#preset character

[interact-if]

This ask might be a little too broad so feel free to ignore if it is, but I was wondering if there are any IFs where the MC doesn't start off as a blank slate but is already a well-rounded character before the start of the story. By that I mean, they have a preset personality, or a set background, or a set goal, and your choices are more about moving the story forward than creating your own character. (English isn't my first language so idk if I expressed myself well, I'm sorry if I didn't)

Hi Anon,

There are quite a few games where the MC is preset. Regarding the background or some MC characteristics being pre-set, you should check our Database too!

Onto the list:

Completed:

Autumn Spirit (VN) by @synstoria

Ballads at Midnight (VN) by @synstoria

Changeling (VN) by @steamberrystudio

I, The Forgotten One by Bacondoneright

Kabaret (VN) by Persona Games

Known Unknowns by @brendanpatrickhennessy

New Year’s Eve, 2019 by @cyberpunklesbian

Pageant by @cyberpunklesbian

The Archivist and The Revolution by @cyberpunklesbian

The Salt Keep by @smallgraygames

Turncoat Chronicles by @zincalloygames

Demo:

Attollo by @attollogame

Exiled from the Court by @beeanca-writing

Hollowed Minds by @shai-manahan

Imperial Grace (VN) by @synstoria

Prodigy by @prodigy-if

P-Rix: Space Trucker by @manonamora-if

Reanimation Scheme (VN) by @windchimesgames

Red Sugar Society by @redsugarsociety

Scarlet Hollow (VN) by @blacktabbygames

Trouble Comes Twice (VN) by @foxglovegames

Whiskey-Four by Bacondoneright

No Demo:

Nectar Lake: The Prequel by @nectarlake-if

[avephelis]

NEED to check these things for fleas. take them to the VET! so sad they can't have deviantart they would have loved deviantart.

[titenoute]

Meme redraw OG Rayman prefers to choose kindness whenever he can...

V.2 :

But sometimes, you gotta send a message.

[jessiemoonsims]

Patricia

outfit by @lin-dian hair by @thekunstwollen eyes by @angissi lips by @remussirion skin overlay by @sims3melancholic

An incredibly building Derceto Manor by @helgatisha Gshade preset by @helgatisha Thanks to all creators! ♡

[accio-bagel]

✨MC Intro Post✨

I finally filled these out for my lil criminal 💚

Explanations & more info (ramblings) + her presets below the cut for anyone interested.

✨Family

Does not talk about it. Will either be evasive about her history or outright lie about it if asked. An only child born to parents who didn’t want her, and when it became apparent she had no magic they they cast her out as a Squib. Hadn’t spoken or seen them since, and has no idea whether they're alive or not. Never fitting into the wizarding world or muggle society, she always dreamed of a better life for herself - the life she was supposed to live at Hogwarts.

Struggling to take care of herself after being abandoned by her family, she resorted to petty crime to survive, then more often upon discovering she was rather good at it. At age 15, her first accidental magic outburst involved a chase with authorities after pressing her luck one too many times, resulting in Fig finding her on the streets of London, panicking after she'd suddenly turned a policeman into a chicken. Professor Dad Fig took her in during the summer before term began at Hogwarts.

✨Patronus

Some associations with crows: gregarious, intelligent, creative problem-solvers, mysterious, deceptive, mischievous, manipulative, intuitive, and adaptable. Symbolic of community and loyalty, change and transformation, magic and the supernatural. Conflicting interpretations as harbingers of death or omens of fate, destiny, and good luck. They never forget a face, and will reward those who help them or may punish those who harm them. I also couldn't resist the connection between crows' habit of stealing and collecting shiny objects, and of course a flock of crows is called a Murder. 

✨Classes

She loves learning magic now that she's got the opportunity. Strives to do well at Hogwarts and wants to impress her professors and peers. Open-minded about magic of all kinds.

Charms is her absolute favorite, the most useful and enjoyable form of magic for her. Defense follows closely, as she's got an innate gift for dueling and developed a bit of an ego about it - especially enjoys teasing Sebastian about kicking his ass. Ever pragmatic, she also knows how important the subject is and wants to add to her repertoire of spells.

It's not her strongest subject naturally, but she loves Potions. She can follow a recipe well and works hard at it. While she finds Garreth's experiments interesting and doesn't mind stealing for him, for her own self-preservation she doesn't ever sit at his station, nor will she risk Sharp's wrath again by stealing from his office. Everyone knows she is Sharp's favorite student by the year's end, though he denies it.

History isn't uninteresting to her - it’s just Professor Binns is too boring for her to stay awake through class.

✨Personality

😉 Charismatic and persuasive, comes across as highly confident (faking it til she makes it.) She isn't shy about walking up to talk to someone she finds interesting, loves spending time with a small group of friends, and prefers a partner in crime on her adventures. That said, she is quite independent and needs plenty of alone time to think and recharge.

🧠 She prefers efficient, not lazy. She's highly active with her chosen activities and will take the lead naturally, but it has to be worth her while for her to put in the effort. She'll also take nearly any advantage given to her, especially in high-stakes situations.

💁🏻‍♀️ She wishes she were stylish and tidy, but it doesn’t come naturally and she hasn’t got the time (would rather get the extra 10 minutes of sleep in the mornings.) She starts the day looking relatively put-together, but you'll usually see her looking disheveled from running around, waistcoat askew, hair coming loose, boots dirty, possibly a bit banged up from her adventuring. Leaves half-drunk cups of coffee lying around the RoR and laundry on her dormitory floor. Handwriting is atrocious, she uses an enchanted quill to make her essays legible.

😾 Not that grouchy but can't say she's very nice, either. She isn't taking on extra tasks just out of the kindness of her heart - she needs to get paid or receive something else in exchange. Snarky and sarcastic, somewhat selfish, mocks/teases/messes with people (told Zenobia she’d keep her gobstones, then said jk lol, and gave them back.) Anger issues rage blackouts when pushed to her limit. She's got soft spots though - especially for animals/beasts, orphans, and freckles. Will do anything for her closest friends even if she gives them a hard time.

🤔 Generally weighs the risks of what she's getting herself into before acting. Stealthy and strategic, usually likes to silently petrify a few enemies to even the odds before taking on a group. She's prioritizing protecting herself and her friends rather than foolishly charging into unnecessary danger, balancing out her more reckless companions. Again, if one of her loved ones is in danger she won’t hesitate to dive in and help them.

😏 Mischievous, jokes a lot, a bit silly. Likes breaking rules. She's made many a daring escape with a smile on her face, will turn to her mates and laugh together once they've made it out alive. Taunts and goads her opponents in duels to throw them off. While very capable of deep thoughts and feelings, she covers hurt with humor and doesn’t often let it show.

🏃🏻‍♀️Athletic. Fast runner and climber, she regularly outpaces Sebastian “out-of-breath” Sallow on their outings. An evasive and agile fighter, swiftly dodging all over the place before striking. Quick on a broom, joins the Quidditch team in sixth year as Keeper (and acknowledges the irony here.) Has her clumsy moments when she's not paying attention or had too many Butterbeers, accidentally breaking a vase at the bottom of the stairs in the Slytherin common room on more than one occasion.

✨ Extras

Amortentia scents: autumn rain, butterbeer, and smoke

Her scent: green apple and lilac

Bisexual who flirts with everyone, to the point that it's hard to tell when she actually means it. No time to properly court anyone during fifth year but she has many fleeting fancies and won't readily admit to real feelings. All of this inevitably leads to confusion on all sides.

Goes insane for the food at Hogwarts after years of barely scraping by, eating stolen food and scraps. Always snacking to keep her energy up with how much running around she does. If she misses a meal, something is very wrong. 

Funny (at least she thinks so) and uses humor as a coping mechanism.

Loves cats. Pets all the cats.

Loves puns and will give a genuine laugh at a particularly good one.

Constantly running late, much to the chagrin of all her friends.

Drinks like a fish and smokes an occasional cigarette. Swears like a sailor.

Likes to dance but isn't very good at it.

As Sharp says, Wiggenweld doesn't fix everything, so I imagine her gaining quite a few permanent scars over the course of her fifth year. Significant mentions are a cut brow courtesy of Rookwood and some burns on her body from Solomon.

After her hair was partially singed during the battle with Ranrok, she cut it short for a drastic change.

Girl is not doing very well after everything she went through, especially losing Fig. Not sleeping, not eating enough, and prone to thousand-yard stares. She will need time to heal, plus a lot of help from her new chosen family.

✨Future

Ellie is very ambitious and she knows her strengths. She wants to live up to the reputation she's built for herself as a powerful witch, and wants to be known for more than what she went through in her fifth year. Taking time to make a name for herself as a Curse Breaker, she'll spend several years in the field before coming back to Hogwarts as Charms Professor when Ronen retires.

💚 If you have read any of this, I love and appreciate you so much! I have more to say about her but this was already too long so maybe I’ll do a part 2 or something.

✨Presets

5th Year:

6th Year changes:

[amygdalae]

figuring out how to draw my tarnished. they have resting "disdainful bitch" face. because they're a disdainful bitch

[tiniest-hands-in-all-the-land]

Posting OCs? On main?? That might be a first from me :0

Here are my boys Orfeo and Percy from a webcomic that I'll probably never actually make. They get along I think. 🤷‍♂️

[until-the-brahmin-come-home]

another thing: the fact that the default depiction of courier six has them head to toe covered by the ranger armor inherently gives them just a little bit more nonbinary swag than the other protagonists, imo

[miqojak]

So, the quality might not be great since I used the snipping tool to grab these images while on the new Monster Hunter beta - but let me say how impressed I am with their character creator! Besides Throne and Liberty, this is the MOST complex character creator I've had the joy of using! Jak is an excellent character for me to test their cc on - she's not your standard, generic white woman protag. She's not only brown, but has lots of unique features, and her face has come to have distinct features in my mind, so if I want to meticulously re-create her...most cc simply don't allow me to come close. The HAIR on this! You can pick a style, a length, a highlight, and then there's 2 options for how far the highlight goes, and how sort of 'woven in' the highlight looks in your hair...so you could be lazy and slap on a hair you like and leave it like that - or make it massively shorter or longer, while vastly changing the colors! And the face! I was able to not only flip and reverse some eyeshadow to turn it into her little white face markings, but the "Miqo'te tribal markings" had an option in MonHun that look eerily similar, and I was able to tweak the color and angle and placement of those, too - the amount of options, and degree to which you can alter them? Mind-blowing. I can finally make Jak with her hair down, and the right facial features - even if that's kinda hard to tweak to the exact, precise way you want noses and lips...it's possible. (Miqo'te with their thin lips and uwu grins...I think I got about as close as is realistic with her lips, and little pert nose!) Now let's see if I can convince my brain that 'grinding, the game' will be fun.

[luck-and-larceny]

Beach day

[chevvy-yates]

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⚠️ READ: Please do not repost/reupload any of my art here or to any other platform nor for ai, or I will be forced to do anything to get it annihilated.

[the-wigmaker-job]

also have we talked about them making zara white in veilguard? what is that about?

["Magister Zara Renata stood nude before a gilded full-length mirror. Every morning, she assessed her body, starting with the toes then working her way up to her face. Three slaves, each bearing a smaller looking glass, stood on either side and at her back so that there were no blind spots. They stared, unblinking, at her lustrous bronze skin. (...)"]

[utilitycaster]

after much computer setup and downloading of things I have in fact started Veilguard. by which I mean I made a character who I think is accidentally like. now that I think about it, Vax if he were pure paladin in build, white femme Gideon the Ninth in backstory (this was not on purpose). Varric, to whom I personally have zero emotional attachment, said many things that I sort of knew, and I was agreeable with the bartender and used my words instead of making threats, and then promptly saved the game and quit bc I want to go to bed at a reasonable time. follow for more Person Who Literally Doesn't Know How To Play Video Games Playing A Video Game.

[dekarios]

when i was younger like. early to mid twenties. i used to get so mad at all the 'its a dating sim' jokes towards rpgs with romance in it. and now i'm just like.. i ain't got the time nor the energy to be upset that some people play these games exclusively for romance. there's nothing wrong with that. many people read romance novels exclusively and are only there for the romance portions, in games we have a billion visual novels where no one cares about the story and just wanna romance pretty people, blah blah romance as a genre exists for a reason and rpgs with romance options are the best option still for 'make your own character to romance the character of choice' whereas everything else gives you a premade, even in visual novels you have a premade character even if you can name them and maybe change a few things, its all very basic... i have nothing against people who use rpgs to get that same feeling but having more control over how they get it

anyway

[ophernelia]

short haired imogen is my favorite imogen

[silver-horse]

I tried to create Dragon Age characters in Baldur's Gate 3