It's really discouraging to know that, while some OCs have a bad rap due to a lot of people being weak, trope-y writers who use recycled "unique" aspects to make up for a lack of their character not being interesting in the first place, that they write off the possibility that they might end up having fun with just another character.
Literally every argument that I have been hearing against ocs have been covered in my little guideline thing there. While we as staff can't control who tags whom, we can control whether or not things get abused or if the character is just bland and inconsistent. But it's really unfair to someone who plays an original character to not be threaded with just because they are an oc. That's like people saying "I don't want to thread with someone from a stupid font-changing webcomic because it's annoying" or "That version of X is stupid because it's the Y adaptation". A lot of interesting CR I've got over the years were from canons I had literally no interest in. Reservations should be put to the side if the writing quality is good enough and the willingness to be flexible with input is there.
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Literally every argument that I have been hearing against ocs have been covered in my little guideline thing there. While we as staff can't control who tags whom, we can control whether or not things get abused or if the character is just bland and inconsistent. But it's really unfair to someone who plays an original character to not be threaded with just because they are an oc. That's like people saying "I don't want to thread with someone from a stupid font-changing webcomic because it's annoying" or "That version of X is stupid because it's the Y adaptation". A lot of interesting CR I've got over the years were from canons I had literally no interest in. Reservations should be put to the side if the writing quality is good enough and the willingness to be flexible with input is there.