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i'm going to agree with the other anons. i think banning ocs in an au game sends a bad message, since au games are usually among the most welcoming to ocs. it's hard enough to get an au game off the ground as it is. not all ocs are great, but not all canon characters are great either. many canon characters are sues/stus and many are flat and underdeveloped. banning ocs just feels like one of those dated holdovers from "literate" games on livejournal.

whether you're apping a canon character or an oc to an au game, you have to write out the character's in-game au history, and that history has to fit the game info. the canon history doesn't matter except as a guideline for writing the au history. and when it comes to verifying the accuracy of the app, there's no difference between an oc and a character from a rare canon with no wiki. either way, you're relying on the consistency/plausibility of the app to determine whether the personality section fits the character and the setting they're supposed to come from. and with an au game, you as the mod know the setting better than anyone, so you can easily judge whether the character fits.

the fun of au games is getting to play a character as a lifelong native of the game world, instead of a confused jamjar arrival. it doesn't matter if the character is a canon character or an oc, since everyone comes from the same universe and has to abide by the same setting rules.

Tch

Re: another AU game idea/revival post