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As an obsessive perfectionist, I find that I'm constantly over thinking things and constantly marring my work, by focusing on things that don't need the extra attention. In a few days, I'm sure I'll have the free time to finish and post a new story in the archive. I looked at the story codes and started thinking, (obsessing needlessly), about two tags in particular. GB - the gender bender tag, and OC - the original character tag. This really made me wonder, wouldn't a gender bender character, also count as an original character? I'm interested in hearing anyone's thoughts on what makes an 'original character', in the face of such a change. How much can that character change, before that character is considered, a different character?

My potter fanfic is on AO3, but similar debate. Voldemort...dies in canon, pretty typical for villains, so I didn’t worry about it there (Ditto for Dumbledore). However, my main characters do seemingly die for an extended period of time, and that’s what prompted me to simply add in MCD and be done with it. (And now that I’ve got Harry jumping into alternate realities where those alternates do die, it’s kinda warranted.) I’d rather err on the side of tagging things, than not.