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Creating Interactions between Creepypasta OC's

Hello to all you out there in the creepypasta community! In this continuation of my guides on pasta creation, we’ll be talking about making your own fancanon for both official characters and your own OC’s. Or your own pastaverse, as it were. Basically, I’ve noticed that a lot of people create a good OC that may even have a good story. Problems occur, however, when the topic of how their own characters fit in with the other pastas they interact with comes up.

First off, I should mention that a lot of people, particularly many traditionalists, dislike the idea of their OC’s existing in the same “universe” as other pastas. There is some truth to this because there’s nothing wrong with making your creepypastas have their own personal existence like this, in a world where they are the only monsters out there. However, you can still have a good story if your OCs end up interacting with other people’s pastas. Yes, even the famous ones.

I should also get a few things out of the way that you definitely shouldn’t do. While you will inevitably need to make some changes to the original story, don’t make a headcanon that completely destroys the official canon. For example, if you give Slenderman a third proxy, you shouldn’t make Slenderman into a nice old man with unusually pale skin who lives in Candyland. That’s Splendorman’s job anyways. I like Splendy, don’t steal his job. And don’t create a scenario and then expect everyone else to follow it. For instance, if your OC is Slenderman’s third proxy in your headcanon, people may still only acknowledge Hoody and Masky. And above all don’t make your OC the cousin/lover/daughter/mailman of a famous pasta (I could give an example here but there are too many to pick just one). This is both lazy and frequently a sign of a Mary Sue type of character.

Now that we have the boring part out of the way, the first thing you should tackle before even wondering how your characters fit into the other famous pastas is how your own OC’s fit in with each other. How did all your characters meet? Have all of them even made contact with each other yet? What are their opinions of each other? Are any of them allies? How about enemies? Or are their attitudes indifferent? Perhaps their allegiances change on a regular basis? What accomplishments have they achieved together? What fights have they had? What do they have in common and how are they different? All of these are just sample questions, but you should probably think of these ones at least.

Most of the same questions apply to how they interact with the “official”, already well-known characters. There are a few additional considerations you should take into account, however. Specifically, even if your pasta is a being of indescribable nightmarish power and so on you shouldn’t make the well-known OC do something like cower in fear or be your OC’s servant. That might make sense in a realistic sense, but in a literary sense it might annoy people if you tell them your creepypasta could punch Zalgo’s lights out if she felt like it. This is because it again falls back to the other problem I mentioned with destroying an official, well-accepted character’s canon.

A good link to an official character if you’re afraid of having your OC be called a Sue is just to have them know your character. Not be friends with, not be rivals with, just have them know of their general existence. This makes them both take place in the same universe (or outside the universe, in Zalgo’s case), but not seem so connected that people think you’re writing away the accepted version of a character. You could even have them fight in one of your stories, with neither side emerging dead of course, just to show they are familiar with each other. This is a good way of saying “I have a creepypasta OC who knows <> but I’m not obnoxious about it”.

A lot of people get frightened away from having characters of their own interact with more famous pastas, but it can be done well. It just requires a little extra effort on you, the artist, to make something both believable and entertaining. Because at its core creepypasta is meant to be fun to be a part of. No one pays us to do this, we’re doing it cuz we wanna.