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Characters The OC Revolution | NEW! 2Q 2024 Challenge Is Up: Friendship

Discussion in 'Fan Fiction and Writing Resource' started by OCDatabaseSock, Sep 28, 2012.

  1. TrakNar

    TrakNar Jedi Grand Master star 5

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    As I'm currently writing RPs, both on Tumblr and another forum, all my current OCs are RP characters. I'm in three Pokemon RPs, and most of my OCs are Pokemon, with a few humans. The two humans are Illana and Professor Mulberry. Illana was resurrected from an old fan comic I was working on back in 2002, where she was simply a background element. She's now a somewhat-snarky Trainer who can understand Pokemon.

    Mulberry was an NPC I threw together just to fill the need for NPCs. His role's been slightly expanded to have him be the Trainer of one of my Pokemon OCs, a Hypno with the really crappy name of Prof. Hypno (another resurrected character from that fan comic).

    Prof. Hypno is currently active in two separate continuities; one as the assistant of Mulberry, and the other as a Pokemon owned by Team Rocket. His origin and basic characterization for both are pretty much the same. The forum RP is the AU to his Tumblr RP canon. He's officially a Team Rocket Pokemon.

    Lavinnia is my other active Pokemon OC. She's a feral Hypno that was taken in by a Refuge so she can be rehabilitated and adopted. She's also having a baby!
     
  2. Chyntuck

    Chyntuck Force Ghost star 5

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    Thanks OCDatabaseSock -- I don't have any NSWFF OCs but I'd be in favour of accepting NSWFF entries for challenges here since there's no active thread over there. If there's a sudden influx of new users to the boards later this year, we can always split it up again.

    Ewok Poet Unfortunately Alessandro's story is a novel I'm writing in Greek :( But I'll see if I can come up with a SW version of him and post that story here for your JCF birthday [:D]
    Which reminds me of a discussion we had about pregnancy on the YKYAFFWW thread ;) Did you come to a conclusion about that?
     
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  3. TrakNar

    TrakNar Jedi Grand Master star 5

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    Somewhat. Her official due date was supposed to be Christmas, but she's a couple days late. At least she's finally having the kid.
     
  4. OCDatabaseSock

    OCDatabaseSock Jedi Grand Master star 3

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    Challenge Deadline Change - Now Due Jan 31

    Since the response to an extended deadline was mostly positive, it's being moved to the end of the month.
     
  5. Ink.Knight

    Ink.Knight Jedi Knight star 1

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    So when I said I had no non-SW OCs I lied, or well forgot about them anyway. I haven't done anything with them in a while but I did rp a pair of siblings, and occasionally their older brother. Avery and Noah Ward, orphaned teens in New York City who were lucky enough to move through the system together until their brother Ethan was old enough to take custody of them. But then Ethan turned out to be an abusive a-hole and as she'd done her whole life Avery made sure his attention remained on her instead of landing on her little brother, who she was determined to ensure got out of this hellhole and a better life.
     
  6. Space_Wolf

    Space_Wolf Jedi Master star 3

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    Excellent! I've kept away from this thread because at the start Non-SW OC's weren't going to be a part of it. I don't really have a lot of time to contribute to this right now, so I'll keep an eye on it. Twitter does take up a lot of my time online at the moment and when I'm not doing that, I'm focusing on other stories.
     
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  7. Chyntuck

    Chyntuck Force Ghost star 5

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    And because of Ewok Poet I now want to start over with my challenge entry in order to bring Alessandro in the SW universe... *pushes back frantically at the army of plot bunnies besieging her*
     
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  8. OCDatabaseSock

    OCDatabaseSock Jedi Grand Master star 3

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    Challenge Rules Update: NSWFF Allowed

    Okay, having investigated some suggestions from writers here, we're changing the challenge rules in one way. NSWFF (non-Star Wars stories, NOT not-safe-for-work stories, which are still out :p) will be allowed in the competitions from now on. Hopefully this will be a help and connect more writers to this thread.

    Here are the updated rules (the only change is to #2):

    Reoccurring Challenge Rules Just so we're all clear how all of these challenges are going to work:

    1. For your response to be accepted for voting, it must be OC-driven. This means that it features only OCs or any canon characters that appear only play a minor role.

    2. You may write your responses in any era (Before/Saga/Beyond). Stories may be from either the Star Wars or the Non Star Wars Fan Fiction section.

    3. Do not post your challenge responses or links to them in this thread. Instead, PM them to the OCDatabaseSock. When time for voting comes the thread hosts will post a list of links to stories that were entered into the challenge.

    4. Each challenge will have a deadline. In order to be qualified for voting, your story link must be PMed to the sock by that deadline. If you are late, we will still share it with the thread, but it is ineligible for voting.

    5. The voting period will usually be about a week long. Each challenge will specify this length. Votes should be PMed to the sock within that period to count.

    6. You cannot vote for yourself. Also, please don't just vote for your friends. Read everyone's responses and chose the winner after you have read through them all. Let's be fair to everyone.

    7. The winner of each challenge gets to set the theme for the next challenge. The winner should PM the sock with their challenge idea after each challenge finishes.
     
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  9. TrakNar

    TrakNar Jedi Grand Master star 5

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    I will never not read that as " not-safe-for-work." :p
     
  10. Ink.Knight

    Ink.Knight Jedi Knight star 1

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    TrakNar: I keep doing the same thing. :)
     
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  11. Kahara

    Kahara FFoF Hostess Extraordinaire star 4 VIP - Game Host

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    I know, I feel like slapping a CAPSLOCK disclaimer on it every time. [face_laugh] "No, no, it's NSWFF, not the horny twin NSFW."
     
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  12. TrakNar

    TrakNar Jedi Grand Master star 5

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    Have we discussed ships in this thread yet? If not, might I toss that suggestion out as a possible topic? Might be fitting for February, what with Valentine's Day and all.
     
  13. Ewok Poet

    Ewok Poet Force Ghost star 6

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    My OC is the result of a very obvious ship [face_love] , so yeah, ship.
     
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  14. Ink.Knight

    Ink.Knight Jedi Knight star 1

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    Well Jake and Darra were definitely intended to be a ship when I first made them. But now I'm wondering if they're at all romantic or just platonic life partners sort of thing. They haven't really had a chance to explore that sort of thing so who knows.

    Also in that story I've wanted to pair two of my Alliance Recovery Team members together, if it weren't for the archaic rules of this site saying that same-sex relationships can't be portrayed in fanfic.
     
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  15. TrakNar

    TrakNar Jedi Grand Master star 5

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    Yeah, that rule is so archaic and needs to go. Prof. Hypno is in a same-sex relationship, and if I were to ever use him in stories or use the, um... cleaner RP posts for DWB challenges, I'd need to excise all of that. Which I don't want to. His orientation just developed on its own, as did his relationship with his significant other.

    I always attributed that rule to just prohibiting slash fics, as same-sex ships are canon and thus should be allowed. I figured the rule was just to prevent the NSFW fics.
     
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  16. taramidala

    taramidala Jedi Grand Master star 4

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    It's not. It has to do with the political/religious leanings of the site owners. And it sucks.
     
  17. Kahara

    Kahara FFoF Hostess Extraordinaire star 4 VIP - Game Host

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    Re: the discussion of same-sex relationships in fanfic here -- there's a bit more leeway than it might seem from the wording of the rules. See this thread (http://boards.theforce.net/threads/...cters-in-a-gffa-a-challenge-at-last.50010263/) for some reference of what has some historical precedents on TFN -- DarthBreezy's stories are about as far as I think portrayals have gone here. It's also an OC-focused thread (so possibly relevant to the interests of those here) and I expect the thread-runner might reappear or be willing to hand it on to another if some commenters showed up again.

    Still not the same treatment, which I agree would not harm the PG-ish focus of the fanfic boards. The rules for het relationship portrayals if applied to others would not lead to some kind of pornfest. :rolleyes: Personally, I'd be happy with same rules for every kind of relationship and the contents being mentioned somewhere in the basic story info. (IE, you'd mention het relationships or lack thereof as well.) But that's unlikely given that the site owner seems to have irresolvable concerns.
     
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  18. TrakNar

    TrakNar Jedi Grand Master star 5

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    If that's the case...

    Meet Prof. Hypno. He is in an active relationship with Sonny, another male Hypno. They are very happy together. :3
     
  19. Ink.Knight

    Ink.Knight Jedi Knight star 1

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    I tried a while ago to post a non-SW fanfic and got shut down because it was femslash. Not porn-y or anything. But it was a Glee(I know I'm not proud but the characters have so much potential)/Buffy crossover. So I mean, everyone was a little gay. My lead character in it was bisexual even. I left for a little while after that cause I was angry.

    In Jake and Darra's story it would have been Dr. Ahnix Ilesar and Jedi Lila Maris.
     
  20. taramidala

    taramidala Jedi Grand Master star 4

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    Ink.Knight in cases like that, you really can't blame the mods. Those rules have been in place since the beginning of this site, and have never changed even as Lucasfilm properties like TOR and KOTOR became more visibly progressive. I totally understand the frustration, but in that situation it's really not the moderator's fault. [face_plain]
     
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  21. Ink.Knight

    Ink.Knight Jedi Knight star 1

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    Yeah the mod who shot me down was pretty apologetic about it. But I was still upset. I've spent a lot of time pretty well immersed in the more gay-friendly fanfic places on the internet, and the fandoms that are rife with it. I honestly didn't think anyone still banned that stuff when I posted it here. I forgot that not everywhere is tumblr. :p
     
  22. mavjade

    mavjade Former Manager star 6 VIP - Former Mod/RSA

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    Just as an FYI, that's a rule that comes from the owner of this site. We've gone to him multiple times, even after there was a same sex couple in the Star Wars EU, but he has said no every time and pretty much told us to stop asking, he's never going to change his mind. The vast majority of Mod Squad disagree with this (if not all, we haven't polled on this recently, I certainly do!), but we have to follow his rules. Even allowing what we do allow is kinda skirting the rules just a bit, but it's the best we can do.
     
  23. TrakNar

    TrakNar Jedi Grand Master star 5

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    It's really quite a shame.

    Though, I do have to wonder if the owner actually pays much attention to this board, and if not... how long would it take for them to notice if that rule is nixed?
     
  24. mavjade

    mavjade Former Manager star 6 VIP - Former Mod/RSA

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    He does pay attention, I figure we've only been allowed to get away with what we have because he's giving us a little something. If we tried, we'd be 'fired', that's happened before (though over a different situation). It's not going to happen, sorry. :(
     
  25. taramidala

    taramidala Jedi Grand Master star 4

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    I honestly can't imagine that if Lucasfilm had ANY idea, they'd allow it to continue. He's skirted for so long without getting a C&D.