OC APPLICATIONS
Original Characters
Original characters can be a fantastic RP experience. They can bring new depth, creativity, and unexpected twists to a game. We welcome OCs (original characters) in Polychromatic.
OCs are characters whose personalities, backgrounds, details, and characterizations are invented by the player. They can come from a player's own creative works, from a character developed for a table-top or live-action RP, or from just a flash of inspiration.
However, they can be difficult. The best OCs have the same kinds of balances and mixes of positives and negatives, abilities and weaknesses, quirks and details as the best canon characters. The best of the best OCs make you forget that they're OCs at all: they're just good characters.
Thoughts and Guidelines for OCs
* Please make your characters as believable as possible. Flesh them out, and give them drawbacks. A character who flies, speaks 800 different languages, and can shoot laser beams out of her chest with no discernible flaws or repercussions won't be as believable as someone who's got limitations on her abilities.
* No OCs based in a canon world will be accepted (we can't accept an original character who is a shinigami from the Bleach "universe"). Characters created through D&D, White Wolf, WOW, and other "table-top"-type RPG worlds are acceptable.
* No OCs based on historical, religious, or mythological figures will be accepted (you cannot apply to play Mary Magdalene based on the King James Bible, but you can apply for Mary Magdalene from Jesus Christ Superstar).
* No AU (Alternative Universe) versions of canon characters will be accepted (so no modern day high school Bugs Bunny). This includes OCs from a rewriting of canon works as a kind of "AU fanfiction", for example Alice from a punk-rock retelling of Alice in Wonderland would not be acceptable but the Cheshire Cat from American McGee's Alice is acceptable.
* No gender-swapped versions of canon characters will be accepted (no female Yosemite Sam).
* No "speculative characters" will be accepted (the potential-but-yet-unborn children resulting from a particular pairing, for example, or the never-mentioned grandparents of a particular character).
It's just a handful of rules. Original characters are called "original" for a reason.
Original characters can be a fantastic RP experience. They can bring new depth, creativity, and unexpected twists to a game. We welcome OCs (original characters) in Polychromatic.
OCs are characters whose personalities, backgrounds, details, and characterizations are invented by the player. They can come from a player's own creative works, from a character developed for a table-top or live-action RP, or from just a flash of inspiration.
However, they can be difficult. The best OCs have the same kinds of balances and mixes of positives and negatives, abilities and weaknesses, quirks and details as the best canon characters. The best of the best OCs make you forget that they're OCs at all: they're just good characters.
Thoughts and Guidelines for OCs
* Please make your characters as believable as possible. Flesh them out, and give them drawbacks. A character who flies, speaks 800 different languages, and can shoot laser beams out of her chest with no discernible flaws or repercussions won't be as believable as someone who's got limitations on her abilities.
* No OCs based in a canon world will be accepted (we can't accept an original character who is a shinigami from the Bleach "universe"). Characters created through D&D, White Wolf, WOW, and other "table-top"-type RPG worlds are acceptable.
* No OCs based on historical, religious, or mythological figures will be accepted (you cannot apply to play Mary Magdalene based on the King James Bible, but you can apply for Mary Magdalene from Jesus Christ Superstar).
* No AU (Alternative Universe) versions of canon characters will be accepted (so no modern day high school Bugs Bunny). This includes OCs from a rewriting of canon works as a kind of "AU fanfiction", for example Alice from a punk-rock retelling of Alice in Wonderland would not be acceptable but the Cheshire Cat from American McGee's Alice is acceptable.
* No gender-swapped versions of canon characters will be accepted (no female Yosemite Sam).
* No "speculative characters" will be accepted (the potential-but-yet-unborn children resulting from a particular pairing, for example, or the never-mentioned grandparents of a particular character).
It's just a handful of rules. Original characters are called "original" for a reason.