You want yet more proof that Barton Town RPers, as a group, couldn't find their ass with both hands and a map (unless, of course, someone had cunningly replaced the phrase 'ass location' with 'here be kawaii bishie vampire boiz')?

Well, it's s pretty obvious in the way they create OCs. When Barton Town roleplayers talk about character creation, what they usually mean is that they've found a picture of an anime character - usually this is either Lelouch from Code Geass or some hentai game character they found by typing 'cute anime girl' into the Photobucket search engine - and have come up with a cookie-cutter personality to paste on top that is either a fanon-flavored take on Lelouch, or which fits with their look.

How do I know this? Well, I used to be this stupid and this is how I used to create 'OCs' to roleplay with when I first started RPing. I took a picture of Youji and worked from there, and then repeated the process with Ken Hidaka, Rociel, Alexiel, Honoka Sawatari, Squall Leonheart, Maron Kusakabe und so weiter. Yeah, I was a silly little fangirl who should just have shut up and watched Weiss Kreuz and written Youji/Ken slash fiction, because that was clearly what I wanted to do. In my defense, though, I started to create lame-ass 'OCs' in this way because that was what all the more experienced RPers I'd started to play with told me to do. Need an OC to roleplay with and all the ones you've created up till now are full of Mary Sue suck and fail? No problem, laila-in-embryo: just go to Mediaminer and find a picture of someone you like the look of!

Unfortunately, sometimes I would find a character I liked the look of in all but one tiny regard. Their hair was the wrong shade, for example, or I didn't like their eye color. Well, that was easy enough solved. I had a copy of Paint Shop Pro, didn't I?

So this, according to a distressingly large proportion of Internet RPers, is how you create an OC:

Step 1: Find image of Ritsuka from Loveless on Photobucket and save it to your hard drive.
Step 2: Open the nearest paint program and color his hair in pink.
Step 3: Write 'Kari' on the bottom of the picture so everyone knows he's your OC, not Ritsuka with pink hair.

Changing the image's filename to your OC's name or something generic like 'animecutie34.jpg' is strictly optional, though it is, I might add, advised if you don't want to give anyone who comes across 'Kari' a really, really easy way to confirm that your OC really is Ritsuka from Loveless with pink hair and the word 'Kari' nonsensically floating a few inches in front of him.

I suppose everyone has to start somewhere, but starting here? To be totally honest with myself, I was rather better at character creation before I started regularly roleplaying. Taking the easy 'find a pre-existing character, Photoshop away anything that doesn't quite fit and work from there' way out to create a harem of terrible cookie-cutter roleplay 'OCs' left me trying to write with a bunch of characters who, frankly, were deeply derivative and ultimately totally sucked. It wasn't until I weaned myself off doing this by totally ignoring almost every single 'OC' I ever created in this manner, and going back to the handful of characters I had created as a teenager who weren't totally horrific and building on them, that I actually started coming up with half-decent characters of my own.

Still, at least I could actually successfully shop an anime character. I wouldn't care to count the number of Barton Town RPers who can't even manage that much correctly...
At least, for example, I had the sense to realize that coloring all over a character's hair using the paintbrush without so much as trying to add any kind of shading - or, better yet, doing the whole damn thing as a transparent layer so the actual strands and shading of the character's hair could show through my paintbox daubings - wasn't going to leave me with a character who looked even vaguely human. Because human beings have hair, not extruded plastic all over their heads.

At least I never sat down and drew cat ears on anime characters who always got by perfectly fine without them because my Neat New Character just had to be a 'Neko'. Even if I had, I certainly wouldn't have decided that, once again, just scribbling all over the image with the 'paintbrush' tool and adding a wobbly freehand line for the tail, without making the slightest concession to trying to stop them looking utterly look pastede on yey, was a job well done and then slapped it up on the Internet so everyone could marvel over my stunning ability to turn decent artbook images into hideous crapped-on rubbish.

At least I never took a screenshot from the anime du jour and drew all over one of the regulars in a desperate attempt to pretend that my Neat New Character was actually in the series as opposed to All In My Head.

And at least I had the sense to realize that if a character was very pretty but wasn't really wearing enough for my liking, the solution was not 'inexpertly draw more clothes on her to spare my maidenly blushes' but 'find another picture of a girl who's wearing more'. It's really not going to be that hard to find a picture of an almost identical generic blonde anime girl who isn't just wandering around in a shirt, after all.