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I remain in the belief that OCs are meant to be the background extras in fanfic. Sometimes one will slowly build more and more characterization until they become a major character, but their whole reason for being there is how they interact with canon characters.

If you cannot write a fic summary without making your OC the centre of it, I am rather less likely to read the fic, as I will suspect that the fic concentrates more on your OC than on the canon characters.

I am here to read about the canon characters. OCs are a case by case basis.

I'm a person who has quite a few fics with OCs, because I tend to write for fun and like to have something uniquely mine in my story. That said it's important to make sure you remember your OC is a guest.

It's important to warn there will be OCs involved (because yeah not everyone wants to read it and people can get annoyed by it) but not have the entire summary be "OC OCxCANON The main characters meet MY OC. Don't flame my OC DID I MENTION THERE'S AN OC IN THIS FIC OC!FIC"

Also people in fandom do seem to assume the worst when it comes to this. I haven't had any complaints about the OCs from the readers of my fic. But in a conversation talking about fic I mentioned I had a fic with an original setting (a boarding school) and original characters I got a bunch of "NO ONE CARES ABOUT YOUR OCS JUST WRITE ORIGINAL FICTION! GAWD".

My current fandom (The Hobbit) has quite a number of characters whose spouses are totally unnamed, especially so in the Dwarves, where there is all of one female dwarf ever given a name by Tolkien. What is to come of characters like Dís's Husband? Glóin's wife? They may be implied to exist by virtue of the named parent being, well, a parent.

By a similar virtue, a fic could have one of the characters get married to an OC, without the OC being instantly some terrible Mary Sue. I am rather fond of fics where Fíli (having survived certain upcoming events) gets married, has a brood of children is the lovely model of Dwarven royal domestic life.

Half the time even warning for those sort of OCs is a bit irrelevant.

They may be implied to exist by virtue of the named parent being, well, a parent.

And I didn't finish that thought:

They may be implied to exist, but they are virtually OCs since there is no canon on their character.

I'm a person who has quite a few fics with OCs, because I tend to write for fun and like to have something uniquely mine in my story

And because it makes it so much easier to strip out the canon elements when you submit the fic to a publisher. Right Cass?

nice try.

But I actually started working on the original work BEFORE I wrote the OCs in fanfiction.

Because the fanfiction started out as a fun experiment and I wanted to see if I could make it work

Personally I'm not a fan of the "filing the serial numbers off" method and I think that original stuff needs A TON more editing than that. I don't even LIKE the Mortal Instruments series.

Pshh but don't let me stand in the way of your baseless assumptions. By all means you can sit here and pretend I'm Cassie Claire so you can feel better about yourself and tell yourself you're a better person.

Have fun, you poor lonely soul.

but...uh Cassie Claire didn't USE OCs IIRC. She wrote HP fic with canon characters.

Though the reason she's hated is because she's a plagiarist, a liar, and a fandom bully and won't own up to any of those things. Not because of OCs or her publishing method.

3/10. Get a hobby, will you?

The only time an OC works well is in fandoms of shows that have a "Villain/Antagonist of the Week". Of course then it isn't so much an OC, just a fan generated version of a canon plot device.

The Alexandra Quick Series would like to have a word with you.

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