[ SECRET POST #5629 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5629 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Hell- I'd seriously rather people just wrote straight up OC's and/or self inserts again over people using an established canon character as a mask for their perfectly imperfect self/characters. I genuinely don't see many legit OC's anymore (aside from a handful of minor characters here and there to fill in gaps) since most all of my fandoms just have people who overproject onto their faves and call it a night.

I noticed a huge swing from OC's, to minor characters without a distinct personality now becoming front and center, to well established favourites who suddenly align to general personality 1, 2, or 3. A lot of it I figured was because OC's were commonly unpopular so people tried to find work arounds to get their precious babies into the script, but I'm becoming more and more uncomfortable with how commonly I find people trauma dumping into a character and calling it characterization.


Mary/Gary Sues/Stews have always been their own deal, self-insterts somewhat to the left, but I recall some of the actual effort some authors put in creating their OC's and how they fit into the universe, and ended up liking quite a few of them so long as they didn't end up eclipsing the rest of the cast. (and like them or not you could at the very least filter them in or out when writers didn't try to hide them or were somewhat more self aware when writing them.)

[dani_phantasma]

Yeah.

Also sometimes there's places you have to have OCs. Like one of my big fandoms , the main character's high school has 3 or 4 staff members and only one attending grade. I've heard of a newly established school starting with two grades. But how on earth does a school thats been around since the 40s/50s only have a freshman (9th grade) class?

[(Anonymous)]

Agreed. I'd far rather read an honest all OC cast than "I've changed everything about the premise, setting and characterization, but it's still fanfic!"

[(Anonymous)]

Oh hell yeah