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14) are there any of your OCs you find yourself neglecting?

Neglecting is such a harsh word lol. I make far more than can become fully fleshed out, and there’s nothing wrong with that lol

Alexandria Stone @alexandria-stone.bsky.social · 11h

12) an OC you've killed (or want to)

I rarely kill my main characters. Lots of dead parents and shitty men tho.

13) are any of your OCs parents?

Not really, no. I don’t know any children so I don’t have a lot of inspiration for how they’re raised.

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Alexandria Stone @alexandria-stone.bsky.social · 12h

Yeah, it’s not even that I necessarily disagree with the politics, I just can’t have that negativity on my feed all the time

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Alexandria Stone @alexandria-stone.bsky.social · 19h

Rolling up to a cooking competition with a Really Nice Sandwich.
#Sosgb

Alexandria Stone @alexandria-stone.bsky.social · 20h

11) would you consider yourself nice to your OCs?

Meh. Nice isn’t my goal.

I do sometimes think of myself as an exhausted parent, kicking my adult children off to college.

“If you stay here, you won’t do anything but eat my food so go make something of yourself. Don’t ask me for money.”

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Alexandria Stone @alexandria-stone.bsky.social · 21h

10. FAVORITE OC DESIGN

In a long list of TTRPGs that lasted a single session… my Lancer OC Preshea, a former child celebrity who learned to pilot mechs after her chauffeur tried to kill her.

Really sad she never got to go anywhere, she brought a lot of glitz to a military heavy team.

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Alexandria Stone @alexandria-stone.bsky.social · 1d

You can find me on Bluesky or Tumblr.
I’m not on discord, I’m not moving to mastodon, and I’m definitely not returning to twitter.

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Alt: a cartoon character sitting in a chair says, “blah blah blah I’m not getting out of this chair.”

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Alexandria Stone @alexandria-stone.bsky.social · 1d

Ghost of Yokei, I beg of you, please do not kill my horse

Alexandria Stone @alexandria-stone.bsky.social · 1d

Does Eden need to eat or sleep or anything like that?

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Alexandria Stone @alexandria-stone.bsky.social · 1d

9. WEIRDEST OC

I don’t do a lot of weird ones, but one of my older OCs was a vampire who lived for hundreds of years, building up a kingdom and then watching it fall.

This was before Twilight, and drinking animal blood made her take on the aspects of those animals, eventually driving her mad.

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Alexandria Stone @alexandria-stone.bsky.social · 1d

8. DO YOU SHIP YOUR OCS WITH SOMEONE ELSE'S OC?

Not generally, no. My friends don’t like romance the way I do lol

In a looser sense, I do make OCs to ship with video game characters. Don’t think that’s in the spirit of the question tho lol

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Alexandria Stone @alexandria-stone.bsky.social · 1d

7. FAV OC SHIP

One of my scrapped stories was a WLW centered in a small town. The MCs were a mechanic Maridza and the librarian Sophia, who alternated between wanting to leave and wanting to stay.
It was a sweet, punk story, with motorcycles and rainy days in the library.

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Alexandria Stone @alexandria-stone.bsky.social · 1d

Yes! Bitching is good! I bitch about tumblr all the time but after ten years of curating my timeline, it’s the most entertaining place on the internet for me.

The CEOs are always going to be shitty. The only real solution is to leave social media all together and I’m not gonna do that lol

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Alexandria Stone @alexandria-stone.bsky.social · 1d

You can find me on Bluesky or Tumblr.
I’m not on discord, I’m not moving to mastodon, and I’m definitely not returning to twitter.

a cartoon character sitting in a chair reading a newspaper that says nowhere news on it

Alt: a cartoon character sitting in a chair says, “blah blah blah I’m not getting out of this chair.”

media.tenor.com

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Alexandria Stone @alexandria-stone.bsky.social · 1d

6. DESCRIBE YOUR CHARACTER
CREATION PROCESS

- make a new OC when there’s something I need them to do
- give them a good name
- make a backstory that fits what I need them to do
- decide if they’re going to survive
- give em some quirks
- give em a LI
- get attached
- make them their own story

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Alexandria Stone @alexandria-stone.bsky.social · 1d

5. MAIN REASON FOR MAKING OCs?) (WRITING, FANDOM, ROLEPLAY, DND ?)

Main reason is writing, just because you need so many when fleshing out characters. But my favorites tend to be my DND characters. It’s a good character creation system, what can I say.

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Alexandria Stone @alexandria-stone.bsky.social · 1d

4. ANY VILLAIN OCS?

Yeah, I have a few villains. I honestly prefer morally grey to straight villainy, in which the villain could be the hero if the perspective switched.

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Alexandria Stone @alexandria-stone.bsky.social · 2d

3. FAVORITE OC

I have a few favorites… two main favorites are from the novel I’m working on. Also a Jedi OC from back when I played the old republic. They all got the good angst 🤌

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Alexandria Stone @alexandria-stone.bsky.social · 2d

Question 17 is oldest and youngest so I inferred the first question meant “had the longest.”

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Alexandria Stone @alexandria-stone.bsky.social · 2d

2. YOUR NEWEST OC

The last fleshed out OC is my dnd paladin, a leonin named Aliénor. She’s a disgraced noble whose husband died under /mysterious/ circumstances. She didn’t kill him, I swear.

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Alexandria Stone @alexandria-stone.bsky.social · 2d

Oh same, I love a little nook to hide things in… squirrel behavior