Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-27966940-20170517013010/@comment-30530552-20170715023934

RayStrikeAbius wrote:

Of course, neither the semblance nor the character are here, because both were horribly imbalanced at the time I joined. You know, the disease that afflicts all writers: first-OC-itis. My first character is actually over on the Fanon site, and was able to be at least half-way decent thanks to the Semblance moderation over here, back when I was still an anon. I mean, if anything he was a self-insert character if I ever saw one (I mean, he literally shares my first name...you can't really do worse than that], but he didn't have an absolutely horrible childhood [at least, not to the level of Ren, Ruby, Yang, or Nora's], had a semi-reasonable Semblance, conservative weapon, and a shit ton of thought put into him.

I mean, his parents divorced at a young age, he doesn't even know his father's real name, and his Mom's an alcoholic & smoker which she uses to try and recover from the divorce, and has literally lost touch with reality in every facet of life really. Unfortunately, even as he tried to get over that he still had many...issues with being someone who sort of loathed their own existence until they found true purpose.

At this point I'm considering how I want to change him so he's more well-rounded...perhaps by making his father be an antagonist, which would potentially be an interesting twist. I mean, the people that reviewed it actually said it was really good "for a First OC", which means take that how you will, I guess.