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pimpmyverse) wrote2013-03-29 09:53 am
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OC Pimping Is a Hard Knock Life
This is an OC meet-and-greet/discussion meme! We all love Original Characters here, so let's chat about them ones we have, the ones we're working on and even get some advice if we need it.
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Meet My OC | Character/World Building Discussion | Character/World Ideas You'll Never Use |
PB Help/Listings | Icon Requests/Offers | Crit/Advice Requests | ATP/Enable Me/RP With Me |
OC Making Game | Honesty Meme | Never Have I Ever Meme
- There are some headers already. If you want to talk about something related to OCs that isn't mentioned in one of them, feel free to make a header for it or ask me in the contact post and I will make one and link to it on the front page.
- All Original Characters are acceptable here! Whether from an Original Universe, MMO/RPG game designed for building OCs, or even a Fandom universe. All OCs are welcome.
- Yes, discussion can take place anonymously on this meme if you feel more comfortable doing it that way, but if it becomes too rude/disrespectful/out of hand, I will disable anonymous comments. This is a safe place for anyone who comes here to talk about original characters. Please find other venues if you get the urge to act otherwise.
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- Be Polite and Courteous. No bashing, no rude comments. Be respectful to everyone as you want them to be to you.
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Meet My OC | Character/World Building Discussion | Character/World Ideas You'll Never Use |
PB Help/Listings | Icon Requests/Offers | Crit/Advice Requests | ATP/Enable Me/RP With Me |
OC Making Game | Honesty Meme | Never Have I Ever Meme

MEET MY OC
A form has been provided you can fill out if you want, but it's not required. It's just there to give ideas. Have fun with it, take things out, add things, whatever you want. Also go around and greet other people, talk about your OCs and maybe do a mock IC thread! There's no meet-and-greet without greeting going on.
Teresa Genova | Stupid Teenage Vigilantes | Squawking Superhero
[What's the Canon Like?] In a lot of ways, it's very much the modern world, with all of its complexities and diversities. But there are fantastical elements, and a dash of comic book logic here and there. Ragtag has been operating for about half a year, and it's been tolerated so far. That wouldn't happen in the real world.
[Important Links] Teresa's profile, and my first notes on the twins. (Adelita, the last member to join, is on there too.)
[BONUS IC QUESTIONS] To help show off your character's voice a bit if you want to do them. Your character is more than welcome to lie if it's IC for them.
1) List five words you think describe you and why. Fun, adventurous, scary, brave, independent.
2) What has been the most important event in your life so far? Leaving home, easily. Before that, it'd be the first time I knew I could fly.
3) Someone just punched you in the face on the street, what are you going to do about it? Punch them back harder, obviously.
4) You are now trapped inside a jamjar. Yes a glass, oversized jamjar. With little holes in the lid for air. What are you going to do about it? No way am I telling you my plan of escape. Who asks someone this?
Felicia McCready | Supehero/Modern Fantasy | Fake Angel Working the Superhuman PR Circuit
She loves attention and even left her original team to join the "Face of DELTA" PR team because of it. Well, that and she didn't want to get too attached to the people there. After living in seclusion for most of her life, she's outwardly a very social, people person, but really she doesn't talk face-to-face with that many people. She does on the other hand, spend a lot of time chatting with people through social networking sites and text messaging on her smart phone.
She was born with bleach white wings on her back and her parents thought that meant she was an angel sent from God. In reality, her wings are merely an energy construct that she subconsciously controls. If she had the right amount of control or emotional output, she would be capable of altering the constructs form, but Felicia isn't really one for zen meditation or strong mental conditioning. So instead she uses them to her advantage, playing the role of the overly kind, generous and in many ways "angelic." It gets her want she wants and leads people into a false sense of security around her.
[What's the Canon Like?] Felicia is from a modern-esque world in the year 2014, but within the last twenty years superhumans have become a more prominent and acknowledge part of society. The U.S. government has taken steps to try and encourage normal Americans to accept superhumans as average citizens just like them, while also using the Department of Enhanced Logistics and Technological Advancements (DELTA) to study, train, and monitor superhumans across the country. DELTA recruits Supers so they can learn how to control their powers and use them to benefit the country, but also has secret ops teams that are sent in to control and contain rogue Supers before they can cause civilian casualties.
In a world where a lot of people still aren't sure how to feel about Superhumans, Felicia being born with wings "like an angel" to a fanatical family in a small rural town in Oklahoma led to her being seen as a messenger of God on Earth. She was isolated for most of her life, only being allowed to speak to people from her parents' congregation who came to their home every so often. When she finally discovered the Internet by sneaking onto her parents' computer when they weren't home, it was like she had found a whole new world. And that world was very different from the one she had been living for the past ten years. She is a self-taught computer techie because of it.
She eventually ran away from home and used some unsafe methods to make her way to Chicago, Illinois. She almost got hit by a car, borrowed the credit card of the guy who almost hit her (no really, she gave it back later), and spent the next six months moving around trying to figure out what to do with herself before she decided to sign on with DELTA. She's been with them for the past three years.
[Important Links] Profile | Superdemic-verse Info
[BONUS IC QUESTIONS]
What has been the most important event in your life so far?
Kind of a personal question, don't you think? I mean, I could use the standard "being born," but how cliche could I get in one day, right? I guess the day I signed on for the Team could be, too. [But she's not actually going to give a real answer.]
You are now trapped inside a jamjar. Yes a glass, oversized jamjar. With little holes in the lid for air. What are you going to do about it?
I want to know how I got in the jar in the first place. Who keeps huge jamjars around? Is this the grape jamboree?
Thalia Vega: Shy, loves theater, animates objects. Not as creepy as she sounds!
And not a serial killer. I know she kinda sounds like a serial killer >>
[What's the Canon Like?] Metahumans have recently started emerging, governments, businesses, and the public are dealing with it. See links for more info.
[Important Links] World information here (and not mine, all credit to the wonderous
[BONUS IC QUESTIONS] To help show off your character's voice a bit if you want to do them. Your character is more than welcome to lie if it's IC for them.
1) List five words you think describe you and why. I do not want to.
2) What has been the most important event in your life so far? Definitely joining DELTA.
3) Someone just punched you in the face on the street, what are you going to do about it? ...Why?
4) You are now trapped inside a jamjar. Yes a glass, oversized jamjar. With little holes in the lid for air. What are you going to do about it? Animate it. Make it let me out.
Celeste | Here there be Angels and Demons
[What's the Canon Like?] Currently she's early in her canon point. An Angel tried to kill her as a baby and she accelerated her growth, which shocked the Angel long enough for her mom to kill it. Ever since, Celeste has been training as a demon hunter and running all over the world. Her world is filled with Angels and Demons, but they're not all that's out there. Other supernatural beings exist and magic itself exists.
[Important Links] An Application to Exit Void
[BONUS IC QUESTIONS]
1) List five words you think describe you and why. Fighter. Nephilim. Abomination. Confused. Running.
2) What has been the most important event in your life so far? When I was four, or eleven... I don't understand my own age in the past. But when I was young, I killed my first Demon. I wasn't as proud as I should have been.
3) Someone just punched you in the face on the street, what are you going to do about it? Try to walk away. I can't risk being caught out. My mother will tell me what to do later.
4) You are now trapped inside a jamjar. Yes a glass, oversized jamjar. With little holes in the lid for air. What are you going to do about it? Break it. Glass can be broken.
Arabelle "Goldenwing" Kintotech | Young Superheroine from a Comicbook verse
[What's the Canon Like?] Much like modern day earth with a number of differences. "Several years into the future" would be one good description if I didn't typically use modern dates and years. Heavily influenced by Marvel, New York is the central stage for the Squadron Elite project, particularly for it's size, and the large number of various opportunistic types with powers as well. Metahumans have existed for probably hundreds of years, but only recently have their numbers started to drastically increase. The general population's reaction to them is somewhat mixed, they're not overtly feared and hated, but they're not universally liked either.
[Important Links] I don't have anything offhand at the moment. I've got a couple of games I want to app her to, but nothing's finished.
[BONUS IC QUESTIONS] To help show off your character's voice a bit if you want to do them. Your character is more than welcome to lie if it's IC for them.
1) List five words you think describe you and why. Uh, lesseenow, Chaotic, adaptable, fire, flight, Impulsive.
2) What has been the most important event in your life so far? Prolly when my powers fully manifested. There's a couple'a other things, but.
3) Someone just punched you in the face on the street, what are you going to do about it? Prolly deck'em back, dependin' on who and what it was. That question needs more context, man.
4) You are now trapped inside a jamjar. Yes a glass, oversized jamjar. With little holes in the lid for air. What are you going to do about it? Um. I'm probably gonna panic and shatter the jar in my attempts to escape.
Altalita Bastion | Immortal Seer
Otherwise, she simply runs a fortune telling business out of an old mansion she lives in and acquired from advantages of being immortal.
[What's the Canon Like?] see Arabelle's comment. Altalita is, however, proof that the metahuman (I use this term for mutant and magical alike) types have existed for far longer than you might think.
[Important Links] Info on some of her spells, although these aren't all she knows, they're merely the most important.
[BONUS IC QUESTIONS] To help show off your character's voice a bit if you want to do them. Your character is more than welcome to lie if it's IC for them.
1) List five words you think describe you and why. Sensual, Flirtatious, Playful, Seer, Fated. How're those, dear?
2) What has been the most important event in your life so far? I fear that's a little personal for a little survey thing. Such things aren't to be shared so easily, sweet.
3) Someone just punched you in the face on the street, what are you going to do about it? Ask them why in the nine hells they punched me in the face. And how, since I'd be unaware of it coming in this scenario, of course. I'm not one for vengeance.
4) You are now trapped inside a jamjar. Yes a glass, oversized jamjar. With little holes in the lid for air. What are you going to do about it? Aside from the seer absurdity of it (and coming from me, dear, this is saying something), I would probably simply create a Summoning Gate and leave. If my powers were somehow blocked? I would sit and wait until whomever trapped me arrived, and speak with them on the why they have me.
David Long | Royal Navy Llieutenant
[What's the Canon Like?] David's canon is the Napoleonic war and the events that led up to it. His world is entirely historical and non-fantasy. There is no magic, no dragons, or anything like that. The Peace of Amiens has just ended, pitting France and England against one another again.
[Important Links] An application for a game written previously.
[BONUS IC QUESTIONS] To help show off your character's voice a bit if you want to do them. Your character is more than welcome to lie if it's IC for them. 1) List five words you think describe you and why. Officer, son, brother, husband, and loyal. Because a man is only as good as what he associates himself with.
2) What has been the most important event in your life so far? My marriage.
3) Someone just punched you in the face on the street, what are you going to do about it? Retaliate. Only way to respond to a blow, especially in public.
4) You are now trapped inside a jamjar. Yes a glass, oversized jamjar. With little holes in the lid for air. What are you going to do about it? Hit the sides enough, and it should tip over. Roll it off something and break it. Sure, it'll hurt, but probably not worse than some splinters I've seen.
Brattle Street | Slightly unhinged realism | Imaginary friend
Named after Brattle Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where the little girl he can thank for his current existence first saw him, Brattle is what happens when little girls are prone to naming their hallucinations. (But don't say "hallucination." The official word is "imaginary friend.") Brattle is subject to the rules of his little girl's imagination when he's with her. And according to her imagination and her current needs, he's a dog.
Fortunately for him, though, when she's not actively hallucinating him, he has a little more freedom to roam around Cambridge and the surrounding cities and explore the rich landscape of Cantabrigians' imaginary worlds. Never let it be said that this city has no imagination. He's free to take on different forms and make himself visible to the non-imaginaries, should he so desire-- though he rarely does so, and only when in human form.
As a human, Brattle is around 5'10", skinny, and relatively unremarkable in appearance. He gives off the impression of never quite being completely serious; there always seems to be a certain note of dry contentment in his manner. Seeing as he's around to protect a little girl (officially), he's generally patient and can be a bit brotherly in the way he approaches people, and he tends to err on the side of treating people like they're younger than they are.
[What's the Canon Like?] It's sort of an exploration of the bounds of imagination, in modern-day Earth. People have collectively created an imaginary layer over the real world, but only very few people are able to see what's happening in it. A little girl has recently dreamed Brattle up so he can deal with one of her more dangerous imaginary friends. As the official story goes, Brattle happened to see the little girl and her mother pass by with a rather dangerous imaginary friend in tow, and he decided to follow them to protect them.
[BONUS IC QUESTIONS]
1) List five words you think describe you and why. Oh, god. I've never been any good at these. Deceptive, protective-- I think those are fairly straightforward, er. Affable, I would like to think. I'm sure some would say old-fashioned, but I would suggest "ageless" as considerably more flattering, and that's five. (Don't tell me that's cheating.)
2) What has been the most important event in your life so far? Hardly a question; being called into existence this time around.
3) Someone just punched you in the face on the street, what are you going to do about it? Well, it really depends on who's doing the punching, doesn't it?
4) You are now trapped inside a jamjar. Yes a glass, oversized jamjar. With little holes in the lid for air. What are you going to do about it? What a question. Let's wait and cross that bridge when we come to it.
Trevor "Wolf" Hager | Scifi/Space Western | Novelty Seeking Pathological Liar
[Brief Description] He's called Wolf, as in "boy who cried", because he can't tell the truth to save his life and he changes his name like most people change their socks. His whole deal is that he finds joy in constant change. This means that he frequently drops everything in his life, moves across the galaxy, and starts over with a whole new identity. He's extremely friendly, but he's not very mature and tends to make bad life decisions in the interest of having fun. His appearance changes a lot (for obvious reasons) but he's on the short side with an average build and a babyface. I usually play him when he has short shaggy red hair and gold eyes, thanks to colored contacts.
[What's the Canon Like?] A futuristic world, spaceships and colonization of lots of exoplanets, but without aliens. There are robots, but AI has very strict limits for ethical reasons so the only androids are made on the black market. His current job is the pilot for a police shuttle, which is the galactic equivalent of a meter maid-- except that his boss is the crookedest cop that ever did crooked, so they take on side jobs from shady people.
[Important Links] Nothing yet, sorry.
[BONUS IC QUESTIONS]
1) List five words you think describe you and why. Well, that’s easy. Handsome, brilliant, creative, multi-talented, and adventurous. The first one should be obvious. If you want to see the others, just stick around for a bit.
2) What has been the most important event in your life so far? When I was a kid, there was this military air base a mile or two from our apartments. Our parents all thought it was a pain, shuttles taking off at 4 AM and all that, never mind the huge flammable fuel depots less than a block away. But to a ten year old boy, that’s the stuff of dreams. They had all kinds of crazy security systems to keep us out of course, but my best friend was this crazy electronics prodigy. It was pretty easy to talk her into disabling them just for the challenge. Probably helped that their stuff was 50 years obsolete, but hey, whatever works.
So anyway here we are, two little brats running around this high security compound at three AM. We find this big hangar-- I think it must’ve been a mechanic’s bay, because there were all these half-assembled ships—and we’re just having a field day looking through all this stuff. Suddenly these lights come up and a bunch of sirens go on. We think we’ve been caught, and we scramble for a hiding place. Now I could tell you it was a R2-Gazelle, the most agile lower-atmosphere plane of its time, but at the time all I know is that it’s the only thing that hasn’t been stripped down to a lousy skeleton. There’s a bunch of voices and noise outside which Layla and I totally miss because we’re shoving each other around, fighting over who gets the roomier supply cabinet and who crams themselves under the floor panel, and then there’s two guys in the front seats.
What happens next is a bit hard to put in words. They’re stunt pilots taking this out for a test run. You can imagine me, ten years old and scared shitless, curled up under the floor panel so tight that my chin is digging into my knees, stowing away on a state of the art stunt plane doing tricks. I couldn’t see, and I couldn’t hear anything over the roar of the engines, but I could feel every twist and turn and flip they made. I was hooked. It felt natural. I mean, it also felt like I might die any second, but that was fine. I’d finally found the place that I belonged, if you’ll excuse the cliché.
We got in huge trouble, of course. The only reason our parents weren’t killing us is they were trying to keep the resident paranoid general from killing us. But it was worth the legal battles and the inevitable exile to boarding school, because without that disaster I might never have flown in my life. Thanks, Layla. Sorry about the jail time.
3) Someone just punched you in the face on the street, what are you going to do about it? Actually, I’m pretty sure this has happened… I think it was-- [He cringes.] Hmm. Yeah. You know what? Let’s not relive that moment.
4) You are now trapped inside a jamjar. Yes a glass, oversized jamjar. With little holes in the lid for air. What are you going to do about it? You know how matter is mostly empty space? If you focus hard enough and think about it just right, you can align the molecules in your body so they slip right past the molecules in, say, a glass jar. Pretty cool, right? Don’t try it with lead, though. That stuff is dense.
CHARACTER/WORLD BUILDING DISCUSSION
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(Anonymous) 2013-03-29 03:40 pm (UTC)(link)I have a character I've been developing who's more like an amalgamation of concepts than anything, but I haven't worked too much on the world itself because idk if the idea would be too lazy or boring or what.
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The character is some sort of non-human. I envision an alien visitor to modern earth, but they could be anything. Their real body doesn't blend in very well so they alter people's perception to look human, only it doesn't alter their actual body. This causes unsettling mismatches like them reaching for something 10 feet up, which people perceive as their arm suddenly stretching a couple feet to reach and then shrinking back down to normal, or someone trying to sit in the "empty" seat next to them on the subway and OH DEAR GOD WHY ARE THERE SPINES and such. The character is also kind-of immortal. They can die, but after a while a new them hatches out of the corpse's skin, like a cicada. For added fun, have someone with a grudge do this to them over and over.
The personality I had in mind was an extremely dry deadpan observer type of character. They move at a very slow pace, think at a slow pace, speak at a slow pace, and are generally maddening to be around. But they're perceptive and brilliant, and a valuable asset for whatever cause they may be working toward, even if they're not especially warm and friendly.
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(Anonymous) 2013-03-31 06:21 am (UTC)(link)i like the idea because it'd be fun to focus on what the implications of half-dragons in dnd could lead to, what would happen if bloodline = power was really true, and how a society could cope if its members were so morphologically different. i don't like the idea partly because i can't think of a good character, but mostly because everyone would assume i was a furry and in it for lizard-person sex.
PB HELP/LISTINGS
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(Anonymous) 2013-03-29 08:45 pm (UTC)(link)Re: PB HELP/LISTINGS
Looking for a 20s-30s white guy with red hair; dyed unnatural red, not generic redhead. Short hair, preferably kind of messy. I'll take any medium, and it actually doesn't matter if there's a huge variety of icons because the PB is only going to be a placeholder until I finish drawing his icons. Thanks!
ICON REQUESTS/OFFERS
CRIT/ADVICE REQUESTS
NOTE: Just so we're clear. All crit provided here should be constructive, meaning you are not just providing your opinion, but should be telling the player what you think they can do to improve with clear suggestions and/or explanations for your reasonings. This is meant to help people through the character and world building process, not to give people the right to attack anyone else's original character. Bashing, inflammatory and derogatory language, and just being plain mean or rude is not allowed and such comments will be deleted.
ATP/ENABLE ME/RP WITH ME
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QUICK OC MAKING GAME
Respond here with:
Three (3) character traits (personality traits, abilities, career, physical trait, etc),
Three (3) genres (horror, action, sci-fi, high school, fantasy, supernatural, etc. Full list here), and
Two (2) additional words/names/location/etc.
And from these prompts others will try to create an OC using all 3 character traits and at least 1 of the genres and working 1 of the additional words/names into the character or their backstory. Just have fun, make the character as wacky or serious or unique as you can while still fitting into the parameters of the prompts and then share them with us!
HONESTY MEME
Respond below with your character and their name in the header. There are two ways to do this meme. You can ask characters questions anonymously or with your character ICly. Just remember, your character is under the same compulsion to be completely honest!
Felicia McCready
Celeste
Arabelle "Goldenwing" Kintotech
Trevor "Wolf" Hager
NEVER HAVE I EVER MEME
Respond below with your character and their name in the header, using the phrase "Never Have I Ever..." in the comment and fill in the rest with something your character has never done (example, "Never Have I Ever...had sex on the moon"). Other characters will respond to "drink" or "abstain" from drinking depending on whether or not they've done said thing. This is a game fit for threadjacking and reacting to other characters responses so have fun with it.
Felicia McCready
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