#smallspots (oc)

[catcrazies-midnight]

honestly my favorite thing to do with ocs is to retcon old info and infer stuff i didn’t think of when i made them.

(cutting b/c this got long fast)

take smallspots, my oldest surviving fl oc (whose first appearance on my google photos is 6/5/2018), who was created in response to another oc getting banned for being ““OP””. the other oc was massive, strong, a loner, slightly evil and orange-based so naturally smallspots had to be the polar opposite: small, weak, a Clan cat, shy but brave (i was putting everything i had into giving her that mario-odyssey style oxymoron personality) and blue.

(yes, this was a warrior cats roleplay on roblox.)

it’s important to note the gal is incredibly growth-stunted which basically means she’s stuck at a kitten-like stage of growth.

a few months later i started to work out who she was:

here’s the gal with a leg cast after a momentary angst train,

and over half a year after her creation was the only decent ref i could find, where she improved a ton as i improved and also got my hands on a fancy new extra fluff gamepass.

during that time frame i was on-and-off hyperfixating on her and she gained an excesssive amount of development: i refined her colors and bumped up her fluff, but more importantly, her personality changed: she turned into a grumpy, rogue-hating former kittypet with too much of a backstory to describe here.

que a couple months ago: i’d gotten into tumblr culture and whatnot, which meant all of my cishet ocs were no longer okay.

(that came out lower-quality than i expected, so i’ll id instead:

WC | Smallspots | WS

Shy | Grumpy | Quick Temper | Growth Stunt | C[rush, later progressed to mate]: Scoot’but (NPC) | M[ore] I[n] R P)

note first off that the guy she has a crush on, whose name was later changed to scootfoot, is fully grown, and although small is actually slightly older than him, it still appears as pedophilia, which along with incest, i don’t allow with my ocs anymore.

i still wanted her and scoot to exist together though, which is when i decided on a more platonic relationship between them.

(i’m not happy w how my writing has weakened throughout this infodump. its prolly b/c im scrolling through weaker writing and absorbing it)

now that i’d dealt with the pro-ship implications, i wanted to be lgbtqa+ inclusive and what better way to do that than to make as many characters in her (huge) arc(s?) as possible lgbtqa+?

(i also decided smallspots, being a former kittypet, knows swear words and uses them at an unholy rate.)

i started off by making smallspots aroace so she couldn’t be shipped romantically with other characters. i then decided scoot is a Trans Man™ and worked that into the gang’s development. there are also a couple other characters in small’s arc that got that makeover too but again, i don’t have any real estate left in this post for them.

i also decided she isn’t shy anymore and due to the gentle yellow hue in her spots she’s actually a dilute tortie.

and of course my fl hyperfixation finally ended, which really only resulted in my eventually drawing the gal:

look at that change.

i can wholeHEARTEDLY agree characters can, will, and should change over time.

small’s probable birthday this year took place the day i finished my header image, which marks her as 2 years, 5 months and 10 days as of 11/15/2020.

and my god has she changed.

Never worry about fully fleshing out your characters and calling it a day, cause we as humans aren’t done learning either, what makes you think your character is done?