Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-30582209-20170214224204/@comment-30582209-20170214234249

SpiritedDreaming wrote: I've actually seen wolf faunus and chain semblances done well before. Infact, we have an OC Creation Competition here on the wiki, and the theme for the first one was Wolf Faunus. The goal is to not make a Mary Sue.

I don't think chains or wolf faunus are intrinsically bad tropes, but they're just so common that they all just kinda blend together. It doesn't help you distinguish yourself at any rate. As for chain Semblances there are a lot of Semblances that use chains or chain like aura constructs to bind targets. Once I realized how common they were I couldn't unsee it, I'm willing to bet most people have at least one OC with a semblance along those lines, me included.

As an aside I'm not really a fan of focusing on trying to avoid Mary Sue like traits. I feel like most people don't realize that just because your character isn't literally garbage it doesn't mean that it's an interesting or compelling character. Character critiques seem to begin and end at whether or not your character has what the fandom decides are "acceptable traits" and it's always been a pet peeve of mine. (Sorry for the tangent)