OC Scrapbook

This page is for everybody who lacks ideas from everybody who has over 27 ideas on a nice OC!

Note: This is supposed to be a help to others, so don't just add a species of youkai you'd like to see or think of as awesome, but try giving some hints about how you imagine said character to be (e.g. what personality this character might have, or how it could look like) don't give too many 'hints', though, because this can fastly sum up to a nearly-finished OC.. And nobody would like to play anything fully developed :x

Anyways, now to the usage of this site. Basicially I want to divide the sections into Humans and Youkai, maybe even in Youkai species, but we'll see that later, when more people contributed to that page (if at all..)

Some of these characters might also be used as NPC's to fill the RP with some more flavour. You might use them as small nuisances to fight single characters or you might also directly involve them in a plot, giving them names.. Every possible usage as an NPC is, as mentioned, possible!

So Human Ideas go to the human section, youkai ideas (which I bet will be far more) will go to the youkai section. If you got any other Idea, which is neither human nor youkai (though I have no Idea what other than gods that should be.. maybe halfbreeds) put it to the others section~

As for the information given, try to give similar information as other characters in here already have.

Ah! Before I forget it. Do your homework. If you want to add a character or species here, it'd be better to try and look up some things to make it easier for other people to understand what you like to make them look at~

Anyways~ For the new ones here: Welcome and have lots of fun at the edge of perspective, enjoy the world beyond the border~

Human Species
This Section is to present Ideas on human OC's. This will mainly consist of different humans of different professions, but there still should be some Ideas you people can get, right? ~

Youkai Species
This is for different species of Youkai. Of course Youkai can have a certain 'profession', too, but remember that they are very different from humans in terms of behaviour and lifestyle.

Fuurin Youkai
A cute little Idea I got today. I wanted to share it with you people, because I already have so many characters and don't want to get this little one get either lost in the void of good ideas or be rarely used...

Main Concept
Furin (風鈴) means Wind Chime or Wind Bells. The asian equivalent to the european wind chimes mostly consist of a paper strap, a charm, attached to an upside down 'mini cup' with a bell inside it on the string, where the paper charm is attached. Various other types exist of course, so there may also be those with a piece of porcelain instead of the paper charm (mostly it has spiritual carvings or symbols, though). Also there might be several strings hanging down from the edge of the 'cup' with several little bells attached to it.

The Idea now is to make a Tsukumogami from this. A Tsukumogami (付喪神) is an abandoned or discarded or simply forgotten object, which usually was the target of special emotions from it's former owner, thus later being more likely to be inhabited from certain kami. Kami may or may not be evil, so it is up to the player to decide if this OC turns out to be friendly and likes other people or if it's posessed by a vengeful spirit.

Knowing what we want and what we got, we just have to sum up 1 and 1 to get a youkai. I would recommend a girl, just because I personally connect wind chimes to the female gender.. They're cute and serene, emanating a sweet, tranquil melody within the wind... But it's up to you as well.

Possible Personality
As I said just the sentence before, I imagine a wind chime to reflect serenity. So a character like this would rather not talk too much and express her agreement through soft nods. Most of the time, this personality would result in friendly behaviour. The character would rarely react negatively to insults or things that would usually make others be angry, but rather the character would nod and calmly express it's disapproval to the thing which bothers it.

Possible Origin
I remember Wind Chimes be mainly used at shintou shrines or graveyards. They also are often connected to ghosts, so it might not be strange to find a youkai like this floating along the netherworld. It may or may not have been used at one of the aforementioned locations, disappearing somehow. Use this hint to fuel a backstory about the time before the object became a youkai.

Possible Appearance
Although this point might be very objective, I still like to spout out, what I have been thinking about the appearance of this character. Considering it a girl: The girl would be rather small, reflecting her calm behaviour. She might have small or long hair, though a special thing might be two long wisps of hair, falling along the shoulders of the little youkai. These two strains may also be bound up from the main hair to form twintails, which are bound up with bells on a little strap~ I personally thing that some kind of hair decoration with bells is about necessary You may also have her wear a Hitaikakushi on her head, though this would be rather similar to Yuyuko.

-- Hinoko