> I see what sort of person you are.  You are one of
> those people who have an opinion and nothing can
> change you.  As for stealing, I'd say accusing me of
> that is rather pathetic considering the fact that
> nobody makes a dime off fan fiction.  I have made up
> many of my own characters and place them in fan
> fiction.

Pst, you're also attacking him as well, so you're both doing exactly the
same thing. :p

> Orrin Quintarin is one of the first characters I've
> created.  He is in "The Dark Lord of Jurai" and will
> appear in his own story I'll be posting on
> FictionPress.net (FanFiction.net's site for original
> fiction) later this summer.  His story, which I've
> been outlining for some time now is very long and
> complex.  Kun Lao is the villain of "Family Reunion
> 2", another of my own creations.  Just about every one
> of my fan fictions based on Ranma or Tenchi have new
> characters in them that I created myself.  So don't go
> attacking someone's creativity until you find out all
> the facts.

Personally, I am not fond of having new characters put in stories because
only the author knows all about the background of said new character, and
it tends not to be translated very well - what is in the author's head
doesn't tend to get across to the readers, and people wonder why they
should care about said new character.

But what I believe that Don meant is that someone should write _original_
stories with _original_ characters, not have them pretending to be Ranma
1/2 (or whatever) characters. (As if they're not written the way Takahashi
wrote them, then they're really not the characters that everyone knows, so
you may as well give them different names and not link them to Ranma 1/2
at all.)

Personally I don't read fanfics any more, but when I did, I liked canon
ones. Characters can change from original canon, but it requires a lot of
writing and hard work to do so - otherwise the readers will not understand
how on earth the change came to be, and will not empathise with the
character.

(If I read a story that wasn't based on canon, it was too jarring with me
thinking 'What the...? Why on earth did character X do _that_??? That
makes no sense from what I know of character X!' And it was especially
jarring when a new character was obviously a Self Insertion, or when the
characters bore absolutely no relation to the Ranma 1/2 characters at all
other than the name.)

> Fan Fiction is a form of tribute to the original work
> of fiction.  Even the stories that diverge from canon
> can be considered tributes to the characters.  Fans of
> the series also get enjoyment of seeing their favorite
> characters in new and unique sitations and
> environments.

But only when it's their favourite characters, not when it's some
character they don't know that just happens to have their favourite
character's name! ^_~

> This will be the last comment on this thread.  I don't
> like slamming into that brick wall of a shortsighted,
> narrowed vision attitude you carry around with you.
> With such an attitude how the hell did you even become
> an Anime Fan.

...a case of the pot calling the kettle black?

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