9 and 10 for the ask game!
(For (x), list of characters here (x))
9 - what oc of yours has had the most drastic redesign?
MMM okay. so part of my design process for ocs is often "can i wrangle a new original guy out of xyz thing i made in a character creator" or "can i make a guy inspired by xyz injoke" so I don't think those should really count. otherwise we'd have to deal with 5-Tonne and Bugsquasher being based on my splatoon player characters LOL. And like, slightly too many characters who were pulled out of being pokemon ocs when i was 12. that's cheating i think
(Similarly, "The Fence" is based on a particularly wide creation from one of the PS2 WWE games)
I try to go into these using the basis as simply Prompts, and treat these as the first "real" designs... So since the whole point of these is to make something unrecognisable I won't count that LOL.
HOWEVER. what I can do is point at characters who have been either subtly rejigged over the years, since my style has evolved for a long while, or talk about the redesigns during my 2021 Overhaul(tm), where I ran through the whole cast and gave them a new fullbody ref. Yes, all basically 70ish (at the time) of the fuckers.
But I think the two highlights from that era of redesign are two dog characters who were really languishing in design back then. Copper and Harley. I wanted to keep them recognisable as a challenge, and I think I did, but man I really cleaned up their designs...
wait stop the fucking presses i just remembered what 2015 tabitha and chrome looked like again. every time i forget. good lord. good lord. 10th birthday soon boys.
10 - name an obscure piece of trivia about any character
Hmm... obscure trivia....
Okay sure. Gabriel was created from one of Lupus' ribs like eve from adam.
or to be more specific: back in 2014, Lupus had a "mean and snarky with a heart of gold" characterisation, which is NOT true now. Now she's a dumb jock who's a delight to be around. this is because when I wanted to design her a Rival Counterpart, I cleft her in twain.
I took her "good-hearted blockhead" traits and kept them, and gave the "sarcastic snark" to Gabe. Eventually the two diverged in characterisation even further and don't even really foil each other anymore, but this along with some other things, mean Lupus is related to several other ocs in an origin-of-species manner.
Damon was also born from Lupus in an attempt to make a rival even earlier on, but was dropped even sooner and shares absolutely nothing but the name. And Lupus being a dog at all comes from her splitting from my lucario pokesona back on roleplay forums (a character who did not survive past 2012 i think). She retains a few traits that are references to this (... her height being one of them. and her aroaceness LOL) but other than that she's very different to me now. I hardly relate to her at all outside of being generally a pretty jolly person.
My current sona comes from that pokesona's mlp form! Not that it even shares their colour pallete!!! That horse is such a ship of theseus...
So i suppose this maybe also counts as a character who is very different from their original design! Just, whatever is going on here.
