HP OC survey
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author_by_night1. What age range are you in? (You may give your exact age).
A. 7-9
B. 10-12
C. 13-15
D. 16-18
E. 19-21
F. 22-24
G. 25-27
H. 28-32
I. 33-35
J. 36-38
K. 39-41
L. 42-44
M. 45 +
2. What do you think of original characters?
3. What do you think of "canon oc's" being written? (Hestia Jones, Dorcas Meadowes, Andromeda Tonks... anyone who has been mentioned in the books, but has not appeared often enough to get a good sense of the character - or has not appeared at all).
4. Do you write OC's?
5. What do you think of Mary Sue Litmus Tests?
6. Why do you think the HP fandom (which actually used to be quite open to OC's) has become wary of them?
7. Do you have any limits as to what sort of OC you'll read?
8. Are "canon oc's" really OC's?
9. What is a "Mary Sue"?
10. If applicable, list some OC's you have found well written.
11. If applicable, list some "canon OC's" you felt were well written.
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Date: 2005-05-08 03:43 am (UTC)K. 39-41
(*is amused that over 45 is its own category but everything from 7 up was carefully broken down*)
2. What do you think of original characters?
Sometimes they're good and sometimes they suck, but if you want to write fic that isn't just about the place and time and side of things your canon covers, they're absolutely necessary.
3. What do you think of "canon oc's" being written? (Hestia Jones, Dorcas Meadowes, Andromeda Tonks... anyone who has been mentioned in the books, but has not appeared often enough to get a good sense of the character - or has not appeared at all).
It's often necessary and can be done either well or badly.
4. Do you write OC's?
As I am not a Gryffindor fan and prefer to write historical fic generally...yes, of course.
5. What do you think of Mary Sue Litmus Tests?
They're funny, but of limited usefulness when writing outside of the areas canon covers.
6. Why do you think the HP fandom (which actually used to be quite open to OC's) has become wary of them?
Why does every fandom become wary of them? There are a lot of them that suck.
7. Do you have any limits as to what sort of OC you'll read?
I won't read OCs written by people who clearly don't understand the era they're writing in. As someone who lived through the MWPP era and is around the age that they would be if they had lived, I find fics in this era that assume people got on the same way they do now to be really annoying.
8. Are "canon oc's" really OC's?
If you have to make up everything about the character but the name, then it's your character, not JKR's, isn't it?
9. What is a "Mary Sue"?
A really, really obnoxious OC who is anachronistic, out of place, clearly an idealised self-insert, and warps the canonical universe around herself or himself, usually but not always the love interest or child of a canon character.
10. If applicable, list some OC's you have found well written.
I think
11. If applicable, list some "canon OC's" you felt were well written.