User blog comment:Memai/Writing Foreign Characters/@comment-2173402-20120409004149/@comment-4675595-20120411161629

No one's being "set off," Soda.

Sure, of course, you can make an OC however you want. It's your OC. Memai's post is aimed at those who want to write a foreign character without coming off as racist, because that is incredibly easy to do if you're writing about an unfamiliar culture and aren't careful about it.