Friendly message from one of your mutuals asking you to talk about your OCs please? (If you don't have any/don't want to, whats your favorite character from your favorite thing?)
So I finally feel ready to answer this. I’ll try to talk about more than one, but I’m kind of a visual detail person (read: I suck at writing proper) so it might not be as interesting as it sounds leaving my head.
Before the cut though I’ll answer the followup question, and I would say my favorite character from my favorite thing is Panty Anarchy from Panty and Stocking with Garterbelt. I risk judgement pretty much every time I even mention that anime, but it’s a more earnest answer than if I mentioned a game or movie character.
I know there’s no why or how in the question, but there’s a handful of reasons I like her. I quite like how her personality is variably shallow, with a bit of reluctance in showing otherwise because of her otherwise pleasure-seeking lifestyle. The reason I like that is because it makes me feel like she exists perfectly within the confines of a raunchy cartoony monster of the week show and also outside of it as a very strange but believable enough person. I also quite like her design, as I initially assumed her default red dress look was a special episode outfit, and I find a bit too much appreciation for the fact that the more sexualized character doesn’t have even a single line of insecurity with her lower cup size. Lastly I kind of just like subtle things about her, like how she is shown to have a dedicated workout regimen in her offtime, or the way her voice sounds when she isn’t acting snooty and is just being sentimental. Matter of fact her VA made me very partial to mid or deeper ranged voices for female characters.
OC under the cut now:
One of the characters I wanted to talk about is someone who I am still pretty much developing, and that much of the character talk might be drawn from the story he’s in. The aforementioned story is the resulting osmosis of being inspired by things that are inspired by Twin Peaks, namely a bit of Welcome to Nightvale and a whole heaping lot of the famously unabashed ripoff game that is known as Deadly Premonition.
As a result his name, Zach Green, is based firstly on an imaginary character the protagonist of DP speaks to, and lastly based on the town in that game (Greenvale also happens to be a town name in Silent Hill, which in itself is hilariously inspired partially by Twin Peaks).
Much like the protagonists of Twin Peaks and Deadly Premonition, Zach is an FBI agent sent to a small town to investigate a very abnormal case. He’s something more of a knowingly archetypical character than a real person. What signs could possibly point to this? Is it his annoying eye for details? Is it his boundless appreciation for tea? Or perhaps is it that he unironically speaks to an imaginary friend named Jack, who serves as his devil’s advocate when profiling? Probably the last thing.
For someone in his late twenties, he can be a bit of a child. Or eccentric by older people standards. He quit smoking by replacing cigarettes with suckers (or gourmet/dum dum-size lollipops if that sounds unclear). Turns out he just liked it for the appearance, not the attachment to nicotine. He also tries to act hard-boiled and fails miserably, taking black coffee when he never wants it, and preferring something light over a mature glass of whiskey. Part of him figures the lack of enjoyment might be what makes the taste of those drinks so interesting.
He has a very present inner monologue that has a tendency to point out simple characteristics of people or objects, in tandem with a Sherlock-esque eye for detail. For instance if he sees a cup of green tea he immediately thinks in small bursts while noting its presence, such as “Green Tea. Looks fresh. Bitter taste. Acquired Taste. Delicious Taste.” He’s basically the kind of person who would courteously remove a stray hair from your shirt mid conversation and not make any note of it unless prompted. Zach also talks to Jack out loud, and never in his head. He sees them as a partner on the other side, who shares his interests in addition to being an imaginary experienced killer. As he further investigates a case, he finds that Jack is more of an inside partner than he thinks.
I ended up talking more about the story Zach and Jack are in order to explain further significance, worried that people would take my ideas, realized that the post is worse without these details, and also realized that I have few followers and wrote this at like six in the morning. So here’s the rest of the post:I didn’t really want to use story background to talk about an OC but this is stuff I actually need cemented into my brain so I don’t forget after tonight. The town that Zach finds himself investigating is a port town called Driftwell. It is a humble town that so far is modeled after some of the villages and ports bordering Lake Huron over here in Michigan. It’s also known as the Sleeping City, as it prides itself on having establishments that are only open at certain times of the day. Some places are only open from sunrise until sundown and vice versa. As a result there is a distinction between morning people and night people, and the restaurants, stores, and bars (yes, even bars) work with that idea. People in the town are also more likely to have dreams taking place near the area than anywhere else, and there is a lot of theorizing about people having a “dream life” and a real life. A bar that is only open at night feeds on both of the prior details, serving a drink that allows a person to meet their dream self in person. That dream self is very often different from the real person, and sometimes appears to be an actually separate person more than an alternate version of themselves.The heart of the case is that people are having trouble sleeping. There is talk about people being murdered in their dreams and having their dreams be permanently affected afterwards. Those who are killed in their dreams often go to bed and wake up feeling like they’ve slept for minutes instead of hours, seeing either black void in their sleep or bouts of torment lasting longer than the period of time they slept. Consequently, people are finding themselves awake at times opposite of what they were used to, and those who drink to meet their dream self often see a mutilated body. Having tackled weird murder cases before, Zach pursues the truth of the matter, meeting his dream self in the process.In addition to being his dream self, it turns out that Jack is an amalgamation of traits from past killers Zach has caught. Each trait has its own story of a killer. A leather jacket, a scar, a baseball bat with nails in it, a seemingly live wolf mask, etc. The body and personality of Jack is primarily a woman that fell in love with Zach, and let him get so close to her that she orchestrated her own death at his hands. She wanted him to keep his job, and also to be remembered by someone closer than anyone else she knew. As a result, she has become the body of Jack. While Jack the imaginary friend hasn’t killed anyone in reality, she still has insight from everyone Zach has ever dealt with, and acts in such a way like a fully aware guide to his subconscious.
As a mental construct she knows she isn’t the quite the woman that Zach knew, and can’t have the relationship that the woman would have wanted with Zach. This leads to her humorously becoming a judge of people that Zach meets, which causes conflict between Zach speaking for himself and arguing against Jack speaking from his brain. I’ll close this with an example. One of the ways this happens is when Jack approves of an adorably shy crossdresser at a bed and breakfast, whom Zach nearly proposed to in a fit of joy from the tea he makes. Zach argues with Jack because even though Jack knows Zach has the capacity to bisexual, Zach himself isn’t emotionally sure of it at that point in time.
And now I’ve left everything back into this post and it’s 7AM. So I’ll have to talk about more OCs another time. Which I’d be happy to do, just not right this second. I’m very grateful to have the spark for my brainstorm come from this ask, but now I am also very sleepy OTL. Thank you very much for asking!
ardentcapacitor replied to your post: “No but seriously If you haven’t watched Arrow do yourself a favour ...”:
...so catching up wouldn't be worth the time I take it?
NOPE, just save yourself and if you're really curious, wiki it up, but don't put yourself through the time and disappointment of watching a somewhat decent show freefall and land right in the dumpster...literally.
youngtitan213 replied to your post: “No but seriously If you haven’t watched Arrow do yourself a favour ...”:
i was really bummed bcuz i have finals this week and haven't been able to watch my fav shows bUT NOW i'm just rly nervous like maybe i don't want to after all.. lol.
Dodged a bullet and a half there. You really don't want to. Really, save yourself from doing so and you'll be a much happier person.
wondy replied to your post: “No but seriously If you haven’t watched Arrow do yourself a favour ...”:
Ha if the brought artemis in she'd be whitewashed
They probably would, though I can still hold on to some naive hope.....
rdentcapacitor replied to your post:Kind of a realization I had, under a cut so you...
Ok I know we haven’t really talked since the LF days but I just. Like can I just say I know exactly where you’re coming from so don’t feel bad??? I’m sorry this sounds awkward as hell but there it’s is.
Nonononono, it's perfectly okay! It really does help. So everything's fine. You can talk to me whenever you want. :D
ardentcapacitor replied to your post: “Oh hell no I’m not going to go through this shit again.”:
side eyeing this because of the lack of sources tbh, I don't blame you for not wanting to pick up that torch again
I know right? Like yes, let me just put all my trust on this ask, and try to get an entire undead fandom to join in with that.
Though granted fandom would believe anything at this point if you made it look legit enough.
jeankrstn replied to your post: “Oh hell no I’m not going to go through this shit again.”:
first of all don't throw btb under the bus second of all i don't want s2 on netflix and third of all please stop yourself
I think btb has been destined to be thrown under a bus by the entirety of DC Nation since it even first mentioned it'd be existing.
Anon just went on a rousing song of babbling. Like independently of everything I'm pretty sure they'd add yj s2 eventually??? like what is the point of trying to form a scandal over something that already exists??? Sense = none.
@ardentcapacitor answered: I’m not 100 percent sure/haven’t actively fact checked this but I think it’s misconstruing archaic usage (like 19th century kind of archaic)
i actually went to google it and it seems that it's based around the apparent fact that if you're calling something or someone stupid you are questioning someone's cognitive abilities with a negative lilt, without a doubt, every single time you mention it, even if you dont mean it that way
but every word people suggest to replace it is literally the same thing with, evidently, the same problems
idk i've found that after a lot of thinking i havent actually used stupid and idiot very much at all in recent years. i think it was only ever when someone was making an uninformed or bad decision, mainly having consequences for their own wellbeing. only because there is maybe something they havent known about before or considered yet, nothing to do with them being incapable or being 'retarded' or anything like that.
that's why i find it pretty hard to agree with stupid and idiot being slurs instead of just words that could potentially hurt some people's feelings (you could say this is a slur but i just can't bring myself to compare idiot to the t-word, n-word and the like, particularly words you normally cant say in public without at least two people liking you less), which to be honest i thought was already a very obvious thing people knew anyway and if you think calling that one person an idiot will upset them and you don't want them to be upset, you'll have the sense to not do it. accidents happen, though, in case that line of thinking is somehow ableist too maybe
Snyder's cheese and peanut butter pretzel sandwiches (got a bag of each), devil's food mini doughnuts, corn dogs, and I think a Haagen dasz gelato with salted caramel
