OC stuff and no, I'm not talking about the show
Hi! My first post, yay! Anyway, I need to get something off my chest.
What do people have against original characters? I mean, personally, I like writing original character stories. But, it's like other people see that my fic is an OC fic and are all like, "Eeeeww! It's going to be another Mary Sue fic!" and then hit the back button. On fanfiction.net, the first chapter of my fic has like 80 veiws and the other two chapters have like 2! Uuuugggh! They don't even give it a chance! Personally, I don't think I could write cannon character fanfiction, I have to know what the character's mindset is and stuff to be able to write decently and stuff. I'm afraid I'd make the cannon characters out of character because of that. But I'm working on a Naruto fanfiction right now that takes place back when Gai was a genin, so I guess I'll see if I can write cannon characters with this. It's also a back story for a character in my other fanfic. The fic's called Down Another's Path. Here's a bit of the prologue, tell me what you think of it thus far:
It started, as every life starts, with a birth. But this birth came with a price. Not endless hours of no sleep, or feedings at ungodly hours, or smelly diapers, or babies that just won't stop crying. Though, this life came with that too. The price was greater than that, it was a life. A life for a life.
Ishida Kenji stared down at his wife; she looked so peaceful, like she was sleeping. She was pale, long black hair damp and sticking to her face with sweat. 'Wake up,' he pleaded. Her full lips were parted, but no breath was drawn through them. 'Wake up, wake up.' She looked so peaceful. 'Open your eyes Yuuki! It's not supposed to be like this!' There was supposed to be blood and gore and pain and rage! That was the death he's used to! Not this! But, she's dead all the same. He doesn't cry though. Because ninja don't cry; and he's anything if not a good ninja.
Now, they've given him his new daughter and he looks down at her. Down into tear blurred steel colored eyes, down at her thin damp black hair. At her full bow lips, her pink skin. She was beautiful. They ask him for the baby girl's name, "Nadeshiko," he says. That was the name his wife wanted; he on the other hand rather disliked it. He never told her, always being bad with words. Yuuki understood though, she always was, no, is very understanding. Even when it came to the things he had to do as a ninja. Even when civilians usually didn't. He never told her, but she always knew. "I love you," he tells her, not even a whisper, too late. He'll never love another woman again, he swears it.
So do you like it? Does it sound like something you'd be interested in seeing more of?
What do people have against original characters? I mean, personally, I like writing original character stories. But, it's like other people see that my fic is an OC fic and are all like, "Eeeeww! It's going to be another Mary Sue fic!" and then hit the back button. On fanfiction.net, the first chapter of my fic has like 80 veiws and the other two chapters have like 2! Uuuugggh! They don't even give it a chance! Personally, I don't think I could write cannon character fanfiction, I have to know what the character's mindset is and stuff to be able to write decently and stuff. I'm afraid I'd make the cannon characters out of character because of that. But I'm working on a Naruto fanfiction right now that takes place back when Gai was a genin, so I guess I'll see if I can write cannon characters with this. It's also a back story for a character in my other fanfic. The fic's called Down Another's Path. Here's a bit of the prologue, tell me what you think of it thus far:
It started, as every life starts, with a birth. But this birth came with a price. Not endless hours of no sleep, or feedings at ungodly hours, or smelly diapers, or babies that just won't stop crying. Though, this life came with that too. The price was greater than that, it was a life. A life for a life.
Ishida Kenji stared down at his wife; she looked so peaceful, like she was sleeping. She was pale, long black hair damp and sticking to her face with sweat. 'Wake up,' he pleaded. Her full lips were parted, but no breath was drawn through them. 'Wake up, wake up.' She looked so peaceful. 'Open your eyes Yuuki! It's not supposed to be like this!' There was supposed to be blood and gore and pain and rage! That was the death he's used to! Not this! But, she's dead all the same. He doesn't cry though. Because ninja don't cry; and he's anything if not a good ninja.
Now, they've given him his new daughter and he looks down at her. Down into tear blurred steel colored eyes, down at her thin damp black hair. At her full bow lips, her pink skin. She was beautiful. They ask him for the baby girl's name, "Nadeshiko," he says. That was the name his wife wanted; he on the other hand rather disliked it. He never told her, always being bad with words. Yuuki understood though, she always was, no, is very understanding. Even when it came to the things he had to do as a ninja. Even when civilians usually didn't. He never told her, but she always knew. "I love you," he tells her, not even a whisper, too late. He'll never love another woman again, he swears it.
So do you like it? Does it sound like something you'd be interested in seeing more of?