spincontroller:

i love the stereotypical “edgy oc made by a 12-year-old” characters & i feel like we should just let kids make whatever ocs they want……….my ocs as a kid diverged from that bc i was introduced to the internet at an early age and i was afraid of people thinking my characters were too “cringey” so i’d modify them to make them seem “less like that” but i was 11 at the time i was still learning character creation pls……..i was just getting into anime @ the time too and i wanted my characters to be Super Cool like the ones that had the huge fanbases of young people that happened to fit the edgy stereotype (and to clarify i don’t mean shock humor edgy which is never funny but coldsteel the hedgehog edgy u kno)

years later i stopped……..caring…………i am aware that some of my ocs are glorified coldsteel the hedgehogs and i do nothing about it anymore bc like your creativity REALLY suffers when you suppress things so that you dont appear “embarrassing” to people…..it’s not like i’m planning on getting those characters in particular published anyway…..and who knows even, maybe one day one of my ocs becomes widespread popular and the younger kids think they’re so cool and want to make one of their own and like. honestly that would be one of the greatest things to happen in my life. i would cry