User blog:BluSnoipah/My opinon of re-colors.

Yes, I do realize there have probably been more than a hundred of these, but I needed to vent. I also realize that this wikia is fine with any fan characters, but I'm just lending some.. advice if you look it at right.



Re-colors. They lack originality. Yes, I do understand, it's YOUR fancharacter, you want it to look how you please. I'm fine with that, but coloring Sonic red and calling him Chase does not help. If you're a first time fan-character maker, you've probably made a re-color as your character. People will criticizie it, and try to help you improve it, so don't be a jerk and go 'BUT HE/SHE IS SO DERN ORIGINAL, UR JUST JEALOUS OF [insert fan character name here]'S COOLNESS AND 00B3R STRENGTH!!ONE!ELEVEN11". Another problem with re-colors if their powers. And relationships. Surprisingly, both fall into a horrible category; Mary-Sue/Gary-Stu. You may be wondering what that is. A Sue/Stu is a character whom seems to be perfect in every day, e.g., is invincible, has all the powers, can use Chaos Control without an emerald, all the girls/guys love them, etc, etc, etc. A Sue/Stu is a horrible path for a character, it only means that it requires MAJOR improvement. You could either try to tone it down, re-create it, flush it down the toilet, or-- keep it how it is and say that it's not a Sue/STU. While browsing throughout the WIki's many articles, I wasn't honesly surprised how many I stumbled upon.

But-- getting back on the topic of re-colors. As stated, they lack originality, it's just like you dipped Sonic/Shadow/Tails/etc. in paint, renamed it, etc. Would that be fun to do to Sonic? I think not. Having fan-characters myself, I have had re-colors, Ice could be considered one, but there's a lack of creativity you could do with and Echidna characters is what drags him down. At first, he was a light blue Knuckles, then I gave him the accent, then the pants, so on. I still attempt to improve him, along with my other considered re-colored characters.

Something similar to re-colors is edits. An example; re-coloring Sonic, and giving him a cowlick.

My reaction; son, I am disappoint.

Those aren't necisarily considered good edits. A good edit would be changing the quills, eyes, whatever you can to make it original, e.g. like what I'm doing with lord Vex (Hasn't created a page for him yet fffff-). Edits can be the same like re-colors, which is a reason why some people loathe them ever-so. Like re-colors, you should try to improve them, so you don't get bashed or anything. I mean, getting bashed isn't very fun is it? Of course not.

TL;DR: I'm not saying you should stop making re-colors and edits all together, but try to imrpove them. And try to steer away from the path of Sue/Stu-dom. And ubering. That isn't fun.

Yes, this rant may not be very good, nor even would some of you even bother to read it, but I'm fine with that, I just needed to vent.

[i]"Though I have to admit, kicking you kids around was FUN~!"[/i]-Stein http://i675.photobucket.com/albums/vv111/Mastapisu/Franken%20Stein/112.png 13:57, July 19, 2010 (UTC)