[ SECRET POST #2435 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2435 ⌋

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Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 1 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
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Comments

[anonlulz]

If people can't write a fanfiction without using canon characters, they are doing it WRONG.

Unless the OCs are characters that are secondary and will die in a few chapters after being introduced. And an OFC is unreadable (one-dimensional, uninteresting, so on).

Most writers are unable to separate themselves from the OCs. This is a known fact. It cannot be argued.

Hence, I do not read stories with OCs. I hit Backspace as soon as I see that crap.

are you serious?

[(Anonymous)]

"Most writers are unable to separate themselves from the OCs. This is a known fact. It cannot be argued."

Except it isn't a fact. In one of my stories I have an OC that shows up in a third chapter. He is kind of a jackass. The canon characters recognize this fact and thus do not like him. Hell I even acknowledge he's a real jerk and can be hard to like.. It is possible.

After all if it is a fact that a writer is unable to separate themselves from their OCs in fanfiction , what about original fiction. If that were true than we'd have a bunch of literature full of Wesley's and Author's Darlings. A good writer can separate themselves from the OC.

No, I'm overjoyed.

[anonlulz]

I don't care about your butthurtness or your OC.

[(Anonymous)]

...eh most....most

Sorry I skipped that word. Weeeelp.

I apologize then...I misread your sentiment.

[anonlulz]

I know it's difficult for you to understand things, so here's a cookie. :)

Re: are you serious?

[(Anonymous)]

*directs your attention to AYRT's username*

They're trolling. Pay them no mind.

Re: are you serious?

[(Anonymous)]

Ah...

Thank you

Re: are you serious?

[anonlulz]

Keep proving me right for choosing this name, morons. You make my day!

[(Anonymous)]

Eh, some canons are not really that focused on characters and the fanworks are usually about OCs exploring the canon world.

Sorry but I dislike it a lot when people use the "doing it wrong" line. Maybe they're not doing it the way YOU like, but there's really no right or wrong here.

[anonlulz]

You're doing it wrong.

[(Anonymous)]

...but that would mean that all original fiction is bad, which would by extension mean that all fanfiction is bad.

[anonlulz]

Except I'm talking about fanfiction.

Oh wait, I'm in FS. I should have known this would be difficult to understand to most.

[(Anonymous)]

Well, if you're gonna play that game, then I would argue that most people can't separate themselves from their favorite characters. They're hooked because they're seeking to live variously. The primary reason they write fanfic is to insert themselves into one of the characters and live out a fantasy through him/her.

Really, you shouldn't be wading through fanfic at all. It's a teeming hive of wretchedness and desperation.

[anonlulz]

What can I say? I'm a masochist. I read fanfics, and I shout obscenities at the screen all day long.

Which is why I believe that MOST writers are moronic serial Mary Suers. But, a tiny minority is able to use their brains, and exercise their vast imaginations, putting themselves into the shoes of every character without turning them into piles of crap.

[(Anonymous)]

Why wouldn't that minority be able to pull off an OC? Are they just intelligent enough to write other peoples' characters, but not intelligent enough to write their own?

[anonlulz]

Coming up with a character is not the same thing as understanding a character that has an established personality, background story, so on.

Some people might be able to pull it, but I've yet to read a story in which an OC doesn't turn (right away, or eventually) into a Mary Sue.