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I wish I had taken a screenshot of where I saw that stamp on someones profile, I can't find it now.
Anyways this is an actual stamp that I saw here on DA and I couldn't help but find it a little ridiculous. Not real original characters?? I'm almost unsure of exactgly what it's supposed to mean. However, I can't help but find the idea of a character not being a real original character because they were created to fit inside the pre-established boundaries of another stories universe a little... narrow-minded. They're still characters, developed in their own way and for their own purposes. How are they 'not real?' Idk. I had this idea immediately after and decided to doodle it. Excuse the awful art.
I actually have way too many fandom ocs to draw in one picture. The ones shown in the bottom panel here are, from greatest to least, from Harry Potter, Star Wars, Avatar the last Airbender, Pokemon, and Homestuck.
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Not 100% the makers creation, maybe, but several of my fandom based ocs wound up evolving and becoming entirely dependent of the universe they were originally based in. And Ocs that were made completely by themselves and freestanding have also wound up temporarily being used as 'fandom oc' characters. There's no 'cold hard truth', a characted;r that someone creates, for whatever purpose, is an original character. Unless they're just, say, playing hermione granger. Then they're just roleplaying.
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I really hope you meant independent when you said dependent. And yes there is a cold hard truth, if you make a character based on a fictional universe that someone else made, that's a fan character. If you make a character for a fictional universe you made, then it's original.
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(oh i forgot to mention, yes i did mean independent. Whoops typo. My bad)
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So Fan trainers for pokemon are not original because you have them placed in the pokemon world? but they WOULD BE original if i placed them in my own world and they raised monsters that had nothing to do with pokemon.
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I don't see why you're dragging my characters into this, but yes you are completely right, and I'm aware of that. I'm not saying fan characters are bad, or unoriginal, but they aren't original in the sense that you made them without using another person's fictional universe as a basis.
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WAIT When was I dragging your characters into that I was just thinking of a fandom I myself was in. And so what about characters who started off as normal oc's but then were placed into a fandom world are they still not original ? I just I really don't see how your coming off as their not.
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I suppose for me there has never been any real distinction between fan characters and original characters. Fan characters simply referred to a specific type of original character. Maybe I percieve them as still being original so strongly because (personally anyway) my characters personalities, motivations, thoughts and feelings are what I put the most work and thought into, and what makes them who they are, with powers, race, abilities, etc. as sort of extras. And since those things are typically what separate my 'fan characters' from my other original characters, I've never made a distinction.
Nor, I suppose, do I plan to.
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So Fan trainers for pokemon are not original because you have them placed in the pokemon world? but they WOULD BE original if i placed them in my own world and they raised monsters that had nothing to do with pokemon.
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They aren't. If they were original, they wouldn't be based off pre-existing works like Harry Potter or Pokemon. They would be completely original. It's the cold hard truth.