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da

[(Anonymous)]

not poking fun or arguing, just making a genuine observation: it's very interesting to me how this is more or less true depending on what medium you play from. in tv shows or movies, it's absolutely true that any one given character or plotline was most likely worked on by multiple writers, and the same is true for video games made by big teams, but when it comes to books or manga (aside from the most popular stuff that i assume is written with much more studio/publisher input than the more niche titles) that is absolutely not always the case, and you could easily assume the same about characters from those mediums -- but i personally find that opinion less common. i wonder if it's just easier to assume that fellow roleplayers are working out their issues through rp than it is to assume the same of the authors of canons being played from? or if it's a degree of separation thing, like, with an oc the author and the player are one and the same but with a canon character even if the author was projecting like mad you've always got the plausible deniability of "the author might have been working through stuff but it doesn't mean that the player is"? i hope this does not come out as argumentative cus i don't want to argue, it's just something this thread got me thinking about

Re: da

[(Anonymous)]

as someone else pointed out, it's bc published works are basically pre-vetted

that doesn't mean they're good, blah blah fifty shades of whatever etc etc, but it does mean multiple people looked it over and said "a decent number of readers won't immediately write this off as schlocky," and then, on top of that, a prospective rper of a canon has to read it and find a character interesting to someone other than the author

none of that is true of ocs by default: they have no editors, and absolutely no one has to find them interesting apart from their creator -- so it's quite possible that the author of xyz manga is using characters or story beats to work through stuff, but other people have gone over it and found it interesting anyway

Re: da

[(Anonymous)]

+1

just having other people look something over and make suggestions/alterations makes a huge difference in the end quality. every author i follow has given huge props to their editors for having a big hand in improving their stories and characters. and in my own fanfic, i can see the quality difference between the ideas ive workshopped with my friends versus the ones where ive just sat down and written them without external input. the collaboration does make a difference!

Re: da

[(Anonymous)]

The fact that we're not rping with the original authors is actually the main difference imo. Because this is ultimately more of an ooc issue than an ic one.

If Eiichiro Oda wrote Luffy from One Piece as having stretchy limbs because he's secretly deeply insecure about his own stubby arms, it doesn't matter, because Jane from Accounting is the one RPing Luffy. There's a degree of separation that renders whatever "purpose" the character may have been created to fulfill meaningless.

You can actually see this in play sometimes, such as characters who exist in canon for almost entirely fanservice purposes, being fleshed out as their own characters through rp.

Of course, people can absolutely imprint their own issues onto canon characters too, so it's not even an issue unique to OCs.