Thread:NibiruMul/@comment-27181220-20150419212012/@comment-35011668-20150419235239

NibiruMul wrote: The Mysterious Ms. Enter wrote: NibiruMul wrote: The Mysterious Ms. Enter wrote: Contributer is right, we don't allow Disney OC'S. Though, it seems that we allowed one onto the wiki named Aaron Triton... Didn't Aaron Triton's owner basically beg us to keep his OC? He did beg us, but only because the ending to The Little Mermaid from Andersen, was a Downer Ending, and that Aaron didn't like it. That's almost as if I didn't like the ending to the Snow Queen, and made a Frozen OC that I would request not to be deleted.

He should be marked for Deletion, because new users may get the wrong idea and think that Disney OC'S are allowed. I actually told him that there's lots of fairy tales with happy endings. I mean, a little research wouldn't kill. I guess he didn't want to do a story that didn't have a Disney movie. I mean, come on, a story doesn't need an animated adaptation to make a good OC. I can't even find book illustrations for a lot of the stories I did, or the only ones I can find are old engravings. (For some reason, some of the stories in Andrew Lang's Fairy Books didn't get illustrations even though they were long enough for them. The Punishment of the Fairy Gangana is a good example. It's one of the longest stories in The Olive Fairy Book and there's no illustrations for it!)

He shouldn't expect special treatment because he's upset by the ending of a story. Some of my OCs, like Vasile Soare and Simone Mouton, are for stories with much worse endings - I just worked the sad ending into the character's backstory and personality. I agree that it does send newbies the wrong message. It seems that Disney OCs make up the majority of OCs marked for deletion.

I mean, a lot of newbies to the fandom do improve over time. Heck, the girl on dA who made the dreaded "Catori Smith" seems to have improved somewhat - she did OCs for Mother Holle, which not only is a fairy tale, but Disney never made a movie of it! (The only animated adaptation of Mother Holle I can think of is this episode of Grimm's Fairy Tale Classics, but that show isn't really well-known. There are a few live-action movies based on the story, but they're all in German.) But anyway, I think it's best to improve and to be mature about it. I fully agree with this, there are some stories that are obscure and I have a few OC'S myself based off of lesser known stories such as Ulrich Red and Vasily Citrine. This wiki has a very strict, Non-Disney Characters rule implemented for good reasons, as it detracts from the real works made by authors.

I don't see anything wrong with making a small reference, or two from a Disneyfied version of a fairytail, but making your OC like that of Eris Toff or Ali, doesn't bode too well; but at least handling such characters like this maturely and non-hostile will save trouble and help users to improve.