#oc: joselyn

[theeccentricraven]

OC Origins

Thank you @kaylinalexanderbooks for the tag! This is an especially fun one.

Rules: talk about the origins of the names and personalities (and maybe even the design?) of a couple of your OCs!

From The Blood Cleaners

Justin

When I got the idea for The Blood Cleaners back in 2006, I knew early on that I wanted a male protagonist. He was largely inspired by Jonas of Lois Lowry’s The Giver and Equality 7-2521 of Ayn Rand’s Anthem. Like them, he would be determined to stand up to the status quo to choose his own life. I imagined he would be determined for justice, both justice for himself and justice for the people around him, hence the name Justin fitted him perfectly. It was even more fitting when I later met a new friend named Justen who reminded me a lot of my own Justin with his determination to defend liberty and live his life with purpose. 

It took a long time to come up with Justin’s appearance and age. Originally I just imagined a dark-haired boy. As I developed the dystopian world of Corpa - a completely self-sufficient city - I knew I needed a place where it would be realistic to have quarries and mines. I picked Arizona as a location (though I did take some liberty to craft a fictional location). I then felt it would make sense for most of the population to be of Hispanic descent and have brown skin. Latin-American culture matters a lot to me since I studied Spanish for years, love the culture, have many friends of Hispanic heritage, and have nieces and nephews with Latino ancestry, too. I thought it would make sense for the nuclear war apocalypse to create a bottleneck in the population, hence the survivors would mostly be people of color and so their descendants also would be. Ultimately, I decided to have Chapter 1 begin with Justin at age 8 when he makes the two key discoveries that serve as the inciting incidents of the two main plotlines, and then the rest of the story would be about Justin at age sixteen. The age made sense since sixteen makes more sense to begin an occupation rather than twelve, and because the content and subject material of the book should be reserved for readers sixteen and up (age of the character often represents the ideal age of the reader). 

So that’s how I made sixteen year old brown skinned, black haired Justin who is determined to fight for his freedom.

Joselyn

Originally I thought Justin’s only love interest would be Clarice (I’ll tell her story in a future post). Clarice is one of the children of the Fists - the government and ruling class of Corpa - who lives in the Steel Castle. Justin would meet Clarice after earning the privilege to work in the Steel. The problem was that she would be absent for much of the story. For Justin to get to work in the Steel, he would have to first go through the training, the torturous transformation, work as a blood cleaner for a while, and slowly discover his telekinetic powers. This would be a lot without a love interest. When I started the revival process for The Blood Cleaners last year, I put behind a lot of years of regret for not writing. Not knowing how many books I would get to write for the rest of my life, I wanted to cover what I would regret not doing. For a long time, I wanted to have a story where two characters bump into each other after running around a corner. I wanted it to be a type of “meet cute”. I gradually came up with the idea of having Justin at age eight unwittingly bump into his  future love interest when they were chased by two separate groups of people. This allowed for Chapter 1 to start with the inciting incidents for two of the major plotlines. First inciting incident was when Justin discovered the secret note. Second inciting incident was him running into Joselyn, beginning their romance plotline. I named Joselyn after Jocelyn of the film A Knight’s Tale. I used S instead of C to make them different.

I wanted to make Joselyn and Justin be parallels and opposites. Unlike him, she lives on the surface, not underground. Like him, she’s one of the common people as she lives on a farm. I did this partly for world development, since I wanted to show how the farms played a part in the self-sufficient city. I also made her be a Spanish speaker, since Corpa has a good deal of English and Spanish speakers. I describe Justin and Joselyn having similar features with brown skin and black hair, though they are not related (thank heavens!). They have a familiar ancestry, as Justin’s late father was also a commoner on the surface. Joselyn’s farmgirl characteristics might have had some influence from the love interest in Anthem, Liberty 5-3000. I make it clear that Joselyn is a capable girl, not a vulnerable damsel in distress. She has similar beliefs as Justin, though she’s more outspoken, no concern for how speaking her mind could threaten her life. She’s good at taking charge, though she begins with self-esteem struggles. I don’t like the way that the media has a tendency to either portray a smart female character who needs to deal with the dumb guy getting in her way or to portray a dumb female who needs a smart guy to rescue her. I defied the tropes by having Justin be a constant support for Joselyn, helping her get out of a rut, not in a way that shows he’s capable and she’s incapable, but that they are both capable and need support from each other.  

I knew from the beginning that this meant there would be a love triangle because I did not want to cut Clarice - she plays a vital role in the story. I like having the love triangle be different from the usual love triangle tropes. I’ve observed that most love triangles are a girl choosing between two guys. When a love triangle is between a guy and two girls, the girls will often be nasty and the guy will be a jerk. I wanted my love triangle to be more innocent, in which both of the girls are worthy of and need to be loved. Justin never meant harm, as it happened because he didn’t want to hurt either Joselyn or Clarice and he genuinely fell in love with both of them. I won’t give away too much, but can say Justin will regret the heartbreak when it happens. As with any love triangle, a choice must be made, but I won’t give that away. 

Other Posts on Justin: here here

Other Posts on Joselyn: here here

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[gunkmusher]

more agnes and joselyn

[weenierufu]

I DREW A GOOD HANDFUL OF OCS AGAIN :3C

I lovea them all...........

[10millionotters]

A little gift for my CoD OC having friends on the dying app

[deeptrashwitch]

Father's Anger

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Joselyn is beautiful @thatonesillyducko oc!! Go get a look at her bio and give her some love!!

Mario was on his guard rotation, simply looking at the enormous trees with a nostalgic and tired look. He stared at the sunlight pecking down the leaves while he surrounded himself by the odd silence of the rainforest. Then he heard little sobs and steps.

He recognized them in seconds, and ran down the tree he was over. In silence he hugged his daughter, who was crying.

"Sweetie, what happened?" He asked, worried.

"I-I was training, a-and the rifle got stuck..." She explained while sobbing, "and when I tried to fix it, m-my hand..."

Then Mario looked at Juliana's hand, just to see how it was bleeding and full of burns. He felt his own eyes fill with tears, and carried her in his arms to look for one of the medics that escaped with them. In silence he stayed with J.J while the medic treated her wounds, all while the little girl cried in pain.

Mario just tried to comfort her, seeing how despite being 12 years old, J.J cried and reached for him in the middle of that. He sighed while caressing her hair gently while thinking. It has been two months since they all arrived to that hellish camp.

He was filled with a sense of impotence that was overwhelming. No matter how much he tried, J.J was still confined to this place as well while all the kids we're forced to learn how to fight for their survival. In silence he hugged his daughter, just to see how more kids started to arrive, also with burns and wounds.

Then he saw little Joselyn, the sweet girl he and Camilo have been taking care of along with the other kids. He noticed how her arms were filled with burns and sharpnel wounds. The girl was screaming while another medic cured her as well, asking the medic to stop and looking at him, almost pleading for help.

It became unbearable.

Mario kissed J.J's forehead gently and caressed Joselyn's hair before stepping out to take some air. It was a digrace see in what the childhood had come to. Then he found the trainer, who seemed too calm.

"It's a shame, isn't it? All the kids got hurt doing some basic training." He mentioned calmly.

"They're kids, they know nothing of this, it's normal to have wounds even as adults." Mario said as a response.

The man laughed and lighted a cigar. "Oh well, suits them well."

"What did you say?" He asked, getting a chill down his spine.

"Oh nothing, it's just that kids should keep quiet, this batch are quite foul mouthed. I'm glad they learned the lesson."

That made Mario's blood ran cold. It told him what he needed to know. That bastard sabotaged it.

With his control gone just for a minute, his hands flew to the man's neck. He started to clench with his face completely calm except for his eyes. No matter how much the other tried to get off after the shock was gone, Mario didn't let go at all, instead he kept adding pressure.

"Listen to me. These kids have enough on their plates to also being leading with your shit." He said with a glacial cold voice. "And the next time I hear or even see a wound like that on any of them, I'll put your rifle in your ass and shoot until the magazine is empty while you watch 'til you end your pathetic life. Next time, you're a goner. Understand?"

The man nodded despite his anger, which transformed in fear when Mario dragged him to one of the barrels that they used as bonefire. The trainer tried to squirm away while everyone watched, with the guerrillas leaders curious and trying to see if they need to intervene or not. Mario, out of rage and with a blank expression, forced the trainer's hands into the fire.

"No one, and I mean NO ONE, will touch the children." He warned calmly, ignoring the screams of the other man and the smell of burnt flesh. "If you do, know this is what awaits for you."

After that, he grabs the head of the trainer and slams it against the edge of the barrel as it opened a wound in his face. When he let go and the man fell down, still screaming in pain, Mario just looked down with an unsettling calm.

"Get out of my sight before I kick your teeth back into your mouth." He said, glaring coldly at the hurt man.

The trainer managed to stand up, looking at Mario with fear before running away. Meanwhile, Mario simply went back to the medical tent, hugging J.J and Joselyn gently while he hummed a soft song. Simply hearing the advice from the medic, taking mental notes to help them later.

"It's okay, girls, it'll be okay, I promise." He whispered softly, still hugging them.

[mobberswashere]

Lin-Lin & Omatsuri

these are jjba ocs!1! Joselyn “Lin-Lin” Higashikata(Red-head) and Omatsuri :3

These are some drawings i made of them and Lin-Lin is also just my iteration of Yasuho and Gappy’s daughter from part 8 of Jojo! While Omatsuri is a boy from a prestigious school who hated Lin-Lin guts at first when he first met her behind an alleyway ☃️

[angelicdonuts]

DONUTS MEGA GIANT PICO'S SCHOOL OC DROPPPPP !!!!!!! RAAAAAUUUGGGHHHH THERES SO MUCH MORE THAN THIS!!!! THE WORLD JUST ISNT READY!!!! (I havent.. drawn all of them yet)

AAAAAAAA YAAYAYAYA OKAY SO A LOT OF THIS IS SUPER OLD.. BUT!! WHO CARES!! I still like all of these a lot :3 !! Some of these are unfinished and never will be because of how whiteboard is but shhh we don't talk abt it.. (I wouldn't have posted them if I didnt)

I dont wanna make this an essay so ill just share their names pronouns n age and not infodump about them all >_< (FEEL FREE TO ASK ME ABT THEM OR DM ME ON DISCORD IF U WANT TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THEM!! I have a server dedicated to nothing but me infodumping about all of my ocs :3!!)

The first gal is Joselyn (18) :3 !! She/Her :3 !! The screaming mf with the crazy hair is Noah !! They/Them !! The two gals in the 3rd pic are Carmen (17) ("If I could kill everybody, you'd be the only person I wouldn't kill <3") and Jennifer (17) ("You... have such a way with words, you know that?") :3 !!! (They love each other very much) !! Both She/Her !! THEN Then there's Seymour (15) !! He/Him! And then Henry (15) !! He/Him!! (They also love each other very much :3 !!) Then the ripped one with the uncolored hair is Julian/Julias/Julia (18)!! They/She/He !! THEN THERES SANDERS/SANDRA ! Their age is... complicated !! (theyr a demon :3!! But in this drawing specifcially theyre an "adult" :3 !!) ONE OF MY PERSONAL FAVORITES!!AHAFHHGHH!! THEY/THEM/SHE/HE!! Then you have Lucy (18) (hair covering both of their eyes, excited and on the left) and June (19) (hair covering half of their face, totally not having it and on the right) !! Then the guy with the glasses and fluffy hair is Todd (17) !! He/Him !! The three "free thinkers" don't have names yet since i haven't worked on them at all... But the guy with the glasses uses he/him, the guy with the sparkling eyes and cat mouth uses he/him, and the person with the cat sweater uses any :3 !! Then oh my FUCKING god... saving my literal favorite oc in the history of my ocs... THERE'S PRICKO!! UMMUMMM IN ALL OF THESE THEY'RE AN ADULT!! AAAKSHKFKJSLHFK!!!!!! THEY/THEM!! I COULD LITERALLY TALK ABOUT THEM FOR HOURS DUDE... HHGDJHFJHDH!!!

And then rest is just a bunch of silly doodles!! Also the weird ghostly thing behind Noah in the little doodle is named glass !! If ur awesome u should already know that :3 !! IF U HAVE ANY QUESTIONS OR ANYTHING ABOUT THEM PLLEEASSE PLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASE PLEASEPLEASEPLAES FEEL FREE TO ASK!! I LOVE TALKING ABOUT MY OCS SOOOOOO MUCH!!

Also I forgot to mention that my "version" of pico's school (the silly one in my head that all of my ocs are a part of) takes place during highschool !! :3

[krisartsimp16]

This is not canonical.

It's from a series I have on Wattpad from my old OC Joselyn (when me was 11) and I wanted to create her own story.

I only drew this out of boredom and aside for curiosity of what my fursona (Luther) would be like if I were inside her body furry

[lazysunjade]

a merry little Christmas

[alongtidesoflight]

[luucypevensie]

How about Once Upon A Time for the plot bunny game?

So, I have to admit, I never watched Once Upon a Time (which is shocking, considering how much I love fairytales and the animated Disney movies). I do have one idea though

Name: Joselyn “Jos” Anser

Age: Early 30’s

Sexuality: Pansexual

Job: Princess of a neighboring kingdom to Snow White; teacher during the curse, likes to frequent the pond to feed geese

Love Interest: N/A

Adjectives: kind, fair, strong, steadfast, and witty

Summary: Before the curse, Joselyn was the princess of neighboring kingdom to Snow. Her mother had sent her to a far away place to wed a king, but she was threaten by her maid and forced to become her servant. During the time her maid posed as her, Joselyn was forced to watch over the geese, earning her the name “The Goose Girl”

However, the king found out that the maid was lying from Joselyn, and she was sentenced to death. They thought they would live happily ever after…

Until the curse happened…

Now, Joselyn “Jos” Anser is the local teacher, and Henry Mills is one of her students. He is also insisting that she is a princess, which she thinks is not true.

Right?

[theeccentricraven]

Thank you, @cowboybrunch for the open tag💟

Rules: Make your OCs kiss using this page on Picrew

Justin & Joselyn💜❤️ Justin & Clarice😲

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[gunkmusher]

AGNES + JOSELYN

[weenierufu]

Earlier, I remembered that we added subways/train stations or whatever to the world that Stracend and them live in

[exclusivenewsplus]

Joselyn Dumas: (Biography & Facts) All You Need To Know About

Joselyn Dumas: (Biography & Facts) All You Need To Know About

Joselyn Dumas is a talented Ghanaian TV presenter and also a big-time actress in the Ghanaian movie industry. T Joselyn in 2014 starred in a movie title “Northern Affair” which became a big breakthrough for her career as an actress. The movie, on the other hand, was about “an arrogant and angry doctor who lets down his defenses and falls madly in love with his colleague in an arid and destitute…

[nyxieethedoe]

I will never stop obsessing over these two, nor will I stop obsessing over the amazing art by @thebittercherry

Juniper Joselyn Fox is my Fullmetal Alchemist OC. More info on her can be found here if you’re interested~

Alphonse Elric © Hiromu Arakawa

Art © Bitter-Cherry