfiction

[(Anonymous)]

Most shows and movies have a large enough canon cast that there is nearly always a canon character available to use, as long as you keep them canon compliant and don't rewrite the canon character's character to be your OC/SI's character.

Re: OCs in fanfiction

[pantswarrior]

That may be the case in most show/movie fandoms, I wouldn't know because I mostly am involved with game fandoms - but it's definitely not true in game fandoms. In game fandoms, there's usually a cast of characters who are all some manner of fighter/healer/mage, but (just as in the games themselves) if the characters are going off on an adventure, sometimes there is the need for a shopkeeper, a villager who knows this new area that the canon characters have just arrived in and can tell them what's going down, a kid who got themselves into a scrape (and the kid's mom who asks the canon characters for help) and needs to be rescued so the characters will go to wherever the kid is and notice something strange, etc.

Sometimes if you're exploring the past of a character, you have to figure out what their childhood was like, and that probably means their parents, and maybe a first love that didn't work out (because IRL, most folks have dated others before they meet their longterm partner). In my main fandom, basically everyone's part of a military faction and has superior officers somewhere who have given them their orders, but we only see a handful of the main character's commanders in a brief meeting, only two of which have names. One of the other characters is terminally ill, and nobility - he would have attending doctors and servants close by. He also has a son, which means he has to have (or have had in the past) a wife or other partner, who is definitely not any of the characters we see in the game.

And so on, and so on. Certain minor roles in stories only exist for reasons of practicality/plausibility, and I wouldn't want to try to shoehorn canon characters into them.