Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-27966940-20170517013010/@comment-27425734-20170715004434

SpiritedDreaming wrote: ...

My first character was decent. Had a Candelight semblance, a rope dart weapon, daughter of police officers who had a thing for rules and regulations but wanted to help people more and in a different way to her parents. Leader of her team and had a minor allusion to Sleeping Beauty.

In fact, if anything she is underpowered but still balanced. I think it depends on the writer then. That, and whether or not they recognize what makes a passable original character.

Some writers such as myself create their first OC, and decide they want them to be a villain. But, not just any villain. An unbeatable villain that reincarnates every time you kill him.

His backstory is incredibly cliche, but writers like myself are too scared to put our work out into the world, so we have no idea that that is the case. Said OC is incredibly bishounen in appearance with long, spiky black hair, violet eyes, pale skin, and a hunky body that makes supermodels suffer from crippling depression at the mere sight of him. He has angel wings, a ring of legendary power that is ripped straight out of LoTR in terms of lore, and a slew of different abilities that make him nearly impossible to kill without the use of a unique sacred weapon that is totally not the Master Sword.

Thankfully, a hero will rise who lives on a tiny island out in the middle of the ocean with his grandmother and sister. The story's hero first awakes after a long nap on his birthday - Oh, wait...