Only OCs from your own culture!

[Leyelle]

Have you made any OCs that line up with your own culture/ethnicity or are coded after your own people group? Rather than specifying a culture, I want you to share OCs you've made that are YOUR ethnicity or culture, whatever that Amy be.

I'm lucky enough to be bi-ethnic, so I have two ethnicities to choose from.

These queens are dominicana:

Ayla is African American:

(this picture is so old though lol)

[CarltonIsaac]

[Oriflamme]

It’s not something that I went into much in detail but because it is not really relevant to the story because she got Isekai’d, but my deuteragonist, Rose Beaudoin is French Canadian.

The sash worn by the people of the Abyss is loosely based around the ceinture flechée (Arrowed sash), a quebecois/métis traditional piece of clothing, but that is the result of me wanting them to have a unique piece of clothing to serve as a cultural marker, but they are a fictional culture, and don’t share anything else with my own culture.

[igneriss]

A lot of my characters from my fantasy stories are wearing outfits inspired by traditional nobleman outfit from my country I guess the main example and one whose outift is the most accurate is Jerzy, one of characters of my 6,75 comic

As for my Haunted House characters, they all were supposed to be polish in the first drafts, and action would take place in my city in late 00s. However, when I started focusing on this serie, I decided to move it to more current times, and to a non-specified location. And changed characters' names to something my english readers can pronouce easily haha cx

[Kelheor]

Come to think of it, most of my OCs are Irish, British and Canadian.
Beleard is the only one who is kinda Slav inspired though? People say he looks "old", but he has ashen hair that is super common in these parts of the world. So I would say he's of Slav (and prolly Scandinavian) inspiration, and I also love to draw him in something I guess you can call "traditional nature" backgrounds

[Leyelle]

You underestimate my ability to mispronounce words XD

[Azifri]

That would be almost every character that isn't from a made-up location ^^ It's more time-efficient for me to just play with what I know when it comes to using real-world stuff for my stories; that includes cultures.

[kyupol]

Akala is Pinay 🇵🇭 ... or at least the form she's most closely identified with being a goddess and all...

I'm Filipino as well.

[DasIstWunderblyat]

Although he is mixed, and the fact has very little to do with the actual story. It is just people from the earth tend to have a specific ability related to the plot (and be good at it).

I still dress him up in traditional-inspired outfit (pictured) just because.

[giamarvelousunime]

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[NickRowler]

Most of my characters are from my cultural background, American. But I never made a character with my exact ethnic background.

[Leyelle]

Your art style is really fun. The trees kind of look like they have eyes on them was that intentional?

[Leyelle]

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[Kelheor]

These are birches, so they do kinda look like that, but yeah, that was intentional to match his eyes

[Leyelle]

The queen with the dark hair is African American

[yondoloki]

The Changeling's Sister is very much inspired by Fae Folklore form Great Britain, but as a Dane, one of my favorite Fae creatures is the nisse, and I had to add one into the story!

So this is Jimbe, wearing traditional Danish clothing ^^ I also took inspiration from the Norwegian tomte and the British brownie which are the regional variations of the same creature, so dark and slightly furry, but would say it passes for the purpose of this post ^^

[Leyelle]

an African American OC (no, she doesn't have feet, she's a double amputee)