Board Thread:Fanon Discussion/@comment-4598697-20140407203338/@comment-10860529-20140408003700

Okey dokes, apologies for back-tracking a bit but I'm going to poke in here and say a little something: In my opinion, references aren't bad. per say, even when a fairy tale parent comes from a story known better for its adaptation than through its source content. They just have to be used either creatively or in a believable manner that makes sense for your character/their circumstances in particular. They also, of course, should also be used sparingly and handled with care, rather than being used as an excuse to make your character a blatant carbon-copy.

As for what's been recently said, I'm just going to put it out there that, other than both the page-bearing and page-lacking OCs as listed on my driver page, I'm thinking that 11 (or 12, if I get tempted) main-ish OCs are deeeeefinitely enough for me. I may be stretching myself thin with the ones I have, though even among them there will always be a select few I'll generally put my focus on the most, developing-wise. In a way, more than a few of them already are technically meant to be side or "background" characters in themselves. :P

As for anything else~ Being the owner of 2 Ozian characters (and at least one more to come), I'm a little discouraged by the lack of research done myself. Is it really too much to ask for Cora to get in an roleplayed argument with the successor of The Wicked Witch of the West over who will rule Winkie Country, and especially one that isn't either a complete MGM or Wicked rip-off?

...and I don't feel like quoting anyone at the moment, but there are a bunch of cultural variants of similar stories. Heck, the oldest version of Cinderella takes place in Egypt.