#problem was it was set in the 20th century which suits jane and jake just fine but not so much dirk and roxy | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

4lph4kidz · 1 year

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the problem with 'why don't you just make an oc' with homestuck specifically is that so much of what i like about homestuck's characters is reliant on the text to the point of being impossible to extricate or replicate. if i wanted i could absolutely take some of the elements i like to make ocs, and i probably will at some point, but it's not just the characters and their traits on their own, it's their place in and treatment by the text itself that is compelling to me

#now that i think about it i'm not good at developing ocs if i don't know what their story is or what role they play in the narrative #and i haven't had any good story ideas in a long while so most of my oc ideas remain vague concepts #i did accidentally recreate the alpha kids about five years ago though. my brain was like 'oh you need a friend group that falls apart?#good news my friend we have some templates already locked and loaded'#and i didn't notice until a good while after i got back into HS and went 'god damn it'#THERE WAS EVEN A KID GRANDPA. HOW. how did i do that on accident #at that point i did consider just yoinking that story and making it about the actual alpha kids. maybe some day.#problem was it was set in the 20th century which suits jane and jake just fine but not so much dirk and roxy

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