>>42103160It's categorically different. Original characters are original content, but not all original content is original characters.
If I go on some website and make some fan-made Pokemon card for, say, a custom Pokemon TCG set, or draw some fan art of Red fighting Eternatus with Pikachu and all three fully evolved Kanto starters, that's original content even though none of the characters are original.
If I made someone called "Teal," an original trainer I designed, and poorly shopped them into a Pokemon card or made fan art of her doing something that happens to the protagonists in the games, that would be both original content and original characters.
>What's the differenceOriginal content is often created out of a passion for the franchise it's derivative from. Original characters often (read: not always, but most of the time) end up being for wish fulfillment on part of the creator.
