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HALLELUJAH more OC rambling! :D Beware, these ones get pretty wordy^^

1. Your first OC ever

Answered here

14. Introduce an OC with a tragic backstory

… no one’s gonna be surprised to hear that I don’t really have any OCs with a happy backstory, huh? Though, honestly, there aren’t that many with a downright tragic one either.

Well, Emri is practically my main OC, so it seems right to go into more detail about him.

This is the basic premise: All children are raised by the priesthood and assigned points of potential worth for society. Emri is assigned zero points.

Usually he’d be killed off, but he works hard to keep proving his worth to everyone. His entire childhood is spent studying his ass off, because intelligence is especially valued in this society and he’d literally die if he got anything less than an 80% score on anything. There is exactly one priest who actually wants to help him, but she does so in, uh, a very questionable manner.

Namely, whenever she’s worried the higher-ups might start sending assassins after him at night, she spikes his drinks with a drug that keeps him awake for multiple days and alert enough to fend off any attackers. Emri just thinks his sleep schedule is naturally messed up.

So it’s a nice surprise for him when, after the kill order on him actually gets signed off on and he’s on the run at age 12, he also suddenly has to deal with withdrawal on top of everything else. He is a high functioning addict for most of his life, basically.

His best bet of survival is to join the plague doctors, who are an independent organisation outside the priesthood’s jurisdiction. Of course that’s not exactly fun for him either, because the doctors are very much their own private microcosm of power struggles and deadly infighting and he still counts as the lowest of the low among them with his zero points.

Also, there is a plague. Lots of death and suffering.

But, yeah, that’s his backstory. I am a nice person and I treat my children well.

28. Your most dangerous OC

Emri is very, very powerful with his magic - but he mostly uses it for peaceful de-escalation and only few people would actually need to seriously fear him.

So… the most dangerous one is actually Ysp. His magic isn’t half as powerful as Emri’s, but he is so much more scary in his way of using it.

Ysp knows fire magic and nothing else. He was never taught how to use it properly so it goes haywire any time he gets stressed out.

The first time a bunch of people died in a fire he caused, he was still pretty young. Because of circumstances, people thought him causing that fire was due to divine intervention, so lil’ Ysp went right ahead and adopted the mindset of If the Gods want me to burn shit down, Imma fuckin burn shit down alright.

So, yeah, he’s a loose cannon. He’s not evil, mind you, he doesn’t go out in search of people to kill or anything, but he pays zero mind to collateral damage.

Basically what I’m saying is, do not mess with Ysp, do not mess with Ysp’s friends, do not under any circumstances mess with Ysp’s pet monkey. You’re going to burn. You and everything around you in a ten mile radius.

43. Do you have any certain type when you create your OCs? Do you tend to favour some certain traits or looks? It’s time to confess

I do T-T

Generally speaking, I tend to make my characters very smart, or at least exceptionally gifted in one area or another, to the point of making them overpowered. One reason I kept reworking Emri’s character was because I made him way too perfect at the start, he could literally do anything and - okay yeah I admit it he was a Gary Stu. There, I’m crying, are you happy now.

I’m improving in that area though. I still like characters that are really good at something, but I don’t forget about their flaws anymore.

But. And this is a big one. I still struggle with female characters. This is my greatest shame.

Needless to say, I write fantasy. I write about magic and elves and dragons and all that good shit. Only problem is, the works of that genre that inspired me as a kid really didn’t have that many female characters. So I kinda fell into this habit where every new character I create is male by default, and it’s terrible and I’m trying so hard to get rid of it. Took me forever to even notice I was doing that.

I’m now at that point where, every once in a while, I will stop and look at a bunch of characters, and I’ll ask myself “do they need to be male? Does that influence the story in any way?” And if the answer is no, there’s a good chance I’ll rewrite half of them as female.

So… I’m getting there, I guess. Slowly, but there’s progress. Please don’t judge me T-T