Let's see your brown ocs!

[Leyelle]

What story is Selene from? And what makes the characters a mirror to other ocs? just the similar appearances or is there more?

[beebutterbee]

Selene is from a story I don’t have a name for yet, but it’s about Knights and Knight killers and some other stuff too! And I call the characters from Butter Bee mirrors because they’re reflections of characters I have, in both visual and emotional aspect, but they have very different storylines because it’s basically an alternative universe look at their plots! If they had different families, and met different people.

[Leyelle]

so it's similar personalities and physical designs in other worlds like Aus almost?

[beebutterbee]

Yes exactly! Butter Bee is me just having fun! And I like putting some Easter eggs of characters in there, although no one knows those stories yet I need to get writing…

[Leyelle]

lol, sometimes it's easier to write silliness or randomness than to focus, i feel yah. I'm the same way with "Mental Soup"

[beebutterbee]

Sometimes the brain just needs an outlet! I feel we can put a lot of pressure on ourselves for our bigger stories because we stress it to ourselves they need to be “good” where goofier stories can be a lot more freeing mentally. Or at least that’s the case with me lol

[Leyelle]

i definitely agree. i've been driving myself insane with the pressure to make every chapter of DITRD perfect these last few months

[beebutterbee]

Aww yeah I get that it’s a big reason I have a hard time finishing my other projects. I think letting go of perfectionism is the key but it’s a lot more hard to do than in theory. I wish I could go into every story with same mental liberty I go in with Butter Bee lol.

[Leyelle]

Wait a dang minute I didn't share Mora here yet?

She's half white on her grammy's side hence her wavy hair

[remiquise]

I do a lot of fantasy comics so... dark elves, I suppose, should they count. Drow are my favorites in DnD so my equivalent make up a huge chunk of my comic roster.

Though from my older comics, we got someone who's race is never out right stated, but he was foreign to the very European based setting. It's not the real world, so I can't say he'd be from the Ottoman empire or whatever, but likely that world's equivalent.

And Abel from an old comic (we do not speak about that comic... i hate it and it is unfortunatly been my most popular by a long shot. Go figure.) who's mixed, but half Latino.

Every character from "Broken but Still Beating Hearts" is... arguably Mediterranean..? If that at all counts... They're an odd bunch, being immortal beings that kind of take the face of whoever they last slept with when their current bodies die (also losing most memories), going incredibly pale and their hair going white when said bodies start to die... so I'm not quite sure how to describe them. Currently like 3 are still Mediterranean-- though one is basically grey because she's dying-- and one stole the DNA of some Norse dude so he's... incredibly white now. This is really the only image I have of them in their OG forms. Cropped because we're talking about a group of incubi/sucubi. So. Ya know. But these aren't the main forms we follow the crew in... in fact, they aren't even the same genders as this drawing anymore in the story.

[Leyelle]

i base it all on the character's complexions, not where they're from. so if your Mediterranean ocs have brown complexions they count even though Greece and neighboring areas are still European. most Hispanics have at least a bit of European genes in them anyway, so who's counting?

[remiquise]

Figured as much, it was more me struggling to describe them as beings than really contemplating if Mediterranean counted or. Just... "Well their designs are ever changing so who knows what they'll be next week! But they might count sometimes!"

[aleja.x]

This is Laurel! She’s a maid in a comic I hope to make one day!

[aleja.x]

Also omg Mora is so cute!!

[Leyelle]

thank you XD. Laurel looks cute too, what ethnicity is she?

[aleja.x]

I usually tend to make my OCs Hispanic, since I am haha but I thought she would also have South Asian descent too

[drewdoniger]

I know that OP was asking about humans, which of course Emerald is a brown OC that is human

But then again Esen-Ali and her father, Vatru, are covered in brown downing, so I guess they also technically count

[Leyelle]

I'm Hispanic too so I also have a lot of Hispanic pcs xd

[Leyelle]

Dominicana

[Leyelle]

Another character design sheet. My Dominicana, but I think her mother was probably Haitian. I've yet to decide on the canon. Some of my family last names cross over into Haiti as well