That makes perfect sense, thank you for your response.

Neither of the OCs I'm trying to decide between has any prominent relationships with the canon characters, so there shouldn't be a problem there. Both are members of one of the antagonist teams (Magma and Rocket respectively) so they are familiar with their canon leaders and superiors and may have interacted with them, but their superiors wouldn't recognise them in return (hooray, nameless henchmen) — I assume this is okay?