Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26221691-20160410052349/@comment-27267879-20160410182446

Welp in terms of pros, there's the added variety a well crafted fan-made canon characters can bring to the table. There's plenty of good fanfics built upon pre-existing verses, and many of those have alternate versions of canon characters who've experienced vastly different situations, encounters, relationships, and of course battles- Which in a sense can make them stand out from their canon counterparts. So I guess what I'm trying to say here is; A well crafted fan-made character can be just as good as any Fan characters or Original characters, as long as the creators of said characters put a good amount of time into creating the profiles while also following the rules you guys have set.

As for the negatives:

There's the inevitability that someone will come along and make a pretty bad profile (Examples being the endless overpowered for the sake of being overpowered versions of characters like Goku, Naruto, Ichigo, Natsu, etc) but we've already discussed this on part 1.

And another negative, at least for me, would be the constant threat of an all around banning of said characters. I mean think of it like this; I follow all the rules and make a pretty solid profile for my fanon character, then some group of dbz wankers come along and make a bunch of bad profiles with poorly explained versions of Goku who are all tier 0 for whatever reason, and then BOOM everyone gets punished by every fan-made canon character being banned, including my hypothetical well built profile. It would just be kinda of unfair on those who took their time to make a good looking profile now wouldn't it?

That's basically why I'm kinda of discouraged to make profiles of alternate versions of pre-existing characters even if they were to be allowed again. But I dunno, there's still a lot to be said on this topic and this is just one opinion.