💡 Why does your OC exist (in meta)?

Regina started out as a gijinka of a Gyarados I had in Pokemon Pearl. I'd never actually invested in training a Gyarados beyond just evolving a Magikarp for the Pokedex entry. But this time I was like "NO, I'm gonna do it this time. I've never trained one for real before, but THIS IS THE TIME." So I got this little girl Magikarp and was super adamant about her beating every foe she came across no matter what, regardless of how weak her attacks were before evolving. In particular, I was super stubborn about making her defeat all the Pokemon from one of the early gym leaders and just loading her up with Potion after Potion, refusing to switch her out or let her faint until she beat everyone. XD And now she's such a beast as a Gyarados, even though from a realistic point of view, none of that actually mattered in how tough she'd be.

At some point I decided to draw all my Pokemon as humanoids just for fun, and I eventually made them all into actual characters for my main stories. Regina works as a bouncer at a bar, which she towers over because she's monsterously tall. ^^; I just figured a sea monster lady as a bouncer would be a fun thing to do, and she's as ferocious in character as she was in game.

Funny story, I actually created this guy for the sole purpose of having an "edgy" looking character, since I only had 6 charas at the time. It took me at least three days to actually draw him out and finalize his design, but I can assure you it was worth the struggle. His name sounds lazy and uninspired bc it was actually just a placeholder name, loosely related to his color scheme- however, I got too attached to that name and here he is!! He may not have a high art count, but I put so much love into his design and I don't think I could ever part with him.

Telebot-001 (TB) was originally a project for my college classes, and was made into a 2.5D runner game (Hence why he's 3D renders and gifs, not 2D art).
After I was finished with him I was originally just going to scrap him-- but then I dug out his old files and actually used him to help me get a job at Build-A-Bear. They have an interview segment where you have to show what kind of person you are-- figured TB here showed my creativity or something, either way, they loved him and I've been working there since!

Decided I owe it to him to keep him around, so here he is!   

Me: -listening to gunsmoke as i do every sunday afternoon-

Me: yeehaw baby... cowboy

back in middle school i saw someone doing the 'L' loser sign on their head, and i thought to myself "What if there was a guy whose nickname was Loser Lee"? When I first made him he was an edgy high schooler who wore leather jackets and smoked cigarettes. He is way different now. WAAAY different. He is still one of the four main characters in the story, and one of the only things that has always been canon is that he loves spaghetti and is a master spaghetti chef!

apologies for double posting, but you can probably guess how this one started out. a meme parody of link from tloz. and now he's his own person with his own original story and complicated emotions and conflict. yeah. fr though, he's great and i love him. i first came up with him in french class when nobody was paying attention. now i'm considering making a webcomic about him. funny how things really do be that way.

I wanted a character to represent me as a cat (I’m tall) so yeah

My friends had evil bitch OCs, and I wanted one as well.

However, I could only work out the one idea of a healing evil bitch, and here we are.

Oh boy, this'll be something.

Augustus von Langenstein - Was bored as a young teen, did an art meme that was basically writing down a bunch of physical traits and then throwing dice to randomly generate a character. Aaaand now he's my most important OC and also the reason for like half of my... everything? I never cared about vampires, and then I wrote my BA thesis on the frickin things. I studied German with a focus on literature because of him. Historical research for him eventually sent me down my Medieval Latin spiral which will hopefully become my Master's Degree soon. What even is my life, man.
sad vampires, apparently.
Also I guess he's an exercise in exploring masculinity and gender roles - as are most of my characters, really - as well as weaknesses. Gus is defined by one - his fear of blood - which was the basis of the entire character because it amused me... so that's why he's a fully fleshed-out character and not just an aesthetic.

Elliot de Maudeville - needed a character to stick this name on, and he just ~appeared~. Grew to fill a sort of comedic relief role eventually because I liked the idea of an ancient vampire who just decided to stay young and excited about things.

0813 - needed something easy to draw for comic strips way back when. Comic strips relating to the same musical mentioned below, actually...

Severin Lapointe - my brain dug up a random scene from a musical I watched five minutes of as a seven-year-old while half asleep, turned the character featured in those five minutes into something completely different (and entirely more Pretty Boy-ish), and hurled it into my subconscious so hard I woke up one morning and went "hey what if dude with long white hair and a red/blue color scheme". Took me several more years until I figured out where the heck my brain got the inspiration for that one from. He hung around for a few years then, largely just looking pretty, before I started throwing him into random writing projects as an antagonist. That part didn't stick, but some parts of his personality did, and then I put him and Absalom into a story together and ~magic~ happened.

Absalom Hayes - needed a beleaguered Second-In-Command for a writing project as the one person on the ship with some common sense, and spun his look and most of his personality out of nowhere during a boring English Lit university lecture. Eventually decided that he'd make a funner protagonist. The, uh, common sense part didn't stick very well, though.

Evander Halley - "IMAGINE IF TECHNO ZOMBIES. ZOMBIE CYBORG. HECK YEAH."
That part, as per usual, wasn't what stuck - but it's a fun concept anyway. I probably have Mass Effect to thank for that creative impulse. 

Gilroy "Gilly" Faraday - "I don't have any characters with a normal, modern aesthetic; gotta change that" - "aaand five minutes later and he's a gay mess. Excellent."

Herutaz - "I LOVE intricate designs that don't technically make a lot of sense, and the unsettlingness of light colors is VASTLY underrated and I want something CREEPY. Now let's see how long it takes until he grows a personality. Aaaand that look like three hours. And he's a dork."
Also I thought inky cap mushrooms look cool, I guess, so that's where the aesthetic's partially from, paired with a sort of tumblr Aesthetic Fae thing and antlers.

otto exists because... i thought old arcade game legends were really cool when i was 14 kjdkdjm.

I basically just needed a new OC for a roleplay game and thought it would be cool to make it a red husky (My favorite dog breed and color). And since I was stuck in my vampire phase back then an absolute in love with Seras from Hellsing Ultimate and a certain amv of her on YouTube I based the new character on that.

Funnily I never changed her design but basically anything else got a big make over over the years. Lots of backstory and fleshing out the character. 

And somehow she accidentally became my main in that time :D 

Okay. So.

I bought Story of Seasons a while ago. The game is very centered around economy and I had to manage money smarter than in harvest moon games.
I created a voice that followed my character, to give tipps on how to earn a lot of money. It kind of developed into the idea that my character made a pact with a greedy demon, to get rich, but the demon won't just give money away, she helps people instead.
And I thought "Hey! That would make a great OC!"

And so The Demon Money, Antoinette Faustina came into existence...
Some design elements and all three outfits of her are actually inspired by the character creation and outfits of the game.