The SEVEN OCs We ALL Have

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  • Опубликовано: 15 май 2024
  • Have you made these OCs? An analysis of the types of Original Characters we've all made at some point or another. Featuring original music and speedpaints of 7 OCs of my own =)
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  • @ragingrambles7904
    @ragingrambles7904 3 года назад +2898

    My characters easily fall into two categories, the ones with trauma who are coping well and the ones with trauma who aren't

  • @rosepetullz
    @rosepetullz 3 года назад +496

    “Someone to look up to!”
    *when your punching bag OC actually ended up snapping and becoming a villain*
    ._____________. W e l l t h e n -

  • @copperdingus759
    @copperdingus759 6 месяцев назад +102

    Excuse me, but...
    GUYS SHE MADE THE PHILOSOPHER A LEFTIE. LITERALLY THE FIRST LEFTIE OC I'VE SEEN IN FOREVER

    • @lanceknightmare
      @lanceknightmare 4 месяца назад +3

      Presidential original character. 😆

    • @nyoaeuikhoudu
      @nyoaeuikhoudu 4 месяца назад +6

      My main oc is a lefty because he's kinda a self insert haha

    • @starrynightsfadedlights
      @starrynightsfadedlights 3 месяца назад +3

      Lmao, I have to stop myself from making all of my ocs lefties. Lefty problems xD

    • @copperdingus759
      @copperdingus759 3 месяца назад +3

      @@starrynightsfadedlightsi don't blame you. if i could draw, all of my ocs would be lefties.

    • @yuki.35xxxv
      @yuki.35xxxv Месяц назад +1

      Not me who wanted to make a Swordsman Ronin OC unique so I made him a lefty~

  • @kamata1341
    @kamata1341 8 месяцев назад +500

    My OCs don't exist in any physical medium, but the stories I play in my daydreams definitely hit on all of them. Huh. I never realized how common it was. Most of mine are the kind of creatures that would normally give people nightmares, big toothy monsters can be nice and want friends too!

    • @Lordmaster135
      @Lordmaster135 8 месяцев назад +19

      I am so glad I'm not the only one

    • @its_sisha_not_chair505
      @its_sisha_not_chair505 8 месяцев назад +10

      Sorry but i remembered the meme of the guy who posted a goofy version of the hamburger helper mascot saying something like "just a glimpse into my dark reality" 💀 but i do that too. But i do it when i cant sleep and its mostly about headcannons and how i think certain characters would interact with eachother. Basically fanfic but its where it should stay: in our heads...

    • @notajaxon9476
      @notajaxon9476 8 месяцев назад +6

      Reminds me of that one head can and I made with my OC's where they were put into a different realm with monsters and stuff and they thought they were going to die only to find out that the monsters could care less about them. One of my OC's even attacked a monster just for the monster to give him a side eye and then keep drinking from the watering hole.

    • @huntercraft5674
      @huntercraft5674 8 месяцев назад +2

      a fellow daydreamer i see

    • @arandomcolour
      @arandomcolour 8 месяцев назад +1

      thank goodness im not the only one!

  • @OhsweetOhno
    @OhsweetOhno 3 года назад +3829

    “Or maybe we’re just being sadistic”
    Yeah, that line made me subscribe

  • @byakuyatogamistumblr5958
    @byakuyatogamistumblr5958 3 года назад +1821

    Me, holding up a single oc that somehow fits all of these types: *I-*
    *I'm a little messed up.*

    • @plague_doctor0237
      @plague_doctor0237 3 года назад +140

      Release all the sounds that are trapped in your mind...
      aAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaa

    • @squarrot9355
      @squarrot9355 3 года назад +25

      Byakuya Togami 🥰

    • @kronktheslug
      @kronktheslug 3 года назад +28

      yeah same
      (my main oc is a MESS)

    • @gabriellagarciacareaga9316
      @gabriellagarciacareaga9316 3 года назад +10

      I know this isn't related but I love your user. Byakuya is my favorite THH character.

    • @raid4589
      @raid4589 3 года назад +9

      Yeeeeaaah. When all the first 6 oc is the same like self-insert one.

  • @H1dront390
    @H1dront390 8 месяцев назад +99

    For those who are into character creation. If you want the character likable make sure he/she is imperfect, because the audience wants a character that people can relate to..

    • @Sneaky_Turtle2
      @Sneaky_Turtle2 8 месяцев назад +1

      what if they are a she :(

    • @vincentdreemurr
      @vincentdreemurr 8 месяцев назад +12

      ​@@Sneaky_Turtle2if it's a she it's already imperfect ahaha
      this is not funny

    • @elliswebster7041
      @elliswebster7041 4 месяца назад

      ​@@vincentdreemurrI love you

    • @irjectade
      @irjectade 2 месяца назад

      WHAAAAt

  • @drscavv2661
    @drscavv2661 8 месяцев назад +186

    My first OC fell into the third category and had some overlap with the first, but then I decided, "what if I flesh this guy out?" And now he has a whole world and and character development. He's still OP asf tho

    • @memes4life26
      @memes4life26 8 месяцев назад +4

      What was their powers?

    • @drscavv2661
      @drscavv2661 8 месяцев назад +9

      @@memes4life26 just standard superhuman physicality, energy manipulation, spatial manipulation, as well as a healing factor and hax negation.

    • @user-re6ff8ww2n
      @user-re6ff8ww2n 8 месяцев назад +1

      Yep. Saaaaaame

    • @bobulus2760
      @bobulus2760 7 месяцев назад +6

      I don’t really call mine “ocs” most of mine are what I call my “critters” mostly because they are really just disfigured humanoid uhh “things”

  • @TheOncelersTruffulaTree
    @TheOncelersTruffulaTree 3 года назад +756

    "We have all made an OC with a tragic backstory."
    Me, with 10 OCs that have tragic backstories: *My goals are beyond your understanding.*

    • @sierrahale804
      @sierrahale804 3 года назад +16

      My OC Ashia be suffering beyond what any 14-year-old deserves... And then there's 13-year-old Leris whos parents literally tried to kill him, and then Surviver who gets shot at a lot for what her grandfather did, and then another character named Ashen who was born mute and only lived to 15 due to drowning because he was stuck in a flashback. And then two 15-yr-old male OCs named Parker who was murdered in the hospital, one by his COACH burning him alive and the other his enemy... My brother gets scared whenever I name a character Parker now.
      Needless to say, my stories are really dark.

    • @brendathevehicon
      @brendathevehicon 3 года назад +14

      honey, youve got a big storm comin-

    • @sierrahale804
      @sierrahale804 3 года назад +4

      @@brendathevehicon Did I mention that all of them are cars?

    • @brendathevehicon
      @brendathevehicon 3 года назад +6

      @@sierrahale804 w
      wow
      haha car named parker
      (ps: is this a Cars fanfic? lakdjdhsndkd)

    • @sierrahale804
      @sierrahale804 3 года назад +5

      @@brendathevehicon No- They're *original*

  • @fairytypingg
    @fairytypingg 3 года назад +2083

    my ocs fall into two categories;
    -sweet, innocent older sibling with a strong maternal instinct
    -chaotic cynical emo with a tragic backstory and misplaced anger towards their older brother who's shadow they've spent their whole lives within

  • @majoraz_
    @majoraz_ 8 месяцев назад +25

    i have 9 ocs, and i love them all like theyre my children. what stuck out the most was that i have no particular self insert. i just throw random traits or experiences of myself onto every character.

    • @thecrazybee1907
      @thecrazybee1907 4 месяца назад +1

      It's literaly the same for me, though i have a bit less OCs than you. They're all just random parts of me taken and made into their personalities.

  • @Dtak-us9rt
    @Dtak-us9rt 8 месяцев назад +8

    All characters are somewhat self-insert, everyone puts some of their traits onto every character they make, even if they don’t mean to

  • @konnosx1213
    @konnosx1213 3 года назад +1659

    most of mine fall into the "Cool character" "murderer" and "punching bag" archetypes, with a bunch of "philosophers" are well
    edit : I don't know why this got so many likes but thanks, everyone

    • @zealotoftheorchard9853
      @zealotoftheorchard9853 3 года назад +26

      Mine consist of Sweet ones that openly talk about murder, Edgey but tries their best to socialize, Shonen anime protag and Clowns.

    • @EvilMeganium
      @EvilMeganium 3 года назад +1

      Mine are "douchebag ghosts" "unwilling people that got possessed" and "friendo"

    • @rainbowcactus9781
      @rainbowcactus9781 3 года назад

      @bradford omg that sounds amazing if u ever post the story anywhere i would love to read it

    • @uwuakaarf6249
      @uwuakaarf6249 3 года назад +1

      meanwhile, demon tifeling from 283-306 a murder responsible for almost half million deaths strategy of trapping large towns in magic fog and then setting it on fire and rampaging. he accidently kills his lover named Alex and then kills himself by beating his head with a rock- he rembvers nothing from his life except Alex and uncontrollably gets jealous and a lot more unpredictable as one of his many punishments. eventually he meets Alex on earth and finds out about his past through flashbacks caused by the main protagonist who helps him grow a lot. Alex is a demon and is more beast like and will stop at nothing to kill gack (the demon boi). they end up "releaseingthe soul" of ale so he can at least go to limbo rather than the 2nd ring of hell. gack gets closure and ends up helping the current state of the Kingdome that he was summoned in by the main protagonist and they about this child they met (who is actually 14). they overthrows the government (who was going to use the poor as slaves to get more money) and basically becomes the king along side the protagonist and that becomes his really weird way of redemption. also, he returns to how he looked when he was alive (basically horns and ears shorten some) except when he returns to hell for whatever reason . reason

    • @Hazyla
      @Hazyla 3 года назад

      A lot of mine that have songs that I based their personalities off of

  • @Star_Ringmaster
    @Star_Ringmaster 3 года назад +3180

    My main oc is all of these

    • @Chibitasm
      @Chibitasm  3 года назад +350

      honestly Divian is most of them too XD

    • @19z67
      @19z67 3 года назад +168

      What?? A murderer and an innocent child???

    • @Star_Ringmaster
      @Star_Ringmaster 3 года назад +141

      @@19z67 Yes

    • @TheSkyKrillHunter
      @TheSkyKrillHunter 3 года назад +75

      Honestly same, but technically my oc is also multiple people somehow, so.. yea makes it easier for her to be all of them
      (:

    • @InkSans_FandomSoda
      @InkSans_FandomSoda 3 года назад +16

      How- how- how-

  • @RealtiyFox
    @RealtiyFox 8 месяцев назад +90

    Love how everyone's ocs are unique and beautiful

    • @Lumberjack_king
      @Lumberjack_king 8 месяцев назад +3

      Not everyone's ocs are that good

    • @mintypump649
      @mintypump649 8 месяцев назад +7

      Imo, all ocs are good in their own way. @@Lumberjack_king

    • @Lumberjack_king
      @Lumberjack_king 8 месяцев назад +3

      @@mintypump649 ok

    • @leighannfranklin3632
      @leighannfranklin3632 7 месяцев назад +6

      Meanwhile mine looks like an 8 year old's drawing and if he had one, his brain would be the size of a pea

  • @kimmy1325
    @kimmy1325 7 месяцев назад +37

    OCs of mine that fit these descriptions:
    OC 1.
    Milly, a Spooky Month OC
    A mix of the punching bag and the innocent child, a story that doesn't have a happy ending mainly for reasons beyond my control. She was created during my first month on SMRP(A Roblox RP game), created from the simple idea of me giving a backstory to the secret skeleton child morph you could become in the lobby. I shall explain that backstory now.
    She was once just a regular child. Her mother was in the cult, the rather strict and abusive parent, who killed the husband when Milly was only 2. Milly had no idea because she wasn't there to see it. Her only friend was a Happy Fella possessed by another cultist by the name of Ted, though he was the less-dedicated type when it comes to the cult. He had a huge soft spot for Milly, and absolutely freaked out when it came time to sacrifice her. But something went wrong after the sacrifice, and Milly's soul somehow ended up back in her own skeleton. She didn't remember too much about her life, but then Pump found her and they became pretty good friends! Even if she was confused why the stars loved him and hated her.
    But then... came the grand update. You know, the one that removed the skeleton kid morph for whatever reason? Because of that, I had to write it in that she was found again by someone who wasn't there at her original sacrifice, aka the clown guy(who I headcanon to be named Todd), and resacrificed by him. Ted meanwhile wasn't doing so well without Milly. So the day they decided to kill him for trying to leave them after they killed Milly, he just accepted it because he knew Milly was already dead. But it turns out, my friend who had acted Pump also has an OC that's an amalgamation of all the kids that have been sacrificed to Eyes. But when a cultist dies, they wind up as part of Eyes himself. So even in death, Milly and Ted can't be together.
    Poor Milly.
    I also have a more comedic punching bag that I allow my friends to just throw stuff at. His name is Devin, also a SM OC. A newbie to the cult who recently got fired and was just looking to pay rent and then got lured into the cult by his friend. Life is not good in the cult at all, especially considering most of them seem to hate him due to him being an athiest. Devin is the character that I always project onto the most, thinking, "If I was in this guy's situation, what would I do?" So I guess you could say he has some self-insert energy, even though he isn't really a representation of me.
    Update on Milly: The morph is back, and so is she! Though, she's suffered a lot of trauma from where she was. She doesn't even look human anymore, and often spends time crying to herself. Her sight is also warped to the point where the Pump she was friends with just looks like Eyes to her now.
    OC 2.
    While the second half of the "philosopher" explanation doesn't exactly apply to any of my OCs, the first half reminded me a lot of another Spooky Month OC I have by the name of Hickory. Hickory's idea first spawned from one of my first days on SMRP, where I accidentally started a Happy Fella cult and then got one of the devs to join it as a glowing yellow version. I then had an idea about a creepy cultist Happy Fella pretending to be some doll god and luring a bunch of insane Happy Fellas to Eyes, and that idea of a character slowly became a full-fleged OC known as Hickory!
    On the surface, he's basically the same as Ted; A Happy Fella in the cult. But it becomes very obvious how different they are when they start talking. While Ted is a rather sane, nervous individual, Hickory speaks with a quiet, emotionless version of a regular Happy Fella voice. He's been in the cult since the start, luring children to be sacrificed with his doll self. All this time gaining the trust of kids has basically led him to become an ideal father figure if need be, especially helpful since Eyes has kids in our (me and my friends') AU. One of said kids kinda ran away, but the other spends basically all his time with Hickory. Probably because Hickory takes such good care of him! Hickory's the only SMRP character I use with 100% grammar 100% of the time. And also he's currently owned by Robert's younger sister, so who knows how long she'll last-
    OC 3.
    A majority of the OCs I've made are SM OCs, and this guy is no exception. This "cool character" isn't actually edgy or emo like most of his type, if anything he's bery pink and hyper! He was made only like 3 days ago, created from an idea I got from a dev getting a Happy Fella to glow pink.
    Meet Fellagram! A hologram Happy Fella created with advanced interactive technology for a marketing scheme, but then it flopped and was a huge financial loss so they just stuffed the technology away and never touched it for many years. But due to the constant flow of energy they programmed it with, the energy kept building up due to it not being used to let all that energy out. So much of it built up that, skip to the present day, the next time someone even touched it, the equipment outright EXPLODED, and everything in the studio exploded along with it! But in the aftermath of the explosion, the lil Fellagram returned, free from the systems in a body made of only pink electricity! A very hyper fella, who can go into devices but breaks them once inside them for too long. His presence alone can cause electricity to go haywire! But of course, being made of electricity, he can't really fully interact with the physical world.
    Another thing about him is that his small form couldn't even contain most of the stored energy. So where did it go? Into a TV that somehow survived the explosion. Hence the existence of the pink TV world that came from the grand update!
    OC 4.
    Another SM OC. Her name is Dolly, and she's a mute lil girl kiddo in an ice cream-themed clown costume! Todd's illegally adopted daughter that he used to take care of during his time in another cult. Yea, the lore for him in our RPs is that he used to be in another cult, and used to be more sane during his time in said cult! But one day, Dolly ran away and kinda didn't return, cementing herself as missing. Todd immediately got worried and assumed Eyes' cult kidnapped her because they DO do that, so he goes over to stalk them and try to get her back. That's where he gets found out by Bob, Bob shows Todd to everyone, and well... the trauma Todd ended up suffering as a punishment from Eyes was so utterly terrible that it just broke him mentally. Bringing light to the insane clown he's seen as today!
    But as for Dolly... She wasn't even kidnapped. So the next time she and Todd randomly ran into each other... Cue Sloppy Jane's cover of "They're Coming To Take Me Away". :)
    She doesn't wanna be around him. In her eyes, that isn't her papa anymore.
    OC 5.
    Yet _another_ SM OC. This one being a full mix of the innocent child and the self-insert! If SM actually happened, I would've been 6 at the time that it did. Thus, this character is 6!
    Her name is Kimya, but she likes to go by Dina. She wears a cheap green dinosaur onesie everywhere she goes, and it's so big that not only did she have to cut out it's eyes to be able to see, but also she had to roll the sleeves and leg parts up a ton! You can just barely see her hands!
    Dina is a lot like my past self; Divorced parents, loves dinosaurs, easily scared, loves candy, creative and autistic! The town loves Skid and Pump, so she decided to be more like them because life in town is pretty rough for a background character. Especially considering what happened in episode 2.
    She was just on a casual stroll during episode 2, and decided to go get some candy! But then she saw Eyes from a distance before she could get there, and that alone scarred her for life. She's tried to tell people about him, but people think it's just the wild imagination of an autistic kid. She's drawn him many times, because, in her words, "he wants me to he wants me to he wants me to..."
    OC 6.
    I don't really have a "chosen one"-type OC, so there's only one left; The murderer! A lot of the characters I act are murderers, but an OC murderer I have is one I think about a lot.
    Her name is Mia! A FNAF OC made for an old AU. I don't think I've ever seen a human FNAF OC that's also a murderer, so I did it!
    Mia has a "punching bag" past. From her dad bailing, to her mom dying of cancer, to her older sister always being busy, to her being led into a false sense of security by Scraptrap only for him to burn alive in FNAF 6, to a difficulty making friends, to an abusive boyfriend and a dead-end job that overworks her(ehem Fazbear Entertainment), the world basically drives her to where it only really gets "better" when she meets Glitchtrap while testing the VR game, who convinces her to start killing people until she reaches a point of no return and decides to make an entire cult for him. One that she tricked Vanny into, fun fact!

  • @paulogamer2243
    @paulogamer2243 3 года назад +630

    Normal people: making human Ocs with nice personalities and confusing stories
    Me: *crazy raviolli with a tophat yes*

    • @Chibitasm
      @Chibitasm  3 года назад +91

      I love that so much

    • @sierrahale804
      @sierrahale804 3 года назад +17

      My normal is talking cars

    • @zerobotico2382
      @zerobotico2382 3 года назад +32

      I have an OC who is a Question Mark with eyes and another one who is a Camera with legs, lmao

    • @Chibitasm
      @Chibitasm  3 года назад +22

      @@zerobotico2382 lol XD my brother had a semicolon OC way back in the day

    • @zerobotico2382
      @zerobotico2382 3 года назад

      @@Chibitasm Hah

  • @rubymack4914
    @rubymack4914 3 года назад +963

    Punching Bag: ✔
    Philosopher: ✔
    Cool one: ✔
    Innocent Child: ✔
    Chosen one: ✔
    Murderer: ✔
    Self-Insert: Which one? 😀 🔫

    • @sierrahale804
      @sierrahale804 3 года назад +64

      Me
      Punching bag: Hmm most of my OCs are punching bags
      Philopher: Screw it
      Cool one: Umm dunno
      Innocent child: What do you think the punching bags are?
      Chosen one: Well...... I have some in a group
      Murderer: One is literally the protagonist...
      Self-insert: OK OK OK you caught me

    • @deadnewchannelformelycillc7899
      @deadnewchannelformelycillc7899 3 года назад +14

      my real life me or my furry me?

    • @nyandoesthings
      @nyandoesthings 3 года назад +2

      I have a fursona but besides that one I don't believe I have self inserts.

    • @sierrahale804
      @sierrahale804 3 года назад +3

      @@nyandoesthings I dont make furries so I dont have a fursona

    • @stephanieolson9784
      @stephanieolson9784 3 года назад +3

      hold on, is that an owl house icon?

  • @haz2968
    @haz2968 8 месяцев назад +20

    I used to have this group of OCs called BlackEye. The leaders were a couple. One literally found the other strapped to an actual punching bag. The others were a depressed zombie, an over-excited 12 year old and an emo intellect

  • @TheFluffyRussian31
    @TheFluffyRussian31 8 месяцев назад +29

    5:18
    'sometimes this character is just flat out invincible'
    One of my ocs, unsurprisingly one of my favorites, named 031, is basically the only constant in the roleplays i use him with. explaining his character is hard, cus his entire character is that his personality is ironically never constant. one second hes being scary and about to eat you, and the next hes speaking in poem or something. He used to be a really cool antagonist, but he kept dying and finding different ways to somehow come back (first time he basically replanted himself [cus hes a funky mushroom dude but unique in a lot of cool ways i dont have tie to explain], second time he got rebuild out of his remains, third time some racist group accidentally revived him, fourth time he had accidentally became the floor of a whole state by accident and was revived by a space wolf thing, ect.) so hes like william afton in how he continues to come back, but he doesnt actually physically change in the slightest. anyway the reason he stopped being a villain and instead had a hero arc was because (Do not ask, its a VERY long story,) he accidentally had a child. No, he wasnt pregnent.

    • @arctic5093
      @arctic5093 8 месяцев назад +5

      This reminds me of a character I made which basically just is chaotic and random, good things might happen to it, (like it turning into a hive-mind-bread-pandemic-blob (Don't ask)). Or it might grow spider heads that breathe fire and then have the rest of the body turn into a dehydrated potato. However it's usually a net positive as it has regeneration and the only real way it can die is if it's chaotic randomness handicaps and kills it.

    • @WorldWeaver
      @WorldWeaver 8 месяцев назад +2

      ... I really wanna ask.

    • @daliblue_
      @daliblue_ 8 месяцев назад +3

      No, no, now you gotta tell us

    • @oof9762
      @oof9762 7 месяцев назад +1

      I'm going to ignore your advice and ask anyways: Pls tell the whole story I'm invested now and I actually want to know

    • @TheFluffyRussian31
      @TheFluffyRussian31 7 месяцев назад +3

      Update on the roleplays: hes back to his villian arc after the world broke like a dinner plate, and he broke a floating continent out of rage because a raccoon killed his son.

  • @monochromedream-eatingbaku
    @monochromedream-eatingbaku 3 года назад +783

    "i love listening about OCs"
    *me, vibrating at the speed of light, ready to unleash a flood of words no smaller than the flood that only Noah and his boat survived:* REAL SHIT?????

    • @Chibitasm
      @Chibitasm  3 года назад +121

      real shit yo (๑˃ᴗ˂)ﻭ

    • @hanscapon222
      @hanscapon222 3 года назад +67

      Me running over with my hair a mess and 500 notebooks billed to the brim: CAN I COME TOO

    • @monochromedream-eatingbaku
      @monochromedream-eatingbaku 3 года назад +40

      @@Chibitasm Do you, mayhaps, wanna hear about some of my characters 🥺👉👈?
      (also my phone is running on Android 6 so I can only pray that the emoji I used is the one I think it is lol)

    • @Chibitasm
      @Chibitasm  3 года назад +26

      @@monochromedream-eatingbaku I'd love to! also looks like the right emoji to me ^v^

    • @Chibitasm
      @Chibitasm  3 года назад +19

      @@hanscapon222 ye the more the merrier!

  • @what_does_fred_say
    @what_does_fred_say 3 года назад +386

    Punching bag: has a terrible and tragic backstory
    My magical girl characters: *nervous sweating*

    • @yuplekei
      @yuplekei 3 года назад +10

      Oh my magical girl characters were seriously something else HAHHAHA bernette and roxanne were something else

    • @ClowncoreisCool
      @ClowncoreisCool 3 года назад

      Well that's practically the point, isn't it? I forgot the name of it but I saw a magical girl anime where everything was just TERRIBLE for the main character.

  • @jujufoxie.-.
    @jujufoxie.-. 8 месяцев назад +63

    I used to self insert myself in one of my favorite shows, but it started looking weird and cringy so I started to develop an OC to replace that. Soon, she started to have her very own personality and backstory. Now she’s my most broken punching bag :)

  • @TheVoidManager
    @TheVoidManager 8 месяцев назад +11

    i remember my first oc. it was legit just a shadowy, mildly chibi human shaped blob. the only defining feature was two circles i left on where the head should be, which were eyes. i may have sucked at drawing, but i've always been able to draw insanely unsettling eyes, so just imagine a shadowy human shaped blob, drawn with bad pencil scribbling, and overly realistic eyes.

    • @thatonepossum5766
      @thatonepossum5766 8 месяцев назад +1

      I would love to see that as a recurring character in a show, that sounds hilarious.

    • @TheVoidManager
      @TheVoidManager 8 месяцев назад +1

      no idea@@B0pst3r

    • @TheVoidManager
      @TheVoidManager 8 месяцев назад +2

      @@thatonepossum5766 "Finally! After all these years, we have finally made it to the castle of the demon king!"
      (random chibi shadow creature) "wussup"

  • @idontknowwhatimdoing3685
    @idontknowwhatimdoing3685 3 года назад +478

    “This characters you would adopt immediately”
    My soft nice character with such a sad backstory is *23*

    • @lux1ous_
      @lux1ous_ 3 года назад +3

      LMAO mine is 16

    • @yuplekei
      @yuplekei 3 года назад +3

      Mine is 14 so i think im good

    • @sierrahale804
      @sierrahale804 3 года назад +4

      @@yuplekei And so is mine... A 14-year-old who is abused, horrifically wounded by literally getting her tire cut off and window cracked, and is wanted by the government so they can take her powers and kill her in the process!

    • @brendathevehicon
      @brendathevehicon 3 года назад +16

      @@sierrahale804
      is
      your oc a car???

    • @sierrahale804
      @sierrahale804 3 года назад +7

      @@brendathevehicon hehehehe yes

  • @cloudGremlin
    @cloudGremlin 3 года назад +479

    Fun fact! My Chosen One is the only one who knows what’s going on, my Innocent Child turns into the villain, my Cool One is actually the least powered and least flamboyant of the group, my Punching Bag is successfully learning to cope (and the child of the group so everyone now protects them) but my Philosopher is literally exactly just Mom Friend. She heals, she tanks, and she makes breakfast and helps everyone with their problems.
    Everything may have spins put on it, but Mom Friend is Mom Friend.

    • @Aspirinsoop
      @Aspirinsoop 3 года назад +34

      Mom friend is always, mom friend.

    • @leafinx
      @leafinx 3 года назад +19

      These are honestly the coolest oc backstories I’ve heard

    • @nyandoesthings
      @nyandoesthings 3 года назад +6

      bro are you gonna write us a book already?? we need it

    • @Squirreliosis
      @Squirreliosis 3 года назад +5

      Must. Have. Oc’s names...

    • @cloudGremlin
      @cloudGremlin 3 года назад +2

      @@Squirreliosis Chosen One: Corin Ironworker/Kasa (pet names include blind idiot and k-couskai), Innocent Child: Goes by both Arstos and Cieal, also called the Unnamed for a couple centuries after certain events. Cool One: Armés Kasa (last name isn't really necessary just wanted to show that she and Corin are siblings), Punching Bag: Giovanni Inigo Cavallero (except everyone calls him Gigi to tease him) and Philosopher is named Miriam but has been called Miri and just, mom. Mom friend poweeeer
      Edit: also for everyone asking for book, I am literally creating two entire languages, eight different cultures, three seperate religions (one of which has eight smaller religions packed into it) and about five thousand years of unique history. This ain't something that's gonna be a quick little literary jaunt.

  • @watermeloncatmeow441
    @watermeloncatmeow441 8 месяцев назад +4

    I like to make OCs undergo tragic events (loss of loved ones, made into a criminal, thrown into a dangerous side of the world etc.) , and then have them cope with it and move on, often leaving behind bittersweet feelings in me.
    And if I really like the character, I would make them undergo tragic events many times throughout there life.

  • @ariartsy9220
    @ariartsy9220 7 месяцев назад +3

    Funny story: I actually don't have a self insert rn, I turned my old self insert (also a punching bag) into an all new character because I couldn't give her up, but I wasn't happy with how she was before. She started as a Supernatural OC who was just a cool shapeshifter with witty one-liners and a super tragic past. She was also my favorite character's love interest. And now, she's nowhere near the character she once was, instead becoming her own character who makes choices I'd never make in my life

  • @gamedifficulty_4230
    @gamedifficulty_4230 3 года назад +705

    And then there’s me who has “OC who was kind of a self insert but then got shoved through a metaphorical blender and possibly a literal blender too and sort of became all of the stereotypes at once and then I also put them at the end of a convoluted timeline that I came up with as a joke while discussing dumb alternative history mods for strategy games with my friend whilst eating damp pizza in the school cafeteria”

    • @Chibitasm
      @Chibitasm  3 года назад +114

      the best place to make world builds is a cafeteria honestly

    • @yourlocaldemon2195
      @yourlocaldemon2195 3 года назад +31

      I entered a state of unexplainable feeling while reading this

    • @mjgt2124
      @mjgt2124 3 года назад +10

      Are... are you from my school or-

    • @Fisinocean
      @Fisinocean 3 года назад +10

      STOP READIMG MY MIND PLEASE-

    • @alexisventura7191
      @alexisventura7191 3 года назад +2

      I'm not sure if I read this or not
      But
      Yes?

  • @glazeddoughnutgod4352
    @glazeddoughnutgod4352 3 года назад +267

    I made a dude with the goal of making them so unbelievably edgy that it was physically impossible to take them seriously, even the people who 100% the Shadow the hedgehog game would have a hard time keeping a straight face. Think, "I was born without parents and I had to live in the woods after my home burned down." Level of edge, even the other characters in the story just thought they were making it up. "My mom went out with 40 other guys!" "Weren't you born without parents or something?" "..."

    • @Candy0615
      @Candy0615 3 года назад +21

      Just realized how edgy one of my main ocs are after reading this comment- whoops?

    • @ThefifthBishopofGord
      @ThefifthBishopofGord 3 года назад +56

      The “I was born without parents and I had to live in the woods after my home burned down.” Almost describes Dr. Doofenshmirtz as his parents were not at his own birth and he was raised by animals.

    • @birodactyl_of_the_web
      @birodactyl_of_the_web 3 года назад +27

      @@ThefifthBishopofGord omg Dr Doofenshmirtz is an edgy oc

    • @t0rya
      @t0rya 3 года назад +2

      It sounds like a challenge to me

    • @seant1326
      @seant1326 3 года назад +6

      Did his manner of speaking involve following every word with "DAMN"? Including "damn"?
      Like DAMN this DAMN!

  • @wolfy2246
    @wolfy2246 8 месяцев назад +5

    I once made a dragon OC whose type of dragon is one that I made up. It's genderless and can shape shift, the way it reproduces is by magickly making an egg appear out of nowhere and they can shapeshift, the shapeshifting knows no bounds they could be anything they want to be. they also don't need to eat much to stay alive only needing to feed once every 6 or so months.
    The OC in question is named Ophi around 500 years of age which would be 8-10 in human years. They are an adventuring Bard who wanders around with a baby dragon companion and they specialize in using bows.

  • @Mask999-dl2wf
    @Mask999-dl2wf 6 месяцев назад +3

    Most of my characters are a mix of the punching bag, the cool one, and, most importantly, the murderer

  • @kittencomicslol
    @kittencomicslol 3 года назад +571

    ‘If they can make it through, you can make it through too.’
    My punching bag oc who kills herself: 🌚

    • @vesperiamorningstar3785
      @vesperiamorningstar3785 3 года назад +48

      My one who’s fucked up dad hangs himself in a fling off: 👌

    • @hufflepuffguy2212
      @hufflepuffguy2212 3 года назад +54

      Holy shit are people okay?

    • @vesperiamorningstar3785
      @vesperiamorningstar3785 3 года назад +70

      @@hufflepuffguy2212 nooo thanks for asking

    • @hufflepuffguy2212
      @hufflepuffguy2212 3 года назад +46

      @@vesperiamorningstar3785 well at least I got an answer

    • @kittencomicslol
      @kittencomicslol 3 года назад +41

      @@hufflepuffguy2212 well my extreme trauma was invalidated and mocked yesterday so no, my punching bag oc is how I cope with that

  • @charlieistired
    @charlieistired 3 года назад +293

    Tragic backstory; me who's ocs are all test subjects: interesting.

    • @Sapphireskittles
      @Sapphireskittles 3 года назад +10

      Yeaaah uhh I totally don't have any test subject oc's-
      Ehehe-

    • @themaskedmaxxi
      @themaskedmaxxi 3 года назад +7

      My oc, Mari, is an escaped test subject

    • @silverpokemonfan
      @silverpokemonfan 3 года назад +7

      Me who's ocs are all animal hybrids from tragic acxidents and a lot of them are test subjects: interesting

    • @lunarla123
      @lunarla123 3 года назад +4

      Relatable, I have quadruplets OCs who were raised by a scientist who uses them as his assistants in his lab. And a bit as lab rats.

    • @charlieistired
      @charlieistired 3 года назад +3

      Mine are kinda animal hybrids- they got turned into them by testing, then they died, from testing or the lab burning down.
      Glad I'm not alone doing this and I hope you keep sharing more about your characters here!

  • @apoole54
    @apoole54 8 месяцев назад +2

    I like the friend dynamic a few people who both need help finding each other and trying to cope with each other. It’s my favorite friend dynamic

  • @CroxonneldExilis-gv6lu
    @CroxonneldExilis-gv6lu 8 месяцев назад +6

    My main oc actually started as a side character from a story I was writing, but then, I realized that he actually had much more potential than anyone else in my story.
    In the original story, the character I was using was just too op, and it felt redundant writing stories around them, but when I ultimately went through to rewrite the whole thing with the side character, since the power I gave him was much more fitting of a main character. For 6 years now, I've been writing stories around that character, and even once, I wrote a story where he met his original version, but it ended up as one person who hurts himself with magic trying to console a crybaby of a character... yeah... I'm glad I decided to change him from that... anyways, since it was a whole world, I have at least one oc that fits one or more of these roles.
    Oof. I wrote too much... I get too excited when I can talk about my ocs...

  • @astrixthecat2779
    @astrixthecat2779 3 года назад +248

    you forgot that one furry oc you hide from literally everyone and you pretend you hate them but you secretly love them / you have a little soft spot for them

    • @vesperiamorningstar3785
      @vesperiamorningstar3785 3 года назад +4

      Yea

    • @Maggie66112
      @Maggie66112 3 года назад +6

      Hidden?

    • @KristyKful
      @KristyKful 3 года назад +18

      I remember when I was very young and had like *literally countless* numbers of a bunch of cat ocs inspired by the pete the cat books, lol. Those adventures they all had that I imagined, that's fun to remember.

    • @DemonDiscoJockey
      @DemonDiscoJockey 3 года назад +10

      I literally only draw lizard men. I think i have an obsession with reptilians.

    • @ChezBurger_97
      @ChezBurger_97 3 года назад +6

      All my ocs are furries and i do hide them

  • @g00dpaws
    @g00dpaws 3 года назад +642

    My oc Brownie is an innocent child who took up his parents' bakery after they got too old and are still figuring things out. His Awesome Amazing Power: financial stability.

  • @Aloofyr
    @Aloofyr 5 месяцев назад +1

    Thanks for making such a relatable video. Personally, I have made all of these. The punching bag emo trauma-based one. The philosopher know-it-all comforter. The absolutely overpowered cool character. The innocent little baby. The chosen one (who is sometimes also overpowered). And the...yeah, I've made the murderer before several times. Too many maybe?

  • @Number_0ne_Rated_SalesMan1997
    @Number_0ne_Rated_SalesMan1997 7 месяцев назад

    Best part is always when the cool/philosopher/invincible character is scared. Chills every time

  • @davismatthews3748
    @davismatthews3748 3 года назад +152

    "If you were into sonic between the ages of 9 and... i'm gonna say 24. You had a sonic OC. Its up there with the rest of our Deviantart past."
    THE FUCKING ACCURACY

    • @imhere1303
      @imhere1303 3 года назад +1

      I didn't

    • @MetaKnight964
      @MetaKnight964 3 года назад

      @@imhere1303 Same here

    • @ThePinkBlurSonicFan
      @ThePinkBlurSonicFan 3 года назад +3

      Luckily Devianart has removed cringe art and has become a better website and now the Sonic OCs I see on there are very well done and creative and no longer cringe like the old Sonic OCs in the past

    • @dozydoe5245
      @dozydoe5245 3 года назад

      OH NO, SHE FUCKING READ ME

    • @fuzzyshark7513
      @fuzzyshark7513 3 года назад +2

      Wow you literally just convinced me to make a sonic OC

  • @verdantViridity
    @verdantViridity 3 года назад +637

    creating the murderer oc: aren't you tired of being nice? wanna just go apeshit?

    • @sirduncebag6190
      @sirduncebag6190 2 года назад +41

      My most murderous OC is actually a crisscrossing maid

    • @georgeridden1705
      @georgeridden1705 2 года назад +17

      All of my OC doesn't value life at all. Because, everyone that dies. Gets Isekai'd and may return to their Original World and brought themselves some gift. *Like a world ending level Reality Destructing Bomb or Super Powers*

    • @BEEYIPPIEEE
      @BEEYIPPIEEE 2 года назад +6

      ah yes,the PERFECT trope of creating murderer ocs,*50% of mine are like this*

    • @sophiamichaelis206
      @sophiamichaelis206 2 года назад +4

      FCKIN MOOD.

    • @sir-reynauld-the-kleptomaniac
      @sir-reynauld-the-kleptomaniac 2 года назад +1

      @@georgeridden1705 ah yes… the humble kreigsman…

  • @shadowwwwwwwwwww
    @shadowwwwwwwwwww 3 месяца назад +2

    my punching bag ocs have always been characters with an aspect about people or society that i hate. probably not the healthiest way of dealing with my feelings, but oh well (;;;^^)

  • @INTRUDIC_H0ST
    @INTRUDIC_H0ST 8 месяцев назад +4

    Man watching this made me realize about my own ocs. I’ve gone through HUNDREDS of ocs in the span of a couple of years. Scrapping some because I just lost interest, or others out of memory loss. Yet somehow I always manage to carry over traits from previous ocs to new ocs and nowadays my current characters are all decently fleshed out. One supposed to have a somewhat tragic story while appearing not very edgy. One who’s appearances in my stories was from the END of his story arc (like a fatherly figure).
    Ocs are fun to mess around with

  • @bluehoodieart7315
    @bluehoodieart7315 3 года назад +231

    “The philosopher character is the mom friend and is very smart”
    My philosopher character is an alcoholic, conspiracy theorist detective who at one point nearly beats up a teenager who has amnesia.

    • @sierrahale804
      @sierrahale804 3 года назад +7

      heh

    • @kamiladiaz1465
      @kamiladiaz1465 3 года назад +14

      Dude.

    • @luchiirodriguez279
      @luchiirodriguez279 3 года назад +16

      That sounds cool ngl

    • @krystal2026
      @krystal2026 3 года назад +13

      Mine is a depressed, anxious, sleep-deprived, everything else in the book, 12 year old who begged for her sister to mercy kill her into to defeat another one of their sisters, has one of the most dangerous powers in the universe, thinks too much about life, is used for literally everything, *etc.*

    • @graceful-not1423
      @graceful-not1423 3 года назад +11

      My philosopher stared a god in the face, insulted them and is the only one who stays calm in the entire situation of being thrown into magic.
      No but legit their just so tired having to deal with my murderer OC that nothing surprises them anymore

  • @InkSans_FandomSoda
    @InkSans_FandomSoda 3 года назад +565

    A satirically edgy sonic OC is the only character I have that’s anywhere close to a punching bag.

    • @starry-cyclone
      @starry-cyclone 3 года назад +8

      Ink.....what the actual living heck.
      Does the multiverse know that you have that? Because you don't seem like the type to have that.

    • @InkSans_FandomSoda
      @InkSans_FandomSoda 3 года назад +25

      @@starry-cyclone I’m talking irl, not in character. Besides, I was like 10.

    • @starry-cyclone
      @starry-cyclone 3 года назад +5

      @@InkSans_FandomSoda i was trying to have fun o.o

    • @InkSans_FandomSoda
      @InkSans_FandomSoda 3 года назад +7

      @@starry-cyclone (I meant I was 10 when I made the character) it’s ok, I’m just saying.

    • @starry-cyclone
      @starry-cyclone 3 года назад +4

      @@InkSans_FandomSoda ik

  • @Whatit4
    @Whatit4 8 месяцев назад +1

    Thank you for this information, it helped me realise how much my OCs mean to me and I sometimes ask myself, who would I be without them.

  • @uzunaruMelonness
    @uzunaruMelonness 8 месяцев назад +2

    Bass facepalms. "Ugh... I am... a mixture... of some... of these. A punchable philosopher... who is a murderer. Gods,... my creator... is ugh, a headache."

  • @pencilguyisthebest593
    @pencilguyisthebest593 3 года назад +280

    *These are from all different times and stories*
    My punching bag: A ghost that keeps dying over and over.
    My philosopher: a robot that favors gardening over anything else
    My “cool character” : a dove that cant transform back to human but to other animals
    My innocent child: A teddy bear that really had a broken heart and will do anything to find it’s owner
    My chosen one: A human which can control all animals without wanting to.
    My murderer: The colour magenta as a person who has built up anger at the other colors for outshaming them
    My self insert : myself as an anime character

    • @strawberryjam6235
      @strawberryjam6235 3 года назад +13

      Bro I love the color magneta

    • @dakkapel3
      @dakkapel3 3 года назад +7

      A ghost that keeps dying over and over
      Incredibly sad however i would love to see how you would execute it

    • @pencilguyisthebest593
      @pencilguyisthebest593 3 года назад +3

      @@dakkapel3 to be honest, I think we’d just exorcise it.

    • @_50_ducks_
      @_50_ducks_ 3 года назад +3

      Ngl those all sound so frikken cool

    • @daychild_
      @daychild_ 3 года назад +1

      “A ghost that keeps dying over and over”
      Do they happen to be named Mitsuba Sousuke?
      (This is a joke, but that’s a cool idea)

  • @ChickChickChirp
    @ChickChickChirp 3 года назад +217

    My poor OCs....
    These are basically my kids and yet I put them through so much crap

    • @yourlocaldemon2195
      @yourlocaldemon2195 3 года назад +14

      such is the way of artists

    • @user-xb9bd8jr2t
      @user-xb9bd8jr2t 3 года назад +26

      and the more crap you put them through, the more you love them, and the more crap you want to put them through, and thus a cycle is created

    • @Fisinocean
      @Fisinocean 3 года назад +10

      Me trying to justify why im making my high schoolers character went to trough much trauma that ends with one of them losing an eye and her self confidence while also locking her in self imposed exile over how she is the problem and then making the other character lose limb and trust over others while blaming herself for her friend dissapearance:
      *WELL TECHNICALLY ONE OF THEM IS A CONCEPT THAT EXIST MILLENIA BEFORE BIG BANG AND THE OTHER IS HIGHLY SKILLED HUNTER SO THEY ARE ATLEAST MUCH MORE MATURE THAN AVERAGE HIGH SCHOOLERS-*

    • @istolethispfpsorry485
      @istolethispfpsorry485 3 года назад +2

      Same.

    • @yourlocaldemon2195
      @yourlocaldemon2195 3 года назад +6

      Welcome to discussing OC Trauma session!

  • @BMS777
    @BMS777 4 месяца назад

    I invested so many stories in my oc, that he became the main character of my future game, I'm still in the planning phase, but to give you an idea, he would be a mix between Cool Character, The Murderer and The Chosen One, a little strange, but with context it gets better!

  • @not._.samsung7389
    @not._.samsung7389 8 месяцев назад +2

    The fact I have tons of ocs and alternate universes, of my own things, warrior cats, MLP, etcetc
    I still have my very first actual OC to this day, which has had so much developement you'd barely be able to guess he was once what he was

  • @noeleenmangan5946
    @noeleenmangan5946 3 года назад +78

    - Makes a Character -
    Backstory: I'm going to destroy this childs career
    Future/current events: Oh pleaseeeee
    Mental health: Step aside ladies

  • @cattvil
    @cattvil 3 года назад +930

    My oc's fall into a category you have forgotten:
    *Actually based off real people. My friends.*

    • @grapesupremacy6852
      @grapesupremacy6852 2 года назад +94

      *REAL LIFE FRIEND SELF-INSERT? POGGERS*

    • @cattvil
      @cattvil 2 года назад +33

      @@grapesupremacy6852 I KNOW.

    • @Xx_DoctorSex_xX
      @Xx_DoctorSex_xX 2 года назад +49

      i wanna show my OCs thats based on my friends but theres a chance they'll just call me a weirdo lmao

    • @MultiNaruto900
      @MultiNaruto900 2 года назад +5

      *Ah yes, the Hemingway*

    • @Yu-Gi-Oh36508
      @Yu-Gi-Oh36508 2 года назад +1

      @@Xx_DoctorSex_xX yeah you are a weirdo, did they let you make a oc on them? probably not then they wouldnt be calling you a weirdo

  • @GatheredStorm_YT
    @GatheredStorm_YT 8 месяцев назад +3

    My main character is pretty much the cool character, but I’ve been trying to reign him in, yes he is OP but it happens over time in his story, however I know that he’s not the most original and has just enough cringe factor that no one would really steal him but not enough to make him embarrassing, he was the first character I ever made and I’ve been working on reigning him in and making other characters for the story and world as well, although I’ve had versions of him where I had to scale up his power a lot because it was like a character collaboration thing and everyone else made their characters so OP that I had to basically scale him up to his max end of the story power as a constant, which is how there’s been a lot of mix ups with him now and why I’m having to scale him back down, because some of his key lore points have been thought up in some of the collaborations

  • @janethewolf3758
    @janethewolf3758 8 месяцев назад

    I have so many myself, all taking their part in the story they belong in and in the meantime it gets so easy to think of another concept for one of these stories or an entirely new one and work these out till they actually work

  • @wanderingsoul7681
    @wanderingsoul7681 3 года назад +438

    "Everyone has a story inside them. Everyone has several stories inside them."
    Me: . . .
    Me: **looks at my library of my rarely finished stories** That sounds about right.

    • @yourlocaldemon2195
      @yourlocaldemon2195 3 года назад +7

      I feel this 🖐🏻😔

    • @Parzi_Parzival
      @Parzi_Parzival 3 года назад +2

      @@yourlocaldemon2195 me who wrote twenty pages and then stopped *hahaha,, true*

    • @PS-vr1uv
      @PS-vr1uv 3 года назад +3

      @@Parzi_Parzival me but I wrote only 9 then scrapped it cuz it was too cringey

    • @yourlocaldemon2195
      @yourlocaldemon2195 3 года назад +1

      @@Parzi_Parzival Me who wrote one chapter then stopped... *:)*

    • @metra8604
      @metra8604 3 года назад +1

      @@yourlocaldemon2195 im in the middle of writing mine. it's gonna be edited to heck, but i shall continue it. my mc needs it's backstory written >:|

  • @chiyaka867
    @chiyaka867 3 года назад +192

    everyone: has many ocs with many different personalities, looks and stories
    me: has 2 ocs with animal ears that just exist for being cute and work at restaurant @w@

    • @d_art_s9632
      @d_art_s9632 3 года назад +5

      I can relate

    • @kaleycooper9111
      @kaleycooper9111 3 года назад +10

      Haha same. My first and only three OC’s I’ve ever made were just three normal friends with normal backstories that went to high school. I’ve been taking art seriously for a little over 5 years and I only really do fan art. I’ve never felt a want or need to make OC’s, does anyone else relate?

    • @krystal2026
      @krystal2026 3 года назад +6

      Haha... the character for myself is myself, but with a glow-up, terrible sense of fashion, and was and still is from an alternate timeline in Undertale.

    • @akitopi_
      @akitopi_ 3 года назад +4

      Same for me! at first I just like to draw some character set in a school setting doing some goofy stuff, but I always had this idea where they live in this bizzare world, each of them having their own stories and without realizing are connected with each other. I know it's not original, but i'm having fun drawing them! ^^

    • @highlagaard
      @highlagaard 3 года назад +3

      That's still pretty cool imo ! Sometimes creating simple OCs who just. exist and vibe. and who don't got a special backstory or whatever is fun to do :3c

  • @DeathAngelSuki
    @DeathAngelSuki 8 месяцев назад +2

    My one OC be like: _It turns out, I'm all of them..._

  • @Anika38d
    @Anika38d 8 месяцев назад +5

    Checking my OC's:
    > The MC mostly falls under a "philosopher" type, sometimes acts like a "cool" type (if finds it necessary, usually in fight scenes), sometimes perceived by other characters as a "chosen one" (despite not really being supported by any power besides their own genius mind).
    > The MC's soulmate/lover/closest and most precious person is an "innocent child"/cinnamon roll type, although they have a tragic backstory similar to a "punching bag" type. As well as the MC, they can also act like a "cool" type sometimes, but it's way more difficult for them, so they do it only in critical moments.
    > The MC's... ehhh, foster child (I guess I can call them this way - they're a literal child who was rescued by the MC and ended up staying under their care for quite a long time) is definitely a cinnamon roll and must be protected at all costs, which is basically what MC does.
    > The... Well, the Miceniya (yes, this is their name😹) is kind of a self-insert - they're a reflection of my "silly/non-serious side", so they're here just for comedy and tension-lowering. And I love them!
    > My antagonist... No, I don't think they're a "murderer" type. They did murder, but they're not crazy - in fact, they do a bunch of thinking to catch other characters in their web of lies. They're just an evil a-hole who invokes reader's disgust, not fear.
    > And a "murderer" type... Well, I guess I have one character, but they're not really a villain - rather a heartbroken person who was betrayed by their nation and decided to take revenge on the entire world. They didn't even think their vengeance was right and just acted on emotions, so they redeemed very quickly after MC gave them care, understanding and acceptance they longed for.

  • @anabia8761
    @anabia8761 3 года назад +113

    The paradox of the cool character, you're ashamed of it but really proud and possessive

  • @ducker6018
    @ducker6018 3 года назад +360

    I had an OC that was a full on petty villain. They were in a rp server so I constantly had to clarify her backstory was straight up "she was normal" because I often hinted at it and people got confused. But honestly, probably one of my most fun OC for short rps because of this, along with her personality being just on the edge of evil or simple jerk.

    • @ducker6018
      @ducker6018 3 года назад +33

      Update, she is evil, she is getting snake powers

    • @The.throngler
      @The.throngler 3 года назад +14

      Doofenshmirts

    • @user-ud1ec6tg1z
      @user-ud1ec6tg1z 3 года назад +14

      @@The.throngler I-.. no, you know what, that's accurate.

    • @echodreemur6709
      @echodreemur6709 3 года назад +4

      talk about kokichi oma

    • @metra8604
      @metra8604 3 года назад +5

      @@ducker6018 me, with an oc that is literally a snake person:

  • @Dice-Z
    @Dice-Z 8 месяцев назад

    Old video huh? Pretty spot on tbh, although it could be a lot more indepth. I have at least one character in each of those categories, and at least one that is in EVERY categories present here, aswell as many others. Personally when i make a character, i often take a tiny part of myself and develop it into a completely different character until it shares little to nothing with me. It helps a lot that i have a good understanding of things like cultures around the world, psychology, psychiatry, social issues and more, which allows me to create characters that are believable even though they are very different from me. Your list is more a mix of archetype and character traits though, so of course you'll find them in a lot of characters. But there are a lot more of archetypes aswell.
    For example, there is the mentor. The mentor often shares traits with the philosopher and the cool character, but they are a support character, one who is often extremely limited in how much they are allowed to influence the world's actual events, but can do so by proxy, by mentoring either protagonists, antagonists and so on. They may also be used as a deus ex machina type piece when the threat becomes too severe for the protagonist and their group. They are often strong, older, experienced, sometimes even OP, but are often kept busy or have artificial "limitations" in a way to not trivialize the challenges of the protagonist (for example they could be a god that cannot upset the balance of the world or interact with mortals directly). Often time once their role is fulfilled and they become too powerful for the story, they will go out with a bang to create an emotional scene, a tragic death, and give the protagonist a boost in motivation and sometimes helping them overcome the crippling kindness that they may have to have some character development.
    It should be pretty easy to recognize a mentor character in general. Jiraya/Kakashi, Netero/Wing/Biscuit, All Might/Nighteye, Gojo, Urahara, King Kai/Kame Sennin, Urokodaki/Rengoku, Koro-sensei, Reigen, Yami, Izumi, etc... Of course they may lack some of the characteristic above but they are all mentors, though there are many, many more, including in the shows/mangas these characters are from. Some of which may be less obvious.
    I'm pretty fond of the mentor because it gives a perfect excuse to create an actually well written mary sue. And i'm not gonna lie, i love my well written mary sues. One of the most important rules to create a good mary sue... is the rule of cool, the oh so powerful rule of cool. If you can master the rule of cool, you can make the viewer/reader/player suspend their disbelief over the most insane mary sue writing. But of course all other rules of good character writing still strongly apply.
    And even though i just implied otherwise, a well written mary sue is simply not a mary sue. Some get pretty close though. The closest to being mary sues in the ones mentioned above... probably Kakashi or maybe Gojo. Doesn't mean i like them any less though. One could argue that when writing OP characters, some of the most important pitfalls to avoid are...
    1) Making sure that their OPness is earned through experience and hardships, and the reader/viewer must witness a good chunk of those experiences, either directly or through flashbacks. They mustn't get super lucky or randomly gain a new power when convenient.
    2) Not giving them all the glory. They must let other characters shine and not take up the majority of the spotlight. In fact these types of characters work better when they stay out of it outside of special moments.
    3) They musn't be paragons of morality. They need some serious flaws of character. At least one. Whether it's being an asshole, perverted, idiotic/clueless at times, ruthless/lacking empathy or sympathy, disinterested/immature (especially outside of serious situations), lazy, uncaring for others or social norms, or otherwise. Many options.
    3.5) Nor should other characters give them a free pass or like them more than they should. Especially if they behave in a contentious way. People don't take kindly to murder, verbally attacking people or violence in general, for example. Even more so when it's excessive, unnecessary and gratuitous. If they have some enemies, especially if they hate the OP character, and those enemies aren't cartoonish villains but have understandable reasons, good.
    4) Giving them an equal adversary. And if they are "the strongest and bestest" it usually shouldn't be by too large of margin with the second strongest character in your world.
    5) Obviously rules can be broken, as long as you know *why* you are breaking them. Are you deconstructing an archetype? Playing around with a trope in an innovative way?
    Thanks for coming to my ted talk on how to make a good OP character.

  • @aiiiia9971
    @aiiiia9971 8 месяцев назад

    I feel personally attacked rn 😂 how did you get into my brain! I'm playing, I love feeling heard. I really like that you put a positive spin on each of these exploring why you might like that type of character or what it means to you instead of just making fun of these types.

  • @AlligatorTeethz
    @AlligatorTeethz 3 года назад +201

    “Number 6. *the murderer* “
    *Me with almost all of my ocs being murderers or cannibals* : “oop- 👁👄👁”

    • @agameoffools1546
      @agameoffools1546 3 года назад +16

      At least people taste good

    • @kitchengun1175
      @kitchengun1175 3 года назад +6

      here comes my bat sh!t crazy child oc with a baseball bat

    • @Nobody-hr4gt
      @Nobody-hr4gt 3 года назад +7

      I did not expect the cannibal part

    • @konnosx1213
      @konnosx1213 3 года назад +3

      >all of them are cannibals
      A fellow edgelord of culture I see

    • @mimisaur5000
      @mimisaur5000 3 года назад +1

      walks into the club with my femboy werewolf cannibal oc

  • @acidbunny5
    @acidbunny5 3 года назад +86

    Let me be real, the only time I actually would ever use a "Chosen One" prophecy on my characters is if it were used for an evil plot device. The "Chosen One" idea of having your life predetermined for you sounds like a curse. I prefer the idea of being able to create your own story rather than depend on fate.

    • @sweetarollmlp177
      @sweetarollmlp177 3 года назад +11

      Yeah I have a story where all the main characters were "chosen" by some sort of crystals when they're born and they're destined to train their entire life waiting for the evil bad guy to do it's thing and defeat him like it has been each like 1000 years but the one we follow most of her story is some random villager girl who stumble upon the crystal that has been lost and she is being brought into the entire concept she only heard vaguely as a kid with bedtime stories. And we see her getting all that pressure and judgement of people (Since the crystal didn't really choose her technically, she just found it and it reacted since she was the first to touch it since the last owner) and the effect it had on the other characters who grew up with that weight on their shoulder their entire childhood and teenagehood and in the end the girl becomes the second source for the villain because it was too much for her and she wasn't trained since birth for any of this (But the others save her at the end, but she still becomes evil). So yeah it's not really "she deals with it and everyone is fine with any of this" type of story

    • @ShinoriDelfrim
      @ShinoriDelfrim 3 года назад +3

      @@sweetarollmlp177 Woah! That is really amazing!!

    • @sweetarollmlp177
      @sweetarollmlp177 3 года назад +2

      @@ShinoriDelfrim Thank you ^^

    • @muichirotokitou2615
      @muichirotokitou2615 3 года назад +2

      @@sweetarollmlp177 I'd love to read that! It genuinely sounds like a great concept and I think you could execute it very well

    • @sweetarollmlp177
      @sweetarollmlp177 3 года назад +1

      @@muichirotokitou2615 Aww thank you ^^

  • @tehhypergamer963
    @tehhypergamer963 8 месяцев назад +3

    When it comes to OCs, I'll make just about any type of OC, not just the types that are discussed in this video. Though when it comes to self-inserts, I'm a bit narcissistic and will almost always write myself in as the main character. My self-inserts tend to be a mix of the chosen one, the cool character, the punching bag, and very occasionally; the philosopher. I suppose this idea just kind of stems from something that a lot of people think about; that it is fun to sometimes think of yourself as the main character of some awesome, amazing, epic story, or something along those lines and well, I'm no different. I absolutely love the idea of myself as the main character and I sometimes find it hard not to write a story where I'm either not the main character or just not in it at all. But overall, I really do love all my OCs, even if a lot of them are self-inserts, lol.

  • @black_hole2225
    @black_hole2225 8 месяцев назад

    your art style is so cute btw its chibi and cute

  • @BlackoutArtz
    @BlackoutArtz 3 года назад +756

    Don’t you just love it when you experiment so much with your villain that they go from the murderer character to the “cool guy,” and then to the philosopher, to the tragic backstory character, and then just end up as this sad but wholesome wreck that literally can’t do anything bad to the other characters because they’re just that messed up?
    Just me?
    Welp.

    • @personwhoexists080
      @personwhoexists080 2 года назад +12

      Minus the cool guy and philosopher my sister did that lol

    • @Vaihly
      @Vaihly Год назад +17

      For me i dont make many villains, since the main cast already work for a horrid and inhumane organization

    • @dumbdannia6326
      @dumbdannia6326 Год назад +7

      I have never felt so fucking called out before, Jesus Christ LMFAO

    • @zryan1493
      @zryan1493 Год назад

      same

    • @mecor9191
      @mecor9191 Год назад +2

      I feel SO freaking called out, like, I'VE DONE THIS TWICE, AND THEY ARE BOTH FRIENDS.

  • @PopopamAJ
    @PopopamAJ 3 года назад +106

    I felt so proud and original to have countless ocs and none of them fit these descriptions...
    *until the last one where I immediately had horrible flashbacks to my old cringey self-insert stories...*

  • @gammawolfiechu3492
    @gammawolfiechu3492 8 месяцев назад +2

    Idk how to feel about the fact that NONE of my +15 ocs fit into any of these categories lol

  • @spawnerbgoner7858
    @spawnerbgoner7858 7 месяцев назад

    i've been making OC's since i was about eight, so i have probably atleast three in every catagory, i've had a friend since 2020 to help expand upon them and their story. So not only do i have an incredibly massive story, a metric ton of OC's with interconnecting plots, cool artwork for almost every single one. My favorite one is multi-million year old demon named Censolar with a massive collection of Chosen one's from across hundreds of universes, i also wrote a 6000 word backstory for him too literally 3 days ago lmao

  • @kirathepotat4828
    @kirathepotat4828 3 года назад +145

    *me, who only made two oc's in total:* _I am four paralell universes ahead of you_

    • @hostilestick1453
      @hostilestick1453 3 года назад +2

      GASP

    • @user-ti1tt4uu9l
      @user-ti1tt4uu9l 3 года назад +7

      my oc is a word, i am infinite paralell realities ahead of you

    • @metra8604
      @metra8604 3 года назад +3

      *cries in too many ocs, i can't keep track*

    • @Candy0615
      @Candy0615 3 года назад +3

      @@metra8604 I relate to this so much

    • @danyr1886
      @danyr1886 3 года назад +2

      That's how you start.... 👀✨

  • @thegreatzucchiniidkalastna3743
    @thegreatzucchiniidkalastna3743 3 года назад +98

    *First off, the punching bag, they have the most tragic backstories possible
    Me: frick, you already got me

  • @ishmellokat
    @ishmellokat 4 месяца назад

    I love this video omg💙

  • @renhyde1447
    @renhyde1447 8 месяцев назад

    I love hearing about people's ocs and I love prompting people to talk about them because they often *want* to but are afraid to share

  • @Vaihly
    @Vaihly Год назад +534

    Honestly love making chaotic and dangerous characters more than friendly, innocent characters.

    • @eligal643
      @eligal643 9 месяцев назад +29

      i have a friendly, innocent, mother type character who knows how to wield and shoot several types of guns lfmao

    • @supermaximglitchy1
      @supermaximglitchy1 8 месяцев назад +12

      I have an innocent child character who hangs out with incompetent murderers
      The little boi also views a very competent and ruthless murderer as his big brother

    • @Vaihly
      @Vaihly 8 месяцев назад +10

      @@eligal643 God bless america

    • @eligal643
      @eligal643 8 месяцев назад +6

      @@Vaihly best part is she grew up in britain and is technically a british citizen
      she just came to new york

    • @ZackShark1
      @ZackShark1 8 месяцев назад +3

      Why not both

  • @tweedlebug123
    @tweedlebug123 3 года назад +950

    I love how wholesome this video is. A lot of people like to say ocs are "cringe" and i appreciate that even if you used the word, it was in an accepting way that showed that even if a character is cringe- if they make their creator happy that's all that really matters. Also appreicate you using the archetype "cool character" as opposed to Mary Sue.This video was very loving and accepting of all ocs- both well written ones and the ones that MAYBE are just a bit cringe. I loved your positive energy and your sweet, friendly voice. This video really brightened my day.

    • @justaregulargymrata
      @justaregulargymrata 2 года назад +12

      Bru how my character none of these he was just a straight-up omnipotent omniscient happy dude that liked to fight and built up his omnipotent’s through lots of fighting. Yeah thats about it. Now my cousin well he had every single one here except self inserted and child which ended up with my character killing his mom cause they were brothers but not after he tried to kill my oc and had a chosen one like character save him then he my oc also became op and they made up then the chosen one became evil and we clapped him. There is like a whole lore behind this and surprising made sense but I dont think what i am able to remember will fit here

    • @THE_VATO
      @THE_VATO 2 года назад

      *The gacha lite oc's are the real cringe man.*

    • @yohaun3140
      @yohaun3140 2 года назад +1

      @@THE_VATO Gacha lite? Tf

    • @mystic-hm9mk
      @mystic-hm9mk 2 года назад +7

      @@THE_VATO I get why people think that but it's really the same as ocs made any other ways... except gachas definitely more in your face 😭

    • @lemonweirdo
      @lemonweirdo 2 года назад +1

      @@THE_VATO bro you didn't even spell it right, wtf is gacha lite💀

  • @Asodym
    @Asodym 8 месяцев назад +3

    I loved watching this as something of a lesson in psychology, seeing how different types of OCs answered different psychological needs. The only archetypes from this list that I believe I've created are the murderer and the self insert. My current and longest running self insert is just my online persona, and as of writing is my profile picture. My murderer is called Extinction, a goddess of death, so she's more of a force of nature than a serial killer but I'm imagining she counts. I do have more OCs, I am a writer, but I don't think they too well fit into these categories. Like I have a bunch of OCs that are almost philosophers but I don't use them in the way you described so I'm not really sure. Anyway, good video, lots of food for thought. :)

  • @Mistime_Mistake
    @Mistime_Mistake 8 месяцев назад +5

    Sooo, I have two characters who are both a mix of all of these. Their names are Rachel and Mika. They’re basically just besties but they fit the Passive Agressive Roommate song

  • @artynicotine
    @artynicotine 3 года назад +106

    Me who kills half my punching bag characters-

    • @Fisinocean
      @Fisinocean 3 года назад +7

      When you made all of your character a punching bag atvsome level: *WHOOPS-*

    • @metra8604
      @metra8604 3 года назад +8

      same, i like to write deaths in the most brutal and emotional way possible too

    • @bitterrsquiidss
      @bitterrsquiidss 3 года назад +5

      @@metra8604 - exactly me, literally made ones lungs bust open while alive.

    • @embreadiment
      @embreadiment 3 года назад +4

      @@bitterrsquiidss I'm writing a story and thinking of killing off every character

    • @spinogreen0iq
      @spinogreen0iq 3 года назад +3

      Me who kills my punching bag character all the time and revives them so they can die again-

  • @hanscapon222
    @hanscapon222 3 года назад +224

    "We've all got that OC with a bunch of trauma"
    Me: **hastily shoves entire page worth of trauma for 1 character under the floor** what????

    • @avacado221
      @avacado221 2 года назад +11

      Relatable

    • @manyharmons4308
      @manyharmons4308 Год назад

      My innocent child is a prostitute... so yeah...M

    • @youareanidiot7138
      @youareanidiot7138 Год назад

      You have human characters with trauma? I mean, my monsters have a bit, but not like "I was beaten because my knees existed, so I cut them out and now i can do the devious walk, but people still bully me because i got a hairline like the little Caesars batman pizza"

  • @ride-playerbb2818
    @ride-playerbb2818 3 месяца назад

    Funnily enough, I don't have a self insert not just because I actively avoid them in recent times, but as a child making up stories in my head, when I use these stories in response to my personal feelings... I projected these feelings on a canon character. The OC, who shares a body with him, instead acts as the Philosoper with varying levels of success, and with unrelated struggles of their own.

  • @marshmallowbiscuit4553
    @marshmallowbiscuit4553 3 месяца назад +1

    The punching bag? You mean ALL my ocs? The cool character, the innocent child, the chosen one, the anything. I just *throws my ocs against a wall and into the most horrid situations* All time fav to torture is the self insert though. :)

  • @joycedaturtl
    @joycedaturtl 3 года назад +46

    me who doesnt even have ocs and only draws random characters, also has never thought about giving them a backstory: "this is gonna be interesting" 👁👄👁

  • @mimikyulover3411
    @mimikyulover3411 3 года назад +29

    Also, for the lgbt+, there is the "experiment", basically the person of a gender that you are attracted to and that makes you non-hetero

    • @Chibitasm
      @Chibitasm  3 года назад +4

      yo calling me out 😂 almost all my early characters fit into that!

  • @WJF441
    @WJF441 8 месяцев назад

    the cool one was spot on, ive got a lotta characters with some really cool powers that are too fun to give up

  • @irregularguy6465
    @irregularguy6465 8 месяцев назад

    this sounds like turning components of your personality into characters

  • @josmamatotaldrama
    @josmamatotaldrama 9 месяцев назад +173

    I'm surprised that the "tough on the outside but soft on the inside" trope isn't here, it feels like it's involved with every character ever

    • @DIVECRAFTGAMER
      @DIVECRAFTGAMER 8 месяцев назад +2

      Tsundere, basically

    • @SuperPaperPokemon
      @SuperPaperPokemon 8 месяцев назад +4

      That's not even exclusive to "original" characters, that's just characters.

    • @soIeil
      @soIeil 8 месяцев назад +1

      jo and brick pfp

    • @PolskaMan-
      @PolskaMan- 8 месяцев назад +9

      soft on the outside tough on the inside is one I've seen a lot.

    • @cutestcreeper569
      @cutestcreeper569 8 месяцев назад +2

      ​​@@PolskaMan-Many characters I've seen that go under that are usually joke characters where they may seem like some harmless little blob, but are actually a major threat to the world itself.
      (I also have an oc that is under the trope.)

  • @AP-uj2fg
    @AP-uj2fg 3 года назад +381

    See, the majority of my characters can be nestled into the three categories of hyperactive lesbian, tired bisexual, or eldritch horror.

    • @youareanidiot7138
      @youareanidiot7138 Год назад +1

      Most of mine are eldritch horror

    • @fartfacefromspace5678
      @fartfacefromspace5678 9 месяцев назад +15

      Hello, I like to see people use 'lesbian' and 'bisexual' and other sexualities as personality traits for characters and I don't think I really get it, Is it okay if you explain?
      (hope this question isn't offensive)

    • @aroshootingarrows
      @aroshootingarrows 9 месяцев назад +31

      @@fartfacefromspace5678I thinks it’s less so a personality trait and more of a part of the character’s identity. The actual character trait comes before.
      In this context;
      Hyperactive and tired are more so the personality traits and they just enjoy writing lesbians or bisexuals (which isn’t exclusively romance).

    • @massive.nerd.potential
      @massive.nerd.potential 9 месяцев назад +1

      I can give you hyperactive "Totally a boy, stop asking, it'll only make me more confused": Leo, grandchild of a retired adventurere, who just thinks their grandpa is THE COOLEST
      I can give you tired bisexual, mind of? more like grumpy: Bunny Beck, but don't you dare call him Bunny, only his family can do that, he was an architect but then he kind of accidentally killed a guy and went out to seek redemption by saving other people, he's quite grumpy as well
      I can give you modified beyond what should be humanly possible and crafted into a weapon: Mania, which isn't because of any Magic, but close enough

    • @m1kur1n54
      @m1kur1n54 9 месяцев назад +12

      For me it’s evil bisexual, calm lesbian and the token straight who is constantly third wheeling them and never knows what the hell is going on.

  • @gwenglanders1895
    @gwenglanders1895 8 месяцев назад

    0:18 thx for the novel motivation. I've been looking to start a book, but I'm stuck in the planning phase. Thank you, that's the little push I need.

  • @drache7652
    @drache7652 8 месяцев назад +1

    I have three types of ocs in my head... The many many diffrent shapeshifter with diffrent angst... and the mushroom who I most times I forget but the only one I drew... and then there are the "What if I was in that show/game?"

  • @enbygremlin8821
    @enbygremlin8821 3 года назад +42

    All of my characters have horrific tragic backstories. If everyone has a tragic backstory, no one does.

    • @roseypixelz1470
      @roseypixelz1470 3 года назад +5

      "And when everyone's super (depressed)... No one will be."

  • @ifeelembarrassedaboutthisa9792
    @ifeelembarrassedaboutthisa9792 3 года назад +138

    "parental figure"
    My ocs backstory: *we don't do that here*

    • @morganbrim2777
      @morganbrim2777 3 года назад

      Same

    • @sierrahale804
      @sierrahale804 3 года назад

      one of my OCs, Ashia, had a terrible mother and her father was executed for no reason- *She was forced to watch*

    • @adzdrawss
      @adzdrawss 3 года назад

      haha everyone hates my ocs in their story

    • @sierrahale804
      @sierrahale804 3 года назад +1

      @@adzdrawss oof

    • @sierrahale804
      @sierrahale804 3 года назад

      @@ifeelembarrassedaboutthisa9792 oh gosh- *My characters would probably throw a wine bottle at the punching bag if they had wine in the first place*

  • @awesomeonejess
    @awesomeonejess 19 дней назад +1

    I only have 3.
    The rule of cool one.
    the self insert.
    and the villian, no dirty hands here, people do tend to go missing though....

  • @nordinreecendo512
    @nordinreecendo512 8 месяцев назад +8

    It took me *years* to realize my punching bag OC was literally how I processed my childhood trauma. I was RPing his story with an RP partner and suddenly realized "Oh my god... This is how I'm processing my family trauma..."

    • @max_punch
      @max_punch 8 месяцев назад +2

      Same. Started making this OC who was supposed to be the mega evil villain of me n my friend's RP. Then I gave him a backstory full of trauma, and I realised "damn.. this is literally my life" and now he's not evil anymore just depressed ☠️

    • @its_sisha_not_chair505
      @its_sisha_not_chair505 8 месяцев назад +1

      Same history here. I remember when i used to do whole fuckin story lines which were fueled just by my sheer edgyness and need of pouring my trauma onto something. Specially into sexy emo teens with super powers (no mom its not gay, its cool and dope) But yeah, "good" years. I love looking back at how i used to think literature worked and omfg my logic was so goofy💀💀
      "Alright, now everyone in this story should have at least ONE dead relative and then all the protagonist friends should die at the end and then he gets really angry and wins. This is awesome, better than my favorite anime, Tokyo ghoul"

    • @nordinreecendo512
      @nordinreecendo512 8 месяцев назад +1

      @@max_punch Mine was just a simple boy in a slice of life setting whose mother abuses him and the only one who really is ever there for him is his sister. He would internalize everything his mother tells him, and would always blame himself, even though everything was out of his control. He was the type who, when others would see his bruises and injuries, he'd just smile and laugh and say "Oh, I was just being stupid," implying "I was being stupid and got hurt because I wasn't careful," but actually meaning "I was being a stupid brat and pissed my mom off, it was totally my own fault this happened." Sadly I didn't have an awesome and supportive sister to console me and reassure me none of what happened to me was my fault, and I think that's part of why I ended up writing all this the way I did: I needed someone who could support me and love me, and so I spent a lot of my time living out this boy's life vicariously.

    • @nordinreecendo512
      @nordinreecendo512 8 месяцев назад +2

      @@its_sisha_not_chair505 I totally understand what you mean! In a way, I sorta miss having that naïve understanding of how literature works, as it felt very liberating, but now that I've learned to be a better writer, I traded that freedom to instead have the ability to set up interesting themes, stories, and emotional payoff. One of my favorite RP memories was with a close friend of mine with whom I was doing an RP based off Soul Eater, but in an OC-only AU. My character was a loner and a dick, and her character was his partner. I ended up introducing a character who was very much of a wise-older-sister-figure for her character, and the two grew very close. She ended up getting killed off to save her own partner, and as soon as I sent that, my friend just broke all semblance of RP format and replied with "WAIT" "WHAT" "NO" "WTF" "NOOO" "WHAT THE FUCK WHY" "NO" "I'M DONE" "THAT'S IT" "GODDAMMIT I'M FUCKING CRYING" And it was one of the most satisfying emotional payoffs I've ever had!

    • @its_sisha_not_chair505
      @its_sisha_not_chair505 8 месяцев назад +1

      @@nordinreecendo512 that is funny lmao. Its always a warm fuzzy feeling to see someone enjoy and react to a creation of yours. Also i read the other they comment and im starting to see a pattern with sisters my guy🗣 (im just jk lol) i also cherish my days of rp when i was a young 12 yo boy. Ahhh yes, the cold blooded but extremely talented black haired guy who had to avenge someone or had a family member he swore to destroy. Man, Sasuke Uchiha has molded so many young children

  • @ArtOpal
    @ArtOpal 3 года назад +231

    For me, whenever I make a self insert oc. I eventually draw them so much that they gain so much of their own personality that it's hard to tell they were supposed be me (other than the design).
    Honestly if I drew all my oc's in a row you would notice a large amount of them are drawn almost exactly how I draw myself. It's a bit of a problem I'm getting over right now XD

    • @TheAnthonrsls
      @TheAnthonrsls Год назад +17

      I thought I was the only one! My first ever oc was supposed to be me, but in minecraft, and it was a drowned. And evetually I gave her a backstory, a personality, and 5 other friends that were also supposed to be me but ending up into another charcater.

    • @K4_is_gaming
      @K4_is_gaming 9 месяцев назад

      i feel called out

    • @hellod7961
      @hellod7961 9 месяцев назад

      ​@@K4_is_gamingSame, I'm always afraid to be called cringe because of it

    • @starlight_studios8784
      @starlight_studios8784 9 месяцев назад

      Well I mean, if you are that awesome in all those timelines...

    • @ek0dev
      @ek0dev 9 месяцев назад

      I do the same exact thing, except almost none of them resemble me

  • @legendarybubbles4567
    @legendarybubbles4567 2 года назад +220

    It’s so nice to see a positive video about OCs! It’s so refreshing and shows the true nature of making characters!
    It’s honestly so disheartening always hearing about how “making ocs is bad” “making ocs is cringey!”
    So what if we have ocs, or make them? We can always get better, but bashing people because they make them is awful!
    This video was so sweet, and I’m happy the algorithm randomly led me here!

    • @Dotical
      @Dotical 9 месяцев назад +23

      Fr like do people realize every fiction show started from someone making OC’s💀

    • @TailsClock
      @TailsClock 8 месяцев назад +4

      ...Where the heck do you go where anyone says OCs are bad? I'm 33yrs old and have made my rounds through the anime fandom, the Sonic fandom, and MLP fandom, and other more modern ones. And no-where have I seen anyone say OCs are bad. Every single fandom has OCs you'll bump into and that's part of it. It's never been discouraged or shamed.
      Maybe people aren't saying OCs are bad to you. Maybe they just mean your OCs specifically are bad. That makes more sense! But joking aside it sounds like you hang out with crappy people.

    • @Dotical
      @Dotical 8 месяцев назад +4

      @@TailsClock Well I’ve never met one of these people irl or online, but I’m pretty sure the type of people who say OC making is cringe are the people who see a few cringe OC’s from fandoms they’re in and think “Hm yes, all OC’S must be cringe since these are.”
      (Speaking of jokes it took me like 15 seconds to realize your user was TailsClock and not TailsCock💀)

    • @ibisskb
      @ibisskb 8 месяцев назад

      @@TailsClock Within creative minds, yeah. Very often criticism of OCs is directed if your OCs look bad. Honestly, spending years to build a character that suited me helps you realize that working towards a outstanding OC is amazing. Even the least artistically-driven individuals are going to consider that cool.

  • @swivel3413
    @swivel3413 4 месяца назад

    My "self insert OC" started out as like a sona of myself when I was in elementary when i tried to start a youtube channel. Her name is Cosmic and she's a purple rabbit with white spots, and I'd use her in place kf me to ship with other characters lol. And then years later I started drawing her again, I kept her name and branched off of it to make a story for her. Now she's a universe renowned astronaut, and I couldn't be any happier with how far I've come with her. Not only that I adopted a similar sona from my bff at the time, and put their character in the story too as a "angsty bad boy with a soft spot for the mc" and I'm obsessed with both of them.

  • @YoloYester94
    @YoloYester94 5 месяцев назад

    My OCs mainly live in my head. The major ones are a self-insert and chosen one, the perfect woman, the innocent woman, the woman of royalty, the woman who would be great in society but chooses to abandon it, the scientist, the sky wanderer, the fully-wolf werewolf, the edgy-bubbly boy, the hidden gem, the guitar guy and his girlfriend.
    Can’t forget the vampire girl and her narwhal crush.