Cringey Ocs!

[Rodan]

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Hello all! Now, I am a firm believer that Mary Sues, and special snowflake characters, are essential to a person's roleplay experience and growth! We have all made our share of overpowered, brooding, too good for this world characters, and let's face it, we had fun doing it. I don't believe we should scold ones' younger than us for this, instead, I think we should have fun with it! So, I have created this thread, for us to share our most cringeworthy character that we have created or seen, the cringier the better! I'll go first! One of my most Mary sueish characters, was a fantasy oc, named 'Shade' (because shadow was too mainstream) This character was the more gothic, female, fantasy world version of me. (Way back when..) and she was..something.. She had the ability to manipulate shadows around her, manifested them into a weapon. Now, that's not TOO bad of a power. It was just..the way I rped her that was bad. She was ALWAYS monologuing about how bad her life was, how she mysteriously lost her younger sister, how she was unlovable. (A sign I wanted someone else's character to fall in love with her.) I still have the original character profile I wrote for her back in 7th grade and it is..a trip. So! What are some of your most cringeworthy characters?


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[MrSquid123]

I honestly don't have many really op characters, I mainly go for really weak characters.

 

[MISTER UN. 0W3N]

I think like... jesus... like in the beginning of my high school year, I remember making the epitome of an "action star" shook off bullets and homicide like it was dander. Put on shades when walking away from an explosion. Always got the booty (guys and girls). And, he was infallible. ... I think the only way I'd use him again is for shits and giggles. I just find him cringey because I try to give depth and reason. The guy's only reason to exist (for me) was to "express" what I knew was "manly" at the time. xD

 

[Rodan]

Like

I honestly don't have many really op characters, I mainly go for really weak characters.

[QUOTE="mayhem TR4NQU1L17Y]
I think like... jesus... like in the beginning of my high school year, I remember making the epitome of an "action star" shook off bullets and homicide like it was dander. Put on shades when walking away from an explosion. Always got the booty (guys and girls). And, he was infallible. ... I think the only way I'd use him again is for shits and giggles. I just find him cringey because I try to give depth and reason. The guy's only reason to exist (for me) was to "express" what I knew was "manly" at the time. xD

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wow, he sounds amazing X,D

 

[MISTER UN. 0W3N]

Right? Like, looking back now.. I think I'd reuse him for some comedy piece. xD

 

[Rodan]

[QUOTE="mayhem TR4NQU1L17Y]
Right? Like, looking back now.. I think I'd reuse him for some comedy piece. xD

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He would make an excellent crappy-on-purpose roleplay character.


My character however..would make an excellent character from "My Immortal" the worst story ever written.. >~>

 

[MISTER UN. 0W3N]

PFFT! ... oh my God. xD Naw... NAW! ... put them in a generic high school setting. :U They'll fit.

 

[MrSquid123]

He would make an excellent crappy-on-purpose roleplay character.
My character however..would make an excellent character from "My Immortal" the worst story ever written.. >~>

Oh god my immortal, just...why?

 

[call me rae]

Let's see :


Aimee/Adelaide Lebelle she had many iterations and none of them where anything other than cringe inducing. Actually a few good ideas for character development hidden in her winding journey of Snowflakehood but mostly they were all overhadowed by


A. being a blatant self insert


B. having the most stupid tragic backstories. -- i sucked at biographies way back when. wowee.


C. having OP as shit and nonsensical powers.


Her most common forms where

1. Succubus with social anxiety who was some stupid Twi-level vegetarian vampire bs.
   
2. A Rogue knock off with social anxiety
   
3. A French veela in harry Potter
   

Actually she was always french but in Harry Potter she was just extra french for some reason.


There was a short period in an X-men roleplay where I started actually trying to give her character development that was kind of fun. It was a little too rambling and heavy on the angst but the core idea wasn't half bad.


Basically self-deluded demigods more or less. Her brother was a person called Enchanter that thought he was the reincarnation of Ceres. Which yeah he was kind of a train wreck but he was at least kind of fun to play. My first try at playing someone totally opposite to me and I had fun with it if nothing else.

 

[MISTER UN. 0W3N]

"Extra French." ... I need to use that description in my next character.. or just describe a whole new race as "comparable to being extra French."

 

[call me rae]

[QUOTE="mayhem TR4NQU1L17Y]"Extra French." ... I need to use that description in my next character.. or just describe a whole new race as "comparable to being extra French."

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It sounds bad because it was. And actually fairly accurate for making no sense whatsoever.


Because really thinking back on it being French was a basic part of her character ( I have no idea why I fixated on that but I did, like half my early characters were some kind of foreigner ). Like as in she was meant to be a person who either live in or had immigrant parents from France.


Then in HP - idk what was just a shoe-horned character trait became this whole thing. It was like -- I must be extra French now.


Like which is weird because that's the one series where her being french wasn't tacked on. like it would make sense within that universe.


I wish I had some of her old posts as comparisons I remember it being super funny actually

 

[MISTER UN. 0W3N]

Nerdy... thank you for making my drink shoot out of my nose. xD "I MUST be extra French now." ... that line killed me. You know, she just sounds like a freaking gas where "being French" defined who she is in that HP thread.

 

[Danchou Tsubomi]

Oh, jeez, I know one. I hope they don't go on this website or I'm gonna go into hiding.


Prepare yourselves. I cringed in the past, I am cringing, and I will continue to cringe. I mentioned this a few times in forums and spoke about it with a friend, but... here.

Spoiler

I almost started a roleplay with someone with a really, really edgy character once...


I dodged a bullet that day.


"Hey, wanna RP with me sometime?"


"I'll see if I can, but I'm awfully busy. Which character is your favorite?"


"Kiyoko-chan! She's a half-demon, half-angel in the Victorian times. She's sixteen and has raven black hair, emerald green eyes. At a young age, her parents died so she had to grow up with an adopted father. Both her (adopted) dad and brother would abuse her, so one day she ran away from home. But her brother found her and dragged Kiyoko home with a noose around her neck, then they both beat her. Oh, and she went to church once but the nuns and priests decided to punch her to death due to her unnaturally green eyes. They thought she was a demon because of it! She died, went to heaven, and turned into an angel...though she killed everyone because she hates religion. That's why she's half-demon!


Pretty cool, huh?"


I blinked twice. "...y-yeah. Too bad I'm busy, right?"


I THOUGHT SHE WAS ACTUALLY JOKING AT FIRST


NOPE


SHE SHARED HER STORIES WITH EVERYONE IN WRITING CLUB AND THEN SHE MADE AN ANGRY POEM TO THE GUY WHO MADE A DARK JOKE ONCE









Quick edit: Forgot to mention, but I go to the same school as the creator and she used to go to writing club before a few of us called her out on her hate poem. I didn't say anything because really, how could I? I just cringed in silence.


I like to refer to this character as "ow, the edge" and shouldn't have used a name but


whatever. I omitted a few details as some of her backstory contained uncomfortable and serious topics used purely for shock value/edginess/emoness. Of course you can use these sorts of things in your backstories, though it's usually unneeded and done poorly.


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[An Unknown Person]

I feel like creating a Count Dracula for those salty highschool RPs with "Shady" chars llike gothics, depressed and shit, feeling like I should spark some chaos.


But yeah, I don't have many cringy chars that I remember...

 

[Frede]

I don't remember having any cringy characters back then, well because mostly they just existed without any backstory or whatsoever before. Just doodles and names like "Ariadne" or "Annwn" but I do remember having a concept for a girl who can do anything and control the universe.


This thread also makes me want to make a super edgy, depressed goth girl who is also a vampire or a demon or whatever dark overused creatures out there with the power of destroying the whole world at a glance just for laughs and gags. Any ideas to make it even more cringy?

 

[Iskander]

My first D&D character sort of fell into this category, but I only realized this much later. I was doing my best to not make them overpowered/mary-sue/an orphan and I sort of succeeded? Only afterwards I realized that they were still brooding and silent and I think I ticked of a few of the absolute don'ts of D&D. Loner within group, not invested in party, PvP.


Never again.

 

[Sara Sidereal]

Every character I've ever created, without exception; sometimes it's intentional

 

[TyrantKingKuma]

I only did an OP character once, in a forum filled to the brim with OP characters. He was OP beyond good taste and logic... a piece of shit character that was boring as hell to play. I learnt my lesson afterwards and never fell into the same pitfalls... I like making characters under the average of power and make them struggle and win against adversity... That's my thing

 

[MechanicalHeart]

Generic sephiroth clone, whom is the reluctant hero and demon prince of the deepest pit of hell. He liked to wander into taverns and brood in dark corners, after a long day of killing bad guys with his 8 ft sword. Yeah. :|

 

[glowbug]

Had an OC once from like 2010-12 that only became a cringey Mary Sue because I was in a battle for attention with the over the top "woe-is-me" type of OC. You know, the type who cries all the time and is somehow the galaxy's Most Powerful Depressed Girl. My OC, who was a self-insert, was an angel and came back to life no matter what and she got ALL the guys (even the married ones ). All in all, I think I won the battle for attention because my OC ended up getting all three of the guys that the other OC went for. Suck it.

 

[Inner Power]

I did participate in a group roleplay a couple of years back where one player's character was a vampire, angel, werewolf, and elf not to mention the keeper of time therefore he was also able to travel through time. He could heal by sunlight and was immune against any attack. Needless to say the thread did not last. Gives me nightmares thinking about it.

 

[CoyoteGhost]

Man....all of mine were throw away anime characters....but one was called Heirii and she could control fire and was basically the avatar of tween me and my irrepressible tantrums. She had like godly powers....


Not gonna lie, for all the people I see complain about marysues, I kinda wanna make another one. Everytime you complain about them and bash on people having fun and exploring writing, my marysue gets stronger and gains another anime boyfriend. She exists to remind people not to be too hard on kids and to let people have fun.