I don't know what you mean by muse, but I do understand the idea of using the term OC to distinguish from borrowed characters, like saying "original fiction" to distinguish from fanfiction. I'm guessing muse, then, is more or less the same thing as "OC".
I sort of see OC characters, or characters called OC as opposed to just "characters", as particularly moveable - you can plug them in several different situations without losing their personality or the thrust of their developing characterization. I have a few like that, though I've never done anything very interesting with them. The problem is story vs. character: A story usually should CHANGE a character to be a good story, but a character who you see in a very specific, established way is resistant to change.
I also have one universe with characters I haven't moved around but that somehow function like "OCs" (muses?) in that they seem more colourful and... fixed, somehow, like comic book characters. A character called Ursula, from the pulpy detective story above, has some of that as well. With time and ideas, I could see myself writing her a series of mysteries during which her own character changes very little. But then I also have characters like Thelema the ingenue, who's story IS her character. Plug her in a different world and background, and it just wouldn't work. Same for Nate the killer, or Timon Task. You can change some things about Nate's world, but you always have to have the background of a rundown town, the formative murder, and the crossing of a desert.
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I sort of see OC characters, or characters called OC as opposed to just "characters", as particularly moveable - you can plug them in several different situations without losing their personality or the thrust of their developing characterization. I have a few like that, though I've never done anything very interesting with them. The problem is story vs. character: A story usually should CHANGE a character to be a good story, but a character who you see in a very specific, established way is resistant to change.
I also have one universe with characters I haven't moved around but that somehow function like "OCs" (muses?) in that they seem more colourful and... fixed, somehow, like comic book characters. A character called Ursula, from the pulpy detective story above, has some of that as well. With time and ideas, I could see myself writing her a series of mysteries during which her own character changes very little. But then I also have characters like Thelema the ingenue, who's story IS her character. Plug her in a different world and background, and it just wouldn't work. Same for Nate the killer, or Timon Task. You can change some things about Nate's world, but you always have to have the background of a rundown town, the formative murder, and the crossing of a desert.
PM or email (blog name saaritsa at g mail dot com) the problems you're having? Maybe I can help brainstorm a way out.