#springhole plot generators

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with all due disrespect (which is all of it), I hate art I I hate art I hate art I hate art I hate art I hate art I hate art I hate art I hate art I hate art I hate art I hate art I hate art I hate art I hate art I hate art I hate art I hate art I hate art!!!!! So here's my ocs but woe, picrews be upon ye

For context, the story is that these 5 were all at the same endowed school (St. Claire's) until one of them transferred to Bloor's in the 4th book.

In order from CotRK OC I made first to newest OC:

link to picrew

Starting with Tanya! Her endowment was to feel other people's emotions, which was toooootally not a ripoff of Gabe's lmfao. So I used the Springhole Superpower Generator and now her endowment is that she can detect when someone is (intentionally) lying. It's not the best power, but there's worse coming up so she's pretty mid as an ally.

Tanya is a basic bitch. She's a cheerful girl and incredibly fucking stupid, but also incredibly fucking optimistic.

At 12, Tanya's the youngest endowed at St. Claire's but average at Bloor's.

Tanya is one of two Good kids, so between this and her age she isn't close friends with any of the other ocs. She looks up to Annie, but Annie isn't interested in a twerp like her.

If Tanya moved to the King's city, it would be because her parents divorced and she followed her mom when she moved away. At Bloor's, she'd be in Drama but wouldn't be very good at it.

Tanya's impact on the canon story would be the most minimal. She'd get along well with the other Good kids, but lacks the power to change anything to come.

link to picrew

Second oc is Isadore. I made him when I was a kid and thought you could use moonlight to start fires the way you can with sunlight, so his endowment was manipulating moonlight and he used that to set stuff on fire. By 2020 I knew you could not actually do that. Instead, I opted to keep the endowment of "moonlight manipulation" but he starts fires the way any other person would, with matches.

Today, Isadore... isn't much different to his 2020 counterpart. The general idea behind his endowment is that it's actually pretty lame. He glows and at night he can move moonlight like it's something physical to wave around like a flashlight. His only use is saving the money on buying a real flashlight.

He is extremely nocturnal, and in the daytime he's always falling asleep somewhere. At St. Claire's, he is failing his classes and relies on his friends to keep him educated enough to not get held back (it is not working). At night, he stops feeling so drowsy and can actually Do Things. Unfortunately, most of the other kids are sleeping. One stays up late and one wakes up early to hang out with him, otherwise he misses out on most of what goes on between the endowed.

If Isadore transferred to Bloor's, it would be after he failed his entire grade and his parents decide to throw him in a different school as a weak attempt to fix it. At Bloor's, he'd be in Art. He'd be a decent artist, but only when he can do the project at night and turn it in the next morning. Otherwise, his paintings are all aimless squiggles where he passed out and let the paintbrush roll away.

Isadore's impact on the canon story would also be pretty minimal. He'd sit with the Evil endowed but not get to hang out with any of them very often.

no picrew link because I forced myself to draw this and I'm not wasting all the time I spent to not post it

This is Garnet. He's an oc that I revamped in 2020 to be a CotRK oc, but he wasn't originally a CotRK oc. So he was fandomless -> CotRK -> fandomless -> CotRK.

Garnet's the ""leader"" of the evil endowed at St. Claire's, in that he's one starting most of the beef and telling the other four what to do. His beef with the good kids is part them foiling his plots and part personal beef with one of the good kids not in this post.

Garnet's a shapeshifter. Because he needs to eat more to have the energy to shift (idea "stolen" from B lmao) + he stays up late, he doesn't often do much actual shifting. He can, but it's taxing the more he does it.

Garnet's family has an interest in "collecting" magical objects, and have been for many years. None of the kids are allowed to use any of them until they graduate school, so Garnet doesn't get access to them at any point.

A moderate amount of conflict, at either school, comes from Garnet deciding to steal from other people and the good side putting a stop to it.

If Garnet transferred to Bloor's, it'd be because his parents dragged him to the city while hunting for something mystical and probably not real. His parents only send him to Bloor's because of their Drama department; Garnet's siblings all go to normal school.

Of all my ocs, Garnet would have the biggest impact on the story. He'd be an antagonistic klepto whose shifting powers aid the Bloors well. Despite it, evil would still lose and his family would leave after the final battle.

Picrew link

Moving on to OCs I created just this year in a previous failed attempt to make CotRK ocs from scratch, it's Aneira (Ann/Annie for short).

Her endowment is control over ice, snow, and cold.

Annie and Azalea used to be girlfriends, and I'll elaborate on that later, but Annie is still bitter about the breakup and often targets both Aza and anyone Aza dates.

Unlike Garnet and Finley, Annie doesn't care about Isadore enough to stay awake to talk to him. She's a snob about endowments, if you don't have a powerful one she isn't interested in you at all. As a result, whichever side has the greatest amount of "impressive" endowments is the one she sides with. At both schools, it's the evil side.

If Annie moved to the City, it'd be because her parents found a nicer home their current one (probably in the Heights) and they moved. She would be in Music and be decent at it.

Her impact on the story would be minimal, though it's likely she'd delay things with a heavy blizzard or two if she got pissed enough.

by this point I'm sick of picrew so here's a quick shitty doodle from like May

Last but not least, Azalea.

This roll gave Aza her powers, but tbh talking about her with B is how she got fleshed out.

Azalea is a good kid. She's never killed anyone and doesn't wish to. If need be, she'll drain energy until someone passes out, but she won't hurt them.

Her endowment works by touch, and as a result she covers most of her body in clothing. Annie's the kind of girlfriend that clings like your tongue to ice, so it infuriated her that she couldn't kiss Aza for very long before getting drowsy, that she couldn't hold Aza's hand without someone wearing gloves, etc and she initiated the breakup.

Aza dresses like an edgelord, but she's really just a poser. She's quite nice and kindhearted and firmly on the good side.

If Aza moved to the City, it'd be because one of her parents had to relocate for their job. At Bloor's, she'd be in Music but only kinda meh at it.

She'd help the good side as much as she could, but ultimately nothing changes too drastically.

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Do you have any rp ideas?

Here’s a few to hopefully give you inspiration for your muse...

Apocalyptic Writing Prompts: Writing About the End of the World

Bryn Donovan - 50 Mystery Story Ideas: Plots and Writing Prompts!

Bryn Donovan - 50 Science Fiction Plot Ideas and Writing Prompts

Bryn Donovan - 50 Spooky Writing Prompts and Horror Story Ideas

Gatekeepers Press - 100 Creative Plot Ideas Organized by Genre

Haunted House AUs & Strange Town AUs Prompts

Horror Story Writing Prompts: Chilling Ideas for Your Next Creepy Story

List Of Alternate Universes

Odyssey - 13 Roleplay Plots You Haven't Thought Of Yet

Prompt Story Ideas

Prompt Story Ideas, Pt. 2

Roommates Prompts

Soulmate AU - Dialogue Prompts

Soulmate AUs

Themed Restaurants & Cafes Prompts

Think Written - 42 Fantasy Writing Prompts & Plot Ideas

Writer’s Digest - 25 Plot Twist Ideas and Prompts for Writers

Writing Prompts About Ghosts

Writing Prompts about Vampires

Zombie AU Prompts: What Were You Doing When The Zombie Apocalypse Happened?

Here's some story generators too...

Big Huge Thesaurus - Story Plot Generator

Chaotic Shiny - Writing and RPG Related Generators

Perchance - Random RP Scenario Generator

Plot Generator

RP Generator: Mini Scenario

RanGen - Plot Generator

Roleplay Generator: Prompt Ideas

Sci-fi Ideas - Random Story Idea Generator

Seventh Sanctum: Writing Generators

Springhole - RPG Campaign Idea Generator

Story Plot Generator

TV Tropes - Story Generator

Writing Exercises - Random Plot Generator

And if all else fails, there’s also blogs and the search sections...

#prompt ideas

#prompts ideas

#roleplay ideas

#rp ideas

#story ideas

#writing ideas

AUideas

Creative Prompts For Writing

Plot Thought - Rp Ideas

Prompts In A Barrel

RPedia: The Roleplay Resource

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Inspiration for prompts

Or just fun procrastinating ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Doc with a list of AU's

Id Pro Quo tag generator- a variety of 'iddy' (like 'guilty pleasure') tropes

Springhole's plot generators

AO3 tag generator

100 words prompt generator- a lot of uncommon prompts here

Kinky/Smutty prompt generator

Original Ships generator- combines original character tags from AO3 tagsets, can be useful to inspire AU's or relationship dynamics

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Do you have any books that you recommend to help improve writing? Either how-to books or books that are just so well-written that they can teach by example?

Oh good question! Despite what y’all might think, I don’t actually read that much 😅I typically get my writing advice through random tumblr posts and some websites. I’ve vouched for these resources before and I’ll vouch for these again:

Springhole - Lots of really fantastic general writing tips! Highly recommend it if you’re trying to find your voice.

ScriptX - Directory of tumblr blogs dedicated to more specific writing advice like medical and legal questions for when you want your writing to feel more realistic

Writing With Color - Advice on how to ethically and realistically write characters of color!

As for writing style, honestly it’s a matter of personal preference and also the voice you want to portray. Off the top of my head, The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennet uses a very conversational, storyteller tone that compliments how the characters themselves speak and reinforce that even the narrator is unreliable. On the other hand, “good” writing doesn’t have to stand out. Think of one of your favorite books. What about the plot did you enjoy, and how did the author use word choice, cadence, and syntax to set the mood bring that plot to life? Chances are, it’s the little details that do it. Caraval by Stephanie Garber, for example, uses color words to describe sound throughout the book. This is a great example of a character trait (in this case, the main character has synesthesia) being implied through the meta narration and is a great way to help put your reader in the POV character’s shoes. 

Anyways, if anyone else has examples (and book recs for me to add to my growing to-read pile), please share!

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mostly because all of these I see contain websites you have to pay a lot to use. Though with some of these you still have to create an account to use. 

Sites for Prompts-

The Story Shack: Has prompts that include a genre for the story and amount of words you could possibly write for it.

Writing Exercises Random Prompt: Gives different elements for your story, including about the setting, main character, and situation so you could put them together to make a story.

Writing Exercises Quick Prompt: Gives a kinda detailed prompt with a few sentences. 

Writing Exercises Sentence Prompt: Single line/sentence plots and/or story starters.

Prompt Generator: Has many prompt/blurb fill-ins that create a short story you may work off of.

OTP Prompts: Creates a prompt that you could use for your OTP or just two characters. 

Sites for Character Names-

Popular Baby Names: Has the most popular names through state, decade, and years. 

Baby Names: By Origin, Alphabet, and Theme

Behind the name: Gives meaning behind different names and some of their history

Random Name Generator: Generates names based off of origin and gender

Taleforge Name Generator Lists: Has many generators that you could choose from to have a name 

Writing Exercises Name Generator: Has Names for Females, or Males, or Last names. 

Story Shack Character Names: Generates a character name with a first and last name.

Fantasy Name Generators: Includes many name generators for you to use to get a name from. 

Character Personality Makers-

Writing Exercises Character Traits: Gives three traits for your character to have.

Story Shack Character Personality: Gives you a full personality and Profile for your character. 

Character Generator: Gives full profiles, or personalities for your characters. 

Rangen Personality Generator: Creates character personalities either simple or detailed. 

Character Archetypes-

Common character Archetypes: Has a list and meanings of many archetypes. 

List of common Archetypes: Has a bunch of archetypes and simplified meanings.

Word Finding Sites- 

Tip of my tongue: To help you find the word you’ve been looking for when you can’t remember or think about it. 

Reverse Dictionary: Lets you type in a word, phrase, or sentence to help find a word you’re looking for. 

Rewordify: Simplifies words

Random Word Generators- 

Word Generator: Generates random words

Random Lists: Noun, Things, Adjectives generators

Story Editing Sites-

Slick Write: Lets you past in your text and gives different information about your text like how it flows and it’s statistics. 

Typely: Give information about your text like some statistics and some other information within the text

Hemingway: Highlights different parts of the text in your story to show you what you have in it.

Time Line Graphics-

Timeline editor: Helps creates timelines of events

Visme: Creates graphics that help make timelines

Family Tree Makers-

Family Echo: Makes Family trees, lets you add pictures if you log in. You could also add notes to the characters and isolate a specific part of the family.

Creately: Can let you make family tree graphics. 

Writing Sites-

Calmly: An online writing site that lets you have it be full screen to let you focus on it more, also has preferences of dark/light mode, text size and font, along with a mode for dyslexic font. 

750 Words: Has the goal to have you write 750 words. Has challenges to write this everyday. 

Writing Reference Sites-

Writing Excessive: Has many generators to assist in writing

Masterpiece Generator: Has Generators for plots, Characters, and names

Mary Sue test: A test to see if your characters are too over powered or perfect. 

Springhole: Has many pages that help with writing along with some articles that have tips for world building, writing, and character creation. 

Randomlists: Has many pages and lists of random generators. 

Storyshack: Has tools for writing, like names, plots, and title makers 

Fantasy name Generators: Has many generators that help aid in naming people and things. 

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RPG Generators

Ya man’s back with some more generators.

Multi-Generator Sites Serendipity  Donjon The Red Dragon Inn Springhole Asmor Age Of Fables I actually don’t know the name for this one Chaotic Shiny Crunchy Bits Seventh Sanctum Fantasy Name Generators (Holy shit, I use this site a lot.) Table of Tables Auto-Roll Tables Chartopia Roll Tables More Lists of Random Tables (Just pretend you didn’t see the post image oof) More Random Tables MORE Tables

Full Character Generators D&D 5e Character Generator D&D 5e + Cypher Character Generator Another D&D 5e Character Generator/Builder D&D Beyond Character Generator/Builder (Must have an account) NPC Generator (Honestly you could use this as a character generator.) Random DND 5e Generator Basic Fantasy Character Generator D&D Elf Generator D&D B/X Character Generator Modern/Could Be Adapted SUPER details Generator Villain Generator (Can be saved!) Basic Character Generators Who The Fuck Is My DND Character? (hey, thats just the name this time!) RPG Character Generator (This one is more just stats...) d100 Witch Traits Random Hair and Eye Color Table Dwarf Generator NPC Generators NPC (DND 3.5e) Generator GURPS NPC Generator One Sentence NPC Generator 101 NPC Personalities Generator (More a table if you ask me) RealNPC General Fantasy NPC Generator General NPC Generator 1000 NPC Traits Table

Plot/Seed/Encounter Generators Random Plot Hook Generator Fantasy Plot Generator Random Adventure Hook Jesus Christ This Is A Detailed Plot Generator Random Adventure Generator (Also Detailed) 100 Adventure Ideas Table Random Plot Encounter Table: Fantasy Random Plot Encounter Table: Sci-fi d100 Ritual Killings Table Misson Generator Table Several Different Genre Plot Generator Adventure Ideas Generator Random Adventure Idea Generator And Then The Villain.... (d100 table) DND 5e Random Encounter Generator

Things Generators d100 Corpses and Inventory Table Weather Generator d100 Brutalizer Table Zak’s Death And Dismemberment Table (Text Version) Magic Items Shop Inventory Generator d100 Reasons Your PC's Family Likes Your PC's Big Sister Way More Than Your PC (Thats just what its literally called y’all) Random Spell Tables Critical Miss Tables Treasure Generator 10 THOUSAND DIFFERENT MAGICAL EFFECTS TABLE Treasure Tables Location Generators d100 Inns On The Side Of The Road Very Detailed City Generator d100 Ritual Locations Table Town Generator Random City Generator Random Village Map Generator d100 Random Locations Place Name Generator An Absolutely Fantastic Medieval Fantasy City Map Generator (hover around the map!) A FANTASTIC World Map Generator (Detailed!)

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⌘ : Where do you get some of your inspirations for plots/head canons? Offer an example, if possible.

For plots and such, I tend to use little generators when I’m stumped for ideas. There’s plot generators all over the place! I like Springhole because it gives lots of details :) For headcanons, I try to take Donnie’s personality into consideration and decide what a person like him would do or react to in certain situations. It helps because we’re a bit similar ^w^

✔:What drew you to the character you currently play? What types of characters are you generally drawn to?

I got into TMNT around 2007 when the CGI movie came out. Like, I watched the old cartoon before, but I never really got into it until that year. Honestly, I love Mikey, he’s my absolute favorite turtle. But Donnie was shy and smart and reserved and I related to that quite a bit. I felt he’d be easier to portray for that fact :) plus he’s an absolute sweetheart! I love his character and who he is! As for types, I really don’t have one. Luke was different than Donnie because he was a leader and a survivor, not a techy mutant teenager. I suppose I’m drawn to the more soft spoken characters if anything :) 

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How do you create OCs without making them first on wizard101? I find it very hard to make new OCs besides the ONE on wizzy because I don't have them "made" on the game (or leveled up, for that matter). I find it really hard and I hate being a perfectionist about it o;

Short answer: idk lol

Long answer: I don’t know haha

Answer that gives actual information: Let’s see if I can make this shorter than a river, shall we? (Spoiler, I can’t. This answer is one thousand words long.) 

You may have seen me post an out-of-context metaphor a moment ago: characters are pearls. Pearls, as you probably know, are formed when an irritant, sometimes a grain of sand, gets into an oyster. The oyster coats it with layers of goop, the goop hardens, and then humans find it and go Ooh, shiny. Pearls don’t pop out of nowhere. Characters also don’t pop out of nowhere. You build them around something. 

In-game characters don’t work very well for me as that sand grain, because not many of the attributes apply to my universe or my story (for instance, levels aren’t a thing, non-human characters are, and many of my OCs are adults), and there’s no personality to them, they just go with the plot, and their backstory is “Ambrose plucked them out of thin air.” I don’t understand how people make OCs out of them, but obviously they do, and fabulously at that. 

I use other things. I have a janitor I named after a type of cell, because that type of cell acts like a janitor. I have a supergod I named after our galaxy supercluster. I’m in the middle of reblogging a lot of tag-your-OC posts to a sideblog to draw ideas from. Hat Lord started as a literal joke, then became an imaginary friend, and I don’t know how av got into AGP. The alternate universe Sabrina Greenstars also started as a joke. 

Sometimes I just need a character somewhere, so one shows up (have a library? Have a librarian). Sometimes I try to figure out who my background characters are, and they become people (your character has bumped into someone, who are they? Why were they there? Why weren’t they looking where they were going?). Speaking of background characters, try to make them recur (AGP has a scene where Eth is walking down a side street and sees a person, Feef, and later when Talon and Iridian are asking if anyone has seen Eth, Feef is who replies “yes”). 

As for personalities, I write. This may be why I’ve been having trouble lately. My characters lack depth, so I don’t write, so my characters lack depth. Do you see my problem? 

Anyway, I go into waaaaay too much detail in my story. I sometimes call it ‘scenery porn’ because I just have to describe every single tiny thing Eth sees. This means I add random actions to new characters, because otherwise you would hardly notice they were there in between the descriptions of the wallpaper, the scent of spices, and exactly which spices they might be, the creaking of the floorboards, etc., ad nauseam. And then I read way too much into them. Did they doodle something in their notebook? They’re an artist. Were they humming? Musician. Were they throwing shade? Ooh, there’s a lot you could do with that. And make sure to ask a ton of followup questions. 

I also find that there’s a fine balance between boredom and Mary Suedom. My main (and viewpoint) character has brown hair, brown eyes, and is only one inch away from the average height for her race and gender. She listens to popular music, doesn’t dress too outlandishly, and has pretty common career aspirations. That said, she’s mute, so not entirely the average template. But most importantly, you see her personality. She has thoughts and opinions and makes decisions on her own, she’s not just shunted around by the plot. She’s also not a perfect angel. Some of her decisions are stupid, or vindictive. 

I think having a relatively average main character is a good idea. I’m always wary of stories where the main character shows up already knowing loads of magic, or being old friends with the Drakes, or being Super Snarky and mouthing off at Cyrus, and of course having silver hair and purple eyes and never-before-seen powers. Tread carefully if you decide to do these. 

For side characters, I find average doesn’t work. I already have a story for my main, it’s this one, so I need something else interesting for the others. Don’t be afraid to give them weird backstories and reasons for doing things. For instance, I just saw a prompt (that I am going to use, so I say this at some risk) for a character who learned to draw photorealistically because they were the only witness to a major crime, and they couldn’t describe the perpetrator. 

Background characters are background characters, and you probably shouldn’t put too much thought into them unless you need more mains or sides, or you risk cluttering your story. (Pffhahaha look who’s talking.) 

Back to your original question, though, and getting it answered: You do need something to build on, but if you’re trying to build on something other than what you’re used to, you’ll have to make an effort at it. It won’t happen by itself. 

Other pointers: Try to figure out where there would be a person. Has your character been thrust into a new place with nobody they know (like Wysteria, perhaps)? They’ll likely try to make friends, or at least allies. Does your character go to a coffeeshop? If they’re the outgoing type, they might chat with the barista. Is there somewhere your character isn’t supposed to be? There’s probably a guard. 

One place to start other characters would be, as I said, tag-your-OC blogs. 

Here is Springhole. Read it. All of it. It also has good random generators, many of which are for the express purpose of being sand grains. 

Here are some other generators I like, but most are just for names. 

Here is a character prompt blog I like, and I’m sure you can find more with that handy little search bar on the top left of your screen. 

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6 sweet tools for writers :)

 1.Springhole

Generators, world building help, role playing tips and even a bit of self help.

2. Fantasy Name Generators

Just what the name says :)

3. Novelist

One of the best apps for character creation and plot building

4. Pure Writer

Set an atmosphere for writing on your android phone

5. Zen Writer / Zen Writer on Tumblr

Set an atmosphere for writing on your pc.

6. Writing with Colour Tumblr

Tips for writing POCs.