notes on an OC...

POSTED BY: wytchcroft
UPDATED: Thursday, February 14, 2008 16:49
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wow! this continues to be a fine and interesting thread.
OC's are tricky - but, obviously, i aint stopped using em yet!

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I'm in agreement with SpaceANJL, particularly the statement:

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But I hold with the idea that an OC should stand as a character - that you could imagine their lives going on if they never even met or heard of any of the BDH's.

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Any OC I create whose going to keep appearing has to have a past, present and future outside of knowing or being in the presence of the Firefly crew. I may not be forthcoming about what that past, present or future is, but it's there.

In the same way, when I first started posting (is it really near a year ago!), I felt the ship needed more crew members but
a) I didn't want readers automatically assuming they would be shacking up with one of the BDHs (I'm guessing that's more or less a Mary-Sue thing) and
b) I wanted people to be able to imagine them as believable in Joss's verse (as we all do I guess).

All my major OCs did their time, so to speak, before becoming a major influence in the story directions.

I guess I'm just re-iterating what others have already written

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