Citations:OC

Initialism: "(fandom slang) original character"

 * 2006, Linda Green, Entering Potter's World: A Guide for Fanfiction Writers, Lulu.com (2006), ISBN 9781411616356, page 165:
 * When faced with an OC, reviewers have much more leeway in reviewing. OC's [sic] are completely new characters that need to be developed as well as the canon characters were in the books.
 * 2008, Rebecca W. Black, Adolescents and Online Fan Fiction, Peter Lang (2008), ISBN 9781433103056, page 40:
 * For instance, one fan might create an OC or Original Character that does not exist in the primary media canon. Then, with that fan's permission (it is considered good form to request permission from the OC creator; however, this does not always happen) another fan may incorporate that OC into his or her texts.
 * 2011, Tisha Turk, "Metalepsis in Fan Videos and Fan Fiction", in Metalepsis in Popular Culture (eds. Karin Kukkonen & Sonja Klimek), De Gruyter (2011), ISBN 9783110252781, page 98:
 * In the broadest sense, we might say that any fan-created characters (usually called original characters, or OCs, to distinguish them from characters established by the source texts) are metaleptic whether or not they are authorial self-insertions: they are fan additions both to the story and to the discourse— the storytelling strategy—of the fantext, elements introduced from outside the source text.
 * 2006, Linda Green, Entering Potter's World: A Guide for Fanfiction Writers, Lulu.com (2006), ISBN 9781411616356, page 165:
 * When faced with an OC, reviewers have much more leeway in reviewing. OC's [sic] are completely new characters that need to be developed as well as the canon characters were in the books.
 * 2008, Rebecca W. Black, Adolescents and Online Fan Fiction, Peter Lang (2008), ISBN 9781433103056, page 40:
 * For instance, one fan might create an OC or Original Character that does not exist in the primary media canon. Then, with that fan's permission (it is considered good form to request permission from the OC creator; however, this does not always happen) another fan may incorporate that OC into his or her texts.
 * 2011, Tisha Turk, "Metalepsis in Fan Videos and Fan Fiction", in Metalepsis in Popular Culture (eds. Karin Kukkonen & Sonja Klimek), De Gruyter (2011), ISBN 9783110252781, page 98:
 * In the broadest sense, we might say that any fan-created characters (usually called original characters, or OCs, to distinguish them from characters established by the source texts) are metaleptic whether or not they are authorial self-insertions: they are fan additions both to the story and to the discourse— the storytelling strategy—of the fantext, elements introduced from outside the source text.
 * In the broadest sense, we might say that any fan-created characters (usually called original characters, or OCs, to distinguish them from characters established by the source texts) are metaleptic whether or not they are authorial self-insertions: they are fan additions both to the story and to the discourse— the storytelling strategy—of the fantext, elements introduced from outside the source text.