@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.
H'name Jeff was supposed to be a gag. He wasn't even a character when I introduced him, he was a gag named after the meme.
Now he's everybody's British, bumper car-hating, demon salesman.
I never even use him all that much in the roleplay but apparently my friends really like him.
I made him a long while back; he was meant to be a stepping stone to get another character introduced into a RP Room but he ended up being SO MUCH more popular. And I don't even know why he isn't very nice most of the time, he rarely even smiles.
Ooh, Scorpia definitely! I am still to this day baffled how much people pick it over my other ocs.
Like, by all accounts her design should turn ppl off. its so complicated in anatomy n then she has a bunch of lil details too. Plus, its a spider! And she even started out as a secondary character in an eastern fantasy roleplay group haha. Ppl just... seem to lov her. And I do too, shes a pretty intense character.
I was ECSTATIC when people began saying they liked Spider Lady. She’s one of my favourite characters cause I slightly based her off me, I put the most effort I’ve ever put in a backstory in her story, and she’s just so... fun!
I wasn't really expecting people to take an interest in him, but he actually has the most favourites of all my humanoid characters now!
sammy for sure, more favs than i ever imagined and i also did a little game on twitter where i made designs along the same idea [though they looked different] that got like... more attention than any other free art game thing ive done ;;
it means lots to me ppl like him but i was so!!! whoa
Art of Israfel always dwarfs my art art when it comes to favourites. He is also one of the most commonly picked one out of my OCs that people do art of in art trades. I always find it pretty funny because he is pretty undeveloped as an OC haha. I usually have to make stuff about him on the fly when people ask questions.