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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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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.
No Obnoxious Coding. No banners, no blinking text, no sparklies, no tables, no pictures directly in the comment (make them links). Use all the colors you like and then some, but please remember no ridiculously large or small text.
Be Polite and Courteous. No bashing, no rude comments. Be respectful to everyone as you want them to be to you.
If you have any comments, suggestions, or would like to direct me to any problems that need handling please do so here

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Introduce your OCs here! We want to know who they are, what they're like and where they're from. Put your character's name, canon genre(s), and a short little descriptive phrase in the header to help with context ("Time Traveler With a Hero Complex," "Surviving the Apocalypse NBD," "Assassin with a Conscience and Teleportation Watch," etc).

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.

Any general topics you want to discuss about building original characters, their worlds, or maybe questions you have about one you're currently working on goes right here!

Ever had an idea for a character that you thought would be cool but didn't know how to flesh them out? A world that is really different but you haven't made an OC to go in it just yet? Or maybe you thought up an OC but it's so different from your type you wish someone else would give them a try? Discussion for them goes right here! Maybe someone else has had the same idea or knows just what you need to get that idea turned into a full blown character.

Need help finding that PB you've been looking for? Have a bunch of links for great places to find PBs for OC that you want to share? Need some help advice for altering a PB to fit your OC's look more? That all goes here!

Having trouble finding icons of the PB you think if perfect for your OC? Looking to offer your services to make someone icons? That goes here! Please provide as much detail as possible so others know what you exactly you are requesting/offering and anything important related to it.

Have you ever really wanted someone to give you advice on an OC you're making but didn't know where to go? Well look no further! If you would like crit for a specific character or world you're building, please provide information here or link to all the information another person might need to get a strong view of who your character is and where they are coming from. Also please be sure to mention whether you would rather receive that crit here, or if you would feel more comfortable getting it on a screened HMD/Contact Post/PM. Use the form below if you like, but it's not required.

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.

Play in a game that you'd love (more) original characters to join? Hoping to find someone else to play from your OC's universe? Looking for a game that is accepting OCs and has a good atmosphere? Bring it on~!

This is a game for seeing what kind of characters people can create with given a few ideas to work with and their own imaginations as their guide.

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!

Your character finds they are incapable of lying and must now speak only the truth. Any question someone asks them must be responded to with completely honesty. What are they going to do?

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!

All characters are sitting around in a room having a friendly drink (which can be alcoholic or not, depending on your character) and this game came up. Characters must tell things they have never done before and if other characters have done them, they have to take a drink!

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.

[Brief Description] Teresa is a young shapeshifter, part of a ragtag group of superheroes called, well, Ragtag. She's tall, but sort of bony; her imposing aura is all personality. She's brash, blunt, and bold; quite a contrast to Terrence, her twin brother and the most important person in her life. They live on their own, having run off after their parents couldn't accept Teresa being trans.
[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?

Edited 2013-03-29 14:52 (UTC)

[Brief Description] Felicia is pushy, domineering, a bit vain, and knows what she wants and goes out to get it. She is not someone who gives into fear easily, but does have a habit of running away from her troubles while trying to convince herself that it's not what she's doing. She loves pulling pranks, although the severity of them could be as simple as putting salt in someone's coffee instead of sugar or as elaborate as she bought a stripper for her best friend's birthday party and had him convinced there was a fire in the kitchen that the "fireman" needed to put out. She's not afraid to make the first move, but she becomes flippant went things get too close to upseting her.

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?

Never have I ever...made out with someone on a plane.

[Brief Description] Thalia's a pretty reserved nineteen year old superhero with ability to bring inanimate objects to life using 'soul sparks' which are totally super scientific okay. She has a few friends, especially now that she's on a team, but she still spends a lot of her time watching all kinds of performance art and dreaming about one day being a real director while putting on shows with her constructs. She's actually very sweet and opinionated if you get to know her, though!
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

spkathrine
[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.

Edited 2013-03-29 15:20 (UTC)

So, urban fantasy. This seems to be a huge no-no in rp and I'd like to know just why that is. Is it too common, are too many of the same scenarios used, do OCs from these verses suffer too much from Snowflake Syndrome or what?

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.

By "urban fantasy" are you talking vampires, werewolves, necromancers, etc? Because I know plenty of people who play those types of OCs. It may just be what circles you've been playing in because in the ones I'm in it hasn't been a problem at all. There's of course going to be judging from somewhere on the internet, but if I want to play a vampire from a modern setting or a superhero, I'm going to do it whether or not some random anonymous person likes it. If you enjoy your character, the people you tag enjoy your character, and you're not trying to disrupt or godmode anyone else's fun, then what they say doesn't matter.

Now I will say that after a while, it can start looking like all the worlds are the same and too many of the same ideas are being recycled, but I think the best way to get around that is showing how your character exists as an individual in their world. Some people worry too much about things been too similar so they go a little too far in proving how "different" their world or their character is, which I think is where the Snowflake Syndrome comes from. As long as you aren't shoving how different and unique and SPECIAL your character is down people's throats, you're doing okay.

I personally think that worlds that have depth, involvement, and an air of realism (as in I could understand why the people and cultures of that world have developed the way they have), then they will always be interesting in some way.

[Brief Description] Celeste has only been alive for 6 years. She's a Nephilim, and the natural ability she was born with was time manipulation. When she was nearly killed as a baby she accelerated her growth as a defense mechanism and within 5 years she reached maturity then stopped aging. She practices control of her emotions, because Angels feel with the whole of them and experiencing emotions like that is too much for her human body and mind and so she loses control if that happens. She's not highly educated, having had no formal education and grew up with her demon hunter mother learning to survive. The mantra of her childhood was 'us over them' and them was everyone who wasn't Celeste or her mom. Part of her takes pride in being like her mom, but another part of her is highly curious and inquisitive about the world.
[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.

That makes a lot of sense, thank you! (And apologies for the anon, I'd log in if I had an account made but welp)

I may be mixing up my genres, since I say urban fantasy but I was thinking more along the lines of "modern world with demons", so I guess that makes it supernatural (haha)? The character would be a human but not a demon hunter, as that was my main thought in creating her. I definitely didn't want to add to a pile of more of the same but also wondered if not doing so would come off as presumptuous and trying to be too different. But you're right in just focusing on the character as an individual, and any powers don't matter near as much as how she reacts to her world, which is the core of her character anyway.

Looking for a woman who can pass for being of mixed race; preferably late teens/early 20s with wavy hair, but early to mid-30s can work too. Closest I've found is Maya Brooks from Mass Effect.

(hey anon is perfectly okay here)

Oooh, gotcha. Really those genres overlap a lot anyway, so I can see why it's hard to figure which one you're talking about. And I'd have to say I love supernatural worlds and how different and/or similar they can be. It's not like EVERY idea is going to be 100% original since, well, fiction has existed for probably as long as humans have been able to articulate stories. I don't think wanting to play around in a world like that is bad and as long as you're making sure your character is a fully developed and in-depth individual, you're doing it right.

How about Shanina Shaik?

edits to add Sofia Black-D'elia and Ashley Madekwe as other options

Edited 2013-03-29 17:29 (UTC)

[Brief Description] Apparently that's the trend today! Arabelle hails from your fairly standard Comic Book universe Earth. She's a tall (5'11"), lanky blonde gal with great big wings coming out of her back. Chaotic good to a fault, she's the leader of a (very loosely) militarized and government funded superhero team along the lines of the Avengers. This is the second attempt at such a thing in her 'verse, when the first one had to be temporarily suspended for a number of reasons. Arabelle's power set includes flight, air projection and control, fire projection and mild control, a healing factor (speedier healing, not wolverine fuck-you healing), and increased physical durability.
[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.

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Felicia McCready | Supehero/Modern Fantasy | Fake Angel Working the Superhuman PR Circuit

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Thalia Vega: Shy, loves theater, animates objects. Not as creepy as she sounds!

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Celeste | Here there be Angels and Demons

Celeste

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Arabelle "Goldenwing" Kintotech | Young Superheroine from a Comicbook verse

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