Fanfic has its fair share of Original Character fics. Most of them are written by aspiring teenage writers as their first story, hence why most OC stories are infamous for their bad grammar and plot inconsistency. Attack on Titan: A Blacksmith Tale has none of those egregious mistakes.
Our star character at first seems to be your average cardboard guy that brings nothing interesting to the table. He comes from a wealthy family that resides within Wall Sina, which makes you think why would someone like him even want to risk his life slaying titans on the battlefield. All of this is explained later in the story. The story reaches to a point where the MC brings out more than his cardboard traits, a gift, to be precise. This is where big changes occur.
Does that mean that the story will become a generic shonen that uses that Power of Friendship to win every single challenge? No, far from it. This is Attack on Titan, people here have the short end of the stick. When The Gift is revealed, it causes a shift in the behavior of a lot of characters, which is the realistic way to handle the unknown. A lot of pressure will befall our main character, which will trigger his Sanity Slippage, and his own girl has trouble coping with it. This change alters the original formula of the story.
The MC doesn't steal the spotlight from the canon characters. Each character has its fair share of badassery as the story continues its progress. It adds the balance that the majority of OC stories lack. Of course, sometimes this is not enough. In my opinion, I feel that Eren is slightly underutilized in this story. In some scenes, he even feels like a side character.
With all of this said, Attack on Titan: A Blacksmith's Tale is the prime example of what happens when the author of an OC story is being diligent in his work. It's a great story with an intriguing MC which fits surprisingly well in the plot, in Attack on Titan of all series.
Overused trope done right
Fanfic has its fair share of Original Character
fics. Most of them are written by aspiring teenage writers as their first story, hence why most OC stories are infamous for their bad grammar and plot inconsistency. Attack on Titan: A Blacksmith Tale has none of those egregious mistakes.
Our star character at first seems to be your average cardboard guy
that brings nothing interesting to the table. He comes from a wealthy family that resides within Wall Sina, which makes you think why would someone like him even want to risk his life slaying titans on the battlefield. All of this is explained later in the story. The story reaches to a point where the MC brings out more than his cardboard traits, a gift
, to be precise. This is where big changes occur.
Does that mean that the story will become a generic shonen that uses that Power of Friendship
to win every single challenge? No, far from it. This is Attack on Titan, people here have the short end of the stick. When The Gift is revealed, it causes a shift in the behavior of a lot of characters, which is the realistic way to handle the unknown. A lot of pressure will befall our main character, which will trigger his Sanity Slippage
, and his own girl has trouble coping with it. This change alters the original formula of the story.
The story doesn't follow canon to the letter
. It changes drastically
, which is a breather considering the infamy of these types of stories.
The MC doesn't steal the spotlight from the canon characters. Each character has its fair share of badassery
as the story continues its progress. It adds the balance that the majority of OC stories lack. Of course, sometimes this is not enough. In my opinion, I feel that Eren is slightly underutilized in this story. In some scenes, he even feels like a side character.
With all of this said, Attack on Titan: A Blacksmith's Tale is the prime example of what happens when the author of an OC story is being diligent in his work. It's a great story with an intriguing MC which fits surprisingly well in the plot, in Attack on Titan of all series.