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A post introducing my collection of what I consider to be my "personal OCs".

I recently posted about Infinix for his 10th anniversary. Over the years I've built up a roster of super-egoes around him based on both myself and people I know, so I though I'd do a little showing-off. :)

All artwork is commissioned from Eryck Webb, an artist that I've worked with since my superhero MMO days in the 2010s. He's put up with a lot of my character shenanigans (especially with Infinix) and I'm really thankful for all that he's done for me.
Aperturion, Caregiver, and Double-Dog originally started out as designs put together from Fabrica de Herois (2014 version).

As introduced before, Infinix is my herosona, and is able to shift his body dimensionally in various ways. As a character, he is not originally from the Earth in which he currently resides, and is a carefree soul who enjoys exploring his surroundings and making friends with others. He is hindered by an inability to speak, which causes others to sometimes misread his intentions, but he always means well.

Aperturion is able to project and control portals from the ring-like instruments on his body, which can also be thrown and returned to him. He is a rival/opposite to Infinix often getting in his way "because he can". His methods lean dangerously towards villainy.

Caregiver is a tribute to the female figures in my family, but mostly inspired by my late mother, who I lost to cancer back in 2017. She has the ability to fly, become invisible and intangible, and project an aura that can heal injuries and calm the mind-- or offensively, if need be.

Double-Dog is a low-level metahuman, a scrappy fighter with invulnerable skin and a nose for danger. (Since this one is only a sketch, he has a mostly brown color scheme and is loosely inspired by my father and a pair of German Shepherds he used to own.)

Thanks for looking!

(Art credit in image captions. All images are commissioned works. Some have links to related content: a character theme song uploaded to YouTube by the artist and a (currently very WIP) custom strawpage website with profile information if you're interested in reading about him.)

Next week will be the tenth anniversary since I created what has undoubtedly become my most iconic character, Infinix. He is a dimension-shifting superhero OC I mostly created to be a "face" for my internet presence, inspired by some of the weirder characters and superpowers not often seen in mainstream comics (at the time). The "character" part honestly came much later when I started sharing him around places like Twitter, deviantArt and Facebook and things sort of just spiraled from there, even if I still haven't quite figured everything out all this time later.

He's since become a bit of a long-term project over the years, bringing me in contact with a lot of supers/OC fans and artists, many of whom have become good friends. A lot of artwork has been commissioned over the years, too, and it never gets old to hear compliments from the artists who work on Infinix how much fun they have with it.

Things have been a bit less active for me as the internet landscape shifts away from the old familiar and I've had to deal with some pretty big changes in my own life that leave a lot less time for the fun stuff, but it's always a pleasure when I get the chance to let him take over my thoughts for a while and get something new done up for him (usually commissioned stuff, hah).

Happy for comments and questions if you like.