Forums » RP Discussion » Anyone else make OCs based on pets/family/etc?

For example, my Samba is named after/based on this guy:



Old pics, man is he much scrawnier now due to his age...it makes me sad wondering how much longer I have with him. He's 14/15ish, but man does he really have 9 lives. He lives at my parents house. I will try to get a more current picture, but he really only shows up to eat, and a picture of him stuffing his face wouldn't be prefered.

How about you guys? Did anyone else take inspiration from people they know or pets when making characters?

You can also post just to comment on the cat, I don't mind!

I sometimes get inspired by a trait of an acquaintance, but it's extremely rare. Otherwise, nope

Aw, that's an adorable cat. Reminds me of mine. ^^

I haven't made any characters explicitly based on friends and family members, but most of them have one or two traits similar to people I know, be it in personality or appearance. It makes them a tad easier to understand or tolerate.

Then again, I feel like I have little in common with most of my characters. I guess I like exploring the minds of characters that are different from anyone I know, myself included.

OC Samba is of a warrior race that takes animal form to fight, and real life Samba has the perfect attitude lol. When I saw the laguz and that there were cats, I just had to. Laguz are from Fire Emblem. There are also wolves, hawks, dragons, etc. His appearance reflects his real life one. He transforms into a gray striped cat with gold eyes. None of the canon cat laguz have stripes, but I think they can, and other markings would be possible too, like different colored paws or tail tip. I'd assume it would be controlled by genetics like with real cats.

I've had him for a long time, created him back when real life Samba was still in his prime. When he crosses the rainbow bridge I'll have to do some sort of tribute...but I don't want to think about it much.

Anyway. Yeah, it's easier to work with characters that have similarities to people you know, or even yourself. Cerai has my personality or close to it, but after years of development, she's turned into more than a self insert, and she got "likely not a mary sue" on a test, which makes me proud. Leo is there because I've always wished me and my younger brother were twins, I created him before my brother was born so he wasn't really based on him. He shares some traits with my brother though, like his stubbornness. Totally a coincidence.

Samba's backstory, where he was orphaned at a young age and raised by Cerai and Leo's parents, just sounded good, but might be a nod to the real life Samba being part of my family.

I am not good at making OCs, but I plan on bringing a four legged feline OC into the fray. I love Exotic Breed cats.

You already have Red XII, doesn't he count? xD

He a big kitty doggie~

I am a sucker for four leggers in games and media as is.