As you probably know, I hate OCs since practically never used right and turn into horrible horrible overpowered mary-sue types, or they end up stealing the show from what people ultimately read fanworks for, seeing and identifying characters they know.
In before, so why did you make Haru, idort.
well, I don't intend to give it a bad ending, so some degree of power will be involved as in the end of the day, what we know about Gensokyo must be applied.
Here is one thing:
What is Gensokyo famed for?
- Danmaku
- Girls
- A border of fantasy and reality mixed
- It is sealed away in another dimension that co-exists with our own
So, because of the background, I think you cannot eventually somehow introduce an OC that has no power. Not Mary-sue regardless that being aside, the OC has to have something that makes his or her value in the entire plot of things to really work you know.
Oh by the way, I haven't commented on Mima's fic at all simply because I feel ballsy doing it, one can even say overawe is what I am feeling at its rich content. So erm...nah, there is nothing constructive for me to say on RiG so I rather not and just enjoy the work itself.
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On the story itself, I plan to introduce two OCs, and one of them will be a male.
Take note, the male is Marisa's counterpart.
Background for the OC - 19/F/Natsuki Hakurei (her real name is Asakawa [her father])
A dropout from the Metropolitan High School, who in a bid to escape mundane city life she seeks a purpose that is out of the "Hyper Megalopolis" that is Shinjuku City which consists of some 30 giant buildings governing all aspects of human life and activities for something more 'natural'.
She flew to a place in the Middle East, where today war is still strife as bids for power continue to fight amongst themselves and create unstable governance of a once beautiful people guided by culture and religion. She became a volunteer working for the Red Saviors (Red Cross obvious reference) and has a kind heart.
She is genuinely wanting to help others, but something in her plagues her a lot, why does the memory of her mother's death plague her so deeply?
"Please...never forget the Hakurei name, you may be your abusive father's child, but your legacy is one guided by destiny..." she said on her deathbed.
Since then, the kindhearted Natsuki has never failed to try to find her roots, but history has long covered her search in tons of unnecessary data, and with whatever little education she has, she is unable to find her past.
She is skilled in medical fields, since helping the refugees at a relief camp is her work, she is good at wrapping up wounds and the sort. Her sense of justice is almost childish, but she knows when to stop and when to hurl herself forward. Natsuki has very little savings and her father forbids her to see other men, which she still luckily, has not find a right one for herself yet.
An opportunity comes, and a man presented himself to her, his name is Rinnosuke, and he dresses in the strangest looking duds ever, with a pair of specs that are long out of date, and a get-up that resembles a fictionious character from a comic. He spoke in the language that Japan has long forgotten to speak, traditional Japanese.
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OC 21/M/Sora Kirisame/ (Miyamoto is his real name)
A successful young entrepreneur who views money as important as his life, owns a large business at a tender age of 21 running a chain of instant feed restaurants for busy people of the every bustling city life.
The business is in nature a restaurant, but very different with people walking in, thinking of what features they want for their food, recorded, ordered and machines process them into what appear to be gruel and the sorts and pumped into their mouths. It will taste the finest of food, but quickly so no waiting time, maximum efficiency.
In the future of Japan's megalopolis, Sora made it good by starting his own business. He wanted to evade his father's job, working as a librarian in the inner city district (low level access quarters) where crime rates are absurdly high in the National Archives. In the world where digital format is as widely used and nearly every book has been archived into digital wordings in databases, only he is holding on to the existence of a library that no one ever visits.
Down in this low activity zone where criminals gather, the library stands and walks a fragile balancing line to survive, in a bitter extension to take up more space as unused books come from sources all over, a fragile old man archives them all in his head, waiting for the day. Sora does not want to inherit this task, even when his father asked him with tears in his eyes not to abandon the mysterious 'work of the Kirisame' for the new and souless work above.
Sora is a good natured guy, but he cannot stand poverty, he hates the stink of the poor. Having been poor all his life until he learned a good deal of business, he understands all about the painful interactions of being poor. Proper healthcare evades him when he was young, it is a miracle he survived at all from a Malaria infection, something that should have been gone from the glossary of diseases long conquered by mankind.
He wants power, he wants respect, he wants all the girls he can lay his hands on, and he knows he will get it. He must continue his path, but somewhere inside, his crazed old man's quote of a 'Kirisame' made him feel uneasy, as if someone is calling out to him.
When a beautiful green haired woman appeared to him, introducing herself as Sanae, he jumps on the chance hoping to leave his seed inside her womb, yes, he is an animal in a human skin. He agrees to the task rather easily, taking Sanae by surprise, what future would he carve with his illicit desires and rotten mindset?
