Something about the term "OC" has a really specific set of connotations around what the character's FOR that make it really weird to say something like "JRR Tolkien's OC, Frodo Baggins, who lives at Bag's End"
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Every fictional character is an OC, but once it fully enters public perception (published, in a show, w/e), that becomes a given, and its identity as a character within a particular work supersedes (but does not eliminate) its identity as an OC.
Thank you. I've been bringing this up to people and they always have an issue with it, and then proceed to use the term in a clearly negative connotation anyway.
yeah, from what I have seen 'OC' seems to refer to a character created for tge sake of creating a character, as opposed to a character created to be part of a story
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I see what you mean.
Linguistically, it's like Raven versus Crow.