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Nov. 25th, 2006 03:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cybermathwitchAdvice on MarySues - as in, avoiding them.
I have this idea for a Supernatural fic. It involves an original character (who has started talking to me and won't shut up! Cause I need that during NaNo, right...) who is female. It's going to eventually be OT3 (cause I found a fic using a character that was in an ep of the show that worked on that principle, and while I can't quite get into Wincest (I'm trying, but nothing I've read so far has really worked for me) I can *totally* see them w/ the same girl at the same time.
ANYWAY, I want to write this. I know that no matter what I do, someone, somewhere, will decide that since it's an OFC it's a Mary Sue, but I want to minimize that reaction. I don't want her to be that kind of a character, I want her to be "real". Have any of you lovely people written fics w/ OFCs? (Or OMCs, for that matter?) Or read fics you really like with original chars in them that work? How do you think one should go about making a character *not* be the dreaded Mary Sue?
I have this idea for a Supernatural fic. It involves an original character (who has started talking to me and won't shut up! Cause I need that during NaNo, right...) who is female. It's going to eventually be OT3 (cause I found a fic using a character that was in an ep of the show that worked on that principle, and while I can't quite get into Wincest (I'm trying, but nothing I've read so far has really worked for me) I can *totally* see them w/ the same girl at the same time.
ANYWAY, I want to write this. I know that no matter what I do, someone, somewhere, will decide that since it's an OFC it's a Mary Sue, but I want to minimize that reaction. I don't want her to be that kind of a character, I want her to be "real". Have any of you lovely people written fics w/ OFCs? (Or OMCs, for that matter?) Or read fics you really like with original chars in them that work? How do you think one should go about making a character *not* be the dreaded Mary Sue?
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Date: 2006-11-26 06:32 am (UTC)I have written (along with Faraday) some OCs that to my knowledge have never been given such a label. Of course, one was an 11 year old girl, one was a very old woman, so they didn't fit the typical "perfect love interest that's better than all the other characters combined" idea. There was, however, a very handsome and talented man in PSL, and the main thing we did with him that I think worked was that a) he had some issues and some insecurities (but not too much) and b) he didn't end up with Draco in the end. He was more of a necessary stepping stone to help Draco get past his own issues.
Hope this helps some.