User blog comment:Sunny the Hedgehog/How to create an Original Character/@comment-1669199-20100202225036

Well, what I ment to say was this: This list sounds easy to follow, but some people may have difficulty actually following them when they are trying to make there own original characters. Take me for example: When I create a character, I do try to make him/her original. However, I see A LOT of other fan characters from A LOT of different people, including you. When I'm thinking of the steps I need to create an original character, I struggle because I try not to make a character that has any unoriginal similarities with any characters at all, both canon and fanon. And seeing the sheer number of fanon characters alone, with all their BG information, ability information, trivial information, etc., I can't help but notice that, no matter if I thought of the ideas from scratch, I could end up creating characters that are either similar to other people's fanon characters by accident, and get flammed for it because I stole someone else's ideas. I mean, who has invented an original character in the past few years? There's gotta be characters that have ideas that have already been used everywhere. ....And now I got to go. I'll write more later.