OC Madness

[plonq]

The darnedest things can happen on Reddit.

Somebody started a thread yesterday where they invited people to post their OC ponies. I created one on my alt account some time back to make fun of people who insisted on creating silly, pretentious OC Ponies. There was a flood of Juggalos (or Juggaho if it's a girl I suppose) posting their pretentious OCs a the time, and I could not help poking fun at them. I had a few rules in mind in order to be consistent with the others being posted.

1) It had to be an alicorn.
2) It had to be a Juggalo.
3) It had to have a dark back story.
4) It had to be better than your OC.

Meet Special Snowflake
I made this guy in something called Pony Creator - perhaps you've heard of it. His name is "Special Snowflake", and I gave him a suitably dark back story, and pointed out that he's in a relationship with Vinyl Scratch, etc. People did not know if I was serious when I first posted him last year (post got down-voted to oblivion), but when I posted him in the thread yesterday, I made it plain that he was a parody, poking fun at all of the pretentious OCs.

I added the cutie mark afterwards in a program called MS Paint - perhaps you've heard of it.



Out of the blue, a bored artist drew him. (Fanboi squee)

Comments

[dakhun.livejournal.com]

This was educational because I had to look up what a "Juggalo" is, what "OC Pony" meant, what "alicorn" meant, and who "Vinyl Scratch" is. Strangely enough, I have heard of MS Paint before, thanks.

But isn't that the way it is with fursonas in general?
Most people are average. But their fursonas are AWESOME! ...which makes them average in comparison to others.

[plonq.livejournal.com]

>But isn't that the way it is with fursonas in general?

Just so! The Brony/Furry fandoms are way more similar than a lot of people would like to admit - though the Brony fandom tends to be a little less friendly to obvious Mary Sues. I think this is because furry is a broad fandom with a loose focus, while the MLP fandom is based around a very narrow focus with a well-established canon baseline.

I fondly remember evenings on FurryMuck, amusing myself by reading peoples descriptions. An amazing number of furries had golden eyes, wings that radiate black flame, and offsetting colour fur on their belly that drew your eyes to their crotch. They were invariably tall, and thin yet muscular. They walked with a self-confident swagger, and while they were open, friendly and approachable, you could tell that they were not a fur to mess with.

That was actually where I first invented my Plonq persona. I decided to buck the trend, and I made his description a bit unflattering: "Plonq is a short, dumpy, smelly, digitigrade snow leopard with matted fur. He is usually never found far from his shopping cart full of useless castoffs, which he pushes around the muck while replying to voices that only he can hear."

Not once did anybody try to cyber with me. When I mentioned that to somebody who was complaining about all of the offers he would get every time he logged in, he said, "Not once? And you play a snow leopard? How is that even possible?"

[atara.livejournal.com]

The days of obvious Mary Sues in the furry fandom are over, I think.

Exhibit A: Sparkledogs

[dakhun.livejournal.com]

The "BAWWWW" is the best part.

[kfops.livejournal.com]

This may be one of the coolest things I've seen lately.

Though the illustration would probably go well with some sort've flame-motif, too.

Maybe we should start a ground-swell of artists drawing Special Snowflake and see where it goes?