Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-25396609-20171116191014/@comment-27447621-20171122160415

196.52.84.26 wrote: There was one idea for OC I had since Volume 3. Ok...

The OC sports experimental augmentations that replaces his eyes, arms, legs and most of his vital organs. Um, what? If he lost his eyes, arms, legs, and most of his vital organs in the first place, I don't care how fast you're flying, he's going to bleed out before they can get him from Vale to Atlas. Not to mention the fact that he also lost several vital organs.  Nothing suggests that Atlas can resurrect the dead, so this guy, best case scenario, dies being airlifted to Atlas in the first place.

His semblance involves the manipulation of machines through physical contact, allowing him to quickly adapt to his new body. How very convenient that he had the personality traits to merit that Semblance before being augmented with various machines. Whether he did or didn't have that Semblance already, it comes off as a little contrived that he randomly has this Semblance- oh and also he conveniently has these mechanical augmentations, lucky him.

His augmentations also allow him to convert aura into energy blades and palm blasters but at the risk of leaving himself vulnerable. People can turn Aura into blade beams already without the need for augmentation and without making themselves too much more vulnerable, so blades shouldn't be too outlandish without being 3/4 robot, or making the user vulnerable.

Now residing in Atlas, the OC secretly works for Ironwood on clandestine operations and frequently visits his comatosed friend who is being treated in a hospital. However, over time, Jacques Schnee steps in to manipulate the OC to do his dirty work, threatening to cut off his friend's life support - challenging him whether or not to do the right thing. Two things here. 1) why would Jacques Schnee have control over his friend's life support in the first place? And yeah, I get that he's super rich and powerful, but if your OC works for Ironwood, then as soon as Jacques makes his demands, your OC can probably have his friend moved into military custody. And 2) Now you're tangling yourself a little too much into the lives of canon characters, which I have to discourage for the same reason we discourage things like "My OC is currently dating this canon character"; if that scenario gets disproven in the show, that story element falls apart.

Another OC I had in mind was a ruthless hunter in-training who is driven to track down the Branwen Tribe and kill Raven to avenge his villager that fell victim to one of their raids. Oh boy. Who doesn't love an edgy character?

Among the many, many problems with Edgy characters as a whole, this dude is hunting and killing an ENTIRE BANDIT TRIBE over a single villager? Not even his girlfriend or his parents (although that's not much more excusable) but some rando?

I mean, don't get me wrong, if it was his friend, GF, Parents, etc, there would still be huge problems, but just some ordinary Joe? And he's fighting a tribe of trained bandits and the Spring freaking Maiden to avenge this guy? That's a suicide mission. All because this guy got sad that the one guy down the street that he talked to a few times died in a bandit raid.