OC: Original Character

[batyatoon]

A questions meme about original fictional characters, courtesy of in_the_blue!

If you know what character you want, you can pick, or you can describe a character and I'll snag my closest match. Or just leave it to me to pick.

Send me a number and I'll answer the questions with one of my OCs:

- How does your OC react when their rival is grovelling at their feet for their life?
- What’s the subtitle that accompanies your OC’s name during their dramatic intro?
- What incredibly lame thing does your OC do while thinking that it’s actually super cool?
- How would your OC react to meeting someone who is attempting to impersonate them?
- Would your OC try to weasel out of a genie wish limit with the wishing for more wishes bullshit?
- Exactly what amount of wealth would be enough to tempt your OC into doing something that is distasteful but not specifically against their moral code?
- What is the most unacceptable pun that someone would use in conversation with your OC?
- Would your OC eat cooked testicles assuming they’re prepared hygienically?
- If your OC attempted to clean their nails with a dagger like some sort of stereotypical fantasy badass would they accidentally cut themselves?
- How many days can your OC go without bathing before they can’t stand being in their own body anymore?

Comments

[in_the_blue]

I don't know your OCs, so pick the one that's... most like me, how's that.

And #2 and #9.

[batyatoon]

... huh. That's a tossup between two or three of them, so -- *rolls die*

And you get Deirdre Elliot, an OC in the Heroes universe.

2) Dee's subtitle is HIGH SCHOOL ENGLISH TEACHER. Later in the season, it would probably change to FUGITIVE. *cheerful*

9) Almost definitely. She knows it, which is why she probably wouldn't try doing it.

[in_the_blue]

Ooh! What are her powers? (I assume if she's in Heroes-verse she has some?) I've got to like a teacher turned fugitive. That's got promise! :D

[batyatoon]

She has a superpower that she is wholly unaware of at the beginning of her story: she does not need sleep. Which is to say, she can sleep and usually does when she feels tired -- but she can stay awake indefinitely with only minor effort, and will suffer no ill effects either physically or mentally thereby.

I invented Dee for the tenth_wonders game, which was sadly short-lived. Every so often I drop her into one of the sandbox comms.

[thnidu]

The pun!

[batyatoon]

*rolls a D10 to pick an OC* The character in question is Agni Azimar, a traveling bard and sometime spy.

There's a pun in his language that relies on the similarity of sound between the word for a certain stringed instrument and the word for a light rain accompanied by high winds. Everybody who makes this joke seems to believe they're the first one to ever think of it. He's long since grown dreadfully weary of it, but if it comes from his audience or his host, he has to laugh every. time.

[thnidu]

Oh ye gods and little fishes. And that's why I try never to make a pun on somebody's name to them, UNLESS
•it's based in the specific context we're in,
•I've got a pretty good idea that it's so specific they're unlikely to have heard it before,
•and, of course, it could not be seen as insulting.

As you might guess, I very, very rarely pun on somebody's name… less often than once a year, I'm pretty sure.

[batyatoon]

You are a kind and considerate punster, sir.