What's your preferred age range for OCs?

Posted 5 years, 7 months ago (Edited 2 years, 10 months ago) by fuelli

Pretty much what it says on the tin, as always! I was wondering about this since I see that many users seem to have a preferred age range, or sometimes an exclusive age range for their characters! What's yours? (I'm of course talking about physical/mental age here; keep that in mind if you mostly have immortal OCs)

Also, please stay nice in your replies! Having preferences is 100% okay, but don't insult people of a given age range (ie. "elderly people are ugly", "minors are boring"), whether you're referring to real life people or just characters. I want this thread to stay enjoyable to read for everyone, no matter their age or the type of characters they write.

cosmicconundrum

in terms of appearance, something like 14-25. most tend to fall into the 16-19 age range. i have exactly 1 character who is 40-something.

Lycanthrope

I think in the past a lot of my characers were 16-18, now my youngest tends to still be around that but I prefer characters around 25-30.

SlyAsAFox

i kinda always end up with..25-28 

it just feels like a good range, not too old and not too young

ChaosGrizzly

20 - 40. (I have few exceeding that range though, and some that are younger)

jaasperyams

I am most comfortable making ocs range between 14-25 ! But i definitely thought about ocs younger or older than that age, since it could be interesting writing from that perspective but in most cases, i think it would just be nice to relate to my ocs so they aren't totally foreign to me fhghjfgdhjgfdjdfg

Xen

Typically somewhere in the 18-26 range, a pretty small age range, but I'm a fan of very action, intensive, and sometimes gorey stories, and young, reckless adults are great for that! I do still have plenty of characters that fall outside of that range though.

Lonestarcelt

I have some characters who are exceptions. Like, I have one that's 7 at the youngest and others in their 50s but the bulk of my cast are young adults in their early to mid-twenties 22-28 and the exceptions are more often than not either their children or parents than just simply on their own. 

endiria

My main and most important characters are 30+ and I find them the most interesting and enjoyable to write, as they already have a lot of experiences behind them and so 

I also enjoy write children sometimes because they make my story cuter + they're nice to draw. x3 in the fact my least favourite are teenagers and I don't have a lot of teenage characters, I don't even know why

cryptocorvid

Most of my characters fall between 20 and 30 with a couple in their late teens, mainly because this is the age bracket I and most of my friends are in so it’s what I find the most relatable and easy to connect with. I do have a couple that don’t fit into this; I have a whole bunch of immortal characters, most of them are physically around this sorta age too but I have a couple that are more sort of ageless in any way that humans could comprehend. I do also have some much younger or much older characters, but they’re mostly supporting cast members for my main characters.  Examples would be Luna and Leo, who are one of my main character’s niece and nephew and are both 8 years old. None of my older characters have much of a profile to share right now DJDJSJ but they exist.