Iso's OC Question of the Day

please dear gods of oc stuff free me from this endless chain of exams and stress so i can answer my own questions and reply to people's things. thanks, your pal iso

Q85. Which OC of yours is the calmest in the face of danger or stress?

Definitely Nolan, no competition! He's very used to having to keep a cool face when he'd like to blow up or cry; the people he has to deal with wield a horrible amount of power over him, and if he steps over any lines or expresses too much emotion then the people he cares about will suffer for it. He's learned to focus on the future and inevitable end to his troubles, confident that there's always a way out if he keeps calm and analyzes everything. He's an expert at faking it until he makes it. Even when confronted with monstrous beings and gods he can keep a straight face and a level head; with the things he's been through, that's child's play.

happy st. patrick's day, i totally forgot that it was st. patrick's day but subconsciously remembered to wear green anyway and therefore i am free from the woes of pinching

except i'm in college where just randomly pinching a stranger would be weird, or even just talking to a stranger would be weird

Q86. Which OC of yours is the luckiest?

(unluckiest is tomorrow #spoilers so don't answer that on the side or anything!)

I have one character whose gimmick is being obscenely lucky and completely unaware of it, but I don't actually have her bio up yet so Whoops! Otherwise, uh... pretty much all of my OCs (at least the ones I have up here so far) are really unlucky.

I guess maybe Azior? His ability to avoid getting caught law enforcement involves just as much luck as it does skill, and in fact a lot of his plans rely on him getting lucky in one area or another. I also imagine he's the kind of guy who's really good at games of chance, especially if there's money on the line. People often accuse him of cheating, but he's really just that lucky!

EDIT: oh right i realize i haven't updated the pastebin list in a couple of days, that's just because pastebin logged me out and i don't know my password off-hand and i keep forgetting to log back in whenever i'm around where i keep my passwords SO i swear i'll get to that soon

Q87. Which OC of yours is the unluckiest?

This is kind of rough, since I'd be tempted to just list all of my characters who suffer the most and are in the worst life situations... but even those characters are kind of lucky. All of Nolan's plans were born from and rely on an absurd amount of luck and coincidence, and yet he still somehow manages to get the ball rolling. 2cro is also pretty unlucky, but at the same time it's lucky that he didn't die alongside everyone else he knew, he was lucky to have the powers he had, and luck had to be a factor in his crossing of Entireties since such a thing shouldn't be possible, especially when you considered he survived the trip. So, I guess it's sort of figuring out where the line between "unfortunate" and "unlucky" is...

So, maybe Dicro? He tends to be unlucky in a comical way, getting himself injured or killed in the most wacky sitcom sorts of ways. Also like half of the time he opens a door there's a naked Ignis there even when it doesn't make any sort of logical sense. Thyx is pretty similar in that regard, being the victim of all manner of ~hilarious~ mishaps. At least they're both good sports about it!

holy guacamole i slept in way too late whoops

Q88. What comes first when you create an OC?

Do you think of a name first? Personality? Design? Do you make an OC to fit a specific role you need in a story? Does your process vary?

For me it varies a lot, but it generally comes down to either 1) me making an OC based off of a cool name I heard/made or 2) me making an OC based on a design idea. The former is how most of my older OCs were created, whereas more recently when I make a new OC it falls under the latter category and name will come last.

Sometimes personality will come first, but usually personality comes attached to a design or vice versa. Someone's appearance and mannerisms can say a lot about their personality, so whenever I come up with one I usually have at least a vague idea of the latter. So I guess when I make a new OC it'll usually be either a lot of personality and a vague design idea at first or a little bit of personality and a fairly solid design at first!

Q89. Do you have any specific voices imagined for your OCs?

I do! But most of the characters in question aren't up here yet, whoops! I mean, I imagine voices for all of them - sometimes really vividly, too! - but they're not always a specific voice actor or a kind of voice I could describe in detail. I could probably assign a lot of them voice actors if I dug around a little, but I'm really lazy whoops

the exception here is that i swear my friend bobzearth42 sounds exactly like dicro, it's fucked up

...man now i might go on a googling binge to find VAs for my characters bc that sounds like a lot of fun even if they don't end up totally matching my mental voice for them

Q90. Which OC of yours is the worst person?

I have about three OCs who I'd consider to be just the absolute worst beings in Entirety, but for better or worse none of them have profiles yet! Other than that, this is a pretty rough question. Memen immediately comes to mind given her merciless quest for revenge against Hadris, which has destroyed countless worlds and killed unimaginable numbers of people. However, it also feels weird to answer with her given her loving, caring, nurturing, and all-around perfectly decent personality toward those who haven't wronged her in any way.

Hellscream is probaby the best option out of the bunch: he's completely amoral and merciless and spends his time killing people, destroying things, and consuming souls for power just because it's all fun! In retrospect this was a pretty obvious choice huh