What idle animations would your OCs have?

Posted 5 years, 2 months ago (Edited 5 years, 2 months ago) by Returnofmorningstar

Idle animations are movements/actions that video game characters have when they aren't being used. If your OCs were in a video game, what would their animations be?

Revenant sableward

Revenant's would probably depend on her mood, but generally, she'd look around every now and then, ears twitching at perceived noise. If she's killing time, she'll probably bounce or rock on her heels, or scuff her shoes off of the floor (like when you kick the floor to remove dust/dirt). she'll very rarely pretend to shoot herself with her index and middle finger if she gets bored enough.

If she's in a particularly good mood, she might float off of the floor a few inches (copying her gf) and start dimly glowing a light blue, but that would probably be for a few seconds before she lands on her feet again, kinda sheepish and looking around to hope nobody noticed lol. If she's in a comfy environment (occasionally at home in the tower, or the watch tower if she knows all of the heroes are there etc) she'll possibly start staring at a random fixed point - like the ceiling, or something.

If she's sitting, she'd start becoming restless after a while - bouncing her leg, etc. If she's sitting at a table (which is rare, admittedly, since she sits on anything BUT what was made for sitting on) she'd probably start leaning on her elbow after a while and then eventually end up falling asleep, banging her head off of the table, and waking herself up very confused, lol. She sits like a bisexual stereotype, so 'shifting her weight around' could translate to all sorts of weird sitting animations.

The more nervous she is the more on 'edge' she'll seem, so behaviours/animations like looking around would become more common. The worse this is the more 'animalistic' and primal she comes across. (Down to the primal crouched over pose, rip.)

Grimdark/Berserk Revenant is characterised by an uncharacteristic calm - there is little to no idle animation, seeming to not even breathe (that's handled internally, more on that later). A lot of the 'movement' is just going to be the flickering white glow in her eyes, or the shadows rising and falling around her. (The former like two flickering lightbulbs, the second more reminiscent of black/grey smoke.) She's still just as alert (... usually). Given enough time or luck she might suddenly pull a flower from her hair (particularly, from the back of her head, where the exit wound would have been for the bullet that killed her the first time) and suck the life energy from it until it wilts, regardless of environment. If left idle long enough she'll either vanish into the shadows (to remerge when interacted w/ or moved) or starts staring directly at the screen - moving the screen causes her head to track the camera's movement but won't break the animation until interacted with/moved... which has a 0.01% chance of resulting in a jumpscare. if you get it you get an achievement.

 121 Moskva Ledokol

        For this weird mysophobe android...? For the start... he'll pull paper towel to wipe his hands then randomly tosses it away. If you leave him idle long enough, he's going to cover his face with a sanitary mask, magically(?) summons a vacuum cleaner and yes... goes berserk with vacuuming the entire screen.

Nathaniel Clement fizzelston

Nath will calmly smoke his pipe. Maybe some wibbling on his feet. He will pull on his gloves maybe and act like the super chill fishman he is.

Gia ce Avigi baensurgery

She'd do that weird up-and-down breathing animation, check her gear periodically, and cross her arms.

★ Baker ★ ducclord

Baker would wag her tail and bounce lightly on the spot

 Joe coconutskull

Would pull a bass guitar out from nowhere and jam a tune, being so engrossed in it to care about potential public disturbance charges //not what his icon is doing, which is too chill and laid back


OOC: This thread is asking the real questions lol

Lacrimas SlyAsAFox

my character lacrimas actually has an idle animation lol. 

its in her gallery
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 Astéri Great-Vegetables

Beppe's idle animation would be him falling asleep while standing. he might move a little bit when he is napping.

Maka Almondlover

OOO this sounds very fun!

Maka would start to tap her foot impatiently and maybe check an invisble watch? And also start picking at her teeth.

Reid McKinley ★ jukeboxes

Reid would just start staring directly at the player after a certain amount of time. It makes sense for the character (since he is... well... god), and I think it could be super hilarious!

 Mining Portals PS-X

Mining would just give everyone and everything around her an annoyed look

Bulrig aaawhyme

bulrig would probably scratch his stomach (or his butt) and just stand there, hunched over with a tired/lazy expression. 

if its a long enough idle, he'd sit down and start smoking some grass

Alex Raneri Lonestarcelt

Alex needs to constantly expend energy so it isn't uncommon to see her doing things like pacing, bouncing faintly on the balls of her feet, and other small movements that keep her constantly in motion. 

Toxic Jazzy_J_Wolf

Toxic would lean back a little, pull out his knife and flip it into the air and catch it, as he catches it a small drop of his tar would drop off his hand from the impact.