Do you insult your OCs?

[jurinova]

I'm the type of person who gently insults people I like in person, though I'd never do it if they were uncomfortable with it and I don't use very bad words. Mostly I use words like pöljä, höhlä or tollo, which all mean dummy. And I usually say them in a very loving way.

This means I also insult my characters but only in ways that fit them. Some characters deserve to be called an asshole but mostly I just say things like "this tiny fool" or "this goddamn idiot", because in honest truth most of my characters do lots of stupid stuff and deserve to be called on it.

[simplykit]

yes i do!

every time i get the chance

cause theyre like my kids! i can do whatever i want with em 🤣

[Mari]

I call my main character a little shit most of the time, but that's because he is one

[mariusthered]

from time to time i had characters call my main guy "bucket head" as an insult . however a pal of mine informed me there is a real like guitarist who is called buckethead so i stopped using it in my comic.

[Jenny-Toons]

Ehh, depends.

If they're an asshole in story, then I'll address them as "Now here's this asshat" or something along those lines. I like to get creative with my curses

But a character who's done no wrong and is a constant wholesome joy will always be addressed as "precious bean baby"

[unknown_user]

My MC are tough people, who have done (and will do) a lot of bad things. No wonder I sometimes insult them
But I don't insult those of my OC, who I don't think are a bad people.

[Kann]

I call mine dummies or dumbasses sometimes, but mostly when they really act dumb. I nicknamed one "sad broccoli", but idk if that's an insult. XD

[TJSchongar]

So, I think of my MCs as lovable idiots. I didn't want to start off calling them that, though, because I didn't want come off as insulting my own work and trying to get pity or whatever.

...Then people started commenting on the chapters, calling them lovable idiots XD And I realized "MY AUDIENCE GETS IT!" So now I have no problem calling it like it is!

[Kura]

I insult my characters when they are being difficult to draw for no particular reason.

I also plead or reason with them to cooperate with me.

tries to draw character but it isn't working out
"There's no reason your hairline should be giving me this much trouble Osiris. Why are you doing this?"

keeps redrawing same panel over and over
"Osiris please. I have a deadline, this page need to be done today."

draws the absolute WORST version of this panel yet
"Osiris you bitch."

[AniStaciaArt]

My characters are annoying af. I adore them but nobody's following the plot. Everyone ignores the challenges I set up. Nobody's on script.No romances are going the way I thought they should. So much ad-libbing. I am so jealous of people who say they control their characters. Like how?
So I've earned the right to call these assholes that.
To be fair, "I can smell you from here" is how my sister and I say we missed talking to each other.

[vothnthorvaldson]

Sometimes, I forget that my main character's name is 'Zerwan' and NOT 'Immature Brat' That's how he's called in my head anyway.

Funny thing is that I called him Zerwan because he used to be only a secondary character without a name who I was calling 'the other one'. Add thick French accent... Z'ozerwan haha. So the poor guy mostly got derogatory names in my head but that's not that I don't love him.

@TJSchongar Ah yes I called yours 'likable idiots'. More true than ever some chapters later

[joannekwan]

Eh, I don't really call my characters anything on a regular basis. Sometimes I might refer to a few as 'idiots' due to their personal stubbornness. But I certainly don't call them 'my babies' or whatever. The only thing in my life I use that term for is my cat (but then I also call him 'bastard' and 'bitch', those of which I will also use on my husband, and he to me).

Hm, I did give one of my characters this shirt … as I was thinking how readers might view her decisions to come. But she would totally own the term.

[QueenofBabyLoon]

I do not do art. I don't know how it feels not being able get that line right, how it feels working so hard and realizing your proportions are off or just not being able to nail that damn perspective.

I just write. Just like in the case of visual artists, my characters are in my head, jumping around. I would love for them to sit down, wait a second, and let me finish the paragraph before they run off to do something else. But they do not listen. Ever. So yeah, whenever I write about them, though I might not write it the text, I call them egotistic, psychopathic (when antisocial and narcissistic personality disorders meet in an explosion of ill-contained anger) dipshits who only ever do what they want. Eff them, seriously.

[TJSchongar]

YYYYYYEP! My boys are...a way’s away from shaping up! XD

[frgmnt]

@joannekwan, this part about your cat made me realize that in a way I treat my OCs like I treat my cats.
I call them a number of insults on a daily basis, regardless if it fits the situation or not (some of them certainly deserve it, some mostly don't). But I also call them my babies and beloved children and adore them to bits.
Though, talking to my siblings, we also casually insult each other all the time (...to an extent), so I guess this stuff comes naturally to me with a certain level of closeness.

[QueenofBabyLoon]

You realize that I feel very disillusioned about Zerwan's name right now.
This is exactly how I felt at age 14, when I realized it was really time to stop playing with Barbie dolls and that however well I encouraged them and organized them, they would never be able to start their own chapter of the Communist Party.
You just made me grow up a little bit, without my wanting it. Zerwan, my bratty little adventure-seeking first-world-problem-whining post-millennial, you shall never be the Z'ozerwan for me. To me, you shall always be #1 (you might think I am joking, but this was really a bit disillusioning).

[vothnthorvaldson]

Well.. if it makes you feel better, there is more in this name that just some bad French accent. One clue: Persia. Was it what you were thinking of? (I don't really want to say more publically because I'm still not sure how much of a spoiler that would be).

[QueenofBabyLoon]

You really want to distract me from my studying. So now, I obviously I will go onto google and read EVERYTHING about the history of Persia (because we all know how less interesting Persia is than shoulder luxations).

[DasIstWunderblyat]

I insult them often and think they kind of deserve what is coming for them. I just feel it weird when people call their character a baby or such, unless it's a literal baby.

I never have a direct talk to them (like asking them to cooperate or such), or treat them as an entity that is relevant to my own word. I personally think having a mental dialogue to your own creation is creepy, and I make in any way possible they aren't aware of my existence.

[QueenofBabyLoon]

Kainat … welcome to the world of creeps! You are due for a wake-up call, we are ALL (and I am saying ALL - looking at you too) creepy on here. Just in different, varied ways!!!