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my oc questionnaires ; some questions i came up with myself and some were taken from media and non-oc questionnaires. there is one questionnaire for 1 oc and one for oc relationships. use it as you want.

questions for one character

Personality and behavior 

What do you fear?

Which feeling do you hate the most?

What makes you feel angry the most often?

Is there anything you regret?

How do you experience anger, shame, and anxiety?

What do you feel and how do you act when others request your help to do something?

If you had to spend an entire weekend by yourself, would you feel lonely or refreshed?

Which ways do you use to control other people or the environment around you in general?

If a friend makes a claim that clashes with your current beliefs, what is your inward and outward reaction?

What would be your reaction if someone would like to become closer to you/know you more?

What would be your reaction if your friend would notice that something is bothering you and offer their help?

Desires and imaginings 

What do you need connections with people for?

Is there anything you'd like to ask forgiveness for?

If one of your wishes could be granted, what would you wish?

What would you like to remove from the world right now? What would you like to appear in the world right now?

if you were alone in a blank room without anyone to talk to and anything to do, what would you think, feel, or do in this situation?

Opinion on abstract concepts and feelings 

What is love?

How do you define trust?

What is happiness?

How do you define envy and jealousy?

What is worse than death?

What's your opinion about the past, present, and future?

How do you view change/uncertainty?

What do you think about lying?

Is there the good and the evil? Is it possible to call something objectively "good" or "bad"?

Opinion on self and others 

Are you the type who worries about feelings, thoughts and/or opinions of others? What exactly worries you?

What are you ‘’the best’’ at?

How do you want others to see you? How do you see yourself?

Do you like yourself?

Is there a person with whom you can talk about any of your worries?

Is there anyone who you'd like to meet right now?

What does the word "friend" means to you?

Do you prefer to show affection first, or to receive affection first?

What are you searching for in people?

What would you think if people considered you a good person? A bad person?

In which situations it's okay to hurt/harm other people?

questions for relationships

Why are they together? What is the thing that bonds/connects them?

What are their personal boundaries in this relationship/in general? How do they react when these boundaries are broken?

What makes them feel comfortable around each other?

How do they help each other with their weaknesses? What are these weaknesses that bother them the most?

How much compatible their personalities are? Which of their traits complement each other, and which might cause conflicts?

What do they prefer to do in case to get each other's attention?

When one of them is sad, angry or overall deep in negative feelings, what would they like the other to do in case to make them feel better?

If each of them would be asked "what are 3 traits that are common between you and the other", what would they answer?

What things do they associate with each other, so when they see these things they immediately think of the other?

Does this relationship seem different (than it actually is) to other people from their outside point of view?

How would they describe each other to their friends/family who hadn't met the other in person yet?

Create a name/title for their combination that wouldn't be a combination of their names

When they first met, what in each other caught their attention right away?

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analysis on candy apple and black sapphire dynamics cuz i want to share thoughts about them outside of their attachment to smilk & i need them out of my head 🫶

their backstory is never stated directly and a lot is unknown yet, but it's implied that shadow milk gave baby candy apple (who might be his creation) to black sapphire so he would take care of her while he's absent. imagine your employer dropping a random baby at you and disappearing forever that's wild...

"Black Sapphire Cookie claims he practically raised Candy Apple Cookie... Whether it's true or not, she doesn't buy it!"

an important part of this context is not only that black sapphire has been the primary caretaker of candy apple but he has been the only one, as shadow milk was absent for a long time. it's unclear how much of shadow milk she has seen before the main story, but I believe that he has not been much more than a vague presence in her life (which contributes to why she sees him as a literal god). while shadow milk and black sapphire are both people who candy apple depends on and sees as authorities, there's a contrast in how she approaches them: with shadow milk, she severely idealizes him, thinks the whole purpose of her creation is to serve him, and desperately wants approval but ultimately sees him as unachievable (which is where the desperation comes from in the first place, and why her feelings on him are so exaggerated and detached from reality). with black sapphire, she can be very mean and unmanageable, and comes off as that she doesn't acknowledge his authority whatsoever. the way they can stand each other's terrible emotional management and bullying indicates a very casual (for the lack of better word) relationship, but there's something else about it: she can easily act demanding and spoiled with him because she sees him as her direct caretaker. she knows he will listen to her and will do whatever she wants anyway, as long as she keeps on being stubborn.

(the year end show is funny because not only she tried to disrupt his show (and succeeded at this) so he would pay attention to her but she also attempted to drag cream ferret into it which implies she was being jealous that he's paying attention to cream ferret instead of her)

she also sees him as a role model, in the way she wants to match his appearance or learn the skills he has:

despite acknowledging him as her caretaker in how she behaves, she denies that he raised her, and disobeys and mocks him a lot. I think a big reason for this is that candy apple wants to be shadow milk's "creation" regardless of her actually being one or not, and the fact that she was in practice raised by another person ruins everything. but also considering their background, I wonder if for her it's a way to gain her independence. others see her as the weakest and youngest one, and someone who is mostly capable of not helping but interfering with "adult" business; her desperate need for attention and approval comes from her feeling like a bother. she wants to prove she's also capable and deserves to stand on an equal ground with black sapphire as fellow servant of shadow milk, that she's not a little child who can only be dismissed.

what adds more into it is that black sapphire is easily angered by her disobedience (and sometimes the fact she's around him in general but i'll mention it later) and is harsh when trying to take control of her. he orders her around in ways that make sure she gets reminded of her lesser position, even at times when he's trying to protect her for her own sake, and restricting the expression of herself and her emotions, only further confirming that she's being a bother by being herself. he has some really really bad parenting strategies

so she sees him as someone who meets her needs but also as someone who is constantly controlling and trying to suppress her. she draws him as being mad at her happiness 😭

from black sapphire's side, his frustration with candy apple is caused by that he didn't ask for this and didn't learn how to manage a child, it was a duty given to him by shadow milk so he didn't have any choice, and he probably still formally presents it as something that shadow milk asks him to do rather than something he does out of his own will (the same way that candy apple doesn't admit that he raised her because they are normal about their emotional attachment to each other). he does also acknowledge himself as her caretaker and genuinely worries for her safety, which is why he gets over-controlling at times and spoils her at other times. shadow milk also thinks of him as someone directly responsible for candy apple so everyone here is in agreement that it's part of his job

(one of his tap interactions is "Candy Apple Cookie!!! Oh, it's you.", in korean voiceover, he says the first sentence in an irritated tone and the second sentence in a laid-back tone, brushing it off. it is cute that his immediate thought was that it's candy apple cookie bothering him for attention)

there's something else about why he's frustrated with her, and the general way these two fight with each other. the whole deceit trio is very emotionally defensive. black sapphire and shadow milk are both obsessed with keeping up an impressive image, and both are entertainers who are supposed to control their emotions and choose which ones they show to the audience rather than letting them flow. shadow milk is very straightforward with viewing needs and emotions as a weakness, although is not known for his self-control very much; while black sapphire is more subtle due to having a generally calm demeanor and from time to time has to act as the only "rational" one, but it becomes prominent in how he interacts with candy apple, someone who he sees as highly emotional and dependent. he gets angry at her being "unmanageable", and she can very easily make him lose his cool, much easier than anyone else, which he sees as a threat to his image. in this sense, it's not just that emotions are a weakness but candy apple cookie herself becomes his weakness. candy apple learns this emotional defensiveness from these two, and it contributes to why she's acting that demanding with black sapphire. she can't show herself as vulnerable or needy so when she wants something she bosses him around and picks on him.

when black sapphire picks on her, it's because he wants to make her feel better but doesn't want to do it in a honest way,

"Whenever Shadow Milk Cookie is absent for a long time, Black Sapphire Cookie plays tricks to annoy Candy Apple Cookie!"

and sometimes he's mean because he gets tired as he's much more emotionally reserved and independent than her. he considers it his job to look after her and gives her gifts to show his attachment but finds it overwhelming to physically have her around because she wants attention all the time.

this frustrates her in turn, she knows he will respond to her requests and can be nice to her out of his own will, but he is also dismissing much enough to make her feel like she forces the good treatment out of him. there's also a level of him seeing her as lesser and wanting to remind her of her place when she's being "cocky" (which usually means her being happy and having fun). that becomes really an endless loop of them being upset with each other because they can't interact with theirs and each other's emotions normally

i find their relationships interesting because they're very attached to each other and it comes through in many ways that they like each other, but they also have a lot of reasons to be genuinely frustrated and upset with each other beyond lighthearted fighting. while shadow milk put them in this kind of situation in the first place, these dynamics are present even outside of their attachment to him and are a consequence of them being in a guardian-charge relationship, and i think it's a nice portrayal of the complicated feelings that can come with it. that is all 🫶

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shes the cutest and loveliest if you care at all

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idiot

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sparkle never wants to be one person, sparxie wants to be the only version of herself that exists. "who's the real sparkle?" - "the real sparkle (self-proclaimed)"

although sparkle doesn't want to be just "one person", she immediately enters the competition of "real sparkle" with sparxie. there's no real sparkle, but there's only one sparkle after all?

her attempts to make her identity undefined is not just fear of being known, but also desire to be everything, everywhere, anytime, so she can occupy the whole of your attention

because in the end she wants to be unique and special more than anything

how can you be unique if you're undefined, though, how can you be special if there's a countless amount of "sparkles"? i think the sparxie situation forced sparkle to acknowledge this question

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sugary is the only normie in a goth friend group

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some art/oc templates i made in 2023, be free 👍

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