@Judas-la-carotte's thread about underrated characters made me think about the opposite! I'm not going to use the word "overrated" because I certainly don't mean that any OCs deserve less love, but do you have any characters whom you're surprised get more attention than you expected they would, among your characters?
Maybe people pick them more often in forum games or art trades than other characters, they have more faves than you expected, or they're just the ones your friends have gravitated towards for whatever reason-- but maybe they aren't among your own favorites, or they're just not the OCs you expected would be popular.
And has that character's popularity inspired you to use or develop them more, or give them a bigger role in whatever story or project they may be in?
There are no particular rules for this thread; just be nice and don't try to make people feel bad about their taste or anything like that.
So he's very much a side character, and a teacher no less amongst a cast of students, although he does interact with the leading character group and helps them out sometimes........
Never in my life. Did I expect there to be an entire physically made body-pillow of him to come into existence? Nor for my friend to buy it????? HElp?
My silly sona-ish genhsin oc! who knew that designing a character without worrying too much about makign distinctive facial features and historical outfits would make people look at it more
Out of all my OCs, Mayo was the one during last year's Artfight that got the most amount of attacks out of all my OCs and I was just "???". I appreciate it still lots and everything what's done for any of my Characters but that the only Fandom OC that I uploaded on Artfight got the most Art left me a little surprised XD But I guess because she is a Fandom OC people were finding her easier than my other OCs. I still love her lots even tho I am not playing the games anymore
This little skrunkly angry boy! He’s not even a main character in my story yet people constantly want to see him on insta 😪
Where do I begin? I got her as a custom when female characters weren't so popular and when I was already under fire for exaggerated curvy characters. She's curvier than some of her species even in default art. So I full on expected everyone to ignore her and she'd just be my little niche bby like most of the customs I have... she has almost twice the faves of my next most faved character and they're still coming in years later lol
My designs are pretty weird and unusual compared to the usual characters in this site so I didn’t expect anyone to like this guy or any of my other aliens, but people seem to love Foedus and he keeps getting faves
I know she doesn't have many favorites, but people swarmed her on art fight! It really surprised me because shes simple and doesn't really have any lore.
It and https://toyhou.se/16556246.blitz
I don't go outta my way to search for favs so I was surprised they got like more than 5 lol they're both my sonas and honestly my favorite characters so I'm glad ppl also like em but I wasn't expecting it is all