[ SECRET POST #2216 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2216 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

True. I tend to use a very risky thing in one of my own works , having OCs with tragedy in their pasts. However it's also a crapsack world and a LOT of people have something tragic or dark in their pasts. The story is about two old name old money families that are really screwed up in a society with serious problems.

Though I do have a few characters with normal pasts but their problems (teasing, relative in the past who did something kinda shitty, and having a disability) are treated no less importantly than those people with major problems. (because after my experiences online I am sick to death of oppression Olympics and "my oppression is worse than yours so don't even talk about yours" )

I kind of feel like having a little variety in your characters and having more than one really helps even things out. If quite a few characters have their own burdens, the main character's burden doesn't get too much attention and he doesn't seem like a special snowflake for it.

With any trope it's all about execution.

[laughingpineapple]

True that! Variety and sense of scale, of relevance etc.

I like to experiment and lately my knee-jerk reaction to 'this genre/plot/trope is baaaaaad' is running with it and trying to make it work in one of my favourite fandoms... as a consequence, I've actually tried a lot of the scenarios that have come up in this topic. Outsider POVs, canon badass/Zabini!OC (as in, 'the dumped girlfriend' is mentioned in canon but that's literally all we know. They were together and he dumped her. I tried to write three chapters from her pov, right after being dumped, a little later and ten years later), functional OCs with minor roles all over the place, OC villain (and vaguely related to a minor canon character, to boot), main character's little sister, entirely OC-centric tale in a fandom setting, self-insertion.
I can't speak for quality, my writing can be crap, but I'd still defend all the narrative choices that led to their creation. The point is never 'my OCs are special', I'm trying to tell fandom things... through OCs.

SA

[(Anonymous)]

Oh yeah I love doing challenging fic ideas. AUs, OCs , Crossovers, what's life without a little risk? I think of it as a good way to improve my skills. If I just stick to always writing the safe stuff , I won't stretch myself.

But let me tell you, the fact that fanfic community is so wary of OCs and hearing Mary Sue all the time made me motivated to understand what Sue was and what made a good character. I while I wrote a lot in creative Writing classes there was still the fact that a lot of what I did was in a safe environment where as being on the internet is ..well...like being thrown headfirst into stormy seas and having to fight to survive. It's forced me to improve my writing.