User blog comment:WhiteCherry/What unpopular opinions do you have about Naruto ocs?/@comment-32385341-20191123111741/@comment-32385341-20191123144722

Oh, I just looked at the title xD My bad. Well, an unpopular opinion you say...

I don't like OCs from popular clans in the Naruto universe. It's not generally said, there will always be exceptions. For example: Uchiha and Hyuuga. I will make an exception if it's an Uchiha during the pre-massacre period or a distant Hyuuga (like my OC Hanae and the canon character Mukai Kohinata) clan member. It's just my personal taste, I guess.

It's not that they're difficult with all the incidents and stuff happened there, it's just that they're overused for me. Plus, their Kekkei Genkai. I feel like these types of techniques are the easiest to write xD (you can literally switch your eyes with your brothers' ones if you're an Uchiha xD, jk), since the Sharingan is all about deep psychological traumas, a lot of sadness, hatred, etc. The Byakugan is like "oh, my OC gonna see the future with them eyes", and I really hate when the OCs are younger or as old as Hinata or Neji and the OC's Byakugan is ten times stronger (which leads again to the Mary Sues) than Neji's and Hinata's.

In order to avoid my characters being directly related by blood to any of the two clans, I usually create second branches, distant branches, or just new clans who might have/had a story back in the past or present.

I would love to see more people making OCs about the Aburame clan, Hozuki clan, I dunno, even clans outside of the Leaf Village.

I adore, uh, royal? characters (like leaders of a clan, village, even a country), if they're not Mary Sues, of course. There are so many books about Imperial Japan, even the feudal lords and their relatives look stunning to me, there is a big field for you to practice on your character's personality. Reading historical books about Imperial Japan can do a lot to you and will help you create the, not the very perfect, but at least a significantly good character.