Board Thread:Fanon Discussion/@comment-14800267-20140205232944/@comment-10860529-20140309225432

Not going going to quote anyone here because legth, but I'll reply to the last post~

I understand what you mean there, even with my idea for Batty. It's one reason why she's one of my only two OCs with a dead parent, after all. :P

Can't say I've read The Yellow Dwarf, but I could see how someone could be the princess's successor: This isn't a big spoiler per say but, in Storybook of Legends, Dexter Charming doesn't know what his destiny is. He's only supposed to find out once he looks into the Book during Legacy Day (and I will not say whether he does or doesn't). This suggests that, if a fairy tale parent has more than one child and there are more than enough children to fulfill the roles in said parent's story, then the extra child(ren) is supposed to find out about their destiny in the same fashion. Of course the princess wouldn't be her daughter, but it's possible that some unlucky younger princess signed the book and is now the next princess in the tale. Or maybe said princess hasn't signed it yet due to Raven un-signing before her.

A part of me wants to see more spare-the-heir children, both canon and OC-wise. Not to dump on anyone's creations, it's just that I see a bunch of people using the same fairy tale parent for certain fairy tales and reaching out for more would make for a little more diversity? xP And now I believe that we've strayed out of topic, the Disneyification of various fairy tale children.

So to attempt to get back on it, although not to put out the current one that has popped up: Other famous, non-Disney adaptations that people base their OCs off of?

I haven't seem a ton of Wonderful Wizard of Oz OCs (let alone anyone from the sequels), but of the few that exist, most of them are based off either a certain MGM film, Wicked, or (and it makes be kind of cringe because I really don't don't like the last one imo) Oz: The Great and Powerful. Don't get me wrong, the former film is lovely and all, but the book(s) and the movie differ a lot, to the point that making a sequel to the film based solely off The Marvelous Land of Oz and having it make a single lick of sense would be almost impossible. Wicked, both the musical and books, and while both are actually really good, are anything but an accurate portrayal of Baum's books. and The Great and Powerful? Eh, let's just say that it's, erm, attempt at a backstory for the Wizard and the Witches don't jive well at all with, again, the books.

Maybe I'm a liiiiittle bit bias, having two (or possibly three?) OCs for the series, but eh. It does get a little irritating even though it shouldn't affect me.