In my experience of reading and writing fic, the fact of introducing an OC at all, well-characterized or not, is the act of temerity that makes people howl. Whether or not the OC in question is an embodiment of *anything* within the writer is merely, from my experience, the window-dressing Bulveristic subterfuge employed by people who don't want to admit to their purely reactionary response to the fic as a whole.
Lisa, have I told you lately that you rock? You rock. I think this is exactly right.
Re: On Murky Pond...
Lisa, have I told you lately that you rock? You rock. I think this is exactly right.