What do you like about your OCs?

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in no particular order

• hair. always hair. im good at hair and i love my ocs' hair
• eyes... i love giving ocs unusual colored eyes and im love how fun everyones eyes are to look at ;u;
• im super proud of the backstories me n the gf give our characters and how good we are at tying characters together and making foils
• i love not being afraid to put what i want into designs anymore and just have fun... its so freeing and i love my characters so much more for it

They're mine, and at times my only friends, so like, hey yeah I am glad for them even if that latter bit hilariously pathetic
They got good tastes that come from my own
They are all capable of cute, or radicalness
The kind that you can play Eurobeat for and they jam
And just, how I can have all these great designs be it if I made them or others did, and they just work together.
The amount of Scarfs, motorcycles, and radicalness.
The references of stuff only I'll get, but they were fun to think about so it's a win
And a bunch of other stuff gosh I love my characters.

· They give me the will to live. I think this one picture i got helped me from hurting myself because it gave me hope. Somehow.

· They helped with coping with my rough childhood. Can't think made up people enough.

· Even though they suffer and stuff, they make me happy?

· I often give them unusually colored stuff like blood cuz thats fun.

· Thinking about them is fun. Im most likely thinking about them if im not doing much.

· A lot of them are used to express myself so yeet.

I can't think of much rn. It's hard to explain why i love them all overall.

I like them because they're mine. Well. Most of them. And the ones that I didn't create, I kind of turned them mine/created a version that's my own.

It's hard to adequately explain because I don't bond easily with others' characters and that kind of bothers me. But...I get really close to mine. I spend all day daydreaming about them, coming up with ideas, new backstories, new details. I can discover new things about and be surprised by a character I've had around for years. I even daydream about them in my regular dreams. I spend every waking moment (and many sleeping moments) with them wandering around in my head. I have severe social anxiety disorder, and no friends IRL; my characters help take away from the loneliness, isolation, and tedium of my life--I can live more interesting and hopeful lives (even those who've had horrid lives) vicariously through them. They're part of me (not in a Mary Sue way, no, but still). I could never even think of parting with them, not even the really stupid ones I haven't written about in years. I love them. They're mine.   

everyone is posting long things but mine just make me happy and i can't put those feelings into words ;w;

For me, they are all dorks, and I adore them so much. Their designs make me super happy to me.~

oh thank ^god

• my main trio means so much to me,, they're definitely the most developed ocs i have, so they're like a badge of pride. this is mainly because i've developed them over time as a coping mechanism, and i like to think that chris is getting better with me. chris, nate, n peet basically represent aspects of my own personality i guess
• chris & nate represent the love i want to find in the future
  
• my other ocs are like his circle of support (minus sara, obviously) and i love to draw inspo from my friends and family.
• i feel like they're so versatile?? since they're mostly in a modern slice-of-life ish setting i feel like i'm not tied down to the rules of any other universe and i can just y'know. stick em in other ones in my head. my tokyo ghoul au is probably my most developed au so far, but i should write it down somewhere lmao
• i try my best to do my research when it comes to sensitive topics i don't know of, and it's paid off
• i'm a huge perfectionist, but i'm trying to reconcile w/ the fact that not everyone's gonna love my stuff. this boyo is the most self-indulgent character i've made in a long time but i Love Him and i haven't even properly drawn him yet
• i don't have a ton of characters yet b/c i want to develop them as much as i can
• i'm slow to upload everything b/c of school but i'm tryign my best!! :'^)
  

For mine I just... love how good looking they all are XDD They're all some sort of attractive to me ♡ It makes them all really fun to draw ☆ XD 

I'm also just glad I have something that I put a lot of work and effort into, and also fun to do (the main difference from schoolwork LMAO). 

I love the feeling thinking about my romantic couples give me too ♡ Their love makes me happy XD

My answer is honestly painfully simple but I love them because they're mine and I can do whatever I want them without any restrictions! I do like working as a group and all that, but being able to make my own decisions and tell my own stories is super important to me, and my OCs (aside from some adopts) being something of my own I get to have a full control over is very reassuring somehow. 

I also enjoy the fact I get to make them just as self indulgent as I want? And I get to create characters I wished to see while growing up or alternatively indulge in the tropes and archetypes I learned to love and have my own take on them. 

Oh and since they're just super self indulgent majority of my OCs are designed so that I get genuine joy from drawing them, whether it's their aesthetic, certain details (eyes, hair etc), species or something else!  

My main boys and girl all share three brain cells together and I think that's beautiful 

I honestly don't know where I'd be without them? The drive to tell their story is something that's kept me going for years.

Beyond/connected to that, it's really important to me that these are a bunch of dumbass kids trying to find their way through the world; they make bad decisions, they screw things up, and some of them have been through/are going through a lot-- but what's comforting to me is that I know what happens to them. I know they'll be alright, and I can draw or write them being happy. If they can make it, so can I.

On a less serious note, they're just fun.