An incomplete taxonomy of OCs:
- Former fantroll
- Former fangem
- Probably used to be an Inkling
- Humanised Warrior Cat, possibly?
- Imaginary girlfriend
- Idealised vehicle for anatomically improbable fetish who developed a personality when you weren’t looking
- Hypothetical Dungeons & Dragons character you’ve never actually gotten to play because none of your friends can coordinate for shit
- Self-insert who sort of gradually mutated into an original character due to art style drift
- Literally just Twilight Sparkle
Additionally:
- Anthropomorphised version of real-life pet
- Spent so long tinkering with your character’s appearance in a video game that you unwittingly got invested
- Unintentional plagiarism of character from something you saw once when you were eight and have no conscious memory of, and which you’ll be totally thrown for a loop by when you rediscover it in a year or two
- Well known public domain character, like Sherlock Holmes or Dracula or whatever, but you’re calling them something different because fuck you
- Started out as AU version of popular media character, only once you were done changing all the things you weren’t happy with about them, you realised that all the things you weren’t happy with was everything
- Calling them an OC because you’re not ready for the emotional commitment of acknowledging that they’re your fursona
okay, first of all- how dare you