Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-96.246.94.80-20140213225713

How does everyone here feel about creating male OCs for the fandom? What about OCs who are the opposite gender of the parent who they are based on?

I was thinking that there should be more male OCs. I haven't seen too many male OCs - a lot of the ones I've seen, as someone on Tumblr pointed out, were more love interests than characters in their own right. While I have created more female OCs, between one third and one half of my OCs are male. While most of my male OCs have girlfriends, their role depends on the character. I have several male OCs with more detailed biographies than their girlfriends.

When I created my male OCs, mostly I looked to fairy tales with male protagonists, such as The Water of Life, Iron Hans, Dick Whittington, and The Brave Little Tailor. After completing my first set of OCs, I decided that I'd do sons of female characters. I did male OCs for several stories with female protagonists, such as The Iron Stove, The Snow Queen, and Donkey Skin.

As for genderbent OCs, do you find it hard to make them like the opposite-sex parent? It was a little tricky for some of them. My Donkey Skin OC was probably the hardest to do it with - his emphasis is on the cake-baking that Donkey Skin does in the second half of the story, since other aspects of the character seemed too hard to pull off on a boy. His design was easy, though - I gave him a masculine outfit while keeping the donkey skin. I also made his hair more masculine, though it's still considered long (just not long like a girl). 