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Old 2009-12-01, 20:53   Link #49
Dean_the_Young
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Originally Posted by HyperCube View Post
Why didn't you think about "inserting" yourself into Academy City as an Esper or Magician and being part of To Aru series story? that would be an interesting fanfiction no?
I can't tell if you're encouraging or mocking me.

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Wow.

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Originally Posted by Claies View Post
Thank you. I think I'm allergic to basically all OOC, AU, crossovers, and made-up characters in fanfiction. Whenever I see one single character who simply doesn't belong in the story, I stop reading. It's a little depressing how many of those I come across.
If you're looking for a strict limit fic, maybe, but if you want an expansion OC's are almost necessary, unless you want to rewrite characters until all they share is a name.

For an international perspective, for example, you'd want non-magical people from abroad, who are pretty lacking. And if you want to add a religion of science, new characters are necessary.

It's a balance between scaling them and limiting them so they don't steal the show. Which, in the case of most, is far from impossible.
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