Who is your oldest OC that you still keep in mind?
Once upon a time (I was around 12 or so) I made an Inuyasha OC with the oh-so-Japanese name of Zoey (I know, I know), I think she was supposed to be one of the main villain underlings when I played with my baby sister and her own made up characters.
Fast forward to 2009 and I reuse her name, physical appearance and the “strongly connected to the villain” concept to fuse her with another character, this one fully original, of whom I was at the time very fond (still am, in a way) but thought would never truly work in the story I was baking up because she was too good and had no decent flaws to speak of.
Cue birth of Zoey “Zes” Lewis Arconte, warrior mage and Devil’ symbiont. Went under yet more minor changes as the worldbuilding and setting did (the ethnicity was all over the place until I settled for greek-italian just last year) but the core is still the same as it was in 2009 and I love her very much out of all the (frankly too many) characters I’ve made up since high school.
I strongly doubt I’ll ever publish anything at all, yet I’m still working on her character sheets for design/armor/”fusion-state”etc and think of/work on her stories as a “maybe, someday, something worth of publication”, keeping in check external influences so they dont risk becoming plagiarism, always checking and rechecking og myths and legends instead of retellings, altering things I was fond of once I discover they’ve already been published and have become famous etc etc.
