Thread:Matthew Labordo/@comment-26888167-20190116024402/@comment-3287482-20190116041435

Redfork2000 wrote: So they have backstories and personalities? Good! That's a point to your favor. Here's the thing:

If you present your OCs by telling how OP they are, people think you're rude, immature or self-centered. They are repelled, and thus, do not show any interest in your OCs. After all, if the best thing you can say about your OC is why he's the most OP thing in existence... that tends to repel people from wanting to know your character better.

However, if you begin by presenting your character by his personality, his backstory, what kind of person he is... that's what catches people's interest much more effectively. Trust me, I've been in the OC-making industry for several years now, and I've seen countless sites that talk about OC-making, and what makes a good interesting character. I know for certain that characters that are presented by personality, backstory and the like are much more likely to be well received than characters that are only presented by how powerful they are.

Trust me, just going on and on about why your characters are all-powerful and cannot be defeated by anyone else is just boring and gives a bad impression of your OCs, and even of you as an OC-maker. If you try to focus on personality and backstory more, I'm sure it'll be much more likely for people to receive them better, and they might even overlook the flaws in their character design (such as being completely invincible). I Don't care about all that info, too.