I know I've been around various RP sites and servers for as long as I could write, basically. Might be the same for a lot of you all here too. Which means many years and many, many different characters have probably come and gone in all that time. Even if you've only just started roleplaying as a hobby, I'm sure there's characters that you've grown attached to in that way as well.

So! Who was your first truly memorable RPC?

The earliest one I remember was way back when I was a wee-babe Zweit trolling around RP chatrooms. A spunky half-demon thief character named Ryo, with long braided hair being her only consistent physical characteristic. Possibly inspired by too many YuYu Hakusho reruns. Ryo didn't have a story of her own, but was adventurous enough to plug into almost any fantasy group RP. Sometimes a friend, sometimes a foe, equally as prone to leaving her companion's pockets empty as she was in stealing from the enemy.

I've still got mine around, but she's changed so much since the original days.

My first charrie I remember well was a Bleach arrancar (if I remember the term correctly) who was an underling of Szyal Apporo (sp? The pink haired crazy scientist dude) who broke away and freed herself from his service and wandered the wastelands of Hueco Mundo as both her humanoid form and as a velociraptor. I used to bring her around in the old forum chatboxes and because I was young and silly then, she'd magically have a chainsaw and chase other characters around whenever I'd feel hyper.

I'm still young and silly, just not in that way anymore.

She evolved over the years into something different - the second twin spawned from an angel/demon pairing, a scientist and strategist that tries to keep her twin out of trouble or clean up the messes. She's married to a special forces detective and part of a division that hunts down mutants. She has her own ability of seeing the memories tied with objects, and uses it to see through the eyes of criminals and to help predict their next move.

I use the twins as characters in Dragons Dogma. Oddly, they fit really well. The Arisen going off and getting into stupid situations and has to be saved by their Pawn is basically the same relationship the ladies have anyway.

While this is a more updated version of my first OC, I'll give a brief description about him.

He's a tall and slender demon with flowing white hair. He wears a black trench coat and a wide brimmed hat. Beneath his coat is a mixture of flesh and clockwork-like mechanisms. His face is always hidden behind a porcelain white mask with a sadistic grin on it. I made it so his hands could be taken off and replaced with a variety of weapons. He really only used bladed weapons.

I based him off of a wide variety of horror movie monsters, mostly Blade from Puppet Master, Freddy Krueger, and Pinhead.

He's technically my first anti-hero OC.

He's changed a lot over the years, but I still enjoy dusting him off from time to time.

My very first memorable original character has morphed nicely over the years. His name's Nick. I know, unoriginal... but he's a boring human! He's lived rent free in my head for 25 years. Myspace didn't even exist yet. Aol chat rooms were prominent at the time, if you had access to a computer with dial up. And then again, I would have been much too young to use them at the time.

Nick's a hotheaded gunslinger, an enthusiastic survivalist, an archeologist who absolutely hates mummies, but most importantly? He's a perpetual adventurer... A male counterpart that I originally used when dealing with Tomb Raider puzzles. I'd get frustrated with Lara's shenanigans after awhile. So I'd go take a break from the game, only to still be running around that level in my headspace a short time later. Lara always felt too perfect to me and I'm FTM. So, I'm assuming this is why I ended up with my favorite little snot of a guy.

Indiana Jones did inspire him, as well as a few others. Nathan Drake didn't exist yet, but Gex and James Bond certainly did! Over the years, other inspiration has absolutely been pulled from for not only Nick, but the world he lives in. John Wick, Milla Jovovich, and honestly too many others to list. He's not necessarily the greatest or most original character I've ever made, but he sure as hell is my favorite.

Thankfully, there are roleplayers here who don't mind if you work a premade oc into a story. This has allowed me to further character build for him in an rp setting, and I'm loving it! And of course, if you're curious to read about his adventures further, Dark Beyond: Voices of the Past. Action adventure ftw! And to keep myself from rambling endlessly, I'll stop now. p:

P.s. I'm a 90s kid, so yes, he's named loosely after Nick Carter.

Oh man, my most memorable OC was probably Klara, back in my middle school years. She was an alpha of a werewolf pack. She was stubborn and stuck in her ways. She didn't take a mate for the longest time until an unknown wolf came into her midst. He was charming and clever, content to let her run her pack as she always had. They had a child together named Cain and she eventually died defending him from an attack by hunters.

She's come back in a few iterations throughout the years but never as long as her first run.