This character, from the moment I got the request to the final few words, was so much fun to write. I'm not just saying that because I was working with someone's existing OC; I think the main reason why it was so fun is... I'd forgotten how much more detail you can add when you're writing in second person. With the last few characters, I wasn't able to write about what's going on in their minds unless they say something, but with this character, I could go through their whole mental battle, decline, and defeat. And of course, it was so great to be able to write somebody who has such extensive lore. I'm excited when I get a single image as reference for a character, so imagine my delight when I see a full character sheet of the OC I'll be writing for!
What also helped was that this is the first character that was written entirely within my new work schedule, and as such, it only took me around two weeks to get it done. I'm really happy that I've taken to this new routine as well as I have, and it makes future commissions feel a little less scary.

Here's your obligatory ramblings and trivia:
- Name time first. Charlie Pelletier used to be Charlie Princeton, but it sounded too much like the late great Chadwick Boseman, so I changed his surname to Pelletier. It's French, fitting the touch of French in Nakhta's name, and means fur trader!
- There's a whooooole lot of little references I've added throughout the character, and while most of them you can figure out by looking at Nakhta's character sheet, there's a few deep cuts peppered throughout. For instance, Charlie being described as 'mousy' is a reference to Occam's other OC, and his polo shirt is a reference to another self-insert, TFSential!
- I use way too many paragraph breaks in this, eh? It's okay: it's evened out by the seven billion ellipses.
- Music choices during this character were... abrasive? From no wave bands to bass boosted memes, lots of gross yucky sounds.
- ...And speaking of gross yucky sounds, I also listened to something that... admittedly helped how I write these stories in the future. I won't mention it here, cuz it's... well, really dark. And probably doesn't put me in the best light. I make a little reference to it in this character, though!
- That comment about coffee being a “writer's lifeblood” was more true than I'd like to admit for this character. I'd have four cups a day, sometimes two cups back to back.
- I couldn't help myself from adding a Shakespeare quote in one of Nakhta's monologues, cuz I'm a gross smelly nerd. She quotes a line from Julius Caesar, where a character also gives a speech to a crowd 'congratulating' his enemy and turning the crowd against them!

Question: do you have an OC? Who/what are they? I've had the asexual bimbo Beatrice Main for around two years.

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