original character

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original character

noun original characters

  1. slang A fictional character created by an author or artist, either for an original story or a preexisting canon. 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 page

    Similar: OC

  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see original, character.

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noun a fictional character in a fanwork

한국어오리지널 캐릭터 orijineol kaerikteo
日本語オリジナルキャラクター orijinaru kyarakutā
中文原創角色 /原创角色 yuánchuàngjuésè

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@misc{original_character_2026,
  title = {original character},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/original%20character},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}