The Best Part of Making OCs (original characters)

[@itsgeminiszn]

once i wrote a theory about my OCs and ended up realising “wait i made them. i can make this canon.”

[@_AstaLily]

That is so so real 😭

[@CadenManley06]

Yeah all OC's Should treat their creators like gods Cause it's a Essentially What they are

[@CrimsomGloryXD]

How I be making my canons

[@storytellernegative1]

Fun fact, i actually make theories about my own stories SOLELY because the actual story doesnt and cant explain certain things for either plot or thematic reasons, so *I* can be wrong as well

[@Lechezzz]

FLOWER PFP🤯🤯

[@maximumnyoom7123]

Writing characters is like sculpting; some people think you shape it out yourself, others think the sculpture is already there and you're just freeing it, and both viewpoints are valid.

[@meatkirbo]

Not only is this true, but imo both are _half_ right. Beyond a certain point of writing, you just cannot have the same level of control, otherwise it doesn’t come out right. It’s really weird

[@Ratsifer]

Also, there’s making playlists for individual OCs. Then accidentally making certain songs be their personality or backstory or pretty much anything else.

[@Annabeth_Chase14]

Omgs imma try this

[@magnets8072]

Me too 😅

[@skelebrowhovian6817]

me when Slayer’s Strive theme Ups & Downs fits perfectly my OC (Who is my pfp) who I have had for years

[@not-so-obvious_autism777]

When I’m listening to a song for an angst scenario in my head and GENUINELY START CRYING: I plan on posting my content, so if I can make MYSELF cry… imagine the faces of my -victims- viewers…. 😈😈

[@wesper-stan]

ooohhhh yesss that's so fun

[@meowmeow7476]

My #1 favorite thing about making OCs is watching them develop against my will. It'll start off with me making their general backstory and dynamics with other characters, and then they will suddenly develop a mind of their own and start developing random new traits and friendships/enemies. Like "oh yeah, this one is a total theater nerd now, I guess I can see how that makes sense"- or "oh wait these two actually do get along really well and accidentally are perfect foils to eachother, sure they can be friends now!-", or "wait how did this become a century-long doomed yaoi situationship. How did that happen. Who did that."

[@xana_berries296]

I think I may have also done that 😅

[@radioactivebirbchild]

I had a pair of 5000 year old rivals to lovers lesbians develop that way lol

[@YouveBeenMegged]

Some of the best symbolism I’ve done concerning character relationships was completely by accident. Like, I wasn’t even really thinking about it until I realized how well it worked. 😅

[@bookswithike3256]

I have this one character who was never meant to have a fleshed out backstory. But he was a jokestery, laidback character. But when all of his serious moments in the story revolved around the same themes and situations, his backstory became pretty clear and now he's one of my favourite blorbos. And the ironic thing is he was never one of my favourite characters, but everyone who read my story as I was writing it immediately latched onto him. They knew about his greatness before I did.

[@xana_berries296]

@bookswithike3256 do you mind saying more about the character?

[@meatkirbo]

I love the “Am not in control of my characters” joke because it is legit. At a certain point, doing something “the character doesn’t want” can happen, it just doesn’t at all match with how you’ve already written them. I created an OC with a scene of them going insane, and that literally forced me to write the story as emotionally scarring as possible because otherwise what followed _would not make sense at all_

[@ewoklord-726]

OC: Wait a minute, I’m not nearly scarred enough for this! What gives? You: Ah, you’re right! Hold on a tic. *INFLICTS RETROACTIVE WOUNDS.*

[@LanieMae]

I love projecting all my personal struggles onto my OCs and have them have arcs where they overcome and learn to properly cope with it. Honestly it feels nice to actually have a method to project stuff like that onto my OCs

[@meowmeow7476]

THIS!!!!!! YESYES I DO THIS TOO!!

[@drakothedragon]

I also this! Based as heck.

[@kylajensen1957]

One of my OCs is AuDHD like I am, likes writing stories like I do, and since I made her at a time I dyed my hair strawberry blonde, she has strawberry blond hair and blue eyes like I did. Several of my OCs have anxiety disorders/are hypochondriac/have my phobias too.

[@ShadowGunR]

I do that all the time too, just something about watching my OC's conquering fears or worries I have is kinda satisfying

[@TheNameIsFa11]

This helped me through a lot of things. It's definitely not the end-all-be-all of coping mechanisms but it helps loads when it comes to figuring out how to get out of a situation or just feeling less alone in it.

[@spirirsstuff]

i love that i can make an oc, forget about them, and years later i pick them back up and give them any traits i want. like hell yeah little guy i made 2 years ago and only had 2 aspects for at that point, you are now my specialest little princess. now go in the trauma blender :)

[@radioactivebirbchild]

Trauma blender isn't enough, go to the industrial trauma shredder BEFORE being put in the trauma blender

[@spirirsstuff]

@@radioactivebirbchild apologies. shouldve said that instead.

[@nmheath03]

My ocs Wayne and Alpine being forgotten for like 2 years then suddenly I remembered about them like 5 years ago and they've been regular parts of my mind ever since. No trauma blender for my pampered little meow meows, the 7'4" himbo bear (not the animal) and 400lb dinosaur, both of which could pick me up with no issue.

[@saphirestorm7952]

Meanwhile I forgot about my Sailor Scouts from over 10 years ago and only semi-recently remembered them and didn't have to change anything because they're still perfect, most that happened was I realized that Sailor Mercury had blatant autism that I just didn't pick up on before

[@Characterbrainrot]

I've been obsessed over one oc over 7 years now. He got a bf 7 years ago, obsessed over him too, and then they got friends, I'm obsessed over them too. Never ending circle anyways hope to make comic with them one day❤

[@Rebelco]

People like to make their ocs suffer with trauma and serious things like that, but what torments my poor babies at night when they try to sleep is the embarrassing memories I forced them to have

[@ProfessionalBugLover]

every time i try to go to sleep i make sure to make them relive their trauma so they can gain extra suffering

[@Sato-Juno]

...damnit, now I need to give them all childhoods 😭 Hmm... would it be too dark if I made one of my OCs be trafficked? I mean, it'd make sense considering some things about him, but I'm not sure if that's too dark :(

[@tsifirakiehl4250]

@Sylvainjose-satoyumiyato It all depends on what story you want to tell with the character. If they’re meant to be the protagonist of a lighthearted tale, then maybe making them a child trafficking survivor would be too dark, but if your goal is a darker story, a backstory like that might fit right in. Maybe think of an existing story with a tone similar to what you’re going for and consider how that backstory might fit in there. If your tone is similar to, say, Game of Thrones, nobody would bat an eye at your character’s dark and troubled past. If your tone is more along the lines of, say, High School Musical, a character with that traumatic of a past would be jarring, to say the least.

[@Sato-Juno]

@@tsifirakiehl4250 ok, tysm! My story is supposed to lean a bit more angsty and dark, so that means it'd make sense I think! Thank you for the help\

[@R0sesAreCool]

⁠​⁠​⁠@Sylvainjose-satoyumiyato eh, well I mean I don’t think so. Some of my OC’s have hella trauma :3 *RANT INCOMING* Also to clarify, all of the OC’s live in the same AU, but not all at the same point in time or place. There’s four planets, including earth, that’s involved in the main story and magic isn’t a known thing on earth until a certain point in my storyline. There’s Earth, Lonest, Dweldred, and Omnicailen. Pretty much nobody on earth knows about the other three planets, unless you know somebody from the planet. Anyways, LET THE RANT COMMENCE! First, when my OC, Maristela saves her father Captain Stirling (the story is about Maristela, a 14 year old who continues her family legacy of being pirate captains to look for her lost father) and the rival crew who had him then take her and torture her pretty badly for three months until she’s saved. And if she was given to the hunters (she is a siren-human hybrid) then it would’ve been a *lot* worse. OC number two, Asher, code name Nighthawk, was in her room when one day she heard two gunshots, and when she went downstairs, she saw her parents dead. The then four, almost five year old, ran away with her plushie and was soon put into an orphanage. A few months after, the spy agency her parents worked for took her in and trained her to be a spy. She made her first kill for the agency when she started missions at eleven. She had no friends, never smiled, cried, or laughed as she grew up. When she was fourteen, she met Dawn, her next target, who was her age, and also her first friend. When she realises she killed Dawn, she kills Clyde, one of the higher-ups, which is when she first cries in years. There were other higher-ups who watch this, but she doesn’t get punished. Instead, she finds out she’s practically being sold to the royal family in England as a spy to the family and a sort of bodyguard to Audrey, the princess, who’s also her age. How does it go? It’s a sweet lesbian love story, luckily for Asher. Not a specific OC, but all ten generations of Guardians (Lonest’s main term for gods/goddesses) aside from the Original generation became a Guardian at 13-19. One day they’re a human, next day they’re a *god.* FYI, there’s 30 Guardians per generation. So that’s 270 teens who were tuned into gods, and the 30 from the Original Generation were literally *made* to be these Guardians, aside from one (the main villain, who made the other 29) On top of that, there’s a character whose magic kept her alive for a million years (from the end of the Original generation up until the tenth) and she wasn’t even a Guardian. She grew up believing that she was given up for adoption only to find out that the mentor she had when she was adopted by one of the maids was her real mother (who is the main villain of the story I mentioned last paragraph, who is called Rue.) When does she find this out? Right before she gets killed by the woman supposed to be her mother. So in summary, I’d say saying an OC was trafficked isn’t a problem. Also, sorry for any spelling or grammar mistakes. English *is* my first language, I’m just tired asf lmao

[@moonshine6304]

Choosing the music is THE BEST part of OC making, its the most important thing for me

[@EllpaFox47]

i found a Penelope Scott song i'd never heard before and was so happy because it was perfect for my OC

[@spitfirebird]

I swear, finding music that fits a specific OC you have uncannily well is always just the BEST feeling!

[@diederdas27]

This reminded me to make my kids some playlists

[@leeann7108]

So true I love making playlists for my characters

[@JohnPatrick8242]

That’s something I like about transitioning to original works. All of my characters are human beings whose personalities are vibrant and distinct.

[@CrazyGreenFluff]

the freedom to write whatever you want without worry of random fans being like "that's not canon!" or "you mischaracterized my fav!" lol

[@saphirestorm7952]

Not all my characters are humans, my works when not full fanfictions are pseudo-original works as they're in the universe but my canon characters never really appear and it's only my ocs, and as someone with many Twisted Wonderland and Dialovers ocs we got some merpeople and beastmen and demons and-

[@JohnPatrick8242]

@@CrazyGreenFluff or even worse, you use a character that everyone irrationally hates.

[@CrazyGreenFluff]

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[@StarryNite_Art]

I think about my OCs in the same frazzled way a high school Drama teacher lectures their class the week before the big show. “No no no, you need to be annoyed with [Redacted], stop rushing the enemies to lovers arc! Let’s start from the top! *Collective sighs from my OCs*

[@twotruckslyrics]

“nonono you cant all be friends immediately 🤦”

[@Butterflyhorrorgeek.]

As a theater kid, same.

[@mavistheapplepie6331]

Once a friend replayed a game and spent half of it wondering where my OC was before realizing that no, my blorbo is not canon

[@brycj14128]

That whole section on having headcanons about OCs and not making them canon for the audience to interpret is GREAT! It allows for so much audience engagement! Not everything needs to be shoehorned into a story, leaving some bits out and letting the audience come up with their own predictions or theories is so fun. Sometimes, ambiguity works really well, and can be explained later on down the line if necessary

[@Northstarria]

I one time created an entire pantheon of gods because I didn't want my OCs to be an existing religion! It was really difficult to get all the designs and personalities right but I'm actually really happy with how they turned out

[@krispykiwi7286]

I feel you man, I once created an entire version of Hell cuz I didn't want my Imp OC to fit into any pre-existing version of Hell

[@emissary8071]

Same omg!

[@GlitchNpc2]

I feel ya. I needed an actual afterlife for the story, yet I don't really like heaven/hell, so I created an entirely different sorting system and stuff-

[@arelyFM]

Omg I actually did this! It didn't feel like my story could fit into any existing mythology so I created one lol

[@squid-123]

I did this but only as a way to explain my OCs backstory. i didn’t think it’d be so fun to create gods

[@llllllllemon]

the only problem of not drawing or writing your ocs is constant being worried you'll forget them ;-;

[@bluelfsuma]

I call the headcanons "alternate drafts". A lot of them became dream sequences.

[@nicolasripoll7974]

I love imagining them interract with canon people :)

[@nightmarionne2401]

Same :)

[@Kaitou1412Fangirl]

Me too! I often wonder if my characters would like others they share character DNA with or if they'd hate each other. Also, your OC's from alternate universes meeting. I have a fire wizard and a gunner pyromaniac who would have so much (illegal) fun if they met. XD

[@yami_yomiel]

MEEEEEE

[@saphirestorm7952]

I don't do this other than certain circumstances, like how my Twisted Wonderland ocs are their own thing but the Lion King 2 ones are very distantly related to the royal family and the cut off was actually supposed to have their family line be royalty but typical royal nonsense happened instead, so the character based on Zira wants to get the family line back on track by killing everyone he has to until he's king which includes Leona and his brother and nephew. I also have Dialovers ocs who I got from a dream and it was literally just a prequel game where Karlheinz hired them to try to manipulate his kids into being mowe easy to work with the plan but they quickly gave up as they hated these people and they always try to avoid interacting with them so only canon characters they interact with now are their boss and the occasional "what-if" with Yui

[@WeaponizedToyCar]

I love making up shows that my OCs are in that I have no plans of ever creating and then imagining the fandom controversies and shipping wars and stuff. I imagine what it would be like if Ao3 users got a hold of my characters

[@rosykindbunny1313]

"If my character was real, she would be the fandom favorite that overshadows the main characters and has people simping over her and creating even more tragic AUs for her." -An actual thought I had

[@saphirestorm7952]

Meanwhile I wanna make my games and shows but am just too lazy and bad at coding. Like, I know people will ship Kittymadia and Feathermadia as people love shipping "character A finds character B super annoying and will avoid them whenever possible but Character B finds character A to be their best friend" but I really hate that ship and much more prefer Kittymadia and New Feathermadia (separate characters, long story short: FNaF fangame, all animatronics are possessed by late teens and adults, the 2 Feathermadias are different animatronics possessed by different people) as they actually get along and get eachother and are best friends

[@joypink5599]

Bro literally 😭 Like, I have to think of what people might think of my characters and their relationships, and sometimes I get hung up on that, but then I just tell myself that you literally can’t control what other people will think and do with your story, so just make how YOU want.

[@CluelessBubbleEater]

We need to normalise becoming absolutely obsessed with your own characters

[@ItzMuffinzz]

I have these OCs that are in a very episodic story till the very end and because of that I’ve made stupid things canon. For context it’s about a world run by villains from canceled/scrapped tv shows, comics, movies, etc. so there’s a bunch of characters from different genres and art styles. In the story the moon was canonically stolen by a man named Frank Fiend and is on display, the moon in the sky is a ginat robotic pent house for godly villains that can’t live on Villand (yes that’s the name of the planet) with everyone else. This isn’t plot relevant and I made it canon at like 9:00 at night.

[@xana_berries296]

I have an oc that's similar to that idea, except he's based on the Simon says toy

[@CrazyGreenFluff]

that's the beauty of OCs, no one can tell you not to write that! :D

[@joypink5599]

That actually sounds so fun.

[@dragonturtle2703]

You poor fools, thinking you won’t have several non-cannon versions of your own characters

[@ravioli7887]

so true..

[@joypink5599]

So real. The amount of fanfics I have in my head for my own stories is insane. No, these two vampires from the late 1600s aren’t going to end up in America in New York or Chicago having a Christmas date, but what if they did?

[@ShadowGunR]

Best part about making OC's is all the music videos that play in your head when you listen to your favorite songs Currently making them vibe to Stray Kids and Sonic the Hedgehog

[@robertlupa8273]

*Every. Single. Time.* 😥 One time I ended up coming up with a Kirby VR isekai _solely_ because I happened to listen to a Sword Art Online opening while I was obsessed with Kirby Star Allies. I can still see it clearly when I close my eyes...

[@dragonz-r-kewl]

2:48 this is why i highly recommend describing your OCs and especially their personalities to your friends! I was talking about my one character, and got an enthusastic interpretation that absolutely opened my eyes to how cool they could be. They went from a serviceable character to a standout one from that alone.

[@sick_icarus]

The process of creating and developing OCs is so precious and personal to me, it’s my dream to find people who are just as passionate about their OCs as I am. I have a trouble expressing how I feel and who I am, so people knowing about my OCs is how I feel heard and known.

[@euosvarietychannel6986]

Currently writing a visual novel, and I must say, it's very fun to let an idea go wild filling plot holes. There is a whole meta villain in there now because of that

[@oliviamcneil3101]

My favorite thing about having an OC, your character represents whoever you want however you want.

[@saphirestorm7952]

This is the best part of Twisted Wonderland ocs, I can have characters based on the characters from my favorite Disney movies and shows and it still fits the universe

[@StaryIris]

Having a bunch of silly little guys living in your head is awesome. Whenever I have to wait for something, or on the bus I can just summon them as if I'm king calling his jesters. Also, I can traumatize them as much as I want to, and there is no one to question my morality. It's my story, and I tell it however I want to Also i can put as many gay characters as I want to

[@CrazyGreenFluff]

12 y/o me when i realized i could just make a world where everyone is gay and straight people are the minority 🤣 it's still mostly canon, but that's because it's one specific species i made up and they are the primary race of that specific world.

[@lucye339]

@@CrazyGreenFluff fr im writing a story and pretty much all my ocs are queer in some way

[@pineapplestitch1783]

Can relate to the first part especially. Ain’t nothing like hanging out doing basically anything and remembering that you have say, 6 or 7 OC’s just chilling in your headspace. They’re like little commentators on the things you do, and it’s kinda adorable. But really, it genuinely feels like you plucked them out of a different world and placed them in your head, and it’s a very cool feeling

[@valdelta8096]

"I am not in control of my OCs" and that is true. One of my ocs is a robot in the shape of a doll who comforts kids with incurable zombie-like deseases while also having to be the one to put them out of their misery. THAT robot is a clone of another character who's entire design is 'cyberpunk girl who is lithium'.

[@kenyastarflight]

As someone who was heavily involved in fandom during the era of the Mary Sue -- when fan writers were absolutely paranoid about creating Mary Sue characters and people would literally be attacked for having any character with a whiff of Mary Sue to them -- it's still very hard for me to share my original characters. I hope I can shake this someday...

[@robertlupa8273]

I'm 20 and I'm still paranoid about making my OC a Mary Sue. Like I wouldn't be surprised if in my attempts to make them "not good enough", I ended up creating a horrific fusion of _"loser with no agency that no reader cares about"_ and _"living Deus Ex Machina who swoops in at the worst of times to save the day after being absent for most of the story despite being mentioned in the title"._ 😭

[@azrael5839]

See, here's what you do - if you're worried about your main OCs being seen as ridiculously perfect, 'mary sue-ish', etc, you surround *them* by a whole world of characters that are over the top powerful :3 Nobody's a mary sue when everybody else is~

[@robertlupa8273]

@@azrael5839 Perhaps Syndrome had the right idea after all. :)

[@ssun9074]

​@@azrael5839This is a surprising amount of modern day shonen manga and honestly it's fire so no complaints 😂

[@angelsartandgaming]

My favorite things about making OCs is when my friends and I just start gushing about them. Then we end up with accidental friendships between them. But I also like designing robot characters

[@rosykindbunny1313]

That last one is so true. I had an OC and after a week of accepting her canon, I thought, "What if there's a universe where she's a robot?" So now there's a universe where she's a robot.

[@angelsartandgaming]

@rosykindbunny1313 I had something similar only my friend was like "what if our OCs in this universe are married" And I was like "YASS LET'S DO IT!"

[@saphirestorm7952]

My friend and I's ocs are in different universe but we do like thinking of how they'd interact, like how my Twisted Wonderland oc based on Morgana from The Little Mermaid II and his oc of the devil coincidentally looked almost exact so we constantly joke about that and how they'd both have a breakdown over that, that same devil oc we made a base-collab thing with my Dialovers oc who's similar to him, we figured out my (okay yeah all of these are TWST unless specified) oc Watt (based on Megavolt) would get along with his crazy doctor oc and his inventor oc, etc

[@Magnicentrabbit]

Best part of an oc is that you can make them kiss the characters of a franchise you like

[@saphirestorm7952]

Okay the concept of any of this is very cursed with my ocs and the fact that people might try to ship my ocs with canon characters concerns me because it just does not work

[@azrael5839]

I agree completely with this! As an adult - matching OC(s) up with characters I obsessed over when I was younger is incredibly freeing and healing for my inner child. Same goes for pairing them together XD

[@not-so-obvious_autism777]

1:08 This is true, I made my favorite childhood show characters into OCs because the fandom and the show itself are both so obscure that NOBODY CARES

[@lhumyaki]

hdjffj SAME I have this tv show that im obsessed with, the fandom for it is dead, and there's no new material being released. I am the only one making stuff for it. These characters are mine now. This character really has an ex who is a fellow immortal and they had a messy break up but it happened way before canon and that's why it's never mentioned. This character really almost killed his friend from not knowing how his power truly works. This character really melted part of a guy's face in self defense by accident. Yes I know this character said he lost his dad when he was a child and not a young adult, but this show has a bunch of retcons, so I'm making my own too for something more satisfying! All of this canon now, sorry. No one is gonna argue with me.

[@_AstaLily]

ALL of my OCs have canon birthdates, but I didn’t want this to remain unknown to readers, so I’ve been dropping little hints when a character is almost at their birthday lol 😅 My fave is a May baby My least fave was born in June Edit: And if y’all have random lore about your OCs like their birthdates please do share

[@Cypher-9]

Of my five SWToR OC's only the workaholic was born on a Primeday (Monday), and his two brothers are 95% sure thats why he has workaholic tendencies. He disagrees.

[@raindeer9787]

I have two ocs I made on the same day. One of them has that day as their birth, the other has their birthday in the time of year that suits their personality better.

[@CrazyGreenFluff]

stickfreeks, the creator of fairy foxes, has her character kai's birthday on october 10th and every year she makes celebratory art of him for the occasion :D

[@arandomteto]

i have around seven OCs in the same universe, which is basically an alternate version of the mid-2010s, and i accidentally made one of them born on a sunday! it hilariously fits him since he's a nervous perfectionist and the pure dread of it being the day before monday just encapsulates his character perfectly

[@Sunset_official123]

I set my ocs's birthdays on the date that I created them :D

[@Quercusofoaks]

My characters have 100% decided things on their own. I have two OCs whose arcs are them slowly learning to trust each other and becoming tentative allies and then friends. I kept coming up with scenes of them interacting and traveling together, and one day I looked at them and realized they weren’t just friends anymore. They went and fell in love on me. I had never added romance to a story before and had no intention to, but now they’re stupidly in love and honestly I love them for it. They work so well together too but I swear I did not intend this

[@robertlupa8273]

"There are no accidents" - 🐢 They were destined to be together, even before you knew it.

[@gigi-f27]

most of my ocs have evolved from incredibly insane interpretations of canon characters that i give unique names and designs to. VERY fun to take embarrassing brainrot and turn it into the mind equivalent of a little stop motion clay guy

[@gigi-f27]

some examples i don't want to put in the main comment - i have an entire world of ocs created by the sudden urge to rewrite miraculous ladybug as if it was one of my projects. it's solely based on things i vaguely remember about the show from watching a couple episodes like 5 years ago. - my wishgranting baddie chirasha has shifted gradually towards the "trashy, snarky, apathetic immortal" trope i so dearly love (michael the good place, galacta knight, genie aladdin) - guy i'm currently insane about (roma, ruler of a trade kingdom that believes it's his right to overthrow most space governments. travels a lot in a spaceboat (distinct from spaceship because it looks like a boat)) is 100% a magolor ripoff - his comically elaborate gps, LAN/LAMPLIGHT (her name is different depending on whether she's residing in her supercomputer or a more humanoid form roma built to help out with engineering) is also 100% a susie haltmann/fanon!lor starcutter ripoff - MANY. many of my ocs have a masquerade element to them because magical girl anime were integral to my childhood.

[@Kaitou1412Fangirl]

4:21 I *love* that about making characters. I love being able to notice how they would act or speak and can fix when that doesn't line up. It makes them feel real.

[@kqlolll2618]

im very scared to show my ocs because what if someone hates me little guy so much and puts him into a blender even though he is a innocent. JEREMY IS A INNOCENT, HES JUST TRYING TO SELL INSTRUMENTS BRO DONT KILL HIM,,

[@CrazyGreenFluff]

*puts jeremy in a blender* /j i used to get upset when people would hurt or kill my OCs in roleplay, so i made a rule where either they would be safe at all times, or i would refuse to rp. idk if that's what ur talking about, but i was able to get over feeling upset by it when i realized my OCs are MINE to control and even if someone says "your oc is dead now" that cannot be canon because they don't own the character :0 i hope that helps! ^^

[@saphirestorm7952]

It depends for me, some ocs I get because yeah while I love my ocs you're free to put the racist one into a blender, and some ocs I don't get but like if you decide Chervil is annoying and don't like his "uwu I'm shy I'd never hurt a fly unless someone hurts my plants inwhich I will personally make them wish they could die as even Hell would be better than what I'm going to do to them" personality then yeah sure, but if anyone tries to hurt my poor piranha boy who just wants to hang out with his brother then I will ne very angry

[@EnderEmber]

i'm obsessing over two of my oc's and I hate it because I want to consume so much fan art and fics for them but I cant cause they arent out in the world yet

[@littlefox_100]

REAL!

[@saphirestorm7952]

I wanna make things but it takes forever, I hate my currently obsessing over my Darkwing Duck Twisted Wonderland ocs because man can some (Polynya mostly, being based on Liquidator means cool water hair means absolutely awful to have to draw) be so hard to draw and it takes so long when I just wanna make a silly meme. I only have one meme made in a week of Chervil (Bushroot only) and have been tryna make another Chervil one but man is his flower crown so annoying to color in

[@OminousBro]

SAME EXACTLY

[@joypink5599]

Bro, legit 😭 Like, can’t I just see some trash fanfic of my OCs that I didn’t write myself?? Also painful when you want to read your own story but you have to write it first…

[@Fintybaibai420]

i love creating ocs but because of the effort you have to put into a character stumps me into only circling the same 5 over and over, but i think it helps develop them into characters anyone can see themselves in. as an artist/writer/musician i realised i had the power to make comics and stories and songs about my characters it's really fun to watch how they act in any given scene! they truly come to life on their own once you put them in a scenario because then you're thinking about what expressions they might default to or how they would react to other characters dialogue. i plan to turn them into a cartoon though so i have this weird pressure not to show anyone their stories until i set them in stone and it's KILLING ME to not share it all.

[@Ensign_games]

No joke, a lot of these sounds like multiplicity in one form or another. As I had been handling some form of that for my entire life.

[@XxDarkxMoth17xX]

My OCs are always like, one extra secondary character and they're never in the same level as the protagonist, both in power and role, cause I respect them too much most of the time.

[@Juliethefurball]

I have a google doc of random canon facts about my OCs Here it is Comet wasn’t originally named comet, and when he learned about his old name he hated it so much he kept the name comet Draco is aroace and fully accepts that his bloodline ends with him Ozomalia taught Violet how to speak chipmunk, so now they use it to make secret messages To each other The runes on Nyla’s asteroid are literally just fancily written numbers Evan gets leg spurs every spring for a week, and is allowed to wear pajama pants to work during that time because it’s impossible to put on normal pants without them ripping Hyleo’s horns are real, and he had a sea serpent way back in his lineage Notme was diagnosed with level 1 autism, but later learned that he was different because he was half imposter, not autistic The witch that cursed Violet into a rabbit was also Ozomalia’s mother, who abandoned her in the woods Orae is short for “original Auran” In Nyla and the 7 chakras, black means good and white means evil. This is because Nyla was designed before Alyn. Dark is a fallen angel, hence the torn angel wings and his motivation to help Notme Entity is gay, why? Because why not. Sweet is an absolute neat freak, she will apologize for the mess if the room is completely clean. (Note that Notme also likes things clean, but not as extreme as Sweet) In The Creator, Notme remembers every major AU that includes him. Some are extremely painful memories (*cough* Punchline *cough*), so Author decided to make fewer sad stories about him, instead making those stories focus on other characters. In other words, Notme needs a hug. Draco is 2 million years old, because wolfridites can’t die by age. Not including the animals, Ozomalia is the shortest of all the characters. Ventrilo looks a lot taller than he is, since he can float. (he’s 5’0) Ventrilo often wears platform boots when standing because he's insecure about his height. Nyla is lactose intolerant, which is sad because she loves cheese and chocolate milk. Author can purr, which can be very, um… weird… if she sits on someone. (It's happened) Many of my characters have a patron god, Halo to Macha, Natalia to Ozomalia, etc. Ventrilo and Dark will have cartoonish fights over being Notme’s patron god. Anima, my PJO/HoO OC, is heavily based on the second coming from animation vs animator. The pen she wields is made of a celestial bronze/imperial gold alloy, with stygian iron as the ink. One of Anima’s funniest moments, during the battle for Manhattan, Percy shouts “we need reinforcements!” And Anima proceeded to draw an entire army in 15 minutes. She didn't stop because she was tired, no, she stopped because the street ran out of room. Tacmot’s name is Tomcat backwards. Notme gives best scritches, and all the animal characters will go to him for pets. Unfortunately he only has two hands. Violet hates sand. It gets in her fur and is super uncomfortable. All god characters (minus Dark) have a four pointed star as pupils. Ventrilo has power over the zodiac signs, and uses the scales from Libra as a shield. He also uses the bow from Sagittarius, and can shapeshift into any of the zodiac animals. Entity has a stuffed giraffe named jaffy :) Amy can understand Japanese, she just can’t speak it. Florence loves spaghetti and other Italian foods, but especially spaghetti. Violet and Florence will fist fight over the last waffle / nacho. Sileno disguises using a cloak hat and scarf to hide his kitsune identity, but it's not foolproof; a high enough perception check lets others notice his three tails poking out from under the cloak. Ozomalia has a song about her called “Nature’s Champion”, canonically written by Sileno after hearing about the legendary forest paladin from some talking animals. (in truth I wrote it, but yeah.) Hyleo is claustrophobic

[@Indigo_Shard]

I lost the plot but I don't want to lose this so I'm commenting

[@someonehere9778]

Where do you post these stories?

[@Juliethefurball]

@@someonehere9778 Wattpad

[@thegalacticnebula7536]

I need to know more

[@Juliethefurball]

@thegalacticnebula7536 THE LINK IS IN MY BIO

[@krispykiwi7286]

I once had an OC who dies in the story, but I liked them too much so I had them survive in another timeline due to the power of love and lesbians

[@DrivewayToad]

Does anyone else make their OCs based off of their personality traits? One is the nice person who always does what they can to make everyone feel happy... And the other is the always-grouchy downer who doesn't beat around the bush about anything... And they interact with each other on a daily basis.

[@CrazyGreenFluff]

i think most people add even just a smidge of their own personality into each character they make :0 i'm pretty sure i accidentally made all my characters autistic becus i just write them reacting to situations based on how i would if i were them >w>;

[@robertlupa8273]

Being a girfriendless loser is good for once because I don't have to write romance for my self-insert so people can't call me out on it. 😅

[@OminousBro]

I do! And then I wonder why I get too many antagonists as ocs- I’m pretty dynamic, just a billion different antagonists

[@maroonluckyblockgames7062]

@robertlupa8273may i ask, what is a “Girf Riend”? is that like a fish that eats rocks or something?

[@OminousBro]

@ yes, so is a girlfriend

[@tricolorhichew]

I imagine that if my OC Willow warped into one of my stories without magic and met my other OC Sherry, she would ask what powers her necklace holds. When Sherry responds "uh, none??" Willow is like "oh sorry. In my world you just kind of assume that every piece of gaudy jewelry is plot relevant"

[@joypink5599]

THAT’S SO FUNNY I love squishing my OCs from different stories into one scene and imagining how they would interact. It really helps with insight into their personalities, as well.

[@Dawnhuntr]

Im currently insane about a specific oc that was a magical kid that has killed, revived by his best friend and now is a freak. I love you, Cléritos Salen Merina... You lives with me since i role-played as you in xbox 360 Minecraft in 2016. 😔

[@どらイムンド]

When you make the oc so good the rest of the worpd building, characters and plot just start happening by its own

[@Ensign_games]

It is all fun and games till they find out that they are in your brain and become more like alters then OCs

[@IrisGacha]

i have felt my characters take over when i'm writing. to the point where they derail the plot just because they do what they would actually do

[@Gender_Oobleck]

0:47 It’s called capsaicin by the way

[@ProfessionalBugLover]

i love you

[@Gender_Oobleck]

@ Random but ok? lol

[@scientistservant]

One of my favourite things about making ocs is also creating a world for them to run around and enrich themselves in 💖

[@CrazyGreenFluff]

i, too, love worldbuilding

[@saphirestorm7952]

I love this with my franchise ocs too. Like, no, my Little Mermaid II Twisted Wonderland ocs will not be in the same dangerous place as the canon Little Mermaid ones, they're gonna grow up in a different part of the ocean that's much safer as they have enough problems as-is.

[@tirzahroseroot]

I like making OCs and creating their relationships with the canon characters: I have an MLP OC who’s best friends with pegesi princesses from G5, a Skrull OC in Marvel who was exiled for turning on her people, and a Fire Emblem OC who is the retainer turned lover of female Alear

[@iroNeko]

How dare youtube stop me from watching this 56 seconds

[@CakeofRage]

"what's your OCs favorite [thing]?" idfk man i just met them yesterday

[@SmoothRiverRocksRock]

Pro Tip! If you have an oc for long enough, you eventually have TWO ocs!

[@thenewtriosguy]

mitosis

[@dolly_doe]

I'm in a fandom for my own ocs but I make theories about my own ocs but won't make them canon or not. Its a cycle

[@CrazyGreenFluff]

real

[@hazelthenut2864]

One of my favorite things to do is to create a visual and then just start making things up based on that like: I accidentally made their nails janky so they bite them or my pencil slipped there but maybe they just have a scar on their cheek?

[@kitkatboard]

It's all fun and games until you realize... I think my OC has become part of my personnality.

[@alistercollgn9613]

I'm currently preping to write a book, and part of that process shaping my characters, their looks, their story and background, their vibes... I'm far from being done, but the more I get to know them the more I love them ! Today I scketched a few of them for the first time, and couldn't help but smile during the all thing ! They make me so happy already, and I really hope one day they'll make other people happy too !

[@robertlupa8273]

😊

[@kayduncan7579]

no this is straight up me and I thought I was the only one. My story, that I named Humanoids, straight is is just a TV show that lives rent free in my brain. I'm just a viewer not a writer sometimes. like one character was supposed to be a villain and now is not just a brainwashed scientist who's really a victim and is now the main character's grandfather. The villain of that arc is now the sunshine character because he drives himself mad over the fact he's doing awful things and his brother might not see him the same way anymore because he's going against the organization his brother works for. It also kills me to know this story might never be heard or make it anywhere, so I tell my friends. I do wish to make it into a comic or something in the future to share with others but right now it's just a show in my brain.

[@GlitchNpc2]

0:16 goddamn this is why I somewhat hate the fact that I am making my oc's story into a show- can't snap things into canon anymore

[@levihiroshi137]

I love seeing tik toks and saying "ahh yes....this is my oc right here"

[@squid-123]

My current set of OCs started off as objects with stereotypes as personalities that were just meant to compete in a BFDI-esque show and be gone. Now they have so much plot lines, trauma, and lore (even OCs that are meant to be side characters) that just continues to grow every day. It gives me nice stuff to doodle in class tho.

[@g0blinshark]

SAME :3

[@TG03]

My favourite part about my OC's is that they're actively aware that they're fictional and the changes that happen with them and yet they just go about their day.

[@junacreates]

1:42 bro i do this ALL THE TIME. tbh i see my characters as their own ppl with autonomy. if i come up with an idea i kinda like but it feels too “out of character” for them, i just won’t make it canon

[@CrazyGreenFluff]

i test the ideas out with them, kinda like if my characters were actors playing roles in different movies and i'm directing them. if i play out the scenario and just can't work with it, i will either alter the information slightly or just come up with a new idea :0

[@dragonshinerthewyvern1597]

i always feel like that's the most responsible approach to creating a consistent character. comparing your new idea with existing traits to check if it fits with the rest of the character

[@Kelly-pr8lz]

I have so many stories in my head and somehow the main character is named the same. Jane

[@davidgucciano7050]

There were these two characters that started off as a duo but then ended up being a part of a full team and throughout every iteration or idea they always stayed together this was to the point I was shipping them because I realized that their themes and character development would’ve been perfect to transform into a romance and then I also realized “oh, wait. I made these guys. They’re my ocs” and now they’re dating

[@sick_icarus]

I’ve never related to a video more in all my life.

[@TheRealSkinzun]

My friend, joking about one of my ocs having a Mike blanket and pillow set: fuck… why didn’t I think of that?

[@ProfessionalBugLover]

i love making headcannons and aus for my own ocs bc there's 2 areas this girl can be in. but i don't wanna pick one bc they're both good so why not be both

[@rosykindbunny1313]

I have an OC with an evil father, and in my canon she finds out after the events of one of the games that has the universe my OC is in. However, I love imagining her finding out in different ways and at different times. I know nobody asked, but here's a list of different ways she finds out about her father's evil secret: -She finds out when she's a young kid and her father panics and kills her, leading to her haunting him and causing him to go insane -She finds out a few months before she is supposed to in my canon, and he imprisons and unintentionally tortures her so she won't tell anyone -Same as the last one, but the torture is intentional Honestly there's most definitely more but I can't think of them off the top of my head. And besides, these three are my favorite alternate interpretations.

[@Kat_dragon]

Exactly. I just made an entire villain au for my character. It’s canon in another universe. I CAN MAKE BILLIONS OF OCS AND NO ONE CAN STOP ME

[@saphirestorm7952]

This is me making overblot concept, none them other than maybe a few in the future and my Darkwing Duck book concept are canon but man do I like the concept of them in an au, like how Rovdyr's overblot is him having to leave Nederlag alone for a week to do something and when he returns Nederlag is dead due to neglecting his health and needs and Rovdyr immediately blamming himself because he's always the one to force him into survival and now he's dead because he wasn't there and he goes into a complete hysteria and tries to figure out how to use magic to bring him back to life and all those negative emotions with the high magic usage causes an overblot.

[@descrates3545]

I love making fantasy world ocs so I can also make monster designs along with subspecies of humans, and how they're all different from a normal human besides looks Werewolves (for my worlds they're people with wolf ears and tail) form packs and have an "alpha" which is the leader of the friend group Giants have their own pocket dimension so they won't accidentally crush their neighbors, but they can also shrink down to a human height. They're also more solitary, some even move out at a much younger age than a human. I have a character who's both a werewolf and a giantess, so she doesn't know how to feel about it. Nekos (yes cat girls/boys) evolved to act like cats Dwarves evolved slower than humans, when we started using metal dwarves were still using stones until learning about the new advancements Ghosts and zombies can be born as the undead, and zombies have to worry about their bodies being weaker, to the point where one spurt pepper spray could take their perfect vision to 50/20 vision Sirens are more monstrous mermaids and if they sing near a large body of water they caise thunderstorms Lamias and mermaids have tails instead of legs, so their heights are taken at where their tail meets the ground for standing height, and then head to full tail for length Kemonomimi shed hair, angel wings molt, lamias shed the scales on their tail, god help you if you or a friend is a hybrid dealing with both

[@Alex-rg5yb]

I'm thinking about my characters that only exist in my mind and I suddenly have a revelation about their lore or personality or whatever, so I write it down, and then I realize that that would completely contradict what I wrote down a long time ago, so I make a little note saying to change what I wrote before. This is how I changed my OCs mental health diagnosis three times

[@CrazyGreenFluff]

usually, instead of removing the contradictory information, i just come up with explanations to tie everything together. i always feel bad when i have to remove info because it would literally break the story, like the time when my friend pointed out how my OCs couldn't have that 2-year age gap because they were born like an hour apart XD

[@axosotll]

What about the secret type: the OC that is literally you. A character you created to be the face of your online persona. Somebody you created only to doodle funny things and hide your face from the internet. You recently discovered that all your online friends are taller than you and boom! Your character is suddenly shorter. Somebody broke your favorite cup? Your character is going batshit about it on discord. Because you don't need to be your OC to be funny and cool. You only need yourself. Your annoying, cringe self.

[@CrazyGreenFluff]

that's a persona! or fursona, if ur a furry XD

[@axosotll]

@CrazyGreenFluff yea u got me

[@Staubfeetala2]

I love how ocs are completly different persons from the moment you createt them, and the present day. I have a oc who started of as a typical school bully, now she is a caniball eldrich horror being.

[@personalglow]

Making OCs is like being on a dig site, slowly discovering more and more. Only you leave your findings on the site and something things are still there, sometimes things get buried and you rediscover them all over again, and sometimes that piece of lore ends up lost to time once again.

[@whaleman5844]

i first created one of my oc's a few years ago, and she was rotating around in my head for so long that eventually she got a whole backstory and lore and even changed time period. it felt like i was one of the characters in canon that met her and eventually found all this stuff out. i love her sm

[@angie4662]

This is reminding me of the time I found out that a character I made when I was 12 might be gay. I had been confused as to why his relationships with girls never worked out, but my subconscious knew the reason all along😅

[@crazyboutferrets]

2:30 THIS THIS THIS THIS THISSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

[@fr0gg1t]

my ocs started as mha ocs and grew into whatever they are now and i think that's beautiful... like one was completely original and one was aoyama's kid and if i ever make actual stuff with them and they aren't just floating in my head forever people will never know that and i think that's really funny

[@ChrisJohnstonVA]

I was writing a fic in which my OC gets somewhere way too fast for human possibility So screw it, she can now teleport

[@Ruby2P]

I treat my characters like my children, but I’m more abusive to them than their actual parents. The more I love them, the more trauma I give them, and then I feel guilty. And then I go insane trying to figure out the relationships, their stories, and everything. Point is, I love my story so much to the point that I feel so guilty for hurting my babies.

[@CrazyGreenFluff]

i don't know anything about your OCs, but i bet they would at least thank u for utilizing them, even in tragic ways, rather than simply never using them at all :0 ^^ but my main oc would totally murder me XD

[@Ruby2P]

@ Dude, half of them want to kill themselves, they would hate me for making them exist- What’s even funnier is that 3 of them have schizophrenia, and it’s a joke that they all see me, which basically makes them self aware that they are in a show, and one of them tries to kill himself. They all hate me. And my favorite OC is a serial killer that I gave the worst backstory, so I know I would be the exception to the no killing children rule lol.

[@robertlupa8273]

@@Ruby2P *_"they would hate me for making them exist"_* Funny, this reminds me of those outlines for Pokemon nuzlocke comics I came up with back in the day. A common element was that a hooded figure would always appear, being the main cause for the main character's adventure in some way _(in one he gave them the cursed video game that sucked them in, in another he used Hoopa to swipe away their "dead [by nuzlocke rules]" Pokemon, in yet another they were indirectly responsible for delivering the letter describing how to find Jirachi)._ Said figure was basically my author self-insert. Anyway, one day I came up with the idea that there'd be a mini-comic/min-fic where all 3 main characters are transported to the same "void between worlds" where they have a conversation with said author. The girl who I wrote to suffer from horrific migranes whenever her Pokemon fainted _(I needed an in-universe justofication for the "fainted=dead" rule, ok?)_ would call "me" out for making her life so miserable, since as the writer, I was basically the creator god. The other two protagonists would join in on the badmouthing... and honestly, I wouldn't even write the story to prove them wrong. The best thing is that the migrane girl is the one character "I" _wouldn't_ inconvenience through the author avatar - in fact, I was being helpful. And yet, she has every right to be furious at me. For the record, I never wrote anything besides notes on these stories nor have I gotten past the 3rd gym on the one nuzlocke I started purely because I was too bored to play. 😅

[@AIIuminium]

5:34 as som3one with no fantasy and 1 charact3r, r3latabl3.

[@venessafugi6768]

0:33 I kinda feel this one because I constantly worry about the lore and storyline of this group of oc’s because I kinda wanna share them but if I don’t, then it doesn’t really matter because I can freely change everything to what I want it to be. I also have an attitude with my characters in world that aren’t 100% realistic (magic, people with animal features, etc.), where if I start to worry about something being realistic, I just tell myself that it’s my world and my characters and I can do whatever I want. (Do you guys ever have one common headcannon that you project/give to so many characters, both in media and your own oc’s)

[@reeceemms1643]

Literally love making OCs. I also love how I make them interact with actual characters.

[@nightmarionne2401]

This is pretty much the only thing I do with my OCs because it always starts with any kind of pre-existing story (mostly Minecraft SMPs, but can be anything else) and then after a while I ask myself the same question: "What if this story was different?". My brain does everything else automatically, like creating OCs to make them interact with the canon characters :)

[@reeceemms1643]

@nightmarionne2401 Yeah its just really fun creating characters and giving them a story. Heck one of my stories which is the final part of a series the main OC in that is literally the main character, who is the daughter of a ship between two canon characters. Who I am currently on the lead up to fighting the Big bad who is another OC. In a Star Wars What if fic. Most of the OCs I have in stories usually do end up being a main character in that story or at least a main player in it. Then there is the cases where I change the whole lore of an established character to the point where they are essentially an OC. Such as Rey Skywalker in the sequel to another Star Wars fic where its not the same Rey from canon because she has a completely different backstory where she is the biological daughter of Luke Skywalker. And that even goes with her name as in that fic her name is Rey Padme Skywalker and she has two older siblings. Then there is my Skyrim one where I put two of my player characters in there. My first one and my second one (who actually does have a backstory and lore). That is only scratching the surface though. I have other OCs who I have not mentioned.

[@nightmarionne2401]

@@reeceemms1643 Yeah, for example, my current Minecraft SMP headcanon is a Life Series one involving Martyn's Eyes and Ears lore, which the rest of the members barely know about and don't even play to cuz the series is entirely unscripted, which means that I'm technically making a headcanon of a headcanon... XD The world of OCs, headcanons, fanfics and storytelling in general is crazy and I love it! :)

[@reeceemms1643]

@nightmarionne2401 Yeah. I think there is just something about creating these original characters, fleshing them out, and having them interact with canon characters is just really nice. Of course not all fics need them but sometimes it is nice to have them and you can then develop them and make them seem like part of that world. Then you got my labyrinth fic which is meant to be a sequel and a majority of the cast are original character, Two of which are a couple and have what I think is the most beautiful scene in that entire Fic.

[@nightmarionne2401]

@@reeceemms1643 Same, I really like the "making them seem like part of the world" part, like in my Murder Drones Season 2 fanfic (I know it'll most probably never happen, but that's what fanfics are for) :)

[@Mizu_Melon]

"Everything you say about your OC is right." Actually the one that's always right is my friend, who got so obsessed with one of my OCs that they're responsible for a lot of the development the character's gone through.

[@SunnyDeeArts]

The part about being so insane about your own character it becomes an infection is in fact true. I had a character become a favorite among my friends through me being just absolutely unhinged for him.

[@SunnyDeeArts]

I’m actually drawing one of my OCs as I listen to to this.

[@blu6295]

i have drawn my first oc so often by now, sometimes my friend asks me "how is Hannah?(her name)" so yeah, i did that too

[@mintytrash]

7:15 this is true!! My buddy and I tell each other EVERYTHING about our characters. I'm spinning his characters around in my head as much as he is mine. It's fun :)

[@starlydonati2008]

7:53 this is so encouraging. I have been conditioned to be very very concerned about the possibility of being “too annoying” even in my closest relationships, though they assure me that it’s fine and they like me regardless. Having hyperfixations where most of what I talk about is the same thing over and over again it can feel like even if can tolerate it, that’s all they can do and I think that it’s the silence or mere nods that make feel like I’m talking to a wall who’d rather move brick by brick away from me if it could.

[@starlydonati2008]

So anyway, for anyone interested, I’m very unwell about the Fairly OddParents and especially Trixie Tang. And it’s amazing that I’ve seen whispers of transmasc trixie headcanons/interpretations but it’s only an odd art piece or mention without much elaboration. I adore other interpretations of the character too, but this one really just scratches my brain in just the right way. It’s the idea that, Trixie, for the most part is a very satisfied and playful rich girl, but! She’s got this interest in comics, see? And those are meant for boys, at least according to the nonsense gender roles shared both by the fictional and real world, so Trixie hatches a perfect plan. To enjoy her, “boyish” hobby, she obviously has to dress as a boy. So she has to get boy clothes and, to not get caught, she has to go by a boy name. So she comes up with some. And oops! That feels a little funny, a little too good, but I’m sure it’s nothing. So now he’s going by this new name and persona that’s goofy and looser, if a bit more paranoid and it feels good. It’s totally just a disguise. But he’s started to notice his interest in romance media shifting from mostly mainstream straight stuff to being primarily BL and that is a bit of a crisis, but he finds a guy who is also trans and gets him. Idk Timmy and Trixie (Trevor) being t4t and bi4bi boyfriends is just so important to me.

[@davonalder]

How dare KZbin hide this from me for five minutes

[@EtrianDinoval]

I've had a bit of a character writing renaissance lately after a particularly bad artist's block. I can definitely relate to being surprised by my characters. I have a character that I created when I was young as a 'secretly depressed knight-in-shining-armor love interest' for my main character. At one point, there's a major plot beat where he more-or-less abandons her for 2+ years while he knight-in-shining-armor's someone else off-page. It's been over ten years IRL and I realized that he's done something similar multiple times, among other things. ...I also realized his little off-page escapades are almost exclusively with men. MFW I realized my own character is closeted bi.

[@zeethezebra]

90% of the time, my OCs canon comes from whenever I come up with storylines for them. Like for example, I can write a whole ass mini fic about one of them and pull the idea "Oh they like to draw" from that

[@goddessdeedeebubblesofimag7789]

First it was Cracker's Wither Storm mod. Next, it was roleplay for 2-ish years. Before I knew it, I'm picturing an extremely distant future where *he's* grown to planet size.

[@goddessdeedeebubblesofimag7789]

Not to mention the 60+ hollow knight ocs that came from the period of time I was (and still kind of am) obsessed with _that_

[@robertlupa8273]

@@goddessdeedeebubblesofimag7789 Holy crap that's a lot pf OCs :O

[@laurenhenry5671]

Making playlists of them!

[@saturnas]

I don’t have OCs, but I have to tell you all about a certain author who wrote a six parts, 800k words saga about her OC (and her 4 canon lovers). The author wrote something longer than LOTR in six months, for free, with the canon characters amazingly portrayed (not ooc) fueled only by love. As a procrastinator, I admire this person SO MUCH. You can only drop your magnum opus and vanish. Edit: typos

[@ballpitwater]

Accidentally creating my favorite oc pairing, only to have them be doomed yuri in every universe 🥹🥹

[@callyral]

as an artist and non-writer, my OCs almost never have lore lol. i just give them a personality and a design, and maybe some outfits, simply because that's all i need to draw them my OC/fursona cally has no mouth, so i gave him artist magic so he can just draw himself a mouth with a sticky note or a mask made of paper. where did i get this idea? Well someone drew cally covering his lack of mouth with a sticky note that had a :3 mouth drawn on it, and i liked the idea!

[@callyral]

i have tried Worldbuilding before and honestly im not a big fan of it, so i started just making characters before making the world they live in. now i have a rebel cyberpunk dog character who has no one to rebel against yet! but he has cool tech powers, and i dont know his name.

[@ILoveFeedingSnailsSalt]

IS THIS SHUGGR?!?!?! also funny vid!

[@Fresh_Strawberries]

So I'm currently writing a story where my main character, Captain Malia, and her crew decide to steal an amulet that's cursed. They successfully steal it but Malia is now cursed to die in 5 years and the only way to break it is to give her heart to someone and expect nothing back. But Malia is aro/ace and doesn't want a relationship so she decides to make the most of these last 5 years with her crew. My favorite character in Raiden, he's the navigator and repairs stuff that needs it. He came from a kingdom where he was the crown princess but ran away because he had an abusive mom and a doormat of a dad, but he's always been conflicted since because he had to leave behind his younger sister and brother. Now he has a sibling like relationship with Malia and is currently struggling cause he already lost a sister and now he's losing another. He also really likes lemon cake. I could continue on and on with him and my other characters for this book. If you would like to read a bit of this world, I have a few one-shots posted on AO3 titled These Cursed Waters One-shots.

[@robertlupa8273]

"He also really likes lemon cake." 😂 Good idea for the general outline of the plot _(the "aro/ace cursed to die if they don't enter a relationship" part)._ Almost feels like a real book synopsis.

[@gurllovesdragons]

You see, he calls me up to vent quite often. I learn about him via these vents. For example, once he spent 45 minutes on a rampage about how much he hates the American airport system because he was traveling with an arab friend and all 4 of his friends had to get all over searched. He's got a heart of gold but he is extremely moody.

[@lluviapacifica9601]

I love making OCs, but at the same time I'm worried. One of them can't say: "I love you". He isn't a bad guy (or edgy, over my dead body) and he loves his mom, friends, and is obsesive in love with his boyfriend; he show it, but don't say it. And when I try to make him say those words, I can't, is imposible.