Am I doing this just so I have an excuse to screm about my babies?...Yes. Yes I am.

As far as "first OC ever made" it's easily Tykar. He first started showing up when I was back in elementary school, and I've been developing him ever since.

As far as my newest OC, I guess it would be Sevel, a.k.a "Squint", the NPC I made for the Dragon Age one-shot I ran. Wasn't a part of the one-shot as-written and I fleshed him out myself (but don't tell my party that)

Favorite? Oof, that's a hard one. It tends to switch between whichever I'm most excited about at the moment, and while I do admittedly have OCs like Tykar that I'm more personally attached to, I don't think it's fair to to say I have a singular favorite.

Favorite design? Went through as many as I could find and I definitely love my design for Rixian Sunspear (or just "Rixi", that works too). It really reflects his sunny sweet personality and it just makes me smile seeing his beautiful sunny expression.

F*ck it. I'm gonna keep screaming about it, whether or not anyone else bothers to care.

Reason for making OCs? While I do make some for a specific purpose, most of them just kick down the door to my brain and waltz in like they own the place, asking for the wifi password. Some will make themselves known as I develop a story, but it's mostly random encounters.

It usually feels like I'm being fed information from them, and it's my job to note it down. Drawing them feels like I'm making them visible to everyone, not just to myself. Cryptic, I know, but it is how it feels to me.

Maaaaayyyyyyybe

A few. Lyrien and Kuran are my favorite power couple, and I'll let you guess how the second image relates to that particular ship (because spoilers).

Is a vampire who's obsessed with the (in-cannon) myth of Dracula and tries to emulate him, despite being nothing like him, and gets around his allergy to anything Fae by wearing a hazmat suit weird enough for you?

Gotta go with Krothos for this one. He's the main baddie of my story The Sun Child Saga; a crazy old god who was stripped of his physical form and imprisoned in Tartarus. There he waits in the dark for the time when he is foretold to escape and wreak his vengeance upon the world.

Am I nice to my OCs? Probably nicer than some are, but I still like to give them some kind of emotional conflict to deal with.

For example: Cor here does loose his parents and foster parents, but I wanted to let him at least have his grandfather stay alive by the end. (1/2)

However, he's from a story that's a colab between me and others, and my colab partners decided it'd be better if the grandfather died as well.

Sorry buddy, it wasn't my idea. (2/2)

...considering that on the document listing all of the characters in one of my stories, I include a note stating if the character lives or dies by the end of the story, this is a loaded question...also spoilers...

Yeah, a few parents here. Some are obvious, some, less so.

Too many, it's a part of having as many as I do. One in particular is a character who I've been dying to work on, but I've had to focus on other characters who are due to appear much sooner instead, and it makes me feel like such a bad parent because I want to see them so bad.

Varax is a difficult one to RP, especially since he's the only character I've ever played who's officially listed as anything evil aligned. It took a while to really find any depth to him, but after finishing a campaign with him, he's earned a special place in my heart.

Tykar and Si are the ones that first come to mind, as they're the perfect Mutt and Jeff pair, with Tykar being 9' and Si being 5'5". But Crysi and Thallon are both even taller than Tykar, with Crysi being 9'4" and Thallon being 9'7".

The youngest would probably be Tykar's younger sibs (especially Bachia), and the oldest would be Ikull, Firaga and Anikara, the ancient elemental spirits of water, fire and the soul respectfully.

It's an out-of-date design, but I loathe Collin Cain with depths I never though possible. It's not like I like any of my villain OCs the way I like my heroes, but at least Vlad is goofy, and Krothos and I at least have an understanding. But seriously, f*ck this guy.

I've never intentionally made a self-insert, but some of my characters certainly owe some of their traits to me, so I guess it happened by accident?

I often get feelings of regret that I'm not depicting my characters right, and that they deserve so much better. Depression's a b, but I love these guys and I want to do them justice.

Odd Face was a surprise because I was so unsure about him when I first started RPing as him, but my friends ended up loving him. Bear was a similar case, but he proved to be such a precious sweet baby that I've had several people tell me that they're really invested in his story.

Last but not least, Seraphim was the one who caught me by surprise. The more I worked on him, the more he proved to be a sweet and noble heart, and now he's become the PoV character and the emotional core of his story.

Well, that's the last of them! To those who interacted with this thread, thank you! It's nice to know that someone else is interested in my babies. I hope the rest of you enjoy learning about the OCs I featured here, and I hope that you like them as much as I do!