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So called an original character. Yes, probably another rant blog post about originality, but seriously! OC is original character, right! Not so original. Yep, my OC Rosemary is 'totally' original. Its way overdone. I found a heck load of other OCs with same or similar personality, similar backstory, similar or same talent, and even OCs with the SAME EXACT cutie mark! Seriously though, my 'OC' is not original at all.

 

I feel like the talent is WAYYY overdone, so I'm bound to find similar OCs. How many OCs have healing and healing herbs and that sort of stuff as their special talent? A lot. So really, I'm not that surprised. But is it pure coincidence that I've stumbled across OCs with the same cutie mark and similar talent? And I thought OCs were supposed to be unique and original. Haha, guess I was wrong.

 

Now onto cutie marks... Yeah, the heart thing is way overdone. But how many cutie marks are literally the same? I actually found maybe one or two with same cutie mark and talent.

 

Personality.... Yeah there really aren't many personality options so I'm not that surprised or concerned at all.

 

Rosemary is my first OC that I actually put some effort into and shes also my ponysona. So finding ponies that are exactly the same other than appearance and maybe species, can get a bit annoying after some time. Guess my work went to waste... got to go make an 'original' OC pony.

 

I swear I never saw those ponies until recently... So does that make me the person copying, or them the copycats? I don't know, and don't want to find out. All that work that I put into creating Rosemary (who was a pretty crappy character to begin with) went to waste. Oh well. I might quit the fandom anyway. Bet I'm the only pegasister without an OC thats actually original. Finding ponies nearly exactly the same can get frustrating after some time.

 

So, HOW CAN I MAKE AN OC, THATS ACTUALLY AN OC??? IDK

 

If you have a very similar 'OC,' then I'd expect you to never want to see this yellow mare ever again. Heres a headshot of Rosemary, my ponysona so called original character.

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I need to make an actual OC, not a copy or a fake. If anything similar has happened to you, you may or may not know how I feel right now.

 

Seriously though. The fandom is huge so... this rant post was absolutely pointless. I bet I won't be able to type up a new 'OC' anytime soon.

 

OMG my life is just so crappy right now. :/

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I think of it in terms of people. With there being 7 billion people, you are bound to have similarities with some of them. Some may have the same talent(s) as you. Some may have the same hair color as you. Same eye color as you. Same hometown as you. Same [insert characteristic here]. Does that mean you are not original or unique? No, of course not.

 

Same goes with OCs...sure it may have similarities to other ones, but it can still be very original.

 

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I think of it in terms of people. With there being 7 billion people, you are bound to have similarities with some of them. Some may have the same talent(s) as you. Some may have the same hair color as you. Same eye color as you. Same hometown as you. Same [insert characteristic here]. Does that mean you are not original or unique? No, of course not. Same goes with OCs...sure it may have similarities to other ones, but it can still be very original.

With a huge fandom of thousands, theres definitely going to be similarities, but I do happen to find OCs that are like nearly exactly the same with only different colors and manestyle.

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With a huge fandom of thousands, theres definitely going to be similarities, but I do happen to find OCs that are like nearly exactly the same with only different colors and manestyle.

 

I don't have the same "backstory" as anyone in the world..except maybe my siblings. Everyone's lives are so different IRL, I find it hard to believe that you can't create a backstory for an OC that isn't like someone else's.

 

Same goes for personalities. I don't think anyone in this whole world has the exact personality that I do. So if there are so many...why should it be hard to create a new one?

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I don't have the same "backstory" as anyone in the world..except maybe my siblings. Everyone's lives are so different IRL, I find it hard to believe that you can't create a backstory for an OC that isn't like someone else's. Same goes for personalities. I don't think anyone in this whole world has the exact personality that I do. So if there are so many...why should it be hard to create a new one?

If you are uncreative like me, it would be very hard. I just used my own backstory and added pony elements in it

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If you are uncreative like me, it would be very hard. I just used my own backstory and added pony elements in it

 

You call yourself uncreative, yet complain about being unoriginal?

 

If you're not going to put much effort into it, then of course there will be "copycats".

 

Also...who cares if others are very similar? Original means you created it. As long as you didn't copy someone else, it lives up to its title of "OC".

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@@Varrack,

 

I think your example is a good idea, yet incorrect. The numbers are problematic; for example : something occurring in 0.000 001% of the cases should occurr 70 times with 7 billions of cases. It will only appear 0,07 times with 7 millions of cases.

I'm pretty sure Fire Twii didn't even see a million OCs, so it would be a lost cause to compare with mankind.

 

Also, I, too, want to show our friend here, that we can all find originality in our creations, even if they look like others'. However, we shouldn't be that naive. If someone appropriates her art, we need to help that person too. We can't just sit there, turning a blind eye, acting like everything is okay, when someone had to steal an identity to be with a group of people. Denying is not the way to go.

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Your OC looks great and something people can't copy is the work you put into it. So you believe you are uncreative, ask for a hand, I get my best idea's from talking with my friends and usually build off what we talk about and thus far with all the similarities I have found to my OC, I have never seen anything close to my Backstory. If you want to make her more original then let her grow apart from you, you state you take a lot from your experiences but she might benefit from just being her own pony. Rather than giving her your experiences just give her, her own and maybe you would feel she is more original?

 

I have found a ton of OCs with my same talent, several with very similar cutie marks and my OC is Red and Black of which there are hundreds and the color scheme comes with a stigma. But even so this OC is mine and that's what makes him important.

 

So don't worry too much about It I'm sure tons of other people run into the same issues we do. I have only been a member here for a few weeks and I have caught myself thinking about just how many people's OCs are blue, black or gray. Mostly Blue but literally if all our OCs made up the real population of Equestria then 85% would be blue, I guarantee they would be the majority.  At least we are not blue :D

 

If you want I'll try to help out, it's the least I could do after the cute art you made for me. Does she have a profile I could look at? I could at least tell you what I might do with her.

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Your OC looks great and something people can't copy is the work you put into it. So you believe you are uncreative, ask for a hand, I get my best idea's from talking with my friends and usually build off what we talk about and thus far with all the similarities I have found to my OC, I have never seen anything close to my Backstory. If you want to make her more original then let her grow apart from you, you state you take a lot from your experiences but she might benefit from just being her own pony. Rather than giving her your experiences just give her, her own and maybe you would feel she is more original?

 

I have found a ton of OCs with my same talent, several with very similar cutie marks and my OC is Red and Black of which there are hundreds and the color scheme comes with a stigma. But even so this OC is mine and that's what makes him important.

 

So don't worry too much about It I'm sure tons of other people run into the same issues we do. I have only been a member here for a few weeks and I have caught myself thinking about just how many people's OCs are blue, black or gray. Mostly Blue but literally if all our OCs made up the real population of Equestria then 85% would be blue, I guarantee they would be the majority.  At least we are not blue :D

 

If you want I'll try to help out, it's the least I could do after the cute art you made for me. Does she have a profile I could look at? I could at least tell you what I might do with her.

She does have a profile- https://mlpforums.com/page/roleplay-characters/_/rosemary-r9411

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Maybe rather than having her live in ponyville, which is very common, make her from a tough underused city like Fillydelpia(sp?) or Manehattan originally. She could be from a bad part of town but was born with compassion for those around her and wanted to change her home city for the better.

 

When she started school she was her messy fun loving self and could have been an optimist and idealist but that all changed as she learned the hard way, not every pony felt the same. Most of the ponies in her area were pessimistic and didn’t like her due to her attitude and as they teased her, her personality started to change.  She started to care less and think more like the other ponies and it lead her to give up on her ideas.

 

Perhaps go into how she made her only friend, I myself might do something like:

 

One day she sees someone bullying one of the ponies she knows from school but she was too scared to go defend them and wasn't sure she wanted to since that pony had bullied her before. But due to her sympathetic nature, she felt the needed to say something and used her magic to help the pony, thus earning her cutie mark and a friend.

 

Maybe having a friend helped turn her life around? It goes well with the theme of the show.

 

Due to her having her first friend she started to once again regain some confidence and with the support from each other she began to pursue magic and ended up learning the few spells she knows but then she ends up moving to

Ponyville and far from her only friend it which caused her to fall into her lonely state.

 

This could make her goal to now make new friends in Ponyville but her insecurities get in the way.

 

Really all I think I’m going is fleshing it out more not really changing it. I could come up with something entirely different if you want but you will have to give me a while. Maybe just fluffing it up would help out if you think this helped at all?

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