The Concept of OCs

[@moonsshadow-gp6kk]

“for the plot? yeah, for the plot!” he’s so me 😭🙏🏽

[@carressafrost1469]

I don't do it for the plot, I do it for fun

[@moonsshadow-gp6kk]

@@carressafrost1469 STOP YOURE SO REAL FOR THAT BAHAHAHHA

[@loopsssssssssss]

Literally I have two ocs and they are lesbian lovers and one finally realizes she has a crush on the other one and accepts her sexuality for what it is and the other one dies right after….. it’s just for the plot yall frfrrrrrr

[@moonsshadow-gp6kk]

@@loopsssssssssssSTOP OMG NO

[@Kay_Cabin_7]

​@@carressafrost1469😭😭😭

[@TheObsidianWolfy]

"you may call it trauma? I call it backstory." THIS IS SO REAL

[@D-6106]

Every D&D players motto

[@Gojo_-1761]

Same

[@-Callan..]

FR (except I use that phrase on myself cuz I need to cope somehow 🤫🧏)

[@Simply_Myself_Online]

Fr 😅

[@JollyRancher-gc7qw]

I call it character development

[@Pekka200]

I literally don't even give them actual stories, just a chain of pure unresolved trauma and a traumatic concept and call it a day

[@m.lk.town.]

THIS WAS SO FUNNY TO ME THAT I LEGITIMATELY, ACTUALLY FORGOT HOW TO LAUGH. LIKE MY THROAT SPASMED AND I MADE A ELDRITCH HORROR GOD NOISE.

[@abdulsamad6352]

​@@m.lk.town. Bro......your Lil guy tried to strangle you

[@Y0urLoc4lDisap0intm3nt]

​@@abdulsamad6352 lmao, if mine tried that I would Take a limb 😊

[@orionskittles]

i have two ocs that i do that with. they know no happiness

[@Just_your_other_weirdo]

My poor poor poor oc named Vere that I literally did this too

[@Trudatwalker10]

I'm a Dungeon Master for DND, so even though I have no artistic abilities, I get to see my players draw my OCs and bring them to life how they imagine them.

[@YourLocalPunkAnarchist]

Nice. My DM told us to make DnD characters based off ourselves once, mine ended up the most traumatized due to my natural bad luck and rolling nat ones (it has been so insanely bad that the other players have literally made lore of me saying “cursed and absolutely hated and forsaken by every single god out there, how are they not dead yet?”). First for the other characters and the campaign, the campaign took place in the world of pokemon. I play music and do stuff and despite being autistic I tend to make friends and become highly valued in conversation very easily, so think of a socially awkward bard for my character whose partner pokemon is essentially a rat. I also happen to be an anarchist and honestly I’m pretty broke so that of course affects my character; money? None. Living situation? Squatter. The other players, one had a full ghost type team, knew just about everything on pokemon like he did d&d, and otherwise was just very knowledgeable, nevermind the fact that all his pokemon are technically dead. The other player who usually plays as a bard? Well he doesn’t actually play music in real life or anything that a bard might do (storytelling and poetry) so more of a fighter on his end, just not very good at it, and he’s kinda hotheaded and goofy so his partner pokemon and team were fire types, charmander as the partner pokemon. Then we had the final party member, the occasional voice of reason and self proclaimed leader. Mainly he was trusted to do jobs by the NPCs. Now what happened to our characters? Let’s start with the ghost type team one; No trauma somehow. Nothing really happened to him, he just lost the very tip of his finger to get rid of a small mostly inconsequential for him infection. The self proclaimed leader? He just lost his favorite son/pokemon and got betrayed by the guy who gave us a job, but it didn’t affect him as much as his son’s death, which wasn’t directly caused by the betrayal exactly. The fire type one? Well, he died saving me so that I could save everyone else and his pokemon/children. Otherwise? Well, he mostly did a good job. My character though? I got betrayed, blackmailed and forced into participating in a mission I disagreed with and working for a government I wanted to overthrow and destroy, everyone failed to heed my warnings, I ended up infusing my blood with a z-crystal (which in the campaign was connected to and a part of Necrozma) and got an inter-dimensional deity stuck in my head hellbent on destroying all of the world and humanity who could take over my body and mind and was slowly infecting and killing me (only reason I didn’t get mind controlled was strong resillience to it, hooray for anarchy, resistance, revolt, rebellion, and disobedience I guess or we would’ve all probably died considering that my pokemon was mainly the one who kept us all alive), I died twice and was brought back to life, whenever my character told people they could hear a voice in their head that claims to be a god they were played off as just having been high and subsequently ignored (despite the whole straigtedge punk thing), and my pokemon got so traumatised it evolved passed what it was even supposed to be capable of, beat up a deity’s champion and turned it into a gigantic crater in the ground, essentially got a mace/chainsaw tail, and revived the entire world by fainting itself and giving it’s life force energy to reviving us, and that was the blue rat. Oh yeah, and the only thing my character enjoyed, playing guitar? Well they lost their entire arm, and it was probably for nothing too, because whilst the others just had a tiny sliver of it enter the blood stream from already separated crystals, my blood had infused with the entire big one that went through the whole planet and turned all the magic rainbow-white coloured crystals into a crimson blood red. What does that do? I have no clue, but it can’t be good. Also I’m wondering, do you torture the OCs too? XD

[@fafnirthelagaardianhaxorus9862]

​​@@YourLocalPunkAnarchist This was really entertaining and nicely structured ha. ....also, you may not have been referring to me, but yes OCs get traumatized. Considering the one technically OC (I'm one of the small percentage blessed with being able to write them, yay!) that's most similar to myself has PTSD from an accident that caused them to lose an arm and a leg (truly), has pretty much every one of their crushes die after becoming her friend, and has dragon powers that could, if they get too stressed, destroy any person in her vicinity including herself. So yes, for the plot lol Ps. Also, emotional venting. A bit of that too.

[@YourLocalPunkAnarchist]

@@fafnirthelagaardianhaxorus9862 I wasn’t referring to you specifically but I don’t mind so don’t worry. Glad it was entertaining (albeit I am surprised to hear that it was structured as I am typically terrible with that). I unfortunately also have PTSD so hi fellow traumatised person evidently (not talking about what it was from because thats too personal). Also that sounds pretty interesting for the character, I’ve been considering of taking stuff from my own history to try and make a character (for some reason despite the fact that I had the least likely chance of surviving being born or even being born healthy, I was the only one out of all my possible half-siblings to actually be born and live. So, plenty of dead siblings, what could I do with that? Any haunting maybe? Did they grow up alongside my character as imaginary friends? Does my character realise they’re ghosts or not? Some stuff to explore there without it getting too personal for my current dnd group (honestly not close enough with these newer people). On the other hand, both me and my dad have terrible luck with friends in general, if we had the money to afford going to a funeral we’d be going to 2-3 every year, only 1 if we were especially lucky. I kinda miss the dnd group that I had done the pokemon campaign with, I felt a lot closer to them in all honestly and I feel like it was easier to relax around them because they didn’t take stuff too seriously and were just generally like “we’re here to support each other and have fun” and the new group not only has inside jokes half the group is not allowed to be in on but some of them kind of feel a bit pretentious with an “I’m better than all of you” type of attitude. I am considering just leaving and instead attempting to start a dnd campaign with every kind and decent person I have ever met in a parking lot, which would include a dropout who plays guitar and does weed, a disabled trans man who cannot come out to his family as doing so would essentially mean losing any and all support because unfortunately religious people aren’t all that accepting and he doesn’t have the money to sustain himself, some teenager who kept on getting made fun of by his dad for still liking toys (we bonded over that, same thing happened to me when I was his age), and a little kid in elementary school who for some reason keeps on getting repeatedly mistreated by his teachers and literally is never allowed any time for himself. Now that I think about it, that would be a bit of an eclectic group to try and get to work together, we have art kid who likes anime and stuff and whose a bit shy but he’s very nice and polite and is very talkative if you actually engage with him and his interests, a weed addict who dropped out of high school before being legally allowed to and due to being just under 21 cannot find places that will allow him to play shows but has a very chill laidback go-with-the-flow attitude, a trans man on the verge of homelessness who is very talkative and outgoing and who likes talking to people and making friends and is in his sixties, and some teenager who keeps on getting repeatedly shamed by his dad and older people for just happening to still enjoy toys and who laughs very often. I’m not sure how this would even go as I’ve never DMed before but also, these people have never met each other and I don’t think any of them know what dnd is except for the little kid. On top of that, the teenager doesn’t have a drivers license and the kid obviously can’t drive, the dropout has a broken down car, and the nearly homeless guy can’t afford a car. How would I even manage to get them all in one place? As for what happened to the old dnd group, some people got older and got jobs they were too busy with, and the DM got fired from his job. I really did enjoy especially playing in that game though with the other bard player because our characters got to have a kind of funny rivalry dynamic, he had the stereotypical type of bard character usually, always trying to charm his way into stuff and date people, problem? He was horrendous at it. My character? Aroace bard on the repulsed side, uses charm to cause chaos and convince people to do things they wouldn’t otherwise do, good at that but terrible and practically everything else, other than that, impulsive with words and says everything thats on their mind which often gives people bad ideas unintentionally. It was kind of funny to watch how it balanced each other out, on the other hand, constantly attempt to murder or sabotage each other, but someone else tries to do it to one of us and then team up against them XD Just a friendly slightly murderous violent rivalry, nothing to worry about, until the airship where I was nearly dropped into the middle of a desert from thousands of meters up in the air and killed from impact. I got lucky that another PC happened to walk in when that nearly happened, just “oh yeah, sounds lovely! We can definitely go do that tomorrow mate, still got about two days journey ahead of u- WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON IN HERE?!” Those were fun times. On the other hand the new group I’m with keeps on telling me I had a terrible DM last time, I do not think I did (at no point was I ever uncomfortable or forced to do anything I didn’t want to), I think it’s more of just differing playing styles, and they don’t really like chaos in a campaign, which I enjoyed personally in older campaigns because it made things a bit more funny and unpredictable, and why not make a nat one be some type of magnitudal mess up instead of a “oh, you messed up, moving on”, it makes nat ones more interesting, same goes for nat twenties. Yes, I want an interesting and cohesive story, but I also want it to be fun, it doesn’t need to be serious 24/7, and even then despite their whole “this is a serious campaign, act serious” rule, they don’t even follow that rule, they just complain whenever someone else does something a little silly or makes a joke. It might also be autism speaking as I take it literally, maybe they mean something else, but from how they’ve acted that doesn’t seem to be the case and it seems to be a more “this rule applies to all of you but not to me and these other few people”. I also noticed that they bully this one player with dyslexia who struggles with math and keep on overhearing stuff about how they want him to leave, and it’s really petty and honestly sad to watch. It would be much better if they were to talk to him instead or instead of complaining, maybe help him, like “oh, it at this area in your sheet” or “with the plus/minus or damage/healing it’s equal to this now”. I don’t like this new dnd group in all honesty, so yeah, probably leaving it. Other than that, those people from the parking lot are all generally accepting and kindhearted regardless of who you are or how you’re feeling or acting in a given moment, so I don’t think there would be much of any conflict. I’d probably just have to make sure everyone understands eachother’s boundaries including mine, which wouldn’t be too difficult either and could probably be done with in session zero. On the other hand, you’d think that more of the general population would have basic decency or at least as much as an addict dropout (no hate to him but considering that those people claim they’re so much better, he’s still a great guy though and I wish him luck with his guitar and music), but I guess not. Other than that the fafnir part of your username brings back memories from elementary school XD I used to hang out with all the younger kids and play beyblade, my dog had eaten my launcher and I couldn’t afford a new one so I’d been launching by hand, happened to win all the beyblade tournaments they held, and my beyblade was ‘drain fafnir’ but at the time I’d just called it dragonair. A bunch of kids were watching the tv show at the time, I was unaware of it’s existence, and began telling me I was similar to some character in it named ‘Free’ (they even started calling me that) who also launched their beyblade by hand, had the same beyblade I did, and was also the champion and a whole bunch of other details I can’t remember anymore, but it’s kinda fun to remember that.

[@fafnirthelagaardianhaxorus9862]

@@YourLocalPunkAnarchist Okidoki, glad to know. But yeah, funnily enough I've actually had a pretty trauma-free childhood haha, so the only thing we really have in common based on what I mentioned is that I had a big crush on a video game character once and had her as a way to vent. With that said, it is fun - and albeit, a tad embarrassing - adding personal history/character traits based on my own too. (The party I'm working on pretty much all have different aspects of my own personality in them..but admittedly, the possibly grey-aro ace guy I've got is probably one of my favourites ha) Anyway, it does sound like your new DND group isn't ideal...at least from what you said, and the newer "candidates" do sound like they'd make an interesting group, so either way, good luck with your campaigns. Admittedly, if you like a bit of chaos then I imagine getting a few people who haven't played DND before might produce some unintentionally *interesting* events. I've never played Beyblade myself I don't think (closest thing to it was when I played/watched Monsuno - still don't know where my Librax is, unless I lost it) but it's cool to see someone make a connection to my username! Also, calling your Beyblade Dragonair is both awesome and adorable.

[@fafnirthelagaardianhaxorus9862]

@@YourLocalPunkAnarchist I'm sorry to read about what you went through though. Hope you're managing alright - from a friendly neighborhood (online) stranger ha.

[@Just-a-normal-gir]

Danny just casually explaining my whole brain 😭

[@Hi_ImAFlamingo-qc8hf]

Fr!

[@TheOmnishamblesEffect.mp4]

Me every second of every day

[@YtWuff]

Y e s

[@viviachipley4018]

Literally especially the fact it'll never exist because I'm creatively deprived 😭

[@DonnalisaPollard]

Fr tho 😭🙏

[@ItsliterallyjustJay]

Being a writer and an artist at the same time just doubles this curse

[@elizabethnino3977]

Agreed

[@K1kk1._]

Agreed

[@evilsadness3867]

Triples I'd argue but yea

[@The_Seungberrys]

Omg yesssss

[@Objectshowfanishere]

Don't forget when you have someone with you who comes up with ideas

[@Elani_xiix]

“Because the plot is getting good… AM I RIGHT GUYS?” Yes you’re right Danny 😭💀🙏

[@cosasrandom880]

He's so right

[@Elani_xiix]

@@cosasrandom880 yes he is

[@lilyross1367]

FR😂😂😂💀💀💀

[@mjserrano32]

criminally right

[@Elani_xiix]

@@mjserrano32 fr😭💀

[@marigolden]

Honestly, this is one of my favorite parts about being an artist. Not just drawing my OCs, but drawing other people’s OCs (for commissions or for funsies), and seeing the joy it brings those people to have their very own little guy brought to life in some way. It’s the best!

[@acapella3543]

As a writer.. it’s so true! THE PLOT IS THICKENING! Let the trauma cook for two more chapters and take it all away and death!

[@Lostflightwarriorcats]

I think I have an addiction to writing new OCs with different traumatic backstories at this point.

[@CowMalicious9479]

​@@LostflightwarriorcatsI think we all do XD

[@Ruling.Potato]

yesssssssssssss this is so true

[@caligo7918]

I'm a game master of various TTRPGs and like to sprinkle untraumatized characters into my stories, just to see my traumatized players be weirded out. It's especially great in Horror games! Have a completely normal character miss all the important supernatural stuff and let them be an anchor of Normal in a world slowly falling apart for the other characters.

[@ImJustaSprout]

It's not a good story if there isn't at least one death that could be have been easily avoided and exists as a random plot hole

[@TheAphroditeCabin]

“why do i do this to my little guy” is a phrase that sounds just a little different

[@BirCroc]

Real 💀

[@lulumeylE]

*vine boom*

[@kikiem6285]

Danny smexy voice "your my little creature your my project and im gonna traumatize you too hell and back because the plot is getting good am i right guys-" 😂

[@nataliatolarian7787]

Like let me be his oc

[@kikiem6285]

@@nataliatolarian7787 REAL 😂

[@preppy_echo]

shivers literal shivers idk why tho-

[@cyceryx]

god i wish that were me

[@ZeCroutonLord]

hot

[@alexia3552]

Today I learned that OC’s can escape our minds and become real. What a mental image.

[@datchia]

I relate to this too much - one of the main reasons I want to become a screenwriter is so the little guys in my head can be free into the world 🔥

[@Thesquidcat]

Your such a sigma datchia

[@BoredomNoises]

DATCHIA??? I mean hi good to see you outside shorts war

[@the-best-weirdo]

Here before this comment gets tons of likes

[@Nexus-Point]

fr

[@YumiDraws]

👍

[@r0ck3t_r3d]

"It's not trauma. it's character development!" one of my favorite lines 😂

[@Franzifii]

I'll have to remember that one for all the catastrophic situations in my life.

[@darienb1127]

The thought that my characters will be locked inside my head and forgotten to all is honestly a terrifying thought. I want to get them out there, but I'm struggling against my ADHD.

[@ElizabethAugat-rc8xj]

Why not tell about them here. I’d be willing to read about them if you wrote a KZbin comment about them. Then at least one other person would know

[@aniboo8668]

you might like picrew. you don't have to download it and theres a bajillion "make a little guy" picrews for you to use!!!

[@pinkdruid2347]

So insanely real. I have AuDHD and my life goal since I was literally like 6 has been to become a professional author/illustrator. I’m 25 now and I’m like 2 chapters into ACTUALLY writing my first book. And I’m really proud of myself, but I’ll admit it’s taken me such a long time to ACTUALLY just sit down and fully commit to getting it done, start to finish. But it can feel so daunting sometimes. Because writing isn’t just something I casually do for fun. It feels like something I HAVE to do. It‘s my passion. It’s what I know I’m meant to do…But I stand in my own way so much!!! I get so anxious that other people won’t like my stories. I get anxious that I’m not a good enough writer. I often feel burned out and lack motivation. I’m a perfectionist so I’ll spend months editing/re-writing the same chapter instead of progressing to new chapters. I’ll lie in bed thinking about scenes for HOURS but then as soon as I actually open my computer to write I get out like 5 sentences and then my brain stops working. I feel like everyone has to have struggles y’know? Like if you TRULY want something there always has to be something that gets in the way, and your challenge is to find a way to still succeed. It’s just incredibly frustrating when the thing in your way is your own brain. The same thing creating the stories you want to write is also the thing that prevents you from writing them. 🫠 But y’know…we keep fighting. We keep going. Because it’s what we love. It’s what we were meant to do. And one day the world will know about our stories. And they’ll remember them. Maybe even long after we’re gone?

[@downside_]

So fucking real man

[@mashedpotatoesart123]

@@pinkdruid2347 That's so motivating, thank you for sharing your story! I am 19 and also have a bunch of stories I want to tell. I have so many ocs and one of my fears is that I won't get the time to tell all my stories with good quality. A lot of my favourite oc stories are pretty big, two of my oldest ones are adventure stories and both take place in a non-modern setting (One is sci-fi dystopian, another is fantasy). I do have smaller stories that I think would be a good way for me to earn practice and start writing but there's always that fear of not getting the time to write all the stories I want, especially when I hear about how some people may spend years on just one project. But hearing people like you who are older than me deciding to start writing their stories makes me feel better and it's a nice reminder that we have time, we just need to start and then keep going.

[@borkchamp]

As an artist i love the fact that i can let people visualise my ocs

[@Jouno_Simp]

"traumatize you to to hell and back.... because the plot is getting good"😂

[@We_are_all_queens_forever]

😂😂😂

[@Wild-Nightmare]

Facts. I have multiple little dudes with their own little (huge) buckets of trauma, that continue to cook in the trauma oven. A number of them make it to paper, but I can never truly express them through it.

[@Alexacz2]

"Never truly express them" ah, how deeply I feel this! 😔

[@CINNAMON_AUDIOS]

real.

[@StrawFrogOfficial]

This is relatable beyond what I expected. No matter how I draw mine, it never feels like it’s truly them, something always feels… like it’s missing.

[@Wild-Nightmare]

@@StrawFrogOfficial exactly this

[@Respectable_Username]

I used to think I was messed up for constantly traumatising the little guys in my head. Was such a relief to find communities online where everyone admits they do the same 😅

[@WolfTrot]

Okay, but I made mine be horribly traumatized by getting abused by his boss, be mute for 40 years, fall in love with an unreachable love interest, become an alcoholic for a while, and suffer depression. How's your day?

[@cake_0078]

​@@WolfTrot thanks for the ideas

[@AshDeGirl]

its called ✨character development✨

[@WolfTrot]

@@cake_0078 I'm happy to help!

[@Löki_SB129]

Damn same. My OC has OCD, is goth and has the biggest Newfoundland dog in existence named Loki. They protect each other in battle and have almost matching armor. And Loki's goth human carries a long vibranium spear and an adamantium shield. They're also all OP as ssshhhhiiiittt. Lmao

[@Kingbimmy]

“Why do I do this to my little guy!?!?!” I ask myself this every day about the little guys in my own head… but you’re right, the plot is getting SO good! 👀

[@midnightwritrix]

This is why I love being an artist. Not only so I can draw my own OCs, but so I can draw those of others who think they aren't good enough at art to draw their own

[@starling1773]

[@eitakou]

Thats an amazing work to do

[@mlpsecrets7931]

Awww ❤

[@Emxo678]

Can u draw mine? 🫶

[@candacenunya344]

I have some ideas too if you want to hear them 😊

[@alexandercarter9598]

My Autism focus is world mechanics, so my OC is me. Specifically, my OC is me if I were in this universe, pitted against every moral quandary and physical threat the MC is. Could I survive, could I make the right call, what choices would I make. The worst part is I have one for every universe I learn about. Comics, books, movies, even if I look up a wiki page suddenly I know all the deep lore and how to maximize my chances of survival. It's why I don't read books very often anymore. It's exhausting putting that kind of mental resources into every piece of fiction you read.

[@rat_]

Exactly the same here! I try to only read books I already know about which makes jt easier. Not sure how it helps but it does for me

[@Lyu_Angel]

I DO THIS TOOO LORD

[@romanterry7215]

MY MAN. The only reason i make characters is to populate the intricate political structures of sci-fi and fantasy i cook up in my brain

[@Naoise012]

Big mood, also a big part of how I realized I was fluid, lol.

[@CatgirlRj]

Same

[@stick3448]

That's why a good friend group is amazing for OCs. They'll yell about their traumatized little guys with you!

[@feellikeafemqueen]

literally me and my trio fr, we yell about our ocs so much

[@brandonboswell3625]

Exactly!! I have four OCS in a friend group each going through their own trauma

[@childeofepickness]

real omg it’s so fun to nerd about your little silly little guys with each other

[@EnderTheBender64]

Hehe I hit my OC with a bus

[@BootyCrusader]

I wish I had this 🥲 I have a whole ass ongoing comic and nobody to talk about it with

[@BOKSUSWIFE]

"Omg why'd you give them trauma" That's what we, my friend, call LOREEEEEEEE

[@wasinirafuse8769]

And the fun thing about your OCs being different perspectives of yourself/your past means you basically have a bunch of little yous that can vibe with you and I have a bunch of little friends in my mind! Their trauma is my trauma. Going through this alone? Nah, I MADE people to go through this with me. We've been through it all together, and I love them.

[@salomeeserol2129]

Basically, when heavy stuffs happen to me I just think "You know who would go through this kind of thing?" And attribute it to the corresponding lil guy in my head.

[@SketchiStudios115]

isn't that just schizophrenia

[@salomeeserol2129]

@@SketchiStudios115 Absolutely not, go find a definition, it's not even close

[@SketchiStudios115]

@@salomeeserol2129 no I don't mean you I mean the other guy

[@salomeeserol2129]

@@SketchiStudios115 Even so, it is nothing like schizophrenia

[@Ikykwktlk]

Nah cause I write whole ESSAYS on my OCs' lores and explain every tiniest detail of them. Like, one has a shirt with the skeleton of ribs on it, and that's to show he has no hair between all the flesh and bones. He also has the pendant of a Forget Me Not flower attached to his pants, and that's because he has a connection to water (Forget Me Nots grow near water) and because I think they mean something to do with love and he's lost the very ability to love. Each scar on his body also represents the sins of his past life (he was reborn, it's a lot to explain). The one across his lips is to show he's seen people suffering but decided to stay quiet about it. The one across his throat, which looks like a choker, is to show that in his last life, he robbed himself of air (he drowner himself). I love making OCs and putting so much detail into them

[@justradiclesandco]

That is a fascinating character!

[@Ikykwktlk]

@@justradiclesandco Thank youu

[@n3on_spxrks]

I do the essay thing too❤ - Epic character btw!

[@Weirdos22146]

If I could I would def write a whole essay on my ocs lore and it keeps on going

[@stayinghydratedyum]

I dig that shit though

[@thesilence1829]

the “lil oven” is accurate cuz he’s burning in the hell i have assigned him so i can feel just slightly better about my own life 😀

[@-ICITRONSI-]

this is exactly the plot of i have no mouth and i must scream actually you spot on guessed A.M's whole personallity

[@MinerumaShunn]

every artist ever:"dw,its for your character development 😌" edit:HOLLY MOLLY MACARONİ GUYS WTH 😦😦😦😦

[@dragonicarts12]

It's for the plot Dw You wouldn't understand

[@ChimeraLotietheBunny]

XD

[@heather-ub1sr]

Mine is called yuki she is a half cat everyone in my friends knows her I draw her

[@KitBaezvasquez]

GAH REAL

[@Vgamer311]

What is that edit referring to?

[@AntiSocialsAREarsonists]

Why is this relatable, like bro the only time i remember my OCs and their trauma is when i listen to music and make up random scenes in my head, i love it🤭

[@justvibin1447]

It's been a huge comfort knowing more people listen to music by imagining scenarios for their OCs

[@dhampir_days]

I recently started listening to Sleep Token and four (five? one is half baked) OCs spawned from the brain animatics that band's music inspired in me. send help.

[@LaneHarris-bv2ff]

Yeah! More Cool People!

[@Lemonade-g6y]

Omg i do that all the time

[@Zodiac_aquarius027]

I DO THAT 😭😭😭😭

[@THATBLUEBLAZER]

As an artist, drawing characters after they’ve just been sitting in their mind prison is SO relieving. Like, little buddy, your time to shine has come

[@Figaroma]

YESS.... SOMEONE WHO UNDERSTANDS THIS PAIN

[@lwaysDrawing]

FR

[@kennymanley8038]

This encouraged me to start writing a story for my OCs

[@foxywolf4232]

Finally someone who understands! This spoke to me and my little people on a spiritual level. Thank you. 🙏

[@FoxHasFlower]

My little person is one of the 1% I wanted it to have no trauma, *orphan* , be happy and have a personality like myself But my best friend made it be in a flower apocalypse, the only person it cared about die, she only finding the body months after they died, be a disappointment, (still an orphan) and changed most of the personality. And I can't do anything because she's (probably) writing about her on Wattpad.

[@pine-with-eyes]

As a proud little artist myself, I can tell you: visualising your special meow-meows suffering AND THEN drawing it, is a best feeling known to creative person (It's for your character development sweetie, dw about it

[@shinyraven8646]

Best feeling fr 😭

[@LilyJaneH]

This is what D&D and other RPGs are for. Getting the little guys out of my brain so that they’re also living in someone else’s head

[@cannedcan9059]

was actually jus about to comment that

[@Vgamer311]

The problem is that works fine if you just care about their personality but many people have ocs that live in worlds with mechanics fundamentally at odds with the mechanics of ttrpgs

[@HyperventilatingHylian]

As a creative writer, this is strangely motivational. My little guy shall not be forgotten!

[@anOddSoul]

It's sort of like we are so imaginative that we create our own stories and love creating

[@feliciaroseantonia]

When you think about it, technically literally every fictional character ever started off as originally just being someone's OC!

[@just-_-ka1tlyn]

As someone who is writing a book, all I can say is TRUE.

[@Meliih_126]

Same… I already deleted 7 OCs from the story 🥲

[@siphons5737]

Same, except my brain and my body are in an endless battle to know if I'm gonna write or not.

[@aceofspades8474]

I just love making my oc’s happy and giving them cute little fluff filled stories. Sure, they may have horrifically gruesome and traumatic backstories and the occasional moment of angst is visceral and agonizing but I’ll let them be happy most of the time. I love them, I care for them, but I also keep them on their toes.

[@ManyArmedMooseDei]

Mine have brutal backstories, have been used in D&D, and derive shaddenfreude as means of joy. One even canonically slew a tyrannical god. They’re a reflection of personal traumas, in some regards.

[@jindo5]

Stuff like this is why I adore games that let you make custom characters. Not even just games, Heroforge, a program for making custom miniatures for D&D and similar stuff, is also a really good for visualising my OCs.

[@Vin_makes_music]

...vix...poor him, he lived for 26 years with an abusive father, a dead mother, and a missing brother, and he's like this humanoid deer, and he's this little alchemy/chemistry man, and he's just amazing! Edit: 181 likes tysm!! Edit 2: thanks for 232 likes!

[@Mango_Lover_2411]

I love giving my OCs a version of my own traumas! 🥰

[@hajarmdn4883]

Yes. I have cptsd and my OCs basically take over my trauma and I just pretend that it’s not happening to me but to them. It’s a very unhealthy defense mechanism but it helped me survive even if sometimes I completely forget the traumatic event and get retraumatized because I didn’t do anything to take myself away from the dangerous situation. Dissociation for the win.

[@catdownthestreet]

It's the opposite with me: I give her someone else's trauma, not because it adds character but because I can understand the trauma of others to a kind of insane degree. Not sure how or why but the best guess I have that explains it is autism

[@I_Have_no_nam3]

I can’t be the only one how has an oc that’s just a lil goober, no trauma , no sad backstory, no scars, in a good financial situation and has a loving family? I draw him all the time in my sketchbook , my workbook and digitally . I also have a playlist dedicated to him , it’s a playlist filled with love , happy and goofy songs :D He’s just a lil guy

[@Happy_blu]

You are an anomaly but a good one, one we aspire to be. You're like the concept of billionaires, they exist I know they exist but noooooo, not me, not anyone. Good for you and your little guy ❤

[@Dragonia]

Not scientifically possible!

[@BluelStar]

Same!

[@aspengreen4319]

Same.. for the most part

[@snowy_days333]

I have these characters as well but they usually don't have a name / aren't as important in the plot as the traumatized characters...

[@Gr33n.midori]

A tip for anyone who also can’t draw, just like our dear Danny - Use dress-up apps/websites!! Gacha, Picrew, Evereskies, or anything else. Whatever your hearts desire is, really! You can also write a well thought out description of their appearance and ask so to generate it, though I don’t really recommend that (ᵕ-ᴗ-)

[@boblecat]

I use picrews constantly (i can draw my characters, sort of, but I'm dissatisfied with it usually and the act of picking picrew options is more fun)

[@elizabethc5114]

“Because the plot is getting good AM I RIGHT GUYS” had my rolling😂😂 Edit: omg thank you for 480 likes, that’s the most I’ve gotten on a comment lol

[@VictoriaTraducciones]

I read it as he said it LOL

[@CASEYSTEETH]

I love how even if people cant draw or dont draw use gacha for their ocs, it amazes me how creative they can be with it

[@laylay-nah]

I was about to mention this I'm so glad someone mentioned this 😄😄✨✨

[@ManyArmedMooseDei]

As a DID system persons… We have a number of D&D characters. We’ve written quite a lot of lore of them, and many of them have turned out to be alters, which is weird as hell, but it works. We have also sketched them out on paper, in full colour, so as to better visualise them in mental cinematic while listening to metal, and to better see them in D&D. Every single one of them has a traumatic yet heroic backstory, many are undead, and all have numerous scars. It’s quite the projection, physically and otherwise. Never underestimate the limits of neurodivergence, my friends. Gender and psyche are constructs, and we’re Bob the bloody builder.

[@LexaByteNV]

The TTRPG character to system member pipeline, we know it too well

[@ManyArmedMooseDei]

@@LexaByteNV Yes. It seems the mental catalyst had to go off of something, and so essentially made a D&D party of goths with brutal backstories. On the other hand, even just going about looking for something specific at the shops is a bit of an adventure. We even do a sort of Star Trek situation when driving, often times, only with a dark metal soundtrack and the roar of a diesel instead of warp drive engine.

[@Thesmoothestbrain]

:O Neurodivergent buddies :D I gots the ADHD :3

[@subliminaltripminedspaces]

As another did system that’s coolio

[@ManyArmedMooseDei]

@@subliminaltripminedspaces It’s more Dimmu Borghir, I reckon, when it comes to quantification via music. (An attempt at comedy has been made.)

[@Fumishi_21]

THATS SO REAL THO- I CANT draw but I can write. Written there stories and everything.. AND EVEN IF THERE VERY HORRIBLY TRAUMATIZED, THEY ARE JUST A SILLY LITTLE BUNDLE OF JOY TO ME. They will forever exist in my heart.:3 *I think I might be a bit crazy for thinking of them as friends- :))))*

[@KENNYMCCORMICK666]

"You may call it trauma. I call it backstory." Real, Danny, Real Edit: 1.9K IN 2 HOURS? WHAT

[@roses...]

Real

[@Life_On_Paws-Therian]

My oc is a heavily traumatized dragon hybrid because I can

[@Brownieboy2.0]

​@@Life_On_Paws-Therianyes

[@KENNYMCCORMICK666]

@@Life_On_Paws-Therian absolutely

[@foxfellsansthetrashydork611]

Same 😂

[@nightmarekitsune1473]

the reason why i like the little guy in my head so much is because he does funny dances and can casually distort his body to express different things

[@RenDoesCosplay285]

Why is this so accurate 😭 I have so many “little guys” who are just DIFFERENT PEOPLE who AREN’T ME and have delt with their trauma in a cooler way than I have

[@NWarrior777]

my guess is making oc struggling is helping with dealing with emotions or hard times. my most intense daydreamings happens then i feel bad and life is hard. or, even if its good, then i daydream about characters struggles i have relief. its like living throught stressfull emotions but in safe circumstances, like riding a rollecoster. also in my daydreamings there are always characters, usually lovers, who is comforting the struggling lil guy also all characters we see in media were someone's ocs one day, they just happen to appear in artists head.

[@Breathofthesugar]

He's right. I have one Oc getting a full written, as canon to the story as possible, story, and a very detailed drawing. I have four other Ocs, and they will probably never leave my mind, since I forgot their names even.

[@TheSharpenedPencil]

Make videos about your OCs!! I want to meet them and hear about their trauma! The Villain-Hero stuff you do is amazing. I'd be stoked to see you do more narrative videos

[@Andi_the_bookworm101]

YESSSSSS

[@viveleshistoires4874]

The other day I was feeling lonely and was reminded of my childhood imaginary friends which prompted me to wonder “hey, why do we stop having imaginary friends when we grow up? Those are therapeutic af!” and then I remembered OCs exist and serve the exact same function.

[@Mademypfpmyself]

Danny, my son, the amount of POWER I POSSES for my plethora of ocs... Is honestly scary

[@babybean1162]

I VOLUNTEER AS TRIBUTE TO DRAW ✋✋✋✋

[@ermwhatareyoudoinghere]

SAME

[@lulolie]

ALSO SAME

[@SashaDisAster]

​@@lulolie so what's y'alls prices and do y'all have pages to follow? I hope this tags all of you ^w^ I'm an artist too but i don't draw for others anymore due to shitty ecperiences. I do like to commission artists though, if your style's up my alley :)

[@JohnDrawsDragons]

"I am not a very creative person" NO DANNY. Shut up. You send shivers down my spine with your villain voice and monologue. I'm willing to bet all the money in my wallet that if you put pen to paper or finger to keyboard or whatever- then you can make a story for your little guy.

[@Akio_Suzuki]

"Why did I kill his family?" is one of the most accurate things I have heard.

[@achiblitz_]

I share my ocs so people can get invested in their story and cry for hours when I kill off the comedy relief

[@Nexus-Industries-1998]

Why is he so relatable? It’s a gift of god that he could be like this.

[@HunhowsShadowStalker]

My OCs gain life through the fact that I try to make them in every online game, and their ultimate appearance is generally an amalgamation of all those in-game avatars.

[@axolotl195]

I relate to this on such a spiritual level. My OC has suck a freaking traumatizing experience in my head. Luckily for her she will see the light of day cause she is the MC in my book. Everyone will one day get to experience her traumatic life!

[@piperthomas2053]

All the animations I have in my brain while listening to music and slowly giving my character more trauma over the course of the animation

[@audreydoyle5268]

When your OC stress eats to deal with all the trauma you've inflicted: _The plot thickens_

[@finches.on.a.wire..]

"Most OC's will never see the light of day" Me, a system, with multiple OC (mostly D&D) alters: HEH. AINT THAT A CONCEPT.

[@RenaissanceRockerBoy]

Real!

[@dontburstmybubble686]

How does that work actually? Do you and the alters discuss OCs together?

[@star.the.alterhuman]

honestly that's kinda real- I got DID and at least 1 OCtive (introject of an OC)😭 (plus a lot of my OCs represent my trauma in some form too which is fun- /sarc)

[@carrotandpeas]

So true- like yeah they won't cus like hell we're going outside in this weather XP

[@ManyArmedMooseDei]

I, also a system, having alters that are essentially D&D characters: “Our motives are beyond your comprehension.” And by “your” I’m addressing singlets. And by D&D Characters I mean one is a German deer-folk, (this manifests as walking on the balls of our feet) another is an English fellow who speaks in a matter of fact manner, yet another is Slavic and usually sombre in manner, and I think I might be over sharing. Anyhow, every one of these characters I’ve made has ended up having a traumatic yet heroic backstory, many of which are undead, which seems to reflect the toll of grief as a projection of how the one person we were in some ways deceased years ago, leading to us. I have an entire big black book of sketches of various things including D&D characters, which seem to have formed the basis of some of the alters. Or should I say, WE do. [insert socialism meme here] Psychology is fascinating, no?

[@AlphaShadowStar]

Why is this so true😭😭 I just have this little guy in my head that I constantly put through pain in suffering for just me to have the most random plot in my head that no one will ever see…

[@evdraws]

I have SO MANY OCs, but my favorites are always the most traumatized. I have plenty of OC's that are more or less just vibeing, but my top 3 favs is the guy who got brought back to life twice (it isn't a good thing) and is trying to atone for past sins, the kid who was cursed, and thought the curse would end with a character who's basically the devil being brought back so he ran away from home and isolated himself (the curse didn't even do that in the end), and the one who gets their arm and leg cannibalized by their ex. I very rarely have the heart to kill them in any way that isn't old age, and I'm a sucker for happy endings so they almost always get one, but damn, the road to get there...

[@Ranpoe14321]

Honestly as an artist the only reason I add traumatic backstories onto my OC’s is because I want to add my own backstories into the character that I’ve created. Also, trauma and PTSD, is one way to add character personalities. My current OC has parents who are unsupportive and parents who pressure their children. I added that because I want to see myself when I look at the characters I’ve created. I add more personalities, more to understand than just a happy backstory. If something is happy, sometimes the character gets too bland or just the same, over and over again. They need something to be scared of, something to treasure, and what they think. It’s one way to create an OC, through backstories, trauma, and others. AND THE PLOT 🩷❤️🧡💛💚🩵💙💜🖤🩶🤍

[@TempestFNG]

This is the most relatable thing I've ever heard, especially the part about being not artisticly talented enough to bring them to paper. I've imagined so many animatics for my characters that will never exist.

[@Happy_blu]

Same, sometimes I try to sketch them and go: I don't art. Oops, sorry buds.

[@ski_skammer]

you see, if you give the little character people trauma it takes away from your own trauma and given you a healthy way to deflect it onto something else 😊

[@hajarmdn4883]

It’s not that healthy. Specially if you’re dissociating while doing it.

[@ski_skammer]

@@hajarmdn4883 idk man it’s just a common coping mechanism

[@pineapplefrostyfruits9225]

If you want to see your OC come to life, might I recommend (if you can afford it - smaller creators are generally cheaper too) paying an artist to see them out of the mind? God knows we need more people giving us enough to pay rent-

[@cherylanderson1462]

Yeah I have a whole world in my head to help me cope with my anxiety disorder. I reframe (break things down) and then asign my rational thinking to my characters, so when I'm immersed in this alternate world, being around their good headspace influences my psyche, and i can hopfully rest.

[@B.BombCherries]

Give any artist even a ms paint scribble of your lil guy they will work with you to make that vision become reality. I remember when I wasn’t confident in my art skills but damn these artists worked hard to make my babies become tangible outside my mind. Damn it’s universal we all torture our lil guys for the plot. My ocs would tear me limb from limb if they could 😅

[@Zaembs]

As an artist, i couldn't agree more 😁 it's so fun to figure those out with you!

[@OnMyKneesForSukuna247]

Cristian dean is the PERFECT example of a traumatized oc

[@UnnieEchoLovesKpop]

Yass

[@crisptomato9495]

It’s cathartic. It’s the same reason little kids will hold like, pretend funerals for their stuffed animals if someone in their family dies. It helps you process and get through difficult experiences in your own life even if the story in your head isn’t a one to one recreation of whatever happened to you.

[@christinawright2876]

Your lowkey so relatable to all us artist's 😭

[@ThatlilrayofSunshine]

I mean, you can act them out, you're good at acting, you can make skits acting as him lol

[@mythicalmonsterman1651]

The amount of paper that I've used to write my OCs' lore is definitely up there in the hundreds (plus the dozens of sheets used to attempt to draw their most traumatic moments)

[@GBug-vg1uc]

“Why do you traumatize you’re of?” Me:IT BUILDS CHARACTER

[@DeletedCharacter]

Him saying that only 1% never see a physical form makes me feel like my oc's are special because I draw them sometimes. For people with stuff like ptsd, trauma, depression, and permanent disabilities from past incidents, they really seem to be living the good life. At least they have a physical appearance that doesn't just exist in the depths of my mind.

[@GhostPenelope13]

I feel so called out yet understood. I’m glad my characters have seen the light of day at least once.

[@RainPrism]

Ah my lovely OCs, which have been utterly blessed by being put on art, writing, and have seen other people

[@_._Sharkiee_._]

Im in love with your pfp!!! 🙏🙏

[@RainPrism]

@@_._Sharkiee_._ awwww thank you! Yours is adorable as well!!

[@auditaziz]

this video gave me the last push to start my light novel🌚

[@fionacuttriss4633]

This is so true for me! I create so many characters and projects. I just never get to them or I lose motivation, but I've realised I never actually forget my characters. 😂

[@lunarlynx5972]

I was procrastinating making character sheets and your comment about ocs never seeing the light of day has terrified me into getting started lol

[@KK.Ace.1]

FINALLY- but I mean it makes it interesting and I bet you/ you’d give them trauma worse than an anime character how was I first by a second💀

[@LILA09865]

This is so true I’ve had my character since I was like 7 or 8 but now she has more trauma and isn’t a mermaid lmao

[@wizard-lizard]

I mean in some ways you can think of it like only a few OCS make it out into the real world, but on the other hand you could think of it like every character you know and love in all of human history was at one point in OC in someone's head! I think I like that perspective a little more, since it views us all as creators in our own way. It's just how we get the thing out of our head and how much people resonate with it that makes a difference!

[@CactiHuggr]

Every character to ever exist in any movies, shows, books, plays, etc started out as an oc🤯

[@7SpeedBumps]

There's always a certain point when you're creating your OC's trauma and dramatic backstory when you just go "I'm sorry little one.."

[@Hell-Hopper_YT]

This is why I write down and every OC I think of, I have least one for every hyper fixation I’ve had in the past few years.

[@JonathanYeets]

I have at least one OC for every single show, movie, or game I've ever spent time with. It started as a character building exercise to make characters that fit into very specific worlds. Now it's a reflex. I can watch 2 hours of a show with 5 seasons and have a character with a full backstory, house layout, and job that follows along with the storyline and ways that they would have changed the plot. I can't help it anymore. I have The Great Forge of Mandalore in my head and it's filled with lil guys.

[@ruqayyanaifah968]

Omg same (:

[@Neo_Orioncxd]

That actually sounds like a really good show. Just like a story where made up characters get sorted into those who are in creative peoples minds and those who are in the minds of people who can’t articulate I don’t know it just sounds like a good concept.

[@angi183]

I have multiples little guys in my head that have trauma, but yknow what, they comfort each other a lot and make each other happy after going through so much pain and that makes me very happy

[@LCBK]

I do not appreciate being called out about the hell I’ve put my characters through both physically and mentally

[@g1itterpawz_]

the funniest part to me is that almost every character in fiction has started as a little guy in someone's imagination

[@normanclatcher]

"In a hole in the ground there lived a Hobbit..."

[@CadanL]

I have like 20 different AUs for five of my little guys. They aren't the only OCs I have but they're my favourite. My fellow DnD players may have some concept of just how many fellas live in my brain, but know that unplayed characters only make up an tiny fraction of my menagerie

[@elizabethh_74]

as a writer who sucks at drawing, its always a battle to remember exactly what my OCs look like lmao

[@tamakiamajiki7698]

Solution for that: you can keep a little notebook or something write it down the first time you describe your oc! That way if you need to remember something about them, you can look at the notes! 😊

[@MsBluebot]

I edited mine together in a photo editing app so I know what they look like and I have a crap ton of notes about there appearance as well

[@OliveWeller]

One of my favorite things to do as an artist is to draw and render other people’s ocs. And hell if they’re interesting enough I’ll give them a discount or even draw them for free!