#he’s forever one of the hardest to draw ocs I have 😵

[eternal-reverie]

behold my oc as I conceptualized him back in high school????

so how do I explain this…I shared this particular character, Silvius, sometimes on here. I’m still working on his general reference sheet, but while chatting with a friend about how our ocs came to be, I thought it would be fun to draw him how I first imagined him from all those yearsssss ago, back when ff xiii-2 had trailers released. I say that because he didn’t exist until I heard caius’s va speak in the trailer and then he just poof!!! appeared in my head. I only had two of the main characters prior to him: the protagonist Merel, a shopkeeper npc lady who’s trapped behind the shop counter and very fascinated by magic, and a masked magician Cyrus who becomes bffs with her and who then collapses on one of his visits simultaneously setting her free and so she leaves on a mission to save her only friend while encountering adventures on the way and discovering hidden truths. Silvius was supposed to be the arrogant villainous antagonist she encounters, an official committed to ousting magic from the world. His fate was to end up rotting in a dungeon by the end of the story.

The current version of the story has him in a more complex role?? Softer??? He’s more of an anti-villain I guess, an obstacle? A kind of a reluctant helper. I’ll do better to describe his current character another time tho I gotta go to bed, thanks for reading this far!!! 🫶