Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-6863431-20150103062825/@comment-209421-20160428160213

You and I are different in that respect, then. I totally understand your point of view, but my issue is often one of scale - I work on a rather gigantic one in most cases, and back when I started The Rose General, we didn't have a cast large enough to support that weight, so I created OCs. In the next few chapters, which will be the first in a few years, I'll be fixing some of those issues - the OC teammates for Sun will be replaced by his proper ones, for example.

That being said, I am not going to back down from the canon x OC pairings I've already started to position. Partly because I've had positive fan feedback, partly because I'm invested in those, and partly because of that same issue of scale - the OCs are more fleshed out than a lot of the new canon characters from the recent volume. Seriously, aside for name and origin school, we don't know much about any of these new teams, which, in my eyes, makes them little better than OCs, aside for giving me a cop-out and a way out of having to design more OCs for everything.