Original character
From Encyclopedia Dramatica
Often created by TARTlets, but found all over the internet, an Original Character is either one of two things:
- A character in Fanfiction that is not part of canon
- A character in original fiction
Although these can be well done, many damn nearly all About 99% of these fall into the Mary Sue trap. These characters are usually self inserts of the artist, always depicting themselves with Mary Sue qualities and having every male anime fag in the drawing fawning all over them. Scientists believe this is some form of compensating for their lack of a life IRL.
The moniker "original character" itself is (of course) ironic, as less than two percent of all original characters are in fact possessed of the slightest shred of originality. Truly "original" characters nowadays are as rare as fucking Bigfoot.
Often abbreviated as "OC".
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Kinds of OCs
Furries
Most furries have an OC based on Sonic the Hedgehog, one of the leading causes of aids on the internet. Basically, all they do is take a canon character "as a template" and simply adds more features, such as a different palette, new clothes or no clothes at all. Some are even lazy enough to just make the color of their fur darker and passes it off as the greatest thing ever spawned. Is your character an Amy Rose with no quills? Original character! Have a Sonic with a green racing stripe on his head? Original Character! Knuckles with blue gloves? That's an original character! Other furfags can go far enough to make detailed profiles of their OC, trying to make them look as if they were as unique as a goddamned snowflake. The profiles are even more abysmal than how the character was recolored and includes shitty and cliched descriptions such as Robotnik destroying their home village with zero explanation and being the love interest of a canon character.
The obsession furries have with their Sonic OC is also unbelievable that you will indeed shit bricks. They will often commission or beg people to draw their OC since they know perfectly well that they are untalented hacks. They thrive on seeing their character in varying art styles and even looks at it as an accomplishment. Some of them take their time to turn their OC to a fursuit and wears them to various furry conventions and takes their personality. Another one of their wet dreams is to hack Sonic games by changing their palette, as shown below.
Anime
With every anime, there is always a fandom. Regardless of how plotless it seems or how gay it is, there will always be a fandom. In any fandom for anyanimu, you can guarantee that there will be poorly-written fanfiction with poorly-conceived OCs. But the question is how poorly made can they possibly be? The truth is that they can be so uncreative that their OC is nothing more than a clone of a canon character. An example would be Light Yagami falling in love with a girl who just happened to be exactly like him. They would share the same manner of potato chip eating, laughing and orgasms after writing for 20-minutes straight. After all that, Light still manages to get over the sheer creepiness of them possibly being twins. Their OC paired up with a canon is equivalent to the canon character just dry humping a gender-bending mirror.
However, the clone character will not always be paired with the person they copy. Another example is having Inuyasha paired with a Kagome clone. Of course the clone would have somehow killed off Kagome, join the team and marry Inuyasha at the end forgetting that he married the same person who killed his previous love interest. The only difference from her and Kagome would be wavier hair and cat ears.
Since some people are lazy enough to not even make a clone character, they do the method that's even more lazy and uncreative; merging characters. At least clone characters allow people to add their own little tidbits (non-existent as they may be), but clone characters are just made by taking two (or more) characters from different animus, and just turn them into a hell child. It really makes one wonder why they couldn't come up with anything normal, or good in the very least. Not only are the physical characteristics fused together, personalities, profiles, and even back-stories are also poorly stitched together in an orgy of faggotry.
Kingdom Hearts is possibly the greatest thing to happen to fandomkind since the interbutts. In a dazzling display of whoring out to fans and making countless amounts of money, Square Enix did the unthinkable and combined the greatest sources of hentai into a shitty video game: animu, Disney, and Final Fantasy in a raging romp of repeatedly raping random Disney movies and characters. Fusion of this much pure retard is responsible for destroying the ability of tartlets to pick differing cartoon characters to draw.
As if there weren't enough Kingdom Hearts fanboys and fangirls, they continue to create countless OCs in form of keyweilders, nobody, and heartless. There are many clubs dedicated to the genocide pool of disaster like Org Infinity.
Gallery of Original Characters
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See Also
- deviantART
- Icon theft
- Ruining The Internet
- Sonichu - 100% original character
- Tracing
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