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1. What was the first element of your OC that you remember considering (name, appearance, backstory, etc.)?
Since he’s the one I created most recently, I’ll answer this one for Túlio. Even though the answer is that I just developed a sudden need to have an oc with the voice of Diego Luna, lol. Other than that, it was a thing I’d had sitting in the back of my mind for a while involving a post going around about the collars on the Venatori soldiers, and how Lux would react to figuring that out. I always knew if he did, he’d want to save them, and when I figured out a way to put those two things together, Túlio was born. I also knew he had to bear some resemblance to Lux because otherwise there’d be no sympathy from Emma to keep him alive.
9. Are they based off of you, in some way?
There’s a little bit of me in all of them, I think, but I don’t think any of them are explicitly self-inserts. I do need to have some part of me in them to be able to relate enough to write them, probably. Emma prefers to be objective and cares more than she wants to, which I think is a bit from me. Eren’s dislike of people, prioritization of his work, and need for organization comes from me, but his uncompromising nature regarding his goals and ambitions as well as his drive to succeed on his own merit come from my husband, actually, because those are things I really admire about him. Lux is more of how I wish I was, happy and friendly and optimistic despite bad things in his past. Tasalin is along similar lines - more of someone I want to be, but he also shares my tendency to think he needs to be the one to fix things and take care of people and end up spreading himself too thin. Rex is...I don’t want to admit to having too much in common with him, haha, but I tend to have a gut reaction of bitterness when things don’t go my way and while I don’t usually let people know this, Rex is right out there in the open with it.
10.If they have an LI, how much of their character is tailored to be compatible to that person?
I actually decided to make Emma after playing through the game with Eren, keeping his dialogue choices (mostly) in character, and watching him unceremoniously end every romance I tried putting him in: he broke up with Josephine when she yelled at him for trying to fight for her, and when Cassandra told him she has a Type and he can’t be that, he picked the “this is why you don’t have any friends” one and that was that. This was before I climbed my Hill of Inherently Valuable Platonic Relationships and became really jaded with video game romances in general, so I decided I needed to make him an LI. I started thinking of Emma as someone who could be compatible with him and...ended up going into way more depth with her character development than I did with his. Her story got totally away from anywhere close to his, although enough similarities between them remained that they’d be able to relate and learn to love each other, but honestly after I really started figuring out who both of them were it became less about “this character is Made For this character” and more of me having made two separate characters who ended up good for each other anyway.
Thank you!!
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