I’ve never really had super over powered or Mary Sue characters, except for a few here and there, but GOD did I have some cringe characters back in my day of role playing.
So, let’s go back to a more simple time. Let’s say about 2015, my impressionable eleven year old self is exposed to the internet, where pretty much anything was possible. My first stop was YouTube and the endless stream of content from Minecraft youtubers, particularly SkyDoesMinecraft. I absolutely adored the weird fictional universe him and his friends created where squids were the most hated beings on earth and gold had turned into solid sticks of butter. So thus, my first OC was born.
Meet Madi, my first ever OC and Mary Sue. Madi was more of a self insert than anything, as I didn’t want to seem cringy by straight up putting myself in the story so I had her take my place. As one can imagine, she was pretty much based off me, as I took inspiration from my own life and interests and poured it all into her. I made her the most special, quirky, shy ass character one could possibly create.
She was the daughter of Herobrine (yeah, you read that correctly) and was insanely overpowered. I believe she could teleport, have superhuman strength, and probably whatever power Herobrine had she had too.
And as all children of ridiculously strong dads that are almost on the level of God himself, her childhood is spent without a father figure (like me). She fell into depression (like me) and liked creative things such as art and music to get an escape from that (can you follow the trend yet?). She had short hair, I believe it went down to the shoulder so not that short, and her only friend was I believe a boy named Aiden? Because you know, she’s a tomboy and unlike other girls cause she wears hoodies and headphones and she’s just unique.
Moving past my mistakes, I learn about the game Five Nights at Freddy’s, and sweet Jesus did that just make things worse.
I love the games, and the story and the characters no matter how convoluted it gets, but the characters I created were just awful. I vaguely remember roleplaying with a group of people on instagram with a female child who was supposedly the spirit of Golden Freddy. She could teleport (which I guess isn’t that out of line since she’s a ghost) and just defy another characters actions easily. Like if she’s being picked up she can just slip out of it. I honestly don’t remember much of her, so let’s trek further down memory lane for my last OC before I bore you to death.
I probably had some animatronic OCs, in fact I know I do, I just literally can’t remember their names or anything else, just what they looked like.
Aaaanyyway, moving forward. After I saw the movie Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse for the third time in the theater (it is SUCH a good movie please go watch it) and watched Venom for the seventh time at home, I decided I should make a few characters for my own personal MCU.
Meet Riley, a shy boy just starting high school that is probably the equivalent of Link from Legend of Zelda. Like, seriously, he just doesn’t talk unless he absolutely has to. He has a bandana he uses to cover his mouth for crying out loud. Again, sticking with the “I project on to all my characters until I can flesh them out more” theme, his dad is no where in sight. In Riley’s universe I tried to come up with all this fake science so instead of getting bit by a radioactive spider, the mutation was already in the genes from when he was born and just took time to fully develop. The only reason I did this was because we were learning biology at the time which just made it harder for myself.
After about a month of abandoning all the character I created for this mini passion project, I went back to Riley and changed up a few things. He’s still shy but not so emo anymore with the whole bandana, another one of my characters, Max, acts like his father figure, he’s got an entirely different and much more happy personality now, and his actual father is the villain of the story, so who knew I guess?
So, let’s go back to a more simple time. Let’s say about 2015, my impressionable eleven year old self is exposed to the internet, where pretty much anything was possible. My first stop was YouTube and the endless stream of content from Minecraft youtubers, particularly SkyDoesMinecraft. I absolutely adored the weird fictional universe him and his friends created where squids were the most hated beings on earth and gold had turned into solid sticks of butter. So thus, my first OC was born.
Meet Madi, my first ever OC and Mary Sue. Madi was more of a self insert than anything, as I didn’t want to seem cringy by straight up putting myself in the story so I had her take my place. As one can imagine, she was pretty much based off me, as I took inspiration from my own life and interests and poured it all into her. I made her the most special, quirky, shy ass character one could possibly create.
She was the daughter of Herobrine (yeah, you read that correctly) and was insanely overpowered. I believe she could teleport, have superhuman strength, and probably whatever power Herobrine had she had too.
And as all children of ridiculously strong dads that are almost on the level of God himself, her childhood is spent without a father figure (like me). She fell into depression (like me) and liked creative things such as art and music to get an escape from that (can you follow the trend yet?). She had short hair, I believe it went down to the shoulder so not that short, and her only friend was I believe a boy named Aiden? Because you know, she’s a tomboy and unlike other girls cause she wears hoodies and headphones and she’s just unique.
Moving past my mistakes, I learn about the game Five Nights at Freddy’s, and sweet Jesus did that just make things worse.
I love the games, and the story and the characters no matter how convoluted it gets, but the characters I created were just awful. I vaguely remember roleplaying with a group of people on instagram with a female child who was supposedly the spirit of Golden Freddy. She could teleport (which I guess isn’t that out of line since she’s a ghost) and just defy another characters actions easily. Like if she’s being picked up she can just slip out of it. I honestly don’t remember much of her, so let’s trek further down memory lane for my last OC before I bore you to death.
I probably had some animatronic OCs, in fact I know I do, I just literally can’t remember their names or anything else, just what they looked like.
Aaaanyyway, moving forward. After I saw the movie Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse for the third time in the theater (it is SUCH a good movie please go watch it) and watched Venom for the seventh time at home, I decided I should make a few characters for my own personal MCU.
Meet Riley, a shy boy just starting high school that is probably the equivalent of Link from Legend of Zelda. Like, seriously, he just doesn’t talk unless he absolutely has to. He has a bandana he uses to cover his mouth for crying out loud. Again, sticking with the “I project on to all my characters until I can flesh them out more” theme, his dad is no where in sight. In Riley’s universe I tried to come up with all this fake science so instead of getting bit by a radioactive spider, the mutation was already in the genes from when he was born and just took time to fully develop. The only reason I did this was because we were learning biology at the time which just made it harder for myself.
After about a month of abandoning all the character I created for this mini passion project, I went back to Riley and changed up a few things. He’s still shy but not so emo anymore with the whole bandana, another one of my characters, Max, acts like his father figure, he’s got an entirely different and much more happy personality now, and his actual father is the villain of the story, so who knew I guess?
