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To my fellow OC friendos do you have an OC who’s purpose/role/personality is completely different than what you originally intended?
Oooh yeah. There've been a few like that for me, but it was most recently Midna. I initially was concepting Midna as a far more smug and sassy kind of character in terms of her personality. But as I worked on her design further and decided to have her try and lean more into the spiritual roots of her family, that personality type stopped to feel fitting since her background had essentially shifted.
That would be Ichigo for myself! She was initially designed while looking into making a Magical Girl character. In the end she filled the role of a Maid Club member with dreams of being part of an Idol group, eventually becoming taking the role of the Head maid of the Empire Club. So quite a different life to being a pure light and a fighting force for good!
Two of my most recent OCs: Sabi and Icebella. Their current personalities and roles actually were switched around when once I had the idea of turning Sabi into more of a family woman, moving the original more colder personality to Icebella, while also switching their jobs as well.
Ruth was going to be a dude.
Heather was initially NOT going to be an Elite 4. In fact she was supposed to end up moving over to a contest starlet after her league run.
Lex was also supposed to be the Champion until I came up with Lionel.
So, nothing too crazy, but different developments for each of them nonetheless. I have more extreme cases of this for my Visual Novel: The Nameless Braves, but I can go into that another time haha
Yet to get a design for her, but I have a character in the works called Rosemary.
Originally, she was just meant to be kind of a kooky, spacey doctor side-character.
Now, she's still a doctor. But she's downright despicable/major villain tier
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