OUGH THE ONION THING. original characters vs. canons and the community's usual blatant preference for canons. you kno what i mean.
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Coughs as I insert my ocs into canon events.
Listen, I get it--ocs are under more scrutiny, and I think the reason why has to be how most of us were introduced to them. The way when we were young, creating vampire gods who turn things to gold, or mermaid princesses who can fly and live in space; things that make little sense, or things that are overpowered and marked as ‘mary sues’. You’re told those are bad, or wrong, and that you need to make something believable, and it gets ingrained into everyones head when they see a new OC around--that they have to be sidelined to fit in, they can’t be apart of main story lines of the material you base them off of, that they can’t be stronger than the main cast.
When you take a canon character to write, things are laid out, people KNOW that character--but they don’t know YOUR oc, until interacting and learning about them first. I think that’s a lot of it, either people don’t want to learn, or they do, but don’t know how.
I understand that if you rp a canon character, you wanna rp with canon characters! No one denies that, because like, same, but, as someone who makes ocs, who’s friends make ocs, and who loves to see other peoples ocs, it adds a new layer of something NEW, a new interaction to try, not something already paved for you to go into. Someone new for your character to make relations with, whether it be good or bad ones. It does suck that ocs get noses turned up at them, and I would be lying if I didn’t say I’VE done it before, because someones character just didn’t vibe with me--which, again, I think is always fine. Never feel forced to interact with someone no matter who they are playing, but also, give peoples creativity a chance! You’d be surprised just how well your canon character and an oc can be together.
People who write, and roleplay their ocs, I think are admirable because it’s TERRIFYING to approach canon characters as an oc, because of that fear you’ll be scoffed at for it or a complete lack of interest because you’re not apart of canon story line. Did this make sense? WHO KNOWS. WORD VOMIT.
Edit: TO SUM IT UP, I THINK IT’S STINKY THAT THERE IS BLATANT PREFERENCE BUT I also understand why there is, but I think communities would do well to begin branching out.