A thread to discuss My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic and the tie-in media.
All of the usual forum rules
apply. In addition, please remember that the thread is discussing a kids' show, and it's primarily focused on the work itself, not the fanfic — in particular, we don't want to see lewdness creeping in.
Edited by Mrph1 on Aug 26th 2024 at 10:24:26 AM
Only OCs, or does an O.C. Stand-in count?
First full OC introduced by my series was Tear Drop. Therapist. Talent: Treating emotional damage. Cutie mark: A heart wrapped in bandages.
@Wryte: Oh dear...
@Rin: Ouch lad. I admittedly felt similarly with the one OC I have currently on display (and had felt like it was not original enough to even bring up), so don't feel too bad, lad!
@NES The last time I tried to make OCs they were just knockoff characters of familiar characters from Final Fantasy and Dragonball Z. Then I had another one that was originally a character from an online game that became an OC for a while but I just lost interest with that character and trying to flesh him out.
"Transform and Roll out!" Optimus PrimeI'm a writer with several original projects in varying degrees of completion. I'm in the business of OCs. My Chrono Trigger-inspired RPG alone has seven party members,
and my YA fantasy novel has three POV characters.
:P
Don't even get me started on my WoW alts.
I've actually created a fair amount of OC's for my fanfic ideas {Which will probably never get made}, but the only one I'm willing to actually share is one that I probably won't use at all.
Basically, my OC would have had the same name as my username, but he would be a deliberate subversion of Self-insert fics because he's both a Jerkass {Even more then I already can be at times} and a Butt-Monkey who no one likes and that I barely have anything in common with, and pretty much everything goes wrong for him. Heck, he would probably even die in one of my more adventure story-type fics if I ever used him. I won't ever use him for a number of reasons, but there you go.
edited 9th Mar '14 2:38:33 PM by marston
Well, to describe the OC of mine, he's something of a basic artist... who is fairly talented with pencil-drawing. As of this moment, I've yet to really stick with a full name, but the nickname of "Mike" kinda stuck on him. He's not too good with drawing via other implements though (so don't expect a good art piece in marker or crayon or paint, but colored pencils are okay. Just a solitary pencil with normal graphite's the preferred drawing tool of choice though.)
If any questions arise, feel free to ask, and I'll answer to the best of my abilities.
Basically, my OC would have had the same name as my username, but he would be a deliberate subversion of Self-insert fics because he's both a Jerkass {Even more then I already can be at times} and a Butt Monkey who no one likes and that I barely have anything in common with, and pretty much everything goes wrong for him. Heck, he would probably even die in one of my more adventure story-type fics if I ever used him. I won't ever use him for a number of reasons, but there you go.
I've had an idea for a Pokemon fanfic for a while now based on self inserts, though I haven't actually written anything. The trick is that I'd write two main characters: the self insert would be a 20-something semi-pro trainer with aspirations of becoming a gym leader. He'd have been training since he was 10, thereby explaining why he already had a full roster of badass pokemon and relationships some with the canon gym leaders - Brock is his rival, having started training around the same time, Koga is his mentor figure, etc.
The other character is a take off on the typical mary sue pokemon trainer. She's a bratty, rich, teenage girl with absent parents who bought her a full set of eeveelutions from a breeder when she spontaneously decided she wanted to be a trainer shortly before the annual League finals.
The two meet in an exhibition match before the League starts and the self insert estimates her pretty well, but wholly underestimates her purchased pokemon. He starts off taking it easy on her, which ends up being a big enough mistake that he can't recover from it before the end of the match. The match doesn't count for anything in the League, but he's so rattled by it that he gets knocked out in the first round of the tournament when he was reasonably expecting to make the top 5 this year. His hopes of being appointed to lead the abandoned Viridian Gym are totally dashed by the loss, but there may be a way to salvage his dream.
The breeder the girl's parents bought the eeveelutions from didn't actually raise them himself; one of his apprentices did, and that apprentice happens to be one of the guys who started his pokemon journey from Pallet Town along with the self insert back when they were 10, and he's mad as hell that his boss sold the project he'd sunk the last few years of his life into breeding to some little brat. He went to the girl's parents to try and get them back, and they offered him a deal: the girl wants to go on a real pokemon journey, and needs a mentor. And she wants the guy she battled before the tournament, the self insert, because she thought he was really cool. If the self insert takes the job and gets the girl all the way to the next Indigo League, the parents will pay him so much he could buy his way into a gym leadership, and he can try to convince the girl to give back the eeveelutions in favor of catching her own pokemon. The self insert hates the idea, since he blames the girl for ruining his chances at getting a gym the right way, by merit, but he gives in and agrees.
From there, the story centers on the relationship between the self insert and the mary sue, as he tries to curb the more obnoxious aspects of her character and mold her into a respectable trainer, while at the same time her naive enthusiasm starts to rub the years of accumulated cynicism and "Stop Having Fun" Guy-ness off of him, reminding him of why he wanted to be a trainer in the first place.
The point of the story is two-fold, to bring the noob and elitist approaches to gaming into contrast, conflict, and eventual resolution (damn you Lego movie for beating me to it), and to attempt to write a good fic staring Mary Sues of both the most common definitions: the self insert and the OMG I'm So Special varieties. The idea is that the mary sues would sort of cancel out the things that make mary sues intolerable to readers. The Special Sue's speshulness, obnoxiousness, and tendency to win without earning it make the Insert Sue more relatable because he has to suffer through it just like the reader, and he gets to call her out on those things just as the reader wants to do, and in the end they force each other to grow, thereby overcoming the biggest problem with all mary sues: static.
I have hundreds of OCs, but they're all in fanfics for Sailor Moon, Harry Potter and Pretty Cure, not My Little Pony. Unless one counts the story I've started where I plan to use some toyline-only characters as OC stand-ins.
Counting non MLP OCs, I gues I have Pickory too. But he barely has a real personality, at least demonstrated in the game.
Blind Final Fantasy 6 Let's PlayFirst thing: Jar Jar was already dead. I shot him a while ago. The body was in the house...surprised you guys didn't see his dead body...or smelt his rotting corpse. So, Star and I decided to put it in a lava pot that NES gave us. Also...I got an Xbox 360 and Burnout Revenge. Now, all I need to get is Sonic 06.
https://youtu.be/_1F5HhUvFbM?si=csgwerqELcG6615qI accidentally got a tad lazy and forgot to draw for the past month or so, so I'm trying to get myself back on track at the moment. What do you guys think of this?
It'll be a while before I can get back to doing the smooth MLP drawing style.
My oc is one of two viewpoint characters in a fic cowritten with me and Luminous. Mine is Gwendolyn (gwen to her friends) a rich, entitled griffon from a wealthy family. She's cynical and hedonistic, wanting to set out for adventure in the galaxy for her own glory and material gain. That is, before her prize ship's taken by Lum's oc, Milky Way, a ditzy Idiot Hero with supernatural amounts of luck.
Through an AI mishap, her accounts get frozen and is forced to buy a broken down rusty ship that needs a ton of duct tape to stay together. Her rougher experiences in space will soften her up over her adventures and slowly becomes a nicer person.

Eh, my OC is just a blue earth pony with a black mane. I have a ton of creative human and alien OCs, but doing a creative pony OC is hard for some reason, at least for me.
edited 9th Mar '14 2:20:32 PM by Rinsankajugin