#oc: dian zhao

[the-kingdom-of-wei]

i currently only have one actually like, built oc

Dian Zhao

Half-sisters with Diao Chan, Dian Zhao ( usually only called lady Dian) ran away at around age 16 from their home to Lujian during the rebellion of the Yellow Turbans. She would be proven worthy join the Wu army and shortly after become Sun Shangxiang’s bodyguard. At around 21 she would make a plan to capture an enemy stronghold in around Yidu led her to have more strategic control, where she would gradually work her way up to become a lead strategist in the Wu army at around Chibi. She is a rather cold and serious woman that won’t take any jokes, which makes her usually pretty emotionally detached. She adorns high-ranking officer armor with a red halberd.

(She’s not really just a dw oc and more of a whole like a 3K oc tbh)

[the-kingdom-of-wei]

I GOT COUNTERED??? THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!

Counterattack for @the-kingdom-of-wei Woe! Ya Gal be upon yee Moz!

Loved drawing the armor. I just fell in love with ancient chinese armors. So stylish and varied and GAgdasgjgvhc. Was unsure of the lower part so I improvised while looking at refs.

Negotiations with Wu. Feat Pookie Bear I mean sleep deprived Origins protagonist

Yes this was an excuse to try to draw 3K period style hanfu. My instagram feed is 45 percent C-drama costumes and hanfu and accessories lol but I ain’t complaining because they gorgeous and free references to fill a folder or two with.

Moots’ Oc: Dian Zhao | Lady Dian

[ariparri]

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A list of all my artworks for Koei Tecmo's Dynasty Warriors series. Mostly contains OC content with some fanart.

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DianAi Hideaway

Dong Bai

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Butterflies Are Evil (Xu Sheng and Xiaolian)

Gundam Halloween (Xu Sheng and Xiaolian)

DianAi Halloween

WO4 Dream Team

DianAi Kiss

Cicada Blocks (Liu Shan x Sima Zhao, DianAi, Xu Sheng and Xiaolian)

Sisters (Airong & Xiaolian)

Genius Strategy!

[dovahkiin99]

Hey uh yeah I also decided to draw this for you guys :D

@oohkahmee @pish-posh-mish-mosh @itsa-me-ma-dai @missdylandy @amethyst-feather @kiringale @w-yyvernn

hope I didn’t make any mistakes

[fineillsignup]

some more Chinese OC names and how I chose them

Because some people learn best by example, and because I could literally talk about the worlds inside my head for hours... in fact, huh. By writing them out into stories, that’s more or less what I’ve done, now that I think about it. If you read my completed novel Clouds and Rain, based on its word count of roughly 200k, essentially you’ve consumed the equivalent of me blathering at you for over twenty-four continuous hours. Neat!

I’ll skip the names that I went over either in a story or in my earlier Chinese names posts.

These are all characters for the Three Kingdoms era of Chinese history and therefore you’ll notice pretty quickly that I’ve gone for single character male names and mostly dual character female names. It’s not that the opposite didn’t occur, but the pattern in what survives tends to be like that, and I wanted my OCs to blend in. Also, my choice of what I named them was, mostly, intended to blend in to an ancient setting. But that doesn’t mean they wouldn’t be fine in a modern setting per se, and I’ve added some thoughts to that end sometimes.

female OCs:

周天華 Zhou Tianhua - heaven, sky / splendour, grandeur, China

As a modern name, with apologies to people actually named this (they’re out there!), this could be considered a bit in your face and tacky. Hua is a poetic yet very common term for China and Chinese-ness and it’s hard to think of an equivalent in English that is equally well-known. “Albion” is certainly not well-known or -used enough. Hua is used to stand in for China in loads of common phrases; in particular, it tends to mean “China, the culture” as opposed to “China, the nation-state” in terms like 華僑 huaqiao (Chinese diaspora).

Girls tended to get tacky name in ancient times (lol). Tacky is not necessarily bad! This name is over the top because the parents love their girl so much and are full of hope for the future. I’m soft.

趙閃臨 Zhao Shanlin - lightning / approaches

Can I be stopped from giving girls totally frickin’ rad names? No. I cannot. Don’t try me.

馬應啟 Ma Yingqi - answer, respond / open, beginning

Another hopeful name that looks to the future.

關梅榮 Guan Meirong - plum / flourishes, grows well

The mother’s surname is Li, which is also a word for plum, and the mother and her clan had, uh, some hard times, without spoiling things. In Chinese art symbolism, the plum tree, which blossoms while it is still cold, is a symbol of triumph through adversity.

夏侯蓮 Xiahou Lian - lotus

The lotus, as a flower of the water, which blooms with such beauty from such darkness, which can float on the dirtiest water without being marred by it, is a symbol of perseverance. Plus, y’know, flowers are pretty.

male OCs:

劉達 Liu Da - reaches, attains, understands

Liu Bei’s personal name means “prepare”, so I gave all his sons names with the radical “to walk” meaning that their father had done the preparation, now they have to take it forward. This character “da” is also an extremely important word in various Chinese ancient philosophies such as Confucianism in regards to understanding.

劉通 Liu Tong - connect

Same “walking” radical as the previous, same values as previous, for a younger brother of the previous.

張璞 Zhang Pu - uncut jade

Pu is one of those unfortunate sounds that I feel like mayyyyybe I should avoid??? Should I assume my readers are twelve and can’t hear a character from another culture called Pu without dying of giggling??? I don’t know??? I genuinely like this name!

敘瞻 Xu Zhan - look far, look up

Another hopeful name. (If you were thinking you were going to get pessimistic names, you’ve come to the wrong place.)

關竹 Guan Zhu - bamboo

In Chinese art symbolism, bamboo is modest, honourable, loyal, and elegant.

法奠 Fa Dian - establish, commemorate

His father was feeling very satisfied with how things were going. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 

[the-kingdom-of-wei]

I just wanted to say that your oc, Dian Zhao, is awesome! I believe in armoured woman conquering the land supremacy and there needs to be more of them!

hell yeah, woman that can kill armies!!!!! (your oc’s are so cool, i really like how Xiao Sheng’s first name is lost to time, it gives him a extra layer of realism!!)

[ariparri]

Cicada blocks!

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[ray-elgatodormido]

Counterattack for @the-kingdom-of-wei Woe! Ya Gal be upon yee Moz!

Loved drawing the armor. I just fell in love with ancient chinese armors. So stylish and varied and GAgdasgjgvhc. Was unsure of the lower part so I improvised while looking at refs.

Negotiations with Wu. Feat Pookie Bear I mean sleep deprived Origins protagonist

Yes this was an excuse to try to draw 3K period style hanfu. My instagram feed is 45 percent C-drama costumes and hanfu and accessories lol but I ain’t complaining because they gorgeous and free references to fill a folder or two with.

Moots’ Oc: Dian Zhao | Lady Dian