#writeblr ocs

If you're struggling with breathing life into your OC's, try this funny yet stupidly simple trick/writeblr tag game I just came up with. I call it the 'Roast Your OCS and Make It Into a Title' tag game. 🤣

So, we've all heard of fictional character archetypes and stereotypes that are often present in fiction, right? We all know it's not good to have shallow, surface level characters that have no complexity or nuance to their personalities, because real life humans contain multitudes, contradictions, and are in general very complicated beings.

Throw all that shit out for this exercise and toss it into the trash! 🗑️ In this tag game, we're gonna be reducing all our OC's to the most basic, mundane, stereotypical/archetypal renditions of themselves and making it Fit Into a Title!

Here's an example of my main character + his besties from my Science Fantasy WIP:

Cold and Stoic Pretty Boy Loaner With Social Anxiety and Unhealed Trauma Tries to Save His Sister

Disowned Goth Femme Fatale With Bitchy Yet Gentle Attitude Is Socially Neglected and Cries A Lot

Occasionally Serious Himbo City Boy Cop Tries and Fails to Fight Crime With Therapy and Rehabilitation

Snobby Know-It-All Imperial Man Who Somehow Has Both A Superiority and Inferiority Complex

Protective Amazonian Lesbian Sadist Who Will Absolutely Step On You and Ruin Your Life Forever

Gifted Slutty Bisexual Boy Genius Is Hiding a Dark Secret and Is Very Zesty (Rude) About It

For this tag game I'm gonna be tagging A LOT of people but mainly people who've interacted with me recently. Free to reblog if you see this on your dash, even if you're not tagged. I find this shit HILARIOUS and I would love to see what everyone manages to come up with! No pressure at all if you don't wanna participate, this is all just for fun. ❤️😊

@in-heavens-trenches @revenantlore @cupandquillcafe @fattybattysblog @eames-with-a-rose

@gailynovelry @kestalsblog @dru-reads-writeblr @druidx @indigowriting

@diabolical-blue @writercoracain @tildeathiwillwrite @craig-h-stuart @illarian-rambling

@coarsely @rjcopeseethemald @jackiezenauthor @squarebracket-trickster @kaylinalexanderbooks

@pen-of-roses @flock-from-the-void @sarandipitywrites @buffythevampirelover @imsaanvikhanna

@songsofsomnia @shadow-of-tea-and-tea @owlsandwich @faeriecinna @hauntedluminarybbq

@sarahlizziewrites @ayzrules @rickie-the-storyteller @janec23

If you want some extra help you can also look up character stereotypes/archetypes like I did. There's hundreds of blog posts about this topic but here's some helpful links so you can judge/roast your OC's to your heart's content:

This is a new one from and it sounds fun as hell! Thanks to @moonandris for including me in the inaugural tag!

Rules: Cynically call out any number of your original characters for their basic archetypical traits and how those relate to their role in the plot, in the form of a title!

Here are the main (and some other major) characters from my nigh-completed first volume of Atomancers!

Lia: Bookish But Rebellious Teenage Girl Discovers Magic, Immediately Wants To Become A Terrorist With It

Lioko: Teenage Guy Would Definitely Play Hearts Of Iron IV If It Existed

Hydrogen: Silly Little Elemental Being Who Took A Nap For 12,000 Years Is Shocked To Discover That 12,000 Years Of History Occurred Without Them

Miilo: The Off-Page Adventures Of Dollar Store Luffy

Kalena: Girl(Union)Boss Does Well Enough I Guess, Before She Realizes She Skipped The Gaslight And Gatekeep Parts

Sandrine: Genderbent Admiral Thrawn Is This Close To Realizing That The System Is The Problem, Becomes A Fascist Anyway

I made a uquiz!! Enjoy being fae and doing crimes!

https://uquiz.com/AglFBh

Taglist (ask to be added or removed!): @ryryvsthepen @feathered-inkling @erased-in-stone

FOR WANT OF A DOVE - OPHELIA O'MULRAIN

“Did you hear about the girl Ophelia? You've probably seen her about, even if you didn't know it was her at the time. She's a hard girl to ignore, isn't she? Hair cut to the shoulder, even shorter than a man's. Wearing suits instead of robes. No crown of petals or leaves round her head to show her ancestral Spirit. She's a mystery.

“But what I've heard down the telegram wires is that there's something dark and strange in her past. They say her parents were lost in the purgings when she was barely eight, and they say she's never stayed in a place for too long after that. Personally, I doubt it. The purgings were only ten years ago—and she seems so much older than that. The Cygnor takes in orphans of the purging, too, and she definitely doesn't look like one who grew up in the Cygnor's cradle.

Happy Saturday to you too!

Auvemn loves sweets the most. His favorite midnight activity is sneaking into the kitchens. He grabs sweets to snack on while doing some late night reading or studies. The son of the head chief kept waking to the noises of the young prince. He has since resorted to preparing him a snack to keep him from rummaging. Most nights Kelien keeps him company now and reads alongside him. 

Because I love them, and why not!

- my profile pic is art of Periwinkle, done by my boyfriend!

- her favorite animal is a sloth

- every single time he has worn trousers in his life has been Against His Will

- always wore the red blazer provided for their school uniform when they were young because it hid blood and they liked getting in fights

- only falls asleep easily after sex, or if someone’s playing with her hair

- sleeps on a futon couch (folded up) or on the floor, not on their bed

- terrified of the name “Angel,” calm, icy, voices, and being unable to breathe

- claims to dislike children but would probably cry if he ever got to hold a baby

- likes to try really weird alien foods for fun

- also really likes to scam people for fun. Hustling pool is one of her favs

- REALLY good at blackmail. (It’s the background in law lmao)

- sends money to their mother and father every once in a while, usually in a blank card signed only with a fancy letter “A”

- likes physical things better than digital— old Polaroid photos, paper calendars and planners, even physical money

...will probably add to this later tbh.

Anyway here’s the taglist! (Ask to be added or removed): @glitterandstarshine @rainbowcoloreddays @the-starlight-chills @erased-in-stone