Tell me about your OCs :)
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Whether you mostly write them or draw them or just think about them, whether they're based on an existing fictional universe or something you made up completely, a little, a lot, stuff that makes sense or doesn't without the mountain of context in your brain...dump it out! (I'll do mine later.)
spoiler because this got a bit long!
My OCs are all characters in a novel I've been supposed to be working on for probably longer than... 15 years! I still haven't been able to start the actual writing process yet because there's always been a lot of preparing I need to do first. Both characters and my ideas for the novel changed and developed a lot over the years, especially the characters, they've come a long way! A few years ago, instead of getting started with the writing, I ended up creating a "spin-off" of my own novel with a new cast LOL. And now I have several ideas in my head for more spin-offs. This story is a huge endless world that I made up on my own, and it easily allows different stories (and characters) to come out of it, which is clearly not helping me at all right now. ^^; I have made countless attempts over the years to be organized and sort all these details living in my head somewhere so I can see what's missing/what I need to work on to enable me to get to writing, but I always end up getting nowhere. The amount of detail in my head at this point reached an insane level, but I sadly can only write very little of all of that down before I get distracted and overwhelmed. (Which is understandable since my life has always been stressful and unstable, but I really want to start doing my best now...)
I'm constantly daydreaming about my characters. Sometimes thinking of scenes that exist in the middle of the story that I tend to think of a lot (or in some cases don't exist in the story at all maybe they'll end up existing in new spin-offs) , sometimes adding more detail to the characters or randomly coming up with new scenes. The characters are also completely original. In the "spin-off" I've come up with in the recent years, I decided to base the appearances of the new main cast and side characters on musicians I like, which ended up making me more attached to these characters over the ones I have had around for longer! As a result 99% of my attention has been going to them and the plot from their story, which sucks since the older story is supposed to be the "original" in this universe and it should be the base for everything. ^^;
So far, I haven't really drawn them (save for a few drawings I made years ago that look very little like what they actually look like in my head...). Of course, drawing those from the "spin-off" is gonna be a lot easier since there's already reference of what their features should look like. The older ones are what I'm worried about, having no real reference around. I'm as inconsistent with art as I'm with working on these novels, but hopefully I'll change that and start drawing more. I'm gonna do my best.
I do base my Subeta HA's on them though! I tend to not really be faithful a lot of the time to their designs (sometimes not even their personalities/vibes) with my HAs. I guess you can consider these HAs unofficial parallel selves to the characters. Most of my pets are based on them as well! I need to get more pets for more characters. My current HA is my OC Oskar, who also has a pet made for himself. My pets' TCs are stuff that the character they're made after likes. So far only Nour (whose real given name is Lucian, my account is indeed named after him! /Nour is an Arabic version of this name which some characters address him with) has a story on his profile. I wrote it back in 2020 for a college presentation. I want to give more characters stories (or poems) for their profiles. Hopefully I'll finally do it this year!
This part is gonna be more personal. One of my characters in the "spin-off" is a self-insert. Nadine is her name. I had made Charles' (aka Jibril) in the original story many years ago to be inspired from me, but over the years he became his own character, although we are still very similar in many ways. Nadine was originally created for a purpose. I have always wanted an older brother figure. Two characters from the original story, Antonio and Melody, share a bond like that. But because Melody is not me, I never felt like Antonio was my own Big Bro. That's why I created Nadine, to be a younger sister figure to another character called Louis, who is the personification of the kind of Big Bro I dream of having in real life. I actually did not originally create him for this purpose, it just sort of happened. Eventually, I decided to make Oskar her older brother figure as well (and recently I've gotten more attached to him than Louis), and then the whole main cast became sibling figures to her. She's very attached to all of them, I don't wanna play favorites! (Generally, both main casts in the original and "spin-off" have close sibling-like bonds) In the relatively short time she has been around, Nadine has expanded to be more than just a younger sister. I'm particularly looking forward to working on her when I can finally start writing.
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oh a thread for silas!!!
Dave is the oldest oc that i still use, i originally made him back in high school for 1x1 rps on gaiaonline LOL. he's a (closeted) gay pro wrestler / pharmacy technician (i have half a mind to retire him [from pro wrestling] and have him focus on making wrestling gear, as that's another of his talents/interests). he has a sibling named Ainsley who i made in 2016 or so. they're very ride or die for each other. ainsley is a transfem nb lesbian and has a bachelors degree in chemistry but really hates academia and uses their degree to make cool slime to sell on etsy.
HEARTBREAKER (real name Jun Min-soo), is probably one of my fave ocs of mine of all time. insanely horny on main fckboy genderfck guy who is also a huge germaphobe (with everything except sex, weirdly enough). i say genderfck but truth is he keeps changing gender in my head, went from a cis guy to a trans guy to a transfem dude to ??? whatever i want him to be for any give scenario basically LMAO. maybe he's a shapeshifter. who knows.
my newest oc is Loveday "Lolo" Darling, a lovecore axolotl design i bought from someone on toyhouse bc i saw em and fell in love ehe. they're a barista who spends most of their non work time hanging out in cafes like the one they work in and whose hobbies include gossiping, collecting dice, cute stationery, and pens, calligraphy, ttrpgs, and geocaching. they never take the sunglasses off. also, i'm tempted to make a pet to represent them LOL.
speaking of, i have several pets that correspond to ocs of mine! specifically prophet and Lark (though Lark needs their overlay...) prophetLark
PLEASE @ anyone on this thread feel free to @ / message me about oc stuff i loveeeee ocs just with working fulltime i don't have as much time to focus on them as i used to BUT i still adore them nonetheless!!!
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I just love every part of this. The way this whole universe has grown and changed with you is beautiful! I feel you on the overwhelm when it comes to actual writing though -- I think that's why I've taken to the wiki thing, adding articles about characters and events that I can keep basically consistent but that I can easily change without a lot of narrative futzing, which I'm less interested in. It really has that "multiverse" feeling. I'm with you on the drawings too, mine are never exactly there. I've taken up half doodling, half tracing some of those "draw the squad" meme images just to engage with them visually a little. You have so inspired me to make some HAs of my boys though, great idea! Nadine's story sounds so sweet, I love found family dynamics, and I think it's so healing to be able to put yourself into your characters. Good luck with writing them more, or just letting them grow like wild vines, I think both are important to building stories like that!
ohmygosh I'm so in love with the siblings. I love the specificity in their details -- like all it takes are those bulletpoints and you get soooo deep with both of them. Heartbreaker, too...we love a queer identities shapeshifter, got one of those in my bullpen too. And Lolo is so precious! I am somewhat obsessed with axolotls (at least aesthetically, I admittedly don't have like a rolodex of 'lotl facts at the ready). They seem like a type of loud/gregarious friend I like to be around because I can just sit back while they go off on the hottest gossip and veer off into like 12 different topics. Gosh, the pets are so rad too! I need to get some art and like nice layouts and stuff going for my little gaggle, these are fantastic.
I'm so glad you both replied here with all these amazing lil guys! Thank you both for sharing!!!
thank you so so much??? 🥺🥺 the sibs r some of my most precious ocs to me honestly, and some of my most fleshed out! heartbreaker is also up there tbh, as are a few more i didn't mention here but. ;v; AND I KNOW axolotls r so cute, i saw the design and just HAD to buy it haha. AND THEY SO ARE YOU'RE RIGHT!!!
thank you also re: my pets hehe!! i was remiss in not mentioning that prophet is also my fur(b)sona!!
and if you want any help with layouts / art /etc, feel free to reach out to me or the subeta pets forum!! c:
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ooh an OC website 👀 I've been meaning to add an OC directory to my own neocities forever, but I get so picky and indecisive... I'll have to comb through yours in more detail for layout & presentation ideas. Dave's trivia section is so fascinating, I immediately want to know his entire life story
recently I've been working on oneirosea, a cyberpunk-ish, shonen anime-ish worldbuilding project. originally it was supposed to be just a fun setting to make OCs with my friends in, but then I went "hey what if I made up main characters and a plot for this fake anime so we can reference that stuff in our OC backstories to confuse other people" and. uh. the scope of the project is spiralling out of my control a bit because I seriously do not have the time and energy to plot an entire shonen anime . but I'm still having fun with it and I've grown to really like the "main storyline" characters so I suppose it's fine lol.
my biggest blorbo rn is probably Mr. Liu. he has essentially a magic chronic illness that makes him cough up black sludge 24/7, and he works for this ridiculous anime demon-slaying company, but he's also like... a shockingly normal guy who's doing pretty alright in life. I've been having a lot of fun playing with that juxtaposition
It means a lot to me that you loved my little rambling about my huge little story. :') OMG a wiki, why didn't I ever think of that?! I while ago I decided to create a private forum to put my ideas, character profiles, and all of that, thinking it might be easier than the notebooks I've always stuck to (I prefer writing on paper over typing) but it ended up being just as overwhelming, if not more. I wanted to be super organized so I created several forum sections for each character. ^^; I've only recently realized that this is the reason the site loads slowly Thank you so much for bringing the wiki idea to me! This is literally what I had wanted when I thought of creating the forum!
I did make one and been slowly working on it. Still in the process of gathering the scattered information I have in multiple forms/places and putting them on there. I think it now seems possible to be organized and get the planning ready! :)
Looking forward to see the avis you make of your boys!
YESSSS hang on lemme link you the template i used/edited: here!!!!! it's a bit of a pain to edit though, lmk if you need any help! :0
and omg thank you so so much re: Dave, he's My Guy haha.
your site RULES btw, i am Eating It Up tbh 👀 (followed you on th/neocities too!!)
mr. liu is very me-core tbh, i adore him already. if you couldn't tell from Dave, Very Normal Man in Extraordinary Circumstances is a fave trope of mine ehe
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ooh thank you for the link :0 the problem with using other people's code is I get SO picky with the formatting and particulars that I end up just ripping everything out and recoding it myself... plus I already have toyhouse OC profiles so I keep thinking my website OC profiles should offer something different but I have no idea what?? I love the idea of JS sorting / filters though, maybe I'll steal some script lines from it once I figure everything out hehe
tysm re: the site too!! I've mostly been showing it to people who have already been following oneirosea's lore since it was a badly organized google doc, so I've been worried if it makes any sense at all to outsiders... so that's really good to hear. if you have any feedback or questions... well we all love talking abt our oc stuff lol
🤝 I looove the juxtaposition between mundane and the fantastic. I like fantasy and worldbuilding but I really think it's most charming when the inhabitants of those weird worlds are still just people who make mundane people decisions. if you ever write a long bio or stories about Dave (or if you have already? I didn't find any when I was poking around at least) I would love to read them
you're SO welcome and gosh i feel that, i always tear into the templates i use and shape them into My Own Thing ehe. AND GOD I FEEL THAT WAY TOO, like i do have like the cute bgs and stuff on toyhouse, but i do like having as much info as i want on my website, yknow? like theoretically i could even like host all my oc art on there instead of toyhouse (esp if it ever goes down i guess), but...
i'm gonna dig into it when im not quite as Inebriated LMAOOO haha but what i've looked at so far looks BANGING
GODDD SAME 🤝🤝‼️‼️‼️ i remember one of the first rps i used dave in was a 1x1 on gaiaonline with Supernatural Things going on and dave's bit was that he just straight up did not believe in ghosts/that any of it was happening LOL it's such a good trope. also 👀 i may dm u if that's okay? 👀
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Ohhhh you do NOT know the storm you started, XD
So one character I've been really rummaging over is my guy Solileo! Originally made for the game Bloodborne, Bloodborne True Ending Warning!
Solileo becomes a Great One, which is essentially a god(?) and becomes part of the dream. Edited to add: He ends up killing and eating the other Great Ones and eventually becomes what the people of Yharnam consider a god after also taking out the Healing Church for what they did to the people. It leads to great power but how he handles it depends on day to day.
He's generally really nice and does his best to help anyone he can, but he's got an issue of anything monstrous wanting to Get Him, which makes him a liiiiittle paranoid and a lotta prepared for situations to go to crap! But he tries to not let it get to him and tries to see the best in everyone, even if it gets him in trouble. He's good with magic but better with weapons since magic is not always legal in some settings and he doesn't want to be limited in any way to protect himself since he's still technically able to die to a degree.
Overall, I adore my little dude and I just wanna ----> [img align=right]https://img.fruugo.com/product/1/06/705328061_max.jpg[/img]
“Who are you, that do not know your history?” - Ulysses, Fallout: New Vegas, Lonesome Road.
So.. I'm gonna post one of my OCs here since this seems like a really inviting thread. I'm usually extremely shy about OC stuff because of bad experiences in the past, but it seems like people have gotten a lot more supportive over the years so I'm gonna try to find some confidence in that!
Recently I've fallen deeeep into the Warhammer 40k rabbit hole (my human avatar reflects this lmao) and my newest OC is based in that universe. I'll put a spoiler tag on this because it's WH40k and you can't not be long winded about it ;_;
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His name is Caius and he's a Skitarii warrior. For anyone unfamiliar, he comes from a faction of people called the Adeptus Mechanicus, which are basically people who reject their biological bodies and worship what they call The Machine God. Of course there's a LOT more nuance in there but I don't want to bore anyone who isn't interested in 40k.
Caius spends what little time he has on his homeworld with his love, Elijah, who works as an archivist. Their relationship isn't really known about. It's not exactly super taboo but Caius is expected to devote his life to the Imperium and things like love and intimate relationships aren't really encouraged. Anyway Caius is soon to be deployed to aid in battle on a different planet (not sure what that entails yet, I'm not sure it matters too much). Before he leaves, Elijah gives him a gift: a pendant made of jet black stone. Of course whenever Caius has to leave they consider it to be the last time they'll ever see each other, since the universe is a deadly place. They've been incredibly lucky so far.
So he boards the massive Imperial ship and they depart. For anyone to get anywhere quickly in the galaxy, ships have to enter this other dimension called The Warp, which is also known as the Chaos Realm. It'll get you to where you need to go, but it's extremely dangerous and you want to get in and get out as fast as possible. But you know, something instantly goes wrong in this case. The ship's shields malfunction and hoards of chaos demons make their way in and tear the ship apart. Caius somehow evades being killed, but he is thrown into The Warp completely unprotected. Demons try to get at him one way or another: to kill him or snatch him away or tempt him. But any time they get near him, his pendant seems to drive them away howling. Whatever it's made of, it's his only protection from being swallowed whole by chaos.
He blacks out, and when he wakes back up he finds himself in a bed, in a house, the sun slanting through clear glass windows. Somehow he was transported to a planet not under the Imperium's rule. The skies are blue and clear, the plants are lush, and other than the occasional songbird all was quiet. Caius had never seen anything like it before. He finds out that he was rescued by a small family living on a farm (a grandma, a mother and her daughter), and he spends his time with them. A lot of his story is basically about learning to reconnect with his humanity, struggling with whether he should try to make his way back to the Imperium (which would ultimately reveal this planet and cause it to become just another industrialized wasteland), grieving over possibly never seeing Elijah again, undoing a lot of the religious indoctrination and imperial propaganda he had to live in, discovering found family. That kind of thing. Plus the interesting fish-out-of-water kind of story with this incredibly grim looking cyborg man living in an idyllic rural community is always fun.
It's not the most original thing ever obviously but I've really been enjoying thinking about it. Some of it draws from personal experience so there's kind of the added benefit of processing those emotions through him. Anyway sorry that was so long aaaaaaaaaa
Omg I barely see anything for WH40K around in terms of ocs so this is neat!! I adore these kinds of stories and I hope Elijah just happens to fall to this new planet at some point ;w;
“Who are you, that do not know your history?” - Ulysses, Fallout: New Vegas, Lonesome Road.
omg tysm ;___; I also really like what you've got with Solileo! I looooove Bloodborne and I don't think I've ever seen an OC put into that universe. Which is kinda wild when I think about it because there's SO much you can do with it
Hehe, thank you! ^_^ The Bloodborne lore is so extensive, especially with the Hunters, so I couldn't help but run with it!
Though this really is a case of
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because I haven't seen a lot of people work with stuff like Bloodborne or Warhammer that much due to the themes they have. The closest I've seen was when ChumiiCham made the Space Maids legion for WH40K, lead by their matriarch Nekona ^w^ They can be found mostly on Twitter since when I tried to find their work about it on Tiktok, I couldn't find it so it might have been taken down <:3
“Who are you, that do not know your history?” - Ulysses, Fallout: New Vegas, Lonesome Road.
Ah yeah, I suppose that's true. They both have some pretty dark and depressing settings. Can't blame anyone who wants to go with a more fun universe. I guess personally I prefer those kinds of settings because it makes finding some kind of happiness or hope that much more impactful- in my opinion anyway. (also a Space Maid legion sounds amazing??? I'll have to check that out!)
btw if anyone in this thread wants a toyhouse invite, lmk!!! i have plenty to spare!
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I have way too many OCs and they all haunt me mercilessly. Been making them since like grade 8? Of course it took until High School and such for most to stay.
I can't bring myself to talk too much about them, minus a few. I'll try and share soon.
I have quite a few OCs, but I rarely talk about them because I get very self-conscious. However, seeing how open everyone here is, I feel like it would be good for me to share. It's already been good for me just to read the posts here.
Many of my OCs just sort of "come to me," meaning I don't sit down with the intention to make them, but I just get an idea out of the blue. They can be inspired by things as small as a 2-second clip from a video, a song, or an image. After having these OCs for a while, I realized they are all basically parts of myself that I either have a hard time expressing or accepting in my current conditioned life experience. By seeing parts of myself in another (these characters) I am able to find compassion for them and therefore have more compassion for myself. So they are kind of a healing tool. Interestingly, I recently learned there is a legitimate form of psychotherapy called "Internal Family Systems" that is basically the same exact thing! I thought I'd share that, in case anyone else here was feeling unsure about having OCs like this -- hopefully you can feel the same relief I did.
I really like to do art of my characters, and have made several portraits of my favorites. I often cosplay as my characters on Subeta as well. Most of their stories just exist in my head, as I have a hard time translating the scenes in my head into writing. For some reason, I just lose interest once it comes to writing them down. Still, I do have a bunch of Notepad files on my computer full of jottings.
Anyway, I will share a very brief overview of one of my characters, since I have a ton.
Lt. Giles Addington
Giles is a second lieutenant in the British cavalry during WW1. He is seriously wounded in a battle, which results in a field amputation of his lower left leg. The shock of the battle and his new disfigured body causes him to suffer from severe panic and PTSD. While recovering at the hospital, he is aided by a nurse who is deeply compassionate toward him and helps him to overcome his fear and find self compassion. At the hospital, he also begins learning to paint, a medium through which he expresses himself and finds solace. He learns that even the most painful experiences can be the necessary catalyst for finding inner peace. There is no romance in his story, and he instead finds a deep platonic connection with the nurse who helped him awaken spiritually.
I have dealt with anxiety and panic disorder since childhood and feel very ashamed and guilty about it. Giles "came to me" during a bout of panic a few years ago and was really a lifesaver. It sounds silly, but I was able to really connect with him and find deep compassion. Obviously, Giles' story is far more dramatic than mine, but I am able to find parts of myself in him and that is very comforting. By writing both him and his nurse at the same time, I was able to embody both the holder and the held and I realized that I am both these archetypes myself. Yes, there are times I struggle, but I am also the voice of comfort that I seek.
I guess I kind of wrote my own "comfort characters"?
Sorry, that got quite personal. But honestly, it kind of felt good to finally share.