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some of it is people using it to get around "no OCs" rules in games where they're not allowed. i don't have any problem with OCs, but if the mods don't want them in their game and someone's basically making an OC but using the name of a technically canon character with no actual character, they're basically just sidestepping rules. it makes you look like someone who thinks they're above the rules or like you're gonna be a pain in the ass for the mods constantly looking for exceptions or ways for your character to be ~special~

and then some of it is players that could just make an OC and app that, but want to have the "in" with a cast. it's pretty shitty to waste a slot in a canon capped game on an extremely minor character with no substance that no one asked for. these people usually expect to be included in all the cast plotting and drama and treated like a major castmate even if none of the other characters in that cast have ever met their canon OC or have no reason to interact with them beyond "we're from the same world lol". you could easily make an OC that's a witch going to a magic school in your own original world and use that common ground to build CR with harry potter, but these people instead app katie bell with an app that's 95% headcanon and take up a slot in the harry potter cast, blocking actual canon characters from apping if the cast is full and expecting to get included in all harry potter's shenanigans despite harry and katie barely interacting in the books.

so in theory this wouldn't be a problem if the game didn't have cast caps and castmates set boundaries as appropriate and you didn't take it as a personal affront that someone wants to breathe life into a character that canon refuses to for whatever reason

it depends on the character. one i can think of that gets instant side-eyes are 'canon love interests' that died/left early and people use them to shoehorn into ships or cast involvement. like kristen kringle from gotham or jessica from supernatural. there are a lot of 'canon' characters that have had romantic/familial involvement as a sort of peripheral thing that some people use to force themselves into an important place in a given cast. and because it's a character like jessica that sam would give a shit about and have feelings about, it's hard to just not react or write it off as 'moving on'. these are the bad apples that ruin it for everyone else. these types of people that do that are why mods and most players blanket 'no' on the decision.

you sound simultaneously crazy defensive and super pretentious. no one's personally offended that you want to ~breathe life~ into a character, we just don't want to feel forced to interact with your super special totally canon character just because they happen to be from the same canon.

and fun fact, it isn't a crime that canon "refuses" to give more depth to whatever minor character you've hyperfixated on. not every mentioned character is gonna be important in a work of fiction, and it isn't necessarily good writing to flesh out every random person if it's just distracting from the stuff that actually matters in the story. we don't need tons of details about batman's mom when the only significance said mom has in the story is dying so batman will be motivated to become a superhero.

lol someone touched a nerve

sorry no one but you cares anout your pet favorite background character

oh my

"it's not MY fault the evil mods have cast caps and potential castmates are jerks who'd rather have actual characters in their casts!! gosh don't be so ~offended~ that i'm improving this obvious failure of the shitty original canon creator, they should have just made this random background character more important!!!"

lmao and you wonder why no one wants to play with canon OCs

there sure is a lot of projection going on in this thread just for calling out hypocrisy and double standards

holy over defensive, batman

i mean i'm not wrong, look how personal they took it

they didn't take it personal

you said something stupid

hth

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