Clairé vs. Twila
Voting ended onFeb 2, 2024
Clairé [@fagbearentertainment] (she/her)
She’s 11 years old, part demon, and was locked up and experimented on in a lab after she killed her family. She was rescued from the lab by another oc of mine, a journalist named Charlie, and they ran away together to be happy. Claire was really edgy and angst ridden over being traumatized from the lab and killing her family tho so no happy endings. She might’ve also been possessed I can’t remember now lol
Twila [@polygonstars] (she/her)
So, I made Twila as a kid when I first started getting into spritework on the original Pokéfarm forums (PF1, for those familiar with the sites), as a basic recolor of Espeon with Umbreon's palette, and because I was a big Orre fan she just sort of. Stuck around? She at one time had a whole plot revolving around Shadow Pokémon and all, but these days she's just sort of drifted off and become her own standalone Pokémon fancharacter. I still have her and draw her occasionally, including having used a PMD-based portrait piece of her has my avatar here and there, and she remains my oldest OC to this day.
She's gone through her fair share of revamps, one to add in Umbreon's markings to give her a bit more going on design-wise, and one swapping her palette to Umbreon's shiny colors for character reasons - She was always intended to be an Eevee who evolved as the sun set, taking on the general shape of an Espeon but with the coloration of an Umbreon, who ended up being shunned and cast out for it, and I eventually opted to make her a shiny one to really highlight the contrast of her life as this ~special rare precious shiny Eevee~ with where she ended up. I don't really remember much of its original iteration any more, but what little exists of the actual plot of her story these days has formed around themes of the process of finding a place and people that accept her as she is now, rather than the ones who simply saw her as a sort of trophy in her youth, and recovering from the trauma of her rejection and exile and the ways it's impacted her as a person, which, if I were to properly flesh it out again, would likely tie into Shadow Pokémon and the process of purification being not unlike that of recovering from trauma in general.
Anyway, all that said, Twila! My oldest surviving OC. I think she deserves a prize just for the fact that she's still around and relatively intact, at least on a conceptual level.
