You Bella seem to share a special connection where you care for others happiness but the people you helped will turn a blind eye to you. It's rather sad that they would use you and Bella that way. I didn't have a group of friends in high school either but, I never tried because I was to shy. If Bella was real you are her can start your own group then either of you will be left out. Finally on an unrelated matter my brother's dog is named Bella.
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.
They both sound like very interesting characters. It good that the characters taught you something I believe that to be a rare occurrence. For some strange reason I can somewhat imagine those two together because she can help him get used to how he is.
I think one of the more interesting characters for me to write in Capefall is Sappho
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
The narrative depicting this character in a different light based on the person sounds like such an interesting story. Being the odd one out is always something hard to deal with and it can help a character grow. I also like the combination of an ink pen with water color paint it makes this looks very vibrant.
This character definitely sounds like most artist here on Tapastic, we may not be social pros but we are good at what we do. He also sounds like my most influential OC Eota. She was also shy but, she is also very kind and dedicated to helping others. the art with Mappy in look good, the necks just seem too short. I am also assuming the girl resting her chin on his head is his first friend? 
@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.
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.
Probably my current main characters for my comic Knights, simply by virtue of the fact that its the first story I'm properly telling. While I haven't delved into their personalities and histories that much (yet!) to learn anything about character development, I've learned a ton about design and art. At this point, I'm really hating Iman's outfit. I really should have done some char design pages and stuff before just jumping right in but you live and learn =P
Jun, by contrast, had a lot more concept sketching done.
@foervraengd I've seen both your deviantart and your character before! I was looking for pompadour references for a future character (spoiler alert?). Your art is awesome =]
The character that taught me the most about myself is probably Ska from one of my written Stories.
When I started writing this particular story, I realy didn´t want to direct it anywhere. Sometimes I write stories for pleasure, and don´t intend to publish them
Then Ska came along. I had no Idea where he came from. He picked that piece of story up and made it into something dark, twisted and deeply enjoyable. It is now one of my most popular stories online.
At first he scared me. The whole writting progress scared me - it came from somewhere deeper, I knew what would happen, I could write it down, but even I didn´t always know what Ska was actualy planning.
I emerged into him and tried to get to know him. He is highly intelligent and has the best sarcasmn and humor. I was able to create another character who could keep up with him and became his partner - but that was it. He was a mystery to me.
After finishing the story, I just slowly realized that he was a part of me. It gave me a lot of self confidience to hold him inside of me.
He is not the most well tought charakters. He is not the charakter I simpazise with the most on an emotional level. He has good and bad traits. He succesedes. He´s the one who gave me the most.
The character I feel most connected to is my hero Force-Ar (real name Kayode, which is Nigerian for 'he brings joy'). Kayode is an idealist, and being raised Christian myself, I can understand that perspective. I thought it would be interesting to plant him as the idealist type in my comic between a lot of fame hungry heroes to juxtapose the big soup of moral perspectives I wanted to play with.
Idealists, to clarify, are the type to form a belief and plant their feet with it, often finding strength from their beliefs. It becomes, however, the antithesis of pragmatic and a good moral code doesn't always work practically in every situation. I wanted to bring that to a character in my comic.
I've been victim to the conflict between fastidious principles and the human condition throughout my life (as most of us have, no doubt) so engaging with Kayode has been the most interesting part for me so far. Given the superhero genre, one is able to exaggerate given scenarios to really hammer the point across, athough I'm not trying to be preachy. Force-Ar will feature a lot in HOTWAB over the forthcoming year.
Well the character Jacob from Welcome Back influenced me to go and make stranger bizarre characters. I was able to create a sorta weird development of one singular character by making doppelgangers representing parts of him and split them off showing different sides to the character I usually never tried with others. 
I really have not much to say on how a character influences me, I see them as a part of story and sort of separate them from me. I don't get attached to my characters the way I expect my readers to so it's more of a overall thing that influences me. The comic as a whole changed my style completely, incorporated things I never did before in other pieces of work, focus on tougher subject matter and allowed me to experiment and break out of my past styles.
Nico's development is similar to my most influential character Eota. She also started our every shy, it was as it that was her most defining trait. Though through the years I kept added layers to her personality just like how you did. She eventually became a kind person who would risk her life for others in the face of danger but couldn't strike up a conversation with someone properly.
Though I have made a similar character type with the protagonist of my Drama, Romance and Slice of LIfe comic "In The Midst" Her name is Sikaru, at first she almost was like Eota but, facing different circumstances and experiencing different thing has made her a different character. Despite the fact they have similar personalities.
I see that Ska taught you how to write characters from your heart and really get to know your character. I always try to put a little of myself in each of my characters so I could understand their motivations just a little bit.
Just like you my character Eota taught me the most. She taught me to make a character multifaceted and not just have one trait define their entire character.
