original character
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.83 in modern English
25
Scrabble Score
17
Letters
5
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A fictional character created by an author or artist, usually one from a fanwork that is not present in the official canon.
Slang
noun
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see original, character.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "The genre of the Mary Sue similarly deals with subjectivity: in this often-derided genre, an impossibly beautiful original character, an avatar of the author herself, inserts herself into the narrative and saves the day."
- "What must be remembered also is the K/Sers' penchant for "making do": when asked why they do not create original characters who could be women as well as men, they most often respond that they are just "working with what's out there.""