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[MEME] 30 Weeks of Fanfic: OCs
Week 8: Do you write OCs? If so, what do you do to make certain they're not Mary Sues? If not, explain your thoughts on OCs.
I do now and again. I hope that they escape Suedom by almost always* being minor characters.
I view OCs like cameos or supporting roles in a movie (or quest-givers in videogames): they're there for a scene or two to move the plot along, provide bits of exposition or color, or give the main character(s) someone to talk or react to. They might flirt with/hit on/sleep with the MC, but it's never going to develop into a Serious Relationship.
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*Except for my two earliest fanfics (in which the OCs were main or nearly-main characters) and my chaptered femslash promptfic Salvage Operation, which was OC/OC in an action-adventure Indiana Jones-type setting.
I do now and again. I hope that they escape Suedom by almost always* being minor characters.
I view OCs like cameos or supporting roles in a movie (or quest-givers in videogames): they're there for a scene or two to move the plot along, provide bits of exposition or color, or give the main character(s) someone to talk or react to. They might flirt with/hit on/sleep with the MC, but it's never going to develop into a Serious Relationship.
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*Except for my two earliest fanfics (in which the OCs were main or nearly-main characters) and my chaptered femslash promptfic Salvage Operation, which was OC/OC in an action-adventure Indiana Jones-type setting.