Daily Entertainment: Original Character Edition!

[damncompass]

On the heels of yesterday's awesome DE, I bring you this question:

OCs: What OCs have you created for your OOMs? Where did they come from, a side reference in canon, a child, a sibling? What are they like?

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[damncompass]

Joshua's main OC to this point is Shinji, his CERN officemate. He comes from a name on a door. Shinji is a Japanese physicist, and another datamonkey like Joshua. He's a bit of an arrogant SOB, preferring to speak terrible French or Japanese, and trying to avoid English. Mostly he came from a need to have at least some sort of antagonist for Joshua. And, well, he amuses me.

Helena has Josephine, the Warehouse 12 caretaker, and I don't think anyone else I've recurringly mentioned. She's a tiny blonde bombshell of a Caretaker who had met everyone powerful in the 19th century in London. She's also the anti-Mrs. Frederick, because she gets her way by being sweet and cute, and you just can't deny her things.

I haven't done much OOM-ly for any of the others to this point.

[the_lioness]

Way back when, Raph got locked out of the bar in Tortall for six (seven?) years. We did a lot of Alanna and Raph go adventuring threads, but eventually Raph peeled off and did his own thing, studying Shang and earning money doing odd jobs. During this period, Bing wrote an awesome OOM in which Raph found a tavern and said tavern's co-owner Abigail.

We liked Abigail so much I offered to make a journal. Abs took on a life of her own and now I LOVE every chance I get to play her. She is SO MUCH FUN to have amongst my group of pups burdened with glorious porpoise purpose.

Initially I kept a list of Abigail threads, but I stopped once it became clear she wasn't a temporary thing. List is here! More in memories if anyone is curious. :D

Likewise, the triplets (Alanna and Adam's kids) took on a life of their own beyond their NPC status. OOMs became journals, adult!Grace and adult!Jamie became semi-regulars in various sandboxes, and speculation about the future coalesced into firm plans. At this point, I think Lee and I are in agreement that Grace, ah, becomes rather well placed in Alera, courtesy of her involvement with Des. It will drive Alanna crazy, which is a nice bonus for Grace. And Jamie? AHAHAHAHA. Well. Bing and I have PLANS for him. XD

It is likely that I will break down at some point and actually app adult!Grace and adult!Jamie. Adult!Thom is way too similar to Alanna to be much fun, and wee!Thom's icon has gone missing. Luckily he doesn't get up to as much trouble as his siblings (see above re: Alanna) so it's easy to keep him occupied elsewhere!

I have similar lists for the triplets here. (I like lists.)

[student_of_impossibility]

And luckily Desiderius is canonical and unless someone in this universe besides me wants to play him, I'll probably app him one day.

Things. Stuff and things, man.

[calls_him_sam]

Yeah, you should do that. Stuff and things! We'd have fun. :)

[street_sparrow]

I know the feeling. I'm increasingly tempted to actually pick up one of the Carpenter kids.

[ceitfianna]

I love adult!Jamie and he and Tiwa were such fun. She is still around in my head, she's just been quieter due to my life.

[camwyn]

Gordon's primary OC has been his niece, Eleanor. She was created because there is a photograph of a baby in the FREEMAN locker in the original Half-Life game, but the PS2 version of Half-Life has Gordon's employee orientation in it, and the person reading his file reads off "Freeman, G. Single, no dependents." It made more sense for the baby picture to be a relative's than a fellow employee's baby or a picture of Gordon himself. I gave him an older brother with a competitive streak to account for the niece and to help shape Gordon's personality, and a Seattle family court judge mother and an airline pilot father to account for some of his other tendencies. His mother was a strongly independent woman who probably would not have bothered getting married except that it was easier on a female jurist's career at the time if she had a respectable marriage to her name, and his father loved both his sons but wanted them to grow up not looking to anyone other than themselves for approval and so tended to just plain not really be there much (which he acknowledged in a Conversations With Dead People was probably a bad tactic on his part).

For Adrian, I created the Shephard family. Albert Shephard was a small business operator and a pretty savvy guy, and Kate Shephard was a stay-at-home mom with a garden bordering on a small farm; there were also Adrian's older brother and sister, and his younger twin siblings. Since the Combine were pretty murderous and even in the back end of beyond you couldn't expect them not to slaughter everything in their path, the only Shephards who survived both Xen and the Combine were Kate, Adrian's older sister (I've forgotten her name but it's in my notes somewhere), and Adrian's younger brother Dan, who is now Adrian's older brother Dan due to Adrian having been put on ice by the G-Man for twenty years. Kate is completely no-nonsense and wound up getting elected mayor of the Rowlesburg survivors after the mayor before her finished out two terms; Dan was probably the smartest of the Shephard children, a fact Adrian is fine with acknowledging, and one of the more stubborn ones, a fact which Adrian wants pointed out does not mean he is the most stubborn, thank you very much. (Albert Shephard lost an arm to Xen creatures and survived about four years after the Combine invasion. He is sorely missed.) i have also assembled a number of NPC Marine OCs for him- Jan ten Boom, who started out as a general Half-Life NPC; he's Dutch born, was an American citizen as of being a very young child, and got pressed into service by the Combine to work on their razor train networks around the world. There's also Maripyaipok of the Satere-Mawe of Brazil, who was rescued during the Resistance destruction of the South American gene worm. Mari's seriously interested in bringing everything possible from the outside world back to his people and feels that sticking around and learning to kick ass for six years is probably a good way to make sure that happens. Also he collects spiders. Live ones. The rest of his tribe think he's weird.

No OCs yet for Pentecost, Varric, or Edward Kenway.

Santo has no specific OCs yet, but I did Millicanon that he went to a school run by nuns and may have grown up in an orphanage run by those same nuns, so they probably count. They were good nuns, not the scary kind you get in a lot of fiction.

Medic's primary OC is his ex-wife, whose name is not especially relevant because after she caught him in bed with the BLU sniper of the time and the divorce judgment somehow went against her, she went to RED and got hired as one of their Pyros. So her name's not really in use any more regardless. Persistent woman, though.

Ellen's most important OC is probably Reverend Avellone, who was created whole-cloth because the game indicates that your character can become the Vault chaplain but never actually indicates who the chaplain before you was. I always pictured him as an older, dignified man with Frederick Douglass-style massive amounts of gray hair and Ron "War never changes" Perlman's voice. The other big OC for her is Scribe Jerald Cancio of the Order of the Sword, who was originally assigned to her first field project at the RobCo factory ruins in the southern Wasteland and has since gained in prominence somewhat. He's a weapons designer with a particular talent for electricity-based weaponry, a tendency towards social awkwardness, and a speech pattern that I have to admit I mostly base on the 2007 Transformers movie version of Sam Witwicky.

[vojvode]

Abel. :/

My first ever fictional murder. I think about it and still get all wibbly.

Stupid vampire.

[bjornwilde]

Jess: In a current OOM that is near to wrapping up, I invented a person who is known only as Mr. Suit right now. He represents the interests of a businessman (one Wilson Fisk) in New York, whose character is constantly defamed by irresponsible men and women who insist on dressing in outlandish outfits and taking the law into their own hands. Don't know much about him yet but his inspiration is Eli Gold from The Good Wife, though he is less rude.

I also have plans to bring back Lindsay McCabe and David Ishima, but I haven't fleshed them out much. Yet.

Quinlan: Has his wife, Khaleen, and his kids, Korto and Larin. Khaleen and Korto are from canon but Korto was just a few months old at the end of Star Wars: Republic.

Khaleen Hentz was Quinlan's right hand and love interest in the comics, eventually marrying him after the Republic fell. Canon doesn't go into much detail for her, she is a supporting cast for Quin and not much more, but I have decided a few things about her as I reread the comics and look for clues. She is a thief and a splicer (what we call a hacker). She also plays up the helpless female as a means to manipulate those around her and look for the best angle. She is strong and trusts Quin completely, even accepting a prison sentence with the promise that he would come back to her. She is very protective of the kids and has the final word on anything to do with them.

Korto is about ten now and is their son. He is active and seems to have picked up the idea boys are more important than girls. I suspect this is because Quin tends to be the one who spends more time out in the galaxy while Khaleen stays home with the kids. This is going to be changing. Korto also is beginning to learn how to manipulate the Force and his talents seem to align with sensory and passive skills. He does not like this and thinks it unfair that his sister is better at the skills he "should" be better at.

Larin is six, confident and doesn't shy away from speaking her mind. This can be awkward as she hasn't learned filters for polite questions yet. She bristles under her older brother's prejudiced notions about what girls should be like. She is also very talented in the physical sides of the Force and loves playing with floating objects. She hasn't tried putting together things with the Force but thinks it would be a fun game.

More later if I get the chance.

[last_kallig]

I am picturing Larin asking Ibani impolite questions and Ibani responding with all the awkwardness because she doesn't know how to handle it. *cackles*

[bjornwilde]

Well I was planning on tagging the NPC DE with the kids noticing Ibani, so it may still happen.

[last_kallig]

Yay! If you want, we can handwave that this is taking place after Ibani has been a business partner for Quinlan at least once. (If only so Khaleen might not freak out QUITE so much over the kids talking to someone dressed like a stereotypical Sith.) *G*

[not_my_sandbox]

I almost regret not participating in yesterday's DE. Anywho, on to the OCs.

Tlap is Fairy Fixit's coworker and a big Tentacles of Our Waves fan. He is one of the creatures on Zanaris called Gatekeepers in canon but allegedly referred to as Mindslayers internally by the devs. They kind of look like illithids but kind of look like trees. I almost brought him in yesterday so I could have him freak out and squee Zoidburg style at having made his way to Milliways, then sit him out by the lake where he would camp out in hopes of a celebrity sighting. His character just popped out of thin air.

"Rania" is pure Millicanon. She is a Danger Room hologram via X-Men canon, modified and outfitted with teleportation abilities by Jordan Kennedy (Exploitation Now) after she acquired plans/parts from Bobby "Iceman" Drake, and then sold to Evil Chicken. Then she got a particularly bad case of IMBD flu compounded by some plot between Star Trek:TNG's Data and Lore and additional interference by Amascut. Before she got hit by the flu she was able to shapeshift but the flu made her get stuck on one form and one identity. She disappeared after accidentally rediscovering her ability to teleport. I like to imagine she is off in the multiverse somewhere, being a space pirate. I imagine her teleportation ability comes with a very accurate spatial sense, even at higher and fractional dimensions, so she would make a very good navigator. Still, she has a bad case of kleptomania. To be honest though, I haven't played with her since she disappeared from Milliway's. Her post IMDBflu character is mostly based off of Yasmin Abd El Aziz's (Amascut's PB) character in Dr. Omar's Gang.

Cheles Khepri - Oh, poor Cheles Khepri. I created her to be the one scabarite that could hang out around Amascut without barfing. An outcast among outcasts, she was sort of the mad doctor and anatomist among the scabarites who have a pathological preoccupation with cleanliness and squick out at body fluids. Umm... she popped out of thin air too.

Various kids, all from Pollnivneach, all named Ali. Because Pollnivneach is one big ridiculous racist trope.

[sdelmonte]

Knox: We once met his parents, "played" by Burgess Meredith and Estelle Parsons. Nice mom, grumpy day. Someday I really do plan to kill off Dad, but it's not a fun thing to do. Knox also has a brother but I've never had him make an appearance. There's also Lynne Vega, the FBI agent Knox dated on and off before meeting Rapunzel, but she never got a PB. I used her a few times.

Kirk: Not much need to invent characters at this point, but we were told in Generations about a woman named Antonia, who Kirk almost proposed to "before returning to Starfleet." I interpreted that to mean "leaving his teaching post at the Academy" and fleshed out her character a bit in the margins of the time around the fourth film.

Howard: Every so often, I have tossed in a beautiful woman to be on his arm. And I gave him a family, though the only member we've seen in passing is his dad.

[ceitfianna]

Mine tend to be more NPCs than OCs at least for those that are played the most.

For Will's Nottingham, I've NPCed all of the Merry Men, the Sheriff and his men, Marian and various people in and around. I always enjoy doing it and there are icons picked from my favorite source versions of them.

With William, I've worked to fill out the town and world building on what Ali and Crys had built up with Dan and Ben. I've NPCed Alice and Mark plus other people in the town. The closest OCs I have are a schoolteacher named Miss Ruth who's helping with getting Mark to a better school and Hollander's son Tom who argues a lot with William. Then there are assorted townspeople including some copper miners who beat up William one time.

Charles hasn't had a lot of NPCs, I created a Classics' professor that he talked to in Oxford but otherwise most of that kind of world expansion has come in fics.

All of Moist's OOMs are full of random people that he meets and cons, I have such fun playing in the sandbox of the Disc.

For Sameth, I created a smith who taught him and some guards who travel with him on his Wallmaker work have names. Also when Ashie and I did an Ellimere and Sam OOM, we created a guard captain to try and make the two siblings behave. For canon stuff, Touchstone, Ellimere and Kibeth were all played by other Milliways' folks. When Nick and Sam thread, they have shared history at school but no one that's ever appeared in a thread.

Jane hasn't needed any OCs and all of her NPCs are from canon threading.

With Ivan, I haven't created anyone yet other than throw away references.

Demeter's world is full of OCs who she interacts with, farmers in Provence and around Europe. I love creating families that know her.

Tumnus, mainly the OCs for him have been in fics since the threading was with people playing canon characters.

The Pirate King, it hasn't come up since he's not really a good pup for OOMs.

And then over in the sandboxes, I started from the World of Darkness, Changeling game and my love of New Zealand and created Tiwa's world and family with friends, villains and brothers. I miss playing her, need to get her icons back and put her in. The long winter and job searching has quieted her just as it has Demeter but Spring is coming.

[misslucyjane]

Steve has talked about his parents and grandparents some. Given comics canon of his parents as Irish immigrants, I've tried to give his family various experiences, like his father's family came over in Black 47 and his mother's side is more recent, and that Steve comes from a long line of New York City cops. Also that he looks more like pictures of his father post-serum than he did pre-serum, and so the serum basically made him look like he would have naturally if he hadn't been such a sickly kid.

Other than that, my OCs tend to be incidental people like waiters, cab drivers, sales clerks, and so on.

[ashen_key]

The other Red Room girls - or rather, in M'ways!verse, the other women. They've been around for a couple of years by now in various forms in various fics, and now I can't imagine the Red Room without them. Admittedly, the fact that I adore them won't stop things from ending badly for them. (Except for Asya, who was smart enough and pragmatic enough to get the hell out of Dodge.) Mostly they came from my complete refusal to go along with the idea that Natasha could be remotely stable if she hadn't formed any connections with anyone.

There are also various other KGB agents, targets, SHIELD agents - Kos, in the modern timeline, is a very good friend of Nat's. Kos is the techie of their little team, an older Finnish lady, and she and Nat are quite close. Again, see note about connections.

[aberration]

I'm pretty sure Elle and Asami are the only ones I've created actual/substantive OCs, for, so:

I've made up a few OCs for Elle because she's hiding out with a bunch of people like her, so... I created some people like her! The one who shows up most often is Rati, whom I more or less designed to be sort of similar to Elle in being outgoing and kind of flirtatious like Elle is/was, but with a lot less emotional damage and a lot more conscious compassion (even if she dresses it up with sarcasm). And the chromakinetic thing is fun. Which is why Heroesverse is fun to create OCs for in general. My favorite abilities that I made up, in addition to that, are probably Carlotta who can see/manipulate sound waves to create any sound, and Brian who can understand (but not produce) any language.

I like the idea of Asami being an only child basically raised by a lot of adults, and in particular created herself self-defense instructor Qin, and Hyesoon, the supplies manager at the Future Industries factory. I imagined Qin as sort of similar to Piandao - someone who is generally well-known and respected as a combatant and weapons expert, and who would rarely act as an instructor. He was stricter with Asami when she was younger, in part because at the time she had become rather listless, but he's eased considerably with her as they built up a rapport and, well, as she performed consistently. Their actual interaction is a lot gentler, but she still wouldn't test him.

Hyesoon was kind of weird, because I originally imagined the character as a man, and then was like NO SELF THERE ARE TOO MANY DUDES. So she became this tall, muscular woman (my mental image uses some socialist realism artwork as a reference) who's generally honest to the point of abrasive. Which is something Asami appreciates about her, because she knows very few people are actually ever candid with her. She lives with her daughter (who is around Asami's age) in Dragon Flats, and she worked up through the factory to the position of dealing with suppliers and distributing materials, and hence happened to be someone who would regularly deal with the factory's employees. Which is why she used her role to help ensure Asami, the privileged heiress, would also be familiar with the people who worked in her father's factory. She's named after Kim Hyesoon, a South Korean poet.

I also decided one of them would turn out to be an Equalist, but.

[student_of_impossibility]

For the most part I haven't needed to much/at all, most of my NPCs have ended up being the large cast who aren't in the Bar. In fact, really the only OCs I've made are or either past or future Alera things, and the former mostly just worldbuilding until I broke down and made her a journal (something which will hopefully stand me in good stead). So, OCs.

Rory: Gaius Aurora Berdine, a possible younger sister for Desiderius. I've never had a chance to talk it over with a Kitai-player, but I find it unlikely that he'll be an only child. So I gave Desiderius twin younger sisters and a little brother, once. Of the girls, one is super combat-y and one is spy-assassin-y, and that's Rory. She likes pretty dresses and social life and dancing and boys and balls, and if she's learned about intelligence gathering and how to stick knives in people strategically such that they stop breathing, well, you know. She probably ends up Cursor Legate to her big brother.

Cereus Laetitia: She does come with a host of purely mental OCs, because she's long pre-canon, created entirely out of the space left by her absence. She's a sweet, friendly young noblewoman, mostly normal, loves books and painting and gardening, and hates confrontations--but she's actually an incredibly strong crafter. She doesn't have the personality for a fight, but has the willpower to rein in Gaius Sextus when he gets too unreasonable. She's Tavi's paternal grandmother.

[inspector_blueeyes]

David Detector comes a whole team of NPCs and OCs backing him up. Most of which came from a Speed Racer writer's community I was a member of a while back. Each of them has their own families and back-stories. I have thought about bringing one of the NPCs Minx to the bar as a player at some point. Except for the fact she'd rearrange Jay's workshop and take over first chance she got.

[basic_powers]

For Future!Tyler's oom's there's a good handful that've appeared, and some who haven't appeared yet. For now, I'll just work off of their location/vocations.

From Concrete Jungle the spotted, yet unmentioned meta that was a dog-headed lady with six arms is Mistress Bau, she tend to enjoy a lot of yoga and a really good run on the treadmill. She actually came about from a combination of an old game I used to play in, and one of the pieces of background art in Spider Jerusalem's Apartment.

Q57, the nightclub Beauford works at has a small file devoted to the sundry coworkers but for now, oom's only.

Brazil works as one of the bouncers, and in a place that welcomes metas, it helps to have extremely durable lavender metal skin and a good sense of humor. He, I will fully admit, came from a random character generator, and isn't usually so smilely after work is over with, and tends to favor tequila sunrises.

Melita, one of the bartenders is a mashup of one of my friends from High School and my favorite artist Melita Curphy/Miss Monster.

Jasil is one of the waitstaff and tends to prefer a gender-neutral pronoun of peh and loves peihr car Lilac almost as much as looking fabulous each night. Also any opportunity to very gently tease 'Puppy' about his adopted family from time to time. Jasil is many things, but this peh knows the scars that leaving a biological family behind can give a body. Hasn't seen fit to let me know if there's any meta-power action going on there, when characters get away from you...

Garrison has only been named, but is half of the genius behind the food that Q57 serves from it's kitchens. Having come about from the blenderizing of my kitchen coworkers over the years and several of my other favorite genres...hehehehehehe. VERY passionate about cooking.

Murphy has also only been named, but is fairly bog-standard human and really just makes good fancy martinis and the occaissional dacquari.

As for the West Coast Earth Defense League Roster, only four of them are OC's I cooked up.

Alterity is the only one who wasn't a part of a story I started writing back in highschool when I was very disgruntled with magical girl anime and superhero comics. Outside of his 'day job' on the team, he is possibly one of the most laid-back speedsters you have ever met and really is looking to retire in a few years and head back to Idaho, his homestate.

Uplink happens to be a tactile technopath and usually isn't in the major fights, working as a communications operator. She's very fond of the transhumanism concept, but rather waiting for a healthier and saner alternative considering how things tend to go mad-skience in a hurry with those implants.

Hat Trick hails from Ohio and was the main character of that story from highschool. She's evolved a lot since then, and really wants to open her own restaurant someday, with the belief that the access to magic she has isn't going to last forever. Especially since it's harder to cast some of the spells since she lost her pinky and ring fingers on each hand. Somedays it's really hard not to miss being able to power your own flight.

Crusade is also from the Midwest region and used to be much more rigid before he actually got the concept that his wings and flight were HOLY in origin out of his head. It helps that Hat Trick tends to ground him a bit, having led something of a more mundane, if extremely rocky, life before becoming a super heroine. She is the ONLY one who gets to call him Tweety.

[yakalskovich]

My OCs are all for Teja -- all the Gotland kids (except sort of Rauthgundis, the oldest -- she was on the way at the end of canon, and to be named Rauthgundis or Witichis, depending on gender; I merely decided it was a girl), and their neighbours, cats and horses. The neighbours Agilulf and Martialis (the ones with the cats) came from an OOM/nightmare I wrote for a nightmare plot during Teja's first winter in the bar; the rest are mostly extrapolation or were introduced as needed during Allpocalypse plot.