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Schrodinger’s OC

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Sherlock Holmes is in the public domain, so everyone is free to make their own version of Sherlock Holmes as much as they want.

Therefore it’s Schrodinger’s OC because it’s both Arthur Conan Doyle’s original character, but also your original character at the same time if you make your own take on Sherlock Holmes. The OC is both yours and not yours at the same time.

This also applies to:

  • Pretty much anything made by Shakespear
  • Most of Greek mythology (Specifically the Odyssey and The Illiad)
  • Pride and Prejudice
  • Dracula
  • Jekyl and Hyde
  • The three musketeers
  • Anything else in the public domain but these examples are the ones I’ve seen original characters made from.

You make an original take with an original cast for any of these? Totally legal, and an example of Shrodinger’s OC.

So basically, if I really wanted to, I could have Sherlock Holmes team up with the Three Musketeers to solve the Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mister Hyde (who turns out to secretly be Dracula), and throw in Puck from A Midsummer Night’s Dream for the heck of it.

You can and should.

Posted on 28 July 2020, at 6.37pm, with 28,556 notes.
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