Board Thread:Fanon Discussion/@comment-4598697-20140407203338/@comment-4598697-20140514010023

Emmarainbow432 wrote: The Hansel and Gretel twin are Gus and Hilda/Helga (the names are different in the book and by Mattel)

And know that I think about it, the system makes sense. I guess my mainstream fairytale children are either unpopular because they made themselves that way (in one case of my OC, he's just a brat who looks good and has a popular fairytale, so he's popular) or because they are background characters in a mainstream fairytale.

Another thing that annoys me is when the character has friends that make no sense. How can a grumpy recluse have a large friend list (I've actually seen some cases like this) while the pretty, popular (at least that's what it would say in the personality) have two people in the friend list, and those two people are canon characters that are not even remotely compatible.

And speaking of canon friends, there just happen to be that population of OC makers who think that since Raven rejected her destiny and tore her page out of the book, that their OC can too. This is a bad idea because 1)after Raven didn't sign, Legacy Day was canceled. Of someone didn't sign before her, then Legacy Day would've been canceled. If someone did that years before, chances are that Raven would've found out that that happened after the Bella and Brutta sisters. Even before that? Same story. My OC Belle Jaune signed the book and would never have even thought of tearing a page out. She knows that her fate means that she'll have to die of a broken heart, but she would rather find other ways of showing her Rebel attitude.

Most of my popular OCs make themselves popular. I consider Amandine L'Isle to be the most popular of my characters as per the popularity food chain - she's meant to be a fashionista, which is a common characteristic of many popular girls in fiction (both nice ones and mean ones) since it's a common interest of many real-life teenage girls, and she's also very tolerant and will be friends with anyone nice.

I often have my OCs rebelling against tradition in terms of friendship. Take my two OCs for the White Doe, Yolande Cerf, the daughter of Princess Desiree, and Tihun Habtamu, the daughter of the Black Princess. They're very close with each other even though their destinies would mark them as enemies (in The White Doe, the two princesses are both vying for the same guy). It's the same reason why many of my OCs are friends with, roommates with, or even dating OCs from fairy tales totally unrelated to theirs.