Post your shitty characters

Oh man, I'm gonna have to dig deep for this one. I spent most of my early creative years writing half-assed novels, not drawing comics, so most of my terrible OCs exist mostly in prose form only (because I spent those years insisting on only drawing horses and non-humanized dragons).

Surprisingly, my very first OCs - created at age 7 - were surprisingly decent? They were a pair of trolls living in a cave together in some kind of best-buddies/platonic life partners kind of deal, and spent their time tootling around in the woods and raising orphaned wildlife and being nice.

BUT I went diggint through my old dA-archives and found this glorious beauty of a man (demon? thing?):

This is from a decade ago, and my memory of the story is super-hazy, but I'm fairly certain that this guy (I think his name was Kan?) had a story that went something like this: He was a half-demon (his father was some kind of arch-demon) and his human mom had died when he was a kid, and he wore that silly scarf over his face to hide some weird skin-condition that revealed he was a demon - like, the veins were clearly visible beneath his skin, and they were all swirly and black and weird-looking - and he had sharp teeth and everything. You can't see it in this picture, but he has really long hair. It's cut shorter around his face, but he had this really long braid at the nape of his neck.

.... I should probably add that despite the weird skin and the teeth he was, of course, really handsome. Because what's a terrible OC without stunning good looks? XD

He also barely spoke to people, and fell in love with a girl who had the power to change the world (like, literally change it at will; she could stop and restart events whenever she wanted, reliving moments with the knowledge of what happened next), but decided to not tell her because aaargh he was a demon and he couldn't expose her to that kind of danger, blah blah blah. Mostly he sat around brooding in proper half-demonic fashion and feeling sorry for himself, when he wasn't being the world's most kickass fighter. Because of course he was.

I cannot for the life of me remember the exact details of the romantic subplot, though I believe they got together anyway, and then there were some other characters who joined the adventure, and they all beat the crap out of his archdemon dad, and lived kinda-sorta happily ever after, I guess?

This is hysterical! @Kaykedrawsthings, I would totally read a comic that started that way, too. The characters are so weird and you twisting them to make them self-aware is just... yeah, I think it salvages the train wreck, hahah! But they're cool-looking from the get go! u

@BraveHeartTatsumaki, loook at the pokemon!! Haha, I think we all went through that corny phase, yeah? At least your pokemon drawing was nice (Suicune, ooo)!

Mine was actually an anime cat boy, I was like 20 when I made him! Obviously broken off from Loveless, hahah! HE NEVER HAD A NAME, he was just this lonely, lethargic but kind cat boy, around 16-17, with a fox girl as a friend (who also remained nameless). The story basically followed an "alien invasion" by these cat and fox-eared aliens, struggling against some humans who feared them, some humans who wanted to capitalise on them, etc, etc. Very unique, undeniably interesting. (≧▽≦)

Love this thread Got so many character designs from the past lol.
Here's a picture of a character I named Striker from a series I was working on in High School which I called Dragon Tracker.

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I suddenly have deep regrets for deleting my original deviant art account

William Adair Andrews, I could try and be like "oh well this profile is for a superhero au" but tbh he wasn't any better in his main story. I was probably about 11/12 when I made this guy.
He also started off with a ginger bob and he wore dresses but that apparently got scrapped really quickly. William never aged no matter how old he got and then he was also a zombie at one point and he could make magic teddies that would talk though they always hated him. He was a pirate captain once, and he married a king (who was a friends oc) while also helping the mafia, he was also a landlord at one point, he could travel too and from hell for some reason, he helped start hell's only radio station then didn't work in it. He had a sister who I think was called Mary and his father was a mess but we hated William for some reason.

I've actually brought him back now with hopes of remaking him and sorting out his mess of a story. It may take a while.

omg, I think this is my favorite forum question- I love everybody's comments so far! @Kaykedrawsthings you re-do that monster one a little tongue in cheek and I would totally read it- that ghost girl comment made me lol at work.

And for my characters, I'm not sure where all their drawings went, and I'm not even sure who's the worst offender. I've had alot of bad stories over the years hahaha.

I think the ones that get honorable mention though are from the same world as my comic right now, Kindred Sun (I've been writing in one of the same fantasy worlds for a long time now, and I bounce between different countries every few years.)

I'd been playing around with the idea of a god-system when I was like, 14. And I made these twin gods. Their names were Rhyme and Reason. BUT THERE WAS MORE: they had another mirror side to them, that was DARK AND EVIL AND SHIT. And when they were their alternate selves, their names were CRIME AND TREASON. I figured they were the reason for all the good and evil in the world.

...Needless to say, nothing came of them.

I don't have any character I would call shitty... I'm not sure if that says more about my love for them or my inability to be self-critical. Probably both!

I think the worst characters I've ever made are... the ones I have in my current comic. I have written various versions of the story and most of them are awful, with the protagonist going Mary Sue often and happily. I've tried to rescue them from the Scrappy heap and completely rewrote them.

There's still one character from another old story that I plan to rescue, but I still haven't cracked a way to make her good. This was a story that I wrote very consciously as self-therapy when I was going through the darkest time in my life; it's about a girl (an obvious stand-in for me back then) who meets a boy who popped out of nowhere claiming to be her guardian angel. At first it isn't clear whether the angel is for real or just crazy, but they end up uncovering a giant conspiracy spanning heaven and hell which may or may not just be a metaphor for overcoming adolescence.
The plot actually morphed into something pretty interesting as I tried to do a dramedy that seriously tackled issues like my difficulty relating to others, sexuality, why it's ok to be alone sometimes and why sometimes it really isn't, and a deconstruction of the "magical girlfriend" tropes. However pretty much every character in the pretty big cast I ended up with was more interesting than the protagonist, no doubt because she was a self-insert. I still hope to be able to redo this story someday.

Lmao oh my god... I had some seriously bad OCs.
The worst were the ones I made when I was a kid...They were "gangster cats" who lived in Las Vegas and fought each other with swords and one of them was a NINJA. What the heck... x'DD

I made a lot of bad ones through the years, but since I was more of a writer than a drawer I don't have pictures of them.

But the first one I actually have picture of was from when I was 13...

He was named Yail, and was some sort of steampunk robot. I think he wasn't THAT bad of a character until I decided that he was an assassin badass with a dark past. (face palm)

I really only used him for roleplaying with this one childhood friend of mine, and when I stopped being friends with them all the characters we had created together died off. Which is a good thing. Those characters were awful.

He was in love with one of her characters BUT of course was very tsundere about it. So there's a lot of them fighting because they LOVE each other. (Beats head against desk to try and forget.)

And oh god I just remembered this guy;

Some sort of super angsty character that was a science experiment... Dat rainbow eye. (sobs)
He looks like the human version of the aforementioned sparkle dogs! T___T'''
He was from the same universe as the other one... Seriously glad that universe burned. Ugh.

I still use my shitty old OC's in my comics.

Once upon a time, there was a man who thought: "I'm going to make a comic!"
He then proceeds on designing mary sue characters, story that has too many plot holes than the moon and no
clear ending. Among many other noob and personal fantasies toxic he injects into the comic.

What happen to the guy now? After a colossal kick to the balls he realized his mistake...
and proceeds to creating a shitty comic about magic girls...... Damn Pedo.

TRUE STORY.

Well fuck, I shouldn't have deleted all those old deviations...

Well when I was 10 years old I created my own Teen Titans fan character that was supposed to be Raven's cousin...this character was probably one of the biggest Mary Sues' out there, almost as bad as Ebony from the My Immortal fan fiction of Harry Potter.
My best friend was also a huge fan of the show back then and we'd make stories about the misadventures of our characters. xD I'd post pictures but I lost them over time.

@Savannah Uuuugggh!! I also had a Teen Titans Mary-Sue! She was cat themed -__-