Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-6863431-20150103062825/@comment-50.37.24.192-20150218043401

173.58.251.107 wrote: I frankly, dislike OC's. Specifically because I've had enough of "my OC (who, by the way, is a self-insert of me) is a superpowered god with a gigantic chaingun lightsaber and he/she is the best hunter EVAR!" I get that. I totally do. I've tried to make OCs, but I seem to run into that problem. Then... one day, I created an OC villain. I love creating OC villains. And that problem-- making them extremely overpowered and godlike, becomes justifiable. Because making them so extremely over-powered makes them a credible threat and it presents a genuine obstacle for the heros to overcome.

I'm actually working on a story right now. It focused on Ozpin, Glynda, and Ironwood facing a foe from their past (my OC villain... and setting the story in the present gives the villain a revenge motivation).

I've given this character a lot of thought. Given how each character is based on, inspiried by, or alludes to a fairy tale, folk legend, or mythology character, and given that Ozpin, Glynda and Ironwood are all based on L. Frank Baum's Oz characters (the wizard, Glinda and the Tin Man), my character is based on The Wicked Witch of the West.