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Logic rants: Carbon Copies, God Modders and Mary Sues...
10 years ago
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When you make an original character, for the love of gawd please do not just make a carbon copies of the cannons. Take My Little Pony for example; I have seen too many adaptions of Rainbow Dash in a different colour scheme and I even recently saw an alicorn one.
Seriously? Can you think of no better ideas than to rip off another character? If you don't make the effort to come up with something unique to yourself, people write you off as someone who isn't all that creative and frankly rude because technically you are stealing someone else's idea.
Alright! I am LogicfromLogic and about to piss quite a bit of pegasisters, bronies, and zeylicorns off!
So...why do alicron OC's suck?
Well, first of all, the alicorn race is supposed to be rare. And thanks to a bunch of godmodding mary sues, they are no longer very...attractive anymore (at least to me).
Let's review the alicorns in the show;
Celestia, who raises the sun and governs the poinies (ha, get it? I used poinies instead of people...*crickets* Kill joys), she's the big alicorn around town.
Then you've got Luna who raises the moon and the stars, watches over everypony at night.
Both of these jobs are hard work and take a whole lot of magick.
Cadence governs the Crystal Empire and protects her poinies. Basically the equivalent of what we have as electricity I'll safely assume that she's the main power for the Empire.
Twilight Sparkle is meant to be Celestia's successor. She governs the poines of Ponyville, and is the head of the Elements of Harmony. Now if you really look into her character, she's earned her way to where she was. Magick is her special talent, and she's used it on many occasions to save Equestria.
Are you noticing a pattern yet? All of these alicorns use their magick for something serious. But with all these OCs coming out as alicorns, there's no backstory of why they are an alicorn, what their serious purpose is, or what got them to that point. And I really, really hate it when people just slap the 'Oh, she/he/other is just an alicorn by genetics! They were born that way.' No. Even Celestia has royalty that is related to her that are not alicorns. You don't just become an alicorn for no reason, and you are supposed to be put in a serious position to be one, not just a back water lemonade stand owner. If that was the case, then I'd say the line of alicorns was nothing but a scam.
I challenge you to impress me with your alicorn story as to why your OC deserves to be such a rare race. If you can happen to impress me, I will take this down and you won't see me post one again.
Seriously? Can you think of no better ideas than to rip off another character? If you don't make the effort to come up with something unique to yourself, people write you off as someone who isn't all that creative and frankly rude because technically you are stealing someone else's idea.
Alright! I am LogicfromLogic and about to piss quite a bit of pegasisters, bronies, and zeylicorns off!
So...why do alicron OC's suck?
Well, first of all, the alicorn race is supposed to be rare. And thanks to a bunch of godmodding mary sues, they are no longer very...attractive anymore (at least to me).
Let's review the alicorns in the show;
Celestia, who raises the sun and governs the poinies (ha, get it? I used poinies instead of people...*crickets* Kill joys), she's the big alicorn around town.
Then you've got Luna who raises the moon and the stars, watches over everypony at night.
Both of these jobs are hard work and take a whole lot of magick.
Cadence governs the Crystal Empire and protects her poinies. Basically the equivalent of what we have as electricity I'll safely assume that she's the main power for the Empire.
Twilight Sparkle is meant to be Celestia's successor. She governs the poines of Ponyville, and is the head of the Elements of Harmony. Now if you really look into her character, she's earned her way to where she was. Magick is her special talent, and she's used it on many occasions to save Equestria.
Are you noticing a pattern yet? All of these alicorns use their magick for something serious. But with all these OCs coming out as alicorns, there's no backstory of why they are an alicorn, what their serious purpose is, or what got them to that point. And I really, really hate it when people just slap the 'Oh, she/he/other is just an alicorn by genetics! They were born that way.' No. Even Celestia has royalty that is related to her that are not alicorns. You don't just become an alicorn for no reason, and you are supposed to be put in a serious position to be one, not just a back water lemonade stand owner. If that was the case, then I'd say the line of alicorns was nothing but a scam.
I challenge you to impress me with your alicorn story as to why your OC deserves to be such a rare race. If you can happen to impress me, I will take this down and you won't see me post one again.
