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@originalcharacterproblems
Lol when you get sucked into a new obsession and forget a lot of things to do with your other ocs because you never wrote them down.
I’m still alive. I just don’t post that often unfortunately.
Have you ever had a moment where your oc starts falling for a character from another fandom and you're like "no."?
I don't know how to explain it but when you have an oc, you suddenly have interests that you didn't have before?
Do you ever realize you’re putting too much of yourself into one OC so you gotta take some of your personality and put it into your other OC?
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50 Questions for Your OCs!
If they say “I had a bad day,” what does that usually mean happened?
Who’s the first person they would turn to for help?
Who’s the last person they would turn to for help?
Is there anyone they would kill? Could they actually do it?
Would they rather split a big task into pieces, or do it all at once?
Do they delegate tasks well?
Are they a leader or a follower?
Do they mediate or stir up shit?
Be honest: how much do they like drama?
Have they ever been in love?
Have they ever been awake so long they hallucinated?
What’s the worst insult they’ve ever gotten, and who said it?
What’s the worst insult they’ve ever given, and who did they say it to?
Would they rather talk to or about someone they hate?
What do they lead with when they’re asked “tell me about yourself?”
Are they single now? Any plans on changing that?
What’s the one trait they’ve worked the hardest to change about themselves? Has it worked?
Do they believe in anything based on faith alone (God or gods, magic, spirits, souls)? Do they respect people who do not believe?
Do they reject beliefs based on faith alone (God or gods, magic, spirits, souls)? Do they respect people who do believe?
Do they have any pets? Did they grow up with pets? Do they want future pets?
What’s the worst thing a history book 100 years from now could write about them?
Would they rather blend in or stand out?
At a party, do they stand at the sides of the room or go to the center?
Are they always or never late?
Do they think before they speak?
Would they be more likely to trust a gut feeling or a map?
What’s the worst they’ve ever been injured?
What’s the sickest they’ve ever been?
Would they rather plan extensively or go with the flow?
They need to make a big speech. Do they write it down or speak from the heart?
What would they say in their wedding vows to anyone they could see themselves partnering with?
Do they need to socialize to recharge after loneliness or be alone to recharge after socializing?
Would a lot of roommates, all close friends, in a small space be a dream or a nightmare for them?
Do they believe that everyone has broken the law once or twice?
Do they believe that most people would screw over a friend if offered a large enough reward?
Would they screw over a friend for a large enough reward?
What’s their idea of a great party?
Would they try anything once?
What’s their definition of a “tranquil” afternoon?
If they’ve got to go somewhere potentially dangerous, do they take someone with them or do they go alone?
Would their friends describe them as impulsive? Would they describe themselves as impulsive?
Do they have too-high self esteem, too-low self esteem, or are they pretty in the middle?
Do they dream of retirement, or do they think it sounds boring?
Do they have physical disabilities? In what ways do those affect them?
Do they have mental health issues? In what ways do those affect them?
If a friend is sad, what’s their go-to instinct to make them feel better?
What’s the worst thing they could lose?
Are they often lost in thought? Do they get irritated with others for getting lost in thought?
When learning a new skill, do they ask a lot of questions to ensure getting it right the first time, or would they rather try it out and fix anything that went wrong?
Who would they trust first: someone who has read 1,000 books or someone who has been 1,000 places?
Let’s see if this helps my writers block with my book
W hEN ur SPotiffy shows u a song that fits ur OC ex act lly
when ur in an oc mood and want ppl to talk to u about them and they actually ask ‘tell me about ur ocs’
the suffering never ends
This is the real process
Resources for you!
Character Ideas:
Character creation masterpost
Character Alignment Chart
More character alignment descriptions
Muslim Character questions
Characters with magical powers
Building a new character advice
How to create a character for an online or tabletop RPG (also a good guide on creating characters in general)
Royalty/nobility TV Tropes page
Basic character profile
OC masterpost
Random character generators - (1), (2), (3), (4)
D&D Character Building Tool
Character Design Ideas:
How clothing affects a character’s personality
Character Design Inspiration blog
Concept art, fan art, cool art to be inspired by
Character design references and inspiration
Sources for POC character design ideas and models
Create your own character model using HeroForge
For horned characters
Body and hair types guide
Random outfit generator
Naming Help:
Amazing site with an endless amount of naming resources
General advice on avoiding naming appropriation
Hispanic Surnames
Gothic Victorian names
Huge master list for character things in general
Masterlist of names of all types - including but not limited to ancient/old world names, Celtic, African, Northern European, Southern and Central American Native names, Japanese, Chinese, Mongolian, Polynesian, and more
Another name masterlist
How to pick a character name guide
Yet another names masterlist
Creating Background/backstory:
Character Sheet/Development Sheet
Another character development list
In-depth character personality, motivations and traits sheet
320 talents and passions for characters
On writing likes and dislikes that aren’t frivolous
Why you should write non-human characters non-conforming to the gender binary
Stereotypes, tropes, and archetypes
Random backstory generator
Assassin and thief character tropes to avoid
Character Interactions and putting your character into your world/story:
Comparing character height/height references
Characters who are scientists and writing about them doing science
Describing what different voices sound like
Describing skin tones
Writing friendship interactions that are platonic
Why having one character knock their friend unconscious to prevent them from doing something is a bad idea
Advice on shipping OCs with canon characters and what to avoid doing
Sweet Polly Oliver and Sweet on Polly Oliver situations (think of Disney’s Mulan for an example)
How to write multiple viewpoints/juggling a main cast of more than 4 to 6 characters
How to make readers care about your morally gray hero/anti-hero
On platonic OC and canon character relationships
How to avoid Godmodding in RPs
When it’s cheap to kill off a character
Writing dialogue
Things you shouldn’t do to canon characters
Avoiding purple prose in writing and RPs
Slang resources
Dialogue tips
Websites to chart your story/plot/character relationships
Bonus art masterlist!
BLESS EVERYONE IN THIS POST.
HELLO I JUST FOUND THE BEST FUCKING WEBSITE FOR WORKING ON CHARACTERS AND WORLD BUILDING YEET FUCKERS SEE YOU IN 8 YEARS
If you have been struggling with world building and finding a way to keep track of everything PLEASE GOD LOOK AT NOTEBOOK.AI
Notebook.ai has different categories for different things:
And then once you make something each category has different questions for you to answer about your world:
This website is literally a blessing
OH MY GOD
@chaotictrickster AAAAH
LOVE YOUR OCS!!! YOU DID GREAT ON THEM!! EVEN IF THEYRE OVERPOWERED!! EVEN IF THEYRE EDGY!! EVEN IF THEYRE CLICHE!! YOU PUT SO MUCH TIME AND EFFORT INTO THEM AND YOU SHOULD LOVE THEM AND LOVE YOURSELF FOR MAKING THEM!!!
me constantly:
Me: *has an OC I’ve put hours of thought and work into, developed backstory, rich storyline, cool design, and I really wanna share them and show them off cause I’m really proud of them and they mean a lot to me*
Someone: Hey! Tell me about your OC! :)
Me: Shit man… idk… they’re a dork.
why. do people get off on writing traumatizing events happening to their ocs
why cant you just say “yeah i enjoy developing my ocs’ backstories” or “its fun coming up with their lore” instead of being freaks who talk about how fuuun it is to abuse your ocs n how you just loooove making em into bloody messes
like its not cute
i dont know how to make this clearer but that comics like this:
are fucking everywhere on tumblr and always have like 50k notes is terrifying. yall get a hobby and stop n*tting over trauma n abuse its weird n youre Not off the hook for being the character creator if youre gonna act like THIS about it
almost 100% the time it’s the creator projecting their own trauma on their ocs and it’s actually painfully obvious that that’s the case…
Actually it’s also just people writing what the hell they want a lot of the time and there’s nothing wrong with that.
Also the comic example here is clearly a style of exaggeration to make something funny out of a relatable experience that’s developed over years of talking about it in a certain way; in most people’s cases, the relatable experience is creating drama and development through anything from tragic back stories to traumatic events.
If you go back a couple years on tumblr, you’d actually find posts discussing why so many people wanted to create sad, dark, or painful stories for their characters, and why they were always put through such horrible things (and why everyone seemed to ready to do it.)
Some people said they did it to explore their own experiences. Some people did it because it was a way to explore those themes they were unfamiliar with in a completely fictional world. I think overwhelmingly, people agreed it gave characters a lot more depth, ability to be empathized with, and attachment. It fosters protective feelings in people to see characters go through bad experiences.
In any case, there was a shift in how OC treatment (and character treatment in fandom as well,) was viewed and talked about. People went from “I’m about to make my fav go through something bad bc I love him and it’ll make him into the character I love” (or something similar, you get my drift,) to funny posts like the ones above, because among creators there was and is an understanding of how we all tend to do that to them, and its making a joke from it because you don’t get noticed by being the nth person to make the same ~relatable post~ again, you do it by taking something relatable and making it new and funny (welcome to tumblr.)
But I guess it’s more edgy to completely ignore the language development that’s pretty consistent with the dramatic escalation EVERYTHING gets spoken about on here (basically the “cultural subtext,”) to call people freaks in order to participate in callout culture and feel superior in some way, so good for you I guess?????
I feel called out
Gotta hop on that bandwagon
