Post your shitty characters

[maximumthemokona]

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.

[meatmaiden]

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.

[BraveHeartTatsumaki]

Thank you, yes, we all went through THAT phase... making OC for Pokemon and RPing-battling with others xD remembering it kinda gives me nostalgia though <3
Your drawings of cats are cute though :3 You do really have a style that you continued with the pass of time to the comic nowadays you're doing, it's great <3

[BraveHeartTatsumaki]

You were lucky, very lucky, my characters weren't that.... monstruosity though, it still kinda kept balance somehow, but I did something worse: Create my own region, and my own Pokemon, I KNOW. over 150 is madness
I saw hell man, I really saw it. But I saw others who were worse, from DA and from the Forums in those times, and I don't know what was worse, DA or the Forums. xD

[Kura]

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

[Zannen00]

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.

[SpavVy]

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.

[Kayke]

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

[Strontium]

I had a Teen Titans fan character who was Beast Boy's sister... She looked just like him except her skin was blue, not green... <.<;;;;; but I never developed her as a character.
I also had a whole TT rip off team including Peter Powers, who was a Robin expy, Toy Boy, who could turn into toys, and Kid Nightcrawler. Who was just a kid version of the X-Men character.
I never drew these characters so you're just going to have to trust me.

[phen]

I know! I'm not sure if it's good or bad that my style's kinda remained unchanged in 10+ years! I think I need a revolution! But yo, there's definitely the charm of having that kind of pokemon oc universe of your own. Everyone's always so excited to begin those, I think they've helped kickstart some really awesome characters.

@winglesscomic Dude, yes! When I was posting those images to dA, they got the warmest welcome. I was so excited to share them thanks to that love, hah! The sparkledog thing, though, I think that's the one area I managed to never get into. I have no idea how considering I was a MASSIVE fan of cartoon animal characters.

@meatmaiden These are so great, oh man! Especially their professions, holy cow. Way to give a go at such bizarre territory! It reads so crazy, hah~ And I love the science experiment with the rainbow eye (rainbows are endlessly amusing when you're first making designs, yeah?).

And now that @shazzbaa mentions it, it does feel harsh doggin' on these old characters. They were so much fun to make! I also did a series of illustrations with a character that was a "star saver" but... she was just an overwrought excuse to draw anime-esque scene girl, haha^^ Deviantart was a repository for some of my most inventive years~

[BraveHeartTatsumaki]

Well, from those Pokemon stuff, my main character of my comic was born xD so it did help. It just happened xD
I actually don't think it's bad that you stayed with a style, because it has your own mark and becomes pretty original, of course if you're unhappy you can always change, but personally, personally xD I like it, it's very original and haven't seen something like that in other drawings c:
omg those girls are so pretty <3

[SpavVy]

@Kaykedrawsthings @Strontium

Well isn't that just adorable xD thinking we could make good characters back then.

[heterodont]

One I can remember that I didn't end up keeping and revamping was a female wolf oc with a rainbow colored tail tip. Everything else about her was relatively normal colors except for that tail. IIRC she was also a genetic experiment and I Remember Quite Clearly the 10 pages I wrote about her had something to do with Wolf's Rain (note: I never watched or read Wolf's Rain.)
No picture of her because I lost it and the file. I only have the physical copy which is stuck in the recesses of my closet somewhere.

One character I did keep and revamp was Robert (the red head), now one of the MCs of my comic. Even now it's cringeworthy to think what kind of character he started off as :s even though arguably its not bad but its still sends shivers down my spine to even remotely share it. I'm overhyping it but he essentially used to be a serial killer/murderer because 13 year old me was feeling spiteful and egotistical about seeing so many 'murderer' characters who Just So Happen to have schizophrenia because the person thought it was a 'spooky' and 'horrifying' mental illness. This image is really the only old drawing I have that represents that original character :'D

[AnnaLandin]

Ahh yes, I'm not sure how horrible you imagined the veins/teeth, but here's to hoping it was just some kind of minor thing because terribad OCs gotta be handsome but be insecure about some tiny scar that doesn't really look that bad.

Oh, it was definitely in the doesn't-actually-look-bad category! The sharp teeth were basically just a little pointy, with extra pointy incisors - like an extra toothy vampire! - and the veins were more like thin, swirly patterns than actual veins. If he took off that scarf he'd be all like "Oh noooo, my scars are too cool - I mean ugly-looking! >:v".

OH NO THIS IS TOO REAL

Hahahahahahaha! XD There were more horses than dragons but oh my gosh did I ever fill every available papery surface with pictures of them. I literally did not draw people until I was about 10.

[meatmaiden]

Ohhh my god I did the same thing with dragons ohhh nooo >////<'''
I was obsessed for awhile there... I bought all the dragon books for kids and even did some weird comics about a dragon... TwT''
Cats and dragons, that was my thing 8'D (horses not so much--- I'm deadly allergic x_x')

[AnnaLandin]

Cats and dragons, that was my thing 8'D (horses not so much--- I'm deadly allergic x_x')

I was horse-obsessed there for a while - I took riding lessons (for like, a year and a half?), didn't even mind falling off and hurting myself (which, uh, happened on occasion >.<), and I devoured all copies of Min Häst, a Swedish comics-magazine about horses. Those were some seriously pretty-looking comics, I tell you.

[meatmaiden]

(sob) I wish I could say "oh that's cool!!!" but man... even looking at horses makes my eyes burn and me clutch my chest in panic. They can seriously kill me. T___T

I owned one for about a year before I suddenly developed a deadly allergy and had to sell him... It was pretty tragic. But he has a lovely owner now! Sometimes I get sent pictures of him, and he's doing just fine!

I count my lucky stars that I was born in a time period with cars x'D

[naughtyjourneycomic]

wtf kind of crap did i make?
For real?Why theres even a goddamn skeleton with a frickin gem on his forehead?

WHAT IS THIS OC.
HE DOSEN'T LOOK LIKE A DEMON AT ALL.

THIS OC IS A VIRUS.Wait......I know it's cool to have a character that can control the whole technology in the universe.Like a glitch character..BUT WHY A PALADIN?WHY DID I DRAW THIS KIND OF OC.I MEAN.LIKE.
IN THE IRON AGE.THERES NO SHITTY TECHNOLOGY AND ELETRICITY DEVICE SHITS.WHERE DID THIS PALADIN CAME FROM?IDK,what is wrong with me.

[realSean_Murphy]

I have been trying to be more loose when it comes to sketching instead of stressing my drawings to look as perfect as possible.
I posted this drawing I did of Marie from Persona 4 to my DeviantART
It doesn't look good in my opinion, but oh well.

[Raven_C]

Well when I was 9 or 10 I legit had a character named Sayuri or something and she was basically a rip-off of Sakura from CLAMP's Cardcaptor Sakura. Except I called my story "The Capturers." lmao, i dont even know.