A character based on some book that some fat retard made up based on a certain series, usually bassed on books, television, or movies. A fancharacter is usually a recolored version of some retarded furry many instances some really good artist will waste his/her talent or time on some crappy character usually with a date with one of the origional characters. This creates comeplete what the fuck ness all over the internet rather than creating something that would make them serious money. The eye-catching art they do is usually found on furaffinity in forms off yiffy porn and other things that the retard submits because deviantart doesn't allow them to be a fanboy/fangirl also, the artist who posts such disgusting shit is usually referred as a furfag.

1. A fan character is a made up character based of a show/game/book.

These characters usually fit in with canon, sometimes so well that they could easily be mistaken for a canon character.

A made up character based on a character in a book, movie, or T.V show. Sometimes, a fancharacter could be made without any relations to a character already existing.