Another? lol Tyler Raith for the 100 oc questions ask!! #2, 12, 31, 48, 85 and 90 ^_^
tyler is my current hyperfixation, or her fic is. i've just written a piece of her backstory to better understand her so thank you for asking about her!! (sorry in advance for the rambling)
2: do you think you would get along with your oc if you could meet them? what things would you talk about?
tyler would be my bestie. she was originally a self-insert, like fifteen years ago, so a lot of me was in her original character. she has since grown into her own person, and she's a very open person. we would be able to talk about everything from our favorite music to past traumas. so yes, we would absolutely get along.
12: how well would your oc handle being placed in a leadership position?
recently, she has been put into a leadership position and the woman is stressed. she's handling it like a champ though. she's a caretaker foremost but she's also very stubborn, so she gets things done.
31: what inspired the creation of your oc? any specific things, a general aesthetic or idea, or something completely random?
the first version of this character was created in 2009. the original inspiration was just a character that could do something the world said she couldn't. (i was a teenager, can you tell?) the current version was inspired by optimism. i started recreating her in 2020, the world was falling apart it seemed and my depression was at an all-time low, and i needed a character that could overcome.
48: what are your oc’s nervous tics? are they aware of them? do they attempt to hide them?
she has a bad habit of biting the insides of her cheeks and her lips. she has, for lack of a better term, a kind of healing factor so she's not always aware that she's doing it. she does know it's a habit of hers though. she also gets energized when she's nervous, so she'll tap things because she can't stay still.
85: what would history remember your oc for? how would they become famous? or are they the sort that would really only be appreciated long after their death?
in tyler's world, the government is ruled by a military council. laws are absolute. so when a law was created to control entertainment, music included, that should have been it. all music is government controlled. (this is a world without streaming or easy access. physical music records are sold for a set amount of time then that's it. no more access.) tyler is the one that gets a tour for musicians that have been legally banned from performing, that gets new records released that should not be legally allowed. she's remembered for creating the tour, but she's also remembered for challenging their world's strict and almost totalitarian government.
90: does your oc have any objects they could never give up? why is it so important to them? do they have any family heirlooms?
her sentry tags, and her father's military tag.
in tyler's world, there are only seven cities and nine towns that are basically the size of some states in america on a continent that's roughly the size of russia. all cities and towns are surrounded by walls, leaving a massive amount of land left open. people do live outside of the walls and outside of government control in these open spaces, and they're termed as "raiders" in the fic. they raid towns, destroy them and take resources, because town walls are not as strong as city walls. so for a person living in a town, becoming a sentry is one of the highest paying and most important jobs. sentries patrol the walls and are the first line of defense against raiders. like with the military, sentries have necklaces with tags. tyler is a sentry in her town. even though she has moved to a city and is not active duty, she will always be a sentry. she would never give up her sentry tags.
her family doesn't really have any heirlooms. her father did serve in the military, he was killed in action, and his military tags were sent to his widow. her mother wears the silver necklace with a single tag, and tyler has the second silver tag on a silver necklace. she rarely wears it, sentry tags are black on a black chain, but her father's tag is precious to her.
