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Deviousness `anmari has been spreading her infectious positivity throughout our community for over 6 years. Throughout this time Ana has been at the core of all things devious, passionately developing an eclectic gallery, helping organise devmeets, participating in chat events and also recently completed dedicating her time as a Community Volunteer. We are absolutely delighted to bestow the Deviousness Award for May 2013 to `anmari, congratulations! Read More
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I still use the idea of a relationship as a springboard sometimes, but nowadays the relationship they have with a canon character is rarely the point of the story. It might come up in the initial development, but for the most part the details of the relationship are worked out after I have the character fully developed on their own.
Often times, I'll look at a trend in fanfiction writing for certain fandoms, and think to myself "what can I do with these common themes in elements? Can I put my own twist on them to make them better?"
Anyway, I understand the sentiment of this stamp and I think it's a good one. Good characters should have many facets to themselves besides being in a relationship. Other elements like telling a good story, accomplishing a task, and developing as their own person are equally important, if not more so.
I know an OC that looks very well researched based on the info given, but then when I looked in the creator's gallery; all I saw were pics of the OC with the canon character in a romantic relationship. There was plenty praise for it too because the art looks good, yet I felt like the OC was only created for the sole purpose of being paired with their fave canon char despite the research being put in and looking well developed.
Doesn't help that the OC creator has in her signature that she is mentally dating the canon char that she draws her OC with. And she seems to hide any criticism given to her & blocks people because I've seen some hidden comments in some of her pics. So it's possible that the OC was created just to be with her favorite bishie and is doing a good job hiding it; because of the so called research and well development she has done for it and nice art.
But I agree you shoulden't create an Oc just to ship her with your favorite canon character
It annoyed me to no end with Yu-Gi-Oh in fanfics. And currently it annoys the bejeebers out of me with Criminal Minds. Everyone and their sister (or brother for all I know) has OCs that are in a relationship with Reid and they are too perfect. They have an IQ higher than his... and yeah.
And it annoys me with Kingdom Hearts too actually...
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