it's your turn to share

a blog for showing the world your original characters. because they deserve to be celebrated

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it's your turn to share!!!

original characters make the world go round, but it can be hard to get people excited about them. but we're building a space to celebrate your love and hard work!

you can send in/link a post you already made or just make a brand new introduction to your OC and their lore, as in depth or simple as you like! and we will share it so more people can have a chance to see. we want to be your microphone to spread the news of your characters, new or old, serious or silly, dramatic or simple, elaborate or otherwise. we can also share links to things like webcomics, games, or other amazing things you've made or started making that star those ocs!

this blog is a curated gallery of your creative excitement. it is not a place to take other people's ideas or art, of course. let's share with the intention of also making others feel seen and heard, and make it a positive space for finding new creators to hype up. none of these characters belong to this blog, which should be clear. all art and ideas will be clearly sourced, and if you want more, you can follow the creator that is linked. for that reason, we will not take anonymous submissions of characters-- however, the ask box will be open for your thoughts. it would be lovely to connect people looking for collaborators! to be clear, fan characters are allowed (ie a character that you created, but that goes with an existing property)

we will tag content as appropriately as possible. if you would like to add on to your post or share that you have commissions open, we would be happy to spread that as well.

if your character has been reblogged and you would prefer the post be removed, please message and it will be addressed ASAP, but of course there will be no reposting or otherwise falsely claiming ownership of any content. we are spotlighting you! we are absolutely not taking or claiming anything.

feel free to use your own art, art that was made for you (with permission and credit, please), or art made with a tool like picrew. we will also share picrew makers that help us with the creative process! your post does not have to have art, either, but it may help in getting others excited for your ideas.

you deserve to share your OCs with a broader audience and have your hard work recognized! we would love to help you out. and if you love finding new characters to fall in love with, and new creators to adore, please follow this blog for more.

need a place to start? consider this template! make a picrew! or just tell us your favorite parts!

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Is this blog still active? I would love to show off my OC :)

absolutely! I just ran out of submissions and haven't had the time or energy to chase any down

tell your friends, share your creations!

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Hello! I'm humbly presenting to you my tumblr sexymen. Also I am working on an animated series with them, but I'll try to not infodump too much.

Sziliana on the left, lv. 23, Harpy beastman, any pronouns. Absolutely unhindered, no filter or concept of personal space. 50% violent thug, 50% flamboyant, overdramatic fuckboy who loves to be the center of attention and really wants to be a famous gangster. In her free time, she flirts with ungodly amounts of women, works out, and watches WWE. Also, she is always wearing heels and is capable of fully sprinting in them (scary).

On the right, her best friend and companion in misery: Ivo. 27 y.o., Demon, He/Him. Every night wishes he would never wake up; too bad Szili won't let him. Cynical about everything, hates everybody, but most of all himself. Survives off of coffee, aspirin, and very loud metal in the middle of the night. Self-proclaimed anarchist and punk. Also, he is really good with guns, so don't make him angry; he will shoot and he won't miss.

More art of the two :D

They both belong to my story: Gang for Rent, which is a comedy-action show about the daily, disastrous shenanigans of a small gang that Szili is the leader of, and Ivo was the first member (he had no choice). Lots of explosions, cartoon violence, sci-fi and fantasy bullshit mixed together, all of that packed with deviantart-era OC whimsy. Also, kinda not for kids :D

MORE HERE and on my blog ofc, because I constantly draw and talk about them. I already produced a minute-long animatic of the first scene and I am super proud of it, since it's my absolute passion project!

thank you for sharing!!!

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Sorry for my bad English it's not my first language but I'd like to introduce you to my favorite oc in the comic series I've been working on for the past 3 years.

Behold: Denys Alexandrovitch Dokoleskov (1986-2022). The cinnamon roll, and main character's father.

Short summary: Denys was both an airline pilot and single father of my main character, Anichka Denishka Dokoleska. He loved flying, yet the only thing he loved more than flying was his daughter. After the unexpected death of his wife due to complications during the birth of the main character, Denys decided not to remarry but to raise Anichka alone with the aid of a friendly elderly neighbor who lived across the hall in their apartment, who would watch young Anichka when her father is at work. Denys was an optimistic, friendly character who is not only adorable, but he was always happy to give anyone a helping hand and was always happy to spread kindness in the community. He was always smiling, even in the very end where his life was cut short at just 35 years old. He was murdered by one of eastern europes most infamous serial killers, and the third highest ranking member of the terrorist group that Anichka would face off against 8 years later in 2030, at just 16 years old.

Even shorter summary: Happy Ukrainian boi flies airplanes and gets killed while single handedly raising his then 8 year old daughter, who later becomes a national hero.

thank you for sharing!!!!!

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Shiryu was created by some sort of necromancer during the war between humans and monsters and has been alive ever since.

He was made using a tall human skeleton that was covered in a dragon-like monster's dust for some reason.

Despite being centuries old, he rarely acts like it. He's laid back, playful, loves making fun of people shorter than him and joking about his age, often telling people different numbers if they ask.

His nasal cavity only looks the way it does because of the way his past human life ended; an axe between their eyes, though Shiryu doesn't remember this, he can only guess because of the way the crack looks.

You should never let him in a kitchen. All he can cook is fire, but he forgets that every time.

He's scared of big bodies of water, so he never really leaves Hotland or New Home, though he isn't especially weak to it. The most damage it does to him is it puts out the flame on the tip of his tail and temporarily and causes him discomfort. He guesses the fear came from one or both of his past lives.

Oh and he also plays the viola :)

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Thank you for providing this! May I introduce the heroines of my first book, The Price and Prey of Magic?

Yew is a girl with a curse who makes the questionable decision to apprentice herself to a dark sorcerer. She hopes she can learn enough magic to lift the curse. She might've been better off accepting the curse.

Eider's a socialite who finds herself on the wrong end of a magical spell which takes away her hands -- but she's not going to let it take away her future.

My heroines are both desperate to salvage their lives, and their fates are far more closely intertwined than either would like. And when they finally have the chance to change their lives, they won't necessarily be on the same side.

I love both of these characters so much, and love getting the chance to talk about them. If you'd like to learn more about them and their story, check out my writing blog.

incredible! thank you for sharing!!

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omg omg

have him (art by @shiroi---kumo )

his name is terälehti. he's a librarian/archivist for the royal family and ended up there because he's shy and very nice. he's like 6' tall, built like a toothpick, and loves to read and write. very softspoken in person, very critical of politics in his writing.

his necklace was forged by his best friends, made of their souls' essences so he could have a piece of them with him always. his earring was forged by his other best friend in the same manner. his horns are made of ruby. also his hair is the softest thing you will ever touch and he gives wonderful hugs.

and yes watermelon jokes ARE permissible

he lives on my sideblog ( @aquaticsoul ) if you ever wanna check him out-

thank you for giving me somewhere to ramble about one of my many puff children

thank you for sharing!!!

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Oh hey !! Crazy seeing you here ha ha … what brings you round these parts?? Um …… come here often???

Here are some of my fellas… top right we’ve got Christopher Rucix! Main antagonist (and also protagonist sometimes) of my story ‘Bloodlines.’ He is very insane. He does way too many drugs. He is haunted by the spirit of his dead wife, of whom he killed. He is so insane he thinks his son killed her. Only crime was being born!! He is sooo crazy and insane I need to SMUSH HIM LIKE A BUG!!!

Then henry 😇😇😇 John Henry Francis ISNT a bloodlines chatacter instead he is an albertan. He’s a guy who pretends to be a priest to cover up his trail of murders and is also a cowboy he’s kinda awesome and very… scourgecore

Then comes JOSEPH AND LEAH!!! I love them so much look at how happy they are! They get divorced. Chris’s fault. Joseph can teleport and Leah and shapeshift and i can talk about them forever in fact i do have basically every week of Jo’s whole life in my head. Picture attached is them when they first met in the early 2000s while Jo was home temporarily from war and was visiting the bar/inn Leah worked at.

Bottom right is Magnolia ❤️❤️❤️ six foot tall lesbian with three very big scary dogs she can read minds 😇 although because she can read minds she’s been reduced to social anxiety and noise reducing headphones… she is yet another consequence to the actions of Chris

I can totally go on but dear account owner I spare you the time… thank u for looking at them I wish you the bestest of days !! See you soon

thank you for sharing!!!!!

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oooo these kind of blogs are always so fun! Figured I'd toss in my kiddos

So, I port them into p much every fandom I'm in. They were originally from VLD, as fankids of the main & supporting characters. Alex (she/her, 20nb) is the child of Shiro & Keith, & she pilots the Red lion & is a Blade. Tess (she/her, 19f) is the daughter of Ina and Ryan (I pioneered this ship 🫡) and she works on the Atlas as a translator. Niylin (he/him, 22m) is the son of Allura and Lance & pilots the Blue lion, as well as being an alchemist.

It would take far too long to summarize their storylines bc it spreads over 30yrs lol. I'm writing a comic for them (currently on hiatus) maybe I'll come back w a link when I pick it up again

I'll add a couple ports instead

Dragonriders of Pern port, specifically for an rp forum. The three of them are dragonriders. Alex (had to change her name to Alete per plot rules) rides the Brown Wulleth, Tess rides the Green Dioth, and Niylin is bonded to the Bronze Orianth & is a medic. (havent finished their thread banners yet so I only have niylins)

COD port. I've really only drawn Alex for it bc she's my fave oc lol. She's a Lt, specializes in close combat/stealth/demolitions. Was previously a fighter pilot. Tess is a civilian contractor, translator/interpreter. Niylin is a sniper/medic.

Warrior Cats (specifically Clangen) this is for an actively running save on my sideblog @sparky-draws these were from Moon 24, we're on Moon 30 as of me writing this so there's some inconsistencies

I've got some misc art of them too (again, mostly Alex lol)

we'll end it off w this picrew!

thanks for giving ppl the opportunity to share <3

thanks for sharing!! so much to see!

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Meet Maia and Lexi, the newest members of an elf-like fantasy race made up by myself and @ficklepenguin! Lexi is my character and Maia is Ellie's. They're college students in a world that's a mix of modern and fantasy.

Facts about Maia:

loves goth fashion and culture

makes/modifies her own clothes and clothes for Lexi

into cosplay

enjoys video games/anime with fun outfits

grows up to be a warlock eventually

Facts about Lexi:

loves to cook and bake

is going to culinary school to become a master baker

enjoys cutesy video games like Animal Crossing

loves to sing and is quite good at it

grows up to be a bard eventually

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hi! i just posted a little thing about me and my friend's OCs and would love it if you'd reblog it! thank you so much, this is such a neat concept for a blog!

https://ungarmax.tumblr.com/post/741702625887698944/meet-maia-and-lexi-the-newest-members-of-an

absolutely! thank you!

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Here's my beloved!!

This is Antònio! He is an Italian-American elementary school teacher. He's around 25 years old. He's married to his wonderful husband. He's transmasc and has 3 wonderful children.

One of his main goals is to find peace and acceptance with his crazy family. Since he's human and a lot of his in-laws have some sort of power, he's trying to understand them, but a lot of the time fails. However, he still loves them and tends to be pretty protective over them.

My favorite bit about him is that he is very confusing and is a lovable "old man."

oh i love this i'd love to know more! thank you for sharing!!

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Heyy! Here’s my little gremlin (art is by me):

Ombra the Ironhead! She’s my Mortal Kombat OC. She’s half-metalrealmer and is the chief of the Interrealm Forces in MRDO (Metalrealm Resistance and Defense Organization). Ombra has the power to manipulate iron to the core. She’s calculated, stoic, meticulous, and vengeful. Her goal is to mass murder some certain cultists who ruined her life. Also, she eventually falls in love with the infamous necromancer, Quan Chi.

Here her Biography and Game Mechanics :3

oh this RULES thank you for sharing!!

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HELL YEAH SOMEWHERE ELSE I CAN INFODUMP ABOUT SUNSHINE!!!

OK so hi hello, I'll tag my related blog at the bottom since that's where I talk about her and what franchise she's in so anyone who's interested can check out the things I've got for her there

Starting off! Her full name is Sunshine Fairfield and she's a half-elf sorcerer-bard in the world of DnD podcast The Adventure Zone. She's an eighth bird, which for those who haven't listened to the podcast means that she's a part of a group of people who ended up in a sort of universe-hopping time loop for 100 years. They ended up separated in the last universe and year... 101 I think? Due to a choice one of them made that resulted in almost all of them losing memory of the century and each other. A few of them ended up leading normal lives, but some of them had complications with that. I could go super super in depth with this just because of how much I love the Adventure Zone, but for the sake of the character limit, that's essentially the long story short for how it all starts out.

I'm in the process of writing a whole story for her and I've almost finished the Crystal Kingdom arc, for those who know. What I haven't written, I've at least mapped out, though the Eleventh Hour arc is kind of an exception and so are some parts of Stolen Century.

As some basic information on Sunshine herself, like I mentioned she's a half-elf sorcerer-bard with emphasis on the bard part. At the time of the story starting, she's in about her thirties, and the life she ends up leading in their last universe is one of a traveling performer, using her magic to help with special effects.

If or when this gets posted, I'll reblog from @institute-of-planar-shitposts to kinda lay out what parts of the story I have written and talk about what I haven't yet. I'm always happy to answer questions about her, and my pinned has some links to things related to her that I have here on tumblr. It should include her tag - I'm actually going to check that and make sure. Thanks for reading!

thank you for sharing!!

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Hiii! Found your Tumblr yesterday and was so happy to see a Tumblr dedicated to OC sharing! We all know how hard it is to be an OC creator as people tend to overlook OCs a lot so having a space for them here was such an amazing idea!

I, myself, love to share my OCs around and see other's OCs so I would love to share these two cuties from my original story with you all!

This beautiful art was a commission I ordered from the sweet Calmomila, one of my favorite TLK artists.

If you don't mind I'd like to take advantage of this piece to explain a bit about these two girls (more of an info dump, I'M SO SORRY FSKJFKDJS) because I am totally crazy over them. *screams* The one standing is Thabisa, the leader of the Jabulani pride, which is a pride that consists only of females, they are seen as atypical and other prides don’t appreciate their ways, however, they are also feared because they are extremely capable lionesses and are known to drive away males trying to invade their territory, especially the ones who still follow the old ways as they do not approve these (my story happens during a period of change, prides are slowly appropriating the new ways, basically the old ways are just like how lions work in real life, while the new ways work kinda like the The Lion King world, but with a few differences). The Jabulani pride is a very unique pride, with their own culture and rules.

The one lying down is Matimba, she is a trans lioness that had a very rough past and wasn’t well accepted by her previous pride. She was kicked out of the pride after she finally got the courage to face them about their acts of prejudice towards her, especially towards her incomplete mane, for which she was bullied. Unfortunately for her, their territory wasn’t far away from the sandy lands where the Jabulani pride lives and she ends up getting lost into a totally different biome than what she was used to, not being able to thrive alone due to the lack of experience and adaptation. She was found by Thabisa and some of her lionesses weeks later, she was severely dehydrated and malnourished, could barely get up. Together the females were able to move Matimba to a safe place within their territory and took care of her for the next months.

Once Matimba gained some of her strength back, she finally started to introduce herself, she wasn’t sure if she could trust them yet so she still presented herself as Mavuto, her now dead name, quickly she started to realize there was no need to hide her true self, Thabisa knew the signs and to Matimba’s surprise, she was totally fine with her being trans. She was loved and cared for since the day she was found and it didn’t take too long for her to finally feel at home, a home where she could finally be herself. The name Matimba was suggested by Thabisa when she decided she wanted to get rid of her birth name, not only because it was a male name, but also because it gave her some sad memories that she wanted to let go, she didn’t feel right with it anymore. The name means “strength” and that was how Thabisa started to see her after finding out about her past: a representation of courage and strength. I am an avid shipper of these two, I don’t care if I am the creator and if people find it cringe for a creator to ship their own OCs, I'mma shipping them until the day I die, I love them so much.

Thank you so much for creating this blog and I hope you are having a great week! :D

i'm telling you guys there is no cringe only joy here!!! im glad you're loving this, this is the whole point!

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ahh this blog has such a fun concept!! here’s my silly! there’s a lot to say about him so please excuse my ramblings XD

kento is a bnha oc i’ve recently revamped. he was originally created years ago and just.. wasn’t written or designed all that well, so i’ve fixed him up and have been using him more!

the short version of his story is that he was originally quirkless, and was offered the opportunity to obtain a quirk when he was about to graduate middle school. he ended up falling into the hands of a team of scientists experimenting with the transfer of quirks, and became a test subject.

for almost a year, he was trapped there, until the league of villains broke in to steal subjects for nomu creation. he escapes and is helped home with the assistance of pro heroes, and later decides to go to UA to become one and stop the quirk experimentation + protect those who were captured like him.

some little fun facts about him~

loves emo and goth fashion

really likes sanrio (his favorite character is piano)

actually doesn’t care to put a label on his gender, but uses he/they

in a poly relationship with kirishima and bakugou

origami angel and crushes bones’ biggest fan

loves any sweet food

i’m always so nervous to show him to new audiences, since a lot of aspects about him could potentially be seen as cringe or just turn people away, but i’m trying my best to break out of that fear and share my son with more people ^^ he’s a super cool and chill guy i promise!!

if anyone wants to see more content of him, i have a tag for both him and his boyfriends on my blog! kento sasaki and kenribaku, respectively.

thank you for sharing!! there's no cringe only joy here

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thought it might help to have a starting point for anyone who isn't sure how to begin! (these are just suggestions, and not required by any means!) use these as a guide for submissions if you like, or for your personal use!

Short OC show and tell template

[Image of character]

Name of character:

What’s their story’s setting/context?

What do they do with most of their time?

What do they want? Why?

How do they plan to get it?

Who do they know? How do they feel about them?

Favorite bit about character:

Longer OC show and tell template

[image of character]

Name of character:

Gender, sexuality, age, general vibe, species (if relevant):

Favorite bit about character:

What’s their story’s setting/context? What’s the general plot?

What do they do with most of their time? What do they do for fun?

What do they want? Why? What’s stopping them?

How do they plan to get it? Do they plan to get it? 

Who do they know? How do they feel about them? Which/what sort of relationships matter the most to them?

How will/have those people changed their life, for the better or worse?

What’s their biggest flaw?

What do other people think of them?

What genre is their story? What genre do they think it is?

How do things work out for them?

if you would like more character questions to think on, check out @characterbabble!