How NOT to write a Vampire Diaries Fanfiction (including TO & Legacies)

OC's around CC's

curious about this chapter? weird title huh? well i couldn't exactly call it:
"how your OC should be around canon characters and all the incorrect tropes writers often make because of it"

for the purpose of this chapter going a lot more smoothly, let me set up a legend for you guys

"OC" as we all know stands for 'Original Character' in other words, a character created by the fanfic writer

in this chapter i'll be using this acronym too:

"CC" which will stand for
'Canon Character'
in other words, a character that was already part of the show(s)

this isn't like the use of 'OC' or 'AU' where a lot of us know what it means and it's been coined and used for like years
if someone tells me 'hey by the way tons of people already use it' then cool beans; but if no one else has heard of it then that's fine too, there's no need to immediately start using it because im doing it

im only doing it because it's shorter than writing 'canon character' and I'll definitely be using that a lot throughout this chapter

so this is a chapter that got requested, and by the way, requests are open unless i legit post something that says otherwise

so you know those fanfics where the Klaus' or Kol's twin sister comes to town or gets the dagger pulled out and in like a week falls for a Salvatore and becomes best friends with Caroline and it's driving you insane because you know a real Mikaelson wouldn't pull this bullshit in their lifetime?

or maybe it's a Salvatore sister that had a past romance with a Mikaelson, then when said Mikaelson shows up, they just start jumping back and forth between her brothers and her boyfriend, becomes best friends with Rebekah immediately if they didn't know each other before, or become best friends with Klaus, and meanwhile stays best friends with Caroline, hates Elena, etc.

or how about a Gilbert sister that loves her sister but is also jealous of how even though she's fallen for one of the Salvatores, they both pick Elena, and sooner or later the Mikaelsons show up and now she loves Klaus, or Kol, or Elijah, or Rebekah (even if no one writes those), but she stills loves Jeremy right? and Caroline and Bonnie too, maybe Matt and Tyler as well, but she loves going shopping with Rebekah too, and so there is no such thing as loyalty anymore and just goes back and forth between every. single. character.

anyone? anyone?

im going to be starting off with OC's that are related to CC's first as those should be easier to see how your OC should be reacting

take the example i gave you (which by the way means no ill intent on a fanfic that may have a similar recipe setting as i've read plenty that have all those tropes, i just smashed them together for the purpose of an exercise)

one of the examples i gave you was of a Mikaelson-OC right? specifically one that was born at the same time as the Originals not Marcel or Hope, we're dealing strictly with the Original siblings right now