Was that a slam on everyone with OCs? lol.
no it wasn't. it's just fics that have the OCs in them have to be extremely well written or have something extremely turmaic for the OCs to have to go through (the actual death of one of the members and seeing how the others cope (or suffer from it) would be an excellent plot line. say that what if jake died in the middle of the serise. how would each char cope? would rachel go even more crazy, cassie starting to lose intrest in the fighting it's self, Is Ax and Tobias acting coldly towards the death? and would it push Marco over the edge? litterially thousands of questions pop up here and await the hand of an excellent writer).
the fate of Orginals however, entirely depends on the writer and if he/she attract and hold the audience. there is no known varabies, no known settings, and the freedom for the writer to create stuff has he/she goes along.
in other terms: here be dragons.
what pisses me off about most orginals is most of them follow the same basic concept: a group of new random people somehow find the blue box and proceed to join in the fight. now this is enterianting if it is excellently written but after more than 20 fanfics that have this concept, it get's old fast. i really like (and try to write) concepts that haven't been tried before. i have done a bit of brainstorming over the years and came up with the following:
1. the andalite-human war: war in the future where andalites and humans go at it, add humans with Arn bio-techology and dragons into the mix and fights. the animorphs are occisaonly meantioned but are long dead (a 150 years will do that to ya).
progress: on hold (geting back on in a month though)
2.the underground: basicly, i have shifted to the "what if" question about the conflict and basicly given the human view of the fight. these people have no special powers, no morphing, and they see their friends and love ones die and still fight on. i am also in the process of given the history of each race and oranization, and given their own viewpoint of the war. animorphs will not have a big part to play in the beginning but they will after the story where Tom get's freed and conscripted into the Shadows.
progress: (on hold)
3. Deep Ocean Blue
the plot of this one does involve the OCs heavly but deals with the question of a person
wanting to become trapped in a morph.
the story starts on a boat where a boy and his father own and fish. they can barly make ends meet and most of their time is spent just putting food on the table. his mother passed away ( she is really dead, no Marco paradox going to happen) a few years ago and thus they are just trying to get by.
they are out fishing one day when they run into the OCs running from a bug fighter and (as we all know how trigger happy yeerks are) the fighter blows up the boat and kills everyone on board. the kid (who was collecting clams at the bottom of the sea) is rescued by the animorphs and (after much debate, this is story is Post-David) they recultently give him the cube. the boy fights with them but becomes more and more attached to one of his morphs and on many occiastions, starts demorphing dangerously close time limit. skipping over a few plot elements, he becomes a nothlit of a dolpfin and runs off.
the animorphs evenually find him and find out what he has done and the story procceds from there.
progress: (concept)
4. Red in Tooth and Claw
a Lovecraftain tale where a deteive hunts down a killer who kills his victims by litterially tearing them to shreds. skippin a large part of the plot, the detetive discovers the man is a morph capable and he recants his discoverly of the blue box and how he start to become what he is. the story ends with the guy escaping and taunting the detive to come after him again.
progress (concept)
those are my ideas and i have read many other fics that feature many onginal ideas (Glass Dagger, The Weight of a Name, Pretender, and Hacker, are just to name a few, quite a few of them are well written. but right now, i just can't stand fics that work with old concept (if it is an OC fic, it's a "what if rachel didn't really die". if it's a ornginal, it a "what if another random group of people found the blue box").. they just really tiring...
