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TOPIC: Design Tips/ Inspiration from Research.
Now I wanted to add my little chapter in this to further help Deviants new to the vast Creepypasta fandom and need help creating a Creepypasta character for themselves or want to further tips to make their already created OCs unique.
We will be going through some subtopics under this:
Now, you may have seen most Creepypasta OC's with an metal or physical illness of sorts. My tip to you is before you do anything involving an illness to further flesh out your character, please research the illness you want to use. It will help build your character in behavior, personality and sometimes help further along their back story on how they became to be.
For example, my CP OC Ally ( fav.me/d72rjrp ) has undifferentiated schizophrenia which is the mental illness that has more than one symptoms of the other subtypes (Paranoid schizophrenia, Catatonic schizophrenia and Disorganized schizophrenia). In the research I have gathered and have stated on her reference sheet, she suffers with the constant gathering of voices in the mind (All), can act with violence (Paranoid Schizophrenia symptom), argumentativeness (Paranoid Schizophrenia symptom) and see things that aren't there (Hallucinations/ Disorganized Schizophrenia symptom). As a result to the research I have done to develop Ally, I have made a reasonable explanation for her illness plus added some further details to it to show how she reacts to the world, how she behaves with other people, and how hard it is for her to have this mentioned illness. To tie in with her backstory, due to being born with schitzophrenia in the Victorian era, she was sent to an mental hospital (or asylum) in the belief that she could be "cured". This my dear friends is a good example on how a illness could potentially affect a character and help create some background for a character.
Clothing Design Tips- Time for a Wardrobe for your OC:
You have everything with physical features, back story, personality, weaknesses etc, but now you are stuck on one thing: Clothes. You certainly don't want your OC to be prancing around in their birthday suits so what do you do now? Don't fret since I have a few pieces of advice for this topic.
One, take a look at the time of the back story. Was your character born in the late 1800's or born in the 1960s? 1940's or 1820's? Each decade or century has a different taste in style such as in the Victorian times- formal ware such as well dressed gentlemen in full body suits and top hats along with the women in multilayer dresses that come down to the ground with the metal corsets to show a smaller waist. Another example of times gone by is the 1920's- with the bob style hair cut for the women along with the short dresses that had no sleeves usually and the men with shorter sleeved dress shirts and vests.
Take your time (no pun intended) to research these styles. You mix and match with various clothes of the time you are researching or mix that time with some modern. I'll use Ally as an example again: Her clothes are loosely based on Late-Victorian style for children/pre-teens with the custom of at least knee length dresses and the ever stylized slightly heeled boots. Her dress also has a couple of mixed styles of this time including the over-skirt, layers of lace, slightly poof up upper sleeves and the high collar around the neck. The modern twists I have done with her design is the leggings she has under her dress instead of usual frilly undergarments of the time and fingerless Operator gloves.
Another way to design clothes is taking a look at their background. Were they part of the richer upperclass of society? Were they raised in the country or city? Were they raised on the streets or in a stable home? These questions may help you since for example, someone from the richer upperclass might dress with designer clothes and costly garments while someone who lived on the street might have a rugged urban style with a bandana on the head or ripped clothes. A good thing to consider. ^^
Plus I will add this: If you don't have time for research, take a look at your own wardrobe! >w< For example, Ravon's trenchcoat was based off of my own I gotten on my birthday!
Behavior and Customs- How will a character act?
One last topic in this little CP OCs for Dummies chapter, is overall behavior, speech patterns and customs of an character based off different eras. For example, someone born in the 1700's might act respective to guests by tipping off a hat and speak in a way like "How is thou on tis fine day?" (Think Ichabod Crane from "Sleepy Hollow") in comparison of a person in the Victorian era who would take off their gloves before shaking hands, wearing black for a year after a loved one's death and in church or company for males, remove their hat in respect. Another thing to look for is the religion in the time such as heavy Christan influence in England or America while someone from India or East might believe in Hinduism or Buddhism. Research is the key.
A few examples of behavior in different times is Ichabod Crane from "Sleepy Hollow" (as mentioned above) or Charles Dickens who was an author during the mid-1800's.
Thats it! In short, doing some research can help make your character more believable with accurate facts based off real topics such as different eras. Remember to have fun and add your own twist in the mix!
Good examples:
"Suicide Sadie, i had done research before writing her story, she has major depression (multiple kinds of depression actually, she just has one) Major depressive disorder, or major depression, is characterized by a combination of symptoms that interfere with a person's ability to work, sleep, study, eat, and enjoy once-pleasurable activities. Major depression is disabling and prevents a person from functioning normally. Some people may experience only a single episode within their lifetime, but more often a person may have multiple episodes.
it was cause by her mother first dying and it continues to worsen when her father changes into an abusive parent.. she yelled at her best friend Mary which caused them to part from being friends since she snapped and changed slowly into a person that saw life as a struggle and an annoyance slowly chickening out on death (giving herself cuts every so often to feel pain to see if she was still alive inside) but when it came down to one night of actually making her bleed in his beating caused her intolerable suffering and ended her life
her times were in the 90's buttttttt she had a white long sleep gown, which i use to sleep in them when i was a child (90's kid) and well since she died in her gown, she was stuck in her gown..
but i have no intentions of influencing suicide in any way..
if anyone wants or read this you can have her story right.... here!
and i didn't want such a scary story really, it's filled with emotion, hardships, and life.. how it can so easily be taken away by even yourself. " - Quoted by pncke
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TOPIC: Design Tips/ Inspiration from Research.
Now I wanted to add my little chapter in this to further help Deviants new to the vast Creepypasta fandom and need help creating a Creepypasta character for themselves or want to further tips to make their already created OCs unique.
We will be going through some subtopics under this:
- How to make a character believable with a physical or mental illness through research.
- How to design a character's clothes based off of time factor or background
- How a person raised in a different era would probably speak and act differently due to older cultural attitudes and speech patterns
Now, you may have seen most Creepypasta OC's with an metal or physical illness of sorts. My tip to you is before you do anything involving an illness to further flesh out your character, please research the illness you want to use. It will help build your character in behavior, personality and sometimes help further along their back story on how they became to be.
For example, my CP OC Ally ( fav.me/d72rjrp ) has undifferentiated schizophrenia which is the mental illness that has more than one symptoms of the other subtypes (Paranoid schizophrenia, Catatonic schizophrenia and Disorganized schizophrenia). In the research I have gathered and have stated on her reference sheet, she suffers with the constant gathering of voices in the mind (All), can act with violence (Paranoid Schizophrenia symptom), argumentativeness (Paranoid Schizophrenia symptom) and see things that aren't there (Hallucinations/ Disorganized Schizophrenia symptom). As a result to the research I have done to develop Ally, I have made a reasonable explanation for her illness plus added some further details to it to show how she reacts to the world, how she behaves with other people, and how hard it is for her to have this mentioned illness. To tie in with her backstory, due to being born with schitzophrenia in the Victorian era, she was sent to an mental hospital (or asylum) in the belief that she could be "cured". This my dear friends is a good example on how a illness could potentially affect a character and help create some background for a character.
Clothing Design Tips- Time for a Wardrobe for your OC:
You have everything with physical features, back story, personality, weaknesses etc, but now you are stuck on one thing: Clothes. You certainly don't want your OC to be prancing around in their birthday suits so what do you do now? Don't fret since I have a few pieces of advice for this topic.
One, take a look at the time of the back story. Was your character born in the late 1800's or born in the 1960s? 1940's or 1820's? Each decade or century has a different taste in style such as in the Victorian times- formal ware such as well dressed gentlemen in full body suits and top hats along with the women in multilayer dresses that come down to the ground with the metal corsets to show a smaller waist. Another example of times gone by is the 1920's- with the bob style hair cut for the women along with the short dresses that had no sleeves usually and the men with shorter sleeved dress shirts and vests.
Take your time (no pun intended) to research these styles. You mix and match with various clothes of the time you are researching or mix that time with some modern. I'll use Ally as an example again: Her clothes are loosely based on Late-Victorian style for children/pre-teens with the custom of at least knee length dresses and the ever stylized slightly heeled boots. Her dress also has a couple of mixed styles of this time including the over-skirt, layers of lace, slightly poof up upper sleeves and the high collar around the neck. The modern twists I have done with her design is the leggings she has under her dress instead of usual frilly undergarments of the time and fingerless Operator gloves.
Another way to design clothes is taking a look at their background. Were they part of the richer upperclass of society? Were they raised in the country or city? Were they raised on the streets or in a stable home? These questions may help you since for example, someone from the richer upperclass might dress with designer clothes and costly garments while someone who lived on the street might have a rugged urban style with a bandana on the head or ripped clothes. A good thing to consider. ^^
Plus I will add this: If you don't have time for research, take a look at your own wardrobe! >w< For example, Ravon's trenchcoat was based off of my own I gotten on my birthday!
Behavior and Customs- How will a character act?
One last topic in this little CP OCs for Dummies chapter, is overall behavior, speech patterns and customs of an character based off different eras. For example, someone born in the 1700's might act respective to guests by tipping off a hat and speak in a way like "How is thou on tis fine day?" (Think Ichabod Crane from "Sleepy Hollow") in comparison of a person in the Victorian era who would take off their gloves before shaking hands, wearing black for a year after a loved one's death and in church or company for males, remove their hat in respect. Another thing to look for is the religion in the time such as heavy Christan influence in England or America while someone from India or East might believe in Hinduism or Buddhism. Research is the key.
A few examples of behavior in different times is Ichabod Crane from "Sleepy Hollow" (as mentioned above) or Charles Dickens who was an author during the mid-1800's.
Thats it! In short, doing some research can help make your character more believable with accurate facts based off real topics such as different eras. Remember to have fun and add your own twist in the mix!
Good examples:
"Suicide Sadie, i had done research before writing her story, she has major depression (multiple kinds of depression actually, she just has one) Major depressive disorder, or major depression, is characterized by a combination of symptoms that interfere with a person's ability to work, sleep, study, eat, and enjoy once-pleasurable activities. Major depression is disabling and prevents a person from functioning normally. Some people may experience only a single episode within their lifetime, but more often a person may have multiple episodes.
it was cause by her mother first dying and it continues to worsen when her father changes into an abusive parent.. she yelled at her best friend Mary which caused them to part from being friends since she snapped and changed slowly into a person that saw life as a struggle and an annoyance slowly chickening out on death (giving herself cuts every so often to feel pain to see if she was still alive inside) but when it came down to one night of actually making her bleed in his beating caused her intolerable suffering and ended her life
her times were in the 90's buttttttt she had a white long sleep gown, which i use to sleep in them when i was a child (90's kid) and well since she died in her gown, she was stuck in her gown..
but i have no intentions of influencing suicide in any way..
if anyone wants or read this you can have her story right.... here!
and i didn't want such a scary story really, it's filled with emotion, hardships, and life.. how it can so easily be taken away by even yourself. " - Quoted by pncke
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Which in a way brings me to my first point which is more about how to avoid criticism: don’t ship your character with an existing pasta unless you have permission. The original creator probably wouldn’t approve if they knew, and it’s just bad form. Nothing brings the critics out like making your sup
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What about writing a creepypasta OC for a video game or cartoon creepypasta? One of my ideas for a Creepypasta OC is named Lomond Loud who is a killer mutant with superpowers. Another one of my ideas is a Creepypasta OC who is a Club Penguin puffle with demon powers.