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Yes, this took as long as you might think.

Since I can't sit down and focus on ONE OC for ONE second, I put together all of my currently made OCs (minus Amber Knight and Shirin Sakurada even though I have their models made) and put them in one scene for shits and gigs.

Ahem, time for why the title is that in the first place.

Though we know not what waits ahead, we press on all the same. Life is a journey, death is our destination. So do not stop and dwell on the past. Live on. Move forward, even if it hurts, because time waits for nobody.

So then, question for your OCs: Has your OC(s) ever felt stuck at some point in their lives, unable to mentally move forward or look towards the future?

(So uh, I messed up with the slide covering her weapons. It's "Katzbalgers," not "Katsbalgers," but whatever, same pronunciation.)

Initially, Heidrun was going to be more like Kriemhild as depicted in Fate: Grand Order, but I decided to drift away from that and go more into the cocky/badass gunslinger trope, which ended up becoming closer to characters like Star Lord (Guardians of the Galaxy), Nodo Kalthoris (Star Renegades), and Helter Skelter (No More Heroes).

Up next: Amber Knight: Head of Atlas R&D, or Shirin Sakurada: Class A Huntress... when I get around to either of them.

>!So uh, I forgot to highlight the "mentally unstable mass murderer" part in red, which was meant to be a jab at one of my other OCs, Xiaohong.!<

Team AFBR with Aster, Beryl, and Reiko's redesigns.

Team Members: Aster Myron, Rowen Fia, Beryl Flamel, and Reiko Fujimori

Original character designs and Semblances

Random facts about Team AFBR:

Aster often stumbles over her words when faced with romantic tension or advances towards her. Despite being her team's leader, she struggles heavily with social situations.

Rowen has pyromania and has committed several counts of arson at Beacon, only having not been arrested for it or expelled thanks to her teammates covering up for her.

Beryl made a makeshift laboratory hidden somewhere behind a wall at Beacon. Most of her experiments revolve around Dust and cause frequent explosions. The Beacon staff still have no idea where the explosions come from.

Reiko, despite being intimidating and standoffish, can be incredibly kind to others if given time to warm up. Tied with Aster for second-smartest on the team and acts as Beryl's assistant in her lab when needed.

Feel free to ask questions about them.

What's that? Another red OC from me? Who would've guessed? /s

This time I actually remembered to make a slide for the weapon.

Team CBLT before Qing's death.

OCs (in order): Cerise Devilly, Bai Qing, Li Feiyao, and Azalea Travers

Their allusions are kind of a mess, I didn't have any set theme when making this team (or Team AFBR).

Allusions (in order): Oni (Japanese Folklore), Spike Spiegel (Cowboy Bebop), Revy/Rebecca Lee (Black Lagoon), Travis Touchdown (No More Heroes)

Random Facts:

Cerise, if I could give her a voice, she'd have a slight or strong Scottish accent, no inbetween.

Qing's weapon belongs to her late father.

Feiyao often used her Semblance to cheat during tests when she was still in Haven Academy.

Azalea is the cousin of Rowen Fia (of Team AFBR).

Feel free to ask questions about them. And if you'd like to know about Cerise and Feiyao baseline, check out their posts. (I didn't make one for Azalea yet....)

It's been a while since I've done a proper sheet for one of my OCs, so I figured I'd do it for one I've had in the works for a long time, going through a few redesigns (this one being the most drastic). Crimson's the first of many, so to speak, quite literally my first OC I've made, and as I've grown, I've done a lot of rewrites for what her character was before I landed on this one.

(Ah fuq, I forgot to put in a sheet for Crimson's weapon. It's a two-handed battle axe mixed with a revolver called the "Heartbreaker.")

In regards to her characterization here: I wanted to focus more on what Crimson is like most of the time, unlike where with Xiaohong, I focus on how they feel in the important points of their story.

How random do you want your character inspirations to be? Yes.

>!(Unrelated, but VRM/VRoid models PMO, the goddamn coat tails bend with the legs, which makes them look ugly as hell and I'm gonna lose my shit over it.)!<

Eh, didn't wanna do a post for just some alt designs (especially since Ying and Nero's is a just a gag one. I bet at least one of you is gonna get what their outfits are a reference to. Tip: focus more on Nero's outfit.)

Jam Hemlock (allusion: Hemlock/Dead as Disco):

"It doesn't look like it, but they're the punk rock kind of person. Ironic that we have a guy like 'em flying the Atlesian flag." -Chai Ying

Jam is the scout that works with Nero and Ying. They/She/He (they don't care) don't/doesn't really like Nero all that much because he, to her, embodies everything he believes Atlas to be, so they have a pretty strong negative opinion on him. In any case, he tolerates him because she'd rather get paid for a successful mission than a failed one.

Jam's Semblance is "Down With The System," it allows her to disable any individual within a 70 foot/21 meter range, immobilizing and disorienting them. This effect only lasts ten seconds, more than enough time for her to land a good shot on them.

Coriander "Cory" Liechtenauer (allusion: Johannes Liechtenauer):

"It's... nothing new. The loss of life. It's everywhere these days, no matter where you look. It's... I'm sorry you had to suffer like that. And I won't fault you for your actions. You did what you thought was right. And... what you did was right, but... you went about it the wrong way. We aren't gods and we aren't judges. It's not up to us if someone deserves to die. But who cares, right? We kill anyway. It's what we're the best at." -excerpt from Coriander Liechtenauer's conversation with Hou Xiaohong

Cory is a freelance Huntress that was tasked with taking in Xiaohong, dead or alive. She's a prodigal master swordswoman with a blade just as sharp as her wit, a simple weapon for a clever mind to make the most with.

Cory's Semblance is "Deflection." She can activate it to deflect anything that hits her, however it only remains active for 1 second at a time, and can only be reactivated every 2 seconds.

Coriander, upon meeting Xiaohong, didn't find her in a state where she could fight back. She was a wreck, both physically and mentally. She decided against her better judgement to talk first instead of attacking her immediately, resulting in Xiaohong breaking down after holding in (8) years of trauma (her life went to hell when she was 17).

The members of the team (in order): Kurei Tatsu, Kitsuo Rin, Hakuhane Sumikawa, Hannya Nanako.

Allusions (in order): Ryujin, Yao no kitsune, Yogen no tori, Hannya.

I don't have much experience with traditional Japanese clothing, but I did the best I could while stepping outside the lines of traditional wear a few times.

Random facts:

Kurei was originally going to have shorts (but he doesn't now, 'cause they didn't look good).

Kitsuo took the longest to figure out a name and design for.

Kitsuo, Hakuhane, and Hannya use the same texture for their pants, I literally just couldn't think of anything else to use.

Hakuhane is Kurei's foster sister.

Hannya's model has slightly more volume than the standard female avatar (meaning she has more muscle, though not quite defined).

Feel free to ask anything you'd like about them.

"Y'cut through my neck... and you barely missed my jugular. I'll make sure you don't live long to regret it."

This design is actually a time skip design. It's about a 3 year difference between this version (age: 23) and the previous (age: 20). More notoriety, the authorities after her for being a mass murderer (even though she exclusively targets people that are active criminals/bandits), and even more trauma than she was saddled with from where I started her story. Dead parents, near death experience 1, guilt eating at her mental health over the years, gradually growing numb to ending human life, ending up on the run and constantly moving, no longer having any actual time to properly take care of herself, near death experience 2, and then...? (And then nothing, I'm still writing past that point, I just wanted to share what I've got now. Man, I'm putting her through the wringer. I gotta give her something to smile about at some point.)

The reason her sword isn't a sword now is because it was damaged beyond repair in battle. With her weapon destroyed, she was nearly killed with a heavy blade cleaving into her collarbone. She barely survived the cut. She wasted no time after treating her wounds. She had the scraps melted down and forged them into smaller blades before forcefully attaching them to a pair of custom-made hand-cannons (name pending). You'd bust your wrist if you tried firing one of them, and any other Huntsman wouldn't be able to reliably control the recoil, even with both hands.

So that's uh... two near-death experiences I've given her. She really is the "suffering builds character" OC of all my OCs.

I was messing around and found out I could do something like this, so, leaning on my experience with Code Vein's camera mode, I did all this.

OCs in order: Kurei Tatsu, Hakuhane Sumikawa, Nanako Hannya, Aster Myron, Beryl Flamel, Kiiro Raijin, Hou Xiaohong, Tsubaki Geino

(This is the first time any member of Team KRSN has appeared in one of my posts. Also, Aster and Beryl have proper allusions now, which is why their surnames are no longer "Reid" and "Hopkins.")

OCs in order (with allusions): Nero Kontos (Dionysus), Chai Ying (undecided), Alice Reeves (Bass Reeves), Bell Flowers (Jesse James), Hou Xiaohong (Frank Castle/The Punisher), and Mirage Valmore (Marceline Desbordes-Valmore).