#I mean of course it's a dark and edgy oc

[shenzaibird-art]

I've had a new OC (actually a revamped old OC) for exactly one month now and I already have 25+ arts/sketches and 28+ lore notes/story scenes related to him.

Send help.

(Also sorry if this looks morbid, it was supposed to be goofy I swear)

[i-cant-sing]

How do you're ocs treat Reader to a self care day?

Theodore is beating his chest with thunderous hands and opens his arms wide and that is your cue to fucking jump on him and let him cuddle you- cuddle the sadness, the depression, the fatigue OUT OF YOU. At least thats his idea of self care (that and shooting people... and breaking stuff... and causing chaos and destruction) but he'll compromise and do whatever you wanna do, as long as he gets to grumble and hold your hand (at least, he loves physical intimacy). Honestly, u can get him to agree anything u want if u just give him a kiss on the nose- and he will instantly melt. He will still complain, thats non negotiable.

Dimitri is a man of money. He will spend his entire account on you if it pleases you, and if retail therapy is your thing, girl u just hit the jackpot. Of course, hes down for seggsy times too, but thats really his idea of self care and if you wanna do something else, he can put his needs aside for now even though he promises you would've felt 100000 times better by the time he was done with you. But like i said, he's a rich guy, he will give u his credit cards and money if u wanna do something else. Hell, he's even rained them bills on you. "Do you want to jump on a pile of money, pchelka? Hm? I can arrange that for you, darling." (pchelka = little bee)

Eros... the golden boy, the charmer. He will literally sweep u off your feet with how sweet and caring he is omg he will actually drop everything he's doing the moment he hears you sigh out the wrong way. Like you take one breath way too deeply and he's right in front of you, holding your face ever so gently and asking you whats wrong. And you dont even need to tell him anything because he's just so darn smart and he can read you like an open book and thus, he knows what you need. He knows if its a "retail therapy" kinda day or "stay at home, do face masks and watch comfort movies" or "take long bubble baths together" kinda day. Please rant to him, he pays close attention to all of it and has the best and most appropriate reactions and... he just loves your voice. And the thing with Eros is that he doesnt just make it a self car day- no, its a self care days/week/months or however long HE deems that you need it. He's the best, i love him.

Magnus is... not the dude u wanna self care with. Like dont come to him and say "can i have some space/leave the house for a while because I desperately need some me time." because to him that means he needs to STEP TF UP and be there more for you as if u werent already tired of him breathing down your neck 24/7. "Hm, what did you say? You want some space? Oh but angel, that's not what you need. No, silly! God made us for each other, we're soulmates! And we need to be there for each other, in sickness and in health! Aww but I don't blame you for getting confused about what your body needs! Its what happens when you dont have a baby in you. And it has been a while since we had our last! I think its time for baby number 8! :D" And you best believe the cult members are glaring at you through the windows of your house, pointing their pitchforks at you to fucking follow your husband to the bedroom and let him put another baby in you or they will come in to help him do just that (and maybe beat u up a little when he's gone for baby shopping).

You say self care and Lucifer's mind goes to torturing souls and eternal damnation. But thats what he likes, and now that he likes you, he will let you express your preferences. I mean, personally he would kinda try to get u into adding more oil into the fire that burns souls, but he knows you dont like it when they scream... maybe he can pull their vocal cords out?? Hm, maybe. Lucifer allows u to do whatever you wanna do as long as you do it in hell/within the premises of his home(castle, really. Real edgy dark, satany theme going on). One time, you wanted someone to just hold u and since Lucifer is the only one who is allowed to touch you, you climbed into his lap and let him hold u for hours as he sat on his throne, and he swears he's never felt more content in his life than with you softly snoring in his arms and shuffling closer to him every now and then, with him carding a hand through your hair and kissing your soft cheeks.

[hazelenergy]

5, 12, 19?

5. How did you figure out your oc's identity?

Prior to character creation, my soon-to-be Storyteller told us to come in with a general idea of a normal person that exists in this modern world and a few important people in their life. This was a lead towards making touchstones. I genuinely, thought of the person who'd become Hazel was... alone. I was then told that's not an option and I slapdash created a girlfriend for her, and bam. Lesbian.

12. Does/did your oc ever wish they could change the way they are? Why? If it's in the past, how did they get over the feeling? (this can be about internalized homo/transphobia)

[Answered] Hazel of course has wrestled with wanting to be accepted, to be "normal." And she has a long history of not always wrestling with these feelings in healthy ways. But ultimately, what does it even mean to be "normal"? And would she be happy in this state?

Her identity in being queer never really got shaken by these. Her battles with addiction, those hit harder. She knew that people despised her for not being clean and it made her entire life difficult. She rarely got sympathy for relapsing, she often had to rely on her own wit and survival to get what she needed.

She never really gets over this feeling. She knows she won't ever be magically "fixed." However, a relapse or using again isn't defeat. It doesn't devalue all the work and effort she's put in- even if she feels like utter shit.

19. Do you have preferences about depicting homo/transphobia in your stories? What, and why? Does it vary by story?

[Answered] Typically it doesn't come up, in the sense that I have to deal with it in real life, I don't wanna deal with it at the table. But, if it does, its always to depict a bad thing. An NPC thats transphobic is a clear indicator going DING DING DING hello players free kill shot! In truth, a lot of the people I enjoy playing with are queer, and we deal with that horror daily. WoD is a grimdark setting, there's plenty of other edgy bs to go dark with.

[seginbeats]

/clips out of the backrooms and sits down.

I think it’s really telling that “edgy” and “angsty” content, tropes and characters still have a stigma of shame attached to them. It’s still the butt of a lot of jokes and is usually assumed to be “vent writing.” Of course, there’s nothing wrong with vent writing, it’s extremely healthy and a very valid way to process things, but, content like that shouldn’t be hailed as “good” only when it’s labeled as a personal vent.

But on an actual serious note, this is something that a lot of us (myself included) were shamed for enjoying once we became preteens and teenagers; I think that’s where a lot of the stigma still comes from, being told that your emotions are ridiculous and that expressing them with alternative music, dark fantasy books and strange coping mechanisms was bad and weird. Don’t feel bad for your edgy content! Process your emotions, get them out, explore the psychology of your character’s ups and downs without being worried about being called “edgy” or “angsty”. That’s the whole point. Bringing things forward and looking at it from a fresh angle. Writing gives you the incredible chance to explore darker topics in a safe environment. There’s nothing wrong with you if you ENJOY exploring those topics— it doesn’t make you an ax murderer or a psychopath or an abusive person, it doesn’t mean you’re trying to achieve a fulfillment fantasy, and if someone tells you otherwise, they’re incorrect. Frankly, the nicest people I know? They write the most fucked up shit. Just tag the triggering content and all is good.

Angst and edge are cool like I’m sorry you can’t handle my OC Shadow The Hedgehog Linkin Park - Crawling Music Video .WMV. I’m edgy and free.

[nevesmose]

So the last time I posted anything was way back in 2016 when I had just moved to England and was working in a shitty hotel. Finally after ten thousand years I'm back, and in the intervening time I, in vaguely chronological order:

Had various celebrity encounters (details available on request)

Got married

Moved to a new city

Worked in a different shitty hotel

Worked in a shitty call centre

Joined one of the Big 4, iykyk

Had a kid

Moved back to Scotland

Got diagnosed with autism

Had another kid

And now after all that character development I've come back to a Tumblr account untouched for almost a decade and a screen name I first came up with almost two decades ago. Christ I'm old.

Why?

Let's slam on the auld accelerator all the way back to summer 2006. I was a complete antisocial nerd and not in the cutely engaging likeable way but in the cold, creepy hate-filled way. The undiagnosed autism probably had a lot to do with it tbh.

My only social contact was as a cringy hanger-on to my friends' band, and when I say friends I mean people who we had no choice but to be around each other in class. It's like going to sea in olden times, or having a cellmate with a pretty enough mouth. You make do, but it doesn't have any deeper meaning or connection.

One weekend they promised everyone that they'd be getting played on the radio. A small local station that no longer exists, practically hand-cranked. So me and various others tuned in and waited for hours to hear them. Did they rock the rural Scottish airwaves all the way from Lochaber to Fochabers, Invergordon to Inverbervie, Pitlochry to Pitmedden?

No, no they didn't. The mid-2000s were sadly denied their ten millionth landfill indie band and life went on. I never found out why and I didn't really care because my thought at that moment was just - fuck this, I want to do something for myself.

Another thing about me at that time was that I was a huge Metal Gear Solid fan - still am in a lot of ways. I played the heck out of MGS3 and liked The Sorrow so much that I habitually wore a commando sweater because I thought they were cool.

Reading that back it sounds like the start of a particularly gross Shrek is Love, Shrek is Life parody but I swear it's true. In any case, I had found a bunch of MGS3 fanart and such on Deviantart but was too paranoid and anxious to actually create an account.

Up until that day, anyway. I wanted to do something for myself so I took the plunge and did it. Met a lot of really great people and had some wonderful times over the following 10ish years. It was nice, in the most meaningful way, to make my own little identity for myself when I didn't have anything else going on that really mattered to me as a person. Also I wrote a lot of edgy Dark Eldar fanfiction.

Of course, life went on and I ended up drifting away on the tide of gradually building up other things in my life, even in my own slow way. Which brings us to now.

It's pretty pleasant, in a nostalgic way, to revisit the online footprint of the person I was then and to look at his antics with a little more, dare I say it, maturity and self-awareness than I had at the time. But I'd be lying if I didn't say it's also pleasant to recapture a little of how it felt to be that person whose responsibilities extended only as far as creating OCs and adding the right amount of XD, x3 and ^_^ emotes to every comment.

What a dork. But it was fun to be that dork.

[a-lonely-dunedain]

ok sorta-crack theory for why the Black Numenoreans are called Black Numenoreans despite being Very Pale (in LOTRO specifically I mean, that's where my support for this comes from)

I mean sure it works fine if you just say they're called that because they're serving the Dark Lord or their hearts are blackened in a more metaphorical sense, but a little idea came into my head and has been rattling around in my brain (ok this ended up longer than expected, I'll need to put it under a cut)

so my thought kinda came from looking at them in LOTRO and being like "ok but why is their skin purple-grey????" and then it hit me, their blood is black! it probably has a lot to do with the evil sorceries they all seem to be so well-versed in, maybe the result of a ritual they willingly undergo to intentionally make themselves look Like That as a sort of badge of honor to them.

like a way to more clearly differentiate themselves from the other humans in Sauron's order, because if there's one thing we know about these guys it's that their incredibly prideful. they're Black Numenoreans, the favored servants of the Dark Lord, entrusted with powerful magic, and they want everyone to know that! so of course they want black blood and yellow eyes and are willing to endure physical mutilation to get it, what self-respecting servant of Sauron wouldn't?

more support for this lies in the fact that in the early game, (iirc) the only purple-ish Numenoreans we see are Mordrambor and Amarthiel's other champions, y'know really high ranking dudes, and the lower ranking unnamed ones actually have pretty normal skin-tones. it makes sense that Mr. "Horrible Dark Magic Man" Mordrambor would have these traits while the others haven't earned the right to it yet.

weirdly enough tho, later on as we get closer to Mordor every Black Numenorean you encounter seems to have it. I don't know if that's the devs retconing the idea that only higher-ranking guys have the Black-Blood™ and saying they all have it, or if the ones located within Mordor are considered More Important by default. because like, we see some labeled as "apprentice" who still have that signature purple-grey skin.

or maybe they've just been getting their character models mixed up and I'm overthinking this! (I mean that first picture of the Normal Looking Guy is actually from the Dale-Lands which is post-Mordor content sooo *shrugs*)

anyway I'm just rambling, I thought this was gonna be a short post but I guess now that I've started posting about my OC that has a Personal Connection™ to this stuff I now have Opinions and Theories about it! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ idk I just think the visual of blackened blood is neat. yes my OC has black blood, what of it? am I not entitled to a little shameless edginess every now and then? as a treat?

(as for why Margim still bares those marks despite having never undergone any of those rituals and knowing approximately zero magic, it's probably that in some uncommon cases those traits can be passed down to their children. not often, but it happens. wow Margim is so lucky! :)))))

[mahou-furbies]

Do you think having magical eggs is too similar to Shugo Chara? I'm planning a magical girl webcomic and I really like the idea of taking care of an egg, keeping it warm and making it hatch to obtain powers. I also want to use the theme of being kind with animals and such, so, I think the egg is a good addition to it. But I'm worry people will compare it to Shugo Chara.

Comparing stories is inevitable, like people who have never seen a magical girl show will call any magical girl anime a Sailor Moon copy, or those who complain about edgy stories will label anything remotely dark as a Madoka ripoff, or on fanwikis in the trivia sections you can find "this was possibly inspired by ___" speculation over the flimsiest connections. If it isn't clear from the tone I'm not a huge fan of this, but regrettably I have to file it under "people having different fandom opinions on the internet over ultimately insignificant issues" and move on.

However I think there can be more than one upbeat magical girl story, or dark magical girl story, or a magical girl story with eggs for that matter; just because there is some common element doesn't mean the stories can't go into completely different directions. Other than the egg your premise sounds very different, with the focus on animals, while Shugo Chara (IIRC) is about growing up and identity, with the eggs being more like props or metaphor. Or Kira Kira Precure and Tokyo Mew Mew both have an animals+sweets theme, but TMM focuses on the animals/conservation and Ichigo's romance with the cafe being more of a backdrop, while KKPC focuses on the sweets/cafe side and is themed around... I can't remember, finding, enjoying and spreading what is exciting to you? Just because Shugo Chara has eggs in it doesn't mean that no other magical girl story ever is allowed to use them.

Also especially for fan creations, I don't think it even matters if you take your story to a different direction. I think it's totally fair to be like for example "Sailor Moon is my favourite anime and I find its premise interesting, so I made my own version with magical girls based on the planets and the moon one being a reincarnation of a princess". You probably should be honest about the inspiration (and not pretend it's all your very own original idea) but if anyone has a problem with it just block them.

However, (no longer related to your question but) I think one should be more careful when it comes to other fan creations; I think any big commercially published works are fair game when it comes to taking inspiration, copying, making your own versions, and so on, but seeing someone else's OCs and making your own be very similar feels unpleasant to me. Like if someone's flower-based magical girl team inspires you, feel free to make a flower-based team yourself but maybe don't use the exact same flowers for everyone, and try to come up with different clothing motifs and story ideas. Though of course with fanworks too there are concepts that are general enough that you really can't claim ownership over them ("I made an element based magical girl team and now nobody else can do that or they're copying me!" "Only my season-based magical girl team gets to have a white-pink-green-orange colour palette!" "My pink heroine has a miniskirt and twintails, don't steal my idea!")

[the-frozen-pheonix]

what does your URL mean, and why did you choose it? what genre do you primarily favour?

a mun ask.

a collection of asks for the muns behind the muses of the rpc.

1. what does your URL mean, and why did you choose it?

Mun is a multifaceted, enigmatic, and melodramatic gentleman that seeks to represent himself using generic and mundane as façade.

Rhetorically-

How simplistic is the blonde haired blue eyed white OC obsessed with edginess?

How basic is using the base tumblr theme?

How low effort/dense does the basic icons and occasional color change of my dialogue present itself?

What does it say of someone who attempts to copy-cat Mirrors his partners writing theme/style?

Yet-what efforts and standard do I meet in pursuit of greatness in writing?

Each a conscious choice.

My URL seeks the same

the-frozen-pheonix. Meh. Whatever.

But the history spans down private corridors I’ll only allude to vaguely.

the: I am not simply a frozen pheonix. I am THE frozen phoenix. One and only. The hidden history and levels this moniker mine alone.

frozen: Accepted by me is a fact of my nature and being-solitude-loneliness. Whatever you desire to call it.

In my early and mid youth, this manifested through the frozen in life. Ice. Stillness of time. Winter. Etc.

Now it stays merely as an homage to my original perception-as the inherent negativity of all above concepts are met more warmly by me in my late youth.

4. what genre do you primarily favour?

Action adventure spur me to action and adventure. Stagnation leads man to damnation, and there is very rarely any to be found in action and adventure.

Romance is akin to spicing on a good meat dish-or fries/chips to an entree. Infused or secondary to the main course will supplement nicely.

Smut and all, a simple by product of romance.

Angst, fluff, darkness, light hearted. All just different flavors of what I like.

Slice of life is always a good treat in moderation and a good way to help action and adventure from losing touch.

Anything unmentioned is outside of my main focus but does not necessarily mean it’s not a delight.

[beevean]

Let's run the gauntlet! Rate each IDW storyline and Netflixvania season against each other! Like who gets first place in shittiness, who gets second third etc

Not really fair since IDW has more arcs, but I'll try :P

The "best" parts of the two works are S1 and... uh... well this is hard, but I'll go with the very beginning of IDW too. There are already some problems (excessive swearing, lack of Grant/Mr. Tinker and everything related to it), but overall, they're solid, short arcs with not many of the problems that would plague later arcs. I like the fight between Trevor and Alucard, and I like Metal Sonic raining fire and brimstone in his quest to revive his master. Nothing much to say.

I would compare the Surge arc with S2, because, well, #girlboss. Those arcs are all about this new shiny villain strutting their stuff around, declaring themselves the hottest shit ever, shittalking the main villain, and being very, very, very annoying (at least Surge isn't a fake radfem, and tbf, the story never wants us to love her because she's a girl). The heroes take a stepback in favor of the OCs, and a few interesting scenes (the fight against Dracula, the potential of Surge's brainwashing and Kit's cutting speech against the "heroes") don't salvage what's ultimately a very boring, drawn out arc. I can also draw a parallel between Sonic being an utter smug asshole, and Alucard being so mean to poor Trevor.

Not sure what I'd compare to S4 because IDW isn't over yet. Mmmh, I hate S4 because of shipteases that lead to infuriating scenes, so... the current arc? The Whispangle apology drama vs. the "cute" Lenector scenes, both examples of jarring morality? Carmilla and Lanoline being both ineffectual unlikeable #girlbosses? An unlikely villain (whatever passes off as Death/a growing city) that diminishes the importance of the original villain? Yeah, let's go with this.

First place in utter shittiness goes, of course, to the MV arc of IDW and S3 of NFCV! Three words to describe them both: pointless misery porn.

Characters suffer in graphic detail for the sake of suffering, the morals (if we want to call them that) are cynical - the world is unfair, you can't trust anyone, if you're kind you will pay for it - some scenes are simply unfit for the series - many The Walking Dead vibes in what's supposed to be a Sonic adaptation, the two random sex scenes in episode 9 - and characters are at their most stupid and most OOC, and dare I say unlikeable - this is where Sonic officially turns into a preaching asshole who thinks begging Eggman to turn good and throwing Espio's trauma in his face are good things (plus, you know, the whole Metal mess), and whatever salvageable things about Hector as an anti-villain get thrown down the drain as he falls for the same "pretty vampire manipulates him" strategy again. The ending has some bullshit choices too: Super Silver manages to somehow rip the metal virus away from the molecules of the infected people, Isaac conveniently is redirected to a giant mirror that would bring him and his army straight to Syria.

And at the end, all that pain? No longer matters! Cream is happy-go-lucky after watching her mother "die" and being infected herself. Alucard gets over his trauma after one episode. Hector is willing to exchange stupid dick jokes with the woman who turned him into a pet.

But fans appreciate their "depth", although in different ways: for the MV arc, it's the whole dark and edgy vibe and the "moral conflict" of "should Sonic have killed Mr. Tinker?" (no the whole problem is that Sonic let Metal go and no one cares); for S3, it's everything about Isaac and his "character development" that is supposedly peak writing (yeah I sure like the poor little thing who stole Hector's arc and also killed a bunch of innocents without that ever being addressed again).

[kharonion]

@totentnz / @wanderingaldecaldo — lumping y'all's together! 🤙

edgy/misc oc asks | oc list

3 | What is your OC’s fatal flaw? Are they aware of this flaw?

Vikt's wrath, the inferno of revenge that blazes in his core. It's a treacherous—and nothing but tragic—path that starts the moment he's fired from Arasaka. He's not cognizant of it for a long time; these intense episodes of rage are moments that are complete lapses in his memory. But unfortunately, Vikt can't even change it even when he grows aware. It's ingrained in his systems now, a part of his personality, and so, he has to cope with it versus eliminate it. But, it is a start, at least, for him to be aware enough to actively avoid scenarios that may trigger it.

12 | Is your OC self-destructive? In what ways?

[previous answer copy-pasted] The short answer is yes, though most of his manners of being so are more subtle nowadays. Vikt, by default, pushes people away, keeps them well out of his personal bubble, and he tends to choose avoidance over other coping strategies—or a bottle or few of gin.

On a grander scale, one could argue that his constant bouts into clear danger during his time as a merc—and very rarely afterward—fall into self-sabotage. Indicative of a time in his life where Vikt simply lived day-by-day, and he didn’t really care about seeing the next. A dark time, leading only to dark behavior that he still struggles to shake.

24 | What is an alternative life path your OC might have gone down? How different would their life be if they’d made those decisions?

Oh boy, I love thinking about this... as heartbreaking as it can be sometimes (stares at the nomad AU in particular). The most recent one that's been a Brainworm is Vikt's pursuit of a different path after his sudden firing. He doesn't go into merc work, but he instead lands a position as a dancer at Empathy. It's not a coincidence that he chooses such a bustling braindance club smack in the city's center; Vikt knows that Arasaka wouldn't dare to risk pursuing him there.

Of course, this also means that none of the Relic happenstances occur. But by the same token, this also means he really struggles to work through his behavioral issues and brainwashing, no longer having those pivotal points to instigate change, and he grasps for a true purpose versus continuing the "same shit, different day" pattern he's accustomed to. So, perhaps it's a more tragic path than it appears...

[linagram]

Umm, hi! (´• ω •`) I have no questions for you right now, but I just wanted to say that you're doing an amazing job, really! Usually I do not pay much attention to OCgrams, not in any way because they are bad, but because I'm just not interested, but I literally fell in love with your project, I don't know why, it's just!!! so cool!!!! o(>ω<)o All the work you do for this, all the arts, all the ideas and descriptions, the plot — it's all so damn interesting to read and watch! (★ｏ★)/ Speaking of the plot: it's really impressive how you kept the old concept and added a lot of details that made it much more interesting! I was also thinking about creating my own OCgram, but stumbled on some things that worked in the original Milgram, but most likely wouldn't work in my project. And looking at your work, I thought, "HEY. Actually??? That's literally genius????? Damn" ( ºΔº )

I don't even know what else I want to say, but I definitely want to wish you good luck with your project!! Thank you for doing such a great job!!!! ☆:.｡.o(≧▽≦)o.｡.:☆

thank you so much omg this made me so happy!! 😭💖 i'm so glad that you love my ocs and my ocgram, it always makes me happy to see people enjoying it!

and about the plot: yes, i love canongram a lot, of course, but since we still don't have any info about how some things work there, i just kinda decided to come up with something myself! i also have this headcanon (and i guess it can be considered canon if we count the novel) that all, uh.. how do i even call them.. basically all milgram projects were different in some way? like, according to jackalope, other guards were more cruel than es and also the guards have a lot of freedom to control the prisoners and the prison in general, so i'm assuming that all those guards made their respective projects more unique in that way.

also, i just kinda took the concept of canongram, looked at it and went "okay but how can i make it even more dark" sjdjksksl. not in an edgy way, but i really wanted to see how far i can go, you know what i mean? :'D actually, this season's voice dramas will reveal, uh.. that the guards are actually more vulnerable and they're in a bigger danger than they think. it will most likely sound very weird and make no sense at all if you try to keep things canon, but i feel like it makes everything more scary and also makes it feel like not only the prisoners', but the guards' lives may change completely because of everyone's verdicts.

and also thanks to the new mvs i'm not afraid of my mvs being too weird or creepy sjsdksks

again, thank you so much! <3

[elizabethrobertajones]

can i get 7, 8, 11, and 14 for your creatures re: edgy asks, thank you,

What's one way your OC has changed since you first came up with them?

I feel like my mental image of who Frog is has never wavered, so Galvin time >:)

I did use my level 50 fanta to make his eyes bigger and wider and his lips less pursed looking, because he was giving me kiiind of creepier vibes than I ended up feeling after spending time with him. Also once he had reminded me of where all my SMN buttons were I swapped to Black Mage practice and my general playing competency drops from incredible, to free company messages about how many times Galvin has been murdered by whatever challenge I'm currently up against :')

It made me start to see his character differently as well because Summoner does sort of come with the Allag stuff and there's a kind of smarminess that Galvin was giving off about it, like, I gave him the casting glam from Labyrinth of the Ancients and my fc yelled at me for making an Allag lord reenactor or something else devastating. It was all very funny but in the end I felt like I wanted him to be a bit less weird in this specific way and there's something I felt was a bit too secretly cruel or heartless in his expressions, mixed with all the jokey Galvin Lore we were spinning up.

So he got a soft reset as a bit more cringefail and harmless, and it made his personality make a lot more sense even with a lot of the teasing we'd already spun up before I wandered off on my own to give him a more thorough inner life. Like of course he'd be wildly attracted to Urianger on sight to Thancred's horror and confusion, just because the guy talks smarter than everyone in the room and Galvin is a complete nerd who also devoured books in lieu of human company and felt like a complete outsider. Of course he'd be drawn to dark arts but only in a purely intellectual way and be a little alarmed that people think it's weird and creepy, because he doesn't mean it that way, it's just interesting. and different. And people tease him for being weird and creepy so of course he likes that sort of thing.

Would your OC ostensibly be able to get away with murder?

First of all Frog did do all the DRK stuff as canon, so while she still wonders who knows about it and whispers about that incident and believes one thing over the other about what happened there, and how much her connections in Ishgard kept her safe (having started playing it much more once I was in SB), so I do know she CAN get away with murder.

I feel like if she did have to kill someone in any scenario it'd be completely justified and barely feel different to her than doing it as necessary for a quest she's on, so she'd feel like arguing her case to prove it was justified, and on her word as WoL, would mean she could also get away with murder in any scenario. If she felt like she'd done great wrong, she's the kind of person who'd turn herself in voluntarily even if she could have got away with a perfect crime >.> And then she'd probably still get let off for being a good egg.

What is your OC's weapon of choice? Have they ever actually used it?

I think the only weapon Frog goes back to with any regularity, is that the Moggle Mog RDM rapier is her sword of choice and no other has ever matched up to the feel of it.

.... I feel like the second half of the question is aimed at OCs from elsewhere than a game with oodles of combat, but actually, the answer is no! It's always been a glam over stronger weapons, but I think it's pretty canon there's a psychological element to fighting (thanks Dynamis)... Let's say that any other sword that didn't go "Kupo!" on being drawn wouldn't inspire Frog to do the horrible bright RDM LB3 :D

aaaand answered here! :D

[elvenbeard]

Oc Ask! A, B, C, and E! :3

(I know I should be sleeping, don't call me out!! and thanks for asking xDD will be answering for V, you know why!)

A) Why are you excited about this character?

Already answered here :3

B) What inspired you to create them?

Honestly, the sole inspiration and thoughts that initially went into his original creation in the Cyberpunk CC was the brief summary of the corpo world that's on the lifepath choice. I kinda felt drawn to the dystopian aspects of it all, the high stakes, the black-and-white thinking... Mind you, I knew zero about the setting, and so I was like "hm okay, edgy, dark, uncompromising corpo guy, what could he look like?". Then I found the mullet hairstyle and was like "hm.... business in the front, party in the back... I mean, that does sort of fit, right?" Then I found the colourful hair options and was like "goddammit... okay, he gets to be a little funky". Then I saw the piercings and tattoos and was like "fuck... okay, maybe there is a bit more background story that I still need to figure out here, but that's a problem for future-me". And that's basically how that all happened. Personality-wise I really sort of created and got to know him over the course of my first playthrough and as of now am really deep diving into figuring who he really is xD

C) Did you have trouble figuring out where they fit in their own story?

There are a few moments in the game that made me throw over and rearrange his background story here and there. But funnily enough, the ending I ended up getting for him - without knowing what endings there even were - fit what I had in mind for him as a "perfect" ending eerily well. Not 100%, there are a few details I would change, but still - his story is a very coherent one for me with a lot of lovely parallels and repeating patterns, so much so that even though it is a very angsty and often seemingly hopeless story, I like it a lot.

E) Are they someone you would get along with? Would they get along with you?

Oooooof that is a good question... Actually, I think I'd have my troubles with getting along with him initially, or even getting close to him. He comes across very differently than how he really is like with people he lets close. I'd be too intimidated probably to ever get to the point where I'd get to know his real self, because I wouldn't approach him or be persistent enough to want to get to know him better after being brushed off repeatedly xD Like, okay dude, you do you, never mind I asked.

Vice versa, I do think he'd get along with me - if he wanted to. We do have a lot in common (he's my character after all and I'm projecting a lot of stuff onto him that he can deal with on my behalf xD). I think we'd connect over shared interests, experiences, humor etc. and with that side of him I would then also get along very well. We're both sarcastic little shits, and I think I could learn from him how to be more confident, and he could learn from me.... uuuuhhhh.... probably something valuable, too! XDD

[patrolclaw]

ranting abt the wc "lemon" issue, tw for all the big bad stuff (zoo/pedo/rape/etc). i will be discussing this in detail, so please be aafe and don't read if this may trigger you.

i'm gonna preface this by saying that i know nothing will be done about this. i know ao3 in particular is a huge enabler for these kinds of people. this will never go away.

but i'm frustrated. sickened.

i remember being a kid and learing about fanfiction for the first time. and what did i find? something called "lemons". a lot of them. being that i was looking for warrior cats content (y'know, the books about CATS?) finding anything sexual is concerning. but it wasn't juat sexual. oh no, that would be too simple. not edgy and taboo enough.

i still remember some of them, more vividly than i would like. there was one about tigerclaw coercing cinderpaw, to spite fireheart, apparently. there was the brambleash hate-sex/borderline rape fic. the one where dustpelt comforted fernpaw after she was raped by darkstripe by... also raping her. the one where squirrelflight taught her underage daughter about sex by shoving her tail inside her. there were a number of those tail-sex fics. always an obsession with heat cycles. far too many about older cats "teaching" younger cats, or just straight up kittens, about mating.

this, of course, was not good for my developing mind. warrior cats was not the only culprit, but it's something i loved then and still do now. it's an issue i've seen ongoing for years. about 14 years, actually, though i'm sure it began just as soon as the series did. it's personal. it warped my perception as a child. it made me normalize these awful things, because surely it can't be that bad if people are writing these things, right? it hurt me.

i will also say that yes, you can explore "dark themes" respectfully and appropriately in media, even media like warriors. i read a really good oc fic once about a cat recovering after being raped by her clanmate. it focused on her recovery and inner turmoil. at the end, she has a loving network of friends and even a mate. when she decided to tell her mate about what she went through, as well as her doubting herself for giving away the kittens sired by her attacker, she is assured that no, she didn't deserve to hurt, and that she made the right choice. throughout the story, she suffered and struggled with her trauma. but never once was it sexualized. the incident even happens onscreen, but it was done without any of the gratuitous cat genital descriptions found in the countless other fics that include sexual violence. it can be done. but the people who talk about "dark themes" really just mean they want to write porn. that's the difference.

like i said before, i know this will never go away. truly, i do. but that doesn't mean i'll ever be okay with it.

this is an example of the kind of content i'm talking about. every time i go to ao3 to check if the fics i've been reading have updated, i'm greetes with things like this. every time. i'm sick of it.

unfortunately there is no resolution. that's all there is. i just really needed to get that off my chest. if you read all that, or even skimmed, thank you.

[yoonyia]

do you ever draw your ocs and realize you made every aspect of their life?

Their name their hair color their favorite color the food they ate as a kid the type of shoes they wear

you made a child

every time you make an oc you are a parent

no you're more of a god

you made the air of the world, the flesh and bone of the squirrels, the roots of the corn

but I feel like I don't know them personally

they tell me things or do things I don't want them to do

do you think real gods are also like that

that the reasons some people do stupid horrible vile things is simply because gods ocs got a little out of hand and become a character of their own?

are we deity fanfiction

I don't even believe that gods exists but I find this idea to be very interesting

amusing?

funny?

not particularly funny but intriguing in a positive high energy way

don't we litterally write fanfiction about gods

do you think that upsets them

that we make headcanons that are so incorrect it's offensive

this is where my brain wanders into when I get too much sleep

it's like the opposite of sleep deprivation

I have too many ideas and most of them are stupid and incoherent

I prefer being near death thank you very much

today I spent all day thinking about how I sound like a person who never went on the internet when I speak outloud

because I called someone edgy in a book club and everyone near me looked at me like I said the most awful slur in all of history or something similar.

Like this kid was saying "I am the darkness and darkness is my only friend" I can call him edgy guys calm down, he's a book character named lev (would recommend the book but it is a series so will give final thoughts once all books are read) and I really like him, tiny messed up blonde American boy that's 13 (I swear this troupe will not leave me alone, I'm looking at you ender)

the idea that I talk semi formal offends me

it's probably true but it still offends me

getting enough sleep makes me pretentious

I get enough sleep and I think I can have opinions that have negative emotions behind them

I wanna be tired not angry or sad or mad or happy

being happy exhausts me in a not tired way

it's spiritually draining and it makes me empty after a while

being tired gives me purpose, it destroys me mind and soul of course, it makes me deeply unstable and self loathing

but atleast that's something

I dont like being empty, hollow enjoyments behind hollow meaningless fleeting ideas

it's something that makes people the most happy

I value personal happiness very little

but I'll die rather soon if I keep doing what I was doing so I have no much of a choice

I mean I could always die

but then peoples who love me will cry and I dont want that

I miss the scent of snow

[wolfsong-the-bloody-beast]

Thank you for the tag, @thunderboltfire! Sorry it took so damn long. It was a lot of fun to think about, but I also had to take some time (a lot of time) to consider, because... well, sometimes you listen to stuff and it feels like everything is your OC's song, and then suddenly nothing is when you need to remember. 😅 I was stuck!

I have quite a few Tavs and Durges at this point, so I selected two that were the easiest.

Drakira, Kira for short (Durge) - wood half-elf druid - circle of the moon

I started Kira as a druid with anger issues, originally as Tav. Mostly chaotic good, but you know, a little messed up. Because I like her violent and covered in blood of her enemies, crunching on their bones in apex predator form, I decided to play her as Durge instead, and I think it suits her. And, really, if you're a druid that takes certain animal forms, you've got to be a little fucked up, ripping people apart with your own teeth, no? Turning her into resisting Durge, of course, means some extra delights were added to her character, like crisis of identity, anxiety, paranoia, and suicidal thoughts, hence "Into the Void." (I fully blame Warframe for making this song stuck in my head, but hey, it works.)

Additionally, I also really like In the Shadows for her, because it's about pushing back against darkness, refusing to succumb to it, and struggling to find a solution. Couldn't decide, sorry.

Blast from the past! Man, it's been a while since I thought about this song, but the text goes great with redeeming Durge.

Blade (Durge) - asmodeus tiefling wizard-necromancer/rogue-assassin

My naughty boy. Blade is not actually his name. That's just what he calls himself as the tool in the service of Bhaal. (Yes, meeting Wyll Ravengard was quite awkward.) I created him to do everything wrong, and so he does. He embraces the dark urge fully and leaves a trail of corpses in his wake - foes, allies, innocent bystanders, doesn't really matter a lot of the time, so it's only natural to choose something ridiculously edgy, just like him.

The artists at some point said that this song is not meant to be about violence, but Blade wouldn't get it anyway. He'd hear something about bodies and all that and he'd absolutely think corpses. It's about the vibes, baby!

Would you like to try this, @flower-khajiit?

What Song?

So, a little game - what song encapsulates your Tav/Durge? Post a picture of them, their name and class and a link to the song that represents them with the reason why.

Ayressa Aedihle - Bardlock (College of Lore/The Arch Fey)

This song was a find from a few years ago, but it’s become Ayressa’s song because it’s what I imagine her voice to sound like. Haunting vocals echo through this song and while its lyrics aren’t hopeful, it does speak of a sort of eternal love.

I suppose it’s more appropriate for any iteration of Ayressa who loses Gale - either to the Orb or Sneaky!God syndrome but I still think that it has a place with Ayressa getting a happy ending.

Your turn.