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I remember reading "Side Stories are Never Successful" and whilst I enjoyed it, this one blew it away. This has to honestly be one of the better fan fictions I have read, especially out of those involving Vinyl Scratch. I feel the problem with people using popular fanon characters (or even canon characters) is that they tend to only play to a character's stereotype rather than their actual personalities. This story deftly avoids falling into such a trap, though the characters do still perform to expectations.

When it comes to OCs I am of a drastically different perspective to you though. I feel that (should an author be able to write well) they should use OCs or ill defined fanon characters as much (or if not more) than Canon characters. It can be far too easy to go astray and misrepresent canon characters. Maybe just something to think about when it comes to using OCs.

Thanks for writing the story, I really enjoyed it.