My characters aren't free to use

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Just a friendly reminder after finding a second fanfiction including one of my characters when the author didn't ask me the permission to use him or even credited me; my characters aren't free to use.

Like I said it's the second time that I find a fanfiction like this and this is a bit annoying to find it. But this isn't the most annoying, I also wanted to talk about something else that I realized thanks to a tribute video that someone made for me years ago; apparently some people assume that Ben is officialy Sly's son.

Nope. :V

Big freaking nope. :V

Or people also call it "fake", like if I ever called him official myself.

Double nope. :V

Like any other Sly Cooper children, Ben is a fan character, as well as his sisters (I also noticed people prefered Ben to his sis for some reasons...). He was created by my younger sister Goldensoda and me. He isn't official in any way. So please, ask me the permission first if you want to use one of them. If you see a fanfiction including one or all of them on DevianArt or Fanfiction.net, it's because they asked me first, and of course they credited me somewhere. So do the same if you wanna use them as well.

Ealier, I said it was the second time I saw that. The first time the person didn't ask me anything but still credited, but still I was annoyed. And then I saw someone saying how rude I was because I should be flattered.
... uh... ok, first of all I actually apologised because I never wanted to sound rude.
But then, should I really be flattered if someone took my character and turned him into something he isn't? <:I

This is one of the problem I have when someone asks me if they could use my characters in their fanfictions; the fact that they could make them out-of-character. My sis and I developped them to be the way they are now, I don't want to see them acting in a way they wouldn't.

A second thing that annoys me a bit, is that I once read a comment about how someone was annoyed to see Ben everywhere. And I kind of agree with them and understand them being tired of him. Ben isn't the only Sly fan character out there, and there is always the possibility to create your very own fan children.

So yeah, for the last time; please, if you plan to use my characters in your story, ask me first and explain me what kind of story you want to do. Thanks.
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2RaymanM64's avatar
Les gens qui se permettent de réutilisé des personnages crée par d'autres personnes sans les avertir , c'est sans doute parce qu'ils aiment tellement le personnage qui pense qu'il n'arriveront pas à en créer un aussi " bon " , donc , il les reprennent , j'avoue , ça doit être très chiant , ça m'est jamais encore arrivé .