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creates one (1) healthy pair of ocs. yeah OK I can see why some of yall do this

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reverence

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Today I offer you the same OCs, tomorrow... who knows

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they

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10, 18, and 30 for those writer/artist asks :3

10) OC you most struggled to make?

Maybe not 'make' so much, but I definitely had to do the most research when developing Udham. I had to look into colonised India, mid 1800s fashion both in Punjab and England, names, religious customs and clothing, etc. It's a culture I wasn't taught about ever and so had to look into it myself, I've found a lot of good resources though luckily and it's been very interesting. A lot of developing the visuals for that universe involved a lot of dredging through fashion mags from the 1850s

18) Describe the setting of one or more of your wips

I have 3 "main" story wips I'm working on, none have names as of right now because I'm horrific at naming things lol, I really ought to have come up with smth but alas:

One (which is where the character above originates) is set during the mid 1850s, with the majority of the story occurring within the home of a layabout Victorian socialite, during and following a party he hosted. During this weekend-long gathering the guests witness the collision of a small meteorite, which unbeknownst to them contains extraterrestrial protist-like lifeforms, which possess a 'mind melding' aetiology and the event devolves into a miniscule epidemic as the residents and guests have to contend with the bizarre symptoms in a pre-germ theory era.

The 2nd of the main ones is set in the 1970s, rural Quebec, and follows two siblings (21 y/o Lou and 16 y/o Anne), after they leave home and attempt to find a stable place outside of their family. However, Lou manages to find both work and shelter in the form of a sleazy, perennially vacant motel, run by a shady, heavily disliked local family, things appear to look up for the both of them. However, Lou's job requirements slowly spiral into the immoral and macabre, and it starts falling apart at the seams. It's set kind of in the middle of nowhere, bitter, old industry western Quebecious town where only a few steadfast residents remain. It's meant to seem isolated but also too crowded and family, can't escape the few people around them.

The 3rd is a little bit more down to earth, but also a little bit more.. soap-opera, low-stakes. It's set in East London in the mid 2000s, primarily in council housing estates and understaffed hospitals. The protagonist, Spencer, is an addict into his most recent bout of sobriety when he finds out his ex partner passed, leaving him with an infant she had refused to let him see prior, due to her own paranoia. It's relatively gritty, if you walk through any low income part of the UK you'll see what I mean.

30) How are you doing? <3

I'm alright thanks! Just sort of cruising along

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what if you were a healthy couple. because they are

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I forgot to copy the numbers so woe! Writer questions be upon ye;

Who is your newest OC? Why did you make them?

Do you have any OCs without stories? Will you ever create one for them?

What are your favourite relationships between your OCs? (romantic or platonic!)

2) Newest OC.

The newest "group" of OCs are the characters I created for my 2000s, mystery / soap opera drama story lol. Spencer, Mara, Kerry, Joy, so on. I tend to create OCs in batches when developing story ideas, but focus more on the main one's. Here's a super recent scribble of Spence & Mara though

6) OCs without stories.

Yes, in terms of concrete plots or other characters, I have one OC without any real story. Mister, manic transient with a hero complex, but little in the way of story direction lol, adapted from an incredibly niche interest. I probably had others as a teen but they're either lost to time or were adapted into new OCs

7) Favourite relationships.

Ohh I'll give a few, of different varieties, but I do enjoy a good number of the relationships I've developed for my OCs., which is probably why they're so self contained.

Lou & their sister Anne:

Lou and Anne have such a fun relationship to ponder about and try to write for because the entire purpose of it was to deteriorate, because sometimes familial love isn't enough to keep people together, that proximity and desperation quite often breeds a variety of wrecks who will come to the point of not tolerating each other. They love each other dearly, but the person Lou becomes once they leave their parents makes the entire dynamic unsustainable, especially for Anne who faces the brunt of their volatility. They're great, in a tragic way. What happens with them is inevitable but sad.

Spencer & Mara:

Alarming! I have one distinctly healthy relationship amongst my OCs, it's these two. I'm not entirely sure how to describe their relationship bc it kind of necessitates explaining their entire plot line, but, they are very similar people (stubborn, loud, extroverts who feel the need to help everyone else without taking much time for themselves - which is how they remedy it with one another) who meet one another at drastically different points in their lives.

Spence is recently sober, flailing as he tries to manage his place with friends he can no longer surround himself with, trying to manage his infant daughter and Mara is a highly competent but overworked consultant and finding herself growing apart from her own, almost-adult daughter. They're drawn together after she treats Spencer's ex Kerry and comes to have a lot of affection for the poor woman before she passes, thus making her equally protective of the infant Joy. They're sort of navigating this awkward goal together bc Spence is a covert disaster without his support system and Mara feels that she needs someone to help because she couldn't with Kerry. Though overtime things obviously,, develop. They're sweet, they balance each other out in a lot of necessary places.

(This art is by the incredibly lovely @/alyxupshur!)

Nelson & Harry:

Don't want to ramble quite so much given my prior Fucking Screed, but Harry is the socialite son of Nelson's navy flame George, who tragically gets obliterated by a cannonball during a battle. Upon George's prior written request, Nelson takes up the mantle of young Harry's paternal figure, which he is remarkably stiff at. He does try very hard though, for a man that never wanted children. Harry loves him to bits