Say you're in a living room, with a single door leading to an empty void. Stepping into the empty void, you see your OC in front of you (choose any, it could also be multiple if you'd like). With all their past experiences, memories, any eventual trauma and current equipment, and the knowledge that you are their creator. That you're responsible for everything they had gone through. That they have a chance to reenact revenge (if they want to) right here, right now (This is assuming that chosen OC is in perfect health. No "Oh but he's canonically dead he can't do anything to me.").
My question for you is simple:
Are you making it out of that place, alive? And why?
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Assuming she magically understands the concept perfectly...
Yeah, she's quite content with her unlife. She'll probably complain to me about her daughter's being unruly, but that's mostly because she likes to complain to see if she can get some sympathy scriches.
I'm not getting out without being bitten by her, because she'll be curious about how the person that made her tastes, but she doesn't have a reason to hold a grudge.
As a multiversal traveler, Raul KNOWS I exist, who do you think gave me my pip-boy? I’d get out there alive and fine, considering all of that story technically isn’t by me, and it helped him become a better person.
While he would certainly have some… notes about the story I’ve written with his life, Simon would ultimately come to accept the hand he was dealt, as it’s lead to him achieving a far higher purpose than the one he’d set out to fulfill.
"Leading to an empty void" thaaats kinda what my oc already is xd
Leere do be "just" the unfathomable nothingness beyond all that exists. Never did anything bad to it, so it would probably just send me back to reality
My main protagonist exists in several forms. His True self is very selfless and generous, and even if he gets angry, he still doesn't truly want to hurt anyone. However, his alt-path selves, all seven of them... They're very vindictive towards others. And I think if they knew I was the one who caused them to suffer, they would disentigrate me just to feel something.
However, the True self is by far the most powerful. While the alts are all puppets of a corrupt god, the True self is a demigod of his own creation, having slaughtered the puppetmaster himself. It would be a 1 vs. 7. But, given that the True version of my protagonist has faced apocalyptic-level events, I think he could take them all on.
Especially if I believe in him. Gods and demigods in my universe are given additional power through the power of belief. If I believe with all of my heart that he'll win, he'll win to keep me safe... But I'm sure once it's all over I am getting pimp slapped.
"What the fuck is wrong with you dawg???" is what he'd ask lmfao
Ayyye that's how my two main OCs work, too. The more people who love and believe in them, the stronger they are. They do still need to eat due to being partially physical beings, but... Ye.
Yeah. Because Hectatelos will think I am Sekigetsu, just in some weird different form. But unless we're taking off the mask I conveniently put for myself, he'll just be confused and once the confusion disappears it'll turn into a disappointed sighed, disappointed that his creator is just some powerless human, and from there. I leave the interpretation to the reader. Will he shoot me? Will he talk to me? Will he just wait until he reincarnates or gets summoned in a new world? Who knows!
What you can also do is immediately change his lore so that he explodes within the next two seconds and he wouldn't be able to stop that, no matter what he does.
So I still have power as the author then... Which funny, but nah. Sekigetsu is secretly my mary sue, my self insert, so I'd just act like Sekigetsu and be a friend to Hectatelos, see if he wants to talk about his life and what next life he'd possibly want
Yes I am, because I raised both Nate and Natalie to be kind and gentle leaders. They'd understand why I had them do what needs to be done and we'd have tea afterwards.
Yes, because in my resolution, he has already come to terms with the fact there are sometimes consequences beyond his control, and all he can do is choose how he responds.
Also most of my decisions come from thinking about how the characters’ own actions got them there, so it’s not like I’m only one to blame.
Most of my OCs would let me live. They all have hardships and traumatizing moments but they have also fun memories and good lives all things considered.
Personally, I think my OC's would murder me. I have too many that have trauma and, even if they collectively came together to democratically vote, I'd still die.
Sure, I give most of them a horrible backstory but at the same time I wanted to give them a good ending? They'll just be as confused as me, tell me that I'm a weird caring psycho or stuff, and shrug it off. I mean most of my OCs have canonically interacted with me and they don't question much
I wouldn’t say I am the reason for any of it as I just discovering. The idea of them experiencing all these exist even before me turn it into a story. But if they assume I am the reason then yeah, I wouldn’t live!
The immortal shotgun wielding knights of the order of the watchmen
It depends if they know the only physical form they have in our world are puppets.
If they dont know that and are only aware i made them, i think id be fine, they worst theyd do is ask if their crusade(which theyve been on for 1400 years) is worth anything since theyre fictional and hasnt affected real people
But if they know theyre puppets, they might be mad how silly i make them look but are other wise happy they can make real people feel something
Besides the fact that meeting ,,the high creator" is a total mindfuck, they are...mature adults.
You can't change past. The ,,new" version of you, would no longer be you anyway. We are the collection of every single thing that happened to us, changing one event opens multiple doors to different outcomes, and those open more doors...
They lived their human, mundae live. Some of them lived beliable live in war era. Some have health problems.
I mean, how my OC's see it, it would be for revenge on how much they had to suffer. After that, while killing me wouldn't exactly stop their trauma, it would give them a sense of satisfaction, knowing they got rid of the cause.
For Cassandra, I mean, I did kill her mom, almost killed her on a few occasions, and made her dad neglectful (not abusive, just severe depression in the late 1970s) (he did pull out of it in her mid teens). but I also gave her her fiancée and 10 years of happiness with him, along with her religion and her powers, soo….
I might get beat up, probably gonna get beat up, likely won’t get killed though. She’s not exactly the murdering type.
If it’s Endurance…yeah. He’ll let me live. He would most certainly hate me, but he won’t kill. Thats not who he is. He won’t even lay a hand on me. But I’ll walk out of that room horrified, because of how broken he is.
Assuming I don't, like, faint from terror, I think I'd be able to convince Xaz, the monstrous ruler of my dystopia, to spare me. Sure, I'm the reason behind everything he hates his in-universe creators for doing to him, but I'm also the reason he was able to get his bloody revenge on them, take over the sector, and find someone he cares about.
If the "I also gave you all the good things you have" argument isn't enough, I think I could convince him that since he's fictional, and I'm the only one who really knows him in the real world, he would cease to exist if I died.
Adem, the most heroic side character, though... yeah he'd just kill me.
"I understand they created us to help them process the things going on in their life and their own trauma and that it was what was helping the most. They couldn't have known we were going to become real, and I can't be mad at them for trying to work through trauma. It wasn't their fault. I wouldn't be who I am or real at all if it weren't for them making me this way. If that connection between us is important and healing for them and for me, then I'm honored." ~ Shay
Vyn would probably let me live. He's already aware that he's a fictional character (long story) and he's pretty much come to terms with his past, even if he still feels aftereffects of his trauma. Besides if it weren't for me he wouldn't exist, so he's got at least something to be grateful for (I guess)
Eh he'd probably just tell me to piss off, he's already got a therapist and friend group he can vent to (all of whom know his backstory). He doesn't really give a fuck about me being his creator, since he kinda doesn't have a narrative (meaning I have no actual control over what he does, help he's got a gun)
"Hey, you became a representation of my chronic pain, my old addiction to opioids, and my tendency to self-destruct. I made you going through a nightmare that make you feel barely alive, full of anger"
As out-there as Gyro is from the rest of his robot brethren (he's canonically a robot that was built to help people, ranging from babysitting children to working in factories, and he went through many loopholes to make sure he's actually independent), he was still built to help people at the end of the day.
Even though I wrote it so that Gyro eventually dies, I think he'd be happy to hear that he lived to help people and have fun between it all. And he'd laugh a little bit knowing that he STILL managed to follow the commands his creator (both in the lore and as a character) instilled upon him.
I wouldn't make it out alive. Not because of any revenge enacted upon me: Raddweiler's 5 months old, he has no idea what's going on; but because I'd start petting him and get a roided up version of ARS since I probably don't have any gloves with me
Well Chef Salt as the robot isn't self-aware. True Chef Salt would probably just give a long monologue and say that he appreciates that he got technical immortality. Chef Salta wouod just pet my head and MAYBE give me a shoulder ride :)
Joke's on you, most of my OCs are aware they're fictional, most of the time they break the fourth wall to call me a freak, for the simple reason that my stories can become freaking weird (without the consumption of drugs, which I am very proud of ^ ^)
Alma: yes. She is too forgiving for her own good, and would certainly forgive me.
Gnemei: I might get a gun aimed at me, and I'd certainly get slapped, and she'd cry, but I'd make it out alive. She wouldn't want to kill. Also she'd probably view me as a one of her gods, like a god of fate or something, so she'd respect my 'divinity' and not try to kill me.
Charlie Steeple: I'll be fine, it wouldn't care in the slightest. It loves its life. It wouldn't call it love, but thats the closest way to explain it.
Tewt: I'd certainly get badly hurt, but I might not die. She's very firey and furious, and would hate me, but she's also, at the end of the day, a 12 year old kid with magic powers, and I don't think she'd neccasarily have it in her to kill me.
Clemet: I think she'd honestly just be so confused. She'd be mad, and she's armed with a very sharp sword, but she's not really a revenge person, so I think I'd survive. She might try to threaten me into making the future better, though.
Kaer Taldrakōs: She's a dragon the size of a hill, and a mean one at that, but I might amuse her enough not to die. She's dealt more pain than she's received, do I think she'd be quite pleased that I made her as she is. Dragons are fiercely independent, though, so she might want to kill me just because I have influence over her fate.
Azhdrahci: Another dragon, and I would get squished. All their offspring died and the last was the first ever to be slain by humans, and Azhdrahci would hate me for it.
Belladonna: possibly killed, possibly not. Hard to tell with them. They'd want to, and they've killed plenty of people before, but over time they've grown to care less about everything. I just wouldn't eat anything they give me.
Yes, he already knows that and has broken the fourth wall to complain, but ultimately has forgiven him. He reached enlightenment more or less and became a peaceful God of Creation and Destruction, leading the way to a more peaceful universe.
I honestly don’t know. Private Digs’ world is going through their WW1, and he’s an infantryman. If he knows I made him based off of events that happened irl (events not a specific person) he might not be one to take revenge
Sante is very nice. I don’t think they’d like me for it but they wouldn’t do anything to me about it. Helps that I am over a foot shorter than they are
She'd probably be pissy and a bit snappy toward me, but wouldn't really do anything about it, mostly because I was just projecting my trauma onto her and using her to help me cope. She'd definitely be a bit sympathetic
Rhys and Harley would fucking kill me. Without a doubt. I turned their lives and the lives of everyone they know into hell, I'm the person responsible for Rhys' family situation and Harley's injuries, and they're not going to listen to any excuses. And I made them both quite capable of killing someone. I'm getting curbstomped into oblivion.
Although considering all my OCs are some variation of Just Some Guy, we would just have to skip the stage where they try to grapple with the idea that 1) God exists 2) God is literally just some random dude and 3) you can just kill them.
Yūki's whole mission was to avenge her master by killing their murderer. Upon being met with the one who planned the assassination, she'd obviously not let me leave alive. She'd however have the courtesy to toss me a blade and give me three options.
1 - I fight her then and there in fair combat, no tricks or powers from her, and die with honor, which is more than she believes I deserve given I didn't have the guts to kill her master myself. Spoiler: I'm not lasting more than a few seconds.
2 - I commit seppuku on the spot to atone for killing her master in such a cowardly way. Or, alternatively, let her kill me if I can't bring myself to do it.
3 - I leave the blade and try running to see if I can get back out the void before she can catch me (which she absolute can), proving I'm as much of a coward as she thought I was.
No matter what, I'm being disemboweled. The only say I have in the matter is how it happens.
A great part of my OC would instakill me(like nasto who his best friend is dead after a long trip across all America that has change his life(in the good way))but there is a huge number of them who have just the best life(because they are crazy like star etie who even if she will die forever at the end has before got so much fun at destroying dimension)
And there is selya who don't feel any emotion
The worol triplets: Theol would be kinda pissed, but also glad that I gave him a good life. Thelia would be furious that her son died, and possibly try to kill me, only to be stopped by Thene and Theol. And Thene would simply understand.
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The thing with creating OCs for a Fandom and having it remain canon-compliant (because if I am making an AU that goes almost completely the other way (as in better to the point of unreversible divergence) (which is the only way I'll be satisfied because I hate putting my OCs (that I didn't AT ALL write to be resentful of their situation, even if very much justified) through bad stuff), I might as well make my own Verse) is, I didn't exactly have that much choice in deciding their fate, except for after the canon event (which, as you've probably guessed it already, is a happy everafter because I HATE bad endings).
So I know FOR A FACT that I'm making it out alive and reassured that they don't hate me even after all that. After all, ‹it was all about you, and then I lost you›
Probably most definitely going to die in this scenario if I'm being honest lmao. Like, not all of my OCs are super traumatized, but the ones that are will definitely not be happy that I did that to them because I was working shit out.
Despite losing everything in her life, going to war, watching her family get brutally slain, losing a home, and becoming enslaved even, I think Indigo would still come around. She’d see that everything she went through got her to where she is now in life; with an adoptive father figure, and a girlfriend after years of self-growth, and a calling in life. I think a part of her would be truly devastated. But part of her would accept that it was her fate. She’s strong and beautiful, despite all she’s endured. And she still chooses kindness when the world has done countless evils.
At least I made Tanaka a successful Twitch streamer and cosplayer, plus, lore-wise, she'll her revenge on whoever blew her legs off back when she was a kid, so there's a small chance she will spare me
She’s slapping me. Hard. But I will be alive at the end of the day.
Admittedly I don’t give a lot of trauma to my OCs (not that I’d walk out alive with all of them, some of them are just plain evil and willing to kill me for fun).
Connor O'Dial would thank me for not making him bound by morals, merely money and getting caught, and for making him huge, and then he'd try to sell me something, I make it out alive if I somehow sneak away from him, and if not, then it's a salesman's duel for the rest of eternity
The one I thought of before finishing reading...umm I might be able to convince her not to kill me. Her life was/is very hard, but she had a lot of good things that happened to her, too. I could try to persuade her that she wouldn't have had all these friends, her mate, or anything else so nice if she didn't go through that hardship.
Also she can be very logical. If I can calm her down a little with my above argumente, then I may be able to convince her she shouldn't kill me because it's not like I KNEW I'd actually be causing real suffering. I was writing what I thought was just a story, and I do dearly love her and the characters that died.
Yeah I thought of that already...there isn't really a way for most of those nice things to have happened to her without any of the trauma. Like who they are, what they learned, they can't just learn or become those things without their pasts. Not without changing the entire world. I already have an AU where it is different and she doesn't go through any trauma and is happy, but her current self wouldn't actually like the world if I told her about it lmao
She actually would likely be open to that idea because her mate laments at his past, but she thinks he shouldn't because then he wouldn't be the person he is now, and she likes who he is now
One in particular has a rough life, but she always comes out on top, her parents are alive, good relationship with eachother and she’s got a solid group of friends
She (and her father) do have to. Wade through sewers, gross caverns, and a bunch of other horrible things, but such is the life of a vampire hunter
Probably even though I shouldn’t, I made her supremely kind and deeply humanitarian so I think she would avoid it, but only on principle. Personally? She would be seeing red 💀
Alright let’s do my central characters for the novel I’m writing and the sequel series I plan to write taking place 20 years after.
Novel first
Pearl: she’d laugh, and then take me out for drinks because she is so pleased with how things have ended up for her.
Charles (in the novel): he’d be too devastated learning about the truth to attack me, he’d probably just go into fetal position and cry.
Ester: She’d cuss me out but I’d live.
Sequel series
Clarence: he wouldn’t kill me but there would be a lot of really uncomfortable questions I’d need to answer and he’d be glaring at me the entire time.
Rose: it’s hard to say if I’d be alive because like I put that woman through so much and I think most with her past and her physical strength would but I don’t see her as killing someone unless she has to so she wouldn’t kill me but she’d scold the hell put me and I’d feel awful about it.
Charles(him later): I’m dead on sight no notes
Quinn: I’m alive and he has a lot of questions maybe he should be mad but he isn’t and instead he’s trying to get lore out of me.
Sierra: Also kills me on sight no notes.
Mine is death, straight up so you cannot kill it BUT.
It also act rather twisted with people who try to cheat death.
It is immortal as I designed it, so it cheats death. But I did it without overruling its authority and with a deep passion on the subject.
So I guess I'd make it out alive (because he would have made me immortal so that I suffer forever from cheating death, so as a punition.), but with regenerative ability and pain tolerance (because I did not try to direspect the deads nor overrule its authority)
I think he'd blame himself for not being powerful enough to overcome my authority as the creator, and then try to bribe or threaten me into changing the outcome...I'd live if I played my cards right. Otherwise, no.
Well considering the specific OC I've chosen for this thought experiment has broken the fourth wall in the sense he's aware of what's "beyond" and knows me as the creator, though he's already made peace with own demons. He'd understand where I'm coming from and why I made him. Sharing the pain makes the load easier to carry and I just needed the outlet
More or less, he'd be more concerned about my state rather than anything else
Doma would be sceptical if I was really his creator, and he would ask a lot of annoying questions about how the world works. I'm not sure he'd kill me, maybe only if Hajna asked him to do it. Of course he would only harm my lower dimensional form, since creations can't interact with the real world directly.
for my oc bill, i’m sure he’d understand, as he is all for justice, but he’d also be reeling from the very fact that i am the sole cause for everything he went through in his life. things do eventually get better for him though so i don’t think he’d be mad at me for long
I have written it into Mr Vessel's lore that if he ever comes face-to-face with me, I will take over his body, and essentially become him, don't say it's weird, a man can hope to become his OC one day
Hmmm... Luna, I think, would understand. Perhaps be a bit angry, but not to the point of being in a killing mood, especially since she has been aware of me before but had her 4th wall vision fade due to her declining health.
Her daughter Bucket, on the other hand? No. Nope. I would not be making it out alive. She's the Aspect of Fate and Justice. She would see the evils that I made her twin brother commit towards her as a personal threat to her existence. I'd be dead before I could blink.
For some that I "saved", like Vivienne and Charlie, they'd just wonder why I chose to make them have happy stories while many others have been through... A lot.
Honestly, there are a couple that I think would flirt with me, just for the sake of seeing how I react. Perrin, the sweet guy he is, would probably just stare and hug me. He's like... 11 feet tall, in his base form. I would enjoy the hug completely.
My characters trauma isn't enough to make them want to kill me, especially because I also try to give my characters the best ending I can, so I think I'll survive.
Jhon's my only one. I think he would, but only because he would consider me to be the same as him or higher up the existence totem pole. When fundamentals fight its bad for everyone. Especially so if one is severely injured or (if it's even possible) killed, reality across the omniverse would be forcibly and violently altered.
The first three I thought were all antagonists or villains.
The first would great me as a creator and "reward" me with a token position or hierarchy. He'd pretty much figure out how to keep me placated but would be able to kill me whenever. The one thing that would get under his skin is that I created him, but he'd want to be seen as benevolent. Chances of surviving are decent, but he might get goaded into killing me.
The second is a flamboyant mercenary and would be severely underwhelmed with having me as a creator. Chances of surviving are actually high since there's no monetary incentive. To him this revelation is one more disappointment among others. So while there is no direct threat, he certainly wouldn't save or assist me.
The third is a sorcerer who lost his arms. He'd be extremely interested in how someone's imagination generated reality. While he's not particularly sadistic, he definitely wouldn't care to pull his punches. He'd want to examine my entire life.
The lesson here is to actually practice making protagonists.
It will take more time for my oc, Megan/The Lady, to forgive me for all the shit I put her and her loved ones through. Otherwise, she'll kill me on the spot, thinking it was the only way to end the madness.
Well my main oc is a half deity… and also partially self insert. Not much true trauma, just get confused by a humans complex emotions.
She won’t. I love them so much.
Her twin brother is someone who ive always wanted to have and her younger brother and sisters and two older brothers are also… deities. (The younger ones are their creations)
Other ocs…? Like most won’t kill me. They’ll beat me up bad tho. Some got their backstories bad to the point of suiciyk (but afterlife is nice)
Some are just evil, and they got the justice they deserved but if they met me I won’t survive.
Yes, I make it out alive. My characters accept their lot, and while they would never think there's a flawed mortal stand-in between themselves and the God they serve, they'd be able to greet me as an equal, and we could become friends
My best OC? I come out alive and a better person. My most tragic OC? I'll be tortured, physically and psychologically, for at least years, for every day. And then I die.
It is a difficult choice because I've had a lot of ocs in the past they would definitely kill or harm me would be a lot but I'd say I would love to see one of my more recent creations due to my past ocs have had endured a lot of my old mental instability in the past while the new creation was made while I was at a better part of my life.....plus this one was created on my own without the use of bases or other aid templates....just my pure creative hands that made them into life.
A simple cat marketeer trying to sell things and that's my kind of character I'd love to have by my side
This is an interesting one, actually, because while I do I flick so much torment on my characters, I also built a loving universe for them to live in with a personification that actively enters their lives to care for them in yikes of need. So they'd probably see me as a creator that understands the necessity of balance.
That being said, if it's just Phar in there, I'm fucked
It would be hard for him knowing all his pain, all his trauma, everything he was forced to do, it all came from one guy.
But knowing that guy wasn't inherently evil, and was simply making a character, while giving him a slight sick feeling to his stomach knowing everything was never real, he would likely forgive me.
He'd want to, but he would choose to put it aside.
And as we part, I'd reassure him, he has a happy ending
I make it because he isn't someone to just fly off the handle in the first place and striking me down would mean he had no agency in his existence ever.
Yeah. Be it Smoky or Ichijoh or even Oakly. They all are relatively calm people who mostly just want a peaceful life. For Oakly I'd just hug him and b a friend he so desperately needs.
I'd be just fine as even my most crazy oc isn't a monster he just deeply believes in his gods.
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