They don't have to be living in history, but lets see some OC's based off some time periods or inspired form something in history, whether it be an event, a time period, particular items.... Anything!
Maybe they are a space samurai
Maybe a modern gladiator
Perhaps ye olde knight
Do we have an old ship captain?
Oooh I currently have two of them since I have a historical folder which I'm thinking of filling up with many ocs from different ethnicities and time periods.
The ones I have here are husband and wife, Christian and Angélique. Both are noble people from France during the 18th century under Louis XVI's reign.
All of my characters from my Harkers story are set in a fantasy world in the midst of its industrial revolution so there is a fair amount of real-world inspiration mixed in!
...why do I not have a post in this thread?
I've been having a roleplay with a couple of friends for two years, set in post-war 1940's Britain, an urban fantasy setting that's about to be ran over by a demon invasion. Some of the details differ, but it's as close a representation of the era as we can manage.
I've got Julia Wright/Henry Newman, a former SOE agent who habitually presents as the opposite gender. S/he got involved in the supernatural spent seven years in a medfant setting, helping a group of englishpeople to make it back home. S/he died a few weeks after return due to complications from werewolf injuries, but was made a martyr post-mortem.
And the linked gal here, missis Christine Anderson. A paranormal investigator and a bit of a gold-digger, trying to figure out the "real agenda" of the supernatural organization that was formed in H/J's memory (spoiler: it's fighting demons and protecting the people, even if half of England seems to think they want to take over the world).
ooh ooh !
i have olga, who was a factory worker during the gilded age! she was heavily inspired off of the labor revolution of the time, and as well as the poor working conditions during the late 1890s-early 1900s.
I've got plenty. Here's one of my favorites! She's a lady based in the late 1800s - 1920s among other ocs I own.
HISTORICAL YOU SAY..... . .. .... i always make my ocs historical i get no rest from it i feel off if its not historical n such
this is jean-honore!!!!! he was raised in Louis xiv's Versailles, became an officer and died tragically in war, then became undead and has been living in a deserted village with his platonic ghost partner..
then there's Gustav (and all of his friends who are marked with an ✉ in my character gallery) who is a noble son of one of the priori families in 1450-1480ish republic of Florence!!!! he writes secret letters and poems and hes pretty closed off love him!!
Technically historically themed even in canon...sort of. He's a civil war soldier that was accidentally plucked into the future...so he's very out of place. And Victorian.