Keep clinging and you'll get a Keyblade to the face

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Heh. The silliness one can find on DA. To paraphrase some darling girl's OC:

"Roxas is mine! So Kairi, Xion, Naminé- back off!"

Ha ha... No. And then there's this: "Lol! They're matching so you know they're a couple!" In your defense, she claims that bit's a joke (after I point it out) but still. Just. Really?

But the point is, as I pointed out to

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[tasogare_n_hime]

lol, Any links, or are we not allowed to do that here? She does sound kinda young.

It really depends what the OCs are like, I think in some cases it's even ok to pair and OC with a canon character. Though I wonder if I tend to cut people some slack because I come up with OCs all the time.
I'm working on some art of a few KH OCs right now. A key bearer, her entourage, and a Princess of Heart from the distant past.

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It says she's fourteen. I'd have to check to see if we're allowed links, although I don't think so.

I agree. I mean, I know of a couple of OCs who have gotten along, romantically or otherwise, with canons, but this... Just seems a bit off. Bad feeling is bad.

I tend to avoid making too many genuine OCs in the fandom (although do human forms of the Lessers count? 8D; ) because I'm usually in the fanfiction/art/roleplay for the canon characers, not to see OCs drool over them or steal the spotlight because they're so speshul. Of course, I'm a bit jaded, so. >>;

[tasogare_n_hime]

This may just be a starting point for her then. I know when I was around that age I was just as bad about terrible OCs. Sometimes i still have to stop my self and say, 'whoa! Wait a minute! You might be trailing into Sue territory here!' I think in some cases even Mary-sues can help someone jump start their creativity, unfortunately there are some people who never outgrow the MS stage.

OCs can definitely be tricky businesses. I wrote a fic not long ago where I needed several minor character OCs, because there was no one in canon who could fill those parts. They were all foreign diplomats, and a lot of them showed up a diplomatic meeting, were introduced, and then never heard from again. They were necessary for that one part of the fic, but turned out to of absolutely no use to the rest of it. It felt really awkward for me to do that though.

[princealia]

We have a general "don't do it" rule floating around because of past instances where the author/artist/mun/whoever will get trolled once a link is provided, but it's more like a guideline and not an official rule we have here. You just have to use your best judgment. Links have been provided with no problems at all before, and links have been provided with plenty of problems to keep this place busy for a while, so yeah. There's always PMs if you're unsure, but it doesn't sound like this particular situation would cause any trouble.

[matthias_wave]

I'm going to agree that this sounds like the writer is young enough that being immature is pretty much expected, and certainly young enough to hope she grows out of it. Yes, people who write Sues do make things harder for OC writers in general, but that's no reason to get discouraged, nor is it a reason to throw them out of the fandom. Hopefully if they keep writing they'll get better.

Also, I thought Sue sign number one was "Not a Sue ok?" /jk

P.S. I think you missed closing a tag along there somewhere.

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I hope she will. I know too many people who just seem forever fourteen when it comes to fandom and never seem to grow out of that ridiculous Sue thing. Still, fingers crossed.

Crap, you're right! I thought I had everything down.

[id_anonymous]

It took me reaching adulthood to really realize some of my favourite OCs from childhood were terrible Sues, so yeah.