I also wanna stop like....hiding away on plurk kinda and start talking more

mikomitears:

loyalwolf: !!!!!!

Overbringer

idk who wants to know but Viviane iiiis an original story OC. she was born a Princess of a magical world called Aurea where each kingdom is dedicated to a Season Queen. Season Queens are given magical powers that coincide with their season, and Viviane's is Summer

as her mother's only heir she was given lessons innn politics, diplomacy, horseback riding, archery, and dancing. she's very much,, needs to be perfect At All Times and doesn't like showing emotions™ around anyone

As an OC only player for years now... heck yeah

And don't feel like you "have" to pick up a canon character if you feel like playing OCs more!

^ this 100% this

DWRP has weird relationships with OCs which I believe I've already told you my opinions on how fucking dumb and weird that corner of people who have those attitudes even ARE b/c all their precious canons are SOMEONE'S OCs so get bent honestly. lmfao BUT ime, for the OC players I play with, it's kinda just about finding your tribe in his hobby

b/c ppl who are here to WRITE are gonna play, whether they can inherently "know" shit about your characters or not.

and personally I find it more fun b/c I can't instantly predict some general direction your dude might respond to my dude. the unpredictability is what draws me in. So come @ me with your OCs, boo

I WILL TAG ANY OC

GIVE THEM UNTO ME

Also I play a canon but no one knows shit about him half the time so i vibe wit it

right? see. tribe ^ lmfao

On a serious note, that is a weird thing with OCs especially, but also obscure canons that I totally agree with. I try to tag out so long as the person is interested, but I've noticed people are far less interested in me when I'm playing Mirage than when I'm playing, idk Bucky, even if it's the exact same tag.

IT IS a v. weird attitude that appears around the community within certain places, and idgi, personally. I'm here to write fun and interesting stories. and i have not recently played from anything obscure but I could see the same thing applied in that direction, too. it's SO WEIRD TO ME

Also omg some OCs are so much fun I'd be so sad to miss out on it because I decided they were bad without even tagging them???

SAME

some of my fav CR out of one of my games last year came from Klaus Hargreeves & someone's OC. like holyshit. I could have. missed out on that??? wow, how sad.

YES!

idk if it's maybe some weird lingering Fear™ about running into Mary Sues b/c we're all old and remember them running rampant in fics we read in HS or what but lmfao whatever it is, it's weird, and

I don't run into OCs that even really fall into that category very often anyway (b/c, I think, this is a writing community at its core and as a whole, we are not 14 anymore lmfao)

I've ran into a few but I don't really care, because I've also ran into just as many people who play canon's like that???

I have. A lot of feelings about OCs and also the whole Mary Sue thing

especially since the creator of the Mary Sue test went "wait this is bad actually"

fuckbitchesgetmoney: that's totally fair lmfao

Well it was also used as a cheap tactic to beat down any female characters with any strength or skills

I don't think anyone should've held characters made by teenagers(especially teenage girls) up to high standards

TRUTH so so so much truth

fuckbitchesgetmoney: also yes that too

I play a engineer, gun slinger, guy with sad past and humor who is a fan favorite-- but if he was a girl I think people would shit on it tbh

I was thinking about that the other day talking to my friend trying to explain how female OCs (andsome characters) are treated, especially on DW

I've heard a little bit about it buuuut I don't know. I'm really trying to get to a point where I'm like "well I don't make my OCs for THEM, I make my OCs for ME"

yes exactly

I think that's the best way to do it. You'll find fun people to play with, and if people don't, their loss.

^ agree

but also I do think that the double standards thing is v dumb

a lot of traits that are lovable in male characters just,, aren't in female characters. or the male character can have all these skills but the female character absolutely Cannot

I hate that a lot, too. It's so frustrating

I also hate it. I mostly play guys, but it makes me so sad to see my RP buddies really getting snubbed when I KNOW they're amazing writers

I play mainly OCs just because for a long time I had OC making brain worms

And I had to do SOMETHING with them

I MISS writing OC's but I can't seem to dig into. my own creations as well for ........ some reason, in recent years lmfao

I got reeeally self-conscious about playing them for a few years so I'm just trying to get my confidence back

percivals

FWIW I've found just do your thing.

loyalwolf: I think we just only have so many OCverses in us

and once you use them up the fun is gone

Overbringer: perhaps. 🤔

That's just me, at least

I kept on trying but after a while I just didn't have it in me to care about any new creations unless I had something immediate to DO with them

Table Top games and such

ANYWAY I still love the ones I already created

OC life is good culture