#OC Posting

[druidshollow]

ok fire

[a-lonely-dunedain]

Having your own OC as your Blorbo is great because you will never have to see a bad Fannon brainrot take or awful but inexplicably popular ship involving them, but also I Have To Do Everything Myself Around Here Augh

[andorerso]

"they make me insane" and it's my own ocs

[slightlycomicobsessed]

1. Mostly the foster homes he’s gone through, any mention of his foster parents and he completely shuts down.

2. Pretty shitty. He’ll down several bags of sour gummy worms to feel better.

3. His emotions, especially anger or fear, because it makes his powers “turn on” and he hates that.

4. A lot of negative self talk, used to do sh but can’t anymore because of his powers making it really, really hard.

5. His family (bio sis and bio bro + his foster sister Julie) along with his friends. He loves them.

6. Adults, mostly. Especially white and/or Christian adults due to his trauma from the foster system.

7. Anger and fear. He hates it when people see his powers and both those emotions kind of “activate” it.

8. Quite a lot of things, but especially belittling and authority.

9. He’s scared he’s unloveable and broken.

10. Anger.

11. He loves a lot and easily, but he doesn’t know if he “deserves” to be loved even though he craves it very badly.

12. Himself, other people, especially people who have power over him. Losing his culture + identity.

13. Good.

14. Nice people, usually.

15. He likes how his powers protect him. He likes his long hair. He likes that he’s scrappy. He doesn’t like how he’s so scrawny. He doesn’t like how he’s afraid of heights

Get to Know Your Character

Here are some questions to consider for character development:

What parts of their childhood trigger them?

How do they treat themselves when they're feeling sad?

What parts of themselves do they tend to hide?

How do they punish themselves when they make mistakes?

Who are they loyal to? Why?

Who do they avoid? Why?

What emotions or situations do they try to avoid? Why?

What angers them?

What are their insecurities?

What are their emotional triggers?

How do they feel about love?

What are their fears?

What is their relationship with their family like?

What kind of people do they tend to gravitate towards?

What do they like/dislike about themselves?

Happy writing ❤

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[mildeleef]

Refurbished my slugc oc and tossing em into the wind because my buddy motivated me

[warthogreporter]

Things your OCs should be having with other people's OCs

-Playdates

-Parties

-Drama

-Comedy routines

-Political Marriages

[oc-ology]

How to OC post without being an artist (or spending money)!

As much as I yelled about OC-posting, some people said that they struggled to know what exactly they should be posting. Obviously the answer is whatever you feel like but if you’re already aimless, that answer isn’t very helpful. Additionally, not everyone knows how to draw (which I think is an obvious method of OC-posting) so I wanted to give some ideas for what people could post for their OC! This will be split up into different sections.

Creating visual representations of your OC

Disclaimer: I will not suggest nor support the usage of generative AI. OCs are about creating something yourself, not allowing a computer to do it for you.

Outside of commissioning someone else for art, it can be disappointing and frustrating to not have any visual representation for your character. An easy way to get a representation of your character is to use Picrew, Meiker and other similar sites. There’s a large number of art styles, types of fashion, species, that can all be used to make your OC and that amount only grows by the day. Many of these websites can be accessed on PC and mobile and take very little processing power.

However, this can be limiting at times since you might not find exactly what you’re looking for, especially if your OC has a unique combination of features. For something with more customisation, you can use video games with character creation to make a version of your character. I personally would recommend games like The Sims or Skyrim as both have very active modding communities. This way, if a certain type of clothing or facial feature isn’t present in the base game then you can often find someone who has created a mod that adds it in instead. This does require you to have access to a computer that can run not only the game but the mods as well.

Another option would be using a program like Vroid Studio to make your character from a base model. This has both a mobile and PC version, although I will primarily be speaking from a PC perspective. The mobile app, while able to create a character from scratch, is a lot more limited than the PC version. The great thing about Vroid is that there’s a lot of user-made content that you can often get for free through websites like Booth, as well as many tutorials for beginners to follow along with. Again, this requires a computer that is able to run it. I would recommend against using Vroid on a laptop as it will likely be too intensive for it.

My final suggestion for character visuals is to take a character from anime or cartoons and simply edit them. This was actually how I first got into making original characters! You can recolour their hair or outfits with an editing program (with some free examples being FireAlpaca, Krita or GIMP) and even edit different images together to create something more unique. Please only do this with characters from existing media and avoid using fanart for this.

Other OC visuals

Other than just what your OC looks like, there are other ways to visually put together your OC. Moodboards are the most obvious example of this, but you can also edit other things such as putting together outfits for them or finding pictures of items they would keep in their bag.

If you have multiple OCs, you can create fake text conversations between them using a number of websites. These can be as silly or as serious as you like!

Finally, you can always build them a pinterest board. I am a massive pinterest enjoyer and not only can you use pins that others have posted to pinterest, you can add your own from off the site. 

Writing

Beyond writing out your characters’ story, there are numerous other things you can write. Keeping in line with what you’ve already written, you can re-write scenes from alternative perspectives. These can add context to what is seen in the main story, as well as flesh out background or side characters and their relationship to your other OCs.

Another fun thing to write is non-canon scenes. Write a beach episode! Write about a character getting sick and someone else having to take care of them! There are countless ways to draw your OCs interacting with their world or other characters that wouldn’t necessarily ever fit into the “main” story.

Next is genre changes. If you had to categorise the genre of your OCs’ current story, what would it be? Now image what if the genre was something completely different? Romance to mystery… Slice of life to horror… Part of the challenge is figuring out what story beats remain the same and what gets changed, including character dynamics! And of course… Alternate Universes. There are too many types of AUs to list but some of my favourites are superpowers, mafia, zombies, time loops and time-travel-fix-its. These are similar to genre-changes but often include a number of AU specific tropes. If you’re struggling to figure out the staples of a certain AU or what kind of AUs exist, there’s a really good page about alternate universes on Fanlore.org!

Other ideas

These are ideas that didn’t quite fit into the other categories.

First is music playlists! There are two types of these. The first is a playlist of songs that describe a character and their story while the second is a playlist of songs that the character would listen to. Some people like to combine the two as well! There are no rules to this, simply have fun listening to music and picking out songs that remind you of your OCs.

Second is incorrect quotes. I remember these used to be beloved by fandom and now they can be beloved by you and your OCs! The concept of incorrect quotes is that well-known and funny quotes from pop culture (such as memes or movies) get written out and your characters are assigned a line of dialogue. While there’s a website that’ll generate these incorrect quotes for you, I personally find more fun in coming across quotes organically while scrolling social media and realising that they fit my OCs almost perfectly.

Finally, ask games. These typically take the form of lists of questions or prompts with emojis or numbers next to them. People can send in the relevant emoji or number and you then answer the corresponding prompt. There used to be a kind of “ask game etiquette” where if you reblogged an ask game from someone, you sent an ask from the list to them as well. This way, it allows the game to continue circulating and you can spread the joy of OC-posting with others! It can also lead you to making friends within the community.

And that’s it for my post! If you have other suggestions for kinds of OC-posting then I would love to see them!

[diagoose]

I desire to chat about my guys so bumping this again...

Putting Leigh and Griffin on there, but any of my ocs are on the table.

Oc symbolism/metaphor ask game!! I feel we all put a ridiculous amount of thought into all the little details of our ocs, so this ask game is to give us the excuse to info dump!

🌈 - color symbolism

🦂 - animal symbolism

🌷 - flower symbolism

✍️ - name meaning and symbolism

🔥 - elemental symbolism(fire vs water, sun vs moon, etc)

🎵 - music symbolism(we all desire a musical soundtrack for our ocs, what instruments wpuld you choose for a theme? do you already have songs that you associate with them?)

⚔️ - what character archetype/trope are they inspired by or associated with?

👕 - character design symbolism/inspirations

💪- abilities and powers symbolism/metaphor(how are your character's abilities a reflection of them as a person? Etc)

💫 - zodiac signs/birthday symbolism

🏆- important/sentimental possessions

☕️ - what are your character's go to comforts, and why?

🎊 - free space!

Ya'll are free to reblog for your own use, but i will ask as someone who has made a few of these on different blogs, to make sure you drop an ask to which ever blog your reblogging this from! To encourage ask culture and such!

[clarissasbakery]

can we get info on tasey and red pleas!!!

ong sure!!!!

red n tazey are BEST FRIENDS (w crushes on each other ofc) i like to imagine they’re both lowkey at the bottom of their school social totems— red’s awkward and weird and loves horses too much, and tazey’s a wannabe cool kid that annoys ppl.

red, when starting school, i feel doesn’t know how to make friends since she’s a bit shy and would rather do homework than go hang out. tazey is probably one of those “extroverts adopts introverts” thing w her!! and i feel like tazey’s not the brightest which gets to him, so red def helps him out in some subjects. they’re autism and adhd respectively 🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️

[gravyhoney]

WOAHHHHH THIS BITCH CAN ANIMATE⁉️⁉️

No.

Edited pictures together.

Pleeeaasssseeee for the love of god appreciate this I spent way too fucking long on it.

[apocalypseofgoodandevil]

Pandora lore? Yes.

Shes such a critter I love her... lets talk abt her forms!

Heres the chart! She has maaany variations of her 'prismatic' form or whatever we want to call non ichor boosting. Heres how it works! (Also shes banned from ichor drinking it makes her feel sick)

No, lust will not be canon. Go to horny jail.

But using a sinnergy is just really draining on her, and is incredibly dangerous... which is why she doesnt use sinnergies often.

[fistsofmisfortune]

> The D/D 288 wishes it could punch God as hard as I can

The daisy cutter wishes it could blast a load as powerfully as I do

[druidshollow]

dunes mayonnaise madness

[tigeristired]

minecraft being a game where death can mean nothing allows for people to make characters that make death mean everything

[soupy-guy]

Rex didn't mean to adopt Vellyx. He found this child stealing scraps from his garbage and offered him an actual meal but he had no interest in being a father. Still, the kid stuck around, and over time Rex found himself caring for him. He taught Vellyx how to fight, worried about him when he got into trouble, and was proud of his strengths.

Vellyx didn't really trust Rex at first. He liked the free meals and having a roof over his head. After a while he started to relax a little though. Rex disappeared for weeks at a time due to his work, leaving Vellyx to fend for himself, but he was still more consistent and reliable than any other adult Vellyx had known.

Neither of them really verbally acknowledged the other as father or son. But in the end, they're family. Rex never meant to be a father, but he loves his son.

For OCs that had unplanned kids or became guardians: how did this affect them? Did they take to it quickly or did it take them a while to adjust? Did they end up regretting it? How are those OCs as parents/guardians?

What about the kids? What do they think of their parents/guardians?

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