Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-25396609-20170201003940/@comment-24534644-20170206054909

There's not much for me to start over with. The personality isn't the issue here, it's the allusions the character makes. Every single reference I've made so far with this character draws from the nursery rhyme Hickory Dickory Dock. I've made no attempt to stretch things to go a certain direction with the allusion, it all just naturally turned out this way. And yet, it just so happens that even with a COMPLETELY unrelated character basis, I made someone who has a similar name, name meaning, color scheme, and even some of the same fighting style elements as a main Canon character. That's not to say the fighting styles are completely similar, nor are their personalities; far from it. But at first glance...

If I were to start over, I'd have to go out of my way to try and create a different character using the same basis, and that would result in something that just seems stretched and unnatural compared to something that just comes naturally. You know when people make an OC without bothering to include an allusion, and instead of starting from scratch they try desperately to twist and stretch their existing model so it fits the expectations of the viewers? This would be like that, expect inversed. And still just as bad.