#i swear i tried to make these paragraphs decently small i apologize for y'all who really can't read this

[nobody-knose--archive]

hiiii just sayin if you ever wanna talk about any of your ocs i would absolutely love to hear about them :>

well. Since You Asked /lh

talc was a stephen univouse oc because of course i had one. he was pretty masc even though all gems are generally fem/use she/her but because su is over & they’re an oc i say they use she/he/they <3 their deal was like, being one of a rather large (6 or so not including her? i never wrote any of this shit down & honestly wasn’t even that consistent at the time) group of defective (came out the ground real wrong (made in ground meant for peridots actually! during the war in heaven (that’s a reference y’all won’t get (oh god june your penchant for parenthasees has rubbed off on me)) or whatever it was called)) pearls who were super fragile (poofed incredibly easily) hence the name talc. pink diamond thought the lot of em were a novelty at least so they kinda hung around the human zoo because i came up with all this shit way before season 4 or 5 or whenever the lads actually went to homeworld for real. the gang of them were found family & because they’re all yknow identical they named each other after their respective weapons (or at least their defining abilities).

so from what i remember there was crossbow, katana, naginata (those two were friends <3), one with a mace maybe?, metal (no weapon but strong metalbending abilities. i didn’t intend for them to be That much like the cg’s peridot), possibly one with kunai or a halberd, and dagger (the main boi). after the war & a long damn while they all got split up, dagger sent off to be an unobtrusive servant to jasper/peridot, crashlanding on earth in the same ship as them at the end of season 1, only surviving thanks to this ability she got to teleport/make portals like lion via her gem. her gem cracks though but steven’s there to fix it and then she very very gradually warms up to the crystal gems while wandering earth & casually yining & pearning for her old buddies. i’d have probably gotten around to fleshing more shit out with the crew (i think naginata shattered katana at a diamond’s orders or some shit but who cares it’s never relevant just angsty), dagger ends up with vague weak metalbending skills of their own, but i sorta lost interest in them, especially after i came up with...

[kaguya] (definitely. definitely not his concrete name. however he is japanese so i wouldn’t be good at coming up for a name anyway. so kaguya will do) was a per.sona oc who i came up with in like 7th grade specifically since that was the year i became aware of/developed a genuine fear of death <3 per.sona 3′s whole schtick is getting past your fear of death & moving on with grief and all that complex stuff so it was basically the perfect universe for me to craft an oc for at the time. he was gay (but demisexual) for minato also. if you know per.sona 3 i’m sure you know how well that worked out. i later transported him into per.sonas 4 & 5 just because i wanted to flesh him out more, develop him over a long period of time, have him react as an adult to these new kids doing per.sona shenanigans, and also because per.sona 4 & 5 style shadow confrontations are cooler & have more room for symbolism. (if it’s worth anything i stuck him mostly into the arena zones of 4′s canon so as to not terribly interfere with the main plot, it being a mystery & all)

also he went through really really extensive development. unlike the other guys here i honestly intensely developed them for a long time straight (never wrote anything down of course, but i was honestly really into them even for a way into last year). for example at the very beginning they were fem, cheery, and spry, much like 90% of my self-inserts when they start out (talc was exceptional at first <3), and instead of using a scythe like i settled on, they used a sickle. which is. mainly because i forgot the grim reaper used a scythe & not a sickle. but also because they had slightly more of an egyptian vibe going on at the time so it was technically more of a netjeri blade w/ a handle or some shit. also their per.sonas (they had 3 of course one for each game <3) were saturn, hou yi, and yssgaroth, though i only decided on the final one kinda recently so it’s still up in the air. saturn was mostly a physical fighter w/ some minor mudo, hou yi was a strong wind user (w/ bonus gun in p5) and yssgaroth was mostly almighty and status effects. i did not care about being op i just cared about imagining my character & per.sonas Actually In The Games

boy. anyone else? of course there’s someone else. “[tsu ikae]” definitely does not have that name because they’re also japanese and i cared even less about getting them a name. kaguya i at least used as placeholder sometimes but no this one just has no name. they’re a dang.anro.npa oc by the way. maybe this post will get me cancelled someday who knose. i came up with them in probably 8th grade, and at first they were a super straightforward self-insert, for myself to react to events/talk to characters/generally exist within the dangan universes. the problem was i eventually realized i needed a reason for them to have a presence in thh, gd, kh, & udg (& maybe 3 but only the despair/hope arcs really. just. generally in those time zones i guess) when logically those are all extremely different points in time & space that shouldn’t be able to contain the exact same character each time. so i came up with a super convoluted backstory that ties greatly into v3′s extremely spoilery themes but who here cares about dang.anro.npa spoilers anyway. they were a Literal self-insert of themself into the dangan games, they Literally didn’t exist in the dangan universe(s) outside the framing of the games themselves. there was something going on with like, being inflicted with despair by going through (simulations of) killing games v-however many times, there was something of a climax happening where they remember every single killing game at the very end of v3, lots of shenanigans.

most of that’s not important, you know what is important? i projected all of my impostor syndrome onto them without even realizing it. i made them the penultimate fencer because i thought that’d be neat & then made some deliberately unclear additional plotline about them maybe-maybe not being the penultimate lucky student (&/or penultimate charismatic student, who only gets into hope’s peak for convincing the admins personally with charisma, i came up with that all by myself <3) because Surely Only Being The Penultimate Fencer Isn’t Good Enough And They Must Be Faking Their Ability To Get In yadda yadda It’s All Luck y’all probably have impostor syndrome you know the deal. the wild thing is how i did this before even realizing i had impostor syndrome i was just like “oh wow what if it wasn’t clear whether they were actually good enough to get in what if they were secretly insecure about the validity of their skills despite projecting an infallible exterior” without being self-aware in the slightest. good times!

“that one feh oc” i just brought up in the post because i couldn’t think of anything else. if i’m going to talk about it i might as well talk about my pok.emon or sonic ocs from when i was like 10, there might be years between them but there’s not much difference in content tbh. it’s practically my archetypal “cheery playful character who doesn’t take things seriously but is also immensely powerful &/or in intense danger + emotional/literal pain at all times”. it’s a weirdly specific archetype but it’s my weirdly specific archetype <3

dan, adrian, & david i’ve technically brought up before and this post’s long enough they can be for another day (dan’s like my main ld oc, based on a mask of my own face, while adrian & david are based on adrian by the fullerenes). meanwhile eszi & jele (+ o. i. by extension) like i said i barely invented them they’ve got quite a bit more development to go before i chat about them in public. as for juno.... he can come later <3