Does anyone read fics that are centred around OCs at the expense of canon characters? Like a story about an OCxOC pairing where the canon characters are only on the side or background to the core pairing?
I’m trying to figure out if it’s worth posting a story I have an idea for (that won’t get out of my head & demands that I write it next).
I had a chat with another author in the broader Star Trek fandom after reading their OC/OC fic & based on how that got received, I’m not getting my hopes up. I’ll still write it though (& probably post it regardless). And it will have some canon characters as secondary characters (& it’ll be set on the Enterprise) so it won’t be completely unknown to fans.
Love that your 99% OC story got so big! 😁 There’s hope for OC-centric stories yet. Pity about the unfriendly community atmosphere though - like, you don’t like the premise, don’t read it. No need to give grief to the authors about it. 🤷♀️
Glad you have those in your fandom you can refer to. It gives me better comfort when dealing with unreasonable readers. Sadly “don’t like, don’t read” has been a lost art for awhile. I hope one day it will become trendy again.
Sometimes fandoms that used to be unfriendly to OCs will turn around because a couple of fanfic managed to become super popular. The English fandom of Naruto has a few well documented cases of this.