show off your OCs, NOW!!!!

[ast0naut]

i find the lack of people talking about their ocs disturbing, talk about them incessantly here and discuss

i'll go first. i think my angery boy has been in the spotlight for long enough already so i'll show off the gal....


Octavia (she used to have a last name, but she scratched it out of the book of life)
25 years old, first female Archangel of the Heavens, ascended after a grueling time in a hellish infinite penitentiary and having an old man angel stuck inside her head. I think getting a robo-gf also contributed to her ascension but what do I know about ascending.

She was initially a low-ranking tech-priest who worked under the military branch of the Britannic Knights, earning minimum wage and eating slop from shitty markets on her day-to-day. After a holy artifact binding ritual that was disrupted by demons, she got herself a shiny new angelic robo-body. Unfortunately, the armor had another occupant, the Archangel Michael. Obviously, she wasn't supposed to be in there so he got kind of pissy, but beggars can't be choosers, so he made do with what he had.

One way or another, she got transported to the Midwich Infinite Penitentiary by the demon, had to learn that to live is to fight, met a cute robot girl, lost hope in everything and got possessed, regained her humanity and became more powerful than ever, and became the first female angel in the universe. She also found family down there, so that's also good. Now she just chills out wherever and whenever with the old man angel Michael and her gal pal Alice.


[Michael is the armored guy with a cape and long hair. Alice is the shorter robot girl. Also, mouthless Octavia, her old design.]

She's a character I came up with for the Midwich OCT, but I only made it to round 2, and plans to continue her's and Alice's story didn't go through cus me and BrandiniPanini, Alice's creator were pretty busy then. The bit after she met Alice is just a short write-up of what would've happened if I went through with the story.

ANYWAY, she fucking loves lemon cakes (even though she doesn't need to eat) and she listens to heavy metal. Dethklok, Wolves In The Throne Room, Jinjer, all that good stuff. Ol' grandpa Michael don't approve.



So yeah, Octavia. Cool girl. I don't draw her enough.


Your turn.

[ast0naut]

Ok well since people are still real shy, I'll post another one of mine. This guy, I'm really proud of him.

Say hello to good ol' Doc Ruwin. Professional pediatrician. Top tier field medic. Very dangerous spec-ops agent.



Oh yeah, I forgot that he's also a really grumpy old man. He's about 49 years old on his comics appearance. A heavy smoker that'll light a cig every chance he gets. He has his trusty Sony Walkman WM-3 on him at all times, being a hardcore cassette tape cultist. Listens way too much to Fleetwood Mac and Creedence Clearwater Revival. Slowly warming up to Nu-metal. He might appear to be a cold, uncaring person, but he does care. He just doesn't like to show it. It's either that or he's REALLY bad at showing that he cares. Either way, he's a doctor you can rely on. If you have money, even better.

Long story short, a Vietnam vet. Did some questionable things there during his stint on a special operations unit. Tried to expose the dirty government secrets but didn't go well and went to prison. Got bailed out by a super shady biotechnics company and is now working for them. He has a deeper history, but you'll have read the files for that one.

I came up with him for the Zombie Escape OCT. Initially, the character I came up with was a Johnny Cage-esque character called David Flass. The guy's thing would be that he's under the impression that the whole zombie apocalypse is a movie shoot and it would be played straight the whole run of the OCT.
A few problems though.
I couldn't finalize his design, I don't really know how to start and end his story in a satisfying but funny way, and there's already another character in the OCT that looks like him. So he was scrapped for another day.


Going back to Ruwin, he's the first character I've finished an OCT with, and for that he has a really special place in my heart, and in the hearts of the other ZEOCT participants apparently because he's a babygirl??? I have absolutely no idea how this happened, but I just rolled with it, and it was excellent. He was even nominated as one of the ZEOCT prom queens lmao, but he lost to another competitor, GG.

Drawn by @Cinochecker, check her stuff out, banger.

And somehow, he also won the heart of one of the judges, earning him the Caboose Award. I didn't think this guy would be anything special, but man he evolved way out of my hands during the entire run of the OCT.

Drawn by @Meiidiocre, a true goat. Check her stuff out.

What a fuckin' guy this old man is. This is why we do OCTs ladies and gentlemen.

Read his comics and lore here.

[polo.]

Well, Birdkid is taking longer than I thought to sus out a design for so here's a quick sketch I made of some other OCs of mine while listening to some Bigband music:


These three are the children of a first generation immigrant couple from India to the UK, who moved to the UK some time in the late 70s. There, their parents set up an Indian restaurant and had their first child, Rani, sometime in the late 80s. Eventually, Ramesh came along and then finally, Raj.

It was not soon after that their mother died of cancer.

The father was now left to manage the restaurant himself and raise three unruly kids. Eventually, Rani became old enough to help him out. However, one mysterious Tuesday, Rani came to work only to discover he had vanished without a trace. How selfish of him.

Forced to leave their various ways of life, they were left to take over their parents' restaurant which had suddenly come under the ownership of a strange benefactor. They suspect their father may have done some under-handed deal and then scarpered.

In birth order, we got:

Rani - The eldest and most Hot Tempered of the three. She takes on a lot of burden, having now become the manager and reluctant boss to her siblings. She'll often been seen barking orders at them and trying to keep the place running, even if that means asking Raj to do 90% of the work but hey, someone has to see the problems no one else can. All she really wants to do is hang out with her boyfriend and throw on the latest Taylor Swift, Ed Sheeran, or Beyoncé album.

Ramesh - The middle child and complete opposite to Rani. He just wants to chill out when he can, at least when he is not being the head chef. He was originally study cooking technologies and looking to become a world-renowned chef of his own before he was called back the restaurant at the behest of his sister. Eager not to lose the thing his parents put their heart and soul into (and to not anger his sister) he eventually relented and returned. He could work to be The Best Chef there anyway.

Raj - The youngest and most anxious of the three. This guy just cannot keep his head on straight. He went university and planned to go into the medical field, intent on helping in some small way to find a cure for cancer in spite of his nervous disposition. Eventually, he gave university up for reasons only known to him and returned to help out with his sister and brother. Constantly trying to support Rani at the front of house and Ramesh in the back of house, he scrambles to get the customers what they want. In fact, he's pretty sure 95% of these customers might secretly be monsters.

Together, they struggle to keep their parents' restaurant afloat as their strange benefactor demands only the best service in the world.

Have some bonus old pixel-art, circa 2015, of Raj:

[Masterschiief]

So, this is maybe my longest-running OC who started out very different to who he is now. From non-werewolf to werewolf, from nervous wreck with tendencies to all-out-mindless-rage-attacks to jaded but still way to caring officer of the law. His name ist Jargon Schneidgut (in english it would be Jargon Cutwell).

Human form


(Were)wolf form


With some annotations:

[Masterschiief]

Lost in the Castle dimension, the Hunter - one of those who call themselves Dawn-Eyed - was once a scientist and spiritual guide. Highly trained in telepathy and the study of noncorporeal entities, she discovered that the cause for her peoples' downfall was an invader from another dimension - a concept formerly completely alien to all her kind. She simply named it The Evil. Corruption and malice were a familiar human fault, present in most people to a certain degree. But The Evil amplified whatever negative emotions were present, and after finding a way to invade someones' mind, made them a puppet in world-ending machinations of endless conflict. And here, it could easily find victims. Mayn Dawn-Eyed had open minds and psychic abilites, drawing energy from the unseen world and incorporating it into their bodies. It was their way of life, and few had trained to block off mental energies or filter out certain aspects. Thus, The Evil spread and soon wreaked havoc. Those who realized what was happening tried to limit their use of their psychic abilites, which left them powerless to fight.
For fifty years, a bloody and irrational war raged between those who got corrupted and everyone else.
The Hunter, soon realizing that the Dawn-Eyed would not stand a chance, tried to find a way to escape. She built a construct designed to make travel between dimensions possible, thinking that if she found the source of The Evil, she could end its influence. After fifty years, at the brink of the Dawn-Eyeds complete annihilation, she had finally finished storing enough psychic energy in the construction itself to power it.
Right as a troop of Evil-infested warriors broke into her laboratory, she activated the device and vanished, travelling to the dimension we know as the "Castle" dimension. Here, where she can sense the aeon-old influence of The Evil still lingering, she has sworn to become its hunter and its killer.

[Masterschiief]

This is my oldest OC, from around 2003-2004. Mayor and/or head of state to a species of sentient robots, this guy blends in and has grown to love his subjects.



I decided to also post his most popular (secret) all-purpose fighting shape.