#oc: Richard

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Mama a remmick behind you

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False Vampires

Old doodles with my OC Richard and @ben-the-hyena 's girl Elizabeth on the bottom right corner

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Hey look, it's two reality bending entities – who's gonna win 😬

This is my OC, Richard, who's the main antagonist of my comic! He's a manipulative jerk and he's the worstttttttt 🥰

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(2023) icons i did for my best friend's birthday slideshow text adventure :3

tavs and their lovers, dnd chars and their dads

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It's the silly weed day which means it's my silly boy's bday! everybody say happy birthday to richard

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Richard Lore

WARNING! This post contains spoilers for Outer Wilds: Echoes of the Eye!

If you have not yet completed this DLC (Or Outer Wilds for that fact), I would suggest not reading past the read more. What I talk about in here will spoil some of the largest parts of the DLC, and they're too good to not experience for yourself first.

Y'all gone? Alright, now let's get into this mess of a character.

Richard the Owlk

(Art by @luckylazulii!)

Part 1: Origins

Richard's origins are probably not a conventional way for OCs to be made. Richard was spawned entirely as a joke from several VRChat sessions I had with some friends. In them, we would usually start in the Outer Wilds avatar world, and one of the avatars was a customizable Owlk! Naturally, I tried to make the silliest looking one possible, so I gave them no antlers (But I prefer just calling them bald). While I used this avatar, I jokingly called them Richard. Not only did this name stick for the character itself, but it also somehow got attached to me. So if you're wondering why I had that random name listed as one of the ones you can call me, that's why.

Part 2: The Lore

This is where it somehow gets sillier. I never intended for Richard to be a serious character, so naturally I just started making up whatever lore I wanted for him. So, here's what the initial lore was:

He's bald (As mentioned earlier)

He's a certified Fortnite gamer

He sleeps in doorways (The one on the top end of the stairs in the Party House in the Shrouded Woodlands is the main one he sleeps in)

He eats children

As you can see, not the most serious OC. But again, I hardly intended for them to be serious. It wasn't until they had been around for a while and I started getting art of them that more lore started developing. So, here's the Serious Lore™:

Richard was spawned through a bug in the simulation's code. Despite the Owlk's best attempts to fix the bug, he was never patched out and remained in the simulation indefinitely.

He didn't act like other Owlks. He would often be looming in the distance, watching. Waiting.

He wasn't very... friendly, so to say. Various reports were made and many stories were told about the various things he had done, but there were never any other witnesses for any one story.

By the time the events of the main game are taking place, there are no other Owlks left in the simulation except for Richard (And the Prisoner, but due to their current situation, Richard couldn't feasibly get rid of them).

And so far, that's the lore. There are some other meta things I could think of that would explain how they would work in the context of the game, but that doesn't necessarily apply to their lore.

Part 3: Personality

I've given a lot of thought about Richard's personality and how it would work with both sides of his lore, and I think I've worked something out.

Richard experiences what I would best describe as very extreme mood swings, due to how messy the bug that allowed him to exist was.

One is the very silly, very goofy Fornite-playing doorway-sleeping Owlk that most people (Aside from the other Owlks) know and love.

The other side is the side that the Owlks experienced, with the general creepiness and violent nature.

My best comparison would be to some kind of mental illness, but I'm very cautious and nervous about saying that since A.) I don't know nearly enough about mental illnesses to name any one that it could be similar to, B.) I don't want to offend anyone who may have the mental illness that I specifically name, and C.) I don't want this to vilify mental illness in any way, shape, or form.

I'm very aware of how bad mental illness representation in media can be, and the last thing I want would be to add to that pile of misrepresentation. I would greatly appreciate any feedback or advice about this, since I'm very worried about portraying something the wrong way.

Part 4: Conclusion

Well, that's the Richard lore! Thank you very much for reading!

Richard is still very much a character that's under development, as I'm still attempting to work out exactly how they act and behave. Any thoughts or comments are appreciated, and feel free to send me asks about them, be it questions or feedback!

(Entirely unrelated to Richard, but after writing this I'm realizing just how starved for lore my other two OCs are. Maybe I should get some for them too.)

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In today's episode of: Will It Post? We are trying several things to post these cursed days of Cringetober that Tumblr likes to send to the void!

You guys remember Dead Like Me? My mom introduced it to me a while back, I haven't finished it yet but I love it all the same :] Also!!! Monkey Ball!! I love Monkey Ball and I miss it very much....

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Like my art? Wanna support a struggling college student? I have commissions! (and a Ko-Fi!) (and a game!)

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Baoleians don't sleep. Stupid advice. 200 years working in foodservice industry. (I think I might make this an actual thing happening in Baoleia that citizens who cannot pass a certain grade in school just get stuck in a "bad job" for the rest of their lives. Context for what is Baoleia: Naviaqua's neighboring country in the east which still sucks but in a different way.)

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did a little oc meme sketches (it doesn't have official eng version, so...have my doubtful adaption try at least :D) Credits + original version are under the cut!

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Gettin back into the drawing groove! I want to spend October getting better/more comfortable with watercolors cause they’re probably my favorite medium

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An absolutely stunning commission by imaginaturalism on insta! This is for my spy romance story, A Game of Cards.

The man on the right is Richard, or as he's better known by the agency hunting him, Innominate. On his case are two of the best members the force has to offer, Agent Ace and Agent Cupid (the men on the left)

Little does the agency know however, Agent Cupid, AKA Adrien Godfry, had already found Innominate's true identity, and is keeping it under wraps as he enters a complex and increasingly dangerous love triad with the villain and his own work partner, Will "Ace" Littlechurch

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I like putting my ocs on charts.

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i’m interested in this ask!

i wanna know about the sweet spot they had in their marriage, i just curious about RichardxElspeth fluff, yk?

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Oof...

Uh... not much to say, really.

Elspeth had went through a severely traumatic event - and Richard could see how much it had affected her, so he decided to ease up on being a dick.

He'd help out with Zephyr and Octi. He'd wash stuff up. He'd handle a lot of stuff that men at the time... really didn't tend to.

And it honestly made Elspeth believe that Richard was someone she could've seen herself sending her life with. That he could change, could become a man worthy of her hand. They'd go to Procksy Bay, hang out at places they hadn't been to in years. They'd have fun, be in love. They'd be a family, be a couple.

...which is what led to them getting a bit friskier...

...and having Ciero.

And because Ciero's birth was also quite traumatic (honestly, only Elspeth's first and last pregnancy were easy for her), Richard still took the role of the perfect gentlemen.

And for a while, it all felt perfect.

[v-isca]

imagine youre a century old homunculus and some fucking guy in their 20s (who is also a homunculus) is taller than you. lmao