I need a strong opinion from you: Is making an incest OC okay because it’s “just a character”? Something’s happening between another person and I where they made an OC related to a canon character in a fandom. They’re brothers and the problem is that their OC has a crush on their brother. Many people have told them it’s wrong and they kept shrugging saying it’s “just a character”. Supporters of them also said it too that it’s just a character. What is your opinion on it and your message to them?
It’s okay to make a character with a traumatic background based on incest, child sexual abuse or just abuse in general. But obviously (if it’s something you don’t relate to) you have to know you’re doing so you won’t offend people where like..you start sexualizing and/or glamorizing it— or turn it into comedy, that’s just common sense tbh and easy not to do lmao, it’s just creepy people get off to that shit and that’s just disgusting. Because first of all, it’s not “just a character” when you make a character with a traumatic background others can relate to them and that’s pretty much one of the ways how the character becomes so likable. Someone may kin them, someone may use them as a comfort character. You never really know how greatly that can affect someone, positive or negative. And second of all, even if it’s “just a character”, how some people like to excuse their bigotry— know that the background you’re giving them is an actual thing that happens in real life so honestly it doesn’t matter if it’s not a real person lmao. Like I said, know what you’re doing, don’t sexualize/glamorize the abuse, etc.
