Your most influential OC

Interesting question... I think for me it's Mira from Dreamcatchers1.
When I started to draw it, I was only around 15-16, so I was interested in popularity in schools. I never been popular of course, I just tried to be friends with such girls back in primary... I wanted to be someone like them, but I'm different, and deep in my heart I hated that I can't be "normal". So I picked in the story such girls, but made the "strange girl" Sohiru, as the heroine. Mira fells in love with Sohiru's dream being friend (Iko), but Iko is only interested in Sohiru, so I made Mira a foolish person with her useless tryings. But with years I started to like her because of it, and I feel pity about her. I think maybe it doesn't matter how popular or unpopular we are. We all want something that we can't get.

An Iko-Sohiru-Mira scene:

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If we don't count the two dorks I'm drawing a comic about right now1, my most influential characters are probably Talassa and Gale - I can't pick just one of them, since they're both the main characters of their story.

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They're important to me because theirs was the first longer-format comic I ever finished, showing me that I can do this, that I can draw comics properly, that I can tell stories from start to finish. Before them, I almost always got stuck halfway, and found it hard to commit to a story - I always wanted to tinker and change stuff. And while I still do (tinker and change stuff, I mean), I've now gained the ability to push past that and just do.

... Never underestimate the power of finishing things, regardless of quality.

My most influential OC is Princess Tablita Greyward. She won't be appearing in The Chronicles of Oro for a few chapters yet, but I feel that she is crucial to the story in a rather interesting way.
The first time I drew her was nearly ten years ago and also a complete accident. I was doodling in class and 'wham' this new character appeared on my page. Now usually when I'm drawing new characters, like most people, I think up ideas for who they are and what they're like as I go. But Tablita seemed to be the one to tell me who she was and what she was all about right then and there. The problem was, at the time the Twins were royalty and this gal was definitely a princess... So the entire story I had written up to that point was scrapped...
And it got a billion times better. I've been re-writing and editing over the years but the basic structure of what the story is now happened because Tablita demanded to be a part of it.
Since then, there have been a few more major shifts to this project (one of which was reaching the end of the story for the first time and then realizing what the plot actually was about) and each time, Tablita has lead the change. You'd think I'd want to keep her looking like that initial doodle in all her completeness... but as the story and I grew up, I realized that my cast (to put it plainly) was whiter than a box of stone wheat thins. And since this story encompasses the entirety of a world... it just didn't make logical sense. After a few re-designs, I finally came across a look for Tablita that once again, called out to me saying 'this is me, you gotta deal with it' (A la Korra, lol) but now with the clarity of having known her all these years...
I'm really excited to bring her into the story at long last... we'll have to wait for a bit until she arrives but I hope you all will like her as much as I do!
First and most recent designs below:

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I would have to say Jo Amabuoy. He's a cross dresser and very, very insecure about dressing as a boy. As I roleplayed with him more and more, he became able to trust people more, and eventually went out in public dressed as a male. Though I created him without any backstory in mind, he really struck me. You shouldn't be insecure for what other people love about you.
The other character would be Sun Sarah, and she is a sweet, sunny girl who had to take over her grandma's bakery because she had gone into a coma. Sharing the same name and a strong bond with her grandmother, Sun was very burdened. Though she never showed a single ounce of sadness until someone cracked her walls, letting her know it was alright to be sad sometimes. Sun taught me to always give a smile--you never know who might need it.
I'm not adding photos because they are sadly both face claims.

I think one of the more interesting characters for me to write in Capefall is Sappho

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What makes her interesting? The fact that she dies before the start of the comic. Everything we know about her comes from other people's opinions. I deliberately wrote her character to be inconsistent since she was a very public figure there are a lot of different opinions about her. Depending on who you ask, she was a selfless hero, a charismatic LGBT activist, a ruthless businesswoman, a brainless attention seeker, a 90's sex icon, or the fifth wheel "useless chick" in the superhero team.

My most influential OC is probably Mappy from U-Speed

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@kazukitakamura126 Maybe the coveralls makes his neck look short... The girl in the drawing is my girlfriend's OC, I drew our main characters together. Mappy's first friend is a japanese looking girl thats his age. ^u^

For me, I think it would be my OC Cyana.

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Yikes.. this topic is rather old 0-0
but.. um.. hm.. most influential OC..
oh gosh.. I have a 3-way tie..
(I dont have pictures available to upload of these characters yet)

first up in the 3-way tie is Star
She is a wolf-shapeshifter (i call them Guardians in my story as a reference (kind of) to a book series i read)
she is probably the oldest OC i have.. not by creation date, i mean her character's actual age.. she's basically around her 50's.. all other characters ive created for my story are younger.. or equivalent to.. they're all immortals of sorts.. so they don't appear to be as old as they actually are
anyways, the reason why Star is one of my most influential OCs is because:
she has fought in many wars and has many scars to prove it
she was an alpha by birth, but she NEVER takes advantage of her title.. EVER
she has fallen in love, had her heart broken, been betrayed, lost children before, during, and after birth, loves all of her surviving children, and has taught all of them how to be truly honorable wolf-warriors
she seems like a very noble and tough woman, but she only bears her fangs when necessary. violence is her last resort.
her motherly-vibe she gives off seems to always comfort those around her, and in a way i admire it

ok.. next up is Eittina (eye-ti-na)
she's my second-oldest OC (again, character age)
she's a former Banshee Empress that's in her 40's with only a husband and younger sister to call family.
her parents are presumed to be VERY dead and she is unable to give birth
she would be considered a Kuudere as she doesn't show much emotion and seems to be rather cold and quiet..
the fact that her primary magic-element is ice doesn't help.. and her cold demeanor is not intended to be a pun..
the reason why she is so influential (for me at least) is because she never backed down from a challenge.. even if she was full of self-doubt..

last one in the 3-way tie of most influential characters is Margaret "Calla" Morrow..
she is a Guardian like Star and has a similar appearance.. though much younger..
(by the end of my story she will be in her late 20's)
the reason why she is so influential to me is because her character is based off of my only full-blooded sibling.. that unfortunately died before she was born.. she is the older sister of the main character.. who is based off of me..
due to some dreams that i and my mother have had.. and books i have read.. (some characters have given me this "that is what my sister would be like" vibe) i have been able to create her character
she is very protective of her little sister in my story.. and is in total despair when she wakes up to find her little sister missing.. (this happens at the VERY beginning so not much of a spoiler)
slight spoiler here as you may have guessed she is full of joy and is even more protective when she finds her sister again.. swollen belly on either of them or not.. there will be a glomp fest
but as for WHY she is truly so influential.. is because of her character.. she's all about morals before rules and self-esteem
thats about all i can say for now without giving away even more spoilers

My most influential character is probably Nico (Nicholas "Nico" Ferne).

I created him about two years ago, and he was one of the first male characters I really fleshed out. It's funny how much I identify with him, since it's usually hard for me to relate to male characters. He started out as part of a group of fancharacters I made for an anime I liked at the time. He used to have bear ears, oh my god.
I put alot of myself into Nico, and he's changed with me. Nico's personality began as simply "too shy to function", and while he's still insecure and a big worrier, he's developed beyond just a stammering mess. Today, though he has trouble talking to people and is far too concerned with how he's thought of by people he'll never see again, he's stricter and kinder. "Do no harm but take no shXt" in a sense. He's less of a doormat now, and I like to think that I've become more confident with him.

Definitely my most life-changing OC is AC Gibson, the Texas Kangaroo Rat.

He has the most changes of all my characters, actually starting out as a gag fan character (actually the daughter of my pokesona) for a Pokemon comic (which despite having a massive story, just never was made), to being used in a RPG PMD comic group, to finally being an original character.

When I was retooling him, well at the moment he was a her, the basic idea was that he was raised to be a boy, so he thought he was a boy, and my friend was like "oh so like transgender" and I was like "what the fuck is that" After failing to convince me that it's a real thing for a year, he finally had some actual proof and then I've decided to just make him trans since that was a thing.

(My hipster-ass was kinda bummed my idea wasn't original LOL)

While I've had a draw to gender swapping before, working on AC really made me think about it more and I kinda became somewhat involved in the community with research. Then yada yada, found out that uteran transplants are possible, I realized that I was supposed to be a girl and started transitioning.

So yeah, making AC helped me come to realize that I'm a woman, which is kinda funny that he's trying to be a man despite society being annoying and I'm trying to be a woman. LOL Which I guess is why I put so much work into his character despite being the sidekick somewhat.

My most influential OC is Zombra Blueberry. He is less of just a character and more of an obsession.

Tho when I first created him, he looked like this.

He was first created about 11 years ago and was based off a dumb song I created which was based off a place called "Blueberry Hill". The song was about hoping for someone to "Come take away my sorrows. Come take away my blues." And that is sort of what the character became. He started out as a school teacher who reformed himself from his horrible past. His original origin was that he was sick of how people treated him so he became obsessed with torturing people. However, over the years, it evolved to him feeling like an outsider and his attempt to find out who he really is (so less "edgy-ness"). And add that he comes from a race of beautiful pale people and he looks like a purple raisin.

I guess what he taught me was how to rewrite a story as well as brainstorm. I would think "this seems ok BUT what if this happened instead." It also taught me the importance of supporting characters and allowed me to build characters off of their relation to Mr. Blueberry. On a personal level, I guess in some ways I used him to sort of deal with depression and anxiety. I also blame him for my attraction to older men...I mean at first he was suppose to be "ugly and old" but over time I feel like I kept making him more handsome.

I do hope one day, I can write a proper comic for him.