Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-11584028-20161105040408/@comment-24412830-20161219045607

NotLessOrEqual wrote: Megalodon Commando wrote:

NotLessOrEqual wrote: All these OC's are making my brain cells undergo necrosis. What? Haven't you never had an Original character for Sonic before? No because firstly, I cant really draw anthros for crap (I can try) and secondly, I find it childish imho, sometimes cringeworthy even. Im all for only official characters. The OC's which I can tolerate are only those which are unique but have some resemblence of the Sega Mobian proportions eg. Jen Hen's characters. Evan Stanley for example also has her own fan comic (quite good actually) and of course put her own OC's in there but she loses points because she re-uses the already too abundunt Hedgehogs. There are so many oppurtunities to at least come up with more uniquely designed characters, example, a least different species. Things like that.

Other than that, when people mention OC's I automatically picture recolours or ones resembling recolours or utilising base designs. Yes, I wrote the word 'Color' with a 'u' in it, Im Australian, get used to it.

I have been a critical fan of the Sonic Franchise since I was 8 when I got my first few Sonic Games (and discovery of the evr-so-good American comics since they dont sell em directly in my country). I maintain a love-hate relatonship. I kind of agree with half of you're opinion. OC characters do often confuse and alienate the story if their added in wily-nily just like that. I myself have OC characters (Mainly humans like Danny Carter) that I often incorporate into my own stories based around Archie Sonic and videogame canons and I do try my best to keep everything within relation to the canon itself or otherwise it becomes too Non-canon.

But I do that because

1.) I'm a long-time fan of Sonic (like you)

2.) I needed something as a past time.

And 3.) I feel I want to be apart of the action myself and not just watching it from behind the scenes. OC's are genuinely fun and unique to create for something that you feel would be yourself if you were involved in any intellectual property, but they do get a bit out of control and like I said before, often cause confusions amongst fans.

And for the record before I finish. I'm a New Zealander, So I already understand how Australians spell words. So I am used to it.