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Hello, and thanks for reading my tutorial, here I hope to give some sound advice to those who want to make their OC Mew Mew but don't know where to start. Let's begin!

Names:
Alright, first off, you have to name your girl after some type of food, and pronounce it the way the Japanese would, it won't make sense later on if you don't. You pretty much have free range with given names anyway! For family names make sure it's connected to a color. "Momo"= peach, "ai"= indigo. And that it connects with her outfit's color scheme too.

Animals:
Unfortunately, there are more than enough endangered species to choose from. >.>" And everyone, making the 698,972,356,385,903,127th canine/feline Mew is not CREATIVE. Remember now, the more endangered they are, the stronger your Mew will be, and I challenge you to choose an "ugly" critter and make a Mew with it. But please for the love of God DO NOT make your Mew have the DNA of some mythological animal if you're NOT planning an AU fanfiction! A phoenix Mew with the canon group is a Mary Sue, that same phoenix Mew teamed up with a unicorn, lochness monster, dragon, and minotaur Mew is CREATIVE!

Colors:
If you've named your girl say...Salsa, don't make her color scheme black and blue! The color scheme has to connect with her name, either with just family name like Mint's, or both like Lettuce and Ichigo. And all the mews have some secondary color, which you can see on their "fur" trim on their outfits. Either it's white, a shade/tint of their main color, or the same color as their animal features. The third option works best with animals of one main color though, so no zebra stripes, that'd be odd.

For the most part, Mews change hair color to an unnatural variant of their natural shade. Ichigo goes from dark red to pink, and Minto goes from dark blue to medium blue.

Outfits/Mew Marks:
Here's something that gets overlooked a lot, if you think about it, everything about the Mew's physical appearance is symmetrical. Some things that all the Mews have in common are as listed:

-The collars, of course!
-Their outfits are sleeveless.
-They have those puffy, detached sleeves.
-Their outfits are short enough to expose their garters.
-Their Mew marks fall in the mid-line of their bodies.
-Their outfits also reveal their marks somehow.

Anyway, besides the marks being symmetrical, imagine an invisible line splitting you perfectly down the middle and that's the mid-line. Unless your Mew was hand injected, her mark will appear on said line, let's look at Ichigo, hers is on her inner thigh. But, if she stood with her feet together, her mark still falls on her mid-line as well.

And the garters, well they show what the Mew's rank is. If it's on the left thigh, she's a follower, right thigh symbolizes the leader (AKA the most powerful.)

Weapons/Attacks:
Now all the Mews weapons are musical instruments, thank goodness there's a plethora to choose from as well, why not have a Mew who's animal AND weapon come from the same continent? Such as a didgeridoo and a Kangaroo? (Feel free to use that idea if you want!) Anyways, let's look at some examples on how to choose a weapon for your Mew! Anyway, there are three ways to go about this:

Word-smushing 1: "Strawberu-beru" = "Strawberry Bell"

This is where you can smush the instrument name along with your Mew's given name.
Word-smushing 2: "Min-tone Arrow" = "Mint Tone Arrow"
This second choice is where you can take a word with musical meaning and smush it with your OC's name. Now take into account that Minto's bow is shaped like a harp, and Zakuro's whip is a flute, but you don't HAVE to say it like with Strawberry Bell.

The girl behind the Mew:

The list of questions you want to ask before putting tragedy in:
- Has it happened explicitly in-universe to either a main character, side character, or even an extra?
- Has it happened implicitly in-universe?
- Could the authorities' behavior reflect a world in which this tragedy is common, rare but possible, or almost impossible?
- Are you TRYING in general to dismantle the innocence of the series you're using? (Simply writing in a tragic character to add more edge does not count--- dismantling an innocent world is usually a pretty serious literary experiment, perhaps done for a creative writing course.)
- Are the authorities hopelessly incompetent, yet this sort of thing does not crop up regularly? (Incompetent cops yet little crime tend to be a clue that certain things may not be plausible in a fanfic.

To use Pokemon as an example, a fanfiction in which Misty is killed by Rockets and then have Ash embark on a quest of bloody revenge is ridiculous when not played for humour or for the sake of dismantling innocence. This is because:

- This has never happened explicitly in-universe.
- It has not happened implicitly, either, though the Japanese dub DID include the Squirtle Squad threatening to kill Misty if Ash didn't come back--- though, the same Squirtle turned out to be a bit of a softie later, so it's possible he'd have never followed through.
- The authorities behavior suggests that some things may be nigh impossible occurences--- parents send their children away from home on unsupervised adventures at the age of ten, compare to this world where some kids aren't allowed to play unsupervised in the front yard or walk down the street.
- The authorities are not hopelessly incompetent, either. Jenny is portrayed as sharp and in the know on things. This suggests that if something like abuse did transpire, it would likely not go to an extreme, and the child would be pulled away from his abusive guardians before it turned any worse.

In fact, you are more likely to encounter a legendary Pokemon than a severely abused kid or a serial killer.

And on a last note folks, try not to give your OC a SUPER KAWAII DESU NEKO GIRL DITZY PERSONALITY DESU!

Description
Hello, and thanks for reading my tutorial, here I hope to give some sound advice to those who want to make their OC Mew Mew but don't know where to start. Let's begin!

Names:
Alright, first off, you have to name your girl after some type of food, and pronounce it the way the Japanese would, it won't make sense later on if you don't. You pretty much have free range with given names anyway! For family names make sure it's connected to a color. "Momo"= peach, "ai"= indigo. And that it connects with her outfit's color scheme too.

Animals:
Unfortunately, there are more than enough endangered species to choose from. >.>" And everyone, making the 698,972,356,385,903,127th canine/feline Mew is not CREATIVE. Remember now, the more endangered they are, the stronger your Mew will be, and I challenge you to choose an "ugly" critter and make a Mew with it. But please for the love of God DO NOT make your Mew have the DNA of some mythological animal if you're NOT planning an AU fanfiction! A phoenix Mew with the canon group is a Mary Sue, that same phoenix Mew teamed up with a unicorn, lochness monster, dragon, and minotaur Mew is CREATIVE!

Colors:
If you've named your girl say...Salsa, don't make her color scheme black and blue! The color scheme has to connect with her name, either with just family name like Mint's, or both like Lettuce and Ichigo. And all the mews have some secondary color, which you can see on their "fur" trim on their outfits. Either it's white, a shade/tint of their main color, or the same color as their animal features. The third option works best with animals of one main color though, so no zebra stripes, that'd be odd.

For the most part, Mews change hair color to an unnatural variant of their natural shade. Ichigo goes from dark red to pink, and Minto goes from dark blue to medium blue.

Outfits/Mew Marks:
Here's something that gets overlooked a lot, if you think about it, everything about the Mew's physical appearance is symmetrical. Some things that all the Mews have in common are as listed:

-The collars, of course!
-Their outfits are sleeveless.
-They have those puffy, detached sleeves.
-Their outfits are short enough to expose their garters.
-Their Mew marks fall in the mid-line of their bodies.
-Their outfits also reveal their marks somehow.

Anyway, besides the marks being symmetrical, imagine an invisible line splitting you perfectly down the middle and that's the mid-line. Unless your Mew was hand injected, her mark will appear on said line, let's look at Ichigo, hers is on her inner thigh. But, if she stood with her feet together, her mark still falls on her mid-line as well.

And the garters, well they show what the Mew's rank is. If it's on the left thigh, she's a follower, right thigh symbolizes the leader (AKA the most powerful.)

Weapons/Attacks:
Now all the Mews weapons are musical instruments, thank goodness there's a plethora to choose from as well, why not have a Mew who's animal AND weapon come from the same continent? Such as a didgeridoo and a Kangaroo? (Feel free to use that idea if you want!) Anyways, let's look at some examples on how to choose a weapon for your Mew! Anyway, there are three ways to go about this:

Word-smushing 1: "Strawberu-beru" = "Strawberry Bell"

This is where you can smush the instrument name along with your Mew's given name.
Word-smushing 2: "Min-tone Arrow" = "Mint Tone Arrow"
This second choice is where you can take a word with musical meaning and smush it with your OC's name. Now take into account that Minto's bow is shaped like a harp, and Zakuro's whip is a flute, but you don't HAVE to say it like with Strawberry Bell.

The girl behind the Mew:

The list of questions you want to ask before putting tragedy in:
- Has it happened explicitly in-universe to either a main character, side character, or even an extra?
- Has it happened implicitly in-universe?
- Could the authorities' behavior reflect a world in which this tragedy is common, rare but possible, or almost impossible?
- Are you TRYING in general to dismantle the innocence of the series you're using? (Simply writing in a tragic character to add more edge does not count--- dismantling an innocent world is usually a pretty serious literary experiment, perhaps done for a creative writing course.)
- Are the authorities hopelessly incompetent, yet this sort of thing does not crop up regularly? (Incompetent cops yet little crime tend to be a clue that certain things may not be plausible in a fanfic.

To use Pokemon as an example, a fanfiction in which Misty is killed by Rockets and then have Ash embark on a quest of bloody revenge is ridiculous when not played for humour or for the sake of dismantling innocence. This is because:

- This has never happened explicitly in-universe.
- It has not happened implicitly, either, though the Japanese dub DID include the Squirtle Squad threatening to kill Misty if Ash didn't come back--- though, the same Squirtle turned out to be a bit of a softie later, so it's possible he'd have never followed through.
- The authorities behavior suggests that some things may be nigh impossible occurences--- parents send their children away from home on unsupervised adventures at the age of ten, compare to this world where some kids aren't allowed to play unsupervised in the front yard or walk down the street.
- The authorities are not hopelessly incompetent, either. Jenny is portrayed as sharp and in the know on things. This suggests that if something like abuse did transpire, it would likely not go to an extreme, and the child would be pulled away from his abusive guardians before it turned any worse.

In fact, you are more likely to encounter a legendary Pokemon than a severely abused kid or a serial killer.

And on a last note folks, try not to give your OC a SUPER KAWAII DESU NEKO GIRL DITZY PERSONALITY DESU!