Recurring themes in your OCs

[TheBeatlesPkmnFan42]

I tend to make them all be alicorns. Not because they're Mary-Sues or anything, no. But because I can't decide between unicorns or pegasi.

[MyLittlePonyTales]

I tend to make them all be alicorns. Not because they're Mary-Sues or anything, no. But because I can't decide between unicorns or pegasi.

You know Alicorns also have Earth pony in them too.

[SilverSwirl]

Mine tend to be tall and lean, intelligent

[Littlefly222]

I don't have many ocs , I think only four righ tnow, only two of which are ponys but I think all them in common have self esteem issues/ a troubling past .

[Littlefly222]

You know Alicorns also have Earth pony in them too.

Really I didnt know that how ? is just because all ponies are earth until you add wings or a horn or both ?

[MyLittlePonyTales]

Really I didnt know that how ? is just because all ponies are earth until you add wings or a horn or both ?

No way! Earth ponies have talents related to the Earth. Like, they're good at farming and know how to communicate better with animals and such. That's why Fluttershy is an oddball, because her talent is one an Earth pony should have. It's why Rainbow Dash is a weather Pegasus and Applejack is a farmer. It's not because Applejack can't fly, it's because she knows how to tend to the Earth. They have their own special 'magic', like how Pegasi can naturally walk on and movie clouds but other species can't. Earth ponies can farm and grow things and talk to critters. Oh ya, and Applebucking! How do you think that all the apples end up in the baskets perfectly? Earth pony 'magic'!

[DrMaxwell]

[Earth Pony Magic]

And while it's not stated, in hearth warming eve its implied that unicorn magic cant do everything, like create food, else they wouldnt have needed the earth ponies.

[Littlefly222]

Ahh thanks , Tales for clearing that up fo rme ^_^ Earth "Pony magic", never really though much beyond there ability than tending to the earth.

[Bronynumber299]

Only ponies.long tails two out of three are girls.Both girls have bad pasts ones an orphan the other is a poor farmer.All of them try to see the best in a situation.One dosn't wear jewelry or clothes.Thats all I can think of for now.

[Dessa]

Also, faust describes Celestia as a combination of the three races.

[kamerad]

Representatives of contrarian positions wrt the real world.

Ponies: misinterpreted cutie marks.

[Bronynumber299]

I just remembered if you put all my ponies together you would get Rainbow Dash as an alicorn if you know what I mean.

[lonlybrony]

all of mine either have a very bad childhood or have forgotten it completely

[CircePonyDemigoddess]

Ooh...where do I start?

-Most of them are female (working on making more guys)

-Most of them are tomboyish (Not fixin' that, because I am not all pink and fluffy)

-Most of them are fairly well-endowed (again, workin' on it)

-I have had a bad habit of making a good chunk bakers or chefs (my career goal)

There is a special project I'm working on that I've told almost no one about where character development will be even more important. ^^

[OccupyEquestria]

Having spent many years as a D&D Dungeon Master, I can say that when I design an OC I am fully able to keep out thread commonalities between them. Over the years in DMing, forum RPing, LARPing, and writing, I have created several hundred main characters and thousands of supporting cast. When you get into a position that you create supporting cast on a regular basis instead of main characters you come to learn to break your biases when building characters.

[Kirby Krackle]

While I have only 2, the recurring theme between them is being on the receiving end of bad parenting.

[lordbrony]

All my OCs have some form of internal conflict (two equally valid opposing view points) built into them, creates a lot of plotline possibilities depending on which way they swing

For Lightwind: its the conflict between his crippling social anxiety and phobias conflicting with his job as a public performer and celebrity

Telki's desire to help is tampered with pragmatic "whats in it for me" greed

The theme I was using for Cheerilee (which will now transfer to my WIP OC) was "the who she is aka a jaded, mildly frustrated mare" vs "who she needed to be aka role model and public figure"

[DustyCharm]

I purposefully make mine unorthodox and unusual. Dusty is a prime example; I mean come on, a Canterlotian unicorn that loves dirt. XD

[PopcornPuffs]

I run a webcomic which features 90% male characters... xD

I try to make more girl characters, though, right now there's only 3 planned while there's 9 (important) male characters. Yikes!

Other than that they're pretty different.

Another thing though; whenever I make a story about two male lead characters, these two characters tend to be very alike two other characters in another story.

Like, the lead characters are always the same in personality, but have different appearance in each story. Durr! Got to get better at that..

[Bronynumber299]

Well mine are still all ponies but all of them seem to not be from ponyville but always end up there.Two out of four have pets I have two unicorns now to with a pegasus and an earth pony.Only two don't have bad backgrounds.And then I have a shy pegasus two rude unicorns and one netueral pony.Yea thats it.