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⌈ Secret Post #2811 ⌋
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Re: ORIGINAL STUFF THREAD
(Anonymous) 2014-09-13 08:51 pm (UTC)(link)Tell me about your OCs, f!s. Which one is your favorite and why?
Re: ORIGINAL STUFF THREAD
Hm That's always a hard thing to answer because I hate to leave someone out.
In different stories of mine I have multiple favorites to write, but I like all my characters in some fashion.
AiD:
Shiro , my protagonists' rival. comes really easy to me and he's fun to write. He's flirty, he's a snarker and also has a bit of a suggestive sense of humor. He's a guy who is basically caught in between family and conscience. He's a shapeshifter (human to animal). He's quite vain , but more out of feeling like he has to take care of his looks because they're all he really has. His whole story arc is about coming to question what he's always held as true.
Timmy- The dueteragonist. Skye's younger brother. A shy and soft spoken Empath and pacifist with Asperger Syndrome. He likes art, video games and puzzles. He is very idealistic and naive and his character arc is about him learning to be assertive and stand up for himself.
Gem-Skye's best friend. Gem is pretty crafty and resourceful. She's very insecure and a people pleaser which is something similar to me. A lot of her character arc is about her regaining her confidence. She also has to deal with racism in her small town because of her background. She is a sort of Do-It-Yourself Fashionista who likes fixing up old clothes. She also has a talent for gymnastics that she temporarily gave up on but eventually will find her way back to.
Skye- The protagonist- Skye was inspired by a mix of Harry Potter and Danny Fenton. He's a dry snarker type and very cynical. He's got a hero complex but the story is a sort of deconstruction of that playing it up as unhealthy rather than 'heroic and admirable'. He's stubborn and has a tendency to call out stuff he thinks is wrong especially when it hurts those he cares about. He's a bit of an overprotective big brother. His character arc includes him learning to be a leader, and learning to realize when he's wrong and deal with his self hate issues.
AA
Cameo Suites- The heroine Journey's best friend (outside of her group). Cameo is a normally cheerful busy bee and a pretty good entrepreneur. She is Journey's guide through her new school and her dormmate. Cameo serves a part as the dependable best friend as well as someone Journey goes to for advice. She has divorced parents and a bit of a minor subplot involving her mom and estranged dad. She's fun to write , the dependable best friend with a friendly hippie mom.
Salem Hexter- Ohhh boy. Salem is lots of fun. He's a performer and a bit of a showoff sometimes and the platonic best friend of another member of the hero's group. His parents are steampunk nuts and he's good at pulling off convincing accents. He has an interesting story arc also, with having divided loyalties between the heroes (because of his best friend) but also with their enemy (who he has some ideological sympathies with) and having to make a choice.
Mercury Stage: One of the youngest teachers at the RAA and the headmaster's son. He started as a villain but I quickly grew more close to him and he gained a position as a sympathetic antagonist and later possible ally figure with bit of a manipulative side. He is a Politically Motivated Teacher who initially uses students to challenge the authorities in place. However he also cares about the students in his own way and want to motivate them to reach their potential He was a mentor to a student who would go on to be a major antagonist after he teaches them some iffy and dangerous magic and she ends up killing a classmate on a mission out of a grudge, and he is now trying to atone for the damage he did by finding a way to bring her down without hurting her. He's very fun and charismatic , oozing with confidence (mostly because he had to growing up)and very laid back. He's the 'fun and cool' teacher and his girlfriend is the strict harsh teacher.
TttT
Toby Volkova- Protagonist- He was the first character I developed for this story and redeveloped. He's a dizy genius who is trying to follow in the footsteps of his wizard/chemist/alchemist older brother. He's an adrenaline junkie who loves a good rush. He loves nicknaming people and things, he doesn't see why his brother gets all upset about him roasting his dinner over the bunsen burner and he can take something apart in 30 minutes and rebuild it in an hour (give or take). He has shadow powers and a mischievous sentient shadow. He's a tad childlike for someone his age and behind in maturity, though he makes up for it with his advanced skills. I like writing him because he's a cutie.
Dr. Adrik Volkova- Toby's high strung older brother. Adrik is a brilliant former teen alchemy whiz from humble backgrounds who just wants to prove himself. He is rather persnickety and very insistent on his title of doctor. He's a gentlemen (and hinted at as being just a tad awkward around the ladies at times and easily flustered). He tries hard to live up to his father's expectations of him, and cover up his roots with a put upon high class accent. He has a bit of a temper and has a tendency to blow up with frustration when he has issues with his projects. However he is also very well meaning and principled. He also sees something in Toby that a lot of the high class intellectuals don't and what his father refuses to see. He tries his best to be a father substitute to his offbeat younger brother.
Re: ORIGINAL STUFF THREAD
It's hard to say. Generally, whomever I'm writing at a given time is who is my favorite.
Re: ORIGINAL STUFF THREAD
(Anonymous) 2014-09-14 12:22 am (UTC)(link)His name is Ansel and is the only child of the nation's court magician in a world where magic is really frowned upon (basically illegal really, with the exception of the court magician). He is expected to take over his father's position down the line, but he really does not have the patience for magic and prefers to play with swords with the young princes instead. When he was 15 he ran away from home to fight in a war that has devastated the nation, though it ends before he gets the chance to fight. Instead of crawling back home, he decides on staying on the run. This all happens before the beginning of the story. When the story begins he has been on the run for close to 4 years when he gets tracked down and tried to dragged back to the castle due to a lot of political reasons. He escapes with help of a tavern maid who is then sort of dragged along with him, and they both end up being dragged into a group of magic misfits trying out for change in magician rights and *~*~revolution*~*~
The reason I love him is partly because he's such a grump. He is a bit cynical and defiant and gets so annoyed with all the goofballs he's surrounded by. Ansel is really just not caught by the revolutionary spirit that most of his companions are and still he's dragged into it as a symbol of sorts (which is sorta hilarious considering how bad he is as all things magic). I love him for all his interactions with the other characters, especially with the tavern maid (who he is really sweet with and they sort of acts like siblings), and with the revolutionary leader/reluctant mentor/magnificent (literal) bastard (I especially love writing their interactions because they are just so snarky together).
Another character I love from this story is the newly crowned queen, Ansel's childhood friend, who really misses him. She is caught up in her own political intrigues and feels overwhelmed by it all, especially considering that she is just 16 and suddenly in charge of a nation in turmoil. She doesn't really appear until quite late in the novel, but I have planned to use letters she's written to Ansel act as interludes between different parts of the story and she also writes the prologue in form of a letter.
Re: ORIGINAL STUFF THREAD
(Anonymous) 2014-09-14 04:10 am (UTC)(link)Re: ORIGINAL STUFF THREAD
(Anonymous) 2014-09-14 12:36 am (UTC)(link)"A scholar prince from a kingdom subdued under a military tyrant must resurrect long-lost magitech to defeat a newly-expansionist dragon empire, and save the only dragon king that might halt its new aggression."
I like Feo. He sort of semi-accidentally became the most successful dragon slayer in 800 years, at least in terms of kill count, by cheating horribly. A combination of research into previous dragons slayers (said 'long lost magitech' was him realising that the anti-dragon superweapons of a famous slayer 350 years ago weren't actually spelled weapons but an alchemical poison spread onto lots of sharp pointy things) and a unique quirk of magic resulting from his background (he's been part of an underground rebel movement against his rabidly anti-mage tyrant of a father for the past decade, and consequently lacks formal mage training but is very good at instinctive stealth magic) mean that while he's got the highest bodycount for slain dragons in centuries (six dragons by the 'save the king' part, when even the superweapon slayer only managed two), he killed exactly none of them in actual face-to-face combat, and essentially assassinated all of them before they even knew he was there. Only two of them were in dragon form, the other four were in humanoid form, where they're much easier to kill. Well. If they don't know you're there, anyway. And the last four, all in one battle, were busy fighting other people when he killed them, and one of them (the second dragon form) was already injured.
He doesn't really get off scot free, either. The first one he killed, in dragon form, pretty much killed him back accidentally, because being invisible doesn't really help when a couple of tonnes of thrashing dragon corpse is busy falling on you in a confined space. He survived but was crippled and slowly dying of organ damage when an emissary from the dragon empire mostly healed him. Not for his sake, of course, but to keep him alive long enough to reach the dragon capital so he could stand trial for breaking treaty and killing one of them. He was then promptly assassinated right on back just before his trial when the dead dragon's brother and his cadre incinerated his 'guest room' from the air, which he only barely survived by jumping out the (tower) window while invisible and then clinging to the underside of a balcony until they went away again. Everything he does in the dragon capital after that, including the next five assassinations (in the midst of their coup d'etat while they were, to put it mildly, a little distracted) and the whole 'save the king' part, are done while injured and invisible and handily presumed dead by more or less everyone.
He only ever intended to kill the first one, because it was a 'rogue' that had wiped out three towns/cities in the northern provinces and emissaries to the dragon empire to get them to corral their own according to treaty were mysteriously not getting through. The other five were because this resulted in him getting dropped into a foreign succession crisis where one side was trying to kill him and declare war on the rest of the world, and since he was dead already twice over, he figured he might as well attempt to do something about that before someone managed a 'third time's the charm' and actually killed him properly.
He's very grumpy by the end of it. Also snappish, skittish and very paranoid, despite the fact that the newly saved king has him properly healed and declared free in gratitude, because most of the other dragons who are aware of his role in the failed coup are a little twitchy about letting him go. (Yes, let's release the nice invisible assassin who's killed more of us in four months than any three other slayers have managed in the better part of a millennium, that's a great plan, your majesty!)
And after all that, he still has to go back and finish the coup against his own father/brothers as well. Without dropping his kingdom into overt civil war in the process, or damaging the continental political balance he's just killed six dragons and helped crown a king to try and save. The entire dragon incident was basically a very unexpected and extremely unwanted interruption to a long, slow rebellion at home, and both revealed him as a magic user and then apparently killed him, triggering the failsafe plans by the rest of the rebellion in his absence, so thanks for that, they've left him a massive mess at home to deal with.
He has a hard life, Feo. I'm very fond of him.
faves?
It occurred to me earlier, while online in one computer and dressing Ellery in another, that if I told someone what I was doing without context, they'd think Ellery was my child.