Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-6863431-20150103062825/@comment-96.237.64.8-20150105183315

FlashFire, you have my respect and your OCs sound interesting. I've been making OCs for 4 years now and I admit, I didn't think about making OCs from that perspective, hmm...thanks for the idea. Most of the time, I take a character from another fandom and spend months changing them into something else. If I'm lazy, I take a word and create a character out of it but that's a bit difficult and they normally end up to be a bit cliche.

Live, Wikia 173 and 73, yeah I know, it's incredibly irritating whenever I see all those overpowered OC fics. If they're not OP, they're self-inserts and OP which are worse IMO. I think there are some OC fics that do try to avoid the OP OCs but the writing is just bad or people ignore them. Most of the time I steer clear of them unless they're SYOCs because hey, if the character doesn't belong to the author, they're less likely to make them Sues/Stus. Most SYOC authors knows what a good OC is and they don't accept the badly made/OP ones. But then again, some aren't but all it takes is a simple glance at their profile, stories, and chapters to know what kind of author they are.