#friend's oc: Shrike

[sh33bsart]

made for a roleplay, comprised of many different characters that other friend's play. In character, this was drawn by one of my own characters named Hunter.

@jiggley6637 , @gryphsdeadbones , @neonmetro ,

@welcometotheartistslair , @engulfingdream , @sign-language-is-pretty-handy

[bunmellos]

companion 🍂🏔️

[shrikeicee]

(his name is Atticus, i forgot to edit the pic)

SPIDERSONA !!!!! so his whole thing was that he was caving with his boyfriend and brother when the cave flooded cause he'd lead the trip and planned poorly. his brother and boyfriend end up drowning and he's the only survivor. rescue services find him huddled in the closest air pocket he could find, traumatized. it turns out that while he was caving, he'd gotten bit by a radioactive blind cave spider! now he has spider powers and shitty vision!

having learned that first lesson in responsibility and the fragility of human life, he goes on to become spider-man!

fun facts: he can talk to spiders (seeing eye spiders, if you will) and he has at least 3 on him at all times. friends. he's fully blind in one eye (eyepatch) and has blurry vision in the other, he can't see things that aren't moving well. the two eyes on his spider suit is a Ruse. doctors think his fucked vision was because of the concussion he got in the flood, but that only blinded the one eye. the bad vision is from the blind cave spider. he doesn't use climbing equipment when he caves anymore but he brings it anyways in the off chance that he runs into normal people who question how he got so far down without equipment. he has a much stronger than average spider-sense to keep from running into things. he wears the eyepatch to keep his eye from getting damaged any further.

also he has a seeing eye dog named Luna. she's a german shephard.

[samscartoonsofficial]

*Shoves more baby Monkey wrench oc stuff at you* another voice call, another absolute dump truck of a doodle page. They're so much fun tho! And the doodling each character in different colors I got inspired by @toastraccoon :D their art is awesome and their theories are great! I'm gonna sleep now tho goodnight! ✨

[gryphsdeadbones]

Drew the D&D Party! From a campaign I'm a part of :D

[purple-jackett]

When episode 4 of monkey wrench drops I promise I will not be normal

[prim-moth]

I love bird methapors and how they’re trapped by their patrons

[payaso-affairs]

Already unhappy (im not) abt shrike making it on the crushes list but even MORE so to find out the motherfucker is 6'3"

Truly the universe is cruel and uncaring,,,

[undermostcorgi]

this piece is actually gonna take me forever it is hands down thee most ambitious thing i have EVER tried to draw but i really like how these lines have turned out so far and its gonna be a while before i can post it so have a teaser because i love you!!!!!! :3

[heaven-dope]

you are the end is shrike's unofficial theme it makes me :((

[owoshrike]

back with another redraw of an old comfort oc QuQ

man I really missed my smug ass dumbass son

[sh33bsart]

[flamedraco]

OCs in Fandom

This is something I've been thinking about more but why is the DSMP and MCYT fandoms specifically more OC repulsed than other fandoms?

Like this is a very strange trend I've noticed where when I introduce an unnamed, unimportant character meant to fill a role (usually to die or get droned in Aurelia's case) why does everyone ask "oh who was that btw?" or "ooo I wonder who this character was! You said she was a woman so she has to be one of these select few characters from the series!" Like. No? No that's not how that works.

In every other fandom I've been in I see art and stories surrounding the OCs that people make. Original Characters with their own powers and abilities, their own relationships to the canon characters. OCs made to fill roles in stories that other characters in canon simply cannot fill because they already have a role in the story somewhere else or because it wouldn't make sense.

This is a behavior that is present in a lot of fandoms. Especially in places like BNHA (the fandom I was in before DSMP). But for some reason not here? And I find that weird.

I'm not judging anyone for this btw I just find it strange because us viewers are CANON to a lot of MCYT mediums. My friend @emi-writings pointed out that the viewers are CANON to the DSMP. We were the ones who voted in the L'manburg election. We are The Voices in Techno's head. We're Phil's flock of crows.

And when you think about it we're canon to other MCYT mediums too. Any time "chat" is brought up in lore, that's us. Any time our suggestions make it into our favorite series and becomes part of the lore? That's us. We're here. We're existing. We're canon.

So why aren't there more OCs? I'd expect a lot more of them seeing how we are quite literally canon.

And yeah, there are a lot of characters to pull from in these mediums so maybe the need for OCs to fill plot points in our fics aren't as needed. But sometimes they are? And I find it so strange that they're kinda frowned upon or not normalized because you go to any other fandom and sometimes you can't tell an OC apart from an actual character in the lore!

In YWNTMBAH, for example, I wanted to give the readers more insight into Quackity's backstory in the AU. And so I decided I wanted to introduce a small handful of OCs as his family because I couldn't lean into the generally accepted family (head?)canon of Sam being his father because Sam already had a role in the fic. And I had already established that Quackity got his shrike wing power from his mother and there's not 'mother' character in that specific family canon. So what am I to do? Make OCs.

Right now I'm considering making a Minecraft Diaries AU as my next major multichapter fic. But Diaries has so many characters with very specific roles that half the cast of the DSMP is pretty much useless to me because they don't fit into these roles I need. Obviously a Diaries AU wouldn't be one to one because the characters are different with different personalities and temperaments, it's a completely different setting I'm throwing the DSMP characters into. But I also don't want to use certain characters unless I absolutely have to especially when the DSMP cast is so large I don't even know the lore and personalities of half the characters. And hell, some of the people whitelisted on the DSMP never even participated in lore or were just there and didn't really roleplay so I wouldn't use them to begin with. The answer here is to use OCs. In any other fandom everyone would tell you to just make some OCs to fill the roles you need or use the characters that were already present in Diaries (which isn't something I'd want to do because I want to create an AU not a crossover).

But for some reason in this fandom that's just...not a thing? Or at least that isn't a thing most people would recommend or do because I rarely see it. And readers will look at some unnamed, undescribed character, and assume I intended for it be someone in the DSMP cast. Had a specific character in mind for it.

And...no. No I didn't. That's just some dude that Wilbur killed. That's just some random ass hero Quackity plucked out of the cell to experiment on. That's just a character meant to fill out the world and make it feel more alive.

I guess the point of this really is just...make OCs more normalized in this fandom? Like it's not everyone's thing obviously and you don't have to if you don't want to. If someone in the DSMP cast fits the role you need then hey, less work for you as the writer, right?

And I'm not saying that this is a huge problem or anything because it's not. There are other people that do use OCs as writing tools or hell, collectively accepted OCs that the comment section of a fic will adopt because the concept of there being this one specific dude everyone bullies is funny. I remember a fic being inspired by YWNMTBAH and it was a story about someone's OC that they made and I thought it was cool as hell that my fic inspired someone to make an OC!

But I just think everyone should be more aware that it's okay and normal to make OCs in fandom. Hell, my take on Wilbur, Sally, and Sapnap are all pretty much OCs at this point. I made the Fridge an actual character with the help of Em. Me and Double added OCs in Arsonist's Waltz to fill out the DSMP Pantheon more because it wasn't explored enough in canon.

I think we should have more OCs. I think it should be normalized. I think the general expectation shouldn't be that every last character mentioned in the story is someone in canon. OCs are a really useful fanfiction writing tool and they aren't even hard to make really! You don't even have to name some of them! I never gave Q's parents in YWNTMBAH names, just descriptions! Half of Wilbur and Quackity's drones in Aurelia are unnamed OC characters they just yoinked off the streets!

OCs are things you can pour a lot of time into, give backstories, give cool concepts. But they can also just be easy writing tools when you need to kill something off but don't want to use one of your more major characters. They can just be there, chilling, making your world more alive and more full.

Because not every viable character in the canon cast can be used for the roles you need.

[shrikeicee]

cod oc time. if u even care

mw2 art has me wanting to try a more realistic style so heres some guy

[samscartoonsofficial]

more MW doodles with a bunch of friends ocs/Shrike fetus.

One of the first things I made was Shretus for the Monkey Wrench fandom. Lowkey proud hehe. He's such an ugly little thing /I say with affection/

[gryphsdeadbones]

Long rest