Do you have any sort of oc bible or easy way to read about your mysme ocs and all their timelines and stuff? I’m interested to know more about them
I do not have an OC Bible posted! But, God knows you asked me something at the right time. If you want to read about them the fast way, they have information sheets here. But, I think you're here for more so check under the cut for everything there is to know!
(Lila Lancelot)
(Minji Cho)
(Judas)
Lila Lancelot is my main MC.
A fashionable but shy Lolita who struggles with confidence and insecurities. She's the classic example of somebody who can be so confident and loud with friends, but has such a hard time with strangers. She's twenty-one years old and has spent most of her life as a black sleep.
No matter how hard she tried to be good enough for her mother, she simply... couldn't measure up. Every step of the way, it became a game of carrot on a string. If there was a chance for her to get closer, she would get there to quietly realize she would need to keep going. Because of this, she has a super poor sense of self-esteem.
She tries to see the best in people no matter what but sometimes it can backfire on her. A lot of people would say that she's naive. That simply isn't true.
She wants people to be inherently good so she doesn't have to contend with the fact that there are some people in the world who aren't. She knows very well that some people are cruel and as painful as that is, sometimes it's easier to try to see the best in people. That can be to her detriment sometimes.
She spent her entire life being compared to her older sister, because Lucy couldn't ever do a thing wrong in their mother's eyes. But, even though the two of them were seemingly pushed against each other in a game of their mother's creation, neither of them hold that against each other or hate each other. It was a painful realization, though.
Lila and Lucy... they were always close. Lucy never wavered when their mother berated Lila. She would... make a distraction in their conversation or sway their mother to think about something else whenever she could do so.
Lila never hated or blamed her sister for the invisible line between them. She admired the way her sister sparkled. Lucy was always by her side! In many ways, Lucy was the person she could trust to take her side if something went wrong. Her sister was her confidante in every way imaginable.
When Lila couldn't go to her mother or father, she could find Lucy to talk about anything and everything that was happening in the house, at school, and everywhere else.
But, as big sisters do, Lucy, being five years her sister's senior, moved out to college and that left Lila alone with her parents. Her job in the house got worse. She spent her teens cleaning the house and being forced to stay home when she wasn't at school or work on her grandparents property in the fall. That... was the best time of year.
Her grandparents own and operate a cute little garden that is open to photographers year-round and they really put the passion in during the fall when pumpkins are about and they can build their maze! Working for them got her out of the house and she made a point of trying to go there as much as possible.
Her mother is the kind of person who expects perfection out of everything she does.
But she can never be perfect enough so the carrot on the string always feels like it'll never be given to her. Her father is the kind of person who looks away whenever her mother says or does something out of line or out of turn.
He wasn't an inactive participant in the worst aspects of her emotional abuse, but his inability to do or say anything left Lila in a place where she couldn't trust either of her parents. The more time she spent fighting to be good enough for them every day, the more exhausted and insecure she became.
Things got a little bit easier after 2 years of the same routine, if only because her sister had a fling with a friend and fell pregnant in the aftermath. Her mother focused every bit of her attention on Lucy and the baby. It was easier for Lila to focus on her classes and it kept her from feeling overwhelmed for a little bit. Eventually, Mia was born and most of the noise in the house was peaceful! Lila had the time to explore new hobbies, namely Lolita and photography! She finally had an outlet to enjoy herself! Plus! She had more time to be in the gardens at her grandparents house.
Things finally had to be moving in the right direction now... but, they were only the calm before the storm.
Lucy moved in with her girlfriend a short time after Mia was born and things went right back to how they were. The cycle had begun once again, and Lila knew she had to get out of there. She kept saving her money and squaring it away until she had a sizable amount in there to start over when she had something in mind and when it was safe to do so.
The pattern continued for two and a half years until—
Tragedy struck.
Her father died in an accident and that sent the family into shambles. Her mother was in a state of agony as far as anyone could tell... but Lila knew better than that. Her mother... kept throwing parties and inviting folks over to grieve all the time. She wanted the pity to feel better about herself. She wanted people to feel sympathetic and to offer their care in every way she could milk.
Lila hated it. That wasn't just because of the fact that she had no time to grieve or understand her pain, she was the only one cleaning and cooking for all of those events... Anytime, anywhere, if folks came over, it was Lila's job to take care of all of it for her "sad mother".
Years of being treated like a windup doll who could never be good enough finally became too much. She broke down one day in the middle of one of those get togethers and screamed at her mother with every ounce of agony she'd experienced over the years.
Her mother claimed to be humiliated and the rest of the family, sans her grandparents were all but happy with her about her actions. That... stung. She thought she could turn to Lucy to find comfort and understanding, but her big sister didn't offer that this time.
Grief makes people struggle in the worst kind of way no matter how you slice it... and Lucy believed their mother felt horrible. She got so caught up in her grief about the loss and the pain she imagined their mother to be feeling, she made the mistake of assuming that Lila wasn't being pushed to the edge during the get-togethers...
If only because Lucy couldn't come over all that often and she heard a lot of the story secondhand. Lila and Lucy had a major argument over this misunderstanding and failed to communicate the way they truly needed to.
Lila felt abandoned.
She decided she needed to get the hell away from her family for as long as possible to be able to not only grieve but be herself. So, the first thing she did was throw a dart at a map and book the first flight out of dodge. It was just her luck that it landed in Seoul, and truly unbeknownst to her, her future.
Depending on the Timeline, she can end up in Mint Eye with Ray, or she can end up as a lowly assistant to Unknown. She has a huge swathe of concepts and timelines since she has to match with Saeran or Ray!
Stories:
Flowers of Paradise is a collective series about her different timelines.
(Note: Her original story concept that was written years ago for Another Story is not her canon now. Every single story outside of Convallaria Majalis and Primula Vulgaris is canon. I need to rewrite her main story with Ray, Suit Saeran, and GE Saeran.)
Minji Cho is a secondary MC.
A girl with shimmering starlight in her eyes who dreams of owning her own café in the future. She's the kind of person you want to be friends with. She is supportive and only sees the best in the people around her. But, she isn't naive to think people aren't cruel... She knows that there are people she'll never be able to understand in the world, but she still wants to be compassionate.
She's the kind of person who thinks that the best way to somebody's heart is with a treat. For some reason, if you meet her, you might truly begin to believe that a simple fruit pie could bring out the best in another person if she offered it. At twenty-three, she's getting close to the dream she always had!
Growing up, she had a normal upbringing. Her mother, her father, and her two younger siblings... A close-knit family who is really no different than any other family out there if it comes to love and support.
Her family was comfortable and even if she didn't have everything she wanted, she had everything she needed. Her younger siblings are much younger than she is but she still loves them with all her heart. She loves to bake with them because it's the one way she knows how to bond with other people. She's just your girl-next-girl type in every sense of the word. She's got a great sense of humor to boot!
There hasn't really been a lot of hurt in her life thus far, but she wants to be able to truly understand others as best she can no matter what. The only discomfort she's ever faced in her life is mild teasing from people during her schooling years.
She's rather tall, topping out at 5'10" by the time all was said and done, but she tried to not let it get to her so badly. As a runner who loves to feel the breeze, her legs did her a lot of good! She still runs every day to this day to get herself ready to face what's to come that day.
Though, of course, running early in the day and late at night has put her in trouble with others before. One time in particular, she had to take a different route home due to heavy construction, and she had no idea she had walked into a lion's den that had no care for her fate.
She encountered a stranger with a friendly smile on his lips who offered to walk her back home, and to this day, she hasn't let herself forget those piercing blue eyes. It was far from the first time that she encountered a good Samaritan, but there was... just something about him she couldn't forget...
(I bet you're wondering who that stranger was but don't worry, you'll find out!)
Minji is a compassionate soul who trusts at first glance.
It's something that people could use against her but she doesn't care if they try. She would rather do something right for other people than care about being used. It might be silly and she might be putting in too much work for people that may never give it back but she'd rather just do something good than not.
This, of course, is something that inevitably leads her to face trouble when she decides to accept a request from a stranger and enter an apartment without second thoughts.
Stories:
Petunia is about her romance with Judas and Saeyoung. [Based in Unknown's Assistant Timeline with Lila.]
Judas is also a secondary MC.
Snarky, mysterious, and flirtatious. You have never met a twenty-five year old like this guy. The devil is in the details and you're not going to find out the details about him no matter how hard you tried to pry. He is the kind of person that figures out everything there is to know about you before you even realize there is something more about you. He has a sharp tongue and it has served him well over the years as an informant.
Criminal turned informant, of course. If he wants you to know something, he'll let you figure it out on your own, but if he doesn't ever want you to know something about him, you never will know what it is.
Every word he says is hidden behind another layer.
At first glance, he appears to be no different than a casual flirt who likes to share a smile and sympathy with you. You may think he just wants to have a lot of fun but that's the image he's cultivated for himself.
He wants you to think of him as nothing more than a flirt and if that's all you see him as, then that's exactly what he wanted you to see. He has over a dozen masks for a reason. His real name isn't even Judas, it's just one of many he adopted over the years working in his industry. There might be a lot in a name but he could care less. In the end, any name is better than the one he was born with.
Growing up, he was used as a prop for his family. Well, not his father. His mother. She was born into a relatively successful family who wanted his mother to settle down and have a family as well as continue her career.
She wanted nothing to do with the husband or a child, but she decided that to get into the good graces of her family and inevitable inheritance, she would have a single child and a husband to use as props. His French mother found the first guy who was willing to be a trophy husband and married him. That happened to a Korean man who didn't mind a loveless marriage.
It was convenient for her because it allowed her to expand her industry into the South Korean economy.
He was nothing more than a glorified toy to his mother. She could show him off whenever there was a reason for the family to be together, and as long as he lived up to her expectations, he could have anything he wanted. He was a lonely child who had nothing unless he was visiting the family who expected him to be the best of the best just as much as his mother did.
He learned everything he was supposed to and did everything he was supposed to but it was never enough. He was a miserable child who had nothing and no one. His father had no sympathy for him because he spent most of his time focused on the money his mother brought home to use at his own convenience. He was just a forgotten possession until it was convenient to remember.
Until one day, when he reached his preteens, his mother decided that enough was enough. She decided to divorce his father and return back to France. She abandoned the two of them and left them with nothing. His father blamed him for everything because he was supposed to be the ticket to paradise.
In the end, he was abandoned by his father as well. He spent his teenage years learning how to defend himself on the streets and how to survive. He did a good job of it until he was caught in the act of pickpocketing by a man... A man not too much older than him when he was a mere 18... but still old enough to know he was wrong.
A man who would groom him to be a vicious weapon in the guise of false romance. Judas thought this man loved him and would never hesitate to do things for him. He fell into this man's life fast. This man was the son of the worst of the worst, a mafioso, and to prove himself to his father, he used Judas as a key pawn to get rid of and dispel anybody who got in his way. It was an extremely toxic and horrid relationship which only twisted Judas around like a marionette for years until he had a realization that his so-called boyfriend didn't give a shit about him.
He caught his boyfriend cheating on him in the act. He lashed out at him and was beaten for it. Judas decided then and there he was going to dismantle the entire organization and then kill his ex-boyfriend himself in cold blood.
He turned into an informant, obsessed with the idea of getting back at the man who hurt and manipulated him for years. He spent years going in and out of different operations learning secrets and tools of the trade to gain the upper hand on people and manipulate them into doing what he needed them to do.
Sure, did that mean he was doing things that would help people that were getting trafficked or hurt in the process? Yes. A huge chunk of his revenge was helping people to get away from the organization that his ex-boyfriend ran but was he doing it to protect them?
Was he doing it because it was the right thing? That's hard to say in the end. He would tell you that he was doing it because it ruined everything his ex-boyfriend was trying to do, but it seems as though there's definitely some heart in there whether he wants to admit it or not.
Ultimately, just as he was about to strike and get his revenge, he enraged the wrong person and the only way he could get out of it and save his skin was to make a deal with an agency. The same agency that the one and only 707 Extreme worked for. He was placed into the custody of Vanderwood and 707 to be interrogated and eliminated once all of his information was shared. So, Judas began to play a game of cat and mouse with those two to survive...
Toying with 707... But there is no denying that there is a strong tension between the two of them that neither of them want to completely discuss, but if they're left alone long enough, it gets dangerously close to something. Something that neither of them will name.
Ultimately, just as things seem to be on the brink of moving south for him, Judas sees a familiar face with pretty blonde hair on the screen of 707's monitor... and as soon as he utters her name, that begins a story as old as time.
Stories:
Petunia is a story about his romance with Minji and Saeyoung. [Based in Unknown's Assistant Timeline with Lila.]
Hang 'Em High is an introspective after the Secret Ending about him and Saeyoung.
