The OC's from the Past (Group 6: Drearyside)

[Wick comes back from Dreamworld, from the Pure OC group]

Wick is a young child, who wears a tunic and pants, with the vest over it. His green eyes are filled with fear, and his brown hair is not combed. On him, he wears the holy symbol of the fictional religion that I gave him: It's a diamond-shape, with a horizontal line splitting it into two wide triangles. Within each triangle, there is a circle/dot in the middle. The symbol is supposed to represent two halves of the self, or some bullshit like that.

He is an extremely naïve child, the youngest of four siblings, who has become afraid of the world. His lack of knowledge and the resulting paranoia both helps & hurts his chances of surviving the monster that now inhabits the manor.

> Now he turns from the one that knows, to the one that doesn't. To help emphasize the idea, he is also a child. A really young child.

Lilly is the policewoman/investigator that arrives at the manor. She has blonde hair, that goes a little bit to her back. She wears, contrary to her profession, a casual t-shirt, jeans, and shoes. Her only other article of clothing is a weird cowl that has two overlapping bands to keep it on her.

She's a hardworking girl, and cares a lot about the well being of others.

That's all I had.

Mark is some random guy that gets dragged into the situation. He has brown hair, and wears glasses. His attire is a zip-up hoodie (with a t-shirt underneath), some jeans, and sneakers.

He's just a fucking guy. Look, sometimes I just design characters, and then don't use them that often.

[Wick comes back... again. This is not the last.]

Wick is slightly shorter than the average. He has brown disheveled hair and green eyes. He wears a vest over a long sleeve button up shirt. Alongside that, he wears dark pants and shoes.

He is known to be quite fearful, but sometimes being brave means doing something even if it scares you, and on occasion he does. He is a loyal friend, willing to go to an island inhabited by dark beasts just to find a friend who went missing.

Out of the characters here, who get powers in this iteration, he is the most normal. He has no special abilities, and thus provides the base experience.

[Hey, he's back, for some reason. He comes right from the Drearyside Manor right above this section.]

He has brown and tidy hair, and green glasses rest in front of his dark blue eyes. He wears a zip-up hoodie, alongside jeans and sneakers.

I didn't give him much of a personality (that or I didn't remember it), but apparently I gave him the power to bring out his own soul here. How that would help on an island full of demonic human husks and other bizarre darkworld beasts, I have no clue.

I don't remember much about this person. I think I just wanted to have a person that pairs with Mark.

I don't have much of the details, like at all. I don't even think I drew her. However, I did give her a power here: she changes at night. Boy, I sure do love making characters with multiple forms, don't I?

When I get around to drawing all these characters, I'll have a fresh new design here. Who knows? Maybe she'll inherit Lilly's design.

[Jade comes back from being a brawler! Like Wick, she comes from the Pure OC group, in the Brawlers section.]

Jade is a short and busty character. She has red curly hair and brown eyes. She wears a purple zip-up hoodie over a black shirt, with some teal shorts and long boots.

She is a little bit bratty, but only when irritated. She's actually a chill individual. Her motivation isn't always there, so she tends to be more lazy than others, but if the job needs getting done, she'll do her best (or claim that she made an attempt).

I gave her the power to be good with animals. On an island filled with monsters that will kill them on contact alone. What a good power. If you ignore that, she's just like Wick.

Barry is a tall man, with black fuzzy hair in some sort of 'fro. He has brown eyes, with blue frames resting on his nose. He has a mustache and a goatee. He's usually seen in a green button-up flannel.

He is a bit abrasive, and has trouble holding his anger, but he really is a nice guy. He empathizes real well with others, and tries to be the mediator in any argument.

For some reason, he can consume souls as a power. Again, on an island filled with monstrous beasts, one of which is the Schalemh (who are described as HUSKS for a reason), this has no use. Sure, maybe it's the souls of the animals that they'd kill on contact. He'd be a bit more of a useful character than Jade.

Cylvia has a small tan. She is a bit tall for a lady, with an athletic build. Her blonde hair is short on her, yet it still enhances her grace. She wears a t-shirt, a skirt, sandals, and the "Two-Selves" necklace that Wick wore in the first section. For reference: diamond shape, split in half horizontally (forming two triangles), with a dot/circle in the middle of each triangle.

She's a confident young woman, and is known to be a bit sassy. For the most part she is the chillest friend anyone can have. She's alright with just about anything except the things that hurt others. She can also be quite a flirt, but she only does it for fun.

Her power? She summons barriers. Hey, look! An actual useful power for this area! I don't know how long a barrier can protect her from a Schalemh, but I assume it's a decent amount of time.

[Remember Frederick? He came from the Pure OC group, in the Loire Fantasy section.]

Frederick is a tall and lanky fellow. His brown hair is unkempt, with a small soulpatch on his chin. His hazel eyes look supremely tired. He wears a red jacket (always zipped up, but with the hood down), jeans, and shoes.

If there were one word to describe Frederick, it would be depressed. He wasn't the best friend, but he isn't the worst friend either. One day he just up and left, leaving a note to his friends on where he is going. Unfortunately, he didn't intend on them following him there...

Frederick is very susceptible to becoming a schalemh, which was why he was drawn to the island to begin with. I think he was supposed to be an unlockable character. His power was that he was "corrupted" by the schalemh. Don't know how being corrupted by soulless monsters would help defend yourself against said monsters, but it's whatevs.

[Here he is again]

Here is where all of the Wicks come together to make Wick Prime. He has his usual looks (green eyes, brown rustled hair) and attire (vest over long-sleeve button up), he is a bit naïve and a lot anxious (like the Wick from Drearyside Manor), but he is quick to learn and is very attentive (so eventually he would know as much as his Dreamworld self), and is a very dependable friend despite his flaws (like the one from Schalemh Island).

He wants to learn, and be there for his friends, but he has a lot of anxiety regarding the world he lives in. He sometimes struggles to express his emotions, and he's worried that he'll look like he just doesn't care, when the exact opposite is true: he has a lot of empathy. As he grew older, he started noticing that others have started becoming more apathetic and self-centric - an empty husk, as he calls them.

While he is friends with everyone in this section, the only person that he relies on enough to consider a family member is Frederick, which some people don't understand why. To Wick, while he knows Frederick isn't the best person, he knows the guy enough to tell it as it is, no sugar-coating. They also get quite philosophical in their conversations, and it keeps Wick looking for new perspectives on basically everything. Wick understands that Frederick wants him to become better than he ever could.

[Hey look, here she is again too]

Jade retains a bit of her look from Schalemh Island (curly red hair, brown eyes, the purple jacket, teal shorts, and whatnot). She's very lazy, and sleeps a lot. It's gotten to the point that it's been recommended to her that she gets tested for depression. Despite that, she's very capable of working hard and being enthusiastic. She just doesn't have anything that triggers it.

Barry tries to help her out, and while hating it at first, she has come to appreciate that he wants her to get out of the rut she's stuck in. However, it hasn't been an easy journey, since Barry occasionally swings into similar ruts of his own, and it's a delicate balance that requires both parties to put a balanced amount of effort for it to benefit her, and sometimes she slips. Or he accidentally gives the wrong advice. Or what have you.

[Barry comes right back after being introduced in the previous section]

Barry keeps his looks from Schalemh Island (tall, black fuzzy 'fro, small 'stache and goatee, brown eyes, blue glasses, green flannel). He's generally a nice guy, if a bit energetic. He has bipolar, so he sometimes switches from being too excited and happy, to being down in the dumps. He's managed it quite well over the years, but something in the air during recent years has made him struggle with it.

Like Wick, he's the only other person who understands Frederick well enough to be friends with him. While he doesn't like his sour attitude a lot of the time, he appreciates when Frederick can bring him back down to Earth so that he doesn't get too carried away.

He also is attempting to help Jade through whatever it is that she has. He knows the feelings that she feels constantly all too well. He tries to study up on everything that can help her (and maybe himself), but due to the kinds of info he has access to, sometimes it isn't that helpful. To this day, he reminds her to at least get tested for something like depression, so that she can start working on herself.

[Again, another one that returns]

Frederick looks about the same as he usually does: brown shaggy hair, sort of unshaven, with a soul patch, hazel eyes, red hoodie, jeans, and some old shoes. He is very cynical of the world, partly due to his upbringing, and partly due to the state of the world slowly deteriorating before his eyes. He's been abused and manipulated before, and thus has the very same skills, but even with his broken outlook on life, those skills are the very last things he wants to use and wield.

Instead, he chooses to help his friends out. He sees a bit of himself in Wick, and tries to teach him how to spot red flags in anything. He gets flack from others because they think he's manipulating Wick, which he usually doesn't believe is the case, but that hasn't stopped him from having long, sleepless nights worrying about if they're right or not.

That's where Barry comes in. While he is too much of an optimist for his liking, he appreciates having a friend like him, who can see the best in people. People like him. Sure, they have occasional disagreements, and the even rarer arguments, but they have withstood the tests of time again, and again.

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He is one of the few to recognize that the fairy tale of the Schalemh isn't just a story. As such, when all hell breaks loose, he is able to help his friends through the hellscape that the Schalemhs turn the world into.

[Somehow, Tina returns from the Dreamworld section of the Pure OC group; now both Wick and Tina are together again]

Tina has more appropriate clothing here (a large gray t-shirt, shorts, shoes), but otherwise looks the same (long brown hair, blue eyes). She is sort of the inverse of Wick: while she is also not that knowledgeable on everything, she isn't a nervous wreck. There hasn't been anything too bad that she's experienced. Due to that, she also has a more positive outlook on life. All in all, she's a well-adjusted character.

She becomes friends with Wick and Jade, and while she struggles to connect with them initially, she is always willing to put in the effort to befriend them. She seems to have taken a liking to Wick, who she feels is similar to her in a few ways. She can't get a read on Jade, though.

Her trust for Frederick is low when she first meets him, and doesn't understand why Wick and Barry are friends with him.

[Like Barry, Cylvia comes back immediately after her first introduction in the previous section]

She also looks like herself from Schalemh Island (tan, athletic build, blonde hair, t-shirt, skirt, sandals). She's the kind of person that hopes for the best, but prepares for the worst. She's still chill, but sometimes has moments where she gets unusually passionate about something.

Despises Frederick a lot, and thinks Barry is putting up a façade. Tina convinces her that Barry is at least okay, but she still doesn't want anything to do with Fred.