My main OC is me, and extension of myself.

Your alter ego! :) Cool! )

She is not me at all. She is not even an ideal person of another type, I commonly joke that had I known her, I'd most likely dislike her, since we don't share common viewpoints in most matters.

But she has been with me for a very long time, and I treasure her adventures, and the memories that formed them.

And I am definitely under her spell. Wouldn't get dozens of artworks of hers otherwise.

Kinda your.. daughter? :> or younger sister?:>

Daughter, yeah, more closely to a fictional daughter

<3

In some cases, my characters are me. In them I place parts of my experience and morph them to suit a strange world, to make them feel how I feel. Often, they are tragic characters; They deal with worse than I do, and I send them through more to get better. Loving them comes naturally, I love them as I love myself. These fragments are masks that I wear but the masks always have a bit more truth to them than you'd think. Especially when they're well made. I see these as children, who are just as lost as I am. Some of them realize it, others are consumed by it.

Other ones feel ephemeral, when I'm just breaking up the me that already went into other characters. Rehashing feelings that are already owned by one or two. I don't stay attached to those all too much. They have a place, but it is not center stage. A story to tell. These are... not friends, but acquaintances.

Then there are the ones that are supposed to be me. To look like me, as much as a fur can. To act like me, if I second guessed myself less. To be better. In some parts, they are me, and in other parts they are the ideal that I'm reaching for. It's good to set a goal, and I use them to do that. They are for my friends to see me as. While that's a little better than I am, the gap between us closes every day. I see sonas as an extension of myself. Someday I hope to be so much like them that we meld. Or, something will change for me and they will change with it to become a new ideal.

Thanks for a detailed reply!
I see, it's even a practical use of reaching goals, so very good!

I'm a big dreamer, so I have a lot of original characters.

I think it's fair to say that every character I've created has part of me in them.
Some have more, some have less.

Some characters have lived in my imagination since I was very young, but they grew up and matured with me. I guess I could call them friends to some extent.

Some are conceived negatively as antagonists in the stories.

Others are the result of fantasies about healthy relationships, and in these cases I hope I won't get too caught up in escapism.

Nevertheless, all of these characters are dear to me, and I hope one day I can put each of them into a good story.

Even a dreamer has such a realistic usage of OCs! I also wish them all to be a part of a really good stories)

They mostly serve as a vehicle to explore favourite story ideas and the conflicts both in those worlds, and how they would react to such events. My main one started out as a representation of 'me' but steadily grew away from that. Nor would I really want to be him, since he is decidedly not a good person. Nonetheless I have a good deal of affection for him since I can understand and deeply empathise with the internal conflicts he deals with.

I guess I like to get into the heads of fictional characters a bit, and construct their mindset about the realities that exist for them. A three hundred year old dragon that spent much of his life living among the squishies? He's going to be feeling ennui to a nearly terminal level. He's going to feel the stranger wherever he goes. He's going to act out.

I personally feel so much sympathy for OCs who had tragical life periods.. and I'm kinda sinning digging in their head, too >< :D

Personally, all of the mentioned.

Some of my characters are just that. Characters I've created and inspired mostly by art or situation(games, dnd campaigns, ect.)

I do feel a slight affection, as they are extensions of my imagination.

My personal OC is more like an avatar of myself, not me exactly but a character like me. Their actions are not always a one-to-one of my own but more like what I may do.

Hope this makes sense

Was interesting to know :) I love your OC's family <3

My OC is a past version of what I wanted to be of my self .. it's like I can't let go of the dream of wanting to be like that..

Like a sublimation of what couldn't be real but could be a fiction at least in art?:>

Definitely!

My character is myself, in its truest sense. Being what I guess one could call a therian, my sona is how I see my ideal form. It has been unchanging for over a decade now since I discovered I was a horse.

<3 Very handsome stallion!

He is my muse and guardian. I am super warm and fuzzy about him. Provides alot comfort in a unstable world right now.

Supportive one, that sounds very comforting <3

My demon OCs are bros I have huge plans for and a few of them have been drawn in unhinged porn.
My non-demon OCs I havent gotten art of yet are a bunch of folks doing their imaginary best.
My sona is what I like to imagine I would be like if I was fluffy and got myself into situations. And unhinged porn. Sometimes with my demon OCs.

Big family of OCs for all means <3 Sounds very much fun :)

I have a lot of OCs and all of them are optimized for a specific story type, setting, that kind of thing. Some of them are more like me than others- but the one who I always write most like myself is an earnest but clumsy osprey gryphon. It's ironic since he was never intended as a self insert type of character!

You create such stories or is it smth like DnD type of?

I make the stories my characters end up in, though sometimes they end up being used in tabletop games as well

My ideal self - what I wish I could be.

Oh, yessss, we knowwwwwssss :DDD

For me, both of my boys are an extension of myself but also how I wish I could be, they’re both complete opposites of me irl, but I can be so relaxed and them naturally online, but that may be because people seem to have no fear online anymore.

At least they help to feel better <3

Reflections of my inner self and aspects of what I desire my reality to be.

Pretty reflections :>

Squishy ones mostly :)

I have lots of OCs, and I think their core theme is they represent parts of my psyche, good and bad, hidden and seen.

Like your personal characteristics within each OC :)

I have a bunch of OCs and they're all their own entities. They can have something either from me or people I know. Sometimes they're a vehicle to explore a certain personality or lifestyle, especially in a context of the story they end up in. Little mental experiments. x)

Did they all meet each other? or all in diffeernt time and space lines?

Most of them have their own settings. Some are grouped in one world, others in another one. Then there are those that don't have a setting at all and just exist xD

Every time you have an option to choose between all, comfy :)