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Ahahaha... yeah, those early characters tend to be awful, huh? I remember back when I first created Kyra (not my first, but an early one), she was a half-elven vampire who fed on animals and suffered amnesia about when she was turned (her family was killed and she fell over a waterfall, died, and returned as a vamp) plus some running memory loss. She also ended up with black, feathered wings at one point for... some reason.

What about you?

YUP yup yup oh good lordy.

Such is the tale of my self-insert character, actually. -cringes- Minus the 'sexy' bit. Still prettier than me. 8I

ACTUALLY I'm 100% certain that Draconus was my first original OC, but he didn't help matters either. He was a DRAGON WIZARD!! (he could turn into a dragon ooooh! And he was a wizard ooooh!) and was an orphan and all his family was like so ded and he ruled his kingdom at the tender age of 10 like a saint, and he has purdy red hair and golden eyes 'cause he's a special snowflake that can TURN INTO A DRAGON!!

-shudders- I haven't changed TOO much of that in the last decade but oh holy geeze, in hindsight he was the Cliche King. He wasn't very angst-y though, probably because 10-year-old me had no real understanding of 'angst' yet.

We are not getting into the subject of the aforementioned Self Insert. I find it to be a point of soreness even though I've revamped her fairly heavily and still play her.

(Also heads up, moving this into RP Discussion since it ties in with the character/writing process in all its horror).

My eyes are going to roll out of their eye sockets if I even try to tell this, but it must be done for general amusement.

My first OC was my dragon Shadra, but she went by a different name when I created her (still started with an S, can't remember what). She was a big and fat dragon that couldn't go anywhere because she was so huge, and she had this constant need for attention. Silly powers with transformation--and creating clothing/items at whim, which was way too OP when someone else tried to exploit it--and an overall clunky design. Very flat, uninteresting, the whole nine yards. She, too, thought herself a special snowflake after I had her so tied up into World of Warcraft lore that you couldn't untangle her. Part of a dragon army, ran/flew away, all that nonsense.

And for the love of all that is good, my little twelve-year-old self couldn't resist being dramatic and making water lethal to her. And she still needed water to live. /somuchlogic

Her name has since been cut down to a happy two syllables and she's her own dragon, but her design changes from month to month, I feel. It's an interesting process and it grows every time someone RPs with me and I can see the faults in the latest design.

My first RP character that I vividly recall was a self-insert Yoshi who lived in the Mushroom Kingdom in a treehouse with all sorts of awesome gadgetry with his sidekick robot boombox. He was...weird. And pandering.

My first OC was the robot boombox. He was more or less the same as my self-insert- and had little personality otherwise to distinguish him from his organic counterpart.

My first RP character I believe was my Sonic the hedgehog OC. He was supposed to look like shadow but with different colors, and was nuclear His original story was convoluted and silly. Some how some of Shadow's hair, a chaos emerald and Godzilla's dna created him. On top of that he could turn into a godzilla at will, and had a stupid meltdown mode where he got really overpowered. Thankfully with my severing of the Sonic fandom, he kinda died out I've reworked him into my character Jake/Jackie, though with a completely different power set, origin, and rp genre. Personality wise he's unchanged since he was heavily based off me.

My very first OC however was a Dragon Ball Z character who was basically Gohan/Kid Goku with a lizard tail. And instead of turning into a giant monkey on the full moon he turned into a giant monster that I ripped off from a Scooby-Doo episode However the character has gone through countless re workings and is currently the female of a set of twins. I may or may not bring them onto the forum once I get more character slots, but I'm extremely happy I changed him Though I'd prolly wind up remaking them again

HOOOO BOY this thing hits a little bit too close to home (though my examples aren't QUITE as bad, I gotta say.) The first character I ever RPed was actually the waaay worse and less developed version of this guy and therefore not strictly an OC by my standards, but he still counts for this. Waaay way back in 2004 or so when I was still an internet baby and Yahoo chat rooms were still a thing I did, I ended up in a Pokemon RP, using a character named Blacky because I was SUPER creative, clearly. Literally all I remember is that he had a braid, his Totodile, and his traveling partner was named Amber and had a crush on him? Also the other person thought I was a dude so I ended up with all the male characters, so that was interesting. Never even entertained the possibility of ever using the character again until about...2009? When one of my best friends and I both decided 'yo, we need Pokemon characters' so I took what I remembered from the OLD version of Blake, and the rest feels like it happened on its own. @_@

Example number two! This nerd. I've had him since at LEAST 2003, and boy oh boy has he seen some things in that time. I wish I still had art of his original design, because it was hilariously awful, complete with super-anime hair and eyes. He started out as some wannabe half-demon kinda thing (surprisingly NOT thanks to Inuyasha, I never watched it), but that was short-lived. Then he was a vampire for a while, and I even drew some super-edgy art to commemorate it. Then eventually I realized I NEVER did anything remotely vampiric with him, so that was easily nixed. Now he's just some mostly-human thing with weird ears that I probably SHOULD get rid of but am reluctant to. The whole reason I started putting weird ears and tails and things on my characters was so they WOULDN'T just be regular humans, 'cause that's boring. But, yeah! Everybody has that one character they're more attached to or see themselves in more than the others, and he's that one for me!

I made my first original character in my last year of middle school and decided "I'm never going to be like those mary-sue cliches!" so my character was made of boring cliches instead. Amnesia, vampirism etc. Also I stole names, generally just direct lifts from whatever RPGs I was playing at the time, I never made one up, I just took it from somewhere. It's funny because I only began to learn to draw because I was incensed at the rampant art theft by all the other preteens and never wanted to just lift a character image from Elfwood or animewallpapers dot com or wherever but I just stole names hard as hell and the irony was lost on me.

I also had a Pokemon trainer character who I modeled after Kevin Spencer but the less said about him the better

MY first original character was a rabbit who talked. Literally...he was also part vampire and could shape shift into dinosaurs.......I am serious about this one too. ^^' ....quite.......quite the imagination I had when I was thirteen..."

My first OC was a doll who talked and was the loyal servants of the red queen, his name was hatter. And he had a nightmare mode, where eje was freaking creepy and stronger, and had tentacles sprouting from his belly, and when the red queen died, he sought out and killed Alice. Yep, I don't know how I was able to think this up when I was 8.

@Counselor-Mae


...man.........and your name says counselor....

i still play my oringal charaters they just been reworked over the years was never into half fairy princess..half dragon...half vampie....half unicorn phase in rp thought i seen that allot over the years

I don't even WANT to talk about my first since she was a horrible Mary Sue and I feel shame even thinking about her. Luckily she lived a very, very brief rp life. Basically, it was a little foxgirl who had the power of an incredibly powerful dragon inside of her whose evil father was also a dragon and wanted to unleash that power for his own benefit.

To be fair though, I had only just started to learn how to roleplay and my ex friend who was teaching me didn't see this abomination of a sue to be a sue at all. Little miss sue lived for only one rp before a friend of said friend blew up at me for being a noob after I made some newbie mistakes. After that I was so humiliated that I never used that character again and didn't try roleplaying again for several months.

The characters after that weren't nearly so mary sueish, thanks in large part part to some more experienced roleplayer friends I had made.

I am pretty reluctant to talk about my very first OC. This thing got me banned from so many dreams on Furcadia when I first started, it's pretty shameful.

So, as a 15 year old lad I was very much into a game called Guild Wars. When I first started roleplaying, I wanted my character to be related to the GW universe. So I made a Charr. This is not the cringey part. Charr are actually a pretty cool race. They're these animalistic agressive folk who in GW2 renounced their gods and focussed fully on war technology. It's pretty rad.

No, this Charr I played, Pyre Flameclaw, was the leader of a rebellious army on the run from the Charr empire with the goal to eventually overthrow it and its false gods. What's that you say? That's not so bad for a beginning roleplayer? I'd say so too if I didn't completely rip off the concept of an already existing character called Pyre Fierceshot. Even still, this isn't the cringey part yet.

The cringey part is the fact I was an edgy teen and I wanted a world full of chaos and war. So everywhere Pyre went, trouble followed, quite literally. He'd enter taverns on the run from ninjas. He'd have sentries posted everywhere just in case some Charr came to torch the place. He would always return from having staged a fight, all that stuff. Most people would see this as a group related event, but not I. I had to make Pyre the ultimate badass by having him win and undergo everything off screen. That kind of behaviour is what got me kicked out of dreams a lot. I ended up realizing that trying to steal the spotlight like that is not okay, and I gradually got better.

But yeah, I had a rough start with my very first character. I never tried to tweak him into something better, I just moved on. I don't harbour any grudges against the people who banned my hide. I'd have done the same probably.

I still have my original character xD though granted by now he's pretty much entirely divorced from his original state.

He started out as a half-elf half-feline, loads of scars, phobia of water, kind of stand-offish and also the crown prince of a destroyed kingdom and near-extinct race wandering the world and looking for revenge and with the memories of a thousand year old monk for some reason. No idea why now. Oh and his elder brother was evil and had attempted to assassinate his entire family to seize the throne, failed and got exiled and then destroyed his own homeland by revealing the secrets of his race to their arch-enemies in return for the throne. Oh and his childhood best-friend/girlfriend ended up dead but he was still hug up on her three hundred years later.

Now he's entirely feline, elves have been removed from his 'verse and his people made into an ageless race to compensate, he no longer ha an evil older brother, but he's still a mentally and physically scarred stand-offish wandering exile after the fall of his homeland and enslavement of his people. His girlfriend's still alive though, because I ended up expanding on her character enough that I didn't want her to be an off-screen dead woman. Though she's on another continent and a bit of a badass in her own right. Neither of them know the other's alive and he still has his hydrophobia so sea travel's kind of hard for him.

Plus he's much more stable in his characterisation and a lot less whiny.

I was actually thinking of just sharing bad old characters, but since we are mostly sticking to firsts, lessee... The first set I came up with actually weren't bad, especially considering context, but they also weren't entirely original. The first I can remember that I came up with entirely on my own was over the summer between 6th and 7th grade, and it's actually two characters who were for my first (horrible) attempt at writing a full book. Both females, and I think both in their teens.

The main character was was adopted, but finds out after the story starts, and I can't remember who her real parents were supposed to be. She might have hatched from an egg for some reason, too, but I can't remember (but she was totes human). She had a stone or something inside of her, that she was born with, and I may or may not have made it be her heart (again, don't recall). For sure though, it was the "heart of the universe," some super powerful magicky thing that might have been the literal "heart" of the universe, keeping reality all together and stuff.

The other one (and, oddly, the one I liked better) was sent to guard her or trap her or something... She'd been given a pretty serious, no-time-for-play upbringing and was supposed to start off kinda cold and stiff, then become main chick's best friend and I think turn on her own father to help main chick be free or save the day or something.

Heh, actually, I was seeing a child psych at the time, and I was so proud of my crappy book start that I made the mistake of showing him. He apparently misunderstood and thought I was finally starting to express my personal feelings (I clam up around psychs ) and kept trying to relate me to the main chick. Dude, no, it's not me, it's just a story. Seriously.

Oh geez, I have a few that are super cringy.

The most obvious would be that one from middle school, my first serious (At the time) attempt at a real story with real character that I'd created myself. I don't remember much about the story, but it was basically X-men in a post-apocalyptic world, except with preteens and stupid. The main character could turn into a wolf and was angsty as hell. (I kid you not, the opening scene is him looking at a beautiful day and feeling grumpy because he's colorblind and a teenager and a pessimist and a special snowflake.) His friends had some super powers too, like mind-reading, telekinesis, and one or two other things. (I think one had wings. I went with a classic comic book interpretation of how radioactivity works ) and the plotline of the story was that a Bad Guy who is Bad and secretly owns the world, apparently, wants to kill Angtsy Preteen Totally-Not-A-Werewolf and his Justice Team friends. Because reasons. It had something to do with the main character's dead dad (Who, in an interesting break from my usual writing style of the time, ACTUALLY IS DEAD.) who was... you know what, I may as well admit it, I didn't have any idea what the baddy's motivations were then and I sure as hell don't now. All I know is that IIRC in the finale the main character throws a stick of dynamite into the Bad Guy's face and turns into a wolf and runs away, jumping over a cliff with a massive explosion behind him.

There's plenty more where this story came from, I'm afraid to say.

Edit: It's worth noting that most of my cringiest characters are either wolves, werewolves, bats, wizards who have been turned into bats, aliens that look like wolves, or aliens that look like bats. Take a stab at what my two favorite animals are.

I originally did lot of RP (Simming it was called then) on AOL chat rooms for Star Wars. I was part of a couple of 'guilds' during that time but it was all narrative so the inevitable god moding could start up (something I don't recall ever being guilty of, thankfully) and the best 'simmers' were the ones who often enough just wrote the best no matter how implausible... like a lone X-Wing being able to somehow successfully take on an Imperial Star Destroyer and all it's fighters. Still I had great fun during those days. Think my character's name was Talek Yeth so, if by chance, anyone here used to do those games with me then hi and nice to meet you again, lol.

I got into D&D around High School, made a 3.0 Druid who was as broody and 'deep' as I ever thought I was as a teen. Fun character but horrible build since I had no idea what I was doing and RP for me, at that time, wasn't a very IC thing. RPing online again as an adult has really been what's honed my skills and writing more and at this point I prefer it to tabletop settings.

I'm actually proud of my original OCs (Plural, as in twins). I made them back in 4th grade, Phil and Rex. They were twin brothers in an organization called "Shadow Moon" (which is the thing that makes me cringe). Phil had the ability to manipulate flames and kept a few lighters on hand, and his brother could create flames. The organization was full of people who had abilities like that, some of them not even human. I, to this day, expand upon the lore of that story.

Currently, they're 22 year old Brazilian orphaned brothers who reunited coincidentally and got pushed into the organization. They left once they were almost made to fight each other and now kinda have an "anti" organization to counter them. Also, Phil is amazing with electronics and is smarter, but worse with animals and is more cautious and chicken. Rex is the opposite, stronger and better with animals but worse with electronics and fearless. They even saved an albino ferret who got hit by a car. Now he's an android with the only organic things in him being his heart, lungs, and brain.