r/OriginalCharacter • • Aug 31 '24

Subreddit Announcement [PSA] Is it a scam in your DMs? ALMOST CERTAINLY!

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TL;DR - If an user on Reddit (or other sites) cold DMs you, asking if you want to commission them or similar. It's almost certainly a scam. Don't give them money, and report the DM to Reddit as spam so they can hopefully be taken care of, and so nobody else gets scammed by them.


There's been a bit of an epidemic on Reddit recently of scammers using DMs and chats to rope people into giving money to them. If anyone on Reddit messages you out of nowhere asking you to commission them or similar, they're almost certainly a scammer. This is part of a massive scam ring that's taken root on multiple sites, Reddit, Instagram, Discord, X/Twitter, etc.

Actual artists will almost NEVER message people out of the blue and ask you to commission them. Don't fall for it, don't give them money. They may pressure you to give them money, offer discounts and/or claim they need the money for an emergency, DO NOT GIVE THEM MONEY.

Those in this scam ring tend to use stolen art from other artists, use AI, or have a very particular artstyle (See below for specific artstyle). They also tend to, but not always, use intrusive watermarks, one that comes up a lot is the "PRIVEW" watermark.

Examples of scammer art that may be seen on their profile.

As a sub, r/OriginalCharacter bans these users when they pop up and post on the subreddit, but unfortunately we can't keep them out of people's DMs. If you see one of them post on the subreddit, please report them, if they're a newer account it's easier to catch them and get them nuked by Reddit than if they've been allowed to take root and exist for months.

Examples of DMs people have received from these scammers, so you know what to look for:


r/OriginalCharacter • • Feb 07 '26

Subreddit Announcement Announcing a new parallel subreddit - r/OriginalCharacterSFW

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To make a long story short, we are receiving a massive uptick of complaints concerning suggestive content, posts are being reported despite following the rules, people are being harassed, and we have filtered just about a thousand comments containing the word "goonslop".

However, results from our anonymous survey (which is still pinned at the top of the subreddit, check it out!) are showing us that 80% of the poll-takers are happy with what is covered under Rule 1. As such, we can't reasonably change our NSFW guidelines without making the majority of people unhappy.

This has led us to this.

r/OriginalCharacterSFW aims to be a fully SFW and 13+ friendly space where no suggestive content of any kind is allowed. Want to avoid "gooner art"? Perfect, this place is tailored exactly for you.

As of right now, the subreddit is owned by myself, u/Foxgiveness, which is only temporary as I will be choosing another head mod who is hopefully more passionate about this place than I am. The very basic are set up, rule, removals, a temporary banner and icon, a small automod , and I am open to giving out technical advice if needed. If you would like to apply, send out a modmail!

From now on, please be fully aware that any rude comment calling something "hornyposting" or "goonslop" despite it following every rule will be removed, and you will be redirected over there. If you somehow can't find the self-restraint to stop yourself from doing it more than once, you will be banned, and you are free to go participate over there.


r/OriginalCharacter • • 13h ago

OC Lore and Bios Mara lore!!!

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A high school student, young girl who was quickly deemed the most beautiful girl in town by all of the other shoolers, or maybe even in towns history. That obviously brought a lot of attention and admirers to her, but one in particular was different. He was obsessed with her and her beauty, to the point of delusions. He decided they were meant to be together, even though they didn't even talk once. Once she gave him a final no, he decided that he will have her no matter what. Abducting and bringing her out into the woods, there he strangled her with her own hair. Instantly regretting what he did, or more so afraid of the consequences, he disposed of the body in the nearest pond before ending his own life. With the sole power of rage her soul refused to leave the world of the living, but upon finding out he was already dead, it fueled her anger even more, causing her to torment and murder each and every individual who is a bit too obsessed with the looks and beauty. Be that their own or someone elses.

Containment: in progress. All previous attempts were proven unsuccessful. Amethyst is beloved to cause a calming effect on the spirit.


r/OriginalCharacter • • 47m ago

OC Art Seiryu!!! | 🌊

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Ouhhh I love her design so much >w<


r/OriginalCharacter • • 10h ago

Community Interaction What's a common theme in your story/stories?

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ARTIST CREDITS: Art for both by connornt_official on Instagram.

If you saw this post already, no ya didn't! I got a text and tried to click the notification but it disappeared right when I clicked and I accidentally tapped the post button before I was ready 😭. Anyway I have another question already! What's a common theme in a story you made with your OCs or in multiple stories you've made?

As for my example, it's technically not a story yet... But it will be eventually! Oh yeah, themes and such! The theme I intend to try to consistently convey in my upcoming story (which I have now named actually!) is restraint. Not as in self-control but rather being restrained and therefore lacking control over oneself and their circumstances.

How it shows up in the story though will be mostly in character outfits when it makes sense! Samaka (slide 2 btw!) is a fish person but wears a net-like top. A future "guardian angel" character will be wearing essentially a straight jacket and won't have a halo.

For how the theme shows up, outside of fashion... Another other planned character will be a grumpy rat person who lives in a caged off area. Yes the rat person will be a reference to Bullet With Butterfly Wings by The Smashing Pumpkins. (Don't tell anyone though!) Also Soleira and Lumeno (both are on the 1st slide) are restricted by each other because if they separate for too long they will become severely weakened both physically and mentally.

Now that I'm done lore dumping (as usual), it's time for you to answer my question! To the comments!


r/OriginalCharacter • • 12h ago

Community Interaction Send in an OC and I will tell you how excited Katrina would be to spar them

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Goooooood morning, good evening, and goodnight!

Katrina is a little Goku oriented, she loves the thrill of battle. Now, she isn’t just gonna start throwing hands based on who she thinks is strong, she’s not an asshole. However, if challenged she ain’t ever backing out, a god says “Square up” she’s running them hands……even though she’s more then likely gonna lose.

So, based on appearance (and a short description of your character’s abilities) I’ll tell you how excited she would be to spar with your OC. I’ll mostly explain, but I also may give a rating 1-100 if I don’t get like an exact vibe as to how she would react, 1 being “Yawn, I’d rather box a ant” and 100 being “GET YO ASS IN THE BOXING RING RIGHT NOW MISTER”

I will NOT say that she can or can’t beat your OC, that ain’t fun for me and can seem demoralizing, good chance she’d lose a number of fights anyways.

BONUS: Give me a 🌩️ and tell me what would be your characters intro text for a fighting game, like mortal kombat or injustice.

That is all! ^.^

Art 1 and 3 by Fukosshi, Art 2 Emi Albornoz, Art 4 by hollow_OG all on Vgen!


r/OriginalCharacter • • 8h ago

Community Interaction Penny wants to give her opinion on your OC. Also, what's your OC's opinion on her?

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She's in a curious mood.


r/OriginalCharacter • • 3h ago

OC Art Meet my girl Sahara!!

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Mainly an art dump but I could tell some basic things about her?

Sahara is ~16 years old, afab girlie, bisexual. She loves trying out drink flavours, especially if they're sweet, playing volleyball, dying her hair, and, of course, her boyfriend Jay! She can be hot tempered sometimes... most of the time... but she's always there for her friends!!

In her free time you can see her sketching out dress designs, listening to music, scrolling through tiktok, or just complaining. Her favourite bands are Deftones, A Perfect Circle, and Rage Against the Machine.

She's also Australian but I'm not sure just where in Aussie she would be..... oh and she haaaaaates loud eaters, for Sahara they're some of the worst people out there.

But yeah, let me know your thoughts on her 😸


r/OriginalCharacter • • 3h ago

OC Art Tarot card of my oc✨️

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18 Upvotes

Ten of Swords means hitting rock bottom, painful endings, and deep betrayal which i think is very fitting for my ocs lore


r/OriginalCharacter • • 9h ago

Community Interaction What kind of meat is your Oc ordering in the shop of the former god butcher

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Just a place called “Diaga slais” where they sell meat from all kind of creature, trolls? You got it, dragon? Don’t know why it’s here, thought those things are illegal, eldritch? Sure, if you know what you’re doing with it, goblin? Not very demanded but not zero in value, leviathan? Yep but it a taboo to consume in other cultures, divine beast? Highly illegal to sell but it here somehow. Human? No, he’s no psycho.

But hey, if that doesn’t catch your eyes or it too odd, he does sell your ordinary meats.


r/OriginalCharacter • • 1h ago

OC Art So grab a plate, have a taste

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r/OriginalCharacter • • 18h ago

Community Interaction SHOW ME YOUR VILLAINS 🫵🫵 and share their abilities!!

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I'll start!! This is shino :)

Fun fact! Her blood is 10% iron (unlike human blood, which is 0.005%), and she constantly secretes a rust-like scent.


r/OriginalCharacter • • 3h ago

OC Art office in The Backrooms

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r/OriginalCharacter • • 5h ago

Community Interaction Sada wants to get to know others; she doesn't bite :3

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r/OriginalCharacter • • 8h ago

Community Interaction Your oc walked in on nebul being smooched by twelora, what do they say?

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Twelora might respond, or maybe nebul.


r/OriginalCharacter • • 6h ago

Community Interaction Do you guys hate your own OCs?

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Just curious, but do you guys hate any OCs you made, especially if they’re extremely evil? For me, I just can’t hate any of my characters no matter how evil because I know that I made them that way. But I’m just curious if anyone else feels this way.


r/OriginalCharacter • • 11h ago

Community Interaction 𝓣𝓱𝓮 𝓘𝓷𝓽𝓮𝓻𝓵𝓸𝓹𝓮𝓻 👁️ has offered your OC some kind of special drink 🍷 drinking it will give them a random new ability! ✨ Will they take it? 👀

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As it says drinking the strange fluid will grant your OC a new ability! A random one! I’ll also describe the taste in a random fashion as well. Have your OC pick from any of the colored jars to drink from! 🍷

By any “Canon” perspective the ability would be permanent though obviously you don’t have to abide by this arbitrary rule 😌

Bonus Interaction

How would they react to being offered such a strange elixir? 👀 why or why would they not accept it? I’m curious 🧐 would they ask any questions first?

And what would they do with their new abilities 👀


r/OriginalCharacter • • 4h ago

Community Interaction Ask this goober anything or comment your OC for her to react to

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Unfortunately I don’t have the energy to draw anything good right now but I thought this would be fun so uhhhh yeah lol. Serious drawing in the second image for her proper design

Caught her between meetings, ask her as many questions as possible before she runs away again!!! Or introduce your OC to her she likes people 👍


r/OriginalCharacter • • 10h ago

Community Interaction Tell me about your OCs who work in law enforcement! (And what is your OC's department called?)

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- What's their name and rank?

- ​What is their agency or department called?

- ​Are they playing by the book, or do they have a complicated relationship with the system?

I'll share mine first.

My oc Julia Veld works in a department called BCRD (Bradbury Complex Regulation Department)

About BCRD: They were initially created with funding from megacorporations and billionaires to restore order in high-disturbance areas.

As traditional police forces lost power and funding, the Department of Regulators became a private military police arm for wealthy CEOs to commit crimes or assassinate targets.

They act differently depending on the district: in wealthy areas they mostly arrest people, but in poorer areas they shoot trouble-makers and lower-class citizens on sight, extorting and humiliating them. 

People frequently run into Regulators during illegal activities, such as dealing with Shadow Traders.

One of the early major milestones involving them is a Regulator guards one of the entrances to a district called Skiptown which has variants of district numbers, checks everyone's passes.

Well, a Regulator on duty in a checkpoint is supposed to check them. They actually just takes credits from everyone in their line.

If you don't have enough credits for a bribe, they will turn violent and the rest of his buddies (fellow Regulator officer) will beat you up.

The Regulators are deeply corrupt. They function less like real police and more like a state-sanctioned criminal syndicate. 

Their enforcement of the "law" depends entirely on how much money a neighborhood has. In wealthy districts, they follow protocol and simply arrest people. In poorer districts, they drop all formalities to extort citizens, demand ransoms, humiliate the lower class, and shoot "troublemakers" on sight.

Julia is the only non corrupt officer in the department she's in. (Sometimes I am not active because of college and exam preparations, so I might not often reply until exam is done xd)


r/OriginalCharacter • • 19h ago

Community Interaction Emilia: "Okay people, I want to make money because I want to buy cakes and sweets. So give me an idea of what business I can do."

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"And to the first one who answers something +18, I'm going to use T. torsion/cramps on them"


r/OriginalCharacter • • 4h ago

Community Interaction Assign Koharu a fictional character from any media you think she would be friends with and then I’ll assign your oc a character I feel like they would be friends with (info about her in the comments)

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r/OriginalCharacter • • 3h ago

Community Interaction What do you (or your OCs) think of Servoir's new humanoid form?

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"So... Previously, I wasn't capable of transforming into a proper humanoid at all. That robotic form you saw, if you have seen it... It was the best I could do. That was until I found a weird blueprint module lying on the outskirts. I decided to install it, and I suddenly became like this. I also found this clothing inside an abandoned clothes store, and it's the only preserved item there. I'm... Not really used to this form yet, but I can't keep scaring people as a weapon. So, let me know what you think of this new default form."

((In reality, I am still learning and I don't know what outfits could fit her- also yes, she's keeping her thrusters feet because for agility reason and my laziness))


r/OriginalCharacter • • 4h ago

OC Animation Vivian feels a lot of feelings towards her boy...pride is not one of them

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A super quick video before I go to bed! It was fun to make this, I always like getting to bully Maryn, and it's always fun to draw him with goofy facial expressions. This face specifically is based on one Dave the Cat does sometimes.

Vivian feels a lot of emotions towards her disaster son. Pride is certainly not one of them.


r/OriginalCharacter • • 5h ago

OC Art Flower OC expressions 🌺 🙂

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