User blog comment:Chaos Githzerai/Kreate-a-Kombatant Entry: Hawk/@comment-3565511-20110621204619/@comment-4015815-20110621214722

Having my character accused of copying another character is one of my biggest pet peeves, and that's what made me lose that night of sleep. The last time that happened to me in a different fandom I'm a part of, the experience for me was much worse because of how malicious the accuser had been (going as far as slipping their accusations in with pretty purple prose and sugarcoated words, which /really/ made me mad) and the similarities between the main character of my fanfic and that of a different character from another fandom only numbered two and the similarities were minor things. when this happened, I became so paranoid that I had to ask my three closest friends to make comparisons between the characters because it bothered me so badly and when I finally had enough and faced my accuser, I did all I could to be civil about what they did and they haven't bothered me again since because they knew they were wrong. This is why I took it so hard because being accused of something is not fun at all and besides, no matter what fandoms they're in, characters will have similarities. I just wish people would remember that rather than go "Oh, this character's a rip off of that character because of blah, blah, blah!". Though the rather blatant rip-offs have no excuse.