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Some OC questions

1. Your first OC ever?

My very, very first OC, I think I've mentioned before, was Jackylyn Skellington, who was Jack and Sally's daughter.

2. Do you have a personal favourite among your OCs?

MORGAN. Morgan is legitimately the nicest OC I've ever made. He was initially Victor Van Dort's son from my very first fanfiction series. He has a big scar on his cheek and two different colored eyes because I was 12 and he had to be THE MOST SPECIAL. But despite his edgelord appearance, he was the sweetheart of all my OCs. 

A shoutout also goes out to Sirius Skellington, Jackylyn's adopted twin/fiance (because you don't think about how creepy that is when you're 11), who has pretty much been the inspiration for every male character I've ever written.

3. Have you ever adopted a character or gotten a character from someone else?

I haven't really adopted an OC, but I've used characters with very little backstory and kind of made them into my OCs: Puck, Victor Trevor, and Gaster are the main ones.

4. A character you rarely talk about?

Hoo, I've got a lot. One that I secretly love is Leslie Hatter (nee Couer-rouge or something like that), who was the Mad Hatter's successor in a very edgy Alice in Wonderland story I was writing. He was lovely and complex, but the story was 3edgy5me.

5. If you could make only one of your OCs popular/known, who would it be?

WHY DO THIS TO ME. But probably Edrys, my murder-goblin. Everyone would love Edrys.   

6. Two OCs of yours that look alike despite not being related?

Um...I can't think of any, actually. The guys are mostly tall and skinny, and the girls are mostly short and sassy, but they don't look all that similar. 

7. Are your OCs part of any story or stories?

ALL OF THEM. Jackylyn, Sirius, and Morgan were all part of a series I wrote on a little Nightmare Before Christmas fansite back when fansites were still a thing.

Caena and Edrys are the main characters of "Troubadour", which is the script I wrote for my Masters.

Obvs Meg is from "Things Bright and Fine," and so are Puck and Alicia.

Hatter (and Lacie) are from the previously mentioned 3edgy story.

THERE'S MORE BUT THESE ARE JUST THE ONES I'VE MENTIONED IN THIS POST.

8. Do you RP as any of your OCs? If you do, introduce one of your RP OCs here!

Just Victor Trevor. He's Sherlock's Uni friend/boyfriend (depends who I'm RPing with) and he loves dogs, rugby, and tea.

9. Would you ever be willing to give any of your OCs to someone else?

NO.

10. Introduce an OC with a complicated design?

 Oh, god. I need to think...I suppose Jackylyn might be, only because she's a living ragdoll. But most are either just people or living corpses. 

11. Is there any OC of yours you could describe as a "sunshine"?

MORGAN. 

12. Name an OC that isn't yours but who you like a lot.

I really love ANinnyMouse42's Dr. Jeff. He puts up with so much and needs a vacation and a mai-tai.

13. Do you have any troublemaker OCs?

PUCK. Also Jackylyn. She's a bad influence on literally everyone she interacts with.

14. Introduce an OC with a tragic backstory.

THEY ALL HAVE TRAGIC BACKSTORIES. Y'all are already seeing Gaster's. Um...let's go with Morgan's--I've updated some bits.

Morgan Van Dort is the middle child of Victor and Victoria Van Dort (from Corpse Bride. Look at my username, you shouldn't be surprised), and he lived with his parents and his sisters Lenore and Emma. He was born HORRIBLY DISFIGURED, but the doctors were able to fix his face, just leaving a scar behind. He was self-conscious about it, despite being totes hot even with the scar. 

I WAS TWELVE.

15. Do you like to talk about your OCs with other people?

YES. But I don't get the chance to usually because they're not all that exciting to people who aren't me. That's why I do these ask memes. 

16. Which one of your OCs would be the best at biology (school subject)?

Um...Meg??? She's getting a degree in pharmaceutical engineering, so?

17. Any OC OTPs?

JAX x MORGAN 5EVA. 

(Also Palatino and Lucida, which I'll be writing about soon)

18. Any OC crackships?

I have one for Things Bright and Fine but I can't talk about it yet. 

I guess my weird implied Gaster/Toriel, too. I'd love to expand on that, but it would be from completely fucking nowhere and doesn't work at all. :(

19. Introduce an OC that means a lot to you (and explain why)

Jackylyn Tristanne Skellington has been 7 years old, 14 years old, and 19 years old. She has thick black stitches covering her pale white skin, large, black glass eyes, and white-blonde hair that is either cropped short or falls to her waist (never in-between). Initially, she was created as a helper for Dr. Finklestein, since Sally had gone off with Jack, but Jack and Sally decided she would be better off with them instead.

She's been the princess of Halloween Town, she's hung out with Sora and co. and gone on adventures between the worlds, she had a brief stint as a character in an original work--I've even, in an allergy-induced haze, made the crackiest backstory as to how she could possibly know Sans and Papyrus because why not, she's been literally everything else. 

She's fun and outgoing and short-tempered and surprisingly wise and a hopeless romantic and a fashion guru and horribly, heart-wrenchingly honest, and I absolutely adore her because I project everything I want to be onto her, but I don't feel inadequate because she's like an old friend at this point.

One day I'll have to find a way to use her, because she's practically a person after all this time.

20. Do any of your OCs sing? If they sing, care to share more details (headcanon voice, what kind of songs they like etc)?

Naturally all my OCs sound exactly like Gerard Way. 

Sirius, though, actually is that douchebag who brings his guitar everywhere. He likes Classic Rock--Queen, Pink Floyd, Rolling Stones, etc.--and, since I was 13-14 when I was constantly writing about him, he sounds like Tyson Ritter, from All American Rejects.

21. Your most artistic OC

Most artistic goes to...ooh, that's actually hard. I'm gonna say Meg. She sews a lot and sketches out outfit/cosplay ideas.

22. Is there any OC of yours people tend to mischaracterize? If yes, how?
Lol, no one talks about my OCs.

23. Introduce OC that has changed from your first idea concerning what the character would be like?

Um...Sirius was initially just shoved in as Jackylyn's twin because I wanted her to have a twin. He ended up becoming this deep, angsty young man with a paralyzing fear of responsibility who runs whenever faced with something he doesn't think he can handle, and I wrote a whole big story (long gone now :() about how he came to terms with his responsibilities as Pumpkin King and faced his fears.

24. If you could meet one OC of yours, who would it be and why?

JACKYLYN. WE WOULD TALK ABOUT EVERYTHING. WE HAVE ALMOST 20 YEARS OF STUFF TO TALK ABOUT.

25. The OC that resembles you the most (same hobby, height, shared like/dislike for something etc?)

I actually had a self-insert I used in all of my stories/RPs on tnbc.eu. Her name was Vanessa Clarise Van Dort--she went by V.C. (because my name on the site was VictorsChick, and I went by V.C.)--and she was Victor's sister and was a vampire and was dating Sirius.

26. Have you ever had to change your OC's design or something else about them against your will?
Not really, no. The closest I can think of is that, when I first wrote Sirius, he was supposed to have silver eyes (because stars, lol), but I'd just read a fic about a guy with black hair and blue eyes, so I wrote "blue eyes" without thinking and couldn't go back.

27. Any OCs that were inspired by a certain song?

A majority of Hatter's personality was figured out while listening to this:

And Caena and Edrys--my two characters from my script--were initially thought of with "King and Lionheart" by Of Monsters and Men.

28. Your most dangerous OC?

Edrys, the murder goblin.

29. Which one of your OCs would go investigate an abandoned house at night without telling anyone they're going?

Jackylyn.

30. Which one of your OCs would most likely have a secret stuffed animal collection?

Edrys. She says she uses them for target practice, but she cuddles with all of them.

31. Pick one OC of yours and explain what their tumblr blog would be like (what they reblog, layout, anything really)

Morgan would have a super hipster art tumblr.

32. Which one of your OCs would be the most suitable horror game protagonist and why?

Edrys. Because she's a murder goblin.

33. Your shyest OC?

A lot of them, actually. I'm actually gonna say Gaster on this one.

34. Do you have any twin characters?

JACKYLYN AND SIRIUS, WHO ARE THE BEST ADOPTED TWINS.

35. Any sibling characters?

Morgan, Lenore, and Emma are all siblings. 

36. Do you have OC pairs where the other part belongs to someone else (siblings, lovers, friends etc)?

Um...not really, actually. 

37. Introduce an OC who is not quite human

WHICH FUCKING ONE, BUDDY.  WE GOT YA VAMPIRES, YA SKELETONS (NOT EVEN COUNTING GASTER), YA CORPSES, YA FAIRIES, YA CHANGELINGS, YA RAGDOLLS, YA PERSONIFICATIONS-OF-DEATH, YA GHOSTS. TAKE YOUR PIC.

38. Which one of your OCs would be the best dancer?

Morgan.

39. Introduce any (three) character(s) you want

Remember that 3edgy Alice story? Here's an excerpt. I might be tempted to go back to it, but also holy crap, the edge when I describe Hatter.

~

"The question isn't who's there, it's who's here," came the voice. A thin, black and grey tabby jumped down to a nearby branch. Lacie jumped. The cat had an odd glint to its eyes, but what really caught her off-guard was the cat's huge, pointy grin. It looked slightly devious, to put it lightly.

"Was it you who talked?" Lacie asked. The cat tilted its head, still grinning. She had never seen a cat smile before, and it was quite unsettling.

"Was it I? It might have been, it might not have been," the cat said. "Cheshire Cats have been known to speak as well as grin."

"Oh, you're the Cheshire Cat!" Lacie cried. The Cheshire Cat grinned more broadly.

"And you're an Alice," he said. Lacie cocked her head.

"An Alice? No...I'm Lacie," she said, confused.

"One and the same," the Cat said, jumping to another branch. "Both of you are and were Alices, and both of you are and were mad."

"Mad?!" Lacie was insulted. The Cat's grin didn't waver.

"Of course you're mad. You wouldn't be here otherwise. If I weren't mad, I wouldn't be here, either." The Cat arched backward and licked his back. "Lucky for me, all cats are mad."

"Is that why you run around the room chasing nothing at all?" Lacie asked. The Cat looked back at her, grinning approvingly.

"You catch on quick," he said. "But no doubt you've got questions."

"How would you know?" Lacie asked.

"Madmen see things the sane never do," the Cat stated, as if quoting an old mantra, and perhaps it was, but that didn't help Lacie.

"Well, then maybe you can answer them," she said. The Cat let out a laugh.

"Oh, no, not I! The mad see things they cannot say," he said.

Lacie frowned. This Cat was starting to piss her off. "Then how am I supposed to learn anything around here?!"

The Cat sent her a smile that was slightly insane, as if he knew a dark secret that no one else could know. "Well, if you want any answers, you might want to start with the Hatter. He's quite the know-it-all in these parts."

"Wait, what do you...?" Lacie trailed off as the Cheshire Cat suddenly disappeared, though his grin remained.

"The Hatter. Look around, you're bound to find someone of the name," the grin said, then faded away. Lacie huffed.

"Hatter? How am I supposed to know where the Hatter is?" she said impatiently, turning on her heel and storming away. "Ow!"

In her annoyance, Lacie had walked right into a pole of some sort. She rubbed her head and looked at it. Her eyebrows rose as she read the arrow pointing to the left.

"Ohh...right. The Mad Hatter. The one who had tea with rabbits and mice," she murmured to herself. "Well, better him than that psychotic Cat."

She walked down the road, following where the arrow had pointed her, until she reached a small little cottage. She frowned as she walked through the gate.

"I thought there was a table set for teatime," she said quietly.

"That's the March Hare's house. And most people find it rude when one walks in without invitation."

Lacie jumped and turned around. Sitting on a small wall was a young man, maybe about eighteen or so, with a large black top hat with a scarlet ribbon around it atop his head. His clothing—a red frockcoat over a grey vest and a white button-down, a pair of black slacks with faint silver pinstripes, a black ascot, and a golden pocketwatch and chain—was very old-fashioned; Victorian, Lacie guessed. He studied her with dark eyes, then took a sip from the teacup in his hand.

But...this couldn't be the Mad Hatter. From her great-grandmother's sketches, the Mad Hatter had been a short, older man, with rather wild, curly white hair. But, as stated earlier, this man was quite young, rather tall and slender, and had deep red, almost black, hair, which was rather thick and a bit long. The only similarities between this Mad Hatter and the Mad Hatter from the sketches were the freckles sprinkled across their nose and cheeks, and even then the sketch-Mad Hatter's were more erratic than this Mad Hatter's. He looked up at her again and raised his dark eyebrows.

"Well, Alice? Are you going to say something, or are you waiting to have a fly to go with your tea?" he asked.

"I...I'm not Alice. I'm Lacie," Lacie stuttered. The Mad Hatter rolled his eyes.

"You can change the hair, you can change the age, and you can change the spelling, but you can never change an Alice," he said, carefully balancing his saucer and teacup on his knee.

"How...how would you even know I'm an Alice?" Lacie asked.

"Well, you've got that curiosity in the eyes. That always gives away when you're an Alice. Secondly, you knew that there was a tea party. Thirdly, your clothes tell me you're from the W.A.G..."

"W.A.G?"

"The World Above Ground. Finally, the Cat told me," the Mad Hatter said with a lopsided grin.

"Let me guess, you knew my great-grandmother," she said. "She was the real Alice."

"Yeah, I've heard of her."

"Heard of her? She was at your tea party!"

"Oh, no, not my tea party."

"What?! But you're the Mad Hatter!"

The Mad Hatter scowled. "You're a rude girl, aren't you? Some people actually find it offending when you call them mad."

Lacie put her hands on her hips. "Well, whatever you'd like to be called, weren't you at the tea party with the March Hare and the Dormouse?"

"Oh, no, not me. I was still an apprentice, then. That was the original Hatter. Speaking of which, I'm just the Hatter. I'm not mad at all, well, not more than anyone else here."

"What happened to him? The first Hatter, I mean."

"Queen got to him." The Hatter raked his thumb across his neck, then pulled down his hat over his head, making the illusion of him having lost his head. "Off went his head, hat and all. Then the March Hare, and the Dormouse...that bloke was lucky, slept through the whole thing...the other two weren't as fortunate..."

"That...that's awful..." Lacie gasped. "Why'd she do that to all of them?"

The Hatter pulled up his hat again, looking at Lacie with wide eyes. "Not just them...the Duchess, her cook, the Gryphon, the Mock-Turtle, all of them..."

"Why?!" Lacie cried.

"Well...the Queen's gone rather loony since your grand-mama left Wonderland. Her prisoner's gone with a verdict but no sentence. That's never happened before. So she's trying to get her back by killing off everyone who's come in contact with Alice..."

~

40. Any fond memories linked to your characters? Feel free to share!

I used to write hugely long stories about V.C., Sirius, Morgan, and Jackylyn all throughout high school. It was my favorite thing to do. I keep looking for the flash drive with all of them on it, but I haven't been able to find it. I came up with so many fun storylines.

  41. Has anyone drawn fanart of your OCs? If yes, maybe show a picture or two here (remember sources & permissions!) 

I was about to say no, but then I remembered that me and a few of my friends on tnbc.eu would write stories about all of us partying in Halloween Town, and I found THIS. 

My OC/self-insert VC's the vampire at the top, and the other two are Ky and Jer, self-inserts for two of my friends from the site. Ky did the art.

(I wonder where she is sometimes. We were besties back in the day; I hope she's doing well.)

42. Which OC would be really into Greek gods?

MORGAN FUCKING LOVES GREEK MYTHS.

43. Do you have any certain type when you create your OCs? Do you tend to favour some certain traits or looks? It's time to confess

90% of them look straight out of a Tim Burton movie, including the ones who were not from a Tim Burton movie. Also, all of my girls are either ridiculously tall (Jackylyn) or ridiculously short (Edrys).

44. Something you like about your OCs in general

They're INTERESTING. I love writing all of them because there's something interesting about all of them. It's always a challenge and a joy.

45. A character you no longer use?

I don't use most of the ones I've talked about in this. I keep trying to find ways to use Jackylyn, Sirius, and Morgan, but I haven't found the right place for them yet.

46. Has anyone ever told you that you treat your OCs badly?

Aside from when I murdered 7 interns and scarred Gaster for life figuratively and literally? No, actually.

47. Has anyone ever (friendly) claimed any of your OCs as their child?

No, though I've been told that a few of them were pretty smexy back in the day.

48. OC who is a perfect cinnamon roll, too good for this world, too pure

MORGAN DESERVES NOTHING BUT THE BEST, HE'S SO KIND.

49. Which one of your OCs would most likely enjoy memes

Jackylyn purely so that she could send them to Sirius on Facebook constantly. Especially when they're sitting right next to each other.

50. Give me the good ol' OC talk here. Talk about anything you want

JACKYLYN AND SIRIUS AND MORGAN HAVE SUCH A WONDERFUL INTERESTING DYNAMIC AND FRIENDSHIP AND I WANT TO FIND A WAY TO USE THEM IN ORIGINAL WORK BECAUSE THEY WERE SO FUN TO WRITE BACK IN THE DAY.

If you see this, you're tagged. You have to write about your OCs. It's the law.