Comment on Fan Characters CAN be original by whitty-boo
The distinction I make between a fan character and a true original character is, whose world are they in? Yours or someone else's? If you marketed your character, would you face a C&D from a given company? I find that the original characters I love best are the ones whose worlds I have created myself. Your fan character can be totally unique from all the other fan characters in that fandom, or even throughout the internet. But they are still just a fan character. You did not tell their story from scratch. You told it from where it deviated and/or joined up with someone else's story.
I have an original character who is basically a young Scrooge McDuck in human form as far as his design and the basics of his personality are concerned. This was intentional. But he has his own story and is completely unrelated to anything that someone else owns. Thus, while he is inspired by a character belonging to Disney, he is not a Disney character, and thus I can market him if I wish. I cannot say the same about, say, my gypsy character because he is set in the world of Disney's Hunchback of Notre Dame.
I have an original character who is basically a young Scrooge McDuck in human form as far as his design and the basics of his personality are concerned. This was intentional. But he has his own story and is completely unrelated to anything that someone else owns. Thus, while he is inspired by a character belonging to Disney, he is not a Disney character, and thus I can market him if I wish. I cannot say the same about, say, my gypsy character because he is set in the world of Disney's Hunchback of Notre Dame.
Ive always wondered how original (my) minecraft OCs are :s
The game doesnt have a story, just some basic mechanics and designs that all consist of square blocks so one can still be very creative with it, Ive seen some really cool mob ocs for example .-.
The game doesnt have a story, just some basic mechanics and designs that all consist of square blocks so one can still be very creative with it, Ive seen some really cool mob ocs for example .-.
It's a world building game, so pretty much every character you create is your OC. They don't belong to another creator in any way except the materials they're built from. To call a Minecraft OC a fan character would be like saying that every crayon drawing you ever did actually belongs to Crayola.
Now, if your intent is to tell your character's story IN the world of Minecraft, then yes, it is a fan character. Said story would, by nature, be hilariously self-aware and would thus fall under the fair use act as a parody, provided you're not trying to make a profit off of it.
Now, if your intent is to tell your character's story IN the world of Minecraft, then yes, it is a fan character. Said story would, by nature, be hilariously self-aware and would thus fall under the fair use act as a parody, provided you're not trying to make a profit off of it.
Well enderman/creeper OCs are based off of the species in the game. Of course if you just make a regular miner there's nothing to it 