[@Mole] Writer's block and AI prompts regurgitating the same output just with different names and personalities, probably.

Cringiest OC outside of my own? Players who cater their characters specifically to romance another or immediately go into "flirt" mode as soon as they've latched onto an interaction. Had it happen to me once way back when. It was genuinely creepy when I realised everyone else was dimsissed with a cold shoulder or threatening remark, and my character got literally paragraphs worth of response. [s]Eww...[/s]

That isn't to say I mind flirty characters or despise potentially romantic dymanics if they genuinely work (or are written from a mature perspective at least), but it just triggers my "Are you getting off to this" response and makes my skin crawl when it's done so blatantly. It's always broody, dark and edgy characters too, weirdly.

As for personal cringe? Well, several kid-like characters with years of assassination experience, broody emos for the sake of brooding and a brief obsession with giving my characters Japanese names even if it didn't fit the setting. That last part I stopped doing pretty fucking quick when I got more into the hobby.