Birdboy

What are some of the most confusing/cringiest OC's you have ever encountered?

So I am currently in a Dragon RP on a nearly dead, completely outdated Dragon Ball forum. I won't give names or anything because I don't want them to find out, but that group is horrendous rps, so bad that it loops back around for me into fun again.

During one iteration of the RP (they frequently restart the RP when it gets 'stale'), I was playing one of my frequent characters. A little six-armed alien loosely inspired by Stitch and the Skitterfolk from Starfinder. He was the smallest character on the board, being like 3'6 or so. He was this weird little purple guy who was very sweet and kind, but had a very short lifespan and was a bit childish. A lot of his story focuses around his species being under the thumb of the Frieza race, and having all the resources from their planet stolen from them. Being one of the strongest of his admittedly weak race and the burden that leaves him with.

One of the players there is seemingly incapable of creativity. Every character he makes boils down to "it's this character but I am writing it" which isn't the worst thing in all honesty, until he decided to take my character. He makes a 2'10 little purple lizard guy from a race that has a short lifespan, so he acts childish. He's also one of the strongest of his race, which is being subjugated by the Freiza race.

Unfortunately, he does not know how to make someone endearing. His childish character is impish if anything. Just causing problems for the sake of it. All but immediately everyone expressed their distaste for this character purely because he acts like a total jerk then bats his lashes and says 'goo goo gaa gaa I'm just a baby'.

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Good is subjective, but I am glad to hear it! You said you were a game dev, btw. That is super cool! Would love to see some of the stuff you've worked on.

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I will warn you now, this is definitely way out of my depth for the coding here on the board. I know enough to get by, but having seen your style it's vibrantly colorful and uses the BBCoding really well. I will try my best to keep up!

The Island of Ascension

Yeah, I am seeing more and more why you would take less combat points, haha! Might even inspire me to do so! I want her to have some level of fighting skills. The kind you might expect from a girl who dives into mosh pits and likes to get rowdy. She's an overly avant-garde artist now, but she comes from grimy, humble origins.

The Island of Ascension

The others seemed to confirm her suspicions. More desperate guttersnipes fending off starvation one fuastian bargin at a time. She was pleasantly surprised by their openness, however. Even the one on the phone loudly proclaimed their predicament, whether they noticed or not. Her smile persisted as she felt the group already finding some level of bond: a veritable plight of the people.

The uncooth vexation from an unprompted compliment did nothing to diminish her smile. It did, however, cause her to look down, as if appraising just how accurate his unprompted comment was. So many of her clothes leaned towards a monochromatic melancholy of blacks, greys, and whites. The few bits of clothing with color she had left behind. None of them would be appropriate attire for the Arctic.

"I think I'd prefer if you used the term 'aesthetic'. My 'look' is purely Ursula," She offered back to the young man, going as far as to offer the boisterous young man a teasing wink.

The attention shifted the moment a new face entered the aerial waiting room. Just by clothes alone, it was clear he was not one of them. Thus entered the man. Before he had even spoken, the energy in the room changed drastically. The things he said ultimately confused her, but Ursula listened intently nonetheless. What they were saying, albeit vague, sounded enticing.

"So you've brought us all here to harness this energy then, but why strangers? Are you looking for side effects?"

The Island of Ascension

I also was unsure about combat skills for this same reason. I tried to give her, like, 1-2 points in a couple of things, basically saying she isn't, like, skilled or anything, but these are her 'preferred' weapons. Given ursula's life she's probably shot a gun before, probably threw more than a few punches in her life, etc.

Adventure is Out There!: An Amazing Digital Circus RP

Ah, so there are two of them though! Nice!

Chamber of Wanderers

No rush gamer

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This sounds so fun! I do have to ask, would I have to be a worf? Could I be a similarly small species?

Your first memorable original character?

I am sure I had some memorable characters from my middleschool/high school days, but most of those are a haze to me. I think the first memorable character I made, the one that makes you give a chefs kiss and want to use them again somewhere else, is my frequent dnd character I play: Durge Blackboot.

Originally, I called him Dirk (I was on a biiiiiig Homestuck rage during my senior year of high school) I picked durge just because I thought Dirge sounded cooler but just happened to spell it wrong. Backstory is always the same: A half-orc raised by the blackboot tribe, Orcs from a sort of wetland/swamp, usually in the north. They get greedy and attack a nearby road until people retaliate and nearly wipe them out.

Durge is out trying to make money for his family. They've relocated and are licking their wounds. It's a fairly standard character, all things considered, but it's delightfully fun to play. I always felt his orc family could be some moral complexity to the character, too. His people are raiders. Is it right for him to help them? I originally played him as a weird multiclass build, trying to fish for big crits. It was baaaaad, and so was that game. I later played him as Durge v1, now as a battlemaster fighter, which is ironic because this version of him kept getting his but kicked by a wandering duelist. Last time I played him he was a paladin, which, while I enjoy paladins, he simply did not act like one.

He was always missing teeth, had a screwed-up nose from breaking it so often, covered in scars. Big burly guy, but just on the taller end of humans, closer to 6'5 ot so. He always had long, shaggy hair that really needed to be cleaned/combed. He was a pretty rugged guy, but kind overall, if a bit simple. As a guy who writes all the time, I kept using big words, which had people in character asking 'where did you learn that?' or 'wow, wasn't expecting that' so I started making him smarter than he acts. Not that he's some genius but he purposefully plays a little dumb to seem less dangerous to the people he would probably eat if he got hungry enough.

Overall, I liked playing him because he was a tough enough guy to see him fail. More often than not, his sheer endurance was what made him stand out. A Dirk, he beat Domn, a paladin with some lucky crits, and he always just completely floundered in his rivalry with that duelist, and as a paladin, he all but single-handedly took on a veritable army of goblins while the other players didn't engage.