The SEVEN OCs We ALL Have

Have you made these OCs? An analysis of the types of Original Characters we've all made at some point or another. Featuring original music and speedpaints of 7 OCs of my own =)
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[@rosepetullz]

“Someone to look up to!” *when your punching bag OC actually ended up snapping and becoming a villain* ._____________. W e l l t h e n -

[@metra8604]

*takes out knife*

[@rosepetullz]

@@metra8604 pfft-

[@notxmany6273]

Lmaooo my villain uses a purple glowing noose as a weapon 😭

[@reamaeflorgelacio7056]

....THIS IS CALLING ME OUT PLEASE

[@thatstupidartist1485]

LMAO SAME

[@what_does_fred_say]

Punching bag: has a terrible and tragic backstory My magical girl characters: *nervous sweating*

[@yuplekei]

Oh my magical girl characters were seriously something else HAHHAHA bernette and roxanne were something else

[@ClowncoreisCool]

Well that's practically the point, isn't it? I forgot the name of it but I saw a magical girl anime where everything was just TERRIBLE for the main character.

[@kamata1341]

My OCs don't exist in any physical medium, but the stories I play in my daydreams definitely hit on all of them. Huh. I never realized how common it was. Most of mine are the kind of creatures that would normally give people nightmares, big toothy monsters can be nice and want friends too!

[@Lordmaster135]

I am so glad I'm not the only one

[@its_sisha_not_chair505]

Sorry but i remembered the meme of the guy who posted a goofy version of the hamburger helper mascot saying something like "just a glimpse into my dark reality" 💀 but i do that too. But i do it when i cant sleep and its mostly about headcannons and how i think certain characters would interact with eachother. Basically fanfic but its where it should stay: in our heads...

[@notajaxon9476]

Reminds me of that one head can and I made with my OC's where they were put into a different realm with monsters and stuff and they thought they were going to die only to find out that the monsters could care less about them. One of my OC's even attacked a monster just for the monster to give him a side eye and then keep drinking from the watering hole.

[@huntercraft5674]

a fellow daydreamer i see

[@arandomcolour]

thank goodness im not the only one!

[@H1dront390]

For those who are into character creation. If you want the character likable make sure he/she is imperfect, because the audience wants a character that people can relate to..

[@Sneaky_Turtle2]

what if they are a she :(

[@vincentdreemurr]

​@@Sneaky_Turtle2if it's a she it's already imperfect ahaha this is not funny

[@elliswebster7041]

​@@vincentdreemurrI love you

[@irjectade]

WHAAAAt

[@ragingrambles7904]

My characters easily fall into two categories, the ones with trauma who are coping well and the ones with trauma who aren't

[@bandito.6500]

s a m e

[@desiderium6026]

... Same

[@ohdomme771]

Am I your OC

[@morninggiory1130]

we need help

[@carriedohernandezjessy6503]

Our OCs need help

[@OhsweetOhno]

“Or maybe we’re just being sadistic” Yeah, that line made me subscribe

[@miralemon6184]

Lol same

[@magpiecryptid23]

Same though XD

[@hopespeakacademyofficial]

“Two socially awkward people”.

[@antisanity_]

I am sadistic and almost all of my good guys live in peril, and my villains are gods. :)

[@theawesomeone6856]

@@antisanity_ you too?

[@copperdingus759]

Excuse me, but... GUYS SHE MADE THE PHILOSOPHER A LEFTIE. LITERALLY THE FIRST LEFTIE OC I'VE SEEN IN FOREVER

[@lanceknightmare]

Presidential original character. 😆

[@nyoaeuikhoudu]

My main oc is a lefty because he's kinda a self insert haha

[@starrynightsfadedlights]

Lmao, I have to stop myself from making all of my ocs lefties. Lefty problems xD

[@copperdingus759]

@@starrynightsfadedlightsi don't blame you. if i could draw, all of my ocs would be lefties.

[@yuki.35xxxv]

Not me who wanted to make a Swordsman Ronin OC unique so I made him a lefty~

[@drscavv2661]

My first OC fell into the third category and had some overlap with the first, but then I decided, "what if I flesh this guy out?" And now he has a whole world and and character development. He's still OP asf tho

[@memes4life26]

What was their powers?

[@drscavv2661]

@@memes4life26 just standard superhuman physicality, energy manipulation, spatial manipulation, as well as a healing factor and hax negation.

[@user-re6ff8ww2n]

Yep. Saaaaaame

[@bobulus2760]

I don’t really call mine “ocs” most of mine are what I call my “critters” mostly because they are really just disfigured humanoid uhh “things”

[@fairytypingg]

my ocs fall into two categories; -sweet, innocent older sibling with a strong maternal instinct -chaotic cynical emo with a tragic backstory and misplaced anger towards their older brother who's shadow they've spent their whole lives within

[@mx.anonymous2000]

Twinies!

[@potatoman-oe5jy]

celestia and luna

[@asingingmonsta1830]

oc: a very horney cactus

[@mgsgamer8340]

@@asingingmonsta1830 Y’all the amount of horny cactuses I see on Twitter IS ASTOUNDING

[@ejaerislist1102]

Y e s

[@konnosx1213]

most of mine fall into the "Cool character" "murderer" and "punching bag" archetypes, with a bunch of "philosophers" are well edit : I don't know why this got so many likes but thanks, everyone

[@zealotoftheorchard9853]

Mine consist of Sweet ones that openly talk about murder, Edgey but tries their best to socialize, Shonen anime protag and Clowns.

[@EvilMeganium]

Mine are "douchebag ghosts" "unwilling people that got possessed" and "friendo"

[@rainbowcactus9781]

@bradford omg that sounds amazing if u ever post the story anywhere i would love to read it

[@uwuakaarf6249]

meanwhile, demon tifeling from 283-306 a murder responsible for almost half million deaths strategy of trapping large towns in magic fog and then setting it on fire and rampaging. he accidently kills his lover named Alex and then kills himself by beating his head with a rock- he rembvers nothing from his life except Alex and uncontrollably gets jealous and a lot more unpredictable as one of his many punishments. eventually he meets Alex on earth and finds out about his past through flashbacks caused by the main protagonist who helps him grow a lot. Alex is a demon and is more beast like and will stop at nothing to kill gack (the demon boi). they end up "releaseingthe soul" of ale so he can at least go to limbo rather than the 2nd ring of hell. gack gets closure and ends up helping the current state of the Kingdome that he was summoned in by the main protagonist and they about this child they met (who is actually 14). they overthrows the government (who was going to use the poor as slaves to get more money) and basically becomes the king along side the protagonist and that becomes his really weird way of redemption. also, he returns to how he looked when he was alive (basically horns and ears shorten some) except when he returns to hell for whatever reason . reason

[@Hazyla]

A lot of mine that have songs that I based their personalities off of

[@majoraz_]

i have 9 ocs, and i love them all like theyre my children. what stuck out the most was that i have no particular self insert. i just throw random traits or experiences of myself onto every character.

[@thecrazybee1907]

It's literaly the same for me, though i have a bit less OCs than you. They're all just random parts of me taken and made into their personalities.

[@Dtak-us9rt]

All characters are somewhat self-insert, everyone puts some of their traits onto every character they make, even if they don’t mean to

[@TheOncelersTruffulaTree]

"We have all made an OC with a tragic backstory." Me, with 10 OCs that have tragic backstories: *My goals are beyond your understanding.*

[@sierrahale804]

My OC Ashia be suffering beyond what any 14-year-old deserves... And then there's 13-year-old Leris whos parents literally tried to kill him, and then Surviver who gets shot at a lot for what her grandfather did, and then another character named Ashen who was born mute and only lived to 15 due to drowning because he was stuck in a flashback. And then two 15-yr-old male OCs named Parker who was murdered in the hospital, one by his COACH burning him alive and the other his enemy... My brother gets scared whenever I name a character Parker now. Needless to say, my stories are really dark.

[@brendathevehicon]

honey, youve got a big storm comin-

[@sierrahale804]

@@brendathevehicon Did I mention that all of them are cars?

[@brendathevehicon]

@@sierrahale804 w wow haha car named parker (ps: is this a Cars fanfic? lakdjdhsndkd)

[@sierrahale804]

@@brendathevehicon No- They're *original*

[@rubymack4914]

Punching Bag: ✔ Philosopher: ✔ Cool one: ✔ Innocent Child: ✔ Chosen one: ✔ Murderer: ✔ Self-Insert: Which one? 😀 🔫

[@sierrahale804]

Me Punching bag: Hmm most of my OCs are punching bags Philopher: Screw it Cool one: Umm dunno Innocent child: What do you think the punching bags are? Chosen one: Well...... I have some in a group Murderer: One is literally the protagonist... Self-insert: OK OK OK you caught me

[@deadnewchannelformelycillc7899]

my real life me or my furry me?

[@nyandoesthings]

I have a fursona but besides that one I don't believe I have self inserts.

[@sierrahale804]

@@nyandoesthings I dont make furries so I dont have a fursona

[@stephanieolson9784]

hold on, is that an owl house icon?

[@RealtiyFox]

Love how everyone's ocs are unique and beautiful

[@Lumberjack_king]

Not everyone's ocs are that good

[@mintypump649]

Imo, all ocs are good in their own way. @@Lumberjack_king

[@Lumberjack_king]

@@mintypump649 ok

[@leighannfranklin3632]

Meanwhile mine looks like an 8 year old's drawing and if he had one, his brain would be the size of a pea

[@kimmy1325]

OCs of mine that fit these descriptions: OC 1. Milly, a Spooky Month OC A mix of the punching bag and the innocent child, a story that doesn't have a happy ending mainly for reasons beyond my control. She was created during my first month on SMRP(A Roblox RP game), created from the simple idea of me giving a backstory to the secret skeleton child morph you could become in the lobby. I shall explain that backstory now. She was once just a regular child. Her mother was in the cult, the rather strict and abusive parent, who killed the husband when Milly was only 2. Milly had no idea because she wasn't there to see it. Her only friend was a Happy Fella possessed by another cultist by the name of Ted, though he was the less-dedicated type when it comes to the cult. He had a huge soft spot for Milly, and absolutely freaked out when it came time to sacrifice her. But something went wrong after the sacrifice, and Milly's soul somehow ended up back in her own skeleton. She didn't remember too much about her life, but then Pump found her and they became pretty good friends! Even if she was confused why the stars loved him and hated her. But then... came the grand update. You know, the one that removed the skeleton kid morph for whatever reason? Because of that, I had to write it in that she was found again by someone who wasn't there at her original sacrifice, aka the clown guy(who I headcanon to be named Todd), and resacrificed by him. Ted meanwhile wasn't doing so well without Milly. So the day they decided to kill him for trying to leave them after they killed Milly, he just accepted it because he knew Milly was already dead. But it turns out, my friend who had acted Pump also has an OC that's an amalgamation of all the kids that have been sacrificed to Eyes. But when a cultist dies, they wind up as part of Eyes himself. So even in death, Milly and Ted can't be together. Poor Milly. I also have a more comedic punching bag that I allow my friends to just throw stuff at. His name is Devin, also a SM OC. A newbie to the cult who recently got fired and was just looking to pay rent and then got lured into the cult by his friend. Life is not good in the cult at all, especially considering most of them seem to hate him due to him being an athiest. Devin is the character that I always project onto the most, thinking, "If I was in this guy's situation, what would I do?" So I guess you could say he has some self-insert energy, even though he isn't really a representation of me. Update on Milly: The morph is back, and so is she! Though, she's suffered a lot of trauma from where she was. She doesn't even look human anymore, and often spends time crying to herself. Her sight is also warped to the point where the Pump she was friends with just looks like Eyes to her now. OC 2. While the second half of the "philosopher" explanation doesn't exactly apply to any of my OCs, the first half reminded me a lot of another Spooky Month OC I have by the name of Hickory. Hickory's idea first spawned from one of my first days on SMRP, where I accidentally started a Happy Fella cult and then got one of the devs to join it as a glowing yellow version. I then had an idea about a creepy cultist Happy Fella pretending to be some doll god and luring a bunch of insane Happy Fellas to Eyes, and that idea of a character slowly became a full-fleged OC known as Hickory! On the surface, he's basically the same as Ted; A Happy Fella in the cult. But it becomes very obvious how different they are when they start talking. While Ted is a rather sane, nervous individual, Hickory speaks with a quiet, emotionless version of a regular Happy Fella voice. He's been in the cult since the start, luring children to be sacrificed with his doll self. All this time gaining the trust of kids has basically led him to become an ideal father figure if need be, especially helpful since Eyes has kids in our (me and my friends') AU. One of said kids kinda ran away, but the other spends basically all his time with Hickory. Probably because Hickory takes such good care of him! Hickory's the only SMRP character I use with 100% grammar 100% of the time. And also he's currently owned by Robert's younger sister, so who knows how long she'll last- OC 3. A majority of the OCs I've made are SM OCs, and this guy is no exception. This "cool character" isn't actually edgy or emo like most of his type, if anything he's bery pink and hyper! He was made only like 3 days ago, created from an idea I got from a dev getting a Happy Fella to glow pink. Meet Fellagram! A hologram Happy Fella created with advanced interactive technology for a marketing scheme, but then it flopped and was a huge financial loss so they just stuffed the technology away and never touched it for many years. But due to the constant flow of energy they programmed it with, the energy kept building up due to it not being used to let all that energy out. So much of it built up that, skip to the present day, the next time someone even touched it, the equipment outright EXPLODED, and everything in the studio exploded along with it! But in the aftermath of the explosion, the lil Fellagram returned, free from the systems in a body made of only pink electricity! A very hyper fella, who can go into devices but breaks them once inside them for too long. His presence alone can cause electricity to go haywire! But of course, being made of electricity, he can't really fully interact with the physical world. Another thing about him is that his small form couldn't even contain most of the stored energy. So where did it go? Into a TV that somehow survived the explosion. Hence the existence of the pink TV world that came from the grand update! OC 4. Another SM OC. Her name is Dolly, and she's a mute lil girl kiddo in an ice cream-themed clown costume! Todd's illegally adopted daughter that he used to take care of during his time in another cult. Yea, the lore for him in our RPs is that he used to be in another cult, and used to be more sane during his time in said cult! But one day, Dolly ran away and kinda didn't return, cementing herself as missing. Todd immediately got worried and assumed Eyes' cult kidnapped her because they DO do that, so he goes over to stalk them and try to get her back. That's where he gets found out by Bob, Bob shows Todd to everyone, and well... the trauma Todd ended up suffering as a punishment from Eyes was so utterly terrible that it just broke him mentally. Bringing light to the insane clown he's seen as today! But as for Dolly... She wasn't even kidnapped. So the next time she and Todd randomly ran into each other... Cue Sloppy Jane's cover of "They're Coming To Take Me Away". :) She doesn't wanna be around him. In her eyes, that isn't her papa anymore. OC 5. Yet _another_ SM OC. This one being a full mix of the innocent child and the self-insert! If SM actually happened, I would've been 6 at the time that it did. Thus, this character is 6! Her name is Kimya, but she likes to go by Dina. She wears a cheap green dinosaur onesie everywhere she goes, and it's so big that not only did she have to cut out it's eyes to be able to see, but also she had to roll the sleeves and leg parts up a ton! You can just barely see her hands! Dina is a lot like my past self; Divorced parents, loves dinosaurs, easily scared, loves candy, creative and autistic! The town loves Skid and Pump, so she decided to be more like them because life in town is pretty rough for a background character. Especially considering what happened in episode 2. She was just on a casual stroll during episode 2, and decided to go get some candy! But then she saw Eyes from a distance before she could get there, and that alone scarred her for life. She's tried to tell people about him, but people think it's just the wild imagination of an autistic kid. She's drawn him many times, because, in her words, "he wants me to he wants me to he wants me to..." OC 6. I don't really have a "chosen one"-type OC, so there's only one left; The murderer! A lot of the characters I act are murderers, but an OC murderer I have is one I think about a lot. Her name is Mia! A FNAF OC made for an old AU. I don't think I've ever seen a human FNAF OC that's also a murderer, so I did it! Mia has a "punching bag" past. From her dad bailing, to her mom dying of cancer, to her older sister always being busy, to her being led into a false sense of security by Scraptrap only for him to burn alive in FNAF 6, to a difficulty making friends, to an abusive boyfriend and a dead-end job that overworks her(ehem Fazbear Entertainment), the world basically drives her to where it only really gets "better" when she meets Glitchtrap while testing the VR game, who convinces her to start killing people until she reaches a point of no return and decides to make an entire cult for him. One that she tricked Vanny into, fun fact!

[@mipanuwu8847]

Damn

[@azaritheraptor]

Thats a lot of words

[@byakuyatogamistumblr5958]

Me, holding up a single oc that somehow fits all of these types: *I-* *I'm a little messed up.*

[@plague_doctor0237]

Release all the sounds that are trapped in your mind... aAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaa

[@squarrot9355]

Byakuya Togami 🥰

[@kronktheslug]

yeah same (my main oc is a MESS)

[@gabriellagarciacareaga9316]

I know this isn't related but I love your user. Byakuya is my favorite THH character.

[@raid4589]

Yeeeeaaah. When all the first 6 oc is the same like self-insert one.

[@paulogamer2243]

Normal people: making human Ocs with nice personalities and confusing stories Me: *crazy raviolli with a tophat yes*

[@Chibitasm]

I love that so much

[@sierrahale804]

My normal is talking cars

[@zerobotico2382]

I have an OC who is a Question Mark with eyes and another one who is a Camera with legs, lmao

[@Chibitasm]

@@zerobotico2382 lol XD my brother had a semicolon OC way back in the day

[@zerobotico2382]

@@Chibitasm Hah

[@haz2968]

I used to have this group of OCs called BlackEye. The leaders were a couple. One literally found the other strapped to an actual punching bag. The others were a depressed zombie, an over-excited 12 year old and an emo intellect

[@TheFluffyRussian31]

5:18 'sometimes this character is just flat out invincible' One of my ocs, unsurprisingly one of my favorites, named 031, is basically the only constant in the roleplays i use him with. explaining his character is hard, cus his entire character is that his personality is ironically never constant. one second hes being scary and about to eat you, and the next hes speaking in poem or something. He used to be a really cool antagonist, but he kept dying and finding different ways to somehow come back (first time he basically replanted himself [cus hes a funky mushroom dude but unique in a lot of cool ways i dont have tie to explain], second time he got rebuild out of his remains, third time some racist group accidentally revived him, fourth time he had accidentally became the floor of a whole state by accident and was revived by a space wolf thing, ect.) so hes like william afton in how he continues to come back, but he doesnt actually physically change in the slightest. anyway the reason he stopped being a villain and instead had a hero arc was because (Do not ask, its a VERY long story,) he accidentally had a child. No, he wasnt pregnent.

[@arctic5093]

This reminds me of a character I made which basically just is chaotic and random, good things might happen to it, (like it turning into a hive-mind-bread-pandemic-blob (Don't ask)). Or it might grow spider heads that breathe fire and then have the rest of the body turn into a dehydrated potato. However it's usually a net positive as it has regeneration and the only real way it can die is if it's chaotic randomness handicaps and kills it.

[@WorldWeaver]

... I really wanna ask.

[@daliblue_]

No, no, now you gotta tell us

[@oof9762]

I'm going to ignore your advice and ask anyways: Pls tell the whole story I'm invested now and I actually want to know

[@TheFluffyRussian31]

Update on the roleplays: hes back to his villian arc after the world broke like a dinner plate, and he broke a floating continent out of rage because a raccoon killed his son.

[@cloudGremlin]

Fun fact! My Chosen One is the only one who knows what’s going on, my Innocent Child turns into the villain, my Cool One is actually the least powered and least flamboyant of the group, my Punching Bag is successfully learning to cope (and the child of the group so everyone now protects them) but my Philosopher is literally exactly just Mom Friend. She heals, she tanks, and she makes breakfast and helps everyone with their problems. Everything may have spins put on it, but Mom Friend is Mom Friend.

[@Aspirinsoop]

Mom friend is always, mom friend.

[@leafinx]

These are honestly the coolest oc backstories I’ve heard

[@nyandoesthings]

bro are you gonna write us a book already?? we need it

[@Squirreliosis]

Must. Have. Oc’s names...

[@cloudGremlin]

@@Squirreliosis Chosen One: Corin Ironworker/Kasa (pet names include blind idiot and k-couskai), Innocent Child: Goes by both Arstos and Cieal, also called the Unnamed for a couple centuries after certain events. Cool One: Armés Kasa (last name isn't really necessary just wanted to show that she and Corin are siblings), Punching Bag: Giovanni Inigo Cavallero (except everyone calls him Gigi to tease him) and Philosopher is named Miriam but has been called Miri and just, mom. Mom friend poweeeer Edit: also for everyone asking for book, I am literally creating two entire languages, eight different cultures, three seperate religions (one of which has eight smaller religions packed into it) and about five thousand years of unique history. This ain't something that's gonna be a quick little literary jaunt.

[@Star_Ringmaster]

My main oc is all of these

[@Chibitasm]

honestly Divian is most of them too XD

[@19z67]

What?? A murderer and an innocent child???

[@Star_Ringmaster]

@@19z67 Yes

[@TheSkyKrillHunter]

Honestly same, but technically my oc is also multiple people somehow, so.. yea makes it easier for her to be all of them (:

[@InkSans_FandomSoda]

How- how- how-

[@TheVoidManager]

i remember my first oc. it was legit just a shadowy, mildly chibi human shaped blob. the only defining feature was two circles i left on where the head should be, which were eyes. i may have sucked at drawing, but i've always been able to draw insanely unsettling eyes, so just imagine a shadowy human shaped blob, drawn with bad pencil scribbling, and overly realistic eyes.

[@thatonepossum5766]

I would love to see that as a recurring character in a show, that sounds hilarious.

[@TheVoidManager]

no idea@@B0pst3r

[@TheVoidManager]

@@thatonepossum5766 "Finally! After all these years, we have finally made it to the castle of the demon king!" (random chibi shadow creature) "wussup"

[@watermeloncatmeow441]

I like to make OCs undergo tragic events (loss of loved ones, made into a criminal, thrown into a dangerous side of the world etc.) , and then have them cope with it and move on, often leaving behind bittersweet feelings in me. And if I really like the character, I would make them undergo tragic events many times throughout there life.

[@idontknowwhatimdoing3685]

“This characters you would adopt immediately” My soft nice character with such a sad backstory is *23*

[@lux1ous_]

LMAO mine is 16

[@yuplekei]

Mine is 14 so i think im good

[@sierrahale804]

@@yuplekei And so is mine... A 14-year-old who is abused, horrifically wounded by literally getting her tire cut off and window cracked, and is wanted by the government so they can take her powers and kill her in the process!

[@brendathevehicon]

@@sierrahale804 is your oc a car???

[@sierrahale804]

@@brendathevehicon hehehehe yes

[@glazeddoughnutgod4352]

I made a dude with the goal of making them so unbelievably edgy that it was physically impossible to take them seriously, even the people who 100% the Shadow the hedgehog game would have a hard time keeping a straight face. Think, "I was born without parents and I had to live in the woods after my home burned down." Level of edge, even the other characters in the story just thought they were making it up. "My mom went out with 40 other guys!" "Weren't you born without parents or something?" "..."

[@Candy0615]

Just realized how edgy one of my main ocs are after reading this comment- whoops?

[@ThefifthBishopofGord]

The “I was born without parents and I had to live in the woods after my home burned down.” Almost describes Dr. Doofenshmirtz as his parents were not at his own birth and he was raised by animals.

[@birodactyl_of_the_web]

@@ThefifthBishopofGord omg Dr Doofenshmirtz is an edgy oc

[@t0rya]

It sounds like a challenge to me

[@seant1326]

Did his manner of speaking involve following every word with "DAMN"? Including "damn"? Like DAMN this DAMN!

[@jujufoxie.-.]

I used to self insert myself in one of my favorite shows, but it started looking weird and cringy so I started to develop an OC to replace that. Soon, she started to have her very own personality and backstory. Now she’s my most broken punching bag :)

[@slimestudios9748]

that's like basically how mine is

[@camwoods6969]

Same! ...

[@Benoudasofwane]

Mine literally

[@ariartsy9220]

Funny story: I actually don't have a self insert rn, I turned my old self insert (also a punching bag) into an all new character because I couldn't give her up, but I wasn't happy with how she was before. She started as a Supernatural OC who was just a cool shapeshifter with witty one-liners and a super tragic past. She was also my favorite character's love interest. And now, she's nowhere near the character she once was, instead becoming her own character who makes choices I'd never make in my life

[@verdantViridity]

creating the murderer oc: aren't you tired of being nice? wanna just go apeshit?

[@sirduncebag6190]

My most murderous OC is actually a crisscrossing maid

[@georgeridden1705]

All of my OC doesn't value life at all. Because, everyone that dies. Gets Isekai'd and may return to their Original World and brought themselves some gift. *Like a world ending level Reality Destructing Bomb or Super Powers*

[@BEEYIPPIEEE]

ah yes,the PERFECT trope of creating murderer ocs,*50% of mine are like this*

[@sophiamichaelis206]

FCKIN MOOD.

[@sir-reynauld-the-kleptomaniac]

@@georgeridden1705 ah yes… the humble kreigsman…

[@pencilguyisthebest593]

*These are from all different times and stories* My punching bag: A ghost that keeps dying over and over. My philosopher: a robot that favors gardening over anything else My “cool character” : a dove that cant transform back to human but to other animals My innocent child: A teddy bear that really had a broken heart and will do anything to find it’s owner My chosen one: A human which can control all animals without wanting to. My murderer: The colour magenta as a person who has built up anger at the other colors for outshaming them My self insert : myself as an anime character

[@strawberryjam6235]

Bro I love the color magneta

[@dakkapel3]

A ghost that keeps dying over and over Incredibly sad however i would love to see how you would execute it

[@pencilguyisthebest593]

@@dakkapel3 to be honest, I think we’d just exorcise it.

[@_50_ducks_]

Ngl those all sound so frikken cool

[@daychild_]

“A ghost that keeps dying over and over” Do they happen to be named Mitsuba Sousuke? (This is a joke, but that’s a cool idea)

[@wolfy2246]

I once made a dragon OC whose type of dragon is one that I made up. It's genderless and can shape shift, the way it reproduces is by magickly making an egg appear out of nowhere and they can shapeshift, the shapeshifting knows no bounds they could be anything they want to be. they also don't need to eat much to stay alive only needing to feed once every 6 or so months. The OC in question is named Ophi around 500 years of age which would be 8-10 in human years. They are an adventuring Bard who wanders around with a baby dragon companion and they specialize in using bows.

[@NowSplatoon107]

Genderless crew?

[@apoole54]

I like the friend dynamic a few people who both need help finding each other and trying to cope with each other. It’s my favorite friend dynamic

[@gamedifficulty_4230]

And then there’s me who has “OC who was kind of a self insert but then got shoved through a metaphorical blender and possibly a literal blender too and sort of became all of the stereotypes at once and then I also put them at the end of a convoluted timeline that I came up with as a joke while discussing dumb alternative history mods for strategy games with my friend whilst eating damp pizza in the school cafeteria”

[@Chibitasm]

the best place to make world builds is a cafeteria honestly

[@yourlocaldemon2195]

I entered a state of unexplainable feeling while reading this

[@mjgt2124]

Are... are you from my school or-

[@Fisinocean]

STOP READIMG MY MIND PLEASE-

[@alexisventura7191]

I'm not sure if I read this or not But Yes?

[@anabia8761]

The paradox of the cool character, you're ashamed of it but really proud and possessive

[@CroxonneldExilis-gv6lu]

My main oc actually started as a side character from a story I was writing, but then, I realized that he actually had much more potential than anyone else in my story. In the original story, the character I was using was just too op, and it felt redundant writing stories around them, but when I ultimately went through to rewrite the whole thing with the side character, since the power I gave him was much more fitting of a main character. For 6 years now, I've been writing stories around that character, and even once, I wrote a story where he met his original version, but it ended up as one person who hurts himself with magic trying to console a crybaby of a character... yeah... I'm glad I decided to change him from that... anyways, since it was a whole world, I have at least one oc that fits one or more of these roles. Oof. I wrote too much... I get too excited when I can talk about my ocs...

[@INTRUDIC_H0ST]

Man watching this made me realize about my own ocs. I’ve gone through HUNDREDS of ocs in the span of a couple of years. Scrapping some because I just lost interest, or others out of memory loss. Yet somehow I always manage to carry over traits from previous ocs to new ocs and nowadays my current characters are all decently fleshed out. One supposed to have a somewhat tragic story while appearing not very edgy. One who’s appearances in my stories was from the END of his story arc (like a fatherly figure). Ocs are fun to mess around with

[@g00dpaws]

My oc Brownie is an innocent child who took up his parents' bakery after they got too old and are still figuring things out. His Awesome Amazing Power: financial stability.

[@redguywithatophat1900]

No cap, litterally the best power.

[@galaxymew5138]

HE'S PRECIOUS

[@FreshCarrotsFinally]

I want that power

[@samuel-rw3xt]

My god he is to op

[@sir-reynauld-the-kleptomaniac]

Watch out before he gets nerfed by inflation or the IRS

[@monochromedream-eatingbaku]

"i love listening about OCs" *me, vibrating at the speed of light, ready to unleash a flood of words no smaller than the flood that only Noah and his boat survived:* REAL SHIT?????

[@Chibitasm]

real shit yo (๑˃ᴗ˂)ﻭ

[@hanscapon222]

Me running over with my hair a mess and 500 notebooks billed to the brim: CAN I COME TOO

[@monochromedream-eatingbaku]

@@Chibitasm Do you, mayhaps, wanna hear about some of my characters 🥺👉👈? (also my phone is running on Android 6 so I can only pray that the emoji I used is the one I think it is lol)

[@Chibitasm]

@@monochromedream-eatingbaku I'd love to! also looks like the right emoji to me ^v^

[@Chibitasm]

@@hanscapon222 ye the more the merrier!

[@aiiiia9971]

I feel personally attacked rn 😂 how did you get into my brain! I'm playing, I love feeling heard. I really like that you put a positive spin on each of these exploring why you might like that type of character or what it means to you instead of just making fun of these types.

[@Whatit4]

Thank you for this information, it helped me realise how much my OCs mean to me and I sometimes ask myself, who would I be without them.

[@davismatthews3748]

"If you were into sonic between the ages of 9 and... i'm gonna say 24. You had a sonic OC. Its up there with the rest of our Deviantart past." THE FUCKING ACCURACY

[@imhere1303]

I didn't

[@MetaKnight964]

@@imhere1303 Same here

[@ThePinkBlurSonicFan]

Luckily Devianart has removed cringe art and has become a better website and now the Sonic OCs I see on there are very well done and creative and no longer cringe like the old Sonic OCs in the past

[@dozydoe5245]

OH NO, SHE FUCKING READ ME

[@fuzzyshark7513]

Wow you literally just convinced me to make a sonic OC

[@ducker6018]

I had an OC that was a full on petty villain. They were in a rp server so I constantly had to clarify her backstory was straight up "she was normal" because I often hinted at it and people got confused. But honestly, probably one of my most fun OC for short rps because of this, along with her personality being just on the edge of evil or simple jerk.

[@ducker6018]

Update, she is evil, she is getting snake powers

[@The.throngler]

Doofenshmirts

[@user-ud1ec6tg1z]

@@The.throngler I-.. no, you know what, that's accurate.

[@echodreemur6709]

talk about kokichi oma

[@metra8604]

@@ducker6018 me, with an oc that is literally a snake person:

[@Mistime_Mistake]

Sooo, I have two characters who are both a mix of all of these. Their names are Rachel and Mika. They’re basically just besties but they fit the Passive Agressive Roommate song

[@tehhypergamer963]

When it comes to OCs, I'll make just about any type of OC, not just the types that are discussed in this video. Though when it comes to self-inserts, I'm a bit narcissistic and will almost always write myself in as the main character. My self-inserts tend to be a mix of the chosen one, the cool character, the punching bag, and very occasionally; the philosopher. I suppose this idea just kind of stems from something that a lot of people think about; that it is fun to sometimes think of yourself as the main character of some awesome, amazing, epic story, or something along those lines and well, I'm no different. I absolutely love the idea of myself as the main character and I sometimes find it hard not to write a story where I'm either not the main character or just not in it at all. But overall, I really do love all my OCs, even if a lot of them are self-inserts, lol.

[@Vaihly]

Honestly love making chaotic and dangerous characters more than friendly, innocent characters.

[@eligal643]

i have a friendly, innocent, mother type character who knows how to wield and shoot several types of guns lfmao

[@supermaximglitchy1]

I have an innocent child character who hangs out with incompetent murderers The little boi also views a very competent and ruthless murderer as his big brother

[@Vaihly]

@@eligal643 God bless america

[@eligal643]

@@Vaihly best part is she grew up in britain and is technically a british citizen she just came to new york

[@ZackShark1]

Why not both

[@ChickChickChirp]

My poor OCs.... These are basically my kids and yet I put them through so much crap

[@yourlocaldemon2195]

such is the way of artists

[@user-xb9bd8jr2t]

and the more crap you put them through, the more you love them, and the more crap you want to put them through, and thus a cycle is created

[@Fisinocean]

Me trying to justify why im making my high schoolers character went to trough much trauma that ends with one of them losing an eye and her self confidence while also locking her in self imposed exile over how she is the problem and then making the other character lose limb and trust over others while blaming herself for her friend dissapearance: *WELL TECHNICALLY ONE OF THEM IS A CONCEPT THAT EXIST MILLENIA BEFORE BIG BANG AND THE OTHER IS HIGHLY SKILLED HUNTER SO THEY ARE ATLEAST MUCH MORE MATURE THAN AVERAGE HIGH SCHOOLERS-*

[@istolethispfpsorry485]

Same.

[@yourlocaldemon2195]

Welcome to discussing OC Trauma session!

[@Anika38d]

Checking my OC's: > The MC mostly falls under a "philosopher" type, sometimes acts like a "cool" type (if finds it necessary, usually in fight scenes), sometimes perceived by other characters as a "chosen one" (despite not really being supported by any power besides their own genius mind). > The MC's soulmate/lover/closest and most precious person is an "innocent child"/cinnamon roll type, although they have a tragic backstory similar to a "punching bag" type. As well as the MC, they can also act like a "cool" type sometimes, but it's way more difficult for them, so they do it only in critical moments. > The MC's... ehhh, foster child (I guess I can call them this way - they're a literal child who was rescued by the MC and ended up staying under their care for quite a long time) is definitely a cinnamon roll and must be protected at all costs, which is basically what MC does. > The... Well, the Miceniya (yes, this is their name😹) is kind of a self-insert - they're a reflection of my "silly/non-serious side", so they're here just for comedy and tension-lowering. And I love them! > My antagonist... No, I don't think they're a "murderer" type. They did murder, but they're not crazy - in fact, they do a bunch of thinking to catch other characters in their web of lies. They're just an evil a-hole who invokes reader's disgust, not fear. > And a "murderer" type... Well, I guess I have one character, but they're not really a villain - rather a heartbroken person who was betrayed by their nation and decided to take revenge on the entire world. They didn't even think their vengeance was right and just acted on emotions, so they redeemed very quickly after MC gave them care, understanding and acceptance they longed for.

[@GatheredStorm_YT]

My main character is pretty much the cool character, but I’ve been trying to reign him in, yes he is OP but it happens over time in his story, however I know that he’s not the most original and has just enough cringe factor that no one would really steal him but not enough to make him embarrassing, he was the first character I ever made and I’ve been working on reigning him in and making other characters for the story and world as well, although I’ve had versions of him where I had to scale up his power a lot because it was like a character collaboration thing and everyone else made their characters so OP that I had to basically scale him up to his max end of the story power as a constant, which is how there’s been a lot of mix ups with him now and why I’m having to scale him back down, because some of his key lore points have been thought up in some of the collaborations

[@BlackoutArtz]

Don’t you just love it when you experiment so much with your villain that they go from the murderer character to the “cool guy,” and then to the philosopher, to the tragic backstory character, and then just end up as this sad but wholesome wreck that literally can’t do anything bad to the other characters because they’re just that messed up? Just me? Welp.

[@personwhoexists080]

Minus the cool guy and philosopher my sister did that lol

[@Vaihly]

For me i dont make many villains, since the main cast already work for a horrid and inhumane organization

[@dumbdannia6326]

I have never felt so fucking called out before, Jesus Christ LMFAO

[@zryan1493]

same

[@mecor9191]

I feel SO freaking called out, like, I'VE DONE THIS TWICE, AND THEY ARE BOTH FRIENDS.

[@kittencomicslol]

‘If they can make it through, you can make it through too.’ My punching bag oc who kills herself: 🌚

[@vesperiamorningstar3785]

My one who’s fucked up dad hangs himself in a fling off: 👌

[@hufflepuffguy2212]

Holy shit are people okay?

[@vesperiamorningstar3785]

@@hufflepuffguy2212 nooo thanks for asking

[@hufflepuffguy2212]

@@vesperiamorningstar3785 well at least I got an answer

[@kittencomicslol]

@@hufflepuffguy2212 well my extreme trauma was invalidated and mocked yesterday so no, my punching bag oc is how I cope with that

[@Asodym]

I loved watching this as something of a lesson in psychology, seeing how different types of OCs answered different psychological needs. The only archetypes from this list that I believe I've created are the murderer and the self insert. My current and longest running self insert is just my online persona, and as of writing is my profile picture. My murderer is called Extinction, a goddess of death, so she's more of a force of nature than a serial killer but I'm imagining she counts. I do have more OCs, I am a writer, but I don't think they too well fit into these categories. Like I have a bunch of OCs that are almost philosophers but I don't use them in the way you described so I'm not really sure. Anyway, good video, lots of food for thought. :)

[@not._.samsung7389]

The fact I have tons of ocs and alternate universes, of my own things, warrior cats, MLP, etcetc I still have my very first actual OC to this day, which has had so much developement you'd barely be able to guess he was once what he was

[@vincentdreemurr]

sans undertale variant

[@kirathepotat4828]

*me, who only made two oc's in total:* _I am four paralell universes ahead of you_

[@hostilestick1453]

GASP

[@user-ti1tt4uu9l]

my oc is a word, ｉ ａｍ ｉｎｆｉｎｉｔｅ ｐａｒａｌｅｌｌ ｒｅａｌｉｔｉｅｓ ａｈｅａｄ ｏｆ ｙｏｕ

[@metra8604]

*cries in too many ocs, i can't keep track*

[@Candy0615]

@@metra8604 I relate to this so much

[@danyr1886]

That's how you start.... 👀✨

[@chiyaka867]

everyone: has many ocs with many different personalities, looks and stories me: has 2 ocs with animal ears that just exist for being cute and work at restaurant @w@

[@d_art_s9632]

I can relate

[@kaleycooper9111]

Haha same. My first and only three OC’s I’ve ever made were just three normal friends with normal backstories that went to high school. I’ve been taking art seriously for a little over 5 years and I only really do fan art. I’ve never felt a want or need to make OC’s, does anyone else relate?

[@krystal2026]

Haha... the character for myself is myself, but with a glow-up, terrible sense of fashion, and was and still is from an alternate timeline in Undertale.

[@akitopi_]

Same for me! at first I just like to draw some character set in a school setting doing some goofy stuff, but I always had this idea where they live in this bizzare world, each of them having their own stories and without realizing are connected with each other. I know it's not original, but i'm having fun drawing them! ^^

[@highlagaard]

That's still pretty cool imo ! Sometimes creating simple OCs who just. exist and vibe. and who don't got a special backstory or whatever is fun to do :3c

[@Dice-Z]

Old video huh? Pretty spot on tbh, although it could be a lot more indepth. I have at least one character in each of those categories, and at least one that is in EVERY categories present here, aswell as many others. Personally when i make a character, i often take a tiny part of myself and develop it into a completely different character until it shares little to nothing with me. It helps a lot that i have a good understanding of things like cultures around the world, psychology, psychiatry, social issues and more, which allows me to create characters that are believable even though they are very different from me. Your list is more a mix of archetype and character traits though, so of course you'll find them in a lot of characters. But there are a lot more of archetypes aswell. For example, there is the mentor. The mentor often shares traits with the philosopher and the cool character, but they are a support character, one who is often extremely limited in how much they are allowed to influence the world's actual events, but can do so by proxy, by mentoring either protagonists, antagonists and so on. They may also be used as a deus ex machina type piece when the threat becomes too severe for the protagonist and their group. They are often strong, older, experienced, sometimes even OP, but are often kept busy or have artificial "limitations" in a way to not trivialize the challenges of the protagonist (for example they could be a god that cannot upset the balance of the world or interact with mortals directly). Often time once their role is fulfilled and they become too powerful for the story, they will go out with a bang to create an emotional scene, a tragic death, and give the protagonist a boost in motivation and sometimes helping them overcome the crippling kindness that they may have to have some character development. It should be pretty easy to recognize a mentor character in general. Jiraya/Kakashi, Netero/Wing/Biscuit, All Might/Nighteye, Gojo, Urahara, King Kai/Kame Sennin, Urokodaki/Rengoku, Koro-sensei, Reigen, Yami, Izumi, etc... Of course they may lack some of the characteristic above but they are all mentors, though there are many, many more, including in the shows/mangas these characters are from. Some of which may be less obvious. I'm pretty fond of the mentor because it gives a perfect excuse to create an actually well written mary sue. And i'm not gonna lie, i love my well written mary sues. One of the most important rules to create a good mary sue... is the rule of cool, the oh so powerful rule of cool. If you can master the rule of cool, you can make the viewer/reader/player suspend their disbelief over the most insane mary sue writing. But of course all other rules of good character writing still strongly apply. And even though i just implied otherwise, a well written mary sue is simply not a mary sue. Some get pretty close though. The closest to being mary sues in the ones mentioned above... probably Kakashi or maybe Gojo. Doesn't mean i like them any less though. One could argue that when writing OP characters, some of the most important pitfalls to avoid are... 1) Making sure that their OPness is earned through experience and hardships, and the reader/viewer must witness a good chunk of those experiences, either directly or through flashbacks. They mustn't get super lucky or randomly gain a new power when convenient. 2) Not giving them all the glory. They must let other characters shine and not take up the majority of the spotlight. In fact these types of characters work better when they stay out of it outside of special moments. 3) They musn't be paragons of morality. They need some serious flaws of character. At least one. Whether it's being an asshole, perverted, idiotic/clueless at times, ruthless/lacking empathy or sympathy, disinterested/immature (especially outside of serious situations), lazy, uncaring for others or social norms, or otherwise. Many options. 3.5) Nor should other characters give them a free pass or like them more than they should. Especially if they behave in a contentious way. People don't take kindly to murder, verbally attacking people or violence in general, for example. Even more so when it's excessive, unnecessary and gratuitous. If they have some enemies, especially if they hate the OP character, and those enemies aren't cartoonish villains but have understandable reasons, good. 4) Giving them an equal adversary. And if they are "the strongest and bestest" it usually shouldn't be by too large of margin with the second strongest character in your world. 5) Obviously rules can be broken, as long as you know *why* you are breaking them. Are you deconstructing an archetype? Playing around with a trope in an innovative way? Thanks for coming to my ted talk on how to make a good OP character.

[@jetsmultiverse4115]

I like working with the ocs that are absolutely way too op and trying to make them not "cringe" while keeping the fact that they are way too powerful for their own good

[@tweedlebug123]

I love how wholesome this video is. A lot of people like to say ocs are "cringe" and i appreciate that even if you used the word, it was in an accepting way that showed that even if a character is cringe- if they make their creator happy that's all that really matters. Also appreicate you using the archetype "cool character" as opposed to Mary Sue.This video was very loving and accepting of all ocs- both well written ones and the ones that MAYBE are just a bit cringe. I loved your positive energy and your sweet, friendly voice. This video really brightened my day.

[@justaregulargymrata]

Bru how my character none of these he was just a straight-up omnipotent omniscient happy dude that liked to fight and built up his omnipotent’s through lots of fighting. Yeah thats about it. Now my cousin well he had every single one here except self inserted and child which ended up with my character killing his mom cause they were brothers but not after he tried to kill my oc and had a chosen one like character save him then he my oc also became op and they made up then the chosen one became evil and we clapped him. There is like a whole lore behind this and surprising made sense but I dont think what i am able to remember will fit here

[@THE_VATO]

*The gacha lite oc's are the real cringe man.*

[@yohaun3140]

@@THE_VATO Gacha lite? Tf

[@mystic-hm9mk]

@@THE_VATO I get why people think that but it's really the same as ocs made any other ways... except gachas definitely more in your face 😭

[@lemonweirdo]

@@THE_VATO bro you didn't even spell it right, wtf is gacha lite💀

[@PopopamAJ]

I felt so proud and original to have countless ocs and none of them fit these descriptions... *until the last one where I immediately had horrible flashbacks to my old cringey self-insert stories...*

[@nullmovedtonewemail7454]

UGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH SAME

[@Suu.39]

PLZZZ SO TRUEE

[@ever3127]

F@©k! You are me!

[@crispitysmuggity]

Same, but I don’t really have a self insert

[@writeon2593]

I don't know if this counts as they aren't created to be in a story, but what about imaginary friends? They aren't based on anyone in real life, but you in real life interact with them on some level. They're the perfect friend and they will listen to you and respect your feelings. They sometimes help you process problems in your life by essentially talking it out in your own head. I had two of these in my life, one when I was extremely young and one in middle school. The first was a normal girl, but when I tried to draw her, I drew her hands way too big. The second was the tree I would wait under for my mom to pick me up after school. They both helped me when I felt alone in the world. Sometimes, all you need is someone to talk to who won't judge you.

[@renhyde1447]

I love hearing about people's ocs and I love prompting people to talk about them because they often *want* to but are afraid to share

[@InkSans_FandomSoda]

A satirically edgy sonic OC is the only character I have that’s anywhere close to a punching bag.

[@starry-cyclone]

Ink.....what the actual living heck. Does the multiverse know that you have that? Because you don't seem like the type to have that.

[@InkSans_FandomSoda]

@@starry-cyclone I’m talking irl, not in character. Besides, I was like 10.

[@starry-cyclone]

@@InkSans_FandomSoda i was trying to have fun o.o

[@InkSans_FandomSoda]

@@starry-cyclone (I meant I was 10 when I made the character) it’s ok, I’m just saying.

[@starry-cyclone]

@@InkSans_FandomSoda ik

[@acidbunny5]

Let me be real, the only time I actually would ever use a "Chosen One" prophecy on my characters is if it were used for an evil plot device. The "Chosen One" idea of having your life predetermined for you sounds like a curse. I prefer the idea of being able to create your own story rather than depend on fate.

[@sweetarollmlp177]

Yeah I have a story where all the main characters were "chosen" by some sort of crystals when they're born and they're destined to train their entire life waiting for the evil bad guy to do it's thing and defeat him like it has been each like 1000 years but the one we follow most of her story is some random villager girl who stumble upon the crystal that has been lost and she is being brought into the entire concept she only heard vaguely as a kid with bedtime stories. And we see her getting all that pressure and judgement of people (Since the crystal didn't really choose her technically, she just found it and it reacted since she was the first to touch it since the last owner) and the effect it had on the other characters who grew up with that weight on their shoulder their entire childhood and teenagehood and in the end the girl becomes the second source for the villain because it was too much for her and she wasn't trained since birth for any of this (But the others save her at the end, but she still becomes evil). So yeah it's not really "she deals with it and everyone is fine with any of this" type of story

[@ShinoriDelfrim]

@@sweetarollmlp177 Woah! That is really amazing!!

[@sweetarollmlp177]

@@ShinoriDelfrim Thank you ^^

[@muichirotokitou2615]

@@sweetarollmlp177 I'd love to read that! It genuinely sounds like a great concept and I think you could execute it very well

[@sweetarollmlp177]

@@muichirotokitou2615 Aww thank you ^^

[@janethewolf3758]

I have so many myself, all taking their part in the story they belong in and in the meantime it gets so easy to think of another concept for one of these stories or an entirely new one and work these out till they actually work

[@Aloofyr]

Thanks for making such a relatable video. Personally, I have made all of these. The punching bag emo trauma-based one. The philosopher know-it-all comforter. The absolutely overpowered cool character. The innocent little baby. The chosen one (who is sometimes also overpowered). And the...yeah, I've made the murderer before several times. Too many maybe?

[@noeleenmangan5946]

- Makes a Character - Backstory: I'm going to destroy this childs career Future/current events: Oh pleaseeeee Mental health: Step aside ladies

[@adzdrawss]

truuuue

[@josmamatotaldrama]

I'm surprised that the "tough on the outside but soft on the inside" trope isn't here, it feels like it's involved with every character ever

[@DIVECRAFTGAMER]

Tsundere, basically

[@SuperPaperPokemon]

That's not even exclusive to "original" characters, that's just characters.

[@soIeil]

jo and brick pfp

[@PolskaMan-]

soft on the outside tough on the inside is one I've seen a lot.

[@cutestcreeper569]

​​@@PolskaMan-Many characters I've seen that go under that are usually joke characters where they may seem like some harmless little blob, but are actually a major threat to the world itself. (I also have an oc that is under the trope.)

[@NegaHumanX]

My OCs are all from stories I didn't finish, so a lot of them have purposes, rules, relationships and long backstories which make them complicated to repurpose for other things. I ended up making so many throughout the years that I stopped designing background characters and started using the OCs which made sense for that background. I like when an artists worlds are shared between the characters like that.

[@Number_0ne_Rated_SalesMan1997]

Best part is always when the cool/philosopher/invincible character is scared. Chills every time

[@mimikyulover3411]

Also, for the lgbt+, there is the "experiment", basically the person of a gender that you are attracted to and that makes you non-hetero

[@Chibitasm]

yo calling me out 😂 almost all my early characters fit into that!

[@charlieistired]

Tragic backstory; me who's ocs are all test subjects: interesting.

[@Sapphireskittles]

Yeaaah uhh I totally don't have any test subject oc's- Ehehe-

[@themaskedmaxxi]

My oc, Mari, is an escaped test subject

[@silverpokemonfan]

Me who's ocs are all animal hybrids from tragic acxidents and a lot of them are test subjects: interesting

[@lunarla123]

Relatable, I have quadruplets OCs who were raised by a scientist who uses them as his assistants in his lab. And a bit as lab rats.

[@charlieistired]

Mine are kinda animal hybrids- they got turned into them by testing, then they died, from testing or the lab burning down. Glad I'm not alone doing this and I hope you keep sharing more about your characters here!

[@drache7652]

I have three types of ocs in my head... The many many diffrent shapeshifter with diffrent angst... and the mushroom who I most times I forget but the only one I drew... and then there are the "What if I was in that show/game?"

[@black_hole2225]

your art style is so cute btw its chibi and cute

[@cattvil]

My oc's fall into a category you have forgotten: *Actually based off real people. My friends.*

[@grapesupremacy6852]

*REAL LIFE FRIEND SELF-INSERT? POGGERS*

[@cattvil]

@@grapesupremacy6852 I KNOW.

[@Xx_DoctorSex_xX]

i wanna show my OCs thats based on my friends but theres a chance they'll just call me a weirdo lmao

[@MultiNaruto900]

*Ah yes, the Hemingway*

[@Yu-Gi-Oh36508]

@@Xx_DoctorSex_xX yeah you are a weirdo, did they let you make a oc on them? probably not then they wouldnt be calling you a weirdo

[@artynicotine]

Me who kills half my punching bag characters-

[@Fisinocean]

When you made all of your character a punching bag atvsome level: *WHOOPS-*

[@metra8604]

same, i like to write deaths in the most brutal and emotional way possible too

[@bitterrsquiidss]

@@metra8604 - exactly me, literally made ones lungs bust open while alive.

[@embreadiment]

@@bitterrsquiidss I'm writing a story and thinking of killing off every character

[@spinogreen0iq]

Me who kills my punching bag character all the time and revives them so they can die again-

[@irregularguy6465]

this sounds like turning components of your personality into characters

[@extrathings3981]

I really love curses. You won't believe how many characters I've made have been turned into statues, skeletons, eldritch horrors, and so on. The Lockmaster is a gold lover who suffers two curses: A golden one, and a skeletal one. He serves aboard the Ferry as a keeper of coin and warden of the Ferry's brig. All crew members of the Ferry are turned into skeletons and marked with a special branding on their skull that binds them to the ship until the Ferryman releases them. The Lockmaster has a love for gold, justice, and friends, although gold is by far the highest. Once, the Ferry was "on break" from ferrying souls, and pursued a massive treasury vault. The Lockmaster was just a fresh recruit of the Ferry at this point, and as soon as he saw all that gold, he eagerly picked up a handful of coins. Before his eyes, he watched one by one, his bones turning into pure gold. This would be a sticky situation for a flesh and blood creature, but the Lockmaster, being made of seperated, yet magically bound bones, only served to just make his bones heavier. Due to him being unable to walk, he spent most of his time in the brig deck, assigned there by the Ferryman to keep watch over those who were locked up down there. Only the Lockmaster held the keys, but he figured that physical keys was a foolish idea, and so he forged his own locks, and learned arcane summoning so that only he could make the keys to unlock them. The Lockmaster would greatly improve security, while also granting him the ability to make his own vault. The Ferryman allowed the unused bottom deck to serve as a treasury vault, that way the treasure wasn't just laying about as it used to. Nowadays, the Lockmaster sits on his golden throne, inspecting the treasure the rest of the crew brings in. After the Ferry was reassigned by the Creator to instead serve as a way to bring dead angels back to the living world, the Lockmaster has been booming in business with all the angels bringing in gold, in return for some of the magical trinkets the Lockmaster has gathered up. The Lockmaster never walks much, but he's a friendly, albeit greedy soul who is always happy to be your friend, especially if you have shiny things. Don't ever try to trade him something for gold however, he *WILL* decline. Also at this point, the Lockmaster is far overdue his time served on the Ferry, but he enjoys it so much, he'd rather spend eternity with his precious hoard than go to Heaven, because he already is. This character was heavily inspired by the Gold Hoarder from sea of thieves, except way less rude. I also love blessings, which I view as a "positive" curse. Lightning powers are the rarest and most powerful magic in this universe (It also doubles as telekinesis). Only 5000 out of the whole populous of the Andromeda galaxy are confirmed to wield such powers. (Which by the way, canonically goes into numbers higher than I can count so that's a PRETTY SMALL MARGIN). I'm sure I already talked your ear off with the Lockmaster however, so I'll save the story of Matamus for another time.

[@astrixthecat2779]

you forgot that one furry oc you hide from literally everyone and you pretend you hate them but you secretly love them / you have a little soft spot for them

[@vesperiamorningstar3785]

Yea

[@Maggie66112]

Hidden?

[@KristyKful]

I remember when I was very young and had like *literally countless* numbers of a bunch of cat ocs inspired by the pete the cat books, lol. Those adventures they all had that I imagined, that's fun to remember.

[@DemonDiscoJockey]

I literally only draw lizard men. I think i have an obsession with reptilians.

[@ChezBurger_97]

All my ocs are furries and i do hide them

[@thegreatzucchiniidkalastna3743]

*First off, the punching bag, they have the most tragic backstories possible Me: frick, you already got me

[@SonicBoss1991]

They found us

[@vesperiamorningstar3785]

Triple

[@gwenglanders1895]

0:18 thx for the novel motivation. I've been looking to start a book, but I'm stuck in the planning phase. Thank you, that's the little push I need.

[@BMS777]

I invested so many stories in my oc, that he became the main character of my future game, I'm still in the planning phase, but to give you an idea, he would be a mix between Cool Character, The Murderer and The Chosen One, a little strange, but with context it gets better!

[@ArtOpal]

For me, whenever I make a self insert oc. I eventually draw them so much that they gain so much of their own personality that it's hard to tell they were supposed be me (other than the design). Honestly if I drew all my oc's in a row you would notice a large amount of them are drawn almost exactly how I draw myself. It's a bit of a problem I'm getting over right now XD

[@TheAnthonrsls]

I thought I was the only one! My first ever oc was supposed to be me, but in minecraft, and it was a drowned. And evetually I gave her a backstory, a personality, and 5 other friends that were also supposed to be me but ending up into another charcater.

[@K4_is_gaming]

i feel called out

[@hellod7961]

​@@K4_is_gamingSame, I'm always afraid to be called cringe because of it

[@starlight_studios8784]

Well I mean, if you are that awesome in all those timelines...

[@ek0dev]

I do the same exact thing, except almost none of them resemble me

[@bluehoodieart7315]

“The philosopher character is the mom friend and is very smart” My philosopher character is an alcoholic, conspiracy theorist detective who at one point nearly beats up a teenager who has amnesia.

[@sierrahale804]

heh

[@kamiladiaz1465]

Dude.

[@luchiirodriguez279]

That sounds cool ngl

[@krystal2026]

Mine is a depressed, anxious, sleep-deprived, everything else in the book, 12 year old who begged for her sister to mercy kill her into to defeat another one of their sisters, has one of the most dangerous powers in the universe, thinks too much about life, is used for literally everything, *etc.*

[@graceful-not1423]

My philosopher stared a god in the face, insulted them and is the only one who stays calm in the entire situation of being thrown into magic. No but legit their just so tired having to deal with my murderer OC that nothing surprises them anymore

[@KJ44411]

the cool one was spot on, ive got a lotta characters with some really cool powers that are too fun to give up

[@Another_Internet_User]

You forgot one; The Robot. Everyone i know, including myself, has some kind of robot OC, whether it's really basic or overwhelmingly complicated, robot OCs are some of the best, imo

[@legendarybubbles4567]

It’s so nice to see a positive video about OCs! It’s so refreshing and shows the true nature of making characters! It’s honestly so disheartening always hearing about how “making ocs is bad” “making ocs is cringey!” So what if we have ocs, or make them? We can always get better, but bashing people because they make them is awful! This video was so sweet, and I’m happy the algorithm randomly led me here!

[@Dotical]

Fr like do people realize every fiction show started from someone making OC’s💀

[@TailsClock]

...Where the heck do you go where anyone says OCs are bad? I'm 33yrs old and have made my rounds through the anime fandom, the Sonic fandom, and MLP fandom, and other more modern ones. And no-where have I seen anyone say OCs are bad. Every single fandom has OCs you'll bump into and that's part of it. It's never been discouraged or shamed. Maybe people aren't saying OCs are bad to you. Maybe they just mean your OCs specifically are bad. That makes more sense! But joking aside it sounds like you hang out with crappy people.

[@Dotical]

@@TailsClock Well I’ve never met one of these people irl or online, but I’m pretty sure the type of people who say OC making is cringe are the people who see a few cringe OC’s from fandoms they’re in and think “Hm yes, all OC’S must be cringe since these are.” (Speaking of jokes it took me like 15 seconds to realize your user was TailsClock and not TailsCock💀)

[@ibisskb]

@@TailsClock Within creative minds, yeah. Very often criticism of OCs is directed if your OCs look bad. Honestly, spending years to build a character that suited me helps you realize that working towards a outstanding OC is amazing. Even the least artistically-driven individuals are going to consider that cool.

[@runo4155]

My characters backstory is literally the old god of time got lazy and gave his powers to my character Now he's an information powerhouse that doubles as a therapist

[@mvjerbs6706]

this, everthing about this is true. its so true that its starting to make me believe you went through my mind. especially with the child murderer. I love this so much.

[@sweetiewolfgirl]

My main OC is like playdoh, every other OC they've interacted with in every other story featuring them has left an imprint on them. Their base was "Heres a divine plant, I made them with you in mind", and it sorta just evolved from there. It's not a character I think of for "self insert", much of them is far different than me and not an idea I ever would've thought to make, but they would fall under it in some way. They've been everything, and by nature are always the cool OC since they quite litterally exist in-between everything I've ever written and only get more detailed as I write more. (That and they litterally can't die. I mean, they can die, they die A LOT, but they can't _die_, you're going to be cool after enough deaths, that's like the whole idea of the darksouls.)

[@AlligatorTeethz]

“Number 6. *the murderer* “ *Me with almost all of my ocs being murderers or cannibals* : “oop- 👁👄👁”

[@agameoffools1546]

At least people taste good

[@kitchengun1175]

here comes my bat sh!t crazy child oc with a baseball bat

[@Nobody-hr4gt]

I did not expect the cannibal part

[@konnosx1213]

>all of them are cannibals A fellow edgelord of culture I see

[@mimisaur5000]

walks into the club with my femboy werewolf cannibal oc

[@joycedaturtl]

me who doesnt even have ocs and only draws random characters, also has never thought about giving them a backstory: "this is gonna be interesting" 👁👄👁

[@ChezBurger_97]

Same

[@Mask999-dl2wf]

Most of my characters are a mix of the punching bag, the cool one, and, most importantly, the murderer

[@huntercraft5674]

this is... menancingly accurate

[@pandapie2.08]

I definitely have some of these characters but not others due to the fact that my characters live in the same universe. None of them are the main characters and just kinda hang out and have their own lives

[@Chibitasm]

I do kinda lean toward more adventure/fantasy characters and worlds but I feel that. Hella respect for chill living life characters 👍

[@Fisinocean]

Same! I think i fall in love with the ideas of interconnected slice of life story and accidentally create a universe taht accomodate all of my characters no matter how absurd their concept is while also maintaning the "they all have their own lives and is the main characters in their own right"

[@wanderingsoul7681]

"Everyone has a story inside them. Everyone has several stories inside them." Me: . . . Me: **looks at my library of my rarely finished stories** That sounds about right.

[@yourlocaldemon2195]

I feel this 🖐🏻😔

[@Parzi_Parzival]

@@yourlocaldemon2195 me who wrote twenty pages and then stopped *hahaha,, true*

[@PS-vr1uv]

@@Parzi_Parzival me but I wrote only 9 then scrapped it cuz it was too cringey

[@yourlocaldemon2195]

@@Parzi_Parzival Me who wrote one chapter then stopped... *:)*

[@metra8604]

@@yourlocaldemon2195 im in the middle of writing mine. it's gonna be edited to heck, but i shall continue it. my mc needs it's backstory written >:|

[@nordinreecendo512]

It took me *years* to realize my punching bag OC was literally how I processed my childhood trauma. I was RPing his story with an RP partner and suddenly realized "Oh my god... This is how I'm processing my family trauma..."

[@max_punch]

Same. Started making this OC who was supposed to be the mega evil villain of me n my friend's RP. Then I gave him a backstory full of trauma, and I realised "damn.. this is literally my life" and now he's not evil anymore just depressed ☠️

[@its_sisha_not_chair505]

Same history here. I remember when i used to do whole fuckin story lines which were fueled just by my sheer edgyness and need of pouring my trauma onto something. Specially into sexy emo teens with super powers (no mom its not gay, its cool and dope) But yeah, "good" years. I love looking back at how i used to think literature worked and omfg my logic was so goofy💀💀 "Alright, now everyone in this story should have at least ONE dead relative and then all the protagonist friends should die at the end and then he gets really angry and wins. This is awesome, better than my favorite anime, Tokyo ghoul"

[@nordinreecendo512]

@@max_punch Mine was just a simple boy in a slice of life setting whose mother abuses him and the only one who really is ever there for him is his sister. He would internalize everything his mother tells him, and would always blame himself, even though everything was out of his control. He was the type who, when others would see his bruises and injuries, he'd just smile and laugh and say "Oh, I was just being stupid," implying "I was being stupid and got hurt because I wasn't careful," but actually meaning "I was being a stupid brat and pissed my mom off, it was totally my own fault this happened." Sadly I didn't have an awesome and supportive sister to console me and reassure me none of what happened to me was my fault, and I think that's part of why I ended up writing all this the way I did: I needed someone who could support me and love me, and so I spent a lot of my time living out this boy's life vicariously.

[@nordinreecendo512]

@@its_sisha_not_chair505 I totally understand what you mean! In a way, I sorta miss having that naïve understanding of how literature works, as it felt very liberating, but now that I've learned to be a better writer, I traded that freedom to instead have the ability to set up interesting themes, stories, and emotional payoff. One of my favorite RP memories was with a close friend of mine with whom I was doing an RP based off Soul Eater, but in an OC-only AU. My character was a loner and a dick, and her character was his partner. I ended up introducing a character who was very much of a wise-older-sister-figure for her character, and the two grew very close. She ended up getting killed off to save her own partner, and as soon as I sent that, my friend just broke all semblance of RP format and replied with "WAIT" "WHAT" "NO" "WTF" "NOOO" "WHAT THE FUCK WHY" "NO" "I'M DONE" "THAT'S IT" "GODDAMMIT I'M FUCKING CRYING" And it was one of the most satisfying emotional payoffs I've ever had!

[@its_sisha_not_chair505]

@@nordinreecendo512 that is funny lmao. Its always a warm fuzzy feeling to see someone enjoy and react to a creation of yours. Also i read the other they comment and im starting to see a pattern with sisters my guy🗣 (im just jk lol) i also cherish my days of rp when i was a young 12 yo boy. Ahhh yes, the cold blooded but extremely talented black haired guy who had to avenge someone or had a family member he swore to destroy. Man, Sasuke Uchiha has molded so many young children

[@spawnerbgoner7858]

i've been making OC's since i was about eight, so i have probably atleast three in every catagory, i've had a friend since 2020 to help expand upon them and their story. So not only do i have an incredibly massive story, a metric ton of OC's with interconnecting plots, cool artwork for almost every single one. My favorite one is multi-million year old demon named Censolar with a massive collection of Chosen one's from across hundreds of universes, i also wrote a 6000 word backstory for him too literally 3 days ago lmao

[@gopolo147]

I feel like there needs to be a #8, the Mary Sue that you liked so much that even though you realized how cringe they were you ended up spending time to work on them more thoroughly until they became a more well rounded being with a realistic personality and story. I mean, thats the one I spent the most time on, lol.

[@Zenosothoththeoutergod]

People who hate OP Broken OCs cannot do nothing about it anyway. Because the purpose of OCs are to be strongest aka (Broken, OP, Strong, God Powers) that's why OCs are created, , to be strongest so yeah nothing can do about it since it's the rule of OCs. My OC was made for the sake of being strong.

[@lemonweirdo]

I feel called out- I still have some of the first oc's I ever made and this is exactly what happened, they were originally all just huge Mary Sues and only had 1 character trait, but I've spent a lot of time making them more detailed, realistic, and distinct from each other! I still have some problems with accidentally making part of their character a huge stereotype or too unrealistic sometimes, but I've already improved a lot from the original character designs, so I hope I can improve even more.

[@PURPLEPOP_]

YESSS

[@manyharmons4308]

My innocent child is a prostitute... so yeah...My chosen character and cool character merged. Ironically I did think of using my philosopher like character instead but decided my cool character would work better. Most of my characters are murderers or atleast have killed. My self insert may be three gods...

[@allisonelizabeth6596]

Or #9, OCs that had little to no personality until you revisited and fleshed them out.

[@hanscapon222]

"We've all got that OC with a bunch of trauma" Me: **hastily shoves entire page worth of trauma for 1 character under the floor** what????

[@avacado221]

Relatable

[@manyharmons4308]

My innocent child is a prostitute... so yeah...M

[@youareanidiot7138]

You have human characters with trauma? I mean, my monsters have a bit, but not like "I was beaten because my knees existed, so I cut them out and now i can do the devious walk, but people still bully me because i got a hairline like the little Caesars batman pizza"

[@NineGenaizys]

I'm glad this video has been recommended to me, I only have 2 OCs, my self insert just trying to have a good life in a world full of mysteries, creatures and funny fellas, and "the chosen one" as a being created by 2 gods of creation of his universe, Yin and Yang, and he is constantly trying to understand why does he exists and questioning if was him created with a purpose, fricken love them

[@junkbot_james_creations]

I like drawing some of the most terrifying OC's (or at least try to) as characters that just want to live normally tbh.