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Stamp: Fanchars are not OCsby *Jammerlee

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UPDATE: I AM NOW IGNORING ANY QUESTIONS I HAVE ALREADY ANSWERED. I'm tired of repeating myself. Have a question in regard to this stamp? READ THE COMMENTS FIRST. I've most likely already answered someone else over the exact same thing.

This is a major major pet peeve of mine, and it confuses the crap out of me. Why are the terms "fanchar" and "original character" used interchangeably? A fanchar is a character created within the universe of another person's marketed work - Sonic the Hedgehog, Inuyasha, Harry Potter, whatever - a fandom, if you will. While an original character belongs to the universe created by that person's mind.

My character Darian Shiloh is an original character. He exists within Idika, an original story I'm writing not based off of any pre-existing fandom. My character Midnight the Bat is a fanchar. She exists within the Sonic the Hedgehog universe. My character Lance Argentum has both an original incarnation in Idika, and a fanchar incarnation in Sonic the Hedgehog. It's... really not that hard.

It took me ages to realize people were using these terms interchangeably when "OC" became popularized - it still causes me confusion, actually.

And for the record, I don't really care if you don't agree with my opinion, and I don't care what kind of arguments you have against it either. I've heard them all, and I find them incredibly weak. Can you market the character without infringement? No? Then it's a fanchar. Don't agree? Fine. But I refuse to change my opinion about this.

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~Idontknowwhoyouknow 17 hours ago Hobbyist General Artist

Well, I have a gazillion FCs but more OCs in my history.

*madame360 6 days ago

thank you for making this stamp, I see people making stamps of original characters and fandom characters are the same but they are not, if one did not create the world then it is not an original idea, people get mad at this but their making fanart and whats so wrong about an art being fanart. I am getting a little tired of seeing fandom = OC it is not, people use this term for every character they make and if you insert a character into a story it is not a OC, its fanart and nothing wrong with fanart people have been doing it for ages but please people know the difference.

~LunarMew Apr 20, 2013 Student General Artist

Finally, some sanity. I hate it when people use the term "OC" for a fancharacter. This is probably because people associate fancharacters with Sonic, though. Personally, I just gave up with this whole thing and didn't bother correcting anyone. The internet is too "serious" and I don't want conflict. XD

~NiftyNautilus Mar 19, 2013 Student Traditional Artist

I agree. I have OCs, but not any fanchars yet, and I think that this is pretty annoying.

~Dogwhitesector Mar 5, 2013 Student General Artist

I'm with you all the way.

I'd also think that the design ties into the whole originality too, along with the setting. I believe that every sonic fan character is not 100% "original" but rather based off the designs of Sonic. Even when the artist had their own universe that has nothing to do with any of the Official Sonic characters, if their characters' designs are base off of Sonic (Which people from the outside would say that its Sonic with this, this, and this) it's still considered a fan character. When Kishimoto created the character Naruto, its considered a original character, as his designs and universe is different from everyone else's.

Its easy to twick fan characters so they don't look sonic-like, "anime" them or anthropomorphize them would make them an original characters.

~bladevstwilight Feb 25, 2013

interestingly I never knew of the term/phrase ''fanchar'' I know its a shortened phrase for fan character but still never knew of it and I always use OC for I'm way to used to it from the sites I do some rping on with it being on them universal for ''fan character'' and ''original character'' plus the term us of 'original character' has got to the point that the lines blurred . Not to forget OC is part of a fan character for you made a character of your own albeit fan-based

~SnowCreek Feb 14, 2013

I think if something gets used that way long enough then that becomes it's definition-and that if I started using the term fanchar then I'd get a lot of comments from people wondering why I can't say OC.

I do like that there's a seperate term though. I don't really make characters for prexisiting stories unless I need, like, a shop keeper or something, but I hate calling my babies 'OCs' because most of the time when I see the term it's for somebody's absolutely gorgeous, Draco dating, brainy, popular girl with a pointlessly tragic backstory. Of course... then if I just call them babies I have to worry about people not getting it -.-

*Gedeminas-Bakutiene Jan 18, 2013 Student General Artist

I finally came across a stamp like this!

I have FCs ((Fan Characters)), but I don't ever use them that much anymore because I've moved on to other stuff, like OCs. ((Original Characters))

I've been writing my own story that isn't based off of any particular series, soo yeah.

But yay! I'm glad I came across this!

*Hawaiifan Jan 13, 2013 Student General Artist

Man, I'm glad that I came across this stamp.

~LeWashie Nov 14, 2012

Oh... I get it now!!!

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