Original Characters Club (Secret Santa Event)

[Pandle]

Sorry for a huge silence; I broke my finger so typing has been really hard smh.

@ TenMomentsTill Thank you! I was really inspired by komodo dragons, so i owe my thanks to David Attenborough really xD RE the headfrills, I imagine there to be general variance based on the height of each male, but it to fan out like a cuff just beyond the neck to a hands-width.

Oh wow, poor Nikolai! I can totally imagine a parent turning around to try and suppress a child from saying they can see ghosts in that case. Also, your art is downright gorgeous - so much love for the way you draw noses. And hair. A lotta love right there. Also love the idea of familiars being for moral support. Legit what my cat is in real life lol.

Nevorous is gorgeous too. I misread it as Nervous at first, the irony that would be for a God of space ha ha. You address Neverous in the plural, is it a singular individual with plural pronouns, or are they a group? What does being a Space God entail? Are they actively worshipped, or do they have a duty too? Do your shapeshifters adopt just one singular form, or can they change their forms as it's appropriate for the tasks they face?

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@ QuantumNightmare Thank you too <3 I really enjoy learning about different world class systems, and the Indian caste system is something I've always heard of, but never really been taught or understood. I recently had an Indian lecturer, and she was often sharing stories about her clan and the caste system, and it just inspired me to develop a similar system.

Woah regarding Gyr's story! It sounds so well thought out, I'll have to look more into yōkai legends; I can't say I know anything about Japanese folklore, legend or history really. I feel a bit ashamed about it now ha ha. I read through the first chapter of Meetings, and I really like your writing! You should have more confidence in it for sure, it's really well written and I can't wait to read more -and find out about Evelyn and Miura. Love me an assassin c;

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@ Sp00k I hope we don't make you feel self-conscious in a bad way; I'd never want to create an environment where someone felt unable to share their OCs with other people for fear of judgement or otherwise. Your new baby looks super cute, does s/he have a name? //shoot raey beat me to that question, but i echo her curiosity//

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@ Raey oh you're writing a book, I didn't know you were writing a book! ;) huehue. But on a more serious note, I don't think I ever asked what inspired you to start write a book, and why you decided to write it in English? Not that I'm complaining, you know that I am impossibly excited to read it, and refuse to read anything before it's finished.
I also don't think i've ever met Ry before. And that feels fundamentally wrong we need to address this issue forthwith Darn those evil jerks. RY IS TOO ADORABLE i cannot handle this deepbreathingpandledon'tgetenviousthatraeyhasnevershownyouthisbefore i need all the intel on him right now.

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@ madness, I'm just curious because comet is no longer in your signature, if you could share anything more about her? Why is she your favourite? What inspired you to create her?

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More generally, how do people keep track of their characters? I know charahub is popular -a few of my friends use it- but I'm not sure how I feel about sharing my characters on a website where anyone could snatch bits and pieces. I know nothing I create would be used in published materials, and I'd probably never know if someone were to steal, but I'm sure we're all equally protective about our characters all the same. Do you choose to write them up in Word documents, or does having them online make it easier in someway? I recently realised that all the old information I had for my oldest character, Vlad, is no longer available. I'm a bit gutted, because he's such an old character and has changed so much since the beginning. It would have been great to access his old work, but I had it saved on word documents on a laptop that died long ago. Do you worry about losing your info and characters?

[HutchtheHeinous]

Ayy, okay so I love my OCs and so I am therefore joining this cute lil' club :')

Username: Dedan.
Favorite Character: My character Ruty. I dont have any up to date pictures of him, but I will soon :p
Story and/or anything else you want to share with us: no, not atm
Have you read the rules?: yesyes of course c:

[raey]

I am going to reply the questions about Ry and book together at the end^^


@TenMomentsTill;
This might sound like a weird question, but how do Telchass and Tartarus look like for you?
Ophiel sounds really cool, a little rebel haha; I really like strong characters like him.
And poor William; how did they even meet? They don't appear like people that would have normally hang out together.
Are there more cities in the Underworld that are involved in your story (btw, I love that Hell is a city, dunno it kinda has something cool about it xD)
I don't like this Raphael dude...he sounds....like a brat xD

I agree with Pan that Neverous is incredible gorgeous (love the crown) O.o
Even though I can't help but think that she seems a bit...lonely
Are you planning on doing more Space Gods? How is the life as a Space God?

@Pan;
Wait what? I am writing a book. Nooooo. Not me. Nope. My name is Jon Snow. I have no idea what you are talking about.
*wink wink*
Luv you too <333
and I can't believe I never told you about Ry.....I guess I am more forgetful than I thought lol
I am seriously glad you like him, like really, really, really because he is very important to me by now c:
buuuuuut maybe you shouldn't read the last thing I wrote for him....just a warning but it's....a bit heartbreaking...

omg omg omg VLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAD
best character ever, I love him, he is awesome

To your question....brain.
Pretty much all information of my characters are stored in my head for now. But only because I am honestly too lazy to write everything down.
I do have a bit written down in word, but that is really not much. I still prefer word over everything else because I am a bit hesitating when it comes to putting things online, and I kinda do not want to put pages over pages of a character online.
I do have a folder for my characters and I have three copies of it. One on my laptop. One on my external. And the other one on an USB where I keep pretty much all my writing on.
Therefore I am pretty much saved up xD

@about Ry and my book
First to my book;
I think I am about half way through with the story...I am not fully sure because I am bad at calculating how much it will be to come.
But I still have a good lot to write xD
I set myself the "goal" not the get over the 150k words and seeing that I am around 70k now gives me hope I really won't get over that number (it's kinda funny, when I started my goal was 80k in total lol)
On the other hand I think it might be good I am writing more, that way the characters have more room to develop and I hope they don't turn into clichés that way.

I started the "book" in a writing challenge. Prompt was "This isn't over" and inspiration were these song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnGaCAHhGfo & https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpxtuUQ28UM
It wasn't more than a vague idea but I got a really great feedback on it and so I went with it - and here I am xD
The original prompt from one year ago still is my prologue lol
But the original idea changed quite a bit over the past few months (which was the main time I was working on it) so I have a lot to fix and re-write later, especially since my writing from a year ago was just....awful xD
Might sound a bit weird, but honestly that writing challenge was the best thing that could happen to me. I have fallen so in love with the characters, the world, the creatures.

The writing challenge was kinda the reason why I am writing in English instead of German at least it was the reason at the beginning (seriously I do not recommend to write a book in your 2nd language....it's take a lot more time lol).
By now I seriously have to admit that I just prefer English over German. The language is sooo much more beautiful than German.

Ry
About how much he changed.
This is his original ref: http://i.imgur.com/HoKJXLh.png
So from his appearance he hasn't changed much, I only got rid of the large tattoo.
When I first created him is name was Rising Hawk and I had planned some sort of native american flair.
Buuut that kinda was too boring for me in the end (I really can't do anything without magic lol), so I changed his story completely and ended up feeling that the tattoo simply doesn't suit him anymore. Therefore the arm ring now. It simply suits his origin and the world he lives in better.
The other tattoo on his arm stays because he got that when he as travelling with the pirates.

The Aztezâe....so there is a council 10+1
Ten are the regular members. The extra one is Nataq. She is nearly two hundred years old and holds the position of the Keeper. Her task in the group is to keep the legends and stories together and teach the younger generations about the way of the Aztezâe.
The ten council members are warriors and healers.
Besides of them...there are Tarea and Joeno who are around ten years older then Ry and ....they are idiots.
The other two are Meera (which is the red haired featured at the end of the last story and is around the same age as Ry) and Kalion (Meera's five year older brother). Meera and Kalion are the last direct descendants from Nataq and so Kalion is kinda destined to become the next Keeper (something which especially Joeno isn't very fond of).
So....it's 15 plus Ry; that is all still left from them.
They of course don't like alone on the The Islands, there is another folk which is a bit like a jungle folk; all with different shades of brown skin, brown or black hair, all with amber/golden eyes and they have dark green markings on their skin.

The Order was first founded by a folk called Marindan. They are the richest folk and therefore they have a huge influence on pretty much everything.
Like pretty much every species so far they are very human like. Their size is around the same as humans (1.60-1.90 meter). But they are known for their incredible pale skin, and black dots and having no body hair at all. They all have small black eyes and a very narrow forehead and they are probably what you'd consider...not really handsome xD
The black spots are some sort of society system. All of them have patterns of three spots each on their hands between the knuckles. Depending on between which knuckles they are, this pattern gives information about where someone stands.
Left hand - upper society. Right hand - lower society.
Those who belong to the royalty have their three spots on the skin between the index and thumb on their left hand.
Furthermore they have random spots all over their body, yet you are considered as unclean if you have too many.
So these guys founded the Order in the beginning and later it was extended when more people joined.

Overall the world has around ten different "species" which are all human like (but I don't have characters for each of them).
I.e. Ginan and the little girl are Jiasen which are the widest spread species and pretty much the closest to human.

[satyrn.]

It's been like a year since i've bene active oh gosh, hello everyone, my oc's have certainly updated haha.

@sp00k
That first one looks so pretty it may be simple but i really like the design it suits quite well.

@NARANDA
Oh my goodness, Mu is such a pretty sight, drawn so well and with a lovely pattern too aHH

@raey
that pic of Ry is amazing hoomygosh
What is your favourite character you ever created (or bought or owned or whatever)?
Um well i mean i'm certainly attached to Aiden, Who i will have to update you all on now haha but theres actually a demon oc i've created real recently but haven't been able to draw a ref for and honestly Alex is great i just wish i could draw him allready xD

@tenmomentstill
Galen looks like a really interesting oc i like his design and what he's actually wearing in that piece of art.

@Pandle
Honestly i don't post mine much, mostly on da and i only just decided to use charahub today! Most of them are kept safely in my sketchbook and sometimes i'll post them on my instagrams art account but thats all, its real hard to keep track honestly especially since i KEEP getting oc ideas.

@Dedan.
Ayy welcome fren!

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Um so hello, I used to be UK! and i joined ages ago but went on a CS hiatus, i'm still on that hiatus since lifes important right now but i'm visiting more. I completely have more oc's now, last time i only just made Bonnie! and now i have my boy Aiden;; [sorry if its a bit big]


I also have a few other not posted on Da, the most recent is a musician named Charlie{who so far just plays the trumpet haha}

[TenMomentsTill]

Pandle ~ No worries about not replying for a bit; especially since you broke a finger. I was wondering if you had taken some inspiration from komodo dragons when it came to the poison haha. That's a huge shame that you lost a lot of the old information on Vlad. Do you still keep most of your information on OCs just on your computer?

Thank you for the compliments regarding my art style! It means a lot to me to hear feedback. Plus, it means that my art is finally starting to come together into something that looks good haha.

A few people have told me they misread Nevorous's name as Nervous. I'm kinda glad I named them that now because it's now a small joke. Nevorous is just a single individual plural pronouns. I have yet to come up with what job/duty a space god has since Nevorous is an extremely unimportant character and I have been focusing on developing my more important gods first. Nervorous is not actively worshiped due to them having very little interactions with others.

With shapeshifters they have a humanoid form and an animal form. Though, Alania is an angel. Angels change their form to whatever is the most appropriate for the circumstance they are in.


raey ~ Good luck on reaching your goal! It's super impressive that you have hit 70k so far. With Nataq, is the reason she lived to be nearly two hundred because of her position of the Keeper or do the Aztezâe just have far longer lifespans than humans? I really love the society structure for the Marindan. How many spots is considered too many for a Marindan to have? If a spotless Marindan was born, what part of society would they be considered? Make makes the Jiasen different from humans?

Telchass and Tartarus are designed to be basically the opposite of Heaven and Hell. Telchass is covered in old growth forests that look something akin to the Redwood forests and a very small amount of buildings. The trees are easily taller than the majority of angels. It also has a much larger population than Heaven with about a 8 Telchass angels for every 1 Heaven angel.

Tartarus has a very hot and humid climate that used to have a fair amount of tropical forests, but the demons there have slowly destroyed all the forests not claimed by their monarchy and left a lot of empty fields in place of forests. Unlike Hell, which is a single city, Tartarus is made up of several cities and has a much smaller population.

William and Ophiel met not too long after Ophiel fell from Heaven, Ophiel and was trying to get a sense of who exactly was in hell and who was dead.

Ahh, thank you~ I might make more space gods once I get the main gods/main god OCs developed a bit more. I'm unsure exactly what their life would be like since they are really unimportant and I'm focused on developing more important OCs first haha.

nerd. ~ Welcoem back~ Aiden is super cute and super smol too. I love his shirt design, by the way. Is he into space/aliens?

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I have a lot of art, but I'm going to just show it in chunks because this post is already really long without the art.



Fate's one of the oldest gods in my OC universe and among the first ten minor gods to be created (there are a ton of minor gods and then three universe creating gods) and one of the last 'original' minor gods. The reason why he's had such a long lifespan compared to other gods is that his domain allows him to see the repercussions of his actions. So, he's been basically cheating at life and purposefully acting in ways that will extend his life.

Most of the original minor gods had the naming scheme of them being named for what their domain is.

He does have a religious following from a species called Hynir (that's what he is) as a god of Fate. A few other planets worship him as either a god of Half-bloods (children of two different species like a shapeshifter and a human) and/or mischief.


I got art of Ghost Ket by Tauxolouve (dA) and TrueFallingFire (dA). Ghost Ket is a powerful and vengeful ghost that was named by the person she haunts.

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How do people keep track of their characters? Do you worry about losing your info and characters?

I keep track of them using a weebly. Though, I only publish it (make it accessible to others) when close friends want to read more about my OCs. I also have a few google docs with world/species information, small bits of writing, and miscellaneous facts on my OCs. Though, unfortunately, the majority of information about my OCs is only in my mind.

I have lost a ton of information about my OCs over the years. Most of it is due to me losing the notebooks the information was written down in. I'm planning on scanning all the old sketchbooks so I can have multiple copies of all my old, terrible art of my OCs along with any notes about them I happened to write down on the page so I can try to avoid losing it.
Also, with how I have been handling my weebly, I am losing old information about my OCs (when I rewrite a page, I delete everything and start over). But, I mostly don't mind too much about losing the weebly information. Up until about two years ago, all of my OCs were terrible.

[raey]

@nerd;
I agree with TenMomentsTill^^
Aiden looks really adorable c:
Do you have any plans for him?

@TenMomentsTill;
They technically have a longer life span than humans...but due to the...civil war (I guess that is kinda what it is) most of them died before they could get that old. Their normal life span is 130-180. So Nataq is still an exception which is kinda linked to her position as Keeper.

So far there only has been one spotless (besides of the spots on the hand) Marindan and she was the first queen of the Marindan many thousand years ago. Because of her you are considered pure if you have only a few spots.
You have "too much" if you have more than 30 on each body part.
Especially those lower in society (mostly workers) often have big clusters of spots on arms or face.

As Jiasen all those are summed up which do not clearly belong to one of the other species xD
There were normal humans once, but over the time they often mixed with other species, so there isn't something like a 100% human anymore. Jiasen can have (but don't have to) unusual hair and eye colours.

O.o
wow Telchass is a busy place eh xD
...why would they destroy the forests though D:
this is awful
poor trees

nawww, it's a bit sad to hear that but I guess I can understand...
everyone has characters more important than others lol

and oh my ...I love Fate
he is so adorable xD
Age: super old lol - best description ever haha; not very old but super old xD
love the details like the red candies ...but why does he has car keys in his pockets?
Secretly a car lover?

I saw that you have many characters that are angels or fallen angels or gods.
Where does your love for these come from?

[satyrn.]

@tenmomentstil
ahhh tysm! Aiden is very into space, his main aestethic and thing to look at is pictures of galaxies and stars, he's pretty into them. He even owns a telescope just to look at them on clear nights.

'he's basically cheating at life' that's so great omg xD, he cheats his way to living a long lifespan thats genius.
ghost ket looks really cool, is she a mischevious ghost or more of the angry type?

@raey
ahh many thanks, as of yet i don't really know, i plan to use and draw him alot though, i know that much which is a start

[Kaiserspace]

Username: Kaiserspace
Favorite Character:
( Art above by Plantsui on DA, i bought him from her! ^0^ )
Story and/or anything else you want to share with us: I only have maybe a handful of OC's and i have a payment plan for Ethan. He used to be some one else's personal oc before i bought him and i'm hoping i can develop him just as much as his previous owner did. ~
Have you read the rules? Of course. ^-^

[Sp00kEHours]

@NARANDA
I occasionally participate in the CAAA forum but everything goes so quickly and many people don't bother to follow the rules so it grows to be a bit frustrating to try and talk to anyone there! Thank you so much for the welcome! <3
Thank you so much for the compliments on my babies! Your words are greatly appreciated. As for SticksAndStones, I simply have to recommend you do stalk their art thread (I can link you if you would like?) because they work hard, swiftly, and produce an amazing product!

@Raey
Thank you so much! His name is Salem and he is located in a world based off of the Silent Hill lore and universe, though it's more of an AU considering the history and location are different. I'm actually trying to bribe the owner of his possible-mate into trading for that character at the moment! Then I plan to commission Pvre and Gunsweat on Deviantart to design the two guardians that the gay babies will have in the world. <3 I'm not sure if I should think about writing stories of the universe since a lot of the people here aren't my Deviantart watchers and wouldn't likely read to find out about them.
By the way, I absolutely love the art of Ry! <3

@TenMomentsTill
I'm so happy that the person was kind enough to purchase him for me, I adore Salem and I couldn't be happier with him. I'd love to end up getting a plush of him one day. Actually, Salem has an unnatural amount of spiritual energy that draws demonic or threatening (as well as calm/gentle) entities. The pixel was done with the figures of ghosts instead of demons since it's more viewer-friendly and I suppose, if the entity doesn't want to take a full physical form, they could take on the generic body composed of the minor energy they possess.
Fable doesn't hold a preference for his accessories other than a mild love of the bell collar due to how appealing the sound of the bell is to him; it offers him some comfort and provides a sense of peace whenever he gets stressed. Thanks for the compliment!
Oooh, I love the way Ophiel lost his sight (in one eye)! <3 Though thinking about that sentence sounds rather awful out of context.

@Pandle
Oh it's alright! I just look at how beautiful all of your concepts and characters are and worry that I haven't gone into enough depth for the settings or the characters since it seems like you have so much thought out. His name is Salem!

@nerd.
Thank you!

Also, I got a new character but the art is very high quality and he has a lot of it so I'm a bit frightened to post the art on these forums - I trust all of you but I'm very worried about someone who stalks the forum stealing his image since he's a popular Undertale character. Anyways, since I have a lot of words in this post I'm not entirely sure that it counts as advertisement? But I have some characters that I'm selling in exchange for points for bribery, ordering a couple of new characters, and finally a few icons if I manage to have enough left over!

[TenMomentsTill]

raey ~ I really love the ranking system with spots for the Marindan. So if another Marindan was born spotless, what would happen to them? Do Marindan people ever try to cover up their spots with makeup? With Jiasen, do they ever appear less human than just having unusual hair and eye colour? Do they have a pretty wide variation on how they look as well?

So the reason why the Tartarus demons and angels have destroyed some of the forests on their planet is that they want to create/build things or simply just them fighting each other. Unlike Hell's demons and angels, they cannot leave the planet easily and have to rely on the resources on the planet.

Fate has car keys in his pocket because he stole them from another god because he knew by doing that he would get an outcome he would want.

I have a pretty broad variety of OCs, I just have been drawing a lot of my angels and gods because of roleplays with close friends haha. My love for them though comes from when I decided that I wanted to have a really firm grasp on how the universe all my stories take place in works. So, I wound up making a ton of gods and angels and falling in love with them as I worked out the fine details of their universe.

nerd ~ Would Aiden ever consider studying for a job that deals with space or does he have another sort of job in mind?
Ghost Ket is more of the angry type of ghost. She manages to do a lot of damage to several people.

Kaiserspace ~ Ethan is super cute ;w; His little toe spots are my favourite part of his design. Is he a fan of Studio Ghibli films in general or just Totoro ?

Sp00k ~ Could you remove the part about selling characters ;w;? Advertising isn't allowed unless someone asks (ads always get way out of hand if we don't have this rule up). So, I remember when you told me more about Salem via PM you mentioned that he was in an asylum (I hope I am remembering this right)? Does he ever get released? Also, if you are worried about art getting stolen, I would suggest doing a reverse image search using google every now and then.
It does sound pretty bad haha, but thank you for the compliment. I'm glad others think it's a cool idea too.

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I got this lovely headshot from an art trade with Glasses-Dog on dA. I developed a bit more on Neverous. So they are one of the original lower gods to be created. There are only 5 of these original gods left (4 technically). They are also one of the gods who's job is done solely by their existence. Basically, by them being alive space/the universe doesn't tear itself apart.