Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-25396609-20180128214516/@comment-25936766-20180129011735

Phantomlink959 wrote: The entire point of the contest is to create a character which alludes to something else, using a blank slate as your basis is functionally no different from writing a character which alludes to nothing' and thus defeats the entire purpose of doing these things. Except even those "blank slates" can't do absolutely everything. Thus, an OC alluding to them would indeed be different from a "normal OC", because (logically) their maker would reflect the allusion.

With the Dragonborn again, to be a faithful OC, the OC would need to use a weapon or ability the Dragonborn can use. Thus no guns or scythes or spears or lances and so on. Only swords, axes, maces, daggers, fisticuffs, crossbows and bows, weapon-wise, and Dust for the magic aspect, are available.

Even then, it shouldn't be something like a giant bow that uses javelins as arrows; that's more Monster Hunter than anything Skyrim. Dust itself would have to be used in a manner similar to Destruction magic in Skyrim, to be faithful.

And Fus-Ro-Dah, the most iconic Shout, can be turned into the Semblance.

And of course, since the OC must stick to Remnant's standards, no Master-of-Everything parts for balance, and no real way to imitate Necromancy or magic aside from Destruction magic.

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Basically, that argument falls appart, because if the OC alludes to a character, they would logically have to resemble the character the best they can while still being balanced.

So even if the allusion is "a blank slate", like you call them, it's still very different from making a normal OC who alludes to nothing.