please break the stigma that OCs are boring, toneless, weak, to be underestimated, mary/gary sue/stus, predictable, recycled material etc. please stop ridiculing them, casting them aside, ignoring them/their story and disrespecting them. please destroy the discrimination against OCs in general. an OC is an original character, and a canon is also an original character that has been popularized and given life through media and funding etc. please stop devaluing people’s creations simply because they aren’t in a book/TV show/movie. a lot of time, effort and care has been put into the characters you see in the roleplay community, stop writing them off without a second thought and maybe consider that these characters are just as great as the canon characters you adore.