forum Share Your First (And Worst) OC

Started October 08, 2018 by @HighPockets group

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I just think this would be cool, since everyone's first OC isn't the best…

Xander Woods he turned out okay after a while

I was obsessed with Manticores and so I just made this "Ash" girl, i usd her for…..2 years

Haha mine was a girl named Beth. I don't like to think about her so check my 'Unofficial Guide To Writing' in Tutorials. She was a total Mary Sue and I hate using that word so it's 100% true this time

I was very young and very obsessed with Invader Zim, so I made a character named Avery. She very bad.

my first oc was a mary-sue self insert from when I was 9, I don't know what franchise she was for tho. Probably star wars

My first OC was one that I made when I was around 10. I could probably write a short essay about why this character was really awful, but instead I'll just summarize by saying that she was a huge Mary Sue, who also happened to be a self insert (yikes).
The story and universe that she was a part of wasn't any better either lol.

My first OC was more like a persona that turned into an OC. She's a werewolf that I named Iris. I don't use her anymore, but I take her name as my username lol.
I had originally planned for her to have normal colored ears and tail, but an online friend drew her in color and the colors sorta stuck despite the color scheme being purple instead of the planned blues and greens.
I'll draw her occasionally for practice with new art supplies.

My first OC (that I can remember) was a cat who was cursed to turn "evil" and kill someone (otherwise they wouldn't be able to turn back) at random times. I never really specified when they turned all "evil". I think it had to do with their mood. Surprisingly their design wasn't too bad. They were a mostly white cat with black markings on their ears, tail, and paws. Their eyes were blue (or purple, I changed it up a lot). I never really wrote a story for them because I think I was ten and I wanted to draw an evil cat. However whenever they turned "evil" her colours would change. They would now be sporting a black coat with white tips on the ears, tail, and paws. The weirdest thing though was that they now had red eyes, I don't know why I did that but for some reason I did. It was my first dive into character creation and I think I made something somewhat interesting. (Now that I think about it I made cat Jekyll and Hyde)
However, I don't consider them my worst character.

My worst character was this weird angle-demon hybrid that was angsty all the time. She did nothing but whine about how hard her life was. (I still like her design though, it's decent). I never gave her a personality because my young mind thought just making her a cool angle-demon was good enough character work. The reason she was even an antagonist was that one of the characters traveling with the main character rightfully warned the government about her because she was doing dangerous things. (I think she was killing someone but I can't really remember). Another thing that I did wrong when creating this character is that she had no relevance to the plot at all. She shows up then saves the universe by sacrificing herself and then no one talks about it again. I don't know why I made her sacrifice herself for the world, she had no reason too and the way I wrote her she wouldn't have done it anyway. Also, the universe being destroyed made no sense. Overall it was really me trying to get my footing in the anti-hero area and I am glad I made her however bad she was. Made me learn that a character can't be considered good just because it has a somewhat cool gimmick. I still have the story she was part of but I scraped her in the end.

I was super into Sonic the Hedgehog back in middle school, and my favorite design/super form was the one from Sonic and the Black Knight. Golden, spiky armor with the legendary sword Excalibur fighting Merlin's evil granddaughter (I still think it's cool), and so my character was a dude in that armor. He also had four pistols, two for his hands and two for the backs of his greaves (I had just found out about Bayonetta as well), and all he did was fight stuff.

To be honest, my MC still kind of does that.

When i was in 6th grade, i made my first OC. Without a doubt he was the worst. He was basically a kid who just for some reason had dragon powers and accidentally burned down his house and his family when he discovered them. He ended up living in the woods and became super-duper edgy. Like his eye was gouged out in a fight with some asshole who wanted to experiment on him. I almost always drew him bloody. No arcs, no personality except "i hate myself", and didn't do anything for a story. I think he was simply my edgy phase outlet lmao. also an anime weeb phase i dont want to remember oof

BUT, I attempted to remake him not too long ago for the sake of a little challenge. I had to scrap A LOT about him just so that it would at least be decent. Now I'm happy to use the character I've salvaged.

My first OC, if I remember correctly which I'm very forgetful lol, was actually a character I still have now. I got into character creation through Minecraft surprisingly enough. I didn't even RP or anything until recently so I don't really know why I made her, besides maybe just have something to actually draw? I was a big fan of Minecraft after realizing it fulfilled my love to build and explore worlds (Ironically I hate drawing backgrounds), and one day I guess I decided to make my own skin so I had a story to play by like most of the Youtubers I watched at the time. I was bad at names until I worked out how to do back stories so I just called her Kat since it was simple and I could use it easily for any commands I did in creative mode worlds. Kat was a yellow cat (I'm cringing at her old name typing this) and was wearing this annoyingly pink jacket. I honestly can't even imagine the character wearing pink now, not to mention she was based of an ocelot.
She went through several design changes, the first and main one being the major switch from yellow fur to gray or black. I called her Kat, switched to Monochrome while i put her story together, and eventually came up with Oridone which I've stuck to since. She has gray fur with black, violet eyes(Originally they were blue and I changed them at some point?), a simple outfit of a sweater and pants, and a much better backstory that wasn't just she exists and fought a dragon. Eventually Oridone became a part of her own world I call Damaged Designs and ended up a well rounded character that knows loss and is protective of others because of it. Even then I'm still fleshing her out, doing things like having her drop hints subconsciously that she isn't who she says she is. I almost scrapped her several times and I'm glad I didn't, though I did make her last name Scrap as a sort of secret joke for me.

Depends. I had a Warriors OC that was a gold, green-eyed cat named Flowerheart. I did write a story about her, but somehow it wasn’t the worst thing ever… even then, I never wrote true fanfiction; I took worlds and put in only (or mostly) OCs, so it’s not like it was self-insert.
In middle school, I had an OC named Jasper. She was my first human OC. I’ve been struggling forever to write female characters, at least as leads, because they always just end up horribly written and bossy and mean, and she was no exception. If I remember correctly, she also had fire powers, which is a stereotypical protagonist type of power, especially for her personality. It was bad.

I actually had a warriors based OC as well. He was based on humanized lionblaze, and I've changed him a lot since then, but he actually didn't suck that much, and now he's my best (and favorite) oc

Lyra- she was wayyy over powered, she had a mysterious power to change into any animal she wanted, and whenever she was with her girlfriend, she had another kind of magic that basically just did nothing. oh and she did trapeze and played guitar.

Victorie was the product of a very badly written world that was a mash-up of avatar and spirit animals

I made a girl from some magical place (Harry Potter rip-off) named Crystal, when I was 10. She was a complete self-insert, and definitely a Mary Sue.

I made an absolutely wonderful angel girl who was super OP and also a total Mary Sue. I still shiver to think about her backstory and all the inaccuracies in her character (The one I remember most: She was turned into an angel during the Roman times, but had a Japanese name)

I honestly think a self-insert in itself isn't bad, but when the self-insert dominates the story then it is.

Exactly. 90% of my characters are self-inserts in the sense that I insert bits of my personality into each of them.

Yeah I don't have one character where I'm like "yep that's me" but a few where I'm like "oh I relate to that aspect of the character"

I made a bunch of Naruto and Final Fantasy OCs when I was like 14 and they were soooooo bad, they had tragic backstories and were completely OP, I'm actually pretty sure I tore up all my drawings of them in shame. However, I also created OCs in that time that were set in their own universe and that still exist to this day, though they have gone through lots of changes through the years.

I honestly think a self-insert in itself isn't bad, but when the self-insert dominates the story then it is.

I agree. Honestly, the second 'OC' I made was a self-insert. (more of a persona i guess since i didn't insert it into any fandoms really but whatever you choose to call it.) Of course young dumb me still had a garbage character, but eventually the self insert character turned into its own entity.

Besides, when you think about it, if anyone really writes characters based of any personal experience (hobbies and interests/ emotional experiences/etc.) you could say that every one of those characters have self-insert chunks. It's not wrong to write what you know sometimes. :)

Hii ppl (oof qwq)
My first oc was probably Narion, my child with questionable gender (pfff)
The first time i made them they had a sheep-ish face (the nose and the ears, most notably), with insect-like wings and were dressed up as Inuyasha (ye, i liked that cloth, fite me XD). They were like this all knowing sassy child, with some sick abilities and bad at hiding stuff (my fault there lmao). Oh, and they also used this big sword (where did that even come from qwq).
Now, after 6 yrs, i turned them into a smol neko-like child with little to say.
There they are, feel free to take a look (cuz idk how to explain further) :'3