Marsh 10, Polly 16 and Jenny 19? :3
10. What is their main character arc in the story? Where do they start and how do they develop? Do they get a happy ending or is their story a tragic one?
hmmm so the ocverse as a whole is less of a like. Story Arc and more just about Growing Up but I suppose I did in fact go throuigh several story arcs in the time between creating these characters and now. much to think about
initially I created Marsh as representing the "water" element because the very first incarnation of the oc story was as a four elements type of deal and they were supposed to get magic powers and things and then I pivoted genres to a regular middle school setting. so the water doesn't really mean anything anymore. but to my 12 year old mind "water" basically meant like. being really compassionate and caring so Marsh was conceived as someone with high empathy and emotional intelligence who is good at helping her friends and stuff
OH WAIT she was the main character of another incarnation hang on. the incarnation of the story that I wrote when I was 14 and coming to terms with being gay was about. drumroll please. Marsh coming to terms with being bi! so that version of the story starts with Marsh realizing she's having some Feelings for a fictional female character (nonspecific) and kinda freaks out about it and then ends up talking to eighth grade's most out lesbian Ashley for support and one thing leads to another and they start kissing on the mouth. under the piano at lunch. and meanwhile Kitty (Marsh's best friend) is like hey why are you ghosting me and Marsh is like scared that Kitty's gonna be homophobic and actually yeah I think Kitty is in fact homophobic but she gets better
and then also later on in high school Marsh realizes he's also a guy and then in college starts transitioning and stuff. so that's neat. I hope this answered the question
16. Is there any memes or running jokes associated with the character, both in- and out of universe?
oh yes for sure. so one of Polly's main gimmicks is they love pockets. they're obsessed with pockets. they're great at sewing and love adding pockets to things. their shoes have pockets.
and I promise you I did NOT realize until after deciding this that. polly pocket. is a doll that exists. so this is definitely a joke that gets made in universe
the other bit with Polly is that they're polyamorous so Polly is poly. initially I also made them polysexual before deciding to make them a lesbian instead but in canon I think they had a phase of identifying as polysexual largely just for the bit
they're also into rpf btw. that's not really relevant but that's another one of their defining character traits. polyamorous rpf himejoshi
19. What is your general favourite thing about the character? What is your least favourite?
so the thing about Jenny is she was originally my self insert. and then when I started transing my characters instead of making her transmasc like me I decided to make her transfem instead. and I kinda don't think that was the right choice but I'm in too deep now to change my mind. anyway along with making her transfem I also made her fat so that's another characteristic that distinguishes her from me. except honestly I don't think I'm good at drawing fat characters and I need to practice more so idk if she actually looks fat in any of her art. but in my head she is fat.
which leads us to my favorite thing is probably how easy to write because she is just me an alternate timeline really. I project a lot of my hobbies and preferences and such onto her! I also like what I did with her hair. she's got blue hair with her pronouns also
my least favorite thing is probably. idk I do feel kinda weird about the whole origin story of how I made her Not Me anymore and I wonder if that was the right decision or not. also part of her backstory which is unrelated to all that, which is that she and Caitlin had a huge feud that lasted multiple years that started over a stupid fight about star wars and star trek. which I have come to realize is like. not realistic at all however I don't want to write it out of the story because them having a stupid feud Is a major part of the timeline. so trying to figure out how to handle that and make it actually make sense is kind of annoying
