Board Thread:Fanon Discussion/@comment-14800267-20130812030652/@comment-4598697-20140911235315

I've had an interest in fairy tales that started last year. I knew about Monster High since I have a ten-year-old cousin who is a fan of it, but when I found out about Ever After High and saw other OCs, it inspired me to check out EAH and make OCs of my own.

I used to be quite ignorant of the fairy tale genre since I only knew the well-known stories and thought I was too old for fairy tales, but after I grew bored with the epic fantasy genre (especially the fans), I looked to fairy tales as a source of comfort. It was actually an anime called Grimm's Fairy Tale Classics that inspired me - they had episodes based on obscure Grimm stories as well as popular ones, and it encouraged me to read the originals. Afterwards, I branched out beyond the Brothers Grimm. The best of this was when I discovered Madame d'Aulnoy, and her fairy tales really captured my interest in a way that no other fairy tale collections had - these were fairy tales with adults as their target audience. She soon became my favorite author. I decided to do several of her stories - I've done 18 of her stories (she has 24 in all) for my OCs and one more for a community OC.

I looked around at the Ever After High OCs and decided that the primary focus on my OCs would be obscure stories. When I realized that my OCs weren't fleshed out enough, I looked around and discovered this wiki.

The reason why I tend to focus more on my male OCs was because I knew I was a minority in the fandom (being a guy in a mostly female fandom) and I didn't see that many male OCs, especially ones who were sons of female characters (or sons who wanted to inherit the mom's role). I have several who are Royals, such as Orhan Sessiz, Joseph Souris, Leandre Diaphane, and Aurelio Destina.