The OC's cutie mark is for all observations, an Hour Glass. Now, tell me what other Fan-developed Pony has that same mark and you'll begin to see the problem here. The artist was too damn lazy to generate an original mark.
Silent_Witness: @Hierolocc: Make up a cutie mark: get slammed.
Use a preexisting cute mark: get slammed.
It seems the only winning move when making OCs is not to play.
...Or, make a female one.
Hierolocc: *Make an Unoriginal/nonsensical mark, get slammed.
*Be unwilling to invest grey matter into developing new mark, get slammed.
*Winning move: Create original, incredibly well fleshed out Character with an interesting backstory, compelling personality, and physical uniqueness, completely based around Hierolocc's insane standards.
*Make a female one with above standards or still have Hierolocc rage at the artist like a senile man of advanced age barking at the squirrels loitering on his porch.
No rage on my behalf. I don't really like Spitfire so it doesn't rumble my johnnies seeing her with an OC, especially not one that looks like it could be a background pony.
This would work for you guys if any of you bothered looking INTO said OC. But even when there's normal colored, normal marking OC's on here, they still get slammed because of pairing with canon. I've seen a few basic looking characters on here that have those traits get shafted for that fact.
Oh, that's all well and good; except for the part where there is no source nor indication of who made the damn thing or where I could learn about it. Tiny sig is insufficient for my purposes.
And yes, usually I'll get whiny about any OC/Canon char; that's just in my nature. Finicky? Boy, I need Carbon Steel and a cattle prod to keep my Jimmies in line.
Silent_Witness: @bAv-R34: Then why make them at all if they're not permitted to interact with the canon characters in any way whatsoever (except, presumably, as the canon character leads them into an incinerator)?
Silent_Witness: @bAv-R34: Because without some sort of connection to the canon (even if only marginal), then it ceases to be part of the "Friendship is Magic" world. It becomes its own... spin-off, for lack of a better word.
bAv-R34: @Silent_Witness: Well in all senses, I'm talking about OCs in general. If you take a look at other posts involving some fursona fagsona, you'll see that the OCs are not even ponies to begin with, and they would still be there even if MLP did not exist.
Silent_Witness: @Silent_Witness: And just because I can, I am now going to create my own canon-compliant OC on the spot. Here we go:
Okay, for a name, we'll call him... hmm... let's go with "Sixpence," and we'll make him an earth pony. Let's give him a... a beige coat would be good, and a brown mane and tail. As for a cutie mark, he can have... a shiny silver coin.
Okay, now that appearance is out of the way, let's give him a little backstory. He runs the register of a store- we'll make it a bookstore- in... let's go with Canterlot. Every once in a while, a lavender mare with a magenta streak in her mane stops by to buy something. He rings her up, wishes her a good day, and that's the full extent of their interaction.
There, that wasn't so difficult.
Anonymous5: Well, I know exactly what he's doing with that OC, because I'm really in to pony roleplaying. The hourglass cutiemark is one that Time turner (Doctor Whooves) as well as the ponifiedTime Master has. During my time RP'ing, I've discoved that pretty much any OC with a Hourglass cutiemark, is a "Timelord pony" And usually are retarded god-modders, that try to---- you know what I'm not even gonna rage about that. What I am going to rage at, is the fact that he shipped this shitty OC with spitfire.
THE PROPHECY FULFILLED.
The OC's cutie mark is for all observations, an Hour Glass. Now, tell me what other Fan-developed Pony has that same mark and you'll begin to see the problem here. The artist was too damn lazy to generate an original mark.
Begin your jeering and booing at will Gentlemen.
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Use a preexisting cute mark: get slammed.
It seems the only winning move when making OCs is not to play.
...Or, make a female one.
*Be unwilling to invest grey matter into developing new mark, get slammed.
*Winning move: Create original, incredibly well fleshed out Character with an interesting backstory, compelling personality, and physical uniqueness, completely based around Hierolocc's insane standards.
*Make a female one with above standards or still have Hierolocc rage at the artist like a senile man of advanced age barking at the squirrels loitering on his porch.
Edited that list for you.
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No rage on my behalf. I don't really like Spitfire so it doesn't rumble my johnnies seeing her with an OC, especially not one that looks like it could be a background pony.
This would work for you guys if any of you bothered looking INTO said OC. But even when there's normal colored, normal marking OC's on here, they still get slammed because of pairing with canon. I've seen a few basic looking characters on here that have those traits get shafted for that fact.
Ya'lls jimmies and johnies are finicky as hell.
Oh, that's all well and good; except for the part where there is no source nor indication of who made the damn thing or where I could learn about it. Tiny sig is insufficient for my purposes.
And yes, usually I'll get whiny about any OC/Canon char; that's just in my nature. Finicky? Boy, I need Carbon Steel and a cattle prod to keep my Jimmies in line.
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*Create an Original Character but keep it the fuck away from canon characters.
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fursonafagsona, you'll see that the OCs are not even ponies to begin with, and they would still be there even if MLP did not exist.- Reply
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Okay, for a name, we'll call him... hmm... let's go with "Sixpence," and we'll make him an earth pony. Let's give him a... a beige coat would be good, and a brown mane and tail. As for a cutie mark, he can have... a shiny silver coin.
Okay, now that appearance is out of the way, let's give him a little backstory. He runs the register of a store- we'll make it a bookstore- in... let's go with Canterlot. Every once in a while, a lavender mare with a magenta streak in her mane stops by to buy something. He rings her up, wishes her a good day, and that's the full extent of their interaction.
There, that wasn't so difficult.
Delightfully conformative!
Permitted? You make it sound like they have control over that lol
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**Ponysona character
damn.