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[treecakes]

your ocs have very unique names, how did you come up with them? do you have a story planned out for any of them?

okay. so. there is so much background to this 😭 so i have ~4 main oc stories, and two of them take place in the same universe. when i was creating these characters, and later their universe, i was in the midst of learning gaeilge (i failed miserably at that- but that’s a different story 😭) so characters like maitiú got names in either gaeilge or gàdhlig (like eilidh). over time i did try to change names away from that to. like. get some variety in there. zara and vasko are some characters that got that treatment 😭 but basically i would sit there obsessively looking through behindthename.com for names that i felt fit the character. i can’t really explain it except when i have a character in mind, if i see the right name, i’ll know. like when i was naming solfrid and lovise, their names fit in my mind for them.

as for stories. oh boy. so their stories are always evolving for me. maitiú and co. that’s jaiden, zara, kae, vasko, gabi, tonia, and lena, mostly. i created most of them for an american girl doll roleplay group on google+ back in middle school 😭 but after that group fell apart i repurposed their characters and created a whole world for them. it’s abt a group of misplaced teenagers finding a home together following several tragedies, and it means the world to me. they’re like my best friends. and that world is always growing. i’m in the process of creating two conlangs and a whole mythology for it. it’s completely self indulgent.

also in that world, but a separate story of completely unrelated characters, we have mikey and eilidh!! and that one is also like a found family. i consider it close to being like a slice of life almost. mikey befriends eilidh (who is a fae. but that doesn’t matter that much 😭) and stuff happens, and mikey needs somewhere to go, so eilidh offers them a room in their mushroom house. my whole thing for them is basically shenanigans that they get up to. it’s fun.

solfrid and lovise is more in like. a vaguely medieval (? more like. um. fantasy ren faire esque than anything else) setting. lovise somehow gets herself roped into a plot to stage a coup with solfrid. it’s quite fun. i haven’t done a lot of work on this story.

and then devon and eleonoora! eleonoora is named that (specifically for the spelling) because i needed something that seemed like. over the top sophisticated. this is funny because i see this as like a. post apocalyptic setting, but one where humanity has already begun rebuilding. she meets devon, who has been traveling for a while, and they have to try and just. survive really. it’s kind of bleak. but i think the relationship between the two keeps the story light enough for me to deal with. it’s very hurt/comfort for me. i also haven’t done as much with this one as some of the others but the characters are near and dear to me still.