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⌈ Secret Post #2501 ⌋

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[American Horror Story]

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[Beverly Hills, 90210]

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[Homeland]

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[Skins]

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[Signs]

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[Downton Abbey]

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[Epic Rap Battles of History]

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[Mass Effect]

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[orange is the new black]

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[The Swapper]

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[Rune Factory 4]

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[Skyrim]

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Original characters.

Unless I'm actively looking for awful fic, which happens more often than not.

I read so many fics with great OCs though. Supporting OCs, mind you. Not main character OCs.,

*sigh*

And I just accidentally denied you access too. I am all fumble fingers tonight. LOL

Anyway, I was trying to say that I agree.

I've even read good fic with main character OCs. I love love love outsider POV. It's one of the reasons that "Lower Decks" is one of my fave TNG eps.

can we please stop equating OC to "awful fic' please? That's an old myth that just needs to die.

I've seen countless canon fic where the characters were so off it made my head hurt.

I've never seen fanfiction with original characters that wasn't awful. I should clarify: original main characters. Original characters created to move the plot along don't count.

Further clarifications: things like "I wrote my own Starfleet crew" isn't the same. I'm talking about people who create their own OC to interact with the main cast.

You're talking author self inserts?

Not necessarily--they're just often poorly conceived and written.

Imagine a sea of Bellas, each more Bella than the rest.

I guess I just never see these types of fics.

Ohhhhhhh...

Well ,that is more likely to be difficult, true.

Mostly , I'd say, because of the author of those tend to be written by young people who are anxious to 'get to the good part with mah OC" and they center it on their character. You can't be rushed and you have to accept that people are mainly in it for the canons. It sucks but ya gotta work with it rather than against it if you even want a CHANCE of the fic working out.

( I have seen an example of OCs that interacted with canon very well. The fic Ghosts in the Closet by Miyabou in DP fandom has two oCs that are paired with canons that aren't the focus and they mingled very well. It helped that a lot of the focus was on the canon protagonist and his issues and they were just supporting. Still they appeared to interact with the mains. One was the boyfriend of the protagonists' sister and the other was the boyfriend of someone they knew from school who worked with the canon protagonist' s dad.)

er though I suppose there's a difference between OCs CREATED TO interact with the main cast and those who just interact with the main cast. Right.

Eh. That still sounds like stuff I wouldn't be at all into, but it does sound considerably less annoying.

*shrug*

Fair enough

I understand that some people aren't into some stuff.

I'm just dropping in here to praise Ghosts in the Closet to high heavens. It's the fic that got me to watch the show and I still think it's the best in the fandom.

Weeeelll the fic may be well written, but I'm generally reading fanfic for, well, the canon characters so sudden main OC's are for me, quite awful, because I don't want to read about them

Although to be fair someone shuffling in canon characters from a different show would be equally annoying. Basically if something is tagged X and Y as main characters I want to read about them, not OC or Z, so a fic would be quite awful for me (and obviously I would backspace) if it was

I totally understand that. Also major characters from another fandom are really "wtf" for me if they become major characters. I mean I remember reading one good suspense fic that had a Narnia character mentioned in one line. It was at the tail end of the story and made sense ..in a weird sorta way in that it seemed like just a cameo. It was a little wtf but it didn't take away from the story.

But like if the character had come in midway through and took a major part of the plot, it probably would have seemed weird and lowered my opinion of the story or maybe made me stop reading. It just makes me feel "ugh this is a clusterfuck".

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