Character Creation Guidelines

Guidelines
You must follow these guide lines when posting characters on the wiki. The only exception are joke fan characters, which must be put on the Shame Board if they are a joke character. If a character you have breaks these rules, either change the character, or don't post it.

These guide lines are in place to prevent low-quality FCs from covering our wiki.

1. Don't just quickly recolor a popular picture to make your FC. Recolor characters are not very popular, and not very original. If you can't draw well, try using a character creator, or a base. I made a quick recolor of Luna for an illustration. Don't make characters like that.

2. Don't overpower your character. Balance out their strengths with weaknesses.

3. Don't make your character too perfect. Give them some flaws, like anger issues or an obsession with how they look. Perfect characters are often called "Mary-Sues", and are generally hated by those in all fandoms. (Refer to Guide On How To NOT Make A Mary-Sue)

4. Don't spam pony creator characters. Once or twice is fine, just making heaps pony character creator characters because it's easy, spams the pages and drowns out those with complete originality that people have worked hard on. Pony creator is one of the laziest ways to make an oc and it's so generic at this stage it's turned into a cliche.

5. Don't just quickly whip up fan character after fan character with short bios like;

Name: Sing-A-Lee

Age: 14

Gender: Female

Race: Alicorn (lol)

Personality: Really kind and nice.

Powers: Moves the sun and moon (when the other princesses have a day off lol)

Like in rule number 4, it clogs up the catergory pages. If your going to have heaps of fcs at least put some character into them, and try to make them as far away as two dimensional as possible.

Guide On How To NOT Make A Mary-Sue
This article by MissAquaAnime goes into depth on how to avoid mary-sue tropes in the mlp fandom and how to work around them. Read it here.