Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-6863431-20150103062825/@comment-73.42.187.52-20150105014607

Flashfire212 wrote: I really, REALLY hate the OC bashing. I have always argued that a well-created OC can be just as worthwhile as a cliched canon character.

I would agree, but I imagine their problem with OC's are 2-fold; 1. the Bad OC's 2. even if you make a good OC, the possibility that you mess up continuity by either misinterpreting something or being surprised by a plot twist is highly likely, meaning the reader now has a character they may care about that doesn't actually have a world in which they are canon.