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ckret2 · 10 days ago

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So the trick to get you in the groove to work on on oc stuff is that first you put them in a fic for something your alredy working on and rhen let them bloom

You say that like you think I haven't tried it.

The problem is, for the way I write fanfic—I go hardcore on the canon compatibility—a really good fanfic OC has to be woven so deeply into the context of the original canon universe and canon story that you can't rip the canon out of them without undermining the whole foundation of their identity as a character. One you remove the canon, all you're left with is superficial surface details that no longer make sense without the canon you've stripped away.

For me developing the kind of OC that could stand wholly independent from the source material means a failure to write the kind of OC that I feel is appropriate for the fanfic I created the OC for. If the OC is whole and complete and fully developed and needs nothing if you remove the original canon context, then what the hell are they doing in that canon anyway? If the canon has no major impact on who they are?

#(ironically—considering the post that prompted this ask—vendor MIGHT manage to be an exception just due to the fact that—)#(—the whole scifi apocalypse going on is by necessity already pretty far removed from regular GF canon.)#(Just because we KNOW that setting is out there but it's so underexplored in canon.)#(But nevertheless the whole idea of a minor elected official who's also a vending machine who's also a planet dispensing god—)#(—is soaked in GF goofiness. for THEM to make sense outside a GF fic i'd have to invent a setting......... that's tonally just like GF.)#anonymous #ask #about my writing

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