Pippy McScissor's Guide to Making MH OCs

(YAS I AM NOW PIPPY MCSCISSORS; NOW BOW DOWN TO YOUR SCISSOR QUEEN)

Greetings, fellow wikians! I'm here with a guide to making good Monster High ocs, and this is my first guide, so please don't hate ;-;

I would advise you to follow these steps carefully, and thouroughly so you won't get too confused.

OH LE MONSTER TYPES
Okay, so this is something most oc creators tend to get stuck on. In the webisodes, there are common monster-types like vampires, werewolves, mummies, and sea-monsters. Now, you're free to choose any monsters, but I would also advise you to maybe choose uncommon and unique types of monsters! And don't go too crazy with the monster types, and make very unreasonable monster types unless they have a backstory to it. Like for example, Dana Baudet. Her creator has decided to make her a weredonkey. Now, that may seem a bit absurd, she actually put a good story behind it. And now.. the do's and don't's.

DO - 

-Do your research.

-Add monsters from different folklore, but like I said above, do your research, please!

-Give them traits that their monster types were depicted with.

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DON'T -

'''-DO ANY GOTHAM OCS. I BEG YOU PLEASE DO NOT DO THAT. THEY MAY BE VILLAINS, BUT THEY ARE NOT MONSTERS.'''

-GO OVER BOARD WITH THE MONSTERS.

-MAKE YOUR OCS CARBON COPIES OF CANON OR OTHER FANON CHARACTERS.

'''-DO POKEMON OCS. THOSE SEEM UNLIKELY AND VERY UNREASONABLE.'''

'''-PUT SPONGEBOB OR ANYTHING ALONG THAT. THEY ARE FISH, NOT MONSTERS.'''

'''-MAKE THEM BEAR STEREOTYPICAL TRAITS FROM THE CULTURES THEY'RE FROM. I'VE SEEN MANY ASIAN-BASED OCS WITH A LOVE FOR ANIME AND RICE BALLS AND BUBBLE TEA. NO. NEIN. NYET. NEVER.'''

'''- DO ANY OCS THAT ARE NOT MONSTERS. I'VE BEEN SEEING TOO MUCH NON-MONSTERS LIKE NICKI MINAJ. NO NO.'''

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OH LE NAMES
This is something most oc makers tend to get stuck on, too. You could always ask your friends about the names, but most of my ocs have meanings from their names, like an Ever After High oc of mine, Tyvainea Thief, has a meaning behind her name. 'Tyv' means thief in Danish, and she's the daughter of the Little Robber Girl from the Danish tale 'the Snow Queen'. Great websites such as Springhole, BehindTheNames, and NameBerry have great suggestions. Now, the do's and don't's..

DO -  

'''- The research. '''

'''- Have an original name. I've seen many Dracula ocs with 'Drac' in front of it, and werewolf ocs following the wolf-theme.'''

- Have something that is revelant to the monster type.

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DON'T -

- PUT ANYTHING STEREOTYPICAL.

'''- PUT A DIFFERENT CULTURED NAME IN FOR AN OC WITH A DIFFERENT NAME. LIKE, IF YOUR OC IS AMERICAN, WOULD YOU PUT IN A JAPANESE NAME? UM, NEIN.'''

- PUT IN A STEREOTYPICAL NAME.

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TO BE CONTINUED