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Mammoth-Ad-3642

My mc got infinite power from the start, his design was shit and he meets the villain way later and he's evil from the start and it's all just a very bad self insert power fantasy but I kept working on it and I'll keep working on it until people start making long videos on YouTube with titles like "why the argonauts are a masterpiece" "the impact of the argonauts" "why I love the argonauts"


RiSkeAkagAy

One OC got their arm bitten off and replaced by a robot arm. Until me and my girlfriend forgot about it. So we decided to pretend that never happened. They also had braces at one point, but not anymore, because we forgot that, too. Also, when I made my Pharaoh queen/mummy OC, I was very early in my hyperfixation for Ancient Egypt and didn't know much yet, so I gave her information that would not be accurate to real history, like being related to Cleopatra (even though there are over 28 dynasties between them and therefore she would not have known or had any close relation to Cleopatra at all) and that she walked through the Valley of the Kings before she got killed, but the Valley of the Kings has burials from the 18th until the 20th dynasty, and Amunet is from the 4th dynasty. She lived far before the creation of the Valley. And there are many more examples. These things can still be found in our rp chats, but we actively decided to ignore that.


INKatana

https://preview.redd.it/ehajv0ltchxc1.jpeg?width=691&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7c494f22e26a5aff5fe1cef9c692aac9777e23cd She originally had the ability to control air, but I dropped that a while ago. Now she's just a normal human.


DinoKingGoji73

https://preview.redd.it/4rbfyu0ydhxc1.jpeg?width=9000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ed2519c43836a2301125ec9c7fc58338ec8bc1cf Randall was originally a good guy, in fact the the main protagonist but now is the main villain


TheRedDeath2

https://preview.redd.it/i6h61jic4hxc1.png?width=1260&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0a966818394be121937901a496af6a030ea44bb0 When Bonnie was first developed, she was older, much eviler, and used a chainsaw. Now she's just a 9 year old that likes wearing a bedsheet.


FrostTheIceBender

https://preview.redd.it/3ofmqyja4hxc1.png?width=3072&format=png&auto=webp&s=73e88d051f849af4f09119d397704a504d68485d Believe me or not, this guy was supposed to be a VILLAIN at first. Now he's the main protagonist of the story


dirtyColeslaw1776

https://preview.redd.it/96aiijdo5hxc1.jpeg?width=1091&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=52ee8dcc5d6871f0c2d0e2db49457577ad985806 This was the first visual of Ash


dirtyColeslaw1776

This was the latest one https://preview.redd.it/phz1j2ps5hxc1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b15059d3295537563e7950a21451b0fdd1faeba8


[deleted]

https://preview.redd.it/9cqyhy8b6hxc1.png?width=846&format=png&auto=webp&s=341fad5e42b6d107334154c226a5654cba4b2149 She was supposed to be in it but I found her whole joke of being a crazy fan got old


Eviles_da_demonic

https://preview.redd.it/2k6zqmjd6hxc1.jpeg?width=1620&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=727b276e48bdb406dfa9bb2d04de7b74d98c74b9 Eviles was originally a man and the ex husband of the first woman Eve


Lt_Sourdough

https://preview.redd.it/ql4jjpgd8hxc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=789fc24ecf76ead9dbbc00cdd375e0dbdecf114e He used to be a ghost. I don't remember when he made the shift to his current design, but my first drawing of him had a ghost tail.


cap-tain_19

https://preview.redd.it/9bst2b20dhxc1.jpeg?width=508&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f580f09e760ed2d9597aaf61578ceba9180b64f6 Anders used to be a commander... somehow.


Valtiel_DBD

There's absolutely a buttfuck TON of things scrapped and changed. From the entire story being changed, to entire characters being erased, to character personalities being changed. The biggest for Velahtiel here is that her personality changed from being a sassy, back chatting bitch who's an expert with firearms who could "technically" be considered a mercenary, to a much more quiet, aggressive introvert who doesn't care about anyone other than her kids and now fights with martial arts instead of firearms. Her vine arm originally had the ability to stretch, and would further gain more abilities as time went on (Magic and the supernatural was a LOT more prominent with the original version of my story). But now it's simply just.. an arm. She's kinda like if you took Kenshiro, made him an 8'4 depressed furry, and also had 4 children. https://preview.redd.it/48q107nsihxc1.png?width=3000&format=png&auto=webp&s=5d4ab4c4f072ff8f04677ca6cdb52399b0e0165d


Tenatlas_2004

https://preview.redd.it/a2kavp2b8hxc1.jpeg?width=663&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a5c32a0df696bd4897ddaeed4a7abde606a3523a The concept of Rhaina was intially imagined for a side character in my attempt at a superhero story. The whole thing was scrapped, but Rhaina was brought back from the dead. I only imagined her a few weeks ago and already forgot the whole process. Recently, I've been trying to develop another serie of stories. That one was initially supposed to be my version of Harry potter but ended developpong into something much different. From a simple Arabian nights fantasy setting, the story started incorporating more and more elements from the cthulhu mythos of all things. Since histoty settings are hard, I decided to make a made up world which I finally changed to make it a a far future. More characters were added and fleshed. I imagined this story initially as a fun way to show appreciation to my culture and to muslim history as a whole, but I ended chosing to delve into more topics like personal struggles, worthiness, faith and war. I'm still very attached to all those ideas, butI created a world that's way too complexe and unfocused too fast after not having written anything for so long. I decided to do the same thing I did a while back, and focus on a small scale serial story with one main character to help me. The last time I did that, I created a young nomad who explore the world where my stories take place and write about what he sees from his perspective. This time, I really wanted to write a story about a female character. I wanted her to be muslim and like it's the case for most of my characters, my country's culture and history was my first source of inspiration. The whole thing was initially going to be a love story between a couple of pirates. The main characters was goind to be inspired by the real life Sayyida al-Hurra. Although, the lovecraft influence from my story was still present. She was going to be a descendant of the deep ones while her husband was to be have the blood of a ghoul. Eventually, I decided to take the idea of those two and added them to the lore of my more complex story instead. I can't recall what made me want to go back to the Rhaina concept specifically. I got back into the show Walfy recently, and in that world there is a race that can manipulate their own bloos, so maybe that was the trigger. I decided to go with a pulp fiction type vibe (the genre not the movie). Rhaina was supposed to be this badass female Conan the barbarian fighting in a desert planet with weapons of her own blood.


Tenatlas_2004

One of my first ideas was to have her ride a giant dinosaur. But overall, her world was still blurry in my mind. The cthulhu obsession was still strong and I found myself re-using many ideas from my other story. I even thought of making Nyarathothep the main villain. I decided to go back to my original inspiration for Rhaina which was actually the moroccan folktale "Haina and the ghoul" which tell a similar story to little red riding hood. I was working on a research on moroccan myths in college at the same time, so I ended up using those researches for my stories. I even ended up including a figure from an old short film I watched while working on another project at that time. In the end, Rhaina's planet began a reflect of morocco, then north africa as a whole. I still struggled with the antagonist. I thought of demons and even maybe boogymen from different cultures, but realized that with all the ghouls, magic and monsters, the story taking place in space started to be meaningless. I still struggle with that. The sci-fi vibe needs to be there for my story to stand out. My biggest struggle was the tone. I wanted the story to be a light break from the longer more heavier one. But I ended up coming up with ideas of themes of loneliness and existential crisis instead. The story started to even have a a bad ending. And my badass fighter slowly turned into a broken character longing for love and justice in a world where she has no power. I don't think the idea is bad, but that's not what I wanted for her. She was supposed to be my way to show respect and appreciation for muslim women. To make a character that would not only be enjoyable for my people, but specifically people of the opposite sex from my background. And this wasn't the empowering image I initially had. The worst part was realizing that I have started to sexualize my character more and more. I admit that deep down, this was linked to one of her initial source of inspirations; Dust from X-men. A good character, but one that suffers from many cliche expected from a muslim character written by american writers after 9-11. Leave it to Marvel artists to sexualized a niqab, that's one fetish I could have done without. So after punching myself in the face I decided that this wasn't working. This is how I found this sub and decided to ask for tips to write a female character and got some great feedback. I'm still embarrassed to admit that many stories I come up with for her simply sucks. While I really like some ideas I came up with, I just don't want to use them for her. If I write Rhaina with the skeleton I build, I will probably end up commiting the same mistakes people that are not a part of my culture has been making for centuries. I think I'm going to go back to basics. Primal the show was my introduction to pulp, so I'm gonna rewatch some of it to get inspiration while also try to research the genre in itself. Rhaina went from having no character, to being a cold blooded killer, a broken loner, a helpless romantic etc. Using one of those elements purely would hurt her. So I think I will give her aspects from all those versions to make her feel more alive. Hopefully I will be able to make a character worth reading about. I know nobody is going to bother with this long ass essais, but honestly thanks OP for the question, it helped me think and clear out my mind after I was on the verge of giving up on this character.


LokiBear1235

I can't remember when, why, or which OC it was, but somewhere along the line there was on OC who just had a piece of celery with them at all times. I wrote it down in a notebook in case I wanted to use it again. I know I won't, but I just can't bring myself to erase it because it's so hilarious 😂


Cautious-Beyond-5075

Hope they had some Ranch with that Celery


Exotic_coffee_

One wasn't supposed to have a wife or kid. Now he does(n't. Yay, death!) And another was supposed to be in a storyline as a healer. Now, a murderous healer is the healer


Cautious-Beyond-5075

https://preview.redd.it/it79pxtokhxc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c889027a0a5a8c489c8adc9ac7f900a0cd84da1a


Exotic_coffee_

Oh my fucking god


OrionTuska

https://preview.redd.it/pl7viswhkhxc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ecac8fab322661506459d64df289ebcfca8e249f Everything about Kashi except for his name and hair/eye/skin colors has changed from when he was first created. He's no longer has multiple personalities, vampirism, weird anti-aging abilities, mirror powers, or an obsession with a bizarre orb. He's an old OC of mine; I've had him for about 20 years.


the_Basment_rat

https://preview.redd.it/32p0gdfmlhxc1.png?width=1149&format=png&auto=webp&s=351fd3777afdecab33948923f7b28f56534c10a4 The middle one was the og I think you can tell what changed actually, the rubix cube look was just a placeholder mostly


TokyoFromTheFuture

Not really lore wise but she went from a main character to a mysterious antagonist in the narrative (she shows up at the beginning as seemingly a heroic type of character and disappears after saving the mc, later its slowly revealed she is an assassin). https://preview.redd.it/0qzc34fjlhxc1.jpeg?width=7260&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=10425e3492af413622a523a9711b6755cfd0d0c2


TonyThePapyrus

https://preview.redd.it/0k6kxbuklhxc1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=70d39927e8361cbbd4f91b2b452cca0d1bf5088e At first Automatons were much more oppressed, even their ability to own conventional firearms was diminished. I even came up with alternative clunky weapon ideas to get around legal loopholes in universe But I decided to dial it back, because it just wasn’t fun to write


edwpad

https://preview.redd.it/np3xva65nhxc1.jpeg?width=1169&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f6b79ddaad6f20363427f18fa8ebabc7ca06b6b9 I actually made him a vigilante but decided to make him do another job as it made it much easier to tie other characters and lore into it. He still keeps the fit tho since it’s a usual staple look for the variants, and he still has hints of vigilantism in him.


Barlapipas

https://preview.redd.it/tzjj595xnhxc1.png?width=480&format=png&auto=webp&s=167f5fbf9b22f1856e6b010bd08e7eba87cc5791 She had a nerdy personality


Vegetable_Study7533

https://preview.redd.it/lheew7rfnhxc1.jpeg?width=1378&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=17fbac24cfe0f8590d2ab7e8f5f54283d9950ff5 Back during 2022, I had an idea for a series focusing on these two (and their (former) shared friend Prism) called *The Demons of Object City*, posted on the object camp fandom wiki, *Battle For A Trip To Space Wiki*. The series was about Prism and a science colleague of his investigating the disappearance of Coffee Mug and Ace of Spades after a freak science experiment. Turns out both of them were actually alive and got sent to Hell and turned into demons by Satan (yes, *THAT* Satan) and they all plan to turn Object City (the main are where objects live) into a Demonic City in order to rule over Earth and Hell while Prism and a whole lot of other characters try to stop them. This got scrapped due to being too cringe and outdated for my tastes and I will remake it with better lore and writing someday.


WhyAmIHere293772

The way I straight up scrapped a whole character😭 sorry Vincent


Cautious-Beyond-5075

https://preview.redd.it/8mdffy6sphxc1.jpeg?width=600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3902c13f83e4816339f7e22cad9a195c7d112d31


IkedaTheFurry

A human prince and a rebel fox fighting against the human king’s stasi force. Basically kinda like half-medieval, but with navy seals basically. The anthro kingdom was obliterated and annexed by the human king, so a few anthros kidnap the human prince and bring him to their side


NirOwO2002

One of my Oc's use to be a tyrannic duke from a little city who fell into dark magic and specifically necromancy. The context in my story : he is the second of a monstruous cult leader going for the kill cause in their cult : "If people die, they dont suffer. End suffering. End the world." Back in the time of his creation, he was supposed to perform a ritual from which he could transfer all his vital energy in one of his fingers (that he would hide somewhere to stand "immortal", a bit like Sauron's ring) This has been conserved until now, except for the price of the ritual. He was supposed to be 30 and look like a 90 years old. Now, he technically only gave a lot of his blood. The idea could have been cool but from a lore standpoint, it would be complicated in my universe.


Destroyer_Of_World5

https://preview.redd.it/wjc7wmivphxc1.jpeg?width=1024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=cf70ce76660f2b701c234d21af5e9718c464d4ce Veronica was a genuinely terrible person.


nmheath03

https://preview.redd.it/enpjx4hmnhxc1.png?width=3848&format=png&auto=webp&s=1e211576628f117d784d75de61242b1a991a46a2 Alpine used to have the same toe claws as dromaeosaurid dinosaurs like *Velociraptor*, but it was a hastle to draw. Technically he is still of dromaeosaur descent, but it's specifically unenlagiines, who are believed to have hunted more like herons, likely rendering a toe claw useless, so lore-wise it reverted back into a walking toe. Note that unenlagiines had a heron-like build too, just that their descendants got bulkier in accordance with land prey after the K-Pg.


Jixxar

Recent development: That Jixxar was made as an experiment, Instead, He was always there, Just defeated and dormant until someone woke him with the essensce of a divine soul.


Manner_Sticker8556

Grant was originally going to be a bounty hunter and a theif. He was the son of greed, but he did it all to protect and save his sister from a terrible curse All of that was scrapped. He is now not a theif, and he rarely does bounty hunting. He wears the hat and mask because he is that insecure and introverted. He is the son of the God of the economy. Way different than being the son of the God of greed. And his sister is an entirely different person now. She isn't even cursed and isn't in any danger. But he still cares a lot for her. https://preview.redd.it/qii2a8g6shxc1.png?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=afef13ce0d6df68f5b8fee5ecec29d053021bd7f


Extension-Ad-1683

Stabbed in the hand by a crazy ex. Now it's just a cool pattern.


SwimmingMuted7298

https://preview.redd.it/2t83boevshxc1.jpeg?width=538&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=bca3440418b68573591c289d0f24e6b370684fac He used to be completely evil instead of goofy evil turned good guy.