Board Thread:Fanon Discussion/@comment-14800267-20130812030652/@comment-26267177-20141218203006

I've been a hard-wired character-creator for as long as I can remember. It all starts with a terrible Mary Sue by the name of Shi Akuma, but that's a story for another day and no fandom in particular. As avid as I was toward creating characters, no character was ever able to stick with me. They all died off without so much as a self-made story or comic cameo, because I have always been astoundingly lacking in personal motivation.

Then Ever After High showed up as a recommended page in my Facebook feed. Bam.

When I first created Finn, it was for a fanfiction that I knew would die off. Think of it like a one-night-stand as applied to character creation. Back then, he was something morose, something single-faceted, something...lifeless. He was introduced alongside Prince Dalton Charming and Shelby Mermaid, both members of his story who never again saw the light of day.

I'll be honest, Finn was(and still somewhat is) a Disney-inspired OC. I wasn't as interested in finding the most obscure reference I could or even sticking to the original version- which I was perfectly aware of at the time- as I was in creating a character that I(and hopefully others) would be able to enjoy. That's still my current attitude, and I have nothing against Disney-inspired OCs, though I've been making my best effort to understand why they generally aren't allowed on this forum. Nonetheless, I somehow tried to oddly mix the Disney story with deviations away from it, such as a very different appearance for Finn than that of Ursula, since I still figured that making a child look too much like their Disney fairytale parent was a cop-out. I tried to distinguish him from his fairytale parent as much as I could. This is approximately where I draw the line between a Disney-inspired OC and a Disney-based OC.

Anywho. One-night-stand, etc.

So, getting back to that, the concept of Finn was one that had been brewing in my since watching the first two episodes of EAH. All I could think of in regards to the show was a big what-if on "evil Royals". This seems like nothing now, considering how many OCs there are for that in addition to the announced Faybelle Thorn, but at the time, I hadn't seen any evil Royals. This includes Lizzy, because while she is destined to become an antagonist, she doesn't see herself as acting out an evil role while playing out her destiny. I was super-fond of everything The Little Mermaid, so I selected the evil sea witch as a viable option. I also thought it would be interesting to see how a male character would hold up when destined for a female role.

This Royal villain adoration led to members of my cast such as Mathieu, Cookie, etc.: all Royal villains destined to give up their lives for the sake of their tales, and all with quite various views on their impending fates despite holding the same affiliation. My babes.

Finn would have turned into nothing beyond his original flatness if not for a forum invite I had received on FanFiction.net. I established and developed him as a confused, not-so-evil force that simply claimed his nefariousness and who was both unaware and curious about the Rebel movement despite refusing to actually switch to it. Since entering that roleplay, Finn's profile has gained something-thousand words that I delivered onto his EAHFW profile upon discovering this lovely site right here. It has also brought me to the sparks of inspiration that have led to a whole plethora of characters...some more adaptation-like than others. I have no regrets.