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[ruvviks]

I hope you don’t mind me asking but how do you come up with personalities and details for each one of your OCs? I am struggling with my non main OCs (you can answer me in a dm if you prefer)

HIII i don't mind at all, no worries!! you all know i love talking. especially about ocs but just in general too LMFAO

so usually when i create a new oc i already have some ideas for them about how i want to use them in the story or what i want them to be like. this is either based on the role they'll have (with my cyberpunk ocs i tend to decide this with their occupation or if they're family of an existing oc or not) or who i'll end up pairing them with (either just platonically or romantically). i like to keep relationship dynamics in mind when deciding on personality, so that's an approach you could try to use! look at how personalities fit together, or how they can conflict, and how that influences the story and the characters involved :D especially if one personality in this dynamic is already established (because of it being an existing character) it can make things easier!

what i've also been doing for my more recent ocs is some personality tests, i usually use this one, this one and this one and they give me a good general overview of what they're like and i use that as foundation for the rest of their personality :D

what also helps is doing ask games here on tumblr, there's plenty to find in the tags but for easy access i have a lot of them here on my blog :) AND!!!! i also made a big question generator at some point which is still up!! you can find it here and the post about it here if you want to support me <3

another really fun way to develop ocs is to put those mfs in a situation LMAO whether that is an actual scene from the source material or something you came up with yourself, it sometimes really helps to imagine them in that specific scenario and see how they would handle it and what they would do!

backstories tend to come to me in a later stage when i already know a bit more about how an oc is personality-wise. i tend to give a lot of them tragic backstories but also it's really not all that necessary, sometimes it's also very interesting if a character is now very fucked up but then they just had a very normal past; leaves you wondering what went wrong along the way and that can also spark new thoughts for MORE character development >:)

i don't always give ocs a family because that's just so many new ocs added to the BCB (bones cinematic blorboverse) but i've been doing it a lot more recently for my cyberpunk ocs because. i will say. it is a LOT of fun to do LMAO and as i said before, that gives you a lot of opportunity to build your character more!

to give an example for that, vitali's personality can be explained by just who he is now, his status as a fixer and his dynamics with the people around him. but if you look at his family and his past relationship with matvey and nadya (and daniil and roksana too actually) some of his traits suddenly make a LOT more sense and it adds some depth to him which he wouldn't have had without a family. so yeah that's something you can also give a try!

i think the most important thing in it all is to have fun and to not be afraid to retcon information!! both cassidy and aubrey (my latest blorbo) were supposed to be evil corpos and now they're both just some guy and they've become so special to me in such a short period of time, but to get to this point i had to keep tweaking their personalities and there's nothing wrong with that!! in fact it's a lot of fun to see where you started and compare it to where you are now with an oc :)

so yeas that's my thoughts on it all, i hope any of this is helpful to you and also if people have more tips or ideas feel free to leave them in the replies!!