Now that I'm thinking about it, my first OC was probably Molly, who was some kind of fairy with giant rainbow sparkly wings. (Yeah, yeah, I know, you don't need to say it.) She went to fairy school, and she was super smart and popular and funny. (Although the jokes she told were terrible).
I have tried and failed over and over again to fix Albany's brother AJ (based on Jayfeather, yeah I know.) But he's been corrupted to far in my brain, so it feels weird to have him like anything other than perverted and sassy. He's probably my worst and most flawed oc, so that's always fun.
dear god… first oc?? my first oc was made when i was like 12 ish? she was this freakishly perfect princess with a suspiciously french name… her name was Drizzila Monie LaQuin… theres no other reason for her name to be that way except that I thought it sounded cool… i still draw her from time to time and I'm trying to figure out how to make a story for her cuz i really like her design… she has this REALLY puffy curly blonde hair and blue eyes… her first dress design sucked. it was like this weird 2 tone dress that was like a slate color on top and pink on the skirt… she also had this GIANT pink bow jutting out at the top of her head… but shes by no means my worst oc… that would go to either Harriett or Jinny… they had no character to them they were just flat characters i drew for fun… o god im so glad I got better at creating ocs…
My first OC was an alien (like an upright cat with bird feet or something) with black fur and bright blue eyes. Her name was Ukai. I never went into too much depth besides talking about her, but I’m thinking of remaking her to be less Mary Sue like and more her own character.
My first OC was Pinkie Pie. Yes, the My Little Pony character. I watched that show (the older version) when I was little and started making up stories about how she's actually a superhero that fights monsters and villains with my stuffed animals and Link and Batman and all sorts of characters from a bunch of different universes, however, it wasn't really pinkie pie, just an OC of the same name and design because back then I was too dumb to actually come up with characters of my own. I actually tried to write a book off of her using Word and MS Paint (I was 7 btw) and… You can probably guess how that turned out. I think I still have the documents so I might be able to show you all a chapter or some of my *cough * …"ARTWORK".
Update: I actually tried to make a video game off of her "sTOrY" but it's just as bad as the books and artwork, oh and I kept her from when I was 4 all the way to 9 years old. Then I created even cringier OCs!
My very first was a self insert, but thank goodness I got over that in the first year.
Mine was a spider siren hybrid named Ella, she was in all of my fav tv shows, and i still use her to this. but only in my head.
I've never technically made an OC unless D&D characters count. In that case, it would be Tennyth Melton, your typical Elven mage. I never got a chance to play as him though, so I never had the opportunity to explore his personality.
My first and worst was a female named Meara or something like that, who was loosely based off myself. She had no personality and was OP. She could shapeshift into any animal (real and fantasy). All i made her do was fight bad guys and be angsty by talking all cryptic and emo. I was 14 and very much a suppressed emo haha. The idea of her stuck with me though and I really began flushing her out and nerfing her years later. Now her name is Skya and she can only shift into a tiger form. She's still not my best character, but shes a lot better than she use to be!
My first 'real' OC was this girl named Reimei Suzumiya and she was a Gothic romance vampire thingy. Oh my god. She wasn't all that bad, like, she wasn't story-breaking overpowered or anything, but she was this super weird mix of Yuuki Cross from Vampire Knight, Karin Maaka from Chibi Vampire, and Ivy Vega from My Sister the Vampire??? Yeah, I was pretty obsessed with vampires in my childhood lol. So like she was super damsel-in-distress-y but then she could also beat up other vampires in a fight sometimes so now that I think about it she's probably plastic af lol.
MY WORST OC WAS THIS EIGHTEEN-YEAR-OLD GIRL IN KUROSHITSUJI THAT I TRIED TO PUT IN SEBASTIAN'S BED AND I HATE HER LMAO
My technical first OC was a roleplay character named Misty. She, and even her brother, Stalker, weren't actually anything special. Their characterization was flimsy and they did things that didn't make sense, but whatever. They were, of course, bad, but like them and most of my early characters, they existed for about a month then I never used them again after their relevant roleplay ended.
The character I want to talk about is a character I still have and cherish to this day: Lisa Adrean Adeptus. She began as a witch with wings, devil horns, and goofy cat ears, tail, and eyes. She was also a shapeshifter that couldn't control her powers at all. She'd turn into random things at random times to lead to totally random shenanigans. In my first roleplay with her, she was a sweet-hearted ditz, but by the second time I played her, she had done a complete face-heel turn. She became paranoid, cold, distrustful, developed a vitriolic wit, and eventually earned herself the MOST TRAGIC BACKSTORY EVER (that she still kind of has).
Her silly physical appearance and edginess aside, she wouldn't have been a "bad" character then if I had been better at writing the personality traits that I assigned her. Just like my first few OCs, I didn't always play her the way I described her and so she did stuff that made no sense, like kidnapping someone who tried to kill her, begging demon hunters to be allowed to adventure with them, and just trusting people that she really shouldn't be trusting. At some point down the road, her shapeshifting got limited to three forms: cat, crow, and giant monster cat. Her powers and appearance got explained not through witchcraft, but through her being a transdimensional half demon, half angel.
In short, the poor girl was a hot mess because I didn't know how to write.
But I got better. And so did she. Gone are the days of her edgy half-demon glory.
@jolene clayton That post was a rollercoaster start to finish lol
My first fandom OC was a Harry Potter self-insert. She had my first name and was Harry's twin that was never mentioned, for whatever reason. She also kept switching between me putting her dialogue in as I read and her being a ghost.
Literally I'm dying. Just. Aaa.
My first non fandom OC was… Misty? I think? Either Misty or Alicia. Misty was severely undeveloped and basically all I knew was that she loved her phone.
Alicia was a part of me and she fangirled. A lot.
That's all, I think.
Dear god…. are y’all ready for this crap?
My first oc that I can remember was named Rebecca. Everyone called her Becca. She had a lot of siblings(I want to say 11?) and they were all girls except for her twin brother, Jax. She was Mother Nature, but her ‘powers’ only came up when it was good for the stituation. Like that’s not even what the story was about. It was just a thing she had. Anyway, she had this evil uncle who like locked her in a basement without food because she talked back….? I don’t even know. One of her sisters like really hated her and broke her arm twice or something. He parents got divorced and then her dad died in a car crash. Her brother hated the dad but then when the dad died the brother kind of went nuts. I don’t know. They went to a theme park near my hometown(I live in a town near Branson, Missouri, so they went to Silver Dollar City) And almost died on a water ride. It was intense. My friends still make fun of me about it.
Not as bad as it could be.
Yeah, could be a lot worse. xD I…don't talk much about my first-first OCs. I'm not sure if I can call them OCs because they had almost no characterizat- No. Wait. Misty could exit her body as a ghost at will. Actually, considering my current story contains OP pyromancing dragons, shapeshifters and ill-defined talking animals, that power's not bad.
Oh, and her brother was a werewolf. Somehow.
I think one of my very early writing problems was that I defined my characters by their special abilities more than their actual personalities.
Nice that you are able to define it. Easy mistake to make. I too have fallen into that trap on occasion.
That was like, my BIG issue when I first started writing and I'd like to think I've fixed it by now.
Omg! I forgot to tell y’all the very worst parts: so A) she had this crazy uncle(I may have mentioned him in the first post) and he set up this weird obstacle course they had to finish(all of them, the youngest kid being like 2) and it somehow involved lava(old dude, southern Missouri, no idea how I thought that worked) and jumping from super high window. Her sister almost died and the main character just laughed at her nearly dead sister because she hated her. And then she won, but her uncle got mad that she won(I don’t know what he was expecting to happen) and knocked her unconscious.
B) her brother apparently was like committing crimes without anyone figuring it out or telling their parents, but it was ok because a bully was making him do it. Then the main character was mad because he didn’t say anything and then like shoved the bully in a cave(can’t quite remember the context there) and left. When he escaped she was confused and now that I think about it, what was she expecting to happen? And her brothers crimes were like really bad, like somehow stealing over a million dollars and getting into fights for the bully.
Omg! I forgot to tell y’all the very worst parts: so A) she had this crazy uncle(I may have mentioned him in the first post) and he set up this weird obstacle course they had to finish(all of them, the youngest kid being like 2) and it somehow involved lava(old dude, southern Missouri, no idea how I thought that worked) and jumping from super high window. Her sister almost died and the main character just laughed at her nearly dead sister because she hated her. And then she won, but her uncle got mad that she won(I don’t know what he was expecting to happen) and knocked her unconscious.
B) her brother apparently was like committing crimes without anyone figuring it out or telling their parents, but it was ok because a bully was making him do it. Then the main character was mad because he didn’t say anything and then like shoved the bully in a cave(can’t quite remember the context there) and left. When he escaped she was confused and now that I think about it, what was she expecting to happen? And her brothers crimes were like really bad, like somehow stealing over a million dollars and getting into fights for the bully.
As someone who lives in Missouri, I can tell you that lava obstacle courses only exist in our Minecraft servers. And they usually aren't created by old men.
I know right? Have you been to Silver Dollar City?
My first OC was made when I was 7. Her name was Alisa and she had about as much personality as a piece of cardboard. She lived in a world where there were no plants and it was entirely barren except for dead grass and tree stumps other than the mansion she lived in with her evil uncle (although they were somehow able to eat grapes and bread without any plants. I don't know what was going through my mind). Her uncle turns out to be death and she runs away. At the end of the book, she becomes a goddess and brings life to the world even though she didn't have a single character trait.
That is terrible.
That sounds mean.
my first OC was an earlier version of my current MC, Camari Blackwell.
She was very different from my current MC.
For one, her name was Luna Castro
She had black hair and blue eyes
she was a princess
She was not fleshed out at all.
She had two older brothers and one older sister.
She did not have any powers.
She had never killed anyone before.
She was rich
She had both her parents.
She was 16 years old
My current MC:
Her name is Camari Blackwell
She has blond hair and green eyes
She is a public figure, but not anything close to a princess
She's very fleshed out
She has a twin brother and one younger brother
She has 16 different fire powers
She has a body count of twenty-seven
she's poor
both her parents (and twin brother) abandoned her and her younger brother when she was seven and he was four
She is fifteen years old.