Board Thread:Fanon Discussion/@comment-14800267-20130812030652/@comment-4598697-20140912224322

Flamette wrote: Quickly I saw EAH OCs being repeated (just like MH) I didn't care if said OCs were amazing, bad in plot structure, or they were children of Disney's Fairytale counterparts. All I saw was no originality. People were using the most common fairytale characters. That was when I had an idea. What if, I introduce this fandom to Tale of Despereaux. (a new fairytale, a fresh start) I wanted to create new and unique OCs. I wanted TOD itself to get noticed. To force people to go watch the flim, and or read the book. I wanted to make my mark on this fandom somehow and to know I was the reason, for the sudden mass of TOD OCs (and other OCs, from a few other obscure tales I mentioned, when I first entered this fandom).At first, I wasn't sure if the tale met the proper requirements. Because I saw a contaction with the cannon characters. They are all realted to Grimm Brother's fairytales. TOD is just your genetic fairytale setting/plot. Then a few episodes later, Cerise's secret was exposed, greenlighting RAZZLE/TOD. I felt the same way. I got a bit tired of all the Beauty and the Beast/Little Mermaid OCs who all felt the same to me. People can still create them if they want to, but I refused to use those stories since there were many already. (Though I did use The Snow Queen and made kids of Gerda and Kai.)

Probably the reason why I did so many Madame d'Aulnoy OCs was because I love her stories - many of them have strong female protagonists.

I really wanted to do OCs based on Andrew Lang's Fairy Books, since they had fairy tales from places other than France, Germany, and Denmark. Since there are numerous non-European stories in the collection, I was able to do non-white OCs (which the fandom doesn't have much of). That's also why I have several interracial couples among my OCs, such as Richard Grenouille and Tihun Habtamu.

I am probably one of the only people to have used Giambattista Basile's Pentamerone for OCs. It's the earliest fairy tale collection that contains exclusively fairy tales (the Arabian Nights and Straparola's collection contain poetry as well). I know that the fact that these stories can be pretty gross would put people off to them, but I tried doing ones that weren't that gross.