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Yeah, I had no idea people called pickles gherkins.Oh you genuinely didn't know? I thought you were just hating on the gherkin. XD Yep I mean a pickle.
Gherkin sounds like an article of clothing.
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Yeah, I had no idea people called pickles gherkins.Oh you genuinely didn't know? I thought you were just hating on the gherkin. XD Yep I mean a pickle.
Gherkin sounds like an alien race of domination.Yeah, I had no idea people called pickles gherkins.
Gherkin sounds like an article of clothing.
That too.Gherkin sounds like an alien race of domination.
Oh duh, that's why. Because of the Irken Empire from Invader Zim.Gherkin sounds like an alien race of domination.
I mean like, sure, base a character on yourself if you're not so attached to it you take it personally when people don't agree with your character IC, and you aren't making it perfect and Sue-ish. But why would you want to play the same character type all the time? I don't get why, if you can choose from infinite different types of personalities, attributes, abilities, etc. you would want to keep making the one who was almost exactly like you? Surely the whole fun of roleplay is playing different sorts of people who aren't like you? With different values, backgrounds, personality traits, ways of behaving, etc. etc. I feel like this is being a bit "I like hamburgers so I will only eat hamburgers for every meal. Sometimes I will have gherkins, sometimes cheese, but still a hamburger," and then someone being like "why not try a pizza for a change? "Oh is it a hamburger pizza cos if so yeah I'll go for it. Otherwise no."
Jerkin? Isn't that a thing?Yeah, I had no idea people called pickles gherkins.
Gherkin sounds like an article of clothing.
Not all of your characters need a relationship! Romance isn't always the ultimate goal for everybody!
Yeah that's what I was thinking of.Jerkin? Isn't that a thing?
*Reports with extreme prejudice*Yeah that's what I was thinking of.
I think most OCs are poorly designed, even my own I'm iffy on. ...
I think it takes a lot of skill and thoughtfulness to make an OC who can play well with others while not being special for the sake of being special.
Well apparently hard if you're doubting your own ability.How hard is it to make a normal OC
I think part of the problem is that clichéd tropes appear all over the place, even in famous stories. One of my personal favourites, Thomas Harris's Hannibal Series, could be accused of this.I think most OCs are poorly designed, even my own I'm iffy on.
Most OCs either have too many flaws/quirks or none at all. How hard is it to make a normal OC and have them not have some silly trait like being clumsy or a loner who will warm up to people when they are given a chance? :/ I could make bingo cards of cliche tropes for OCs and hit the jackpot pretty often. I think it takes a lot of skill and thoughtfulness to make an OC who can play well with others while not being special for the sake of being special.
I haven't exactly seen this opinion much, or at least around the people/groups I spend the most time around, but I could be wrong. I wish there were separate terms for ocs that are fan characters and ocs that are part of their own original series? I mean, I understand that "OC" broadly goes over both (and technically if a series makes a character, that character is the series' "OC", to my perception, at least), though I just wish there were different terms instead of using OC for both and needing to specify.
I am confused.
An OC is the character you as a role player created. It means original character.
A character from a published work is a Canon. Because they are from the canon of that work.
I mean, yeah, but there's multiple ways it could go according to your definition. If you make your own story, but you never publish it, are your characters in that story only OCs? What if you revamp a canonical character to the point that they're unrecognizable from their original canon - are they an OC or are they still Canon, because they were originally supposed to be from the canon of that work? What if your friend makes a story - they don't publish it, and they only share it with you and other friends, as well as you, make ocs for that story since you like it so much?
The characters created by the people in ownership of the public work make original content, and therefore the characters they created for that content are original characters.
At least, that's how I understand it, anyways. I don't exactly understand why there should be a difference between published work and non-published work considering roleplaying and original characters.
Actually this is a great point as it has lead to confusion in the past, but I usually use "fandom OCs" and just "OCs" to differentiate between the two.I haven't exactly seen this opinion much, or at least around the people/groups I spend the most time around, but I could be wrong. I wish there were separate terms for ocs that are fan characters and ocs that are part of their own original series? I mean, I understand that "OC" broadly goes over both (and technically if a series makes a character, that character is the series' "OC", to my perception, at least), though I just wish there were different terms instead of using OC for both and needing to specify.