Oh boy, here we go. I originally made this guy over six years ago, and the only thing that hasn't changed has been his pronouns and race. I'm kinda excited to look back on my favorite self-sabotaging gay's origins.
Original
Name: Started off as Jasper Cole, then Elwood Barrow, then Delaware Cole. I ended up reusing all of the first names for different characters.
Age: 32
Gender: Cis Male
Pronouns: He/Him
Species: Werewolf
A summary/description of their original character and their arc: He started off as a pretty enigmatic mentor to the main character, whose only real personality was his wisdom and cheekiness. But after a while, I started getting more attached to him, to the point where he took over as the story's main character. This also inspired me to rework his personality, which I did, drastically. He went from wise to a complete idiot, and from enigmatic to far too sincere. He became the very definition of a himbo. He also became weirdly aggressive, which I don't think I meant to make him, but was very noticeable in my writing. His appearance also changed during this early stage (and actually, now that I think about it, his current appearance feels like a mixture of these two old ones). He originally had longish brown hair, brown skin, freckles, and golden eyes. Then I shortened and lightened his hair, made him white, and gave him green eyes.
Now/Updated
Name: David Lawson
Age: 22
Gender: Trans Male
Pronouns: He/Him
Species: Werewolf
A summary/description of their character and their arc: He is the human embodiment of a shit-eating grin. He is smug, he is disloyal, and he is intentionally irritating. He also happens to be the most self-destructive character I have ever made; He does things impulsively and often overreacts to a situation, sometimes causing lasting damage to his relationships. He has a compulsive need to be the center of attention at all times, and he cannot stand it when people ignore him. He's fairly cruel and is known to make "jokes" that are really just threats but are said in such a way that you can't tell whether he's joking or actually threatening you (I'll tell you a secret: It's both).
He's my first genuine attempt at a character with a traumatic backstory (not including the edgy 12-year-old "my entire family was killed and now I'm INSANE" type of backstories), and I'm pretty happy with it. His backstory's pretty long, but the gist is he developed trauma from a werewolf attack, started reenacting his trauma, went to see a therapist, realized his gender dysphoria, felt betrayed by the therapist after she reported on some concerning things he said, stopped seeing her, continued to reenact his trauma, and ended up in prison for assault. It sounds kinda rushed and incohesive when shortened like that, but I didn't want to type out an entire novel lol
As I said, his current appearance is a bit of a combination of his two old ones, having longish pink hair (originally brown), brown skin, freckles, and green eyes. However, unlike his old appearances, he has a very punk aesthetic, with a septum piercing, tattoos, and black nail polish.
So, he went from a very likable himbo to an unlikable bastard. Truly the type of character development we love to see.