Sonic OC Questionnaire time!
Since the @sonic-oc-showdown is starting up soon I thought I should do something to write up a bit more about my OC Deirdre. Shoutout to @bunnymajo and @nintendoni-art for bringing this easy to chew set of questions to my attention. Art here is done by the always wonderful @bunniibones.
✨- How did you come up with the OC’s name?
Short answer, it's a pun. Long answer is that I was playing around with the way naming conventions seem to exist in Sonic where you have Word-the-Animal but also some characters have "proper" names, but tend to be playfully named. Sally Acorn, Bunny Rabbot and such. Deirdre was made with a bit more of Archie in mind at the time and as such she was dubbed Deirdre Whitetail. Since she's a deer.
🌼 - How old are they? (Or approximate age range)
I'm always leery of specific age when it comes to these characters given the overall aesthetic is fairly neotenic. She is intended to be a young adult though. Experienced enough to have gone through a few troubles and to set out on her own, but she's yet to be worn down much. So probably an early 20s.
🌺- Do they have any love interest(s)?
She currently does not have any love interests in any official capacity. At one time a friend was considering a roboticized one but that never got beyond the idea phase and isn't really "canon" for any value of the term.
🍕 - What is their favorite food?
Cocoa. Deirdre takes her hot chocolate very seriously. She sticks to the finest ingredients. Particularly in her own dried and crushed chili that she uses to add heat to the sweet.
💼 - What do they do for a living?
She considers herself a modern knight errant. Her family is old nobility that hold no real application in the modern world but she still holds herself to noblesse oblige. As she doesn't have any skills she considers worthwhile besides physical conflict, she works for the Restoration in trying to put a stop to the seemingly endless problems in Sonic's world. Especially if she can whack a badnik with an axe.
🎹 - Do they have any hobbies?
She's yet to really find any hobby. She's trying to break out of keeping herself busy through self appointed responsibilities.
🎯 -What do they do best?
She's a fighter and that's what she does best. She was raised with the fantasy of knights in heroes and that's been what she's put her all into becoming.
🥊 -What do they love to do? What do they hate to do?
She absolutely loves the moment of conflict. The world is simpler and more direct then. She can lead and she can put everything into fight. Directing allies, protecting allies, swinging an axe through a robot, all of that is where she feels most alive.
She really hates social situations. She loves other people and she enjoys being around them, she is just woefully outclassed when it comes to things like parties and gatherings. She tends to default to being silent, aloof and posing gracefully to carry through the fact she's screaming internally about looking like an idiot.
❤️ - What is one of your OC’s best memories?
During the Resistance Era against the Eggman Empire, where she was surrounded by others trying to get by. The hope and comradery she felt during the conflict was the closest she's felt to comfort, despite the physical dangers.
✂️ - What is one of your OC’s worst memories?
Metal Virus. She discovered early that a weapon was of no use. She was not infected, but forced to flee to her mountainside home. There she lived with the ghosts of her failure and perceived cowardice as she hunkered alone in a big empty house knowing there was nothing she could do to help anyone.
🧊 - Is their current design the first one?
Yes, she hasn't changed much except her hair has gone from lilac to a more pinkish color. And before she was a deer she was almost a fisher cat.
Story wise she has gone from a more Archie era character to one that's more set in a slightly AU take on the IDW series.
🍀 - What originally inspired the OC?
A friend wanted to do some RP and at the time I had no Sonic OCs to do anything with. So I sort of cobbled some stuff together from things I remembered from the mid 90s comics and cartoons.
🌂 - What genre do they belong in?
She is firmly in the Action genre. Fairly Shonen too with the bouts of melodrama and emotions.
💚 - What is your OC’s gender identity and sexuality?
She is female. Sexuality is not fully defined. Biromantic Asexual is probably the most likely.
🙌 - How many sibling does your OC have?
She is but an only babby. A lonely only babby.
🍎 - What is the OC’s relationship w/their parents like?
They are fine, but very independent and professional. It appears cold on the surface but they do love and respect each other deeply.
🧠 - What do you like most about the OC?
Honestly because she's kind of a brainworm. She really should have just been one a million discarded one off RP characters and not have clawed her way back again and again when I've wavered on the Sonic fandom in general.
✏️ - How often do you draw/write about the OC?
Nerve issues have kept drawing off the table for me on a regular basis. I should write more, and love creating things for her, but I usually don't write because I figure no one wants to know much about OCs
💎 - Do you ever see yourself killing off the OC?
Probably not. There's just always more story to tell.
💀 - Does your OC have any phobias?
Nothing so overt or direct. Mostly existential fears related to her utility to the world and her past failures.
🍩 -Who is your OC’s arch-nemesis or rival?
Most of her antagonists aren't "arch-nemesis or rival" levels. So I'm going to say no to this. There just hasn't been quite that emotional tie to any of them to make them something other than enemies at cross-purposes.
🎓 - How long have you had the OC?
Probably since around 2015 or 16 in concept and off hand use in RP. She has only been formally designed and really made solid in the last 5 or 6 years though.
