Thread:IWM/@comment-17970636-20160108192441

Hello, yes, my name is Leaf, and even though I have not posted on any of your blog posts, I have read them and would like to cordially extend my greetings. Welcome to the Fanon and I hope you enjoy your time here.

Now, in all manner of speaking I see that you have a slight fear of what reviewers shall do to your OC. This is fully understandable, however, I want to help in dissuading these fears and explain fully well my job here as a reviewer on the site as well as what you can expect if you toss your OC into the dreaded "Pending Character" category.

For starters, you do not have to toss your OC into Pending if you do not want to, I realize that for you this is less OC and more Persona, however, we on the fanon simply use the term "OC" to create things generalized in a simple acronym, short, sweet, rolls off the tongue, ladies love it.

Fact is one merely needs to drop their OC into Pending if they wish to RP, or Role Play, on the site. Role Playing, well, I bet you know what that is, but in essence, we like to RP with characters adhering as close to canon as possible, which is why we have the reviewer setup. However, if you are intending to use your character for Fanfiction ONLY, then I highly recommend you do not toss your OC into the gauntlet to be judged with the rest.

Now as for the reviews themselves, I will openly admit to being blunt, quick to the point, and really generally not caring about the feelings of the person I review no matter how hurt they may be that their character is getting reviewed, the entire point is to retain a non-biased stance in order to not let personal opinions interfere with the reviewing of a character, however, that doesn't mean I wont use my own good judgement to review an OC, the same bodes true for the rest of the reviewers. While our ways of writing out reviews are different, and some may notice things others may not, at the end of the day, no single review is going to get disputed by others, and no review will be overturned. In essence, word is absolute.

This being said of course we are wholly approchable via mesage wall and on chat if we are on (generally that's Alex and I but Ruby and dC have also shown up from time to time) if you require advice. That being said, no handouts will be given, at the end of the day it's your OC and even though we may reject it, you personally must be satisfied with the end result that adheres to canon via the rules that I fully appreciate you going over. You won't believe the amount of new people who just don't read those things. Makes making your OC adhere to canon a lot easier as wlel as easier on the reviewers who've spent their time memorizing every aspect of the rules, so good on you for that.

Now as for my concluding statement, feel free to look around at other OC's, come on chat to talk to other members, although I will tell you that OC talk on there is a rarity, like, maybe once an hour? Not even? However there will be many veteran members there who are more than happy to assist you, and I myself am approchable via message wall. I will tell you that if you do respond to a reviewer's comment on your OC page they will not get to see it unless they specifically go back to the OC page in order to check the comments, which rarely happens.

So, yeah, welcome, enjoy your time, and I'll see you around.

Leaf. 