#and all i could say is 'well thats just eyeless joe' and its stuck ever since

[squeakadeeks]

you should tell us about one of your ocs!

sure! I'll talk about one of my favorite OCs that doesnt come up that often, namely Rem.

Rem is from a OCverse called Delta thats all about dreams and nightmares. He is a henchmen of the nightmare lord Raken and is striving to create the ideal balance between dreams and nightmares. In this story the dreaming kingdom is the antagonistic force that is trying to put people to sleep forever, and Raken, Rem, Rhea, and Puck are working to avoid that.

As a character, Rem starts out as Raken's right hand man and the charismatic leader of the henchies. the head henchy if you will. Raken is sort of like a father/very positive mentor figure to him. He wants to keep Rhea and Puck's morale up considering the fundamentally messy task they have to do (literally give people horrible nightmares to wake them up). He's also very close with Rhea, being her best friend and working hard to find a way to let her wake up/giving her reasons to wake up again. He's got a weird, codependent thing going on with Puck that even when everyone was on good terms probably wasnt helping the cause, but at least their respective messiness was contained to each other.

But since a plot needs conflict and all that, as the trio starts to falter and split apart, he kind of snaps and goes sicko mode at some point. He's very obsessed with people's perception of him and always thought people looked at him as a bad guy/freak (not having eyes doesnt help), and at some point he gives in and leans into it. instead of being "I create nightmares for the greater good" he masquerades as "I create nightmares because fuck you 10,000 years spider mouth hat man paralysis demon blast" and morphs into the caricature he thought people saw him as. I really like "former leader/most upstanding character snaps and becomes the new antagonist" vibes which is part of why i like him so much.

fun fact, he was also a regular person who fell out of their dream and chose to dream forever just like Rhea, which is part of why he's trying to push her to find a way to wake up since its too late for him.