original character

Noun

 * 1)  A fictional character created by an author or artist, usually one from a fanwork that is not present in the official canon.
 * 2) * 2013, Peter Berg, "Hobbyhorsing", in Anne Jamison, Fic: Why Fanfiction Is Taking Over the World, BenBella Books (2013), ISBN 9781939529190, unnumbered pages:
 * I currently have a document of My Little Pony story ideas that is, at the time of this writing, over 250 pages in length. It consists of over 400 premises for stories categorized with more than thirty-five different color-coded tags, a timelime of events spanning over 400,000 years and fourteen pages, over 49,000 words of headcanon, and forty-one original characters.

Translations

 * Japanese: オリジナルキャラクター
 * Korean: 오리지날 캐릭터, 자캐