Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-6863431-20150103062825/@comment-73.42.187.52-20150105033836

Flashfire212 wrote: Hell, I'll say it - all characters, OC and canon, have room for growth. No character is immediately perfect. I prefer evolving OCs over time to make them well-rounded characters, but I play with the canon characters too, so that they're on even ground, always evolving as characters. What I DO NOT do is create relationships from scratch. Invent history, sure, but unless the story I'm writing is heading in that direction without me realizing it, or my readers put enough pressure on me to swing the story in that direction, no relationships form at the start of a story unless they are already arguably canon between two canon characters, such as Arkos and Renora.

I agree that a lot of the OC fanfics on FF.net are either self-inserts or overpowered Mary Sues written into the story for the sake of writing them into the story. But, not all of them are like that. Like I said, the main reason why I work with FCs? I have to. My character rosters are giant, almost entirely because my stories end up spanning continents, if not entire planets, over their run. Also, my stories tie together. I've got characters from some of my original urban fantasy works being reconstructed as RWBY OCs for minor roles. No one character is a self-insert of me, because I grew out of that years ago. Instead, a few of the higher level OCs have facets of myself. The Rose General has more emphasis on Noir and his side-story than Perchance, which has a far higher focus on Yang, since all scenes involving her are written from her view.

As for your second point... I kinda had that issue with TRG. I created Sun a team of OCs, and now BAM! I've got three canon characters to write in. Luckily enough, that's a simple enough task thanks to my love of starting with a time delay of X years, but it's still frustrating.

and that is wonderful, if most people approached OC's from that perspective I am sure the overall OC Fanfic perception would be better, I myself have toyed with the thought of making an OC squad fanfic(for my personal amusement) consisting of a racist/bully human leader(with magnetism of a much more limited range than Pyrrha), and 1-3 faunus members, including a Yatsu sized Timberwolf and a "flying" squirrel faunus.

My general concept for interactions with series characters is no romance, combat-wise the majority of the team are pro duelists(though none beat Pyrrha, and RWBY/JNPR will likely be relatively 50-50) with such abysmal Teamwork at the outset that even CRDL will beat them(though solo I think 2-3 members of the OC's might be able to take the whole team, I like the idea of CRDL beating them with teamwork), for story I think relationships(non-romantic connotation) will be either OC/OC, or organic between OC/series characters.

all in concept stage atm, I doubt I would release any until after Volume 3 is out just so I have a better idea of where canon is going to make sure it fits. at this point mostly done with weapon/powers, working out personalities/character body types/names.