Board Thread:Fanon Discussion/@comment-4598697-20140407203338/@comment-3468598-20140514020211

Emmarainbow432 wrote: The Hansel and Gretel twin are Gus and Hilda/Helga (the names are different in the book and by Mattel)

And know that I think about it, the system makes sense. I guess my mainstream fairytale children are either unpopular because they made themselves that way (in one case of my OC, he's just a brat who looks good and has a popular fairytale, so he's popular) or because they are background characters in a mainstream fairytale.

Another thing that annoys me is when the character has friends that make no sense. How can a grumpy recluse have a large friend list (I've actually seen some cases like this) while the pretty, popular (at least that's what it would say in the personality) have two people in the friend list, and those two people are canon characters that are not even remotely compatible.

And speaking of canon friends, there just happen to be that population of OC makers who think that since Raven rejected her destiny and tore her page out of the book, that their OC can too. This is a bad idea because 1)after Raven didn't sign, Legacy Day was canceled. Of someone didn't sign before her, then Legacy Day would've been canceled. If someone did that years before, chances are that Raven would've found out that that happened after the Bella and Brutta sisters. Even before that? Same story.

Occasionally people just veiw themselves as grumpy recluses but are actually pretty okay at socializing. I'm mostly using myself as an example here. But that's rarely how it acutally goes with OC making, just playing devil's advocate. I do agree that popular OC's ought to have a large friends list, at least of aquantances, even if it's not really solid friends.

Most of my characters hover in the mid range of popularity, except the ones that go out of their way to be jerks. (Vilda, Jackie, Hamish.)

I usually have my characters skirt the Destiny thing by having them plot to rebel but letting Raven get to it first. It's kinda cheap, but it works. As a result most of them think Raven is pretty cool, or at least pretty useful.