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Vivi · 3 answers · 2y

When creating your ocs, do you ever give them traits that you yourself have? I.e. same taste in music or maybe they have the same habits as you

Ohh not particularly :') I don't like it when people make assumptions about me based on my ocs so I try not to give them defining traits that I have.

But you know what they say, "write what you know" even if I put my ocs in situations that I have never (or will hopefully never) experience, the feelings and situations I reference to write them are still sometimes based on things I know from real life :') Like Kingston being able to see ghosts and feeling very distant or frustrated when nobody else can and being told he's making things up by adults is vaguely based on things people have said to me growing up with a learning disability and teachers thinking I was making things up for attention. OTL

so tldr: the traits themselves aren't based on me but I do draw more on the feelings behind certain stuff to write my ocs bc I think feelings are more relatable.

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