Dzi, for certain; not only has he had like three major design overhauls (I'm pretty sure that number is right, I don't have his older art on hand but that's at least the number of times i've redone his species), his personality has been overhauled, like, four times? He's always had at least a bit of an undercurrent of asshole in every stage but he went from villain with a heel-face turn->depressed uke garbage->what if sandpaper was a person->still very abrasive, but his good points are much more immediately obvious and he's generally a lot more good-humored.
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I figured that since the "weekly show me a character" thread has been alive and running for a couple of years now, I could give a shot at doing similar with development questions! I'll post a new prompt each week both on this starter thread and the comment section! Feel free to post answers weekly or combine previous ones into one post - whichever feels the best for you.
Week 43: (Pick a character) How do they feel about big gatherings like parties? Do they enjoy having a lot of people around them or do they prefer less (or none)? How likely are they to approach people they don't know?
Previous weeks 2021
Week 1: (Pick a character) What would you consider to be the most impacting event in their life (that isn't their own birth or death) and why?
Week 2: (Pick a character) What makes them feel the most confident? Is it more internal (being good at something, succeeding in things etc) or more external (being praised, getting their skills acknowledged by others etc?
Week 3: What is your favourite part of character creation and why? Does it depend on character/time/your mood/etc?
Week 4: (Pick a character) How does your character generally react to failures, both their own and the failures of others?
Week 5: Do you have distinct "favourite" characters among your ocs, or does your current favourite change? Or do you consider them all "equals"?
Week 6: (Pick a character) If someone were to attack them out of nowhere, how would they try to defend themselves? Or would they try at all?
Week 7: How do you feel about your characters sharing traits/interests/etc with you? Do you try to avoid similarities or do you embrace them?
Week 8: When you create a new character, how much of their story do you work out on the spot? Do you prefer to get all details done at once or prefer to add more little by little?
Week 9: Which one of your characters would you consider to be the most "unexpected" character from you and why? The reason can be anything from their story to themes and even the design.
Week 10: When you're creating a new character, how much do you think about their family/guardians? Are they usually an active or a distant presence in your characters' lives?
Week 11: What was the first original character you posted online like? Do you still use them?
Week 12: (Pick a character) How do they feel about positive attention? Do they thrive in it or does it make them uncomfortable? Feel free to talk about the nuances of "positive attention" or attention in general if you want!
Week 13: What's the most drastic non-visual change you have made on a character? Why?
Week 14: Pick your oldest and your newest character on TH. Would they get along? What would their chemistry be like?
Week 15: What is your process when it comes to naming characters? Do name meanings matter to you? Do you pick a name with a "purpose" or based on a "feeling"?
Week 16: (Pick a character) What is their love language? Does it depend on people? Have it changed throughout their lives? Is it a combination of several types? (Suggested by PicklePantry)
Week 17: Pick your current most and least favorited characters. What do they have in common? What's different? When were they posted on TH? Do you think they still reflect your current tastes in character design and/or story?
Week 18: Have you ever learned a tip/trick related to character/worldbuilding development that changed the way you view your works? Or do you have some specific tips/tricks that you consider to have been particularly helpful for you?
Week 19: Have you ever had OC related "advice" that has done more harm to you than good? If yes, how did you end up learning out of it?
Week 20: (Pick a character) What's one memory they wish to never forget (and why)?
Week 21: What kind of compliments do you enjoy the most when it comes to your characters? Is it about design? Certain story elements (backstory, personality, trivia etc) or maybe about people finding them easy to understand?
Week 22: What do you find to be the most important aspect when you create or buy character designs for yourself? Is it the colors, clothes, silhouette, simple design to draw fast or something else?
Week 23: Pick two characters you'd consider similar to one another, either in design or story/personality. What would you consider to be their main differences?
Week 24: (Pick a character) How reliable would they consider themselves to be? Would other people agree with them?
Week 25: (Pick a character) What would they consider to be their greatest passion? Alternatively, what is something they find to be "their own special thing" that they delight in doing?
Week 26: When you're reading someone's character profile, where do you start? Is it the overview? Trivia? Backstory? Something else?
Week 27: If you had to name exactly one movie that has had a huge impact on you as a creator, which one would it be and why?
Week 28: How did you discover original character communities/the general concept of them on the internet? If you don't remember, what would you consider the most fun aspect of ocs for you right now?
Week 29: (Pick a character) If they had to pick an animal to describe themself, which one would they pick and why? Would you describe the character with the same animal or would your own pick for them be different?
Week 30: What's the most bizarre/interesting/weird piece of trivia you have learned while doing oc research? Did this trivia find its way into the character or some other character later on?
Week 31: (Pick a character) How do they express their anger? How does it appear to others, and how does the character themself feel about their own anger? Does their society encourage or discourage certain expressions of anger?
Week 32: What's the biggest story and/or personality related change you have made on a character? What made you want to change it?
Week 33: (Pick a character) What do they do on their free time? Do they have hobbies or have they had any in the past? What's something they wish they could put more time into (such as learning a skill, participating in some activity etc)?
Week 34: (Pick a character) What kind of impression does their appearance tend to give to others [in their worldsetting]? Is it an impression they want to give to others? Are they aware of the way people perceive them in the first place?
Week 35: Have you ever created a character but refrained from actually posting about them publicly? If yes, why? And if no, could you ever see yourself in a situation where that could happen?
Week 36: (Pick a character) What is their most treasured item and why? If they don't have any feel free to talk about the reason for it!
Week 37: (Pick a character) Who is their most trusted friend and why? How would the character describe this person? And if they don't have anyone they trust, feel free to talk about the reason for it!
Week 38: (Pick a character) What's their preferred sleeping position? Are they a calm or a restless sleeper, and do they like sleeping next to others or prefer sleeping alone?
Week 39: (Pick a character) What do they typically smell like? And why? Do they use a certain perfume, cologne, or deodorant that makes them smell a certain way? Suggested by soyyemilk
Week 40: (Pick a character) Where did they grow up in? Did they live in the same place/area most of their life or did they move places? How would your character describe the place they consider their childhood home (or the closest thing to it)?
Week 41: Which one of your characters would you consider the hardest to draw? If you're not an artist yourself, what would you imagine being the hardest?
Week 42: (Pick a character) How open are they about their feelings? Do they have anyone to talk to if they're worried? Are they more likely to talk about positive or negative feelings with others?
Previous weeks 2020:
Week 29: Which one of your currently posted characters has gone through the most changes throughout the years?
Week 30: Which part of character creation do you tend to struggle with the most?
Week 31: (Pick a character) What are they afraid of? How do they handle their fears? How do they respond to other people's fears (friends, strangers etc)?
Week 32: (Pick a character) How does your character feel about change? Do they welcome with open arms, or are they afraid of it?
Week 33: How do you go about making a new character? What kind of things do you like to keep in mind when planning their story/personality? Do you consider your other already existing characters when planning new ones (avoiding stuff already done with one character etc)?
Week 34: (Pick a character) What do they consider their greatest achievement? How about their lowest low moment?
Week 35: Do you have story elements or certain character tropes/cliches you love to use in your characters? If yes, what are they? If not, have you ever noticed common elements despite trying not to have them?
Week 36: (Pick a character) How do they handle money? How do they earn it, if at all?
Week 37: What kind of settings do you prefer to use in your works?
Week 38: What kind of villains do you prefer to create? Does your preference differ from what kind of villains you love to see in fiction?
Week 39: (Pick a character) Do they have any goals/dreams/aspirations in life? What are they? If they don't have any, does the lack of them ever bother them?
Week 40: Are there things in fiction you love to consume, but prefer not to create yourself?
Week 41: What do you usually do if you can't connect with a character you have or you can't make them work quite the way you'd like?
Week 42: (Pick a character) What kind of things get them excited? How are they like when excited?
Week 43: What type (human, feral, anthro, monster etc) of characters do you have the most? Have your tastes changed at any point?
Week 44: Do you have any fears or insecurities as a creator? If you do, are these more based on your work itself or the way other people will react to it, or both?
Week 45: Do you tie your interests/hobbies to your character in any way? Why/why not?
Week 46: Do you prefer developing your characters on your own or by interacting with other people (be it RPing or discussing)?
Week 47: What kind of questions do you prefer to be asked when it comes to your characters or setting?
Week 48: What kind of conflict do you like in fiction? Is it a conflict of interests? Morals? Based on lies or miscommunication? Something else entirely?
Week 49: When you get an idea for something you'd like to explore in fiction, are you more likely to make a whole new character for it or use the idea for an already existing character?
Week 50: How do you use your characters? Are they something you collect? Part of a story? For RP?
Week 51: What kind of layout do you use for your character profiles? What makes you like it?
Week 52: What do you do when you feel like you have ran out of ideas or you have hit a creative wall with your work?
Week 53: Do you like to look back at your creative works or do you prefer to just keep on going and paying little attention to what you have made in the past?
I would probably say Reid, which is interesting because he’s the main character. He’s gone through a lot of changes not only physically, but with his personality and backstory. He used to be much more emotional, weak, and vulnerable with a pretty basic history and feeble appearance. Now he’s almost the opposite: a strong-willed, blunt, intelligent personality with a deep backstory extending back billions of years. He looks a lot cooler now, too. (Must be the beard.)
he's had... a couple of changes? back in 2014/2015 he started out as a dead kid that got fridged for the sake of odette's development, but later down the line i, as most people know, wanted to use his namesake for SOMETHING, so i... made him a human experiment... it was actually kind of ridiculous, and he was from the West Province because that was a thing back then, but also Ophesia itself was more """futuristic""" rather than hiding behind that weird fantasy shield it has now. he was made to be a supersoldier, although that failed, and even then his only purpose was really only to just be... super strong, lmfao.
around 2016, Blaise became a thing, and I decided to plop Otto and Odette down as his kids, and Blaise was already meant to be a major asshole, so I knew something was going to happen there... Otto assassinating Blaise was a thing pretty quickly, but back then he didn't really have much of a motivation outside of "my dad is a dick" and "i want his money". Gregory was also a thing at this point, but he was meant to be... a fucking decoy of Otto or something? And then he would get murdered by Molly who ALSO went through huge developmental changes but more so on the design aspect, so I didn't feel that she would be as fun to mention. her death back then was fun to write, though, and i wish i could use it again...
and then at some point in mid-2016 i was inspired by "fanchildren" characters from a roleplay i was in and that's where Otto's kids came from, and also where Maribelle came from... and soon after that I made Korrina... And it spiraled from there, sort of. :v
totally sure cocoa is my most redesigned character.
at first she started just as a sonic fan character, i've got to say that was more of a joke character than anything. her first name was gizzy or something like that. then i totally redesigned her, that was when i gave her the name cocoa (obviously because the brown fur) and some changes on her clothes and hair. Then i gave her another redesign, she weared like some kind of poncho and made her a fennec fox, i also gave her a more fluffy hair (previously cocoa was just a fox), i've got to say that she hasn't got so many changes since then more than her clothes, some changes on the colorpallete and some proportions, i changed her clothes because it was kinda problematic drawing her on other poses than just standing because of the poncho, specially if the pose required her to move her hands, i was pretty much of a begginer (i'm not a super artist either but i'm kinda better compared to when i started)
on her narrative and as a character i've done a lot of changes too, at least i can say that she has somehow a personality and some backstory, i haven't put that on her toyhouse profile but i'll do something with the character one day (haha please give me feedback)
I've got to say, that's a total overhaul
I made them when I had no clue how to write LOL (Aka like, 2016-2017. Back in my Amino Days.)
They were also like, an Undertale OC at first? Now they're in an original thing that isnt connected to any Fandoms
Koko here!
In around 2018 (maybe 2017), she was black with her left hind paw white, and purple eyes. Her whole story was that she hated her pack, ran away, found out her enemy was her dad, etc. She was such a mary-sue. Her name was Nightmare, and she had an unknown sister named Dream, and her dad was named Pheonix.
In early 2019, I changed her eyes to yellow, and she became blind. I also made her entire leg white. Her whole story was she wanted to run away, and she went to another park's home and found out he was her dad, and that her sister was there. I forgot her sister's name, but I know she was named Yoru. Her dad was named Blizzard or something. I remember that in the beginning of the story her pack leader killed her mom or something??? I don't know i was weird and cringey. She was the omega, of course.
I haven't touched them since then, until yesterday. I learned wolves and ravens are always good friends, and decided to give them a little raven friend. Instead of the white on their paw, I made them Melanistic and their little raven friend albino, just to spice things up, yknow? I also changed their name to "Koko" because it means "Night". I decided they would just call the raven "Raven" because he can't communicate with them.
I changed their gender to a male, because I don't connect with female characters like I used to.
Other than that, their story is mostly a WIP.
I know I changed everything about them, but I love how they are today. I have big plans with him ❤
Mortimer is part of the group of my favorite ocs, hes one of the last ones conceived/added and he has definitely gone through the most changes by far compared to everyone else. His design, backstory lore and personality are all very different than they were when i first made him about 4 years ago. Although the old versions of him are wince-worthy, its interesting to see how many changes ive made.
He used to have a really lazy, simple design and a really trite and shitty backstory/lore but i eventually made a ton of changes to him.... and i think hes fairly interesting or unique now. The only things ive truly kept from his original conception is his name and him being a prince. I don't really see myself making any major changes to him anymore (mostly because im really happy with where hes at lol) but i'm still interested in seeing what i could add onto him in the future
Galaxy was one of my first ever OCs, and thus has been through a lot of changes, both design and story-wise. I created her around mid-2017 I believe? I was only starting out with character design so her design was kinda boring, she wore a pastel ombré dress + hair bow with a black cardigan and had long-ish ombré hair. I made many small changes to her design however I’ll share the largest ones below!
Mid-2017
Mid-2018
Early 2020
As well as this, Galaxy also went through a lot of character changes, however this was mostly due to the lore changing. Originally she was a ghost stuck in an inclosed island that was supposed to be the afterlife who broke free and went to school, however people were really scared of her because she was a ghost so she had to try and hide those features. Now the life and death thing has changed drastically and she’s just a ghost that wanders around trying to not be seen by Mistform hunters. She goes to school and still does the whole hiding thing, this is why she wears gloves and grew her hair out to cover her eyes. But on top of this she actually has a character now other than “very shy, also very shy”.
Another OC I think went through a lot of change was Robert. His design hasn’t changed an awful lot, however I will show the comparison below!
Late 2018??
Mid-2020
Most of his change was from his story. Originally he was the main antagonist but later I made him a twist hero and now he is the best thing ever. In fact, I think I changed him to a twist hero before I designed him? But anyways, most of his change comes from his backstory, I think the original was that he was the god of darkness and created planet Cutopia with Cecelia, the goddess of light, in harmony. But then Cecelia mistreated him a lot so war happened? He won and everyone was sad but then Cecelia got her revenge or something and everyone was happy?? Robert was big sad and gave up but later on recruited people for this team to try and reclaim the throne once again. I think he had children too? Callumn and Elise, but he killed them accidentally.
Now, Robert had this similar thing going on with Cecelia where they were gods and friends and then turned on each other and war happened, however the war (known as the Mistform wars) started and occurred over a longer period of time and happened for a different reason where Robert and Cecelia just happened to be on different sides. Now, gods in Cutopia work more like royalty, looking after the planet but not exactly creating it, that’s something that Cutopian elementals do, not Cutopian gods. Anyways, Robert and his side lost which lead to the hatred of Mistforms (the Cutopian undead) and he was big sad. He met a girl called Cora who is the worst person ever I hate her, she is a big meanie but they had two children, Elise and Callumn, and then Robert got possessed as you do and killed them by accident. More stuff happens but I don’t feel like talking about it, I’ve already spent probably over an hour here and I don’t know why lol I have no life.
Week 30: Which part of character creation do you tend to struggle with the most?
Have these changed with time/age? Are they consistently the same or do they depend entirely on the character?
OUTFITS. theres a reason my characters dress so simply (other than the fact that i like keeping my char design simple)
im really not fashionable irl and havent changed my wardrobe in at least like.... 6 years. so coming up with character outfits is always a struggle lol. it's moreso a thing in recent times than it used to be, i had the hardest time coming up with a side character's outfit and ended up just going to the sims to make it. other characters i just manifest a random outfit and go with it :p