User blog:DustpeltX/I love my characters. (And you should too.)

Hey Fanon, six hours a day of biology is stressful. Also, Dust here.

So from time to time I see some people kind of criticising their own characters or teams after seeing another person's creation and generally giving off a negative vibe towards themselves. (Looking at you Team SYRA with your awesome art and writing, and Team DAMN, Team BRGD as well as Team CIST to name a few)

(DISCLAIMER: I am in no way trying to bash any of these team concepts, they are GREAT and precisely because they are great that I am using them as examples here. They are absolutely everywhere almost all the time. IF I did not mention any other team it is not because I view them as a lesser concept to these teams but simply because I have been too lazy to poke around Fanon and everywhere else.) 

I am guilty of this. Especially at the start of my fanfic writing/OC creating hobby, this happened a lot.

And really thinking about it for a rather short time, I've come to a conclusion.

That I should not be feeling that way at all.

It is all because of what my original characters created for.

<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;">I don't make my characters for the sake of making them "cool" characters. I don't make characters with a certain personality trope for the sake of liking a personality trope or a certain weapon concept that seems "cool" with a certain "cool" fighting style or even to support a general fantasy theme.

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<p style="margin:12pt0cm;line-height:16.5pt;"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;">I make characters that I can feel a part of and relate to.

<p style="margin:12pt0cm;line-height:16.5pt;"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;">My characters are about me, they are me, they are who I am as a person, and how they react to a situation is a somewhat accurate reflection to what I would do if I were put in that situation.

<p style="margin:12pt0cm;line-height:16.5pt;"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;">I remember when I first started out, I looked at all these GREAT LOOKING characters that had been created with all these great pieces of art work that accompanied them and the first thing I thought was:

<p style="margin:12pt0cm;line-height:16.5pt;">'<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;">Fuck. '<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;">

<p style="margin:12pt0cm;line-height:16.5pt;"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;">Then the second was how am I going to compete with these characters?

<p style="margin:12pt0cm;line-height:16.5pt;"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;">I had such a headache with that during the development in both the characters and art.

<p style="margin:12pt0cm;line-height:16.5pt;"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;">I suppose somewhere during the development of my own original characters, after all the character revisions and art revamps, I stopped caring about having my characters compete in anyway.

<p style="margin:12pt0cm;line-height:16.5pt;"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;">Not because they couldn't.

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<p style="margin:12pt0cm;line-height:16.5pt;"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;">But simply because they did not need to.

<p style="margin:12pt0cm;line-height:16.5pt;"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;">I grew attached to my characters, I learned to accept who they were and the reason why I created them.

<p style="margin:12pt0cm;line-height:16.5pt;"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;">Their job was to simply express who I am, what I am, and how each part of me will change.

<p style="margin:12pt0cm;line-height:16.5pt;"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;">They aren't just some wish of an entertainment tool to fill up a boring hole in my life.

<p style="margin:12pt0cm;line-height:16.5pt;"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;">They are me.

<p style="margin:12pt0cm;line-height:16.5pt;"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;">And I just can’t bring myself to hate me.

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<p style="margin:12pt0cm;line-height:16.5pt;"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;">So Fanon, why did you create your characters? Did you hate them due to a certain jealousy that spills over from other peoples work from time to time?