I got requests (jarofrainbows and Random Unicorn [guest]) for a topic on rants. I had mentioned it in rants prior to this so, why not expand a bit?

Also, I have a So Cliché chapter on this topic as well, so go check it out if you haven't already (look at the whole story too if you haven't, it's all about the extremely cliché Fairy Tail plots). It's chapter 16 I believe...

"ORIGINAL" CHARACTERS

Everyone knows what I'm talking about— if not... *shivers*. Save our souls...

•I put quotation marks around original for a reason. ALL OF THEM ARE OP(overpowered) DRAGON/GOD/WOLF SLAYERS/PRINCES/PRINCESSES/WIZARDS WITH OP EXCEEDS/PETS/COMPANIONS! There's nothing original about that! It's boring and annoying seeing that crap over and over again. It's like listening to a broken record! We're not going anywhere at this rate!

*all of the sarcasm here*

Oh, you can one-shot Acnologia, huh? That's really original there, champ! You're going to go far.

Oh, you're the Dragon Princess so you have all of the powers of the dragons, that's interesting and never-before-seen!

Oh, you're an elemental dragon slayer? That's super cool and completely unexpected!

Woah, you and your sibling are OP wizards, I'm sure that's fun for you, huh?!

•The names of these characters always kill me:

Sally is an elemental wolf slayer, and her best friend Jill wants to join a guild...

Steve is the dragon slayer who trained under Acnologia... (That Steve, man, a great dude. *sarcasm*)

Sakura is an Earth dragon slayer and she's super cool! (Because you think you can speak Japanese if you know that one overused name. *all of the face-palms*)

(I just used a bunch of common "S" names... Wow.)

Come up with some good names, and not names you see ALL OF THE TIME, please! I'd really appreciate it.

•As main characters they are the worst. All of a sudden they'll pop in and the story goes like this:

"Oh no! Natsu and Gray both fell in love with this new girl who has no defining personality traits but she's OP, what could happen? Especially when her past comes back to bite her in the butt. End: Gray X OC. No flames plz, this is my first story!"

NO! THATS NO GOOD AND NOBODY WANTS TO SEE THAT BULL! You know that you're polluting this precious fandom land and causing mayhem, don't pull that crap! *And, again I hate on the "no flames plz people". It's like the thirty babies thing I kept bringing up in the pairings chapters*

•Most original characters are Mary Sues (I definitely agree with Random Unicorn). The only thing is: they don't even have a good personality. They are just the "oh, yeah, totally" kind of people. I hope you know what I mean by that. They pretty much agree with anything anyone says or say something "smart" and everyone automatically nods their head in approval.

"Ah, of course. How insightful. The sky does, in fact, have clouds sometimes."

My brain...

•"Need OC's" stories are awful. One: you don't need that apostrophe. Fix your grammar. Two: make your own freakin' characters, you lazy idiot! Those stories ask you (readers) to write the characters so they don't have to! And submissions are always going to be OP-OCs with tragic pasts. Come on, if you can't write a simple character, you can't write a whole flippin' story!

•The only OCs I can stand are the ones that are simple background characters with minimal interaction or ones who are supporting with ACTUAL DEVELOPMENT not just, "oh, he's there so he's cool..." Nobody can write them well enough for me to tolerate.

OC appears in an already not-good story, allow me to just nope out of that pit of doom...

What do you think? Leave it in the reviews or PM me (it's cool either way, just leave something so I know I'm not going insane). Also feel free to leave suggestions for my next rant, it will most likely be used at one point or another.

A little note: Never Ending Angel Tears has a new chapter, so it'd be nice if you took a peak at that and maybe reviewed or something. ;)

I hope you enjoyed and I shall see you soon!
-BloodyTeddyBear