please talk to me about original character ideas

[vellichor]

I have a bunch of ocs (I can’t play fandom characters to save my life, bless those that can lol. I have issues keeping muse) but my most prominent is definitely Jacob. I aged him from being 0 months to being 14 now and it’s honestly been so much fun haha. I based p much every trait off a naturally occurring event (aside from the fire), including body language and speech patterns so he has a mixture of an Italian America and Southern accent. Something I really enjoy about him is that he def comes off as p clear morally but he’s actually very morally grey when you start looking at his ideology and beliefs. While he might refuse to do something awful himself, he has a p easy time rationalizing why someone close to him would just so he can have a positive relationship with them. Then because he grew up with a lot of differing opinions, he can be sort of hypocritical at times because he knows what he wants to be and holds himself to ridiculously high standards even though sometimes we behaves exactly the opposite of how he should. I just have a lot of fun playing him and it’s been wild to watch how much he’s developed over the past year tbh. He came from a very simple concept but I feel like he came out as a very complex character so I’m pretty proud of him.

The only other active oc I have right now is Eliora in the human rp. I can’t talk about her as much as I can about Jake bc I haven’t had her nearly as long but she’s basically a wood nymph-like creature that had damaged memory for many years due to the loss of her family and kinda got lost in time for awhile. During this period, she suppressed her abilities which caused her to get a multitude of odd scars/marks on her body. When she came out of it, she took on a new purpose to essentially try to help anyone that’s been the victim of injustice and felt that she owed the community that’d she stayed in for so long, so she then started taking jobs specifically to be close to people so she could help as much as possible. I’m p excited about rping her because she’s chaotic good so she has good intentions but sometimes ends up pushing things too far or handling problems in odd ways (such as turning people into trees lol). She’s very obsessed with the idea of family but has kinda accepted she’ll probably never be able to really have one due to living with a lot of humans but she loves the idea of it. There’s more I could say but that’s basically who she is in a nutshell lol.